Desperate US and UK warmongers play the lying WMD card
IN March 2003, the US-UK axis led by warmongers Bush and Blair – after claiming that there was irrefutable evidence that Iraq possessed weapons...
Even the right-wing bourgeois press is being threatened by the state!
THE furore in the bourgeois press about the lenient treatment handed out to the Tory culture secretary, Maria Miller, who was found guilty of...
Lonmin forced to withdraw their sack threat!
UK-OWNED platinum mining giant Lonmin (the world’s third largest platinum producer) has been forced by the strength and defiance of the miners, supported by...
Only Socialist Revolution can end this chaotic farce in Parliament and secure a break...
THERESA May ‘survived’ the vote of no confidence in her leadership of the Tory Party by 200 votes to 117 on Wednesday night –...
Unite Takes Action Against Serco BA And The Bank Of England!
YESTERDAY striking Serco workers from Bart’s NHS Trust, striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew, and striking Bank of England workers marched and picketed the...
Any attempt to ban Rail and Post strikes must be met with a general...
THE DECEMBER 12 general election will take place in the middle of an unprecedented wave of strikes as workers show their revolutionary determination to...
Education Crisis Deepens!
THERE was a 17% fall in the number of first-year undergraduates at UK universities in the first year of higher tuition fees, the latest...
TUC must take a stand against Israeli genocide and the anti-union laws by calling...
ON Tuesday night, the United Nations General Assembly vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza was passed overwhelmingly with 10 countries, led by the...
TUC Leader Nowak Urges The Tories To Compromise With The Trade Unions Just As...
IN THE understatement of the year, the new leader of the TUC Paul Nowak warned yesterday that further strikes could lie ahead in 2023...
Manning faces long jail sentence as US demands return of Snowden
A US military judge on Tuesday found former US Army intelligence officer Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, but guilty of five...
Trade union leaders must be forced to act in support of Palestine and for...
YESTERDAY, US president Donald Trump kept the world waiting for him while he made up his mind about intervening on the side of Israel...
Brown and Blair’s grab for Africa
BEFORE our eyes, the Live Aid movement has been transformed into a Live 8 movement, whose purpose has become to support the British Prime...
Middle East On The Brink As Mad Dog Israel Attacks Beirut, Baghdad & Damascus!
LEBANON’s president, Michel Aoun, on Monday condemned an Israeli drone attack on Beirut at the weekend as a ‘declaration of war’ that justifies a...
British Ruling Class Preparing For A Nuclear War To Defend Capitalism
THE bankrupt British ruling class is preparing to expand its ‘nuclear deterrent’ by buying a squadron of American jet fighters that have the capacity...
Britain Is Aiding US Torture Machine
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to answer questions yesterday as to whether the United States government operates CIA secret prisons outside of...
Sunak’s emergency ‘cost of living package’ a sign of Tory desperation in the face...
ORY chancellor Rishi Sunak announced an emergency cost of living package to the House of Commons yesterday, as soaring inflation that is driving millions...
No sackings, or wage ‘holidays’ for bankrupt banks and councils
YESTERDAY the Brown government was emphasising that it had no interest in running the three banks that it was ‘part-nationalising’ (rescuing) with £37bn of...
Petrol Market Working Well, Says The Oft
WITH petrol poised to rise to £7.40 a gallon, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has intervened to rub salt into the gaping wounds...
Workers must bring down the Tories and bring in a workers government to break...
THE EU’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, in a two minute report, has ordered the British ruling class to accept ‘all decisions’ of the EU...
US Unemployment Rises Along With Repossessions!
THE number of US workers signing up for unemployment benefits and leaving non-farming payrolls has risen sharply for the second consecutive week. The US Labour...
Only Socialist Revolution can stop imperialist war
ON SUNDAY, newly appointed Tory Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, writing in the Telegraph, announced that the UK would be sending troops to Ukraine ‘to...
From Low Wage To No Wage Economy – Tories Plan Chain Gangs For Youth
CRISPIN Blunt, the justice minister, announced yesterday that instructions were being issued to the courts to the effect that unemployed offenders sentenced to the...
Johnson Government Must Be Brought Down – TUC Must Call General Strike!
THE capitalist system is now poised to go into its greatest ever crisis and crash because of its mountains of debt. Workers face massive...
US Trade Unions At The Crossroads
THE most powerful capitalist economy in the world is now living on a veritable knife edge, liable at any moment to crash spectacularly, bringing...
Time to put imperialism out of its death agony with victory of world socialist...
LAST FRIDAY, Labour’s armed forces minister, Al Carns, was ramping up the increasingly strident calls for the whole country to step up and prepare...
The TUC must answer Hunt’s declaration of a vicious war on workers with a...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement has been derided for its claims to represent a way out of the economic crisis strangling British capitalism,...
Tories Want To Bomb Syria!
TORY Defence Minister, Michael Fallon, with the full support of Cameron and leading members of the Labour Party, is calling for Britain to start...
PM Johnson signs up for US President Biden’s anti-China crusade!
DURING a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday, US President Biden proposed that Johnson adopt and join his anti-China crusade, to...
McCluskey must meet with Gate Gourmet sacked workers!
LEN McCluskey, winner of the election for the post of Unite general secretary, said on Wednesday that ‘I have a huge agenda in front...
Grenfell Tower Deaths Were Avoidable – Time To Nationalise The Banks And Building Industry!
THE Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was the result of ‘dishonest companies, successive governments, and a lack of strategy by the fire...
Biden contemplates unilateral action against the US debt mountain and organising military action against...
PRESIDENT Biden on Sunday, speaking in Hiroshima, the scene of a US-UK atom bombing, was forced to address the US banking crisis and whether...
Blair listens only to the bosses
PRIME Minister Blair, despite all his vows about listening to the people – made outside 10 Downing Street on the day after the general...
Occupy to stop NHS closures! Bring down Coalition to defend the NHS!
THE Tory Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, announced yesterday that, following the legal period required for consultation, he was implementing the threat made last month...
Belfast City Council Gives A Lead To The Workers Of Ireland And The UK!
BELFAST City Council has given a big lead to the workers of Ireland and the UK by voting to urge the UK and Republic...
Hamas fighters deal heavy blows against Israel, while Gaza masses remain undefeated!
MORE than 700 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry...
Army brought in as police demand complete legal immunity from prosecution
FOLLOWING a mass walkout by armed police over the decision to charge an unnamed armed police officer with murder over the shooting of 24-year-old...
Starmer Pledges A ‘Blairite On Steroids Government’ To Smash The Unions For...
FORMER State Prosecutor Starmer, who has worked tirelessly to keep whistleblower Julian Assange in jail, has given advance warning of just what he intends...
Myanmar working class intervene with powerful general strike to bring down Military Junta!
MYANMAR (formerly called Burma) was brought to a halt yesterday as hundreds of thousands of workers and youth answered the call for a general...
Eu Meltdown
CREDIT ratings agency Moody’s yesterday reflected the rapidly developing EU meltdown by doing the unthinkable – warning the EU’s strongman, Germany, that...
Occupations & a general strike needed to defend the NHS and bring the Tories...
‘SLASH, Trash and Privatise’ – this is how the purpose of the Tories’ 44 Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) is now correctly understood. Drawn up...
‘Stand and Deliver’ – EU highwaymen demand 100bn euros!
THE attempt of the political representatives of the EU to make the UK working class stand and deliver up to, or even over, 100bn...
Free social care and care homes for the elderly
THE just-published ‘State of Social Care’ report from the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) was greeted as ‘a damning indictment of a...
With the Anti-Union Laws waiting on Royal Assent, the TUC must be made to...
LAST THURSDAY the government made a ‘final offer’ to the NHS consultants, a petty offer that they rejected out of hand. BMA Consultants Committee...
TUC must call a general strike at once to defend the Palestinian people from...
THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said yesterday that the number of Palestinians who have been driven from their...
Privatising the Law
The disclosure over the weekend that two police authorities, West Midlands and Surrey, have started the process of privatising the police service in their...