Afghan crisis deepens as deadline nears
AFGHANISTAN’S finance minister has said deadlock over the disputed presidential election has cost the economy $5bn, so far. Omar Zakhilwal has said he will have...
US-UK strikes at Syrian army on eve of Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia –...
LAST Monday, the US-led coalition airforce in the Middle East, that includes the UK, attacked and bombed Al-Bukamal near the Syrian border with Iraq...
Imperialism Risks Armageddon in Gulf
The news this week, that the army and security services have informed government ministers that there is a ‘25% to 50% chance’ that there...
Defend Russia And China By Completing World Socialist Revolution!
RUSSIA has begun its largest military manoeuvres in four decades in eastern Siberia, with thousands of troops from China and Mongolia also taking part. The...
Israeli leaders call to annex West Bank to create a new Naqba!
ISRAEL’S Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Uri Ariel speaking in Moscow, where he travelled with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, has...
President Obama is for unilateralism, but not in his lifetime
PRESIDENT Obama, now in eastern Europe, has announced his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, but has added that he does not...
Massive debt crisis reaches breaking point!
OVER the past few months there has been an increasing concern being expressed in the pages of the financial press about the huge bubble...
Trump And Allies Plan To Attack And Loot Afghanistan!
PRESIDENT Trump has told the US people he has changed his mind about Afghanistan being a futile conflict, and that now the US, and...
UK trade unions must take action to end the UK’s criminal treatment of Chagossians...
THE prime minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth has indicted the UK government for committing ‘crimes against humanity’ for refusing to allow Chagossians to return...
Mervyn King The Bankrupt Representative 0F A Bankrupt Social System!
ON Wednesday night, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, delivered a speech that amounted to little more than an extensive...
£65bn PFI Nightmare for the NHS!
THE PFI Private Finance Initiative was brought in by the Major Tory government, and while it was opposed by Labour in opposition, it was...
Labour squeezing poor and cutting services to prop up the banks
CHANCELLOR Darling has told his cabinet colleagues there will be no more money made available for schools, hospitals or transport. These vital services face cuts,...
TUC must call a general strike to halt Tory drive to runaway inflation and...
US stocks have made huge losses after a major sell-off last Friday on Wall Street. By Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly...
Expropriate the landlords, build millions of council homes
WHEN the Tory Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, starts accusing his coalition government of ‘Kosovo-style social cleansing’ in the capital over the plans to...
‘Sell Everything!’ Shrieks The Rbs!
IN his November Autumn statement, Chancellor Osborne was full of optimism that the crisis of world and British capitalism was being resolved, with his...
Rejoice – Syrian forces on the outskirts of Palmyra!
THE Fars news agency has reported that ‘At approximately 11:45pm (Damascus Time) on Tuesday night, the Syrian Army’s “Tiger Forces”, backed by Hezbollah, the...
All out behind the firefighters
Today, the London FBU are staging the first of two eight hour strikes against the plans to sack the entire workforce of over 5,000...
Wealth redistribution in UK requires socialist revolution
UK child poverty levels are double those of 1979, after 27 years of the Thatcher, Major and Blair, Tory and Labour governments, while Brown...
Disband the police and go forward to a Workers State and Socialism!
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced another government ‘initiative’ this week, this time ordering the police to ‘crackdown on crime’. The very idea that the...
UN Security Council passes resolution to put Trump in supreme control of Gaza
ON MONDAY, the United Nations Security Council voted by 13 to 0 to pass a US-drafted resolution that effectively puts president Donald Trump in...
A planned famine grips Gaza – the working class must intervene and support Palestinians
THE Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval of a plan to occupy Gaza, following the Palestinian factions’ acceptance...
Keep out the Tories – bring down the Blair-Brown government! Forward to socialism!
LABOUR was routed in Thursday’s regional and council elections losing by late yesterday afternoon 454 councillors and eight councils in England, while it lost...
Brown gives billions more to the banks
AMID banks posting further huge losses and their share prices collapsing, after the near extinction of the world’s largest banks last October, Prime Minister...
Bring down the Tories on June 8th to save the NHS, and end benefit...
ON JUNE 23 2016 the adventurers Cameron and Osborne, the then PM and Chancellor, came unstuck when they lost their EU referendum and were...
Kick May And The Tories Out Now With A General Strike! Forward To...
PM MAY yesterday morning announced she was resigning as Tory leader and Prime Minister in two weeks on June 7. May said that the...
The TUC Congress must vote for a general strike for UK to end trade...
THE scheduled visit to the UK next Tuesday and Wednesday of Israeli president Isaac Herzog has enraged Labour MPs. The visit will take place...
Send ex-Goldman Sachs Carney packing
YESTERDAY the new head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, officially took up the reins from the outgoing Sir Mervyn King. Carney, formerly head...
Tory policy is to drive the sick back to work to ‘rescue’ a collapsing...
THE drive by the Tories and their media supporters to demonise workers and the sick, as the root cause of the crisis that is...
Karzai Won’t Go – US-UK Adventure On The Rocks
PRESIDENT Karzai is refusing to agree to a re-run of the Afghan general election, meaning that Karzai and his master President Obama are at...
‘You must recognise the Palestinian state’ says the Palestinian Ambassador Zomlot
RECOGNISING the Palestinian state is the prerequisite for peace, not a by-product of peace,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said in an...
Torturers must pay for their crimes!
YESTERDAY’S announcement by the coalition government that it has agreed to make huge payments to former detainees at the notorious Guantanamo Bay concentration camp...
French government collapses
ON Monday the French government effectively collapsed as a direct result of a massive split in the leading ranks of the ruling Socialist Party...
May Day uprising: in France and across Europe workers rise up against capitalist crisis
THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets throughout France on Sunday sending a clear ‘message’ that workers are preparing a massive...
Replace Bankrupt Capitalism With World Socialism!
THERE is not the slightest doubt that capitalism worldwide is in its greatest crisis ever. The US-UK failed attempt to occupy Iraq and...
Tory Would-Be Leaders Are Paralysed With A Fear Of The Working Class! Bring Them...
TUESDAY night’s live debate between the five remaining Tory hopefuls to replace Theresa May and become prime minister, was a stark demonstration of the...
UK workers are weighed down by debt while landlords are fattened on £21bn of...
LENIN, in his work ‘Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism’, wrote about one of the most important connections between the imperialist drive for colonies...
Tottenham Uprising – The First Of Many
THE uprising that took place in Tottenham on Saturday night came 48 hours after the police shooting of a local man, Mark Duggan, and...
Rate cuts and printing pound notes – Brown’s recipe for disaster
THE Bank of England yesterday cut interest rates to 1.5 per cent, the lowest level in its 315-year history, since the start of the...
For A Nuclear Bomb Free Middle East
IRAN took a calculated risk yesterday when it reached an agreement with the US and its allies that it would allow extensive and exhaustive...
Union leaders in Brown’s top pocket
The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure leapt from 4.7% in August to 5.2% in December, with the Retail Prices Index (RPI), which includes the...
Unite Cuts Its Labour Party Funding. The Trade Unions Need A Revolutionary Party!
IN HIS speech to the Tory party conference on Monday, chancellor Rishi Sunak pledged to ‘use the overwhelming might of the British state’ in...
After levelling Mosul and Raqqa, the US-UK-French alliance is moving into northern Syria
THE FALSE claims of the Ministry of Defence that there were no civilian casualties in UK air strikes on Iraq, namely on Mosul, have...
Mass strikes in US as workers rise up in ‘Striketober’
The US working class has mobilised in an unprecedented wave of mass strikes across the country this month in what is being designated as...
US Puppets Can’t Agree On Iraq Constitution!
IRAQ’S puppet leaders are unable to agree on a constitution for the country despite all of the urgings from the US Secretary of Defence,...
Libyan Land War Looms!
FIRST of all they embraced Gadaffi like a long lost brother in 2004, just one year after the mass slaughter in Iraq. The...