Tories Splitting Over Eu Crisis!
WHETHER British capitalism should remain within the crisis-ridden, sinking ship of the EU, or strike out on its own has immediately split the Tory...
TUC must answer zero-hours contracts with a general strike!
ON Wednesday night TV viewers were treated to a film clip on the news of the managing director of Sports Direct, Mike Ashley, pulling...
BA’s nail in the coffin of legal strike actions – by courtesy of Unite’s...
THE UNITE trade union leadership announced yesterday that after the cabin crew membership ‘voted last month overwhelmingly, and for the third time, to take...
UK’s ‘worst food security crisis’ is driving socialist revolution!
The recent extreme heat waves that have swept across the UK and Europe and the accompanying droughts are putting Britain at risk of its...
Kabul Taking The Place Of Saigon In The Pantheon Of US Imperialist Disasters
THE Taleban yesterday carried out another daring attack in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, with gun and shellfire taking place near to...
NHS to become part of leisure industry!
It’s now official – NHS hospitals under the Tory-dominated coalition government are set to become little more than a franchise of the leisure and...
Merkel defeated in Thuringia
LEFT parties in Germany have agreed a historic coalition deal which will see the first left state government in Thuringia, East Germany, since the...
US opens missile base in Romania and plans for bases in Poland and Hungary
AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...
Portuguese economic and political crisis reaches explosion point!
PORTUGAL’S borrowing costs have jumped to over 7%, meaning that it will shortly have to seek another IMF-EU bailout, by offering even more cuts...
Starmer gives Trump a veto over Chinese investment in the UK!
LABOUR Party leader Starmer has given Donald Trump a ‘veto’ to bar Chinese investment in Britain in the just agreed trade deal over US...
Starmer pledges Labour to super-austerity to rescue capitalism
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer delivered a speech in Stratford, east London yesterday setting out Labour’s ‘vision’ for the country under any future Labour government. His...
14,000 Iranian university professors condemn attacks on IRGC!
MORE than 14,000 Iranian university professors have condemned the European Union’s designation of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a so-called terrorist organisation,...
Tories Lash Out At Poor And Migrant Workers
PM Cameron was yesterday pledging ‘action on welfare’ to ensure, as he put it, that ‘work is always a better option’ – not by...
The Tory Party to evict pensioners and criminalise the disabled!
THE Tory crusade has begun to resolve the capitalist crisis by heaping the cost of it onto the poor, the disabled, the elderly, the...
Millions to be pushed into fuel poverty in the UK while energy companies make...
Millions of households across the UK will be pushed into fuel poverty as energy bills for the average family rise by over £220 a...
Gaza Will Be Rebuilt! Israeli Occupation Has Failed! – Says Hamas!
WHEN silence falls after the storm, the real story begins. In Gaza, the bombs have gone quiet, but the sound of the rubble is...
The absurdity of Miliband’s ‘one nation banking’ under capitalism
LABOUR leader Miliband has once again revealed the absolute bankruptcy of reformism. In a speech made yesterday he denied that there were laws governing...
SLUMP DEEPENS – only one way out – REVOLUTION!
THE bourgeois propaganda machine was all set yesterday to spin an expected 0.04 per cent increase in GDP into a ‘the slump is over’...
Miliband’s ‘national interest’ is an ‘imperialist interest’
FOREIGN Secretary Miliband declared to his audience, right at the start of his Oxford College speech last Tuesday evening, that ‘we’ must not let...
US imperialism is determined to step up its intervention into Syria
PLANNING for military intervention by the imperialist powers into Syria, to overthrow the regime of president Assad, was stepped up this week with growing...
Labour victimises the unemployed!
INCAPACITY Benefit will be abolished under the Welfare Green Paper just published by Works and Pensions Minister, James Purnell. The 2.7 million people receiving Incapacity...
Putin wants a ‘game with rules’ with imperialism!
PUTIN posed the question at last week’s International Discussion Club in Sochi: ‘The World Order: New Rules or a Game without rules’. (see feature) He...
Trump boasts America is ‘greatest civilisation’ on Earth – while preparing war on working...
Donald Trump’s speech at his inauguration as US president on Monday did not include a number of the crucial measures he insisted would be...
Blears Speaks With Forked Tongue
HOME Office minister Blears has had a strenuous week. On the one hand she has been working to support British Transport Police Chief Johnston....
Bankrupt capitalism must be replaced by a socialist revolution
The political shock waves caused by Donald Trump’s election as US President on Wednesday will undermine the already collapsing fragile economies of world capitalism,...
Trump Sheds ‘Crocodile Tears’ For Victims Of Thursday’s Downing Of Ukrainian Plane!
ON FRIDAY January 3rd, the USA carried out a terrorist drone attack on Baghdad airport, murdering General Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary...
Trade unions must fight zero hours contracts
THE news that over one million workers now have ‘zero hours contracts’ and work only when their employer wants them, have no holidays or...
French revolution – spreading throughout Europe
FRANCE has been shaken for the past six months by an eruption of anger by the education trade unions and by student and school...
Italy, Spain and Greece erupting against EU austerity
ITALIAN car giant Fiat has shut down five of its plants as the Italian ruling class struggles against a transport workers strike directed against...
Good Riddance To Campbell – Now Chuck Out All The ‘Lib Dem Lovers’ Before...
THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Labour Party was absolutely correct to expel Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former ‘spin doctor’, for voting...
Hedge fund speculators make super-profits out of starving millions across the world
A REPORT compiled by Unearthed, the investigative unit of the Greenpeace environmentalist organisation, and the independent journalist organisation Lighthouse Reports has thrown a light...
Tory Nationality & Borders Bill will make rescuing refugees from drowning illegal!
ON MONDAY night, the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (the Policing Bill) passed its third reading in Parliament on its way to...
Congress must call general strike to bring down the Tories and bring in a...
THE TUC meets in Brighton this week for its most vital Congress in living memory. It meets at a time when the working class...
Zionists ramp up attack on Rafah as fierce fighting breaks out in the north...
THE ISRAELI regime intensified its genocidal attack on the southern city of Rafah, which sits on the border with Egypt, over the weekend. Yesterday, Israeli...
UK Military Chiefs Call To Bring Back Conscription As US-UK Prepare For War...
FORMER British military chiefs have told the Starmer-led Labour government that it, as the government of the UK, ‘must’ consider conscription ‘now’ before it...
Stop children and immigrants being used as ‘cash cows’
EVIDENCE is emerging about the extent to which the Tory policy of creating a ‘hostile climate’ for immigrant workers is being used by the...
Gaza Residents Are Hit By Aid Strike!
THERE has been a very bitter winter in Palestine especially in the war ravaged Gaza Strip where tens of thousands of Gazans’ homes were...
Turkey Poised To Invade Northern Iraq
THE Turkish army is poised to invade northern Iraq in order to respond to PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) attacks on its troops, which...
Hague, Cameron will join Obama’s war on Syria
PRIME MINISTER Cameron and Foreign Secretary Hague, despite the fact that the Tory cabinet and party are split on the issue, yesterday gave their...
French workers’ refusal to vote for austerity puts socialist revolution on immediate agenda
IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote...
US-UK Refuse To Demand Israeli Ceasefire!
YESTERDAY’S UN Security Council emergency meeting on Gaza ended without the issuing of a resolution after the US and the UK refused to vote...
Lobby the TUC on 27 April to demand they take action to support the...
THE lobby of the TUC general council meeting tomorrow is crucial for the fight, not just in defence of the junior doctors, but to...
Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes UK into recession!
THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...
Blair Launches ‘Irreversible’ NHS-Education Market!
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that he was poised to make irreversible changes to primary and secondary education by bringing in an education market...
Bank Of Cyprus Occupied By Angry Workers
FURIOUS CYPRIOT workers took over the streets of Nicosia on Tuesday and occupied the Bank of Cyprus. The occupation took place on the...