Obama tries to put a sticking plaster over the gaping wounds of US capitalism
US President Barack Obama has hailed the deal reached with the Republican Party to avert a ‘fiscal cliff’ of huge tax rises and spending...
Free the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ volunteers! Organise an armada to break the Gaza blockade!Forward to...
NINETEEN members of the six ship ‘Freedom Flotilla’ were yesterday murdered by Israeli special forces in a major war crime, and a larger...
46,000 auto workers close down GM as the class struggle erupts in US
ON SUNDAY night 46,000 members of the United Automobile Workers (UAW), employed by General Motors in America, walked out on indefinite strike in a...
Inflation Out Of Control – Only Solution Is Get Rid Of Capitalism!
BRITISH capitalism has plunged even deeper into debt! It was revealed yesterday that interest payments on the massive £2.4 trillion national debt have more...
Corbyn faces coup if elected
LAST week the right-wing of the Labour Party showed their desperation over the snowballing support for the Jeremy Corbyn leadership campaign by trotting out...
Imperialist war against Syria escalated – answer with socialist revolution
THE past few days have seen an escalation of the imperialist war against Syria and the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today the Turkish government is...
Full Support For The Doctors’ Strike
EVERY TRADE UNION and all trade unionists must support today’s 24 hour strike action by the BMA doctors’ trade union, and must be demanding...
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...
Inflation carries on cutting wages, pensions and benefits
THE Office of National Statistics has given the figures on inflation rates for last month which confirm that British capitalism faces total economic collapse,...
Cruddas scandal – ruling class split over Cameron leadership
The resignation by the chief Tory fundraiser and party co-treasurer, Peter Cruddas, late on Saturday gave one more glimpse into the corruption that lies...
Capitalist crash drives HBOS into the arms of Lloyds TSB
THE Federal Reserve Bank’s $85bn ‘rescue’ of AIG was carried out to stave off an immediate international financial and business collapse. It has turned...
Defend the Tamil people! Unite the Sri Lankan workers! Bring down the Rajipakse...
THERE is a war taking place in Sri Lanka, in which the government of President Rajipakse, armed, equipped, trained and financially supported by the...
ALL trade unions must strike with the nurses to bring down the Tories and...
NURSES are to strike on Thursday 15th and Tuesday 20th December. At the same time CWU postal and RMT and ASLEF rail workers are...
Sunak Wants A War With Russia And A Class War Against The Working Class...
THE British ruling class has decided that there is only one way out of the historic crisis of British capitalism, and that is to...
Cox joins the war criminals with her plan to attack Syria!
ON Monday evening in the House of Commons Labour MP Jo Cox came to the rescue of Cameron and the Tories when she...
Consultants are fighting for the NHS – the working class must rally behind them...
YESTERDAY, NHS consultants went out on a two-day strike, the first in nearly 50 years, over their demand for an increase in pay to...
Renationalise Energy Companies And Abolish Tuition Fees!
AT A time of a desperate economic crisis of capitalism, when millions of families fear that they will not be able to pay their...
Corbyn Called A ‘Stalinist’ As Labour Right Wing Plots For A Second Referendum
LABOUR leader Corbyn has been accused of organising a ‘Stalinist purge’ after he sacked ex-leadership contender and Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Owen Smith on...
The Tory Party is blowing apart! TUC must call a general strike to kick...
Liz Truss was only installed as Prime Minister little more than 4 weeks ago but yesterday a senior Tory minister, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly,...
Obama, Biden look to Putin!
VICE-PRESIDENT BIDEN took the stage at the 45th Munich Security Conference on Saturday to spell out that the US understood that it now needed...
World capitalism breaking apart – time to end it with socialist revolution
THIS WEEK, the final nail was driven into the coffin of the political and economic consensus that has dominated world capitalism from the end...
Build The Wrp In 2008!
THE TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, in his New Year’s message said that his two fears for 2008 were the dangers of a banking...
Call a general strike – build Councils of Action – forward to Socialism
THE Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said yesterday that the government should ban strikes by workers in essential services, adding that this...
Idlib terrorist evacuation under way! With Syria now secured, now is the time to...
TURKEY’S state-run Anadolu news agency has reported that the Nural-Din al-Zinki Islamist faction has removed rockets, mortars and missiles from the front line in...
Work till you drop for the working class
LORD Turner, the ex-CBI boss, is proposing that workers work a number of extra years before they take the state pension. Turner says that...
Trade Unions Must Shut Down The Schools, And Kick The Tories Out To Beat...
CORONAVIRUS cases are now rising fast, driven by a new variant of the virus that has emerged in the UK and is much more...
Brown warns ‘bumps in the road ahead’
THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has presided over a capitalist state rescue of the bankrupt banking system, which has seen the deployment of up...
Blair fans anti-youth hysteria – while capitalist state gunmen return to work
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, joined in the hysterical attack that the state and bosses are launching on Britain’s youth. Millions of young people...
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...
3.1 million children living below poverty line – the TUC advocates doing absolutely nothing!
This is a treacherous abdication of all responsibility by the trade union leaders for this crisis of poverty. They have not lifted a single...
A general strike to bring down the Tories is the only programme for victory...
MICK LYNCH, general secretary of the RMT rail workers union, has denounced Labour leader Keir Starmer for being ‘not on the side of workers’...
Traitor Tsipras is handing over power to the right wing!
WITH his resignation as Greek prime minister on Thursday night, the leader of the ‘left’ Syriza government, Alexis Tsipras, has signalled that he and...
Smash Capitalist State To End Deaths In Police Custody!
DEATHS in police custody are the ‘highest for five years’, the Independent Police Complaints Commission’s annual report on deaths during or following police contact...
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...
US Senate agrees $1.2tn ‘coronavirus stimulus’ – US and world capitalism heading for an...
THE US Senate finally agreed on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. This huge sum was in fact just half of what Biden wanted –...
Abolish the monarchy – forward to a workers’ republic and socialism!
DETAILS of the settlement between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre to end her claim that she was forced to have sex with the Duke...
Victory To Hamas As Lieberman Quits!
THE United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met behind closed doors over the situation in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, but failed to reach an...
Time to nationalise the banks – the only way to prevent another crash and...
THE BANK of America’s March survey has openly warned that another 2008-type worldwide crash is on the way. Its March survey polled 200 investors...
International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli war crimes against Palestinians
THE chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, confirmed on Wednesday that the ICC has opened a formal investigation into war...
Imf Gives Its Full Support To The Tories
AT its Spring Meeting in Washington this week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) made a direct intervention in the general election with an undisguised...
Withdraw all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan
THE fact that six RAF Harrier GR7 jets are to remain in Afghanistan to support the 4,000 British troops who are being assembled in...
Blair puts ‘the country’ before the Labour Party
BLAIR came clean on at least one issue at his monthly press conference and that was where his loyalties lie. They definitely do not lie...
Corbyn’s speech is a cowardly surrender to the bosses and bankers
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn’s speech yesterday defining Labour’s position on Brexit negotiations was nothing more than an abject and cowardly surrender to the bosses...
Labour right-wing renegades split, time to kick out the rest and demand a socialist...
AFTER weeks of speculation, seven right-wing Labour MPs announced yesterday that they are resigning from the Labour Party, citing ‘institutional anti-Semitism’ and the ‘shameful’...
Workers rise up – Stop the closure of Ealing Maternity Unit!
ON MAY 7 Labour won the Ealing Central and Acton seat from the Tories, with Rupa Huq getting 22,002 votes, a massive 13%...