Junior doctors’ strike piles pressure on Sunak and the Tories!
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is already reeling under the pressure from day one of the historic six-day strike by junior doctors. The Tories have...
The meeting where the ‘N’ word could not be mentioned!
THERE were no questions allowed at the Unite TUC fringe meeting in Liverpool on Tuesday evening evening, so determined was the Woodley-Simpson leadership that...
The ‘Peace Process’ is a Fraud!
THE long-serving Palestinian prisoners whom Israel has pledged to release, and whose pledge prepared the way for the Palestinian leader Abbas to reopen the...
‘Big Society’ – wholesale destruction of the Welfare State
TORY prime minister, David Cameron, launched a desperate attempt yesterday to try and convince an incredulous public that his ‘Big Society’ policy is something...
Unions Must Fight And Defeat Local Pay Plans
THE Tory LibDem coalition, despite all its problems and weaknesses, waged a war to bring its Health and Social Care privatising bill into law. They...
Labour to hand police the power to ban demonstrations in move to establish a police state...
KEIR STARMER’S Labour government’s plans to ‘tighten’ protest laws were confirmed by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Sunday. The new powers handed to the police...
US ruling class fears an uprising by workers following Wisconsin shooting
PROTESTS in the US state of Wisconsin erupted on Sunday evening following another shooting by police of a reportedly unarmed black man. According to reports,...
Coalition Bringing In The Men To Butcher The NHS!
THE House of Commons Health Committee on October 18th discussed who was to fill the post of being chair of the NHS Commissioning...
Imperialist Butcher Blair Wants To Slaughter More Arabs!
TONY BLAIR, who is understandably opposed to the full transcripts of all of his talks with President Bush being published in the Chilcot Inquiry...
Government By Police Chiefs
AT his monthly press conference last Monday, the Prime Minister admitted that the source of his proposal, that the police should be allowed to...
Bosses fear ‘worst financial crisis since the Second World War’
A JOINT report from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC) yesterday revealed the fears in business circles that the ‘credit...
US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Agreed – Awaits Trump’s Signature!
LAST week the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said Washington is not seeking a permanent military presence in Afghanistan, after the Taliban said...
‘History at a turning point’ – forward to victory of world socialist revolution
THE ANNUAL meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos started yesterday on the theme of ‘history at a...
Russia must recognise the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics!
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ‘On recognition in the Russian Federation of the documents and licence plates of vehicles issued to...
Holder warns of Ferguson powder keg throughout USA
US ATTORNEY General Eric Holder says leaders in Ferguson, Missouri, must take ‘immediate, wholesale action’ after a report of widespread racial bias in its...
Cameron wants to intervene in Syria!
AT the same time as Foreign Secretary Hague has been insisting publicly that the UK will not supply arms and ammunition to their Syrian...
Capitalism reaches end of the road – time to overthrow it with a socialist...
YESTERDAY, US president Donald Trump performed another humiliating retreat when he accused Ukrainian president Zelensky of being responsible for the war on Russia continuing. When...
It is the tyranny of the minority that must be ended through socialist...
THE ‘tyranny of the majority’ should not dictate exit from the EU, former Tory PM John Major said yesterday, in remarks that have sparked...
Bank of England pushes up interest rates as inflation spirals out of control!
THE BANK of England Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and decided to increase the interest rate by 0.25% to 0.75% in a futile attempt...
TGWU relies on the Sainsbury family to defend its members’ jobs and wages
YESTERDAY the TGWU leaders produced their statement of full support for the Sainsbury family in the battle to keep out the Texas Pacific-backed raiding...
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...
Trade unions must bring down crisis-ridden Tories, break with the EU and bring in...
THE TORY leadership is now in complete disarray, with PM May repeatedly refusing on Tuesday to say how she would vote if there was...
Kwarteng Sacked – Truss On Borrowed Time – Working Class Must Kick Tories Out!
KWASI Kwarteng was sacked yesterday afternoon as Tory Chancellor, just weeks after he announced huge unfunded tax cuts that triggered a financial crisis by...
Greece headed for revolution!
THE situation for Greek capitalism has become so serious that Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos has demanded that Germany returns the Greek gold that...
Build The Greek Section Of The Fourth International!
TENS of thousands of students, teachers and trade unionists are expected to take to the streets of Athens and other major Greek cities on...
French revolutionary tactics show British workers the way
THE two general strikes and the massive mobilisations of trade unionists, students, lycee students, and unemployed and working class youth which brought millions onto...
UK Workers Must Continue To Welcome Refugees And Organise To Smash Bankrupt Capitalism!
SINCE September, homeless people, including homeless asylum seekers and refugees, have been unceremoniously dumped back onto the streets of the UK. A study published in...
Get ready for the crash – capitalism is ringing the alarm bells!
ALARMED by the impending crash of over-valued world stock markets, the deputy governor of the Bank of England (BoE) warned investors yesterday to prepare...
200,000 Local Authority Workers Face The Axe
AS the regime of savage cuts gets under way, in the run-up to the general election, it is no surprise that the local government...
Blair’s police state demonising Muslims
ABU Bakr, the 27 year old English teacher, and one of the nine Muslim men arrested by the police, and put under the media...
Mubarak is finished – Forward to the socialist revolution
The regime of Hosni Mubarak is finished, crushed by the millions of workers, middle class, poor and – most importantly – the youth who...
False start for Psaki in sanctions assault race!
US President Obama has not yet signed a bill clearing the way for more economic sanctions against Russia. The US State Department confirmed ...
Palestinians rising up against Israeli drive to ethnically cleanse them from Jerusalem
ISRAELI forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday morning, firing rubber-coated bullets, tear gas and sound bombs at Palestinian worshippers, wounding hundreds in a...
Workers of the world unite to fight for the victory of Palestine!
ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’, heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza,...
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...
Tories are bringing in savage anti-union laws to police the working class as they...
THE GOVERNMENT has announced what it says is one of the biggest bonfires of financial regulations to allow the City of London to rule...
Free Julian Assange! Imperialists are the real war criminals!
JULIAN Assange’s extradition hearing resumed in London yesterday with the US government once again throwing in new charges at the last moment. According to reports,...
Capitalist state kept quiet about illegal phone tapping
METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has ordered a senior officer to ‘establish the facts’ – concerning the knowledge that the police had –...
A Record £65.5 Billion Trade Deficit For 2005
THE UK trade deficit with the rest of the world for 2005 was a catastrophic £65.5 billion. The deficit on goods and services...
Call strike action to defeat Tory plans to destroy university system
YESTERDAY, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published a detailed report into the effects of the Tory higher education bill due to return to...
Millions of children face hunger under Tory austerity – TUC must act!
A SHOCKING study carried out by the GMB union released yesterday showed that almost one in ten school staff bring in their own food...
The Treasury and the Banks are in a panic over the Metro crash!
UK Treasury officials are locked in talks with the Bank of England after Metro Bank’s shares plunged by more than 31%. The bank is now...
US Crisis Explodes On The Streets As Trump Threatens War With North Korea And...
US PRESIDENT Trump, dedicated to ‘making America great again’, to further enrich the bosses and the bankers at the expense of the US workers...
Pound drops and inflation rises as recession grows
THE pound fell to an exchange rate of $1.77 yesterday, its lowest level for two-and-a-half years. In June sterling was trading at $2, but...
Abbas to meet Kerry for decisive talks
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas is to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris today to discuss the peace talks with Israeli, US and...