Cotton Goes, But Savage Fire Cuts Continue – Workers Councils Of Action Must Impose...
YESTERDAY, the London Fire Brigade’s (LFB) commissioner, Dany Cotton, announced that she was resigning from her post four months early. Cotton came under sustained criticism...
THE TUC Congress must call a general strike in support of the workers...
THE Hamas Movement declared on Tuesday that the US administration bears direct responsibility for the continuation of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip. The Movement...
Hezbollah and Iranian forces have every right to be in Syria at the invitation...
SYRIA’S deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, has hailed Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement’s assistance to Syria, and its struggle for survival, saying...
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...
Put capitalism out of its misery with the socialist revolution
THE one thing guaranteed by the world economic crisis of the capitalist system, is that all the weakness, greed and corruption of the ruling...
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...
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...
Rees-Mogg warns Tories that attempts to block Johnson will plunge Tory Party into civil...
FORMER Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned the Conservatives against any attempt to block Boris Johnson if he seeks to stand in another parliamentary...
National Strike Action To Stop Any Forced Return To Work!
Last Sunday Boris Johnson announced that the Tories intend to reopen primary and reception schools year 1 and year 6 on June 1st, with...
Kick out union leaders who collaborate with Tories – build the revolutionary leadership in...
THIS WEEK Unison, the largest public sector union in the country, issued a statement declaring that it ‘stands ready’ to work with the Tory...
Brown And King Split As British Capitalism Founders
PM Brown has reacted to the Bank of England chief’s public admonition that the next Budget must not plunge the UK into another flood...
FOOD BANKS becoming the rule in poverty-stricken UK
THERE are currently 270 food banks across the UK where poverty-stricken workers and youth are directed to get subsistence amounts of food. As the capitalist...
US ‘putting a knife to China’s neck’
ON MONDAY the Chinese government issued a document accusing US president Donald Trump’s administration of ‘trade bullyism practices’ that represent the ‘greatest source of...
US government will shut down tomorrow as the political and economic crisis in America...
THE FEDERAL government will shut down tomorrow as Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress are in a bitter dispute over budget cuts to...
Israel receives a warning from Hezbollah!
PALESTINIAN children in Israeli jails are being subjected to torture, and physical and psychological abuse by Israeli officials, says the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’...
Greece Can’t Pay – Workers Won’t Pay!
ACCORDING to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, Greece has a much bigger budget deficit than that reported by the Greek government last year....
Re-call TUC conference! Sack the traitors! – We need a leadership that will...
THE NHS crisis is ‘like being in a war,’ Patrick Carter, who advises Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, told the Royal College of Anaesthetists’...
THE TUC leaders who have deserted junior doctors and the NHS must be kicked...
YESTERDAY the Tory offensive against not just junior doctors but the entire foundation of the National Health Service reached a ‘watershed moment for the...
Defend every job! Bring down coalition! Expropriate the bosses!
UK unemployment rose by 49,000 to almost 2.5 million in the three months to the end of November, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
Brown hints about withdrawal from Basra
PRIME Minister Brown was yesterday midway to giving up his ‘there is no timetable for a withdrawal from Iraq’ line – imposed on him...
Starmer forced to condemn the racist police force – Disband it now!
FRESH from the Labour Party conference on Thursday, the Prime Minister Kier Starmer was forced to condemn the ‘shocking’ racism and misogyny in the...
Vote Wrp – Keep The Tories Out– Forward To The Socialist Revolution
100,000 trade unionists and youth marched in Athens yesterday against the EU-IMF savage cuts programme being carried out by the Papandreou ‘socialist’ government. Today millions...
Now is the time to form a Palestinian government of national unity
‘YOU do not want peace at all. You have destroyed all chances of peace and you should bear all the responsibility,’ Palestinian President Abbas...
New Sri Lankan President Is As Hated As Rajapaksa And Will Have...
SRI LANKAN MPs have elected prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country’s new president, despite his extreme unpopularity with Sri Lankan workers and youth...
Act To Stop The Privatisation Of Royal Mail!
ROYAL MAIL bosses, Chairman Allan Leighton and Chief Executive Adam Crozier, are calling on the Labour government to give the go-ahead for them to...
Coalition Government announces plan to end council housing
Earlier this week the Coalition government’s Housing Minister, Grant Shapps, unveiled the government’s plans to destroy the last vestige of affordable social housing. In what...
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...
Labour plans war to privatise Royal Mail
THE Brown government is organising a £3bn sell-off of up to one third of the Royal Mail, a privatisation that will cost up to...
French Stalinists step in to help Sarkozy
OVER a million French civil servants went on strike yesterday, joining the hundreds of thousands of railworkers, busworkers and gas and electricity workers who...
US unions being driven to historic break with Democrats
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said last Friday that US workers want an ‘independent’ labour movement designed to help the working class, not a specific...
The markets panic and crash as capitalism heads for a major catastrophe!
THE stock markets are crashing as the Tory government’s borrowing costs went soaring yesterday to a 15-year high, amid a global shares sell off...
US Worldwide Torture Network
THE Council of Europe has announced it is investigating 31 reports of unmarked executive aircraft being used by the CIA to transport ‘suspected terrorists’...
Wave of corporate defaults looms across the world – Socialist revolution the only answer...
A WAVE of corporate defaults is imminent throughout the US and Europe, analysts at the German Deutsche Bank warn in its annual study released...
Unions at court to fight pensions rip-off
Yesterday six trade unions appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice to appeal against a High Court decision that the coalition government will slash...
PFI, Foundation Trusts and £20bn of Tory cuts are preparing NHS closures & privatisation
FIGURES publicised by Labour’s shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, have shown that one third of England’s hospitals have been completely full at some time...
The shadow bank collapse will ‘destroy Trump presidency!’
THE rapidly developing crisis within the so-called ‘shadow banking’ industry will result in a massive and dramatic catastrophe that has the power to ‘destroy...
Call general strike to stop the Trade Union Bill becoming law
DELEGATES at the Trade Union Congress in Brighton yesterday unanimously voted for motion 18 to defend the right to strike and political protest, and...
Workers Of The World Unite – Is Still The Slogan Of The Hour!
NET migration to the UK is at an all-time high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March 2015, that is 94,000 more than in...
Johnson refuses to resign – organise a general strike to kick him and the...
BORIS Johnson opened prime minister’s question time yesterday by apologising for giving the impression that lockdown rules, imposed by his Tory government, had not...
Blair An Agent Of US Imperialism
PRIME minister Blair is frequently accused of replacing the established form of bourgeois rule in Britain, through an elected parliament, a government and a...
Zionist Friedman appointed US ambassador to Israel!
BY appointing David Friedman as the US ambassador to Israel, President Trump has unceremoniously stomped on any remaining illusions that he will restore genuine...
Brown lambasts Tube strikers and public sector workers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown mounted an outspoken attack on members of the RMT railworkers’ union on strike at the London Underground bankrupt maintenance company...
TUC – defend the junior doctors, call a general strike now!
THE war against junior doctors and their fight to defend the NHS has been ramped up by the Tory government acting through the General...
UN raises alarm over Palestinian hunger strikers –– Free them now!
THE United Nations (UN) has raised the alarm over the health condition of hunger-striking Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Murdoch admirer Gove loves liberty and freedom
IT HAS emerged that Leveson, whose current inquiry was brought into being by Prime Minister Cameron, complained to the UK’s top civil servant after...