Tories’ catastrophic split – time to kick them out
THE Tory party was delivered shattering blows on the eve of its conference when Tory MP Mark Reckless stepped out onto the platform of...
Crazy UK capitalism won’t dump disaster prone nuclear power
GUNTHER Oettinger, the EU’s energy commissioner, has compared the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster – with its repeated explosions of nuclear material and...
TUC must call a general strike to kick out Starmer’s Labour government and go...
Prime minister Keir Starmer delivered what was described as a make-or-break speech yesterday morning in an increasingly desperate attempt to cling on to power...
Get out of Iraq – British troops get a last warning
THE raid on Iraq’s Finance Ministry compound on Tuesday, by a column of up to 50 heavily armed police officers, in pick-up vehicles, which...
Victory To The Arab Socialist Revolution!
THE world capitalist crisis is driving forward the working class and poor of the world to carry through the world socialist revolution, and replace...
Defiant Assad Puts Imperialists Into A Crisis!
PRESIDENT Assad’s recent statement to the AFP news agency reflects the huge change in the internal Syrian situation thanks to the successful alliance between...
Extend lecturers strike into a general strike to defend pensions and education
TALKS began yesterday between the University and College Union (UCU) and Universities UK (UUK), the body representing all universities, at the conciliation service ACAS...
Housing bubble set to burst!
LAST week saw a concerted effort by the Tory-led coalition, aided by their friends in the bourgeois press, to deny that a catastrophic housing...
Abbas backs Hamas – no ceasefire till blockade ended
PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas has backed calls by Hamas for an end to the economic blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel as one...
Cameron to ‘Keep capitalism safe’ with more savage attacks on workers!
ON Wednesday, King, the governor of the Bank of England, said of the developing crisis in the eurozone that his Monetary Policy Committee believes...
Defend The NHS, The Fire Service & The Welfare State By Bringing Down The...
THE response of the Tory-LibDem government to the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system has been to try to force the working class,...
There Is No Christmas Truce For Palestinians As Israel Attacks Both Gaza And The...
ISRAELI warplanes at dawn yesterday launched a series of airstrikes against several posts across the besieged Gaza Strip, causing extensive material damage. WAFA’s correspondent reported...
Police cover-up over military-style operation against City protests
IAN TOMLINSON, a 47-year-old news vendor in the City of London, collapsed at 7.25pm on April 1 on his way home from work during...
Tories secret plan for fire sale of NHS land and a mass closure of...
DETAILS of the secret Tory plan for a ‘fire sale’ of NHS land and buildings emerged yesterday following an analysis carried out for the...
Refugees branded as ‘illegals’ by EU
THIS week, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, threatened that the EU would deport the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist...
Stop The Police Chiefs Taking Over The Fire Service!
JUST a few weeks ago the Grenfell Tower inferno burnt men, women and children to death, because the fire was able to take...
UK Trade Unions Must Give Full Support To Palestinians!
ONE more Palestinian journalist, along with several members of her family, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s...
Head of Oxfam GB damns UK as ‘morally incoherent’ over arming the Israeli genocide!
THE head of Oxfam GB, Halima Begum, has damned the UK government for supplying arms to Israel while simultaneously providing humanitarian aid to Gaza...
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...
Obama Compares Bp With Osama Bin Laden
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama said yesterday that the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will have the same impact on the US...
Inflation rips through Europe as working class rises up over wages
EMPLOYEES at the European Central Bank (ECB) are the latest to join workers across Europe in demanding wage increases to meet the spiralling inflation...
PFI debts are strangling NHS
LAST Friday, the ‘independent’ health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), finally issued its report on healthcare provision at the Barts Healthcare Trust,...
TUC supports Heseltine – the Tory who closed down the mining industry
IT says something about the depth of the capitalist crisis, and the lack of ability in the Cameron government, that Lord Heseltine, who in...
Labour plans to use the state’s OBR to hold down workers’ wages and benefits!
LABOUR has promised to hand more powers to Britain’s capitalist state, and to the OBR, the Office for Budget Responsibility, to hold down wages...
Now Organise The General Strike!
SATURDAY’S mass marches in London, Glasgow and Belfast were marches to bring down the coalition, regardless of the intentions of their TUC organisers who...
Hunt vows to slash benefits to drive sick back to work and pledges UK...
THIS week, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt jetted off to Washington to attend the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the stated...
Macron Set To Lose His Majority As French Workers Vote Socialist!
PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron is set to lose his outright majority after a strong challenge from a coalition of left-wing parties in National Assembly elections....
Brazil erupts as social revolution hits South America
THE Brazilian government is deploying heavily armed troops to five main urban centres that are the driving force of the present uprising by the...
Labour’s political crisis accelerates the collapse of weak UK capitalism
THE ECONOMIC collapse of weak British capitalism has been accelerated this week by the political ‘death spiral’ of Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer. At yesterday’s...
Tories driving workers out of London
TWO sets of statistics were issued last Thursday, statistics that prove conclusively what every worker in London and the big cities in England and...
Sharon’s deception at the United Nations
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tried to cut a figure as the liberator of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip at the United...
Tories join with Labour to dump Johnson and prepare way for a national government
YESTERDAY, MPs debated the motion from Labour that would refer the behaviour of prime minister Boris Johnson to the Commons standards committee to investigate...
Workers march in London! Time to call general strike!
YESTERDAY, steelworkers were marching for their jobs to parliament, defending an industry that is being deliberately destroyed, while university lecturers were taking the first...
China has beaten coronavirus while Tories will allow 60% of the population to be...
CHINA’S Wuhan province reported a zero increase in new coronavirus infections last week. China has beaten the virus and with no new cases, their...
Defend Syria – bring down Cameron and Hague
GILLES DE KERCHOVE, the EU’s anti-terror chief yesterday told the BBC that hundreds of Europeans are now fighting with the counter-revolutionary forces in Syria...
Bank of England trapped by inflation crisis – socialism the only way forward
THE BANK of England is due to meet this week to announce an increase in interest rates, with ‘experts’ predicting an increase of 0.5%...
Now is the time to defend the Chinese revolution!
THE US House of Representatives has hit out at what the US ruling class considers to be its major enemy, the People’s Republic of...
Inflation Is Cutting Pay At A Massive Rate – The Trade Unions Must Fight...
THE purchasing power of workers’ pay packets is falling at the fastest rate since 2001. Between March and May, pay, excluding bonuses, was down 2.8%...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Resolve The Crisis Of Capitalism!
THE DAY after official figures were released showing that the UK economy was crashing into the deepest depression for 300 years, the governor of...
Cut in interest rates by the Fed will accelerate capitalism’s world crash
THE US CENTRAL Federal Reserve Bank on Wednesday performed an abrupt U-turn on its policy of attempting to hold back the vast amount of...
Doctors strike to defend the NHS and to defend patient care!
ALMOST 50,000 resident (junior) hospital doctors started their 5-day strike yesterday against the government’s refusal to fund their claim for a pay increase of...
Trade Unions must occupy hospitals threatened with closures! Come to the ATUA conference!
THE NHS is the battleground within which the class struggle in this country is being fought out to the finish. The Tory government plans...
Obama Declares War On The Pakistani People!
PRESIDENT OBAMA yesterday announced a ‘comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan Pakistan’. He deliberately linked the two countries together, to try to show that there could...
TUC must call a general strike at once to defend the Palestinian people from...
THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said yesterday that the number of Palestinians who have been driven from their...
Tories are readying to impose new taxes, and engage in massive wage cutting! Remove...
EARLIER this week, Apple was priced on the US stock market at $2.3tn (£1.7tn), more than the combined ‘value’ of the entire FTSE 100. The...