Workers will not pay for Carillion bankruptcy – drive out the privateers with...
20,000 jobs in the UK and a similar number of jobs abroad are under threat with the collapse of the giant construction company Carillion...
Renationalise Tata Steel to defend workers’ jobs and pensions
THE announcement that Tata Steel has reached an agreement with the steel trade union leaders that will ‘save’ the industry has been greeted as...
Banking ‘reforms’ won’t stop them collapsing
Yesterday in parliament the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, announced that the coalition government intended to accept ‘in full’ the proposals on reforming the banks...
The developing capitalist crisis demands the organisation of the socialist revolution
SHRINKING UK trade figures released yesterday of a decline of 0.1 per cent of GDP in May, following a 0.3 per cent fall in...
Stop the return of British troops to Helmand province!
THE Taleban armed forces are now retaking Sangin town in Helmand Province, which was taken over as a British responsibility after the retreat from...
Kick out privatising hospital managers – place NHS under the management of medics and...
THE aftermath of the sentencing on Monday of Lucy Letby for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others at...
Lansley calls to ‘break down the system’
TORY coalition Health Secretary Andrew Lansley addressed the BMA doctors union conference in Brighton yesterday, telling delegates: ‘Every step we take we must take...
Palestinian Prisoners Go 0N Hunger Strike For Unity
PALESTINIANS are commemorating Land Day, the 35th anniversary of the uprising against Israel’s land theft, in which six young protesters were killed by...
In US elections Sanders must defy Democrat campaign to stop him and stand for...
THE RACE to become the Democratic Party candidate to face Trump in November’s presidential election has come down to a fight between the democratic...
Imperialists In A Panic Over Syria’s Ghouta Victory!
THE Syrian government has denied the terrorist claims, that were expected, that Syria has launched a chemical attack on its own city of Douma,...
EU crisis deepens in London and Athens
THE great EU referendum crisis in the UK has sharpened after PM Cameron denied his earlier remarks that after he had negotiated a deal...
Capitalism diving into recession and hyperinflation – time to put it out of its...
YESTERDAY morning, Tory ministers had to submit to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) their plans to impose the cuts demanded by Chancellor Jeremy...
Make Hammond’s Budget his last by a general strike to kick the Tories out...
THE Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, closed his autumn budget statement on Wednesday with the announcement that this would be his ‘first and last’. Faithfully obeying...
Westminster Council demands unemployed do ‘voluntary work’
The Tory ‘flagship’ council, Westminster, yesterday unveiled its blueprint for dumping the savage cuts in local government finances squarely on the backs of the...
IRAQ – MILLI0NS AT RISK FROM foul WATER, FIVE YEARS AFTER THE 2003 INVASION
THE International Committee of the Red Cross has issued a damning report that millions of Iraqis’ lives are threatened by foul water and diseases...
US Ruling Class Offers Iran A Rotten Deal
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday said that the US would talk to Iran if it will suspend its nuclear programme. Rice made...
TUC unites with bosses to plead with Tories for aviation bail-out rather than fight...
YESTERDAY the TUC joined with aviation bosses and Heathrow management in a joint statement calling for the Tories to ‘protect the UK’s vital aviation...
Police to be ‘reformed’ along RUC lines
SIR Ronald Flanagan, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary in England and Wales, and the senior police adviser to the Home Secretary, will publish a...
Tory legislation to save capitalism through bringing in a police state
THE TORIES set out their plans to get the collapsing British capitalist economy ‘back on track’ in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech marking the opening of...
Iran nuclear talks at crucial stage as Saudis bomb Yemen
AT THE same time as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf state planes, with US support, are bombing the Yemen and its Houthi Shia rebels,...
The Bank is preparing a housing catastrophe
HOMEOWNERS should prepare for interest rates of five per cent, a 1000 per cent leap from the current 0.5 per cent Bank of England...
Kick out the Tories to end Universal Credit attacks on benefits!
ON SUNDAY the Guardian newspaper published a letter signed by 30 Labour MPs and the one Green Party MP expressing their concern about the...
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...
Greek workers on the march to socialist revolution
THE Greek working class, Greek youth and the majority of the middle class and the small farmers have battled the EU imposed austerity programmes...
Break with the EU – Forward to the British socialist revolution and Socialist United...
THE POLITICAL and economic crisis over Brexit has reached explosion point this week, with negotiations between the Tory government and the leaders of the...
Bring down Brown-Mandelson regime – forward to a workers’ government
YESTERDAY afternoon the PM’s office was leaking the speech that Brown is due to give to the TUC Congress on Tuesday. It stressed that if...
Saudi air strikes in Yemen as it mobilises 150,000 troops
SAUDI Arabian forces, joined by nine other countries, have launched a military operation in Yemen against Shi’ite Houthi rebels, the Saudi ambassador to the...
TUC leader O’Grady makes PM May a unity offer!
IN a lecture to the London School of Economics (LSE) on Tuesday TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady made a ‘national government’ call to the...
McDONNELL SPLITS LABOUR OVER SCOTTISH NATIONALISTS – HE IS GETTING READY FOR A...
IN AN interview in Edinburgh on Tuesday Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell brazenly broke with the official Labour Party policy of opposition to a...
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...
Labour’s ‘worklessness tsar’ sets out platform for attack on youth and the welfare state
Yesterday, Labour’s ‘worklessness tsar’ Alan Milburn published an interim report that warned the UK faces a ‘generational fault line’ in which over 1.25 million...
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...
Stand up to the bullying bosses with a general strike
THE ‘New Local Government Network’ was warning yesterday of a ‘tsunami of a public sector recession’ after the next general election when the just...
Ex-head of Fed warns ‘US capitalism under threat’
SPEAKING at the Policy Exchange in London this week Alan Greenspan, former head of the US Federal Reserve Bank, issued his direst warning about...
KOSOVO – An imperialist carve-up!
HASHIM Thaci, the former leader of the American-backed terrorist group, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and the Prime Minister in the Serbian province, declared...
Close the EU’s concentration camps!
THE agreement between the EU and Turkey on dealing with the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist-inspired wars in the Middle East has...
Renationalise The Royal Mail!
SHARES in the privatised Royal Mail are down 2.5% after Ofcom ruled the universal postal service, which obliges the Royal Mail to deliver across...
Dannatt declares war on the UK!
GENERAL Sir Richard Dannatt, in his last speech before retiring as Chief of Staff, did his best to open up a second front at...
Tory sleaze again – boot them out with a general strike!
NADHIM Zahawi, the Tory Party Chairman and ex Chancellor of the Exchequer, has for months been avoiding questions about his tax affairs, but on...
Bring Down The May Government – Forward To A Socialist UK And A...
ONE HUNDRED years after the Balfour Declaration, the PLO and the Palestinian masses are demanding that the UK government apologise for it and its...
Brown champions more police powers and public sector pay cuts
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told police chiefs yesterday that he will do ‘everything to give you the resources’ and ‘we will not shirk from giving...
NHS being bankrupted, to keep crisis-ridden capitalism going!
THE message from the government over the proposed dissolving of the South London Healthcare Trust and the closure of its major hospitals is...
At least three provinces reject the US’ Iraq constitution
IT IS remarkable that in a ‘constitutional referendum’ organised by a puppet government, in a country under occupation by the US and the UK,...
French and Greek workers reject austerity
The elections in France and Greece on Sunday demonstrated conclusively that Europe stands on the brink of a seismic revolutionary upheaval that will sweep...
UN expert slams group of democratic states for ‘psychological torture’ of Julian Assange
The United Nations expert on torture has condemned the psychological torture inflicted on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying: ‘In 20 years of work with...