German workers join European strike wave
MORE than 20,000 German doctors are taking strike action all this week demanding a cut in working hours and a 30-per-cent pay rise. The...
There can be no return to Bretton Woods – world socialist revolution is the...
AN ARTICLE in the Business section of the Daily Telegraph yesterday laid bare the historic depth of the crisis of world capitalism today. The article,...
Brown’s empty words cannot hide he is the bankers’ man
‘I want to talk to you about a new settlement for new times. A fair Britain for the new age. . . my unwavering...
The UK workers movement and the TUC must give their immediate and decisive support...
YAHYA Sinwar, the political leader of the Hamas Movement, has written to Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, the head of the Ansar Allah Movement, conveying his profound...
Right wing resorts to discredited Blair!
THE anti-Corbyn candidates must be pretty desperate if they are prepared to allow ex-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to appear and give a speech...
Salute the victorious Palestinian hunger strikers – Forward to the Palestinian state
WE SALUTE the victory of the heroic 1,600 Palestinian hunger strikers who fought Israel to the brink of death, and remain alive having...
Parliament turns a blind eye to the mass slaughter and starvation of tens of...
THE reconstituted House of Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls (CAEC), made up of members of four select committees – Business, Innovation and Skills,...
Grenfell tenants were treated as ‘sub-citizens’. All those responsible for the fire must...
TENANTS of the Grenfell Tower warned time and again about the dangerous building they were living in, but their cries for action fell on...
Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe
THE EU IS IN DESPERATE CRISIS with the established political order breaking apart in country after country, from Ireland and the UK to Austria, Greece...
European banks are ‘screwed’ as ‘uncertainty’ rules
‘UNCERTAINTY’ is the word on the lips of every banker and bourgeois politician today as they grapple with a capitalist system that is unravelling...
‘Blair and Straw have a great deal to answer for,’ says Alex Salmond
SNP foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond spoke up for millions of British people yesterday when he highlighted the role that one-time Labour PM Blair...
Force trade union leaders to call a general strike – this is the only...
YESTERDAY saw major unions taking national strike action across the country in one of the biggest walkouts of workers on the same day. Three main...
Victory to the South African socialist revolution!
Public sector unions in South Africa, supported by the whole of the working class, are in conflict with the ANC government over a decent...
Fighting Words Must Be Matched By Fighting Deeds!
LAST Wednesday, Dave Prentis, general secretary of the country’s second largest union, Unison, made a speech urging a ‘popular uprising in defence of the...
US-UK rescues ISIS fighters from Raqqa – no doubt they will now be sent...
PM MAY made crystal clear yesterday that Russia is the main enemy of crisis-wracked UK imperialism. In fact, Tory newspapers have been making it...
Labour conference exposes bankruptcy of Starmer’s government – now is the time to bring...
THE speech by Labour’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves to the party’s annual conference on Monday was nothing more than an appeal to the international financial services...
NAO report exposes the scandal of the Southern GTR Rail franchise
TRAIN staff and angry commuters have been protesting up and down the country at the 3.4% hikes in rail fares. Many commuters have seen...
Inflation Running Riot – Time To Put An End To Capitalism And Bring In...
THE TORY government is now presiding over huge increases in prices, the biggest increases in 40 years. A massive inflation is under way with...
Unions Must Dump Blair, Brown And Beckett
THE decision of up to 40 members of Foreign Secretary Beckett’s local Labour Party branch, Derby South, to quit the party, concretely proves that...
THE TUC must take general strike action to support Palestine and bring in a...
‘THE report issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhry, on the Israeli-induced starvation in the Gaza Strip...
No Prosecutions – Let Off For Those Who Destroyed 6500 Mg Rover Jobs
THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has said it does not intend to launch a criminal investigation into the collapse of carmaker MG Rover. It was...
Carey calls to ‘defend Britain’s Christian identity’
IN a call that will be enthusiastically taken up by the BNP, which champions Christian civilisation, the ex-Archbishop of Canterbury, Carey has urged the...
Occupy Corus! No Sackings! Renationalise Now!
THERE were oceans of tears yesterday for the 1,700 workers who are to be sacked when Corus mothballs the greater part of its plant...
Kick the Tories out on June 8th – Labour must scrap STP mass...
JONATHAN Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, has responded to reports in the Health Service Journal (HSJ) by warning: ‘With 48 hours to go until...
UNISON condemns Blair for breaking NHS promise
UNISON Head of Health, Karen Jennings, has condemned Labour government plans to allow private treatment centres to poach NHS staff, breaking a Labour government...
London Midland drivers fight wage cut
LONDON MIDLAND drivers have refused to work voluntary overtime on Sundays after the company cut their pay for the day to single time. The rail...
German bourgeoisie demands bigger Greek cuts
THE crisis of the European Union sharpened yesterday when the German Finance Minister warned the Greek bourgeoisie that it would not get access to...
Time For The Working Class To Consign The Bosses To The Dustbin Of ...
THE US and UK ruling classes are organising Israel to knife the Palestinian people in a desperate attempt to destroy the Palestinian revolution –...
Victory to Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
TEXAS PACIFIC and its Gate Gourmet protege are not renowned for making apologies. In fact the opposite is the case. They are renowned for...
60,000 families face eviction under Tory Housing Bill
60,000 HOUSEHOLDS in England face being thrown out of their council houses next year as a result of the Tories ‘pay to stay’ policy. Under...
No Free Ride For The Tories
THE terrorist atrocity in Manchester last Monday night which killed 22 young people at a pop concert has been seized upon by the Tories...
Stock market crash – Only socialist revolution can end the carnage!
ON MONDAY the Wall Street stock market crashed with the Dow Jones Index, which follows the fortunes of 30 large US companies on a...
Labour believes that the elderly must be made to pay
IT has emerged that it is a question of principle for the Labour government that elderly people who are now living in nursing and...
Workers have the right to self defence against terrorism & capitalism
SIX hundred new armed officers are being trained for anti-terrorist warfare in the city of London, the Metropolitan Police has announced. This will bring the...
Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism!
CHANCELLOR Darling flew to the US yesterday to meet with fellow finance ministers, and Federal Treasury Secretary Paulson, for the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting. Yesterday...
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...
Blair And Cameron – Tweedleedum And Tweedledee!
YESTERDAY the new leader of the Tory Party, David Cameron publicly disowned the Tory Party manifesto, written for the last general election, just seven...
UK politicians send letter urging Starmer to ‘act now’ over Gaza – time for...
A JOINT letter signed by leading politicians in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales was sent to Labour prime minister Keir Starmer yesterday calling for...
Trade Unions Must Stop Labour Destroyng NHS
THANKS to the Labour government’s health market the NHS is on the brink of a large number of hospital trust closures and thousands...
Police demand sources for Dowler leak
THE Metropolitan police are seeking a court order to force Guardian journalists to reveal their sources for the information that Milly Dowler’s ...
Tories and military show contempt for Parliament
THE ‘sovereign will’ of parliament was shown to be a complete fiction with the exposure of the participation of British pilots in bombing raids...
OECD predicts economic disaster as UK chief of staff predicts war with Russia!
WILLIAM WHITE, the head of the OECD’s review body, warned before the Davos Summit on Monday that: ‘All the market indicators right now look...
Don’t Stop At Dumping Slavers, Dump The UK And US Ruling Classes With Socialist...
THE TORY leadership reacted in fury this week after the statue of the notorious slave trader Edward Colston was torn down and dumped in...
The Crisis Of Capitalism Is Making It Clear That The Working Class Must Take...
BRITAIN is in the grip of the deepest recession since records began putting the country on course for the biggest economic collapse since 1709...
Victory to Assad! Stop bombing Libya – withdraw UK special forces!
ON Monday the US launched air strikes on the Libyan city of Sirte against ISIL, at the request of one of the current Libyan...