Chuck out the coalition to deal with growing mass unemployment
UK unemployment has increased to 2.64m, a rise of 128,000 in the three months to October, the highest level since 1994, with 1,027,000 youth...
One Day General Strike On April 24Th!
OVER 100,000 Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), will be on strike at the same time as the NUT teachers and...
GPs under the heel of Labour’s NHS ‘reforms’
THE Brown government has bullied NHS GPs in the most brutal and cowardly fashion, and has given them an offer that they could not...
Over 100,000 could die because of fuel poverty in capitalist Britain
OVER 100,000 people in Britain could literally freeze to death over the next 25 years because they are too poor to afford to adequately...
Tories protect the rich from floods while the rest left to drown
TORY austerity cuts have meant that poorer areas of the country have been left completely at the mercy of floods, to the extent that...
Left Asked To Form Greek Government
FOLLOWING the failure to form a government by the leader of the Greek Tories, Antonis Samaras, the leader of the Coalition of...
Israel Shaken By Syrian Missile Defences Success!
THE ISRAELI ruling class has been shocked by Syrian missile defences being able to, and Syria having the audacity to, shoot down a US-supplied...
Mursi follows on from Mubarak as the US’ man in Cairo
PRESIDENT MURSI of Egypt has followed up his successful negotiation of the end of the current round of Israel’s war with Gaza – which...
Capitalism’s biggest crisis since 1706, warns BofE! Make it its last with a socialist...
THE BANK of England’s latest report, released on Thursday, has revealed the full extent of the catastrophic crisis of capitalism, now writhing around in...
Irish TUC mass demo puts Barber and Woodley to shame!
120,000 trade unionists and their supporters, including over a hundred workers who are part of the occupation of the Waterford Crystal plant, marched through...
May’s university review ‘Dead on arrival’! Students, lecturers & staff must unite and strike...
‘DEAD on arrival,’ is how Vanessa Wilson, chief executive of the University Alliance Group described outgoing PM May’s new report on university education. The Augar...
Class issues in Zimbabwe’s elections
AS IS to be expected the imperialists, with Britain in the lead, are engaging in an economic blockade, black propaganda, etc to get rid...
Dictatorial powers for Home Secretary
DAVID Anderson QC, the government’s ‘independent reviewer’ of terrorism legislation, asked a basic question about the powers that Home Secretary May’s will acquire if...
Smash Universal Credit! It is the tool for ruling through fear and mass evictions!
THOUSANDS of families in England will be spending Christmas in fear that the New Year will bring eviction from their homes. This was the message...
Call national strike action to defeat Royal Mail and Brown
AFTER weeks of secret talks, which were extended by a further week and were conducted behind the backs of the CWU membership, the Royal...
Disband The Met Police – Get Rid Of UK Capitalism – Forward With The...
THE latest available statistics give an indication of just how diseased the Metropolitan Police is, and just how great the need is for it...
Brown Speeding Up The Privatisation Programme
THE reaction of the Brown government to the eruption of the capitalist crisis has been to champion the interests of the banks, pledging to...
Wealthiest 5 richer than poorest 20%
THE report by the charity Oxfam entitled ‘A Tale of Two Britains’ puts definite figures on the simple fact known by every worker that...
Time For Action To Smash The Health Bill!
DOCTOR Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), has admitted that despite every attempt to co-operate with the coalition government,...
Europe on strike from France, to Greece, from Germany to the UK – forward...
THE strike wave is spreading throughout Europe! In France workers are making it crystal clear that they will never allow the increases in the retirement...
Nationalise the energy companies to end fuel poverty
PM Brown has rejected out of hand the trade union demand for a Windfall Tax on the oil, gas and energy companies, that are...
Cowen making workers pay for capitalism’s crisis in Ireland
IN A third attempt within six months to save bankrupt Irish capitalism, Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s Fianna Fail government unveiled a draconian budget on Tuesday,...
Socialist revolution only solution to capitalist crisis
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer returned from holiday at the weekend to announce his new ‘robust’ plan to freeze the cap on electricity and gas...
Russia Pledges Its Support For Serbia
DEPUTY Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was in Belgrade yesterday for talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Medvedev is...
Tory donor to head Ofsted
WHEN the Tory education minister, Michael Gove, dumped the Labour peer Sally Morgan from her post as Chair of Ofsted, last January, his action...
Splits and crisis dominate Europe
LAST weekend the French government collapsed as the splits within the cabinet turned into open warfare between President Holland and his finance minister, Arnaud...
Tories Want To Turn Trade Unions Into Labour Fronts For The Bosses With Their...
THE TORIES are proposing to turn free and independent trade unions into ‘Labour Fronts’ run by the bosses with their new anti-trade union legislation. Under...
Worldwide strikes against Amazon’s brutal exploitation of workers – socialist revolution only answer
WORKERS at the online retail giant Amazon warehouse in Minnesota were out on a six hours-long strike yesterday called to coincide with the company’s...
Starmer calls for ‘coalition of the willing’ as world capitalism tears itself apart
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer addressed Parliament yesterday reporting on the emergency defence summit of European leaders he’d convened in London at the weekend. This...
Heseltine joins Blair’s campaign for an anti-Brexit uprising!
LORD Heseltine is notorious for his closure of the mining industry in 1993, as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the Major...
Tory ‘hostile environment’ programme alive and kicking – Stop mass deportation flight!
THE PLANNED deportation of 50 people to Jamaica, many of whom came to the UK as children, shows that the Tories racist hounding of immigrant...
Hospitals and schools are being hit by uncapped energy bills
THE SKYROCKETING increase in energy bills is driving the health and education services to the wall, with leaders in both these vital services warning...
Its revolution or ruin for the Middle Class
IT was Harold Macmillan back in the days of ‘You have never had it so good’ in the late 1950s and early 1960s who...
Russian news broadcaster banned across EU and UK as capitalism accelerates war drive against...
SPEAKING in the Commons yesterday, Tory culture secretary Nadine Dorries told MPs that Ofcom (the so-called independent regulator of broadcasting in the UK) was...
To defend jobs and pensions bring down the coalition!
UNIVERSITY STAFF and students are under massive attacks from the Tory-led coalition. Coalition ministers are pressing ahead with 25% funding cuts, and the UCU trade...
Cameron prepared to use Navy against refugee boats!
DAVID Cameron dramatically escalated the British government’s war against refugees fleeing imperialist war in the Middle East and North Africa when he announced...
Stop children and immigrants being used as ‘cash cows’
EVIDENCE is emerging about the extent to which the Tory policy of creating a ‘hostile climate’ for immigrant workers is being used by the...
Home Office is ‘institutionally racist’! The way to end the ‘hostile environment’ is to...
THE HOME Office is ‘institutionally racist’. This is the verdict of the first draft of the ‘lessons learned’ review by Wendy Williams, HM Inspector...
Coalition building a landlords’ paradise – bring back Council Housing! Now!
THE Coalition government is busily building a paradise for the landlords, the latest Shelter Rent Report shows. In this paradise, private tenants, who can no...
Trade Unions And The Tuc Must Take Action With The Nurses To Bring Down...
NURSING STAFF have voted to strike in the majority of NHS hospitals across the UK, and the nurses union, the RCN, has called on...
The Bully State and forced labour is to replace the Welfare State
TWO hundred thousand young people aged between 16 and 18, 11 per cent of that total age group, who are unemployed with no...
The only way to really defend Venezuela is for the working class to smash...
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech last Tuesday night that a coup attempt by a small group of the military had...
As The Crisis Deepens The Time Has Come To Organise The British Socialist Revolution
LENIN in his book Left Wing Communism an Infantile Disorder writes about the ‘fundamental law of revolution.’ He states: ‘For a revolution to take...
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...
Forward With The Cuban Revolution!
THE death of Fidel Castro, the leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution sees millions of Cubans mourning their leader who secured the independence of...