Starmer’s ‘national mission’ is to save capitalism and to make workers pay for it!
YESTERDAY, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer delivered what was billed as a keynote speech that would outline once and for all the policies Labour...
Brown and Darling give the nod to 40,000 sackings!
ONCE AGAIN the Labour Party leadership of Brown and Darling have shown where their class allegiance lies – and at great cost to the...
US Economy Declines – As States Go Bust!
THE former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, has warned that the US economy is heading towards a deepening of the slump...
It’s Bercow v Trump as the British ruling class splits between Washington and Brussels!
SPEAKER Bercow, with his condemnation of any invitation to US President Trump to address both Houses of Parliament, has shown just how split and...
Tories routed in Clacton – Labour hangs on in Heywood
THURSDAY’S by-election in Clacton, caused by the defection to UKIP of the sitting Tory MP, Douglas Carswell, saw the Tory party completely routed. Carswell won...
Tories to create a slave wage army of youth!
DAVID Cameron yesterday pledged that a future Tory government would ‘effectively abolish’ youth unemployment by simply forcing every young person to do ‘community work’...
Corbyn has no answer for the Tory onslaught on workers and trade unions!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday at the TUC conference had no answer to the Tory onslaught on the trade unions. In particular, he ignored the...
World debt is leading to hyper-inflation and a socialist revolution!
AN ARTICLE in Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph by its chief economics commentator, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, highlighted the inevitable consequences following the massive amount of borrowing carried...
NATO massacres Libyan civilians to loot the country’s oil
THE bloody massacre of 85 Libyan men, women and children by NATO in the town of Zlitan exposes once and for all that when...
Hamas Denounces Netanyahu-Pompeo Saudi Mission!
PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas has denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s secret flight to Saudi Arabia, where he reportedly met with Saudi Crown Prince...
Support the Junior Doctors with a general strike!
20,000 junior doctors, medical students, health workers and supporters marched in central London yesterday. As well there were well attended marches in Belfast and...
Hamas demands prosecution of ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ for war crimes against Palestinians
IN RESPONSE to the so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) announcement on Monday that it is closing its operation in Gaza, the Hamas resistance movement...
Netanyahu orders Israeli Occupation Forces to seize ‘70% of Gaza Strip’
The increasingly beleaguered and desperate Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week announced he has ordered the Israeli army to seize control of 70%...
Students across the US rise up against genocidal war in Gaza showing the way...
STUDENTS across America have risen up against the barbaric genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza and in support of Palestine in a...
Egyptian workers inspiring the workers and youth of the world!
THE Egyptian workers delivered another massive blow at imperialism, Arab feudalists, Zionism and the Egyptian pro-imperialist military when hundreds of thousands of them reoccupied...
Inflation rising – slashing wages and threatening jobs! Trade unions must take action to...
INFLATION rose to 3.1% in November, the highest in nearly six years, as the squeeze on households continued and prices rose, slashing further into...
Scandalous Academies!
AN academy chain in London set up by the Tory schools minister Lord Nash is having its education curriculum drawn up by his daughter. The...
Israel imitates the Nazis with its murderous attacks on Palestinians!
ISRAELI forces on Thursday evening sealed off the main entrance to Duma village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to...
The CWU leaders are refusing to fight for their membership
THE unsolicited public display of pacifism yesterday by the CWU leadership, in the face of the most vicious daily attacks on their membership...
Biden’s ‘ironclad’ support for Israel as imperialism prepares for all-out war in Middle East
AT a press conference on Wednesday evening, US president Joe Biden announced that American imperialism was prepared for an all-out war in the Middle...
Bourgeois Democracy Is A Fraud! Brexit Needs A Socialist Revolution!
ON TUESDAY night prime minister Theresa May suffered a humiliating defeat on a vote on the Tory finance bill - when an amendment which...
Greek Crisis Set To Explode Under Eu!
GREECE’S Syriza government has drawn up its plan to renegotiate with the EU. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won a confidence vote on Tuesday evening,...
Blair Defies Labour Over Education Privatisation
LABOUR Prime Minister Blair has ruled out changes to his education reform (privatisation) plans despite a challenge by more than 50 Labour MPs,...
Defend the NHS – Stop the job cuts – Bring down Blair and Brown
ON Tuesday, at the Prime Minister’s monthly press conference, the NHS chief executive, David Nicholson confessed that he did not know how many jobs...
Don’t let them drive the trade unions out of politics
IT IS now becoming obvious that the furore over parliamentary expenses and their alleged misuse, involving at least one leading Tory MP, was just...
Darling Outlines Cuts For All – Except The Bankers And Bosses
THE price of gold has touched $1,000 an ounce for the first time in six months, more than three times greater than what it...
Bring the airports out in support of Ryanair and BA strikers! Nationalise the...
THE BRITISH AIRWAYS pilots strike is on for both Monday and Tuesday in an escalating battle over pay. British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) BA...
Leaving the European Union will require a workers socialist revolution!
PM MAY last Monday afternoon, in her first statement to MPs in parliament since her Florence speech last month and her debacle at the...
Peace Prize for the ‘Fourth Reich’
The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ‘six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe’, according to Thorbjoern Jagland...
Tories seek to inspire fear as they tell unemployed ‘get on your bike’
EX-ARMY officer Iain Duncan Smith, the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, was yesterday planning just how to force unemployed workers to give up their...
Forward to the August 20th Gate Gourmet workers march
TUC General Council members gave a good welcome to lobbying locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday morning. A number promised to attend the anniversary...
General strike to defend the NHS
AMBULANCE crews in south-east Wales are staging a four-week, unofficial overtime ban to highlight how much the ambulance service now relies on their willingness...
We should have been the Thatcherites, Blair tells LP
IN his parting speech as Prime Minister to the Labour Party conference, Blair administered his kiss of death to Gordon Brown, telling his Chancellor...
1 million forced onto Universal Credit while another 2 million get nothing – Tories...
THE NUMBER of people forced to claim Universal Credit soared by nearly a million in the past two weeks. According to the Department for Work...
EU is going up in flames! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
THE European Union is like a huge powder magazine that started to smoulder even before the Brexit vote in the UK on June 23rd,...
Revolution Emerging All Over Europe
THE Portuguese government has agreed to look for alternatives to th social security tax rise, just one week after huge anti-austerity street protests shook...
Bank for International Settlements warns of full-blown banking crash
THE Bank for International Settlements, the central bank of central bankers, in its latest quarterly review of the world banking system has just issued...
There Will Be No Labour Leadership Election Says Tony Woodley
TONY Woodley, the Unite joint general secretary, has stepped into the row over the demand for a Labour Party leadership debate and a leadership...
Victory to Libya Bring down the coalition!
AFTER initial hesitation, and no doubt after a talking to by President Obama, and after President Sarkozy jumped the gun with his announcement, the...
EU crisis sharpening to breaking point!
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is attending the meeting of the EU Finance Ministers in Poland to convey the alarm of the...
NHS 2007: Pull your own teeth out!
EVERY day Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Health Secretary Alan Johnson churn out propaganda about ‘improving’ the National Health Service (NHS) and people’s...
Forward to the socialist revolution – not the two-day week
IT IS now accepted that the capitalist system is in its greatest crisis ever, bigger than the crisis created by the First World War,...
Sainsbury Gets Out While The Going Is Good
WITH the police closing in to interview him under caution about the cash for peerages scandal, and after his government has been stunned by...
Defend the NHS! No privatisation! Smash the health bill!
NEXT Tuesday the doctors’ trade union, the BMA, meets in London for an extraordinary Special Representative Meeting (SRM). 350 representatives of its 140,000 members,...
Car industry collapses in UK and Europe under impact of capitalist crisis
THE BRITISH car industry is steadily collapsing as a result of the world economic crisis, figures produced yesterday highlighted. According to the Society of Motor...