Workers Worldwide Must Take General Strike Action To See That Palestine Wins!
THE ARROGANT Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has outlined his proposals for the future Israeli governance of Gaza ‘once the war between Israel and...
Organise a general strike! Bring down Brown government! Go forward to socialism
THE leaders of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the University and College Union (UCU) and the...
Congress Must Sack O’Grady And Mobilise To Bring Down The Tories!
THE ‘leader’ of the Trade Union Congress, Frances O’Grady yesterday stabbed millions of workers in the back when she declared on The Andrew Marr...
Zero-hours contracts and below legal minimum wages dominate in private care agencies
ANALYSIS by the GMB union of figures in the national Skills for Care database reveals that care workers employed in the private sector are...
European capitalism hits the rocks
THE capitalist EU is being battered senseless this week by an economic crisis that is relentless and a working class that is refusing to...
US imperialism facing defeat – time for working class to take action!
US President Donald Trump continued his increasingly unhinged attacks on all the nations who have refused his pleas, and threats to bail-out American imperialism...
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...
Record Rise Of Public Sector Debt Means More Savage Cuts
THE Tory-led coalition’s public sector debt for November has shot up to £23.3 billion, £5.9 billion more than the figure for November 2009. It...
Call a national postal strike and bring out all the public sector
ROYAL Mail chairman Allan Leighton reiterated yesterday that the organisation cannot afford to improve its 2.5 per cent pay offer, despite staff voting 77...
Unions must occupy the steel industry to save thousands of jobs! Bring down the...
GREENSILL Capital, the biggest lender to crisis-ridden steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance, collapsed into administration yesterday. It has gone bust, and 5,000 steel...
Hamas & Fatah agree to Palestinian elections to form government to defeat Zionism and...
A NEW unity between all Palestinian factions against the common enemy – Israel and the US – is rapidly developing. The leadership of the...
Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova heading for huge upheavals!
THE Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, travelled to Brussels yesterday morning to sign, along with Georgia and Moldova, the ‘partnership’ agreement with the European Union. It...
Business rates hike is to bankrupt the NHS – Time to bring the ...
NHS hospitals and GP surgeries in England and Wales face a massive £635 million hike in their business rates by the May government over...
British Capitalism Is Bankrupt – TUC Must Defend Wages And Jobs With A General...
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is expected to mount a billion pound rescue operation to postpone energy-intensive British basic industries from going under, as gas...
The ‘hard truth’ is that the only way out of the capitalist crisis is...
VARIOUS Tory idealogues are in extreme disarray as the capitalist crisis develops rapidly, with the western imperialist powers willing to gamble on a nuclear...
With inflation set to quadruple, the working class must take action to defend...
UK inflation will quadruple to about 4% in the second half of next year and cut disposable income, the National Institute for Economic and...
Wild optimism at Davos
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, ended last Saturday. The four days of the forum...
Workers must force the UK out of the EU on October 31
ON TUESDAY night, MPs voted by 329 to 299 to pass a motion in principle to back Boris Johnson’s EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill. Almost immediately,...
Programme of action needed to prevent capitalist catastrophe
YESTERDAY Adams Childrenswear announced that it had closed down 111 of its stores throughout the UK, and that its remaining 160 shops would stay...
Sudanese Masses Resistance Forces Junta To Agree To Murder Trial For Military Officers!
EIGHT SENIOR military officers are to be charged in Sudan with crimes against humanity over their part in the mass killing of over 150...
Scabby TUC says it’s powerless and agrees a consensus with Heseltine
AT THE last TUC Congress its leaders were forced by the anger of delegates to accept and agree a resolution that the TUC was...
Bedroom Tax – a savage assault on the poor and vulnerable
Nothing typifies the vicious war against the poorest and most vulnerable sections of the working class more than the introduction next month of...
Only Socialist Revolution can achieve Brexit
TORY prime minister Theresa May is this week teetering on the brink of political annihilation as it emerged that her Brexit secretary, David Davis,...
Time for a general strike to stop the war!
‘THIS is a tremendous demonstration of the anger of the British people against what Blair has done in Iraq and is threatening to do...
Drive Out Zero-Hours Contracts
FIGURES released last Wednesday purport to show the UK unemployment rate for the three months to September fell to 7.4% from 7.6% – a...
TAKE ACTION to stop Chase Farm closure!
THE Independent Reconfiguration Panel, set up to cut and close the NHS, has once again recommended to Health Secretary Lansley that the closure of...
Shares Crash As Debt Crisis Explodes
IN London yesterday, the FTSE 100 rebounded momentarily, but then fell back into the red, down by 48.5 points by 1pm after a...
Down with the EU – Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe
A VERY senior US official, Michael Froman, has warned Britain against leaving the 28-nation European Union saying such a move would cost London economically. Froman...
Trump Denounces The ‘Marxists’ As The Crisis Of US Capitalism Reaches Explosion Point!
IN HIS FOURTH of July speech on Saturday US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claimed were...
BARACK OBAMA: ‘Change has come to America!’
BARACK Obama, the Democratic Party candidate, was elected the 44th President of the United States of America on Tuesday, with an overwhelming vote giving...
Severe Child Poverty On The Rise Under Labour
RESEARCH by charity ‘Save the Children’ has found that between 2004 and 2008, an additional 260,000 children were pushed into severe poverty in the...
Defend every job, occupy to stop closures, and nationalise the major industries
YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics produced figures showing the record breaking numbers of unemployed and the record breaking growth of unemployment. UK unemployment...
Biden begins his presidency with a missile attack on Syria and a refusal to...
PRESIDENT Biden has begun his presidency with a cowardly missile attack on Syria and a shameful wooing, in the most hypocritical manner possible, of...
US and South Korea ‘pour gasoline onto the fire’ says North Korea
THE US and South Korea have begun conducting annual military drills, ignoring North Korean appeals to halt the exercises. Last week North Korea appeared to...
French workers’ refusal to vote for austerity puts socialist revolution on immediate agenda
IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote...
Commuters Demand Bring Back British Rail
THE announcement this week that the coalition government has sanctioned an inflation busting 4.1% increase in rail fares across England has thrown the spotlight...
War on homeless must be answered with a revolution against the ruling class!
A WAR on homeless people has begun, with moves to make begging illegal, effectively criminalising poverty, while using the police to drive homeless people...
Labour Slashes Welfare Benefits To Make The Poorest Pay For The Capitalist Crisis!
LABOUR CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves made further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments in her Spring Statement yesterday. The government announced big welfare spending reductions...
Blair gang runs out of spin
THE Blair government has finally run out of spin. It is now being destroyed by its own inner contradictions, the chief one being its determination,...
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...
Working Class Must Bring Down Starmer Regime And Bring In Workers Government!
PRIME MINISTER Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of a ‘cover up’ to allow Peter Mandelson to become the ambassador to the USA despite...
Global youth are striking against climate change! To save the planet capitalism must be...
YOUTH in their hundreds of thousands rose up all over the world yesterday in a global strike against climate change. In every continent, and in...
Labour Now A Fifth Column For The Eu! Socialist Revolution Needed To Carry Out...
WEDNESDAY’S humiliating defeat of the Tory government over the EU Withdrawal Bill signalled the emergence of a bloc between the Labour Party, now firmly...
Build the WRP to deal with the TUC right wing
AT the Trades Union Congress in Brighton this week, delegates have given a relatively timid expression of the determination of millions of workers to...
‘Big Society’ – wholesale destruction of the Welfare State
TORY prime minister, David Cameron, launched a desperate attempt yesterday to try and convince an incredulous public that his ‘Big Society’ policy is something...