Put Musharraf on trial! End the US alliance
THE former military dictator of Pakistan, Musharraf who came to power by a military coup in 1999, and was the main ally in the...
Junior doctors’ strike piles pressure on Sunak and the Tories!
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is already reeling under the pressure from day one of the historic six-day strike by junior doctors. The Tories have...
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...
The judiciary seeks to bar the way! Open it up with a socialist revolution!
YESTERDAY’S ruling by three High Court judges that the Tory government does not have the right to trigger Article 50 is the latest and...
Imperialist Vipers At Work
FROM the early 1980s, the CIA and MI6, directed by the US and UK governments of the day, supported and armed the Mujahideen in...
RBS bankers joked about destroying the US housing market
THIS week, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a load of emails and transcripts of phone conversations between senior executives of RBS, the...
Labour Reformism Is Rotten To The Core – The Working Class Needs A Revolutionary...
LABOUR’S defeat in the 2019 general election is a historic one, since its central feature was the way that the safest Labour seats in...
US Congress To Vote On Raising The US Debt Ceiling – Workers Of The World...
PRESIDENT Biden and his Republican opponents have announced they have agreed in principle to raise the US debt ceiling and to try to avert...
Oecd Warns That World Economy Faces Deeper Slump
GLOBAL growth for 2013 and 2014 has been downgraded ‘significantly’ by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), because of the crisis in...
Manchester Arena bombing was the product of a British capitalist state provocation!
THE judge-led inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing at an Ariana Grand concert in May 2017 finally published its finding yesterday after a two-and-a-half-year...
UK arms Ukraine and prepares to send troops as imperialism gears up for war...
THIS WEEK the deal between the Tory and Ukrainian government to allow Kiev to buy British warships and missiles, using a £1.7 billion-pound loan...
Smash The Anti-Union Laws!
THE RMT has called off its Network Rail strike action of signal workers after the judiciary declared it to be illegal, using the ruling...
Pakistani military is beseiged – but nuclear weapons are safe says Clinton
AT her press conference in London yesterday the US Secretary of State, Clinton, volunteered that the Taleban attack on the headquarters of the Pakistani...
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...
Restoring nurses’ & midwives’ bursaries – a matter of life or death for...
THERE is a desperate lack of nurses in the NHS. Currently, overloaded nurses are doing the job of three people, working 12-hour shifts in...
The majority of Russians want the return of the USSR
THE LATEST poll of Russian people has revealed that the number who want a return of the USSR has set a new record. The Levada-Centre...
Price Explosion threat to working class
ENERGY bills will rise by more than 60% within the next few years, a report for the UK’s biggest domestic energy supplier Centrica said...
Workers being forced into 19th century ‘housing’ conditions!
LAST Tuesday, the Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden, Siobhan McDonagh used a debate in parliament to highlight the barbaric and dangerous conditions homeless...
Dollar collapsing as gold reaches $1,000 an ounce
ON August 15 1971, the then president of the United States, Richard Nixon ended the gold backing for the US dollar, which up till...
January 1– police to get blanket arrest and covert op powers
POLICE are to have blanket arrest and covert operations powers of a type that will make tinpot dictatorships throughout the world green with envy,...
MPs defend council housing – report condemns government plans
The House of Commons Council Housing Group of MPs from all parties yesterday launched its report Support for the Fourth Option for Council Housing. This...
Throw Out The Tories – Forward To A Workers Government
TODAY the working class and the majority of the middle class must put the Cameron government out of office and return the Labour Party...
Brown–Miliband Crocodile Tears For Gaza
ISRAELI air raids are pounding the Gaza Strip for a fourth day. At the same time Gaza is being shelled from the sea by...
EU split and breaking up – Forward to the United Socialist States of Europe
LAST THURSDAY, the 27 heads of the European Union held a video conference call to decide the EU’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic. The...
TUC says ‘energy costs crushing households’ but refuses to offer any action apart from...
ON FRIDAY, the Trades Union Congress issued a report highlighting the crisis facing millions of workers resulting from the massive increase in energy bills...
Bosses share bonanza
THE ages old reformist illusion that the worst excesses of capitalism can be curbed through a mixture of indignation and moral outrage received yet...
170,000 workers marched for Palestine last Saturday. Trade unions must call a general...
THE WHO (World Health Organisation) has joined the United Nations in urging Israel to immediately rescind orders for the imminent invasion of Gaza which...
Iraq and Afghanistan – imperialists coming under the hammer
US CASUALTIES are now mounting in both Afghanistan and Iraq, while at home the anti-war and anti-Bush movement is growing by leaps and bounds,...
Austerity Forever Pledges Cameron
IN an interview given to the Daily Telegraph, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, declared that ‘austerity’ will be forever as far as he...
The strike wave sweeping Britain demands a new leadership in trade unions, come to...
THE STRIKE wave sweeping across Britain has a revolutionary content. Since the capitalist crisis first burst into the open with the banking collapse of 2008...
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...
Police paramilitary rule
TODAY the Police Federation’ annual conference will be addressed by the reappointed Tory Home Secretary, Theresa May, an event that the Federation’s leaders are...
Kick out TUC leaders who refuse to fight mass unemployment – build a revolutionary...
INTERVIEWED on Sky’s Sophy Ridge programme on Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady appealed for the Tories to unite with the TUC, saying: ‘Let’s...
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...
Mamdani’s Victory Must Be Followed By The Victory Of Gaza And Its Starving People
ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S victory winning the race to become New York City’s first Muslim mayor came as Democrats swept through the first major elections of...
Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Egypt
THE US-backed and financed Egyptian army has given a 48-hour ultimatum to the US-backed and financed Muslim Brotherhood government (which supports the imperialist powers...
BMA Is Hoping For NHS Deal While The Labour Government Is Getting Ready For...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) is calling on the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, to focus his time and attention on offering a deal that...
A victory for the ‘March 15’ revolutionary youth
THE force of the Arab revolution, sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East, yesterday won a new victory when the campaign of the...
Examine practicalities of a general strike by organising it now!
THE TUC Congress was dominated by the growing mass anger of the working class at the Tory-led coalition policy of wage freezing and massive...
Trade union action to beat ‘stagflation’
TODAY 800,000 local council workers, members of the UNISON and UNITE trade unions, begin a two-day strike against a government-imposed wage cut, an offer...
Bush Gives Go-Ahead F0R Iraqi Regime Change
US President George W Bush on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to the US occupation army in Iraq and all those who support the...
PATIENTS MUST NOT BE BARRED FROM HOSPITAL CARE BY ‘INCENTIVISED’ GPs!
THE FACT that the Tories are cutting closing and privatising the NHS is no secret. Neither is the fact that those who are engaged...
Poverty pay threatens workers as inflation rises and the crisis of capitalism deepens!
WORKERS’ wages will be slashed even more as inflation hits a peak of 3.4% this year, according to an analysis by the National Institute...
More British Troops For Iraq!
WITHOUT any vote in the House of Commons hundreds of British troops are to be sent to Iraq, which is already being bombed by...
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...