Cosatu, the CP, the NUM and the police attack the Lonmin miners
ON 27th October the Minister of Education and South African Communist Party General Secretary, Blade Nzimande, along with Cosatu and National Union of Mineworkers...
Tories call for May to go while Labour considers a pro-EU deal to save...
ON SUNDAY Prime Minister May in a panic-stricken move, after the Tory Party’s defeat in the council elections, urged Labour leader Corbyn to ‘put...
UK political crisis explodes as Parliament refuses to support immediate ceasefire!
THE House of Commons tied itself up into knots on Wednesday as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support...
‘Recovery’ Rests On Bed Of Nitroglycerine
THE 0.1 per cent ‘recovery’, the ‘work’ of Gordon Brown and Chancellor Darling has caused laughter and incredulity throughout the planet. It is a...
Obama Heading For The Fiscal Cliff – US Workers Beware!
OBAMA’S re-election is a product of the refusal of US workers to allow an all-out robber baron of capitalism, Romney, to have control over...
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...
Disband the police force now – forward to a workers state and socialism
DAVID Carrick, a serving Metropolitan Police officer, admitted 49 offences in court on Monday, pleading guilty to 24 rape charges, and false imprisonments, and...
UK carriers are ready to be deployed against the Houthis. UK workers must kick...
THE UK’s aircraft carriers are ready to be deployed to fight the Houthis, and to threaten war with the Iranian revolution, was the message...
End all complicity with Zionist genocide and war – Demand TUC’s October 10th ‘day...
ON THURSDAY, the Israeli Defence Ministry in a statement revealed that the US had given $8.7 billion of military aid to the Zionist state...
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...
Build the revolutionary party in Greece
THE daily demonstrations of youth and workers are continuing in Greece, over a week after the assassination of the 15-year-old school boy Alexis Grigoropoulos...
The trade unions must follow the example of the ruling class and deal with...
THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...
Working Class In Ukraine Winning Over The Army
ON SATURDAY a National Assembly was held in the Black Sea city of Odessa, and other assemblies were held in all of the...
After the BA battle ‘pirate Walsh’ seeks to shut down Iberia, sacking 3,800!
IAG chairman Walsh plans to axe 3,800 jobs – a fifth of the Spanish Iberia airline’s workforce – in a country where unemployment is...
Sunak extends furlough as Bank of England prints another £50 billion to try and...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the furlough scheme will be extended until the end of March next year, with the government continuing...
Obama and Cameron’s heart eating allies
EVEN the Human Rights Watch group – veterans of the struggle to remove and liquidate the Gadaffi regime in Libya, and now immersed in...
Working Class Is On The March – It Is Refusing To Pay The Bill...
THE UK working class is on the march, spurred forward by the worldwide crisis of the capitalist system, with Britain very much the weakest...
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH – TUC MUST ORGANISE GENERAL STRIKE for FEBRUARY 1!
YESTERDAY’S mass picket lines outside NHS hospitals are a direct result of the fact that the Tory government is insulting workers and will not...
Unite votes for speed-up and savage cuts at GM Vauxhall
THE Vauxhall-Opel GM bosses statement put out yesterday claimed as its subject: ‘Vauxhall and Opel employees dive into their pockets to support the company...
Teachers At War With The Government!
THE two biggest teachers unions have begun their annual conferences, where they will challenge the government over pay, Ofsted inspections and England’s Academies and...
40,000 Israeli reservists called up!
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel would ‘not tolerate the firing of rockets on our cities and towns’. His remarks came after...
Labour leaders split over increasing income tax and abolishing welfare state!
YESTERDAY’S ‘bombshell U-turn’ over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget plans not to increase income tax has exposed the civil war in...
The Tory Telegraph and Tebbit slam the parliamentary parties
THE decaying and gangrenous state of bourgeois democracy and its parliamentary system has been more than revealed by the expenses scandals that are racking...
Darling’s plan to make workers pay for crisis
CHANCELLOR Darling made his pre-budget speech to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon in the form of a Labour general election manifesto. His line was...
The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class – time to...
MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...
Make the TUC call a general strike to bring down Labour and to bring...
DESPITE Labour’s election manifesto pledges and repeated promise of ‘No tax increases’ on income, National Insurance or VAT, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning a...
ROLLS–ROYCE ISSUES £3bn ULTIMATUM TO THE BURNHAM LABOUR GOVERNMENT
ROLLS-ROYCE has issued an ultimatum to the just formed Burnham Labour government that it must back a £3bn plan for new short-haul jet engines...
End low pay through a general strike to kick out the government
ON the day that NHS workers took strike action for the first time in 30 years, and in the case of midwives the first...
Unemployment at 7.7 per cent – food banks facing huge demand
UK jobless officially fell to 2.49m in the latest government figures, for the three months to August, showing a slight fall of 18,000, not...
EU split over ban on imports from illegal Israeli settlements!
A dramatic split in the European Union has emerged over plans to ban trade between the EU and illegal Israeli settlements. The split has erupted...
The currency crash and the socialist revolution
THE decision by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to abandon its three-year cap on the franc last Thursday has had an immediate and catastrophic...
Coup Against Corbyn Underway As Head Rabbi Announces He Is ‘Not Fit For High...
WITH just over two weeks to go before the general election, the campaign by the Tories and their right-wing supporters in the Labour Party...
‘Hammer of the poor’ quits Labour to join Tory leadership
EX-BANKER and City financier, Sir David Freud, is Labour’s ‘Workfare’ programme architect. He drew up the plans to force single parents and all but the...
TUC must call general strike to smash the anti-union laws and support the State...
HUNDREDS of Palestinians are being brutally murdered and others injured as a result of the ongoing Israeli airstrikes and artillery bombardments across the Gaza...
British Army Handed 300 Over To Afghan Torturers
AFTER the killing and torture of Baha Mousa in Iraq was supplemented by a court martial that refused to convict those responsible for his...
Israel prison service is beating and assaulting female Palestinian detainees inside Damon prison!
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly condemned Israeli forces’ brutal aggression against Palestinian women at Damon Prison in the Palestinian occupied territories. ‘Beating female Palestinian...
TUC on its knees – time for a revolutionary leadership!
THE TUC New Year’s message (see page 3) has been delivered with TUC general secretary O’Grady on her knees appealing to the bosses and...
Benefit Sanctions Are Starving Children!
100,000 children were left to starve last year as a direct result of the Tory-led coalition’s drive to cut benefit payments to the unemployed...
No Obama Recovery Plan
A VERY hard pressed Obama, right at the start of his state of the Union message, was forced to summon the ‘God of Battles’...
Replace Bankrupt Capitalism With World Socialism!
THERE is not the slightest doubt that capitalism worldwide is in its greatest crisis ever. The US-UK failed attempt to occupy Iraq and...
Bolton Arrives To Boost Johnson And Open The Door For UK Troops In The...
JOHN BOLTON, President Trump’s National Security Adviser, was in town yesterday recruiting mercenaries to the US cause, including its trade war with China and...
Now Organise The General Strike!
SATURDAY’S mass marches in London, Glasgow and Belfast were marches to bring down the coalition, regardless of the intentions of their TUC organisers who...
BIS warns new ‘Lehman Brothers’ crash under way
THE SWISS-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued yet another warning that the world’s banking system is heading for a monumental crash. The BIS,...
Economic tsunami to hit Japan
‘We have been humbled by nature’ the Japanese ambassador to Britain said of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that has devastated northern Japan with...
Palestinian Prisoners Society Warns Of A Dangerous Escalation In The Systematic Repression Of Palestinian...
THE Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society have warned of a dangerous escalation in the systematic repression carried out...