Spooks fear revolution
THE Tory foreign secretary, William Hague, appeared on television yesterday morning to give a less than convincing pledge that ‘law abiding citizens’ have ‘nothing...
World bankers meet in Washington as crisis erupts across the capitalist financial system
THE JOINT annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank is taking place in Washington this week under conditions of...
‘A Gift from God’ Erdogan describes coup attempt!
TURKEY’S President Erdogan has called the just concluded coup attempt that saw parliament bombed and 250 people killed ‘a gift from God... because this...
Pentagon launches Africa command centre
AS PAY negotiations between the American car giants General Motors (GM) and Ford, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) have reached a critical point,...
Industry collapses in UK under impact of capitalist crisis
THE UK economy stagnated with no growth in the last quarter of 2019, according to official figures from the ONS (Office for National Statistics). Gross...
End low pay through a general strike!
TODAY, hundreds of thousands of workers and young people will take to the streets of London, Glasgow and Belfast in mass demonstrations called by...
Hamas election win – a victory for resistance
HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement) won a resounding victory in Wednesday’s general election securing 76 seats in the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), on the...
Tory war games preparing summer war with unions
FIRST of all Prime Minister Cameron wrote that the entire public sector, local government, the NHS and education were to be taken over by...
The raging coronavirus crisis is smashing up the worldwide capitalist economy!
ON FRIDAY £60 billion was wiped off the UK’s leading companies. The FTSE 100 plunged by 3.62%. In the US a rate cut saw...
Labour set to cave in to the bosses and ditch minimum wage rise for...
YOUTH are bearing the brunt of unemployment according to new Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures released this week. According to the ONS figures, unemployment...
Cameron wants the army and police to be above the law!
THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...
Bush defends waterboarding and torture
US President, George W Bush, last Saturday revealed the inseparable connection between imperialism and atrocities when he vetoed Congressional legislation that would have...
War declared against the working class as 800 P&O seafarers are sacked and replaced...
POWERFUL protests erupted in Liverpool, Hull and Dover yesterday after 800 P&O Ferries’ seafarers were sacked by decree and replaced by cheap labour. The RMT...
End funding ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ US Democrat Senators demand!
YESTERDAY, 93 Democrat members of the US House of Representatives issued an official letter calling on the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to open...
Israel commits mass murder with impunity as the West steps up its campaign for...
THE WEST’S ‘bastion of freedom and democracy’ in the Middle East, Zionist Israel, yesterday launched deadly attacks on a UN school housing hundreds of...
University lecturers start fresh mass strike action
THE THIRD wave of a countrywide strike by members of the University and College Union (UCU) began yesterday with a five-day walkout at 38...
Francis report will be used to impose mass hospital closures
NHS staff should face prosecution if they are not open and honest about mistakes, according to the public inquiry into failings at Stafford Hospital. In...
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...
Defend Iran And North Korea By Smashing Imperialism!
NORTH Korea’s Foreign Minister in Tehran on Wednesday criticised the US’ decision to re-impose sanctions on Iran as a ‘wrong move’, that runs contrary...
Israel speeding up the demolition of Palestinian homes and schools!
AS the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration nears, the Israeli government, its armed forces and its legions of settlers are intensifying their programme...
Hands off Palestine Action! Demand TUC call a general strike to bring down Starmer...
Over 300,000 marched in London on Saturday, in a powerful demonstration of support for a Palestinian state and against the genocidal war being waged...
Universal Credit cannot be reformed – it must be scrapped through mass strike action...
MORE than 1.2 million people are on Universal Credit, while more than 100 new Jobcentres will be operating it by Christmas. Universal Credit is...
Grenfell crisis – many millions are living in unsafe buildings eight years after the...
NEW research has found that 136 firefighters who were exposed to toxic smoke at Grenfell are now suffering from occupational diseases. 1 in 4...
Government By Police Chiefs
AT his monthly press conference last Monday, the Prime Minister admitted that the source of his proposal, that the police should be allowed to...
Clarke staggers on as Tories hold back from resignation call
The ex-Home Secretary Blunkett was forced to resign after interfering to get his lover’s nanny special treatment from the passport office, and then seeking...
US-UK imperialism has come to grief in Iraq
IRAQ’S election commission has barred almost 500 candidates and many parties from running in the ‘national’ elections on 7 March. A parliamentary committee says that...
The TUC must support the Palestinian revolution and ban all Israeli exports to the...
THE Arab League has called on the international community to end its silence on the continuing Israeli atrocities across Occupied Palestine, and to compel...
Public sector pensions battle set to erupt
THE working class continues to pay a massive price for its reformist trade union leadership. This is completely committed to supporting the capitalist...
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...
Bush moves towards intervention with ‘free hostages’ call
PRESIDENT BUSH has laid the basis for military intervention against Iran with his condemnation of Iran’s ‘inexcusable behaviour’ in arresting the 15 British sailors...
Socialist revolution only answer to capitalist debt crisis
Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves was making her pitch yesterday to the bankers and business bosses that any future Labour government would be a...
Drive Privateers Out Of The NHS!
THERE are more and more tragedies which prove that private companies, whose purpose is solely to make profits, have no place in the NHS. We...
US Ruling Class Fails To Assassinate Maduro – Workers Must Defend The Venezuelan...
VENEZUELA’S President Nicolas Maduro has survived an assassination attempt during a military parade celebrating the 81st anniversary of the Bolivarian National Guard in the...
Police ‘Yobs’ Bait Home Secretary
THE very well paid police force – loaded up with housing and other benefits, on Wednesday bit the hand that has been feeding...
Organise a general strike for the nationalisation of plants facing closure!
ECONOMIC activity declined by 0.8 per cent over the three months to the end of June, a fall of 5.6 per cent in Gross...
Arab bourgeoisie – an agency of imperialism
THE Viva Palestina convoy has found out that, when it comes to preventing aid reaching the much-battered and besieged Gaza Strip, the Mubarak...
DECISIVE ACTION NEEDED TO DEfEND THE NHS AND WELFARE STATE
On Tuesday, NHS North West London announced that it would close A&E departments at Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing Hospitals. Two million west...
Fight Tory class war programme – bring down the Coalition!
OSBORNE began his spending review speech yesterday by saying that: ‘Today’s the day when Britain steps back from the brink’. In fact, his speech represented...
Expropriate out of control banks!
THE giant international bank HSBC is ‘cast-iron certain’ to break the regulatory rules, the laws which are supposed to govern banking practices, again. These were...
‘Medieval’ levels of health inequality have devastating effects on NHS
On Sunday, the Guardian newspaper published part of the results from its months-long investigation into the effects of poverty on the NHS. Included in the...
Labour policy is pauperising graduates
FIFTY EIGHT per cent of graduates find they are still relying on their parents for financial support three years after graduation, a survey commissioned...
Lord Turner gives up on capitalism – forward to the socialist revolution!
CAPITALISM is not delivering on its promise to raise living standards, Lord Adair Turner, a former head of the business lobby the CBI, has...
Chinese and Russian Stalinists are getting burnt by the crisis
THE Chinese Stalinists are now paying an enormous price for linking their fate with that of US capitalism. First of all they declared parts of...
Capitalist State In A Crisis
THE capitalist state establishment was yesterday rushing into the breach to prop up the ailing head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Ian Blair, Britain’s...
Sharon unleashes bombing raids and assassinations on the Palestinians
THE Israeli government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has launched a new war on Palestinians living in territories under Zionist occupation less than three...