China responds to Obama!
CHINA’S state media have responded to Barak Obama’s Pentagon announcement that the US is turning its back on the North Atlantic, and therefore...
Obama about-turn on war crimes!
PRESIDENT Obama said one thing before his election, and now he is saying something else altogether. During his campaign he stood up against the torture...
No Plan B – kick the coalition out!
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has gone through its ritual presentation of an ‘alternative’ budget in advance of the coalition government’s budget to be...
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...
California’s budget ‘meltdown’
CALIFORNIA’S Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal state of emergency yesterday in a move to put pressure on members of California State Legislature...
Greece heralds a capitalist collapse and the European socialist revolution
THE Standard and Poor (S&P) credit rating agency downgraded Greek government bonds on Wednesday sending government stocks and share prices on the Athens Stock...
Savage Spanish cuts will stoke a fire that no firewall can keep at bay
THE Spanish government is to cut 27bn euros (£22.5bn) from its budget this year. Among the measures are the freezing of public sector...
The crisis is leaving the working class no alternative to revolution
A FURTHER nail was driven into the coffin of British capitalism this week with the release of figures showing that the income from overseas...
Labour adopts coalition cuts
THE three-day meeting of Labour’s ‘policy forum’ ended on Sunday with a massive vote to commit the Labour Party to carrying on with the...
Canada’s Armed Forces Are Preparing To Resist A US Invasion After Trump Says...
ACCORDING to the Canadian newspaper, ‘The Globe and Mail’, Canada’s armed forces have already created a model for a hypothetical US invasion of Canada...
Kelly plans new attacks on council tenants
RUTH Kelly, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has backed proposals to end the long-term secure tenancies of working-class families living in...
Tories Are Returning To Their ‘Starve The Workers’ Tactic!
WITH the capitalist system in its greatest ever crisis, the British Tories are beginning to debate about what is the best way out of...
Hunt stays silent over whether government was informed of plot against Khashoggi by...
IT HAS got very hot in the warmongers’ kitchen when reputedly fire-proof US militarists like US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, and Secretary of State...
Prosecute bosses that do not pay the minimum wage! Overthrow capitalism!
‘NAMING and shaming’ bosses who refuse to pay workers even the minimum wage is not enough, trade union GMB correctly insisted yesterday, demanding...
Johnson Calls A National Lockdown ‘The Nuclear Option’ As Far As Capitalism Is...
PM BORIS JOHNSON in an interview in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph stated that the Tories were determined that there would be no further national lockdown...
TUC must immediately act to stop Clarence House staff sackings by the monarchy and...
THE PCS trade union has called for the proposed staff redundancies at Clarence House to be halted and pledged to support every member of...
White House interns demand Biden calls a permanent ceasefire in Gaza!
AS ISRAEL ramps up its war efforts to slaughter even more Palestinians in southern Gaza, in the US a group of White House interns...
Only socialist revolutions can defeat missile threat
ROMANIAN President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that Romania will host US interceptor missiles along its border with the Russian Federation. This latest missile plan...
UK flees Afghanistan – and sacks 4,500 troops
NATO has handed over security for the whole of Afghanistan to the Afghan puppet government for the first time since the Taliban were ousted...
Reformists and Stalinists seek to break Greek teachers’ struggle
THE confrontation between Greek teachers and the Greek state and its EU masters has erupted this week after all teachers were served at the...
Turn the massive marches for Palestine into Socialist revolutions to smash capitalism!
SOUTH Africa’s Minister of Justice, Ronald Lamola, stood firm yesterday outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, maintaining that Israel has...
Imperialist War Equals Massacre And Dehumanisation
A US SOLDIER in Afghanistan has killed at least 16 civilians and wounded five men, women and children. Nato said it was investigating...
Lord Jones and Sir Richard Branson turn on Brown
TWO of the Brown government’s big business backers Lord Digby Jones, the ex-CBI boss and Richard Branson, the Thatcherite businessman have unsurprisingly turned-coat. No doubt...
Blair favours more repression and more privatisation
THE Prime Minister with his grip on office weakening fast, yesterday through the Queen’s speech brought forward his familiar and well known programme...
Israeli unions are striking for a Gaza ceasefire! The UK TUC must call a...
A NATIONWIDE strike swept across Israel yesterday, intensifying the mass pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree an immediate cease-fire and a prisoner...
Answer NHS crisis with general strike and occupations
THIS week saw the crisis in the NHS reach breaking point with at least 17 hospitals in England declaring they faced a ‘major incident’...
US-Led Coalition Conducted 34,573 Air Strikes In Iraq And Syria Between August 2014 And...
THE US-UK-led military coalition reported on September 26 that it had conducted a total of 34,573 airstrikes in both Iraq and Syria between August...
UK Trade Unions And Unions Worldwide Must Take Action Against Israel!
229 Arab and international human rights organisations and networks have strongly condemned the assassination of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, after she...
100 women on hunger strike! Shut down Yarl’s Wood and ALL detention centres!
‘WE ARE not animals!’ women incarcerated in the notorious Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre have scrawled across their T-shirts. More than 120 women have...
Free the five and give them full British citizenship
THE UK government has requested the release of five British residents from US custody at Guantanamo Bay, something which the Blair government, in which...
Britain’s ‘Treasure Islands’ for the super rich – while it’s super austerity for...
THE ‘Panama papers’ leak of 11 million documents shows that the rich and infamous worldwide, including heads of state, are avoiding taxation...
As occupation founders oil workers come to the fore
A BRITISH soldier has been killed in southern Iraq, bringing the number of British troops who have died in Iraq to 150, with thousands...
Sunak admits ‘borrowing will have to end’ and prepares for war against the working...
IN THE Spectator magazine this week, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak broke ranks with the official Tory line that British capitalism could survive by indefinitely...
Fight VAT increases with mass actions to bring down coalition
THE increase of VAT from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent today will mean destitution for millions of unemployed and low paid workers...
Ukrainian workers refuse to end occupations!
THE agreement, styled as a ‘de-escalation roadmap’, reached at Geneva last Thursday by representatives from Russia, US, EU and the Ukraine coupist government, represents...
House of Commons recognises Palestine!
‘THAT this House believes that the Government should recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel, as a contribution to securing a...
Bankrupt Brown speaks to the City of London
GORDON Brown began his Mansion House speech to the City of London on Monday night with a ringing but empty declaration. He said: ‘I want...
The New UK-US Trade Deal Means NHS Must Pay Billions For New Medicines Says...
THE UK-US trade deal will mean the NHS has to divert billions from other NHS services to pay more for new medicines. Around £45bn in...
Lloyd’s pulls the plug on Europe
NOT just Greece but the Eurozone and, by extension, the whole of Europe is a financial basket case that is heading inexorably towards a...
State Of Palestine Now Within Reach!
ISRAEL, after 50 days of slaughter in which over 2,000 Palestinians were killed, many of them children, tens of thousands wounded and hundreds of...
Bilge From The Bishop!
THE Bishop of Rochester, Dr Nazir-Ali, yesterday sounded like he borrowed a script from the British National Party when he warned that Islamic extremism...
Hutton provocation will result in ‘summer pensions war’
TODAY’S publication of the Hutton Report on public sector pensions will be like a red rag to a bull as far as the membership...
Tuc Must Call General Strike To Kick Out Starmer’s Government
THE continuing collapse of the Starmer-led Labour government was on public display on Wednesday when in a pathetic attempt to reassert his absolute control,...
14,000 Iranian university professors condemn attacks on IRGC!
MORE than 14,000 Iranian university professors have condemned the European Union’s designation of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a so-called terrorist organisation,...
Israel slaughters Gaza Strip Palestinians
AT the same time as the Fatah leader, President Abbas is meeting the Israeli Premier Olmert for the continuing ‘peace talks’, that were launched...