Ireland heading for a general strike
THE Croke Park II proposals to cut the public sector pay bill, as part of an additional one billion euros of state cuts, have...
Defend every job, bring down the Brown government, forward to socialism
LLOYDS stated yesterday that its takeover of HBOS would save it at least £1.5bn a year, more than it had been expecting, which all...
THE TUC must take general strike action to support Palestine and bring in a...
‘THE report issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhry, on the Israeli-induced starvation in the Gaza Strip...
Doctors, NHS staff & nurses are gearing up for pay strike action! All trade...
MONDAY is the anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service (July 5th 1948) and Johnson’s Tories have marked the event by refusing...
Bring Out All The Unions To Defend The NHS!
THE situation could not be clearer. The whole of the trade union movement and the majority of non-trade unionists support the 24-hour strike actions...
Sharon’s deception at the United Nations
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tried to cut a figure as the liberator of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip at the United...
NHS privateer investigated for ‘unsafe’ GP Service
Serco, the country’s top privateer in the NHS and other public services, is under investigation over allegations that it ran an ‘unsafe’ GP out-of-hours...
Soros financing Pro-EU campaign in UK – Workers must demand that the UK quits...
US-HUNGARIAN billionaire George Soros has denounced Brexit as an ‘immensely damaging process’ for both the United Kingdom and the European Union, and has arrived...
Bma Calls For Independent Inquiry Into NHS Crisis
A WOMAN died yesterday in an ambulance while waiting in a queue of around 15 emergency vehicles outside the A&E at Morriston Hospital in...
Left Asked To Form Greek Government
FOLLOWING the failure to form a government by the leader of the Greek Tories, Antonis Samaras, the leader of the Coalition of...
Chagos Islanders are determined to return to their homes!
NEXT week the British government will be hauled kicking and screaming before judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague over...
Unions act now against NHS cuts
A HUGE contract for health services, including end-of-life care in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, is being put out to tender with privateers such as Virgin...
Defiant Assad Puts Imperialists Into A Crisis!
PRESIDENT Assad’s recent statement to the AFP news agency reflects the huge change in the internal Syrian situation thanks to the successful alliance between...
Stock Markets Crashing Worldwide!
THE sharp rises followed almost immediately by even bigger losses on the international stock markets over the past few days, point in only one...
5.5 million households live in ‘fuel poverty’
THE number of UK households in fuel poverty rose by one million in 2009 to 5.5 million. The figures from the Department of Energy...
EU crisis deepens in London and Athens
THE great EU referendum crisis in the UK has sharpened after PM Cameron denied his earlier remarks that after he had negotiated a deal...
May is broken, as is the Tory party and the capitalist system – It...
WHEN the Tory Daily Telegraph runs on its front page a headline that Theresa May is ‘limping into oblivion’ it couldn’t be a clearer...
Revolution is the only way forwards!
THE working class of Europe is rising up to fight the savage spending cuts now being imposed by governments across the Continent. When the UK...
Myanmar working class intervene with powerful general strike to bring down Military Junta!
MYANMAR (formerly called Burma) was brought to a halt yesterday as hundreds of thousands of workers and youth answered the call for a general...
Starmer pledges £3 billion a year to Ukraine paid for by starving kids in...
TWO weeks ago the Labour government’s work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall called the two-child benefit cap ‘a stain on our society’, and this...
Net Closing In On Iraq War Criminals
THE Brown government has been told by the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, to release the minutes of two cabinet meetings, from March 7th and...
Tories and Labour right-wing call for war with Russia
WAR hysteria dominated the Parliamentary debate on Tuesday, with both Tory and Labour MPs pushing for a full-scale war against Russia over unproven accusations...
Johnson launches a class war against UK workers and youth – Forward to Socialist...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for a speedy end to ‘dependence’ on Russian oil and gas, comparing it to ‘addiction,’ in his...
Only a sliding scale of wages can defend workers from inflation
OFFICIAL figures have confirmed that consumer price inflation surged to 5.4% in 12 months to December – up from 5.1% month before – the...
Labour Party leaders move to stab Brexit in the back! Forward to a political...
AS IS to be expected the Labour leadership has been unable to hold fast to the Corbyn line that the party will support Brexit....
Southern Cross collapse– true face of privatisation
On Monday Tory prime minister, David Cameron, unveiled the long awaited White Paper that will enshrine in law the ‘presumption’ that public services should...
Humanitarian imperialists get ready for a bloodbath
DESPITE all of the hurrahs coming from the manic bourgeois media, the imperialist powers have a very big problem with Libya, and the Libyan...
UK-France Moving To Partition Libya
FOREIGN Secretary William Hague yesterday ordered the Libyan charge d‘affaires out of the UK along with all Libyan diplomats. Hague said: ‘We’re inviting the...
UK capitalists on their knees with the deepest recession since records began!
OFFICIAL figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released yesterday show that gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 20.4% in the three months...
Police Have No Regrets And No Remorse Say de Menezes Family
THE Metropolitan Police chief, Blair, has already gone, his going made inevitable by the disgraceful attitude that he took to the police murder of...
Tories, with the support of the Labour Party, begin forcing asylum seekers on to...
THE TORIES kicked off their ‘stop the boats week’ yesterday with the announcement that the first 50 asylum seekers will be forced onto the...
Forward with the Greek socialist revolution
THE Greek working class remains undefeated as the clashes between teachers and students with the riot police in Salonica on Thursday have proven. The source...
Call a general strike – build Councils of Action – forward to Socialism
THE Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said yesterday that the government should ban strikes by workers in essential services, adding that this...
Trump Wants The Whole World To Pay For The Crisis And Death Agony Of...
DEEP splits among the imperialist powers emerged this week over the rapidly growing support for a Palestinian state, at the same time as Trump...
One Year Since The Marikana Massacre
THE MARIKANA massacre of mineworkers in South Africa one year ago, in which 34 miners were murdered by the police and hundreds injured, has...
Project Fear Gives Way To Pledges Of Retribution
SPEAKING with Labour’s former Chancellor Lord Darling by his side, in full support, the Tory Chancellor Osborne yesterday pledged violent retribution against the electorate...
Chaos reigns as Tory Chancellor gets instructions from IMF and advice from Strictly Come...
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has delivered a thinly veiled instruction to the Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, to scrap his autumn budget statement due...
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...
TUC Leader Nowak Urges The Tories To Compromise With The Trade Unions Just As...
IN THE understatement of the year, the new leader of the TUC Paul Nowak warned yesterday that further strikes could lie ahead in 2023...
By Recognising The Golan Heights As Part Of Israel, Trump Is Opting For A...
ON MONDAY, US President Donald Trump signed a declaration that recognised Israeli ‘sovereignty’ over Syria’s Golan Heights. The strategically important Golan Heights are recognised in...
597 homeless deaths, 130,000 homeless children! Slum landlords and capitalism must be got rid...
FIVE hundred and ninety-seven homeless people died on the streets of Britain last year, up from 482 the year before – in fact homeless...
Trump Can’t Get Rid Of Obamacare – But US Workers Can Get Rid...
PRESIDENT Trump’s efforts to smash ex-President Obama’s healthcare system, which provides cheaper health insurance for the low paid and the poor (Obamacare), have...
Three Defeats For Tory Welfare Bill
THE Tory/LibDem coalition suffered three defeats on Wednesday; in the House of Lords over their plans to slash £1.6 billion from the benefits of...
US, UK, Karzai Drive To Bribe The Taleban
ON the eve of the Afghan conference in London this week, UK and other Nato troops are to launch an offensive to take control...
Savage Greek property tax provokes mass revolt
In the past few days electricity bills delivered to Greek households have contained a demand for the hated new property tax. This tax, which ranges...