EU torn apart by Covid pandemic – forward to Socialist United States of...
THE DEADLY third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is ripping the EU apart over vaccinations and lockdowns. In Germany, with 9,549 new cases and 180...
Israel invades Rafah and blocks all aid to Gaza – working class must call...
ON MONDAY evening, the political bureau of Hamas announced that it had approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. This surprise move prompted the BBC’s International...
British army – out of control and out of its depth
AFTER the disgraceful episode, where not one soldier or officer was found guilty of the murder of Baha Mousa, the attempt to sanitise the...
Ruling class prepared to dump weak Johnson and move to dictatorial rule to wage...
THIS WEEK the Tories were warned by leading financiers and bankers that a quarter of a million firms in the UK will be crushed...
Bernanke’s plan for controlled bankruptcies
THE heads of the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury have been forced to try to calm fears that the nation’s two largest mortgage...
The Death Agony Of Capitalism! Time For The Working Class To Bury It!
ON MONDAY night, US President Donald Trump announced via a tweet that he would stop all applications from foreign nationals seeking permanent residence in...
Trump To Invite Netanyahu To His Inauguration!
PRESIDENT-ELECT Trump’s advisers are planning to invite Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the president-elect’s inauguration ceremony, so as to publicly stress just...
Build the Fourth International all over the EU – Forward with the European Socialist...
THE Greek Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) has announced that unemployment reached 27% last February, while youth unemployment (15-24 years old) reached 64.2%, from 54.1% in...
BMA demands STPs be ‘abandoned’! Now all trade unions must follow their lead and...
ON MONDAY, the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting took a giant step forward when, after a struggle over the issue of STPs, it passed a...
Workers & youth take on the French government
THOUSANDS of students took to the streets in major cities throughout France yesterday in the struggle against Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s First Employment...
UK workers must support the struggle for Palestinian state!
EARLY on Wednesday morning Israeli occupation forces shot and killed two Palestinian youth, a 17-year-old and a 20-year-old, and injured at least two others...
Ukrainian coup under way!
UKRAINE’S President Viktor Yanukovych announced early yesterday the terms of the agreement that he had made with the Ukrainian pro-EU, pro-US opposition during talks...
Trade Unions Must Dump Starmer And Labour’s Right Wing And Call A General Strike...
THE general secretary of the Unite union Len McCluskey has responded to Labour’s massive council election defeats and its disastrous loss in the Hartlepool...
Palestinian revolution on the march to Jerusalem!
THE Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said that the Palestinians are determined to seek recognition of a Palestinian state from the United Nations...
Tories plan to replace national pay bargaining for public sector workers with performance-related pay...
THE TORIES are determined to put an end to trade union-negotiated across the board pay increases for all public sector workers and replace national...
Tories Will Have The Power ‘To Censor The Internet’ To Silence Opposition To Imperialist...
THE TORY government is attempting to assume the absolute power to censor the internet as part of its new Online Safety Bill – a...
Support North Korea Against US Aggression!
WITH the crisis of capitalism deepening and the US economy showing not the slightest signs of recovery, it is only natural that the US...
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...
Johnson’s ‘Freedom Worth Fighting For’ Means UK Workers Pay For War In Ukraine!
A ROW has broken out over £30m from the Welsh government’s budget being put towards the £1bn the UK is sending to Ukraine to...
Blair proclaims summary justice for the masses
ON TUESDAY Prime Minister Blair began his ‘genuine intellectual debate about the nature of liberty in a modern developed society such as our own.’ ...
May offers to pay for two-year implementation period! Break with the EU now! Forward...
IN her speech in Florence, Tory PM May called for a two-year implementation period, after Britain leaves the EU in March 2019. Up to that...
Brown Trying To Buy Time For Capitalism
LAST week a Tory MP had to apologise to the House of Commons because he had said that the government should ‘let the recession...
‘New Leader – Old Agenda’
IN a motion for next month’s Trades Union Congress, UNISON correctly says the use of private firms in public services is ‘harmful, wasteful, and...
Youth forced to work for nothing as unemployment set to rocket!
The findings of a survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development confirm what every worker and young person in the country already...
Tories crash – now boot them out with a general strike to bring in...
THE TORIES have crashed with their twin by-elections disasters. They lost Kingswood, where Labour needed an 11-point swing and also lost Wellingborough, where an...
Zionist Friedman appointed US ambassador to Israel!
BY appointing David Friedman as the US ambassador to Israel, President Trump has unceremoniously stomped on any remaining illusions that he will restore genuine...
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...
Tories getting ready for class war! Time for the trade unions to put them...
EVERYBODY knows that the Tory government was completely unprepared for the Covid-19 crisis that erupted in the UK in December 2020. The Operation Cygnus exercise...
The US and UK are making war on asylum seekers! Workers trade unions...
THE Biden administration has imprisoned tens of thousands of asylum seekers in US prisons where they suffer lengthy detention, severe physical and psychological harm...
Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ is a national government
GORDON Brown yesterday launched his campaign to take over the job of Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. He spoke about his ‘new ideas and...
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...
Defend Libyan revolution! Stop and bring down the oil thieves! Victory to Gadaffi!
THE French ruling class yesterday officially recognised the Libyan counter-revolutionary rebels of the Transitional National Council as the country's legitimate government, and is due...
NHS driven to the brink by Tory cuts! This government must be kicked...
AS THE NHS winter crisis sets in, savage cuts to the health service have pushed services to the point of collapse. A severe lack...
Zero-hours contracts and below legal minimum wages dominate in private care agencies
ANALYSIS by the GMB union of figures in the national Skills for Care database reveals that care workers employed in the private sector are...
Israel is being held responsible for the lives and safety of six recaptured...
NEARLY 200 human rights organisations are holding Israel fully responsible for the lives and safety of six Palestinian prisoners who tunnelled their way out...
All Trade Unions Must Join The Battle To Defend The NHS With A General...
THE battle has now been joined to defend the NHS, which the Tory government is determined to destroy, to return the UK to the...
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...
The British army enters politics, and won’t tolerate a non-nuclear UK!
YESTERDAY saw General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the Chief of the Defence Staff openly entering politics and fighting for Tory Party policy, telling SKY TV...
Union leaders are fiddling while the NHS burns! General Strike now to win...
THE BURNING issue of NHS workers’ pay is so explosive that the Tories left it to the very last day that Parliament sits before...
Labour’s cuts to disability benefits hit 700,000 families – time to kick out Starmer...
THIS week, The Guardian newspaper, using the Freedom of Information Act, published the Labour government’s own internal assessment of the impact of the planned...
General Council must be made to resign for refusing to fight anti-union Bill!
YESTERDAY morning, the TUC commented on the vote in the House of Commons on the third reading of the Trade Union Bill, which is...
Occupy And Nationalise Vauxhall Plants
THREE companies have bid to take over GM Europe from the crisis-stricken US giant. They are Italian carmaker Fiat, Canadian parts maker Magna and...
Stop the pensions sell-out! Sack Barber and Prentis! Call a general strike!
THE Trade union bureaucracy, led by TUC leader Barber and Unison leader Prentis, have shown clearly, with their position that the trade unions have...
Iraqi puppet government splits after Maliki refuses to order US withdrawal
THE political bloc of anti-occupation Shia cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, yesterday quit the Iraqi puppet government with its six ministers quitting the cabinet. They walked out...
Occupy Corus! No Sackings! Renationalise Now!
THERE were oceans of tears yesterday for the 1,700 workers who are to be sacked when Corus mothballs the greater part of its plant...