Labour Champions The State Against Parliament
THE fact that the Home Secretary maintained in the House of Commons yesterday that she had not known Tory MP Damian Green was to...
TUC boss springs to defence of the Labour government!
On Saturday, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak issued a New Year’s Message that was an attempt to shore up the Labour government in the...
Capitalism is in its death agony! Forward to the victory of the World...
BRITAIN’S main sickness benefit is ‘not fit for purpose’ and ‘deters people from taking up work’ a Labour government review has found. A report by...
Big Business Demands Billi0Ns More To Save Their Bankrupt Economy!
BIG BUSINESS warned yesterday that, with the return of the lockdown by PM Johnson, thousands of firms will go to the wall. They demanded...
Britain Scuttling Out Of Iraq
DEFENCE Secretary Browne has just visited Baghdad where he declared that the pace of the British rout in Iraq is to be accelerated, with...
Rajapakse And His Backers Will Not Defeat The Tamil People
YESTERDAY the imperialist-backed Rajapakse regime was claiming to have killed the LTTE leadership, including Velupillai Prabakaran, and that the struggle is now over. Its...
Orwell’s 1984 is small fry compared to Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in 2018!
AN ACADEMIC who created an app which ‘harvested’ data from 50 million people now says he has been made ‘a scapegoat’ for the scandal...
Build the 4th International in the US
THE decision of the United Steelworkers of America trade union to follow the lead of the just-failed Democratic contender, John Edwards, whom the steelworkers...
Cameron’s ‘Chain Gangs’ For The Unemployed
THE PCS civil servants trade union yesterday rightly condemned the coalition government’s plans to force the long-term unemployed, and unemployed youth, to do manual...
Rising Fuel Bills Mean Many More Unnecessary Winter Deaths!
THOUSANDS of people die each year from illnesses linked to fuel poverty. Last year was a very cold winter, and this year’s winter is already...
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...
Grenfell Inferno – The Government And Council Ignored Warnings!
THE fire that spread like an inferno through the Grenfell Tower block early Wednesday morning has claimed the lives of at least 17 people...
Bush dresses down ‘quitter’ Brown!
BUSH flew into London yesterday after sending a public order to Gordon Brown, via the Observer newspaper. This was that Brown must not announce...
Obama seeks bloc with Republicans against unions
THE State of the Union speech by President Obama was all about the theme that the only thing that can save the crisis-ridden US...
US Rushes Drones And Hellfire Missiles To Iraq
THE US has sent 75 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles to Iraq, with many more on the way. They are to be used to try to...
TAKE ACTION to stop Chase Farm closure!
THE Independent Reconfiguration Panel, set up to cut and close the NHS, has once again recommended to Health Secretary Lansley that the closure of...
Banks teeter on edge of collapse – Official
THE European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of its latest stress tests carried out on 123 European banks on Sunday, results which showed...
UCU Warns Against Student Poll Tax
1381 was the historic year when the peasantry rose up against the imposition of the Poll Tax in a revolt that speeded up the...
Houthis seize control of Yemen’s Red Sea chokepoint cutting Saudi oil exports and driving...
ON THURSDAY, the Houthi armed forces launched a rapid attack along Yemen’s western coast seizing control of Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast, putting this...
Israel lurches further right as Defence Minister Yaalon resigns!
THE resignation yesterday of the Israeli defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, signals a sharp turn to the right by the government of Binyamin Netanyahu. Yaalon announced...
The IMF sees the writing on the wall with second warning in 24 hours...
THE International Monetary Fund’s Financial Stability Report has given its second warning in 24 hours about a new financial catastrophe that it sees coming...
Forward To The British Socialist Revolution!
THE DAILY Telegraph has been speculating on: ‘What would a 21st century British coup look like?’ in an opinion piece written by Paul...
Overthrow the rule of the bankers – forward to socialism
THE horrific future under capitalism for workers and youth is being revealed on a daily basis, as the price of the government’s £1.3 trillion...
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...
Petrol price rises leading to new fuel blockade
UK petrol and diesel prices are still rising in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with the average cost of petrol now at 95.1 pence...
Civil Rights lawyers closed down by Tories
THE law firm that has spent ten years representing the Iraqi victims of the brutal imperialist invasion of their country and the subsequent occupation...
Field cuddles up to Cameron while Tories plan to end free NHS care
JUST days after the failure of the Hoon-Hewitt attempt to remove Gordon Brown as premier, one of Labour’s leading right-wingers, Frank Field, yesterday...
German Ruling Class Gets Ready For Another War With Russia!
‘WE are witnessing a turning point … the world is not the same anymore,’ said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech last Sunday,...
CWU leaders organise a consultative ballot !over pensions
TRUE to form the CWU leadership is declining to give any kind of leadership to its massive membership on the vital issue of the...
Time for US workers to break with the Democratic Party
A NEW Gallup poll survey shows that 14% of American households describe poverty wages and the cost of healthcare as their most important financial...
US AND EU SLUG IT OUT AT 55th MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE!
THE just-concluded 55th Munich Security Conference saw the conflict between the US and the EU break out openly and venemously. German Chancellor Merkel and other...
Israelis Bomb Gaza And Shell The Lebanon
FOUR Lebanese soldiers were killed and at least four wounded when Israeli tanks opened fire at Lebanese positions on the border with Israel shortly...
Yates Demands A Heavily Armed Paramilitary Police Force!
BRITAIN’S top counter-terrorism officer, Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner Yates, has demanded that paramilitary police forces be established in the UK, and insists that they...
Nato Wants 2,500 More Troops In Afghanistan
ANOTHER British soldier has died after a shooting in the Iraqi town of Al-Qurna, north of Basra. The soldier was the 118th member of...
Recall The Tuc Congress To Call General Strike To Support The Junior Doctors
THE latest two-day strike action of the junior doctors has been a resounding success with massive picket lines, and huge public support, while the...
Labour Slashes Welfare Benefits To Make The Poorest Pay For The Capitalist Crisis!
LABOUR CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves made further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments in her Spring Statement yesterday. The government announced big welfare spending reductions...
Demand the TUC call a general strike for Palestine
SINCE January, Israel has launched massive attacks on refugee camps in the West Bank killing dozens of Palestinians and forcing at least 40,000 to...
Only nationalisation under socialism can provide a solution to energy crisis!
IN THEIR desperation to prevent a complete meltdown of Britain’s food industry the Tories have agreed to pump tens of millions of pounds into...
Tuc Congress Must Demand All British Troops Out Of Afghanistan!
WITH ten British troops killed in Helmand province so that just hundreds of people could vote – and after five per cent turned out...
BA is intent on union-busting and wage-cutting! Balpa must stand fast and demand it...
THE HIGH Court on Tuesday dismissed an attempt by British Airways to secure an interim judgement that would make planned strike action by pilots...
Zionists deliberately targeting Christians in Palestine
GAZA’S Government Media Office (GMO) has announced that the Israeli occupation army has killed 20 Palestinian Christians in the Gaza Strip during over 14...
Tory split emerges with demands on Johnson for a budget that makes war on...
IN ADVANCE of the budget next week, former Tory chancellor Philip Hammond delivered a shot across the bows of the Tory government with a...
Workers pay with their lives for the bosses’ profits – socialist revolution the only...
YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its report breaking down the number of deaths from Covid-19 in 2020 by occupation. The key conclusion...
US-Egyptian Coup Under Way In Libya!
THE drive by General Khalifa Haftat to overthrow the remnants of the Libyan government, and take on and defeat the Al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood...
Labour is selling off school playing fields
SCHOOLS Secretary Ed Balls and his predecessor Alan Johnson have given the go-head to the sell-off of 19 school playing fields over the past...