Only A Socialist Revolution Can Save Lebanon From Destruction By The Imperialist Powers!
ONE year after the explosion that rocked Beirut on August 4, 2020, killing 218 people, injuring more than 7,000 and devastating much of the...
Banks are crashing while 140,000 repossessions loom at Northern Rock
THE HSBC bank has just declared a 28 per cent, $3.9bn fall in half year profits. It has written off another $3.7 billion...
Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!
INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...
Smash British-Pakistani torture chain
AMNESTY International yesterday called for the new government of Pakistan to provide information about the hundreds of people held in the country’s ‘war on...
Clarke Tells Blair It’s Time To Go
TONY BLAIR may not be able to recover his authority and leadership after recent damaging events, former Blair Home Secretary, Clarke has said. Charles...
Recall TUC Congress to elect a new leadership prepared to defeat Starmer & Co
PM Starmer’s latest policy U-turn, of abandoning the protection against unfair dismissal from day-one for new employees in the Employment Rights Bill, created a...
Get British troops out of Afghanistan now!
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown and Defence Secretary Des Browne yesterday sent their condolences to the families of four more British troops killed in Afghanistan...
‘You must recognise the Palestinian state’ says the Palestinian Ambassador Zomlot
RECOGNISING the Palestinian state is the prerequisite for peace, not a by-product of peace,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said in an...
Iraq – Time For Britain To Cut And Run
SATURDAY’S engagement in Basra was a serious one for British imperialism. One Lynx helicopter was lost, shot down by a Strella missile and five British...
Israel Accepts Gaza Ceasefire Out Of Fear Of The Arab Revolution
THE Egyptian military have brokered a truce between the militant Palestinian factions in Gaza and the Israeli military, which had been bombing Gaza for...
Britain, Germany, Spain And The US Poised On The Brink Of Recession
THE European Commission stated yesterday that the UK, Germany and Spain, key members of the EU, with Germany being the world’s biggest exporter, are...
Tories in chaos as Paterson resigns amidst sleaze accusations – time to kick...
THE TORY government was in chaos yesterday following Tuesday’s vote to disband the existing Standards Committee replacing it with a Tory dominated committee to...
Oldham stuns Tories as workers reject ruling class invitation to destroy Corbyn!
THE Oldham by-election did not go according to the ruling class-Tory script. There was no collapse in the Labour vote. Corbyn was not sacked...
Answer Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill with a general strike to kick the...
THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets at the weekend in mass ‘kill the bill’ demonstrations across the country against the...
French working class must take power to begin the European Socialist revolution!
NEARLY a quarter of a million French workers have taken part in mass rallies across the country against the French fascists, calling on the...
Only way to defend the NHS is to kick out the Tories and bring...
ON SUNDAY the 72nd anniversary of the NHS, created in 1948 by Clement Attlee’s post-war Labour government, was marked by handclapping, with Boris Johnson...
Miliband wants a US style Democratic Party not a Labour Party
THE kind of party that Labour Party leader Miliband wants will be no different from the US Democratic Party, if he is allowed to...
BA CRISIS – no to sackings and wage cuts – Renationalise!
BRITISH Airways has decided to cut 1,700 jobs and introduce a two-year pay freeze for cabin crew. It also intends to discuss wage cuts...
US moving to ground war in Iraq and Syria
THE United States is poised to step up the war in Iraq and Syria with the sending of more US ground forces. Speaking to...
Tory lies over ‘Syrian gas attack’ exposed!
THE ENTIRE justification for last Friday’s illegal bombing of Syria by British, US and French forces is falling apart rapidly as the truth emerges. The...
Israel military in crisis – calls up 60,000 reservists to occupy Gaza City
ON MONDAY Hamas reported that the group had agreed terms for a ceasefire plan for Gaza that calls for a 60-day pause in fighting...
‘Big Society’ a cover for destroying jobs and life-saving services!
TORY leader Cameron yesterday delivered his speech on the ‘Big Society’ but had a problem defining what he meant. He said: ‘You can call it...
Labour Sets Out To Transform Capitalism!
SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell made it perfectly clear at Labour’s Conference on the Economy that the Labour Party was now for ‘transforming capitalism’, and...
Tory Party in meltdown – force TUC to call a general strike to kick...
TO DESCRIBE the forced decision by Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to abandon his plans to end the 45% top rate of income tax to...
The UK ruling class is in a desperate crisis – forward to the socialist...
EX-PRINCE Andrew’s public disgrace has rocked the British ruling class, with the King stripping his younger brother of his ‘prince’ title and evicting him...
One third of all people in UK have lived in poverty in the past...
ONE in three people in the country have ‘experienced poverty’ in the past four years. According to figures produced by the Office for National Statistics,...
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...
Brown outlines new attack on teachers and state education!
‘IN the past those who had the raw material – the coal, the oil and the basic commodities, or the infrastructure – the ports...
Osborne demands smash Welfare States throughout the EU
THE crisis of British capitalism deepened yesterday with Chancellor Osborne warning the EU ‘We can’t go on like this’, while the Ford motor company...
Hague Beats The War Drums Against Syria
YESTERDAY saw the spectacle of Foreign Secretary Hague complaining that every Jihadist on the planet was heading for Syria, after both he and his...
New Leadership Needed In Cwu
YESTERDAY the number two CWU leader Dave Ward was boasting that the super-flexibility deal that the leadership put to the membership and which over...
Workers must fight for Palestine and bring down the Tory government that celebrates the...
THE NATIONAL march and rally demanding ‘Justice Now: Make it Right for Palestine’ is a massive demonstration of the support and solidarity that exists...
Afghan crisis – more combat troops to be sent
THE British government’s Defence Secretary, Des Browne, said yesterday that he would be making a statement to the House of Commons as soon as...
Defeat Imperialist war with Socialist revolution
THE TRUMP administration imposed its long threatened sanctions against Iran yesterday – a move that was greeted with dire warnings from market analysts that...
Israeli genocide to be celebrated at Albert Hall Balfour Centenary!
YESTERDAY as the International Day for the Protection of Children was celebrated in countries across the world, the Palestinian Authority (PA) released chilling figures...
SALUTE ABDUL HAROUN – The man that the tunnel could not stop!
ABDUL Rahman Haroun is a hero. The Sudanese national walked the full length of the Channel Tunnel (31 miles), dicing with death all of...
EU and the US ruling classes are the enemy of the world’s poor and...
A CHARITY rescue vessel, the Alex, on Saturday brought 41 shipwrecked migrants into port in Lampedusa. This is the second boat to defy Italy’s...
UK workers must bring down Trump’s Tories to leave the EU and bring in...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has named three of his Tory candidates to replace May as the prime minister of his choice. All three of Trump’s...
Osborne’s regime of pay freezes and wage cuts
IN his last budget speech before the general election, Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made the astounding claim that living standards will ‘grow strongly every...
No to a Barber sell-out – It’s trade union action that’s required!
THE TUC announced on Saturday that ‘Royal Mail and the CWU have in recent days been in contact with the TUC over the current...
After China sneezes Wall Street drops like a stone
A NINE per cent fall on the small Chinese stock market, after rumours that the Stalinist bureaucracy was about to tax shares, and slightly...
Tories pushing health insurance to smash NHS! Organise general strike NOW!
THE SPECTRE of health insurance to ‘top-up’ the NHS has raised its ugly head. It is part of the arsenal of weapons turned on...
After the US-UK defeat in Afghanistan, al-Houthi calls on the US and Saudis to...
AT A press conference held on the Kabul airport tarmac, on Monday afternoon, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the US had been defeated and...
King wanted to print even more paper money!
WHEN the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided two weeks ago to print £50 billion more for its stimulus programme binge, the City, which was...
Famine ‘unfolding’ in Gaza – trade unions must call general strikes to bring down...
THE UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which monitors hunger and starvation across the world, yesterday issued a warning that the ‘worst case...