TUC leader is silent on PM Starmer ending Winter Fuel Allowance
UNITE general secretary Sharon Graham has accused Labour of ‘pickpocketing pensioners’ telling Labour leader Keir Starmer to ‘accept it’s an error’ to push ahead...
Arafat was poisoned but his struggle lives on!
THE results from the first forensic tests to be carried out on the remains of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have confirmed the universally held...
Clinton declares war on Putin and on Russia
THE Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US Secretary of State, Clinton, of giving the Russian right wing – many of them...
Trump defeats second impeachment bid and vows to continue with ‘Make America Great...
EX-PRESIDENT Donald Trump has welcomed his impeachment acquittal on the charge of ‘inciting insurrection’, saying, his political movement ‘to Make America Great Again’ has...
British banks hit by Dubai collapse
AFTER the Abu Dhabi stockmarket experienced a record one-day fall of 8.3 per cent, and Dubai’s Financial Market Index fell 7.3 per cent yesterday,...
Nagasaki anti-militarism!
LAST week saw the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest war crimes in human history, the dropping of the two Atomic bombs onto...
TUC conference swings to the right – a new leadership must be built!
THIS year’s annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference marked a historic lurch to the right by the leadership of the trade unions. At a time...
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...
Build revolutionary leadership in South African strike struggle!
THE South African 300,000-strong National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has called a one-day solidarity strike with the 1.3m public sector trade unionists who have...
Time For The Tuc To Call General Strike
THE Fire Brigades Union has organised a national demonstration in London on Wednesday 16 October. The FBU is under an all-out attack on the...
Brown to rescue banks by slashing wages and jobs!
CHANCELLOR Darling has followed up his appearance before the bankers at the Mansion House on Wednesday night, where he pledged that wage rises would...
US Imperialism organised botched plot to overthrow Venezuela’s President!
ON WEDNESDAY, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo emphatically denied to reporters that the US had any involvement in the failed attempt by...
Bourgeoisie Trembles At The Approaching Catastrophe!
THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, made it clear this week that the banking system faces total collapse due to ‘systemic...
Starmer’s Labour regime must be replaced by a workers’ government
Sir Keir Starmer is set to become the UK’s first Labour prime minister since 2010 after his party’s landslide general election victory. Labour is...
French And UK Workers Must Unite To Bring Down Macron And Johnson With Socialist...
THE imperialist powers are not only in their greatest crisis ever, they are completely split and divided. The UK is prepared to take legal action...
Severe Child Poverty On The Rise Under Labour
RESEARCH by charity ‘Save the Children’ has found that between 2004 and 2008, an additional 260,000 children were pushed into severe poverty in the...
The BoE and Brown gamble with workers wages jobs, homes and pensions
THE Bank of England yesterday launched its government-backed scheme to allow the major banks to swap their dodgy mortgages for UK Treasury Bonds, in...
UK Pirates Plan Somalia Onslaught!
YESTERDAY, a conference was convened in London to organise the intervention into Somalia by imperialist forces, led by the UK, acting under the cover of...
SOVIET WORKERS AND YOUTH WANT THE USSR RESTORED!
THE interviews given by Mikhail Gorbachev on the 25th anniversary of the Stalinist bureaucracy overthrowing the USSR show that the question of the restoration...
Tusk pleads for Trump to end trade war with warning it will turn into...
PRESIDENT of the European Council Donald Tusk yesterday issued a desperate plea for Europe, China, America and Russia to ‘work together’ and ‘prevent conflict...
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...
Clashes In Israel While President Biden Fears That Netanyahu Will Address Congress!
CLASHES have broken out between the Israeli police and anti-regime protesters in Tel Aviv and across the occupied territories, with demonstrators demanding new elections...
Eurozone is unsustainable!
THE head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, has pronounced the Eurozone to be ‘unsustainable’ in its present form, while the EU...
NHS privatisation in London could ‘cost lives’
THE government’s Healthcare Commission published a report yesterday which called for National Health Service (NHS) hospital trusts to ‘do more to ensure they consistently...
Tuc Must Act Over Cameron’s War!
ON MONDAY the bourgeois press proclaimed the rag-bag of mercenaries and brigands who make up the so-called ‘rebels’ had crushed the forces loyal to...
Organise a general strike for the nationalisation of plants facing closure!
ECONOMIC activity declined by 0.8 per cent over the three months to the end of June, a fall of 5.6 per cent in Gross...
Take Strike Action To Defend The NHS
THE Royal College of Nursing, the nurses trade union, yesterday announced that it is seeking a judicial review to force the Blair government to...
Tories Want To Bomb Syria!
TORY Defence Minister, Michael Fallon, with the full support of Cameron and leading members of the Labour Party, is calling for Britain to start...
Assange extradition decision Monday! Unions must call industrial action to prevent any attempt...
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange is facing a sentence of up to 175 years in a high-security ‘Supermax’ prison if he is extradited from the...
Decade of Tory NHS cuts has disabled the NHS! 4.6m now wait for operations....
THE SURGE in coronavirus cases in January hit key services including cancer and even routine surgery, NHS England figures released on Thursday exposed. Over the...
Charge Harry Stanley’s Killers!
THE uncovering of ‘new’ forensic evidence by the Surrey constabulary has led to the arrest of the two police officers who shot dead Harry...
Miliband to support Tory cuts and Royal Mail privatisation!
ED MILIBAND, the new Labour Party leader, has made it perfectly clear that his victory does not mean that he is going to oppose...
Grenfell crisis – many millions are living in unsafe buildings eight years after the...
NEW research has found that 136 firefighters who were exposed to toxic smoke at Grenfell are now suffering from occupational diseases. 1 in 4...
UK Must Stop Arming Saudi Arabia And Must Rush Food Aid To The Yemen
THE TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that all those behind the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi should be brought to justice,...
Capitalism has reached the end of the road – it’s time for a...
THE economic and political crisis gripping capitalism is causing despair and despondency amongst the bourgeoisie and its media representatives at the highest levels. This week,...
Crisis-ridden US capitalism driven towards war
US capitalism really has got its back to the wall, and has somewhat lost its balance, when its Treasury Secretary, Geithner, says that he...
Call national strike action! Form a public sector alliance!
OVER 12,000 postal workers are taking strike action today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and the executive dictatorship by Royal Mail, while...
US capitalism in crisis – war at home and abroad is its only way...
US CAPITALISM, the most powerful in the world, is teetering on the brink of collapse under a tidal wave of debt. This dire warning was...
Mass strikes required to fight sackings and wage cuts
THE jobs crisis in the UK is sharpening to boiling point in the motor car industry and in the power construction industry, affecting...
Behind The Crisis Talks In Minsk On Wednesday!
THE ‘peace talk’ that suggests Merkel and Hollande are seeking to organise a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis, acceptable to all, the imperialist...
Pensioners being lined up for Tory austerity attack
A NEW report by The Resolution Foundation think-tank on pensions and pensioners is nothing more than a clarion call for pensions to be cut...
EU is breaking up! Euro & banks are set to crash. Smash the EU...
TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond, speaking about the Brexit crisis from the World Economic Forum in Davos, said yesterday: ‘It is absolutely clear that if...
Merkel’s ‘Grand Coalition’ – Germany’s crisis deepens!
ANGELA MERKEL, the leader of Germany’s right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU), announced on Monday: ‘We have the basis for coalition talks. The CDU will...
Turn the imperialist war against Russia into a civil war to smash British Capitalism
THE BRITISH ruling class has now made it crystal clear that it favours a class war on two interconnected fronts. On the home front it...
Trade unions must call massive strike actions in support of Palestine and Iran!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has threatened to invade Kharg Island in order to take control of Iran’s oil exports. In an interview with the Financial...