Trump’s trade war prepares the way for a real war against China! The only...
US PRESIDENT Trump sharply escalated his trade war with China yesterday, more than doubling tariffs on $200bn (£153.7bn) worth of Chinese goods. The US is...
Murdoch withdraws BskyB bid – Now bring down coalition!
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister announced that a judge-led phone hacking inquiry will have powers to call media proprietors, editors and politicians to give evidence,...
Merkel-Sarkozy deal will fail to stem euro crisis
THE media were out in force at the end of last week to hear German Chancellor Angela Merkel reveal details of a bail-out package...
Scrap the regional fire control centres!
THE House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee report on the government’s plan, to replace 46 Fire Control centres with nine new...
Northern Rock sold at a loss as dictatorships rule in EU!
NORTHERN Rock (NR) plc is being sold to Virgin Money by the coalition government for £747m. After Northern Rock was nationalised in 2008 it...
Boycott Israel – Arm the Palestinian masses! Forward to the Palestinian state with Jerusalem...
HAMAS and Fatah have given sharply different responses to the adoption of Monday’s United Nations Security Council vote in favour of the Trump plan...
FBU pensions victory sets precedent for all public service workers
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) won a massive victory not only for their members but for all public service workers when the employment tribunal...
Capitalism’s ‘storm clouds’ herald revolution
AT THE end of last week the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, announced that all his stated austerity plans in last autumn’s budget statement were...
Portuguese bailout accelerates EU disintegration
THURSDAY’S announcement that Portugal had finally been forced into asking for a massive 90 billion euro (£79 bn) bailout from the European Central Bank...
Defend Syria – bring down Cameron and Hague
GILLES DE KERCHOVE, the EU’s anti-terror chief yesterday told the BBC that hundreds of Europeans are now fighting with the counter-revolutionary forces in Syria...
Truss and Kwarteng declare war on unions – TUC must respond with a general...
CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng has unveiled the plans by the Tory government to drive part-time workers back into full employment by cutting their benefits. Under the...
Organise general strike to defend CWU
ROYAL Mail, backed by Brown and Mandelson, are making no secret of the fact that they intend to stamp on the CWU, in order...
Second Round French election farce – Forward to the French Socialist revolution!
THE SECOND round of the French regional elections last Sunday confirmed that the French workers have had enough of the bourgeois, Bonapartist, fascist and...
General strike to defend the NHS
NHS trade unions have slammed the ‘poverty’ 3.3 per cent NHS pay ‘deal’ which was imposed on NHS workers by the government on Thursday,...
Blears Speaks With Forked Tongue
HOME Office minister Blears has had a strenuous week. On the one hand she has been working to support British Transport Police Chief Johnston....
Build Millions Of Council Homes To House The Homeless
HOMELESS people die thirty years before the national average, says the latest research from Sheffield University commissioned by Crisis, the national charity for single...
Gordon Brown wheeled out to save capitalism
Former Labour chancellor and prime minister Gordon Brown has stepped forward to offer himself up as the saviour of bankrupt British capitalism. Brown made his...
Occupy Vauxhall plants – the only way to save jobs!
TORY business secretary Greg Clark emerged from talks in France with General Motors and PSA, the owners of Peugeot, announcing that the talks had...
Bank of England warns the UK risks a ‘vicious circle’ of debt that will...
THE governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, this week issued another warning that the UK economy risks being in a ‘vicious circle’...
US imperialism is determined to step up its intervention into Syria
PLANNING for military intervention by the imperialist powers into Syria, to overthrow the regime of president Assad, was stepped up this week with growing...
How to win the firefighters struggle!
THE six-hour strike by firefighters on New Year’s Eve was a demonstration of the solidarity and determination of FBU members across the country to...
Hunt vows to slash benefits to drive sick back to work and pledges UK...
THIS week, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt jetted off to Washington to attend the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the stated...
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...
Forward With The Cuban Revolution!
THE death of Fidel Castro, the leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution sees millions of Cubans mourning their leader who secured the independence of...
Shutting down News of the World won’t end Murdoch-Cameron crisis
RUPERT Murdoch has moved with great ruthlessness to try to make sure that he takes over BSkyB by shutting down the News of the...
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...
US Fails In Drone Attempt On Life Of Taleban Leader
A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan’s tribal region killed at least 12 persons on Thursday. Drone aircraft fired two missiles on a religious seminary...
No Compromise in the US – Workers must break with Democrats and establish...
US President Barack Obama has signed in a wave of steep spending cuts that will take $85bn (£56bn) from the US federal budget this...
Riga humiliation for Bush and NATO
WHILE President George Bush was condemning EU leaders for not sending more forces to Afghanistan to fight the Taleban, officials of the main central...
300,000 march on Downing Street for Palestine. TUC must call a general strike for...
THE Palestinian factions are standing fast! They have said that they will not sign any agreement or deal unless the people’s demands are achieved,...
Britain wants to occupy Afghanistan for ‘decades’
SIR SHERARD Cowper-Coles, the high-flying diplomat who is Ambassador in Afghanistan, told BBC Radio 4 yesterday that British forces would have to stay in...
G20 bankrupts meet protected by 10,000 riot police batons
LEADERS of the major capitalist states, and the leaders of Russia and China, who have linked their fate to the future of the crisis...
One day general strike to defend the NHS
IN the last two months the trade union movement and NHS professional organisations have been forced to take serious notice of the deepening crisis...
The Bank Of England Dumps Its Regulations And Moves To Print Its Way Into...
THE BANK OF ENGLAND is now paving the way for the release of billions of pounds of paper currency into the collapsing UK economy...
Sack Starmer Not Corbyn – No National Government!
FORMER LABOUR PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the Labour Party’s ‘political’ decision to apologise and pay damages of over £500,000 to so-called party...
Palestinians warn that UK troops on the ground in Gaza under pretext of supporting...
PALESTINIANS have warned Britain and other Western countries backing the US, against deploying troops on the ground in the besieged Gaza Strip under the...
Arrogant Israel changes Arafat street name as Palestinian masses get ready for the Third...
AN Arab town council in Jatt, in Israel (occupied Palestine), has been forced to change a street name called after the former Palestinian leader...
Coalition in crisis, bring it down
The disarray, confusion and splits within the Tory/LibDem coalition government were brought out sharply over Monday’s announcement by Tory chancellor, George Osborne, that he...
Time to put an end to the institutionally corrupt and racist police force ...
THE LONG independent report into the murder of 37-year-old private detective Daniel Morgan in south London in 1987 was finally published on Tuesday and...
Tory attack on migrants is an attack on the working class!
MIGRANT workers who work illegally in England and Wales are to face up to six months in prison under especially vindictive anti-migrant proposals to...
Crisis of German Capitalism nears breaking point – the Banks must be nationalised under...
Amid a major slump in the German economy, the profits of the giant Deutsche Bank, the country’s largest, crashed a huge 92 per cent...
Asian-US Axis Against China!
US President, Barak Obama, returned last week from a tour of Asian countries designed to put military flesh on US imperialism’s ‘Asian Pivot’. This military...
To The Hague With The Israeli Leadership
AN inquiry ordered by the UN Human Rights Council said on Wednesday that Israel violated human rights law and international humanitarian law when its...
Brown To Nationalise Northern Rock Losses
BROWN and the Treasury have announced that they prefer a private sector ‘solution’ to the Northern Rock bank crisis, while Brown’s spin doctors have...
The Queen’s Dinner Party For Despots!
THE KINGS of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Swaziland were at a dinner for despots yesterday as part of the celebration of the Queen’s Diamond...