Sanders takes lead as US workers and youth rise up against capitalist crisis
THE US independent ‘democratic socialist’ Senator Bernie Sanders has become front-runner for the Democratic Party nomination to stand against Trump in the presidential election...
Trade unions must fight zero hours contracts
THE news that over one million workers now have ‘zero hours contracts’ and work only when their employer wants them, have no holidays or...
Join the YS lobby of the TUC on September 11 to call a general...
THE GRENFELL Tower disaster was a turning point for the working class where the callous and ruthless nature of the ruling class was exposed...
End TUC collaboration with Tories
The news this week that Unison, the largest public sector union, has launched a legal challenge to the coalition government’s white paper on the...
Ben-Gvir The ‘Hangman Of The Century!’
A HUMAN rights group has described Israel’s so-called security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, as the ‘hangman of the century’ over his efforts to advance a...
There Is No Christmas Truce For Palestinians As Israel Attacks Both Gaza And The...
ISRAELI warplanes at dawn yesterday launched a series of airstrikes against several posts across the besieged Gaza Strip, causing extensive material damage. WAFA’s correspondent reported...
French Workers Force Macron Back – Now They Will Bring Him Down!
OH HOW the mighty have fallen! ‘Emperor Macron’, in the tradition of Napoleon III, has made no secret that he considers himself the master...
Demand TUC call a general strike to defeat anti-union laws
LAST November, the Tories were confidently predicting that when their anti-strike ‘Minimum Service Levels’ law was finally passed before Christmas, around 40% of rail...
Labour plans to keep one million patients out of hospital
LABOUR’S policy of privatising the NHS by diverting huge chunks of the NHS budget to the private sector is preparing the bankruptcy of many...
American forces quit Iraq in defeat after 21 years of sanctions and slaughter
EIGHT and a half years after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, 21 years after the deadly UN sanctions were imposed on Iraq...
Break With Eu Now! Bring Down The Tories! Forward To Socialism!
THE EU leadership last Friday morning at 6am rescued PM May from the debacle of her Northern Ireland crisis, and saved her government by...
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...
Truss And Co Are Planning To Attack The Rail Unions! Bring Tories Down With...
TORY PM Truss told MPs yesterday, during her parliamentary questions crisis statement, of the way that she intends to get out of the crisis...
Trump gears up for war against Iran – defeat imperialist war with socialist revolution
US IMPERIALISM launched an unprovoked wave of airstrikes against targets in both Syria and Iraq on Sunday, targeting bases controlled by Iraqi Popular Mobilisation...
Billions for the bankers – wage cuts and sackings for the workers
THE Royal Bank of Scotland was rescued with billions of taxpayers’ money after it made the biggest losses in the history of British banking,...
Libyan Land War Looms!
FIRST of all they embraced Gadaffi like a long lost brother in 2004, just one year after the mass slaughter in Iraq. The...
Palestinian Prisoners Are Staging A Mass Hunger Strike – Now Is The Time ...
PALESTINIAN prisoners are staging a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons to protest against crackdowns and mistreatment by the prison officials. They say their strike,...
Savage cuts have just begun in debt-ridden capitalist Britain
SPENDING on Welfare over this Parliamentary term has fallen by just £2.5bn despite the Tory-led coalition aiming to slash spending by £19bn. The Institute for...
BMA leaders run away after Cameron waves big stick
THE BMA and its Junior Doctors Committee yesterday ‘made the decision to suspend the 48-hour industrial action planned for 26-28 January. We are announcing...
Business Secretary Cable Tells Vauxhall Workers: You’Re On Your Own!
LAST MAY the Unite union leaders agreed for their members in the UK that they would provide savings of 106m euros over four years,...
Half a million families will lose their homes if rates are put up, warns...
IN its direst warning to date on the scale of personal debt, the Bank of England has predicted that half a million families will...
Spooks fear revolution
THE Tory foreign secretary, William Hague, appeared on television yesterday morning to give a less than convincing pledge that ‘law abiding citizens’ have ‘nothing...
Poroshenko’s anti-Russian provocations are a sign that his end is near and that ...
ALL RUSSIAN men aged between 16-60 have been banned from entering the Ukraine in a further ratcheting up of tensions by the Poroshenko dictatorship,...
Build The Wrp In 2008!
THE TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, in his New Year’s message said that his two fears for 2008 were the dangers of a banking...
BBC publicly expresses ‘desperate concern’ for journalists in Gaza being starved to death
THE BBC, along with three leading news agencies, has issued a statement expressing their concern for journalists in Gaza who are facing starvation and...
World Bank issues a warning that attacking Iran will have cascading impact on the...
THE President of the World Bank, Ajay Banga, has warned that the US-Israeli aggression against Iran will have a cascading impact on the global...
Deutsche Bank on verge of catastrophic crash that will bring down world banks
THE GIANT German Deutsche Bank announced yesterday that it was slashing more than 7,000 jobs from its global investment arm as part of a...
The whole world rages at the persecution of the Palestinians yet the TUC still...
PALESTINE’S UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the UN Security Council to ensure ‘protection’ for Palestinians, who have increasingly come under deadly attacks...
Fighting Words Must Be Matched By Fighting Deeds!
LAST Wednesday, Dave Prentis, general secretary of the country’s second largest union, Unison, made a speech urging a ‘popular uprising in defence of the...
Panic And Alarm Over Housing Bubble
THE OECD has in effect, accused the Bank of England and the Coalition government of blindly organising another banking disaster, under the cover of...
Tata Steel UK’S claim of losing £1.5 million a day to justify jobs massacre...
Last Friday, Tata Steel UK confirmed its devastating plans to axe 2,800 jobs with the closure of two blast furnaces at its Port Talbot...
‘Clear-cut robbery in Cyprus’ – the penalty for the crime is revolution!
THE Cypriot parliament yesterday postponed an emergency session on the 7-10% banking tax imposed by the EU on every depositor in the country’s...
Defend university education! Forward to the British socialist revolution!
‘LET THEM FAIL!’ declared yesterday’s Daily Telegraph in response to repeated calls for emergency government funding to rescue endangered English universities as the economic...
Cameron wants the army and police to be above the law!
THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...
Inflation Is Cutting Pay At A Massive Rate – The Trade Unions Must Fight...
THE purchasing power of workers’ pay packets is falling at the fastest rate since 2001. Between March and May, pay, excluding bonuses, was down 2.8%...
Postal workers are standing up to management bullies
POSTAL workers in towns and cities all over the UK were forced out on unofficial strike yesterday morning when management sought to impose the...
Labour MPs must fight for a socialist solution to the crisis of capitalism in...
WITH the UK’s Labour government set to face challenges from the left to the King’s Speech today, the Fire Brigades Union has urged MPs...
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...
Tories hand billions to private rail companies while demanding workers keep TfL from...
THE TORIES unveiled this week proposals for funding Transport for London (TfL) that will force the working and middle class to bear the huge...
British Imperialism Hits The Rocks! Time For Workers To Despatch It To The Dustbin...
CRISIS-RIDDEN British imperialism, split over whether to serve the European Union or the United States, is now like a ship without a rudder, and...
Chinese and Russian Stalinists are getting burnt by the crisis
THE Chinese Stalinists are now paying an enormous price for linking their fate with that of US capitalism. First of all they declared parts of...
British Imperialism Wants To Redraw Map
IRAQ is in the middle of a civil war, the country’s former interim puppet prime minister, Iyad Allawi, said yesterday. Allawi was appointed by...
Hamas denounces the Israeli Military hijacking of the Handala aid ship
THE Hamas movement has strongly denounced the Israeli military hijacking of the Handala aid ship in international waters and the abduction of its passengers,...
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...
Blair’s call for an ‘alliance’ to attack Iran
PRIME Minister Tony Blair told businessmen from Britain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dubai yesterday: ‘We must mobilise our alliance of moderation...