Israel declares UN agency UNRWA a terrorist organisation and bans it from providing any...
The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, on Monday passed a motion banning UNRWA (the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency) from operating inside Israel and occupied...
Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes UK into recession!
THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...
Johnson refuses to resign – organise a general strike to kick him and the...
BORIS Johnson opened prime minister’s question time yesterday by apologising for giving the impression that lockdown rules, imposed by his Tory government, had not...
Employment figures mask the real crisis of British capitalism
THE BIG lie of this minority Tory government is that British capitalism is thriving, its economy is in vigorous good health and that workers...
Brown–Miliband Crocodile Tears For Gaza
ISRAELI air raids are pounding the Gaza Strip for a fourth day. At the same time Gaza is being shelled from the sea by...
Stock markets crash as ‘contagion’ from Turkish currency collapse spreads to world banks
Last Friday the Turkish currency, the lira, crashed spectacularly, dropping as much as 16% relative to the dollar – it lost a third of...
Japanese Imperialists Flex Their Muscles
JAPANESE Nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has just been re-elected and has immediately begun a drive to prepare for war against China and North...
The April Wall Street crash ‘worst since 1932’ as recession hits the US
‘TRUMP rout is taking on historic dimensions’ was how American financial paper, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), described the news yesterday that the Dow...
Stop Cameron’s counter-revolution at home and abroad!
CAMERON told the House of Commons on Monday afternoon in his statement on national security strategy that: ‘On Thursday I will make the case for Britain...
TUC supports Heseltine – the Tory who closed down the mining industry
IT says something about the depth of the capitalist crisis, and the lack of ability in the Cameron government, that Lord Heseltine, who in...
Home Office is ‘institutionally racist’! The way to end the ‘hostile environment’ is to...
THE HOME Office is ‘institutionally racist’. This is the verdict of the first draft of the ‘lessons learned’ review by Wendy Williams, HM Inspector...
Super Inflation, The Result Of US–UK Intervention Into The Ukraine War, Is Driving Revolution...
AS THE US and the UK continue to fuel and arm the war in the Ukraine, the economic outlook for Europe and the EU...
‘They’d rather eat grass than give up!’ Putin says of the North Koreans
SPEAKING at the Brics Group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) conference in China, President Putin said of the North Koreans: ‘They’d rather...
Restoring nurses’ & midwives’ bursaries – a matter of life or death for...
THERE is a desperate lack of nurses in the NHS. Currently, overloaded nurses are doing the job of three people, working 12-hour shifts in...
US and Saudi Arabia are slaughtering Yemenis while Israel is assassinating Palestinian journalists!
A LEADING member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi yesterday indicted US imperialism saying that it is killing thousands of Yemeni civilians...
Ukrainian corruption erupts into the open
ON SUNDAY, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky sacked his defence minister Oleksii Reznikov in what has been described as the biggest shake-up of his defence...
Gate Gourmet workers defend the right to picket – now TGWU must make strike...
YESTERDAY, the determination and militancy of the 670 Gate Gourmet locked-out workers forced the High Court judiciary to acknowledge that they did indeed have...
US troops flee from Afghan fighters – time to quit Afghanistan
US and Afghan troops have quit the village where Taleban fighters fought their way into a US base and killed nine US soldiers wounding...
Working Class Is On The March – Tuc Must Call A General Strike To...
DRIVEN forward by the shock of capitalism’s energy catastrophe the working class is now on the march. Unite Wales union NHS members have voted to...
Labour seeking state control of inquests
THE parliamentary Human Rights Committee report on the government’s latest Counter-Terrorism Bill, before its second reading in the House of Commons, records just...
Finland joins NATO as imperialism ramps up war drive
YESTERDAY Finland formally joined NATO, becoming the 31st member of the US-led imperialist military bloc in what NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, described as ‘The...
In US elections Sanders must defy Democrat campaign to stop him and stand for...
THE RACE to become the Democratic Party candidate to face Trump in November’s presidential election has come down to a fight between the democratic...
Anarchists Being Used To Increase Police-State Powers
LAST Saturday’s 500,000-strong TUC demonstration against the coalitions cuts policy has shaken the coalition, and given the capitalist state a lot to think about. Such...
Harassing youth and their parents – Labour’s ‘vote winner’
HOME SECRETARY Smith yesterday revealed Labour’s master plan, at a ‘We’re Not Having It’ outrage conference, held to try to claw back its lost...
The Death Penalty For Breivik – No Platform For Fascists!
THE fascist who killed 77 people, the majority of them at a youth school of the Norwegian Young Socialists, in bomb and gun attacks...
Trade unions must take action to boycott Israel, and halt all arms supplies!
ISRAELI warplanes struck multiple targets across the Gaza Strip on Friday after a 72-hour ceasefire agreement ended at 8am, killing a child and injuring...
Israel uses facial recognition in drive to turn West Bank into a concentration camp
ISRAEL has escalated its campaign of total surveillance of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank utilising a mass programme of facial recognition to build...
Labour Is The Rajapaksa Regime’s Sponsor
ON Tuesday evening President Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, was due to address the prestigious Oxford Union in front of an invited audience. He...
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...
Bush plans coming unstuck in Pakistan
PRESIDENT Musharraf swore in a new caretaker puppet government yesterday to lead crisis-hit Pakistan towards rigged elections in January, when demonstrations and all rallies...
Labour looks to bitcoin to avoid state bankruptcy
A TRULY desperate British ruling class is capable of any dodgy manoeuvre to try and avoid the UK state bankruptcy that is inexorably approaching! The...
More anti-union laws, no rights at work, the elderly being abused in their homes...
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has said the danger for the UK from the economic crisis, particularly the crisis in the...
Nato Murders Civilians In Tripoli Air Strikes
IN another night of terror, murder and horror NATO, allegedly making war on Libya to protect civilians from air attack, has been murdering...
The Palestinian Revolution Is On The Verge Of A Great Victory!
THE head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, said yesterday that the Palestinian revolution is on the ‘verge of a...
World’s Stock Markets Set For Financial Crash!
IT was reported yesterday that a survey of the top professional ‘money managers’ revealed that these investment experts believe that the world’s leading stock...
The working class faces the threat of state terrorism!
TWO videos, one by the FBI and one by the British police, have just been issued giving advice to people about actions they should...
Class struggle sharpens – Organise general strike!
900 construction workers were sacked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, north Lincolnshire yesterday in what the GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny called ‘a case...
End all complicity with Zionist genocide and war – Demand TUC’s October 10th ‘day...
ON THURSDAY, the Israeli Defence Ministry in a statement revealed that the US had given $8.7 billion of military aid to the Zionist state...
Make the TUC demonstration on June 18 a mobilisation for a general strike to...
THE TUC has called a national demonstration to London’s Parliament Square on Saturday 18th June. Announcing the demonstration the TUC said: ‘On Saturday 18th June,...
PFI debts are strangling NHS
LAST Friday, the ‘independent’ health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), finally issued its report on healthcare provision at the Barts Healthcare Trust,...
Hutton provocation will result in ‘summer pensions war’
TODAY’S publication of the Hutton Report on public sector pensions will be like a red rag to a bull as far as the membership...
Tory GP funding formula robs the poor and gives to the rich
A STUDY published this week in the British Journal of General Practice shines a searchlight on one of the main causes of ‘health inequality’...
Obama-Erdogan To Meet Over Syria At G20
THE Turkish government warned on Monday that it would carry out more strikes on the previously US-backed Kurdish militia in Syria if it fails...
Capitalism has failed – time to end it with socialist revolution
THE DEEP political and economic crisis engulfing British capitalism and the ruling class was forcibly expressed when yesterday’s Daily Telegraph published a comment article...
A Heinous Crime Against Humanity – Killing Of Palestinian Three-Year-Old Is Condemned!
PALESTINIAN prisoners held under Israel's so-called administrative detention policy are defiantly planning a mass open-ended hunger strike in protest at their unlawful and indefinite...