TUC must take action to stop the extradition of Julian Assange and to release...
JULIAN ASSANGE, who has lost his latest legal appeal, is ‘dangerously close’ to being extradited to the US, his family and observers of his...
Israel steps up its war to drive Palestinians from their homes!
SCORES of armed Israeli settlers attacked the homes of Palestinians in the village of Sebastia in the occupied West Bank province of Nablus on...
Terrified financial investors dump UK stocks – time for a general strike to dump...
US President Donald Trump rolled into Britain on Tuesday night, his second state visit as President, to bask in the adulation of PM Keir...
Stop The Police Chiefs Taking Over The Fire Service!
JUST a few weeks ago the Grenfell Tower inferno burnt men, women and children to death, because the fire was able to take...
General Council must support locked out Gate Gourmet workers
ON Monday September 12 the TUC Annual Congress was lobbied by 300 of the over 700 locked out Gate Gourmet workers. The Congress then passed...
Greek Austerity Measures Will Drive Socialist Revolution
THE Greek ‘socialist’ Prime Minister George Papandreou has announced austerity measures to attack the country’s working class, youth, urban middle class and small farmers,...
Iraq War Not Over Insists General Odierno
US combat troops have been out of Iraq for only a week and already US generals are questioning President Obama’s judgement about whether the...
US Trade Gap Widens As Banks Get Ready For Economic Storm
THE US trade gap widened in January to $44.45bn (£29.53bn) from December’s figure of $38.14bn, the US Commerce Department has reported. Much of the rise...
The Iraq war, the world crisis and the socialist revolution
MARCH 2008 sees the US and UK armed forces and governments irreparably damaged as a result of their failure to subdue the Iraqi people...
Suicide guidelines for Jobcentres
THE leaking of new guidelines to staff working with the unemployed exposes the barbarity of the coalition government’s onslaught on the sick, vulnerable and...
Barbaric anti-homeless spikes scandal
THE picture showing one-inch-long metal spikes driven into the pavement in the doorway of a block of luxury flats in central London in order...
US and EU backed armed mobs run riot in the Ukraine!
THE imperialist backed Ukrainian right-wing, including self-declared fascist movements, have brazenly made a call to arms, and to prove the point on Tuesday shot...
Osborne furious over ‘back to the 1930s’ taunt
THE Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, was described in the bourgeois press as being ‘rattled’ by the news coverage of his Autumn Statement. In fact, ‘rattled’...
Israeli regime is in a desperate crisis while the Palestinian masses have emerged stronger...
ISRAEL has emerged out of its failed military attempt to crush Hamas much weaker and much more crisis-ridden, while the Palestinians are now much...
Stop Royal Mail Privatisation!
NEXT week the postal workers union, CWU, is holding its delegate conference under conditions where the coalition government is planning the wholesale privatisation of...
Crisis Forces Osborne To Re-Write His Budget!
LAST November 25th in his Autumn Statement Chancellor Osborne was full of praise for the way that allegedly the UK was now full set...
Time for the US trade unions to break with Obama and form a...
PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address attempted to present an image of a presidency that was capable of achieving something for the...
One Day General Strike On January 31
THE government’s policy of mass sackings of civil servants, of driving down their wages, and of outsourcing and privatisation has driven civil servants to...
Irish banks ‘death spiral’ – forward to socialist revolution
THE latest stage in the complete disintegration of the Irish banking system was described by one analyst of the capitalist market as a ‘death...
Working class must take decisive action as UK heads for gigantic crash
STARMER’S Labour government is in a state of complete meltdown, with the prime minister himself struggling to keep his job under the impact of...
Tory MPs rebel while cringing Labour saves Cameron and Osborne
AFTER all the fake sound and fury of parliamentary question time, with party leaders locked in apparent combat without quarter given or asked for,...
Eurasian Economic Union, and the China-Russia gas plan, a double blow against imperialism!
RUSSIA, Belarus and Kazakhstan have just signed the historic Eurasian Economic Union. It comes into effect in January 2015, and will get rid of...
Banking parasites still riding high off of the public purse
THE Committee of Public Accounts today publishes a report which reveals in the words of its chair Margaret Hodge that: ‘The peak of the...
Macron convenes crisis meeting after rushing back to France from EU summit!
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron convened a crisis meeting yesterday amid a wave of working class uprisings that engulfed France after a 17-year-old driver was...
Forward To The General Strike – Bring Down The Coalition, Stop All The Cuts...
500,000 workers, youth and pensioners marched through London on Saturday. Unlike the Labour leaders they were in total opposition to all of the savage cuts...
US, UK And Eu Workers Must Act To Support Venezuelan Revolution!
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that he will not betray his country by yielding to Washington’s plan for regime change in Caracas, adding...
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...
Youth for revolution!
THE massive growth in unemployment sparked by the worldwide financial collapse in the capitalist system in 2008 is hitting youth so hard that the...
US and South Korea ‘pour gasoline onto the fire’ says North Korea
THE US and South Korea have begun conducting annual military drills, ignoring North Korean appeals to halt the exercises. Last week North Korea appeared to...
UK ports closed down by strikes – now force TUC to call a general...
IT didn’t take long for the working class to move into action following the funeral of Elizabeth II with hundreds of dock workers at...
Brown planned troops on the streets after Lehman collapse
IN 2008, the then-Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, actively considered ordering armed troops onto the streets of Britain as his response to the collapse...
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...
THE TORIES ARE PILING HUGE PRESSURES ONTO GPs AND THE NHS!
HUGE PRESSURES are being put onto GPs in England and Wales. They are so great that doctors are beginning to feel that they are...
Abbas – Sharon Summit Cancelled!
PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas’ summit with the Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, which was due today, has been cancelled after Abbas said he was opposed to...
Grenfell survivors want jail sentences for those responsible for the fire!
LAWYERS for victims of the Grenfell fire have indicted the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea council, which owned the Grenfell tower block, and...
Nationalise the motor car industry to defend wages and jobs
THE international banking system has collapsed, the steel industries of the planet are in slump, and the US and Japanese motor car giants...
Only one solution to the death agony of capitalism: bury it now with...
EVEN sections of the bourgeois media, and the bourgeoisie that it represents, were yesterday able to describe the appearance of the current world...
Millions of workers and youth face a freezing and hungry winter while the bosses...
OVER half of UK households, that is millions of workers and their children, are experiencing food and fuel poverty, i.e. facing starvation and freezing...
Lord Turner gives up on capitalism – forward to the socialist revolution!
CAPITALISM is not delivering on its promise to raise living standards, Lord Adair Turner, a former head of the business lobby the CBI, has...
‘Hope’ sets sail despite Israeli-Greek-Moldovan deal to stop it
THE Libyan ship ‘Hope’, a Moldovan-flagged cargo vessel, left a Greek port on Saturday night for Gaza with 2,000 tonnes of supplies, in the...
Bolton Arrives To Boost Johnson And Open The Door For UK Troops In The...
JOHN BOLTON, President Trump’s National Security Adviser, was in town yesterday recruiting mercenaries to the US cause, including its trade war with China and...
Defend the NHS by expropriating the drug companies and banks under socialism
AUDIT Scotland, the public spending watchdog for Scotland, has issued a damning report on the NHS funding crisis, which it states is in a...
TUC calls on Sunak for a ‘workers’ budget’! Trade Union & Labour leaders need...
THE LEADERSHIP of the Trade Union Congress, a body which includes 6.4 million workers and has the power to shut the entire country down...
France gripped by nationwide strike against Macron government!
FRANCE was gripped by a nationwide strike yesterday with schools closed and trains grinding to a halt as workers walked out in anger at...
5Th May Elections Will Deepen The Tory-Labour Crisis
TODAY’S local elections will see Tory and Labour leaders trying to convince the electorate that everything is basically ok, and that the voters can...