US opens missile base in Romania and plans for bases in Poland and Hungary
AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...
Massive Food Price Rises Driving Forward World Revolution
FOOD riots and major strike actions are erupting all over the capitalist world, driven forward by a doubling of food prices in many countries,...
Tories aiming for a national government
LENIN’S definition of a revolutionary situation was one in which the ruling class could not rule in the old way, and was riven with...
Abbas ready to break with US imperialism! UK workers must support the Palestinian...
IN A huge development in the fight of the Palestinian people to establish their own independent state, the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on...
Half of England owned by less than 1% of the population! Expropriate the...
THIS YEAR an estimated 4,677 people a night are sleeping rough on the streets of Britain, a figure that has increased for the past...
Myanmar – bloody military crackdown exposes weakness of the junta!
THE WEEKEND saw the bloodiest crackdown by the Myanmar military dictatorship when police and soldiers opened fire on demonstrators killing at least 18 and...
Portuguese economic and political crisis reaches explosion point!
PORTUGAL’S borrowing costs have jumped to over 7%, meaning that it will shortly have to seek another IMF-EU bailout, by offering even more cuts...
EU moves to suspend all aid to Palestine
YESTERDAY the European Union followed the example of the US and suspended its aid to the Palestine National Authority. The EU has given $400...
Tories planning to close hundreds of schools
HUNDREDS of state-run schools in England are facing closure as a direct result of the Tory-led coalition’s war against free state education, it emerged...
European Union’s jobless crisis leading to revolution
FRENCH trade unions and student unions have mounted huge general strikes and protest actions in recent months against the massive rise in unemployment. France’s...
Put Musharraf on trial! End the US alliance
THE former military dictator of Pakistan, Musharraf who came to power by a military coup in 1999, and was the main ally in the...
Egyptian Military Shut Down Gaza Power Supply
ALI AL-HAYIK, the head of Gaza’s Federation of Industries and the Palestinian Businessmen Association on the Gaza Strip, warned yesterday that dozens of factories...
French Election results: the 5th Republic is dead, forward to the Socialist Republic
THE RESULT of the first round of the French Presidential election has justly been described as a ‘seismic’ shift in the country. For the first...
Capitalist state kept quiet about illegal phone tapping
METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has ordered a senior officer to ‘establish the facts’ – concerning the knowledge that the police had –...
CWU leaders organise a consultative ballot !over pensions
TRUE to form the CWU leadership is declining to give any kind of leadership to its massive membership on the vital issue of the...
Clinton Pleads With Taliban To Talk
US SECRETARY of State Clinton was on a special mission to Afghanistan on Wednesday, the day after she expressed her hope in Tripoli, that...
Miliband quits and Balls is beaten as bankrupt reformism crumbles!
THE general election saw the Labour Party completely routed in Scotland and humiliated in parts of England – a result that spells the complete...
French Workers Have Macron On The Run – They Have The Support Of The...
THE FRENCH Revolution of millions of workers and youth is hotting up with the news that the hated French riot police are now deploying...
Unions must demand TUC call a general strike to support junior doctors and defend...
TODAY is the first of four days of strike action by junior doctors throughout the health service in England, in what is the biggest...
Blair Called In To Advise Trump On Gaza, And Dealing With The Revolutionary Palestinian...
‘I met murder on the way – He had the mask of Castlereagh – Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven blood-hounds followed him:’ THESE are the famous...
Blairites for Cameron – Milburn joins Hutton and Field – with more collaborators ...
THE leading Blairite and Labour party member, Alan Milburn, who was forced to resign as Labour’s Health Secretary for his over-enthusiasm for complete NHS...
Justice – Just Another Bourgeois Commodity For Sale
THE Coalition’s ‘Justice Secretary’ Chris Grayling plans to make further savage cuts in the £2bn legal aid bill in England and Wales, to...
TUC must take a stand against Israeli genocide and the anti-union laws by calling...
ON Tuesday night, the United Nations General Assembly vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza was passed overwhelmingly with 10 countries, led by the...
Truss government is in a huge crisis. Make the TUC call a general strike...
THE Tory Party is now in Conference and in the biggest crisis in its history, after its ‘mini budget’ caned the poor and the...
Conference On ‘Inclusive Capitalism’ Fears The Worst For The System!
ON Tuesday the world’s major investors, plus celebrities such as ex-President Clinton, confirmed admirers, and even relics of feudal society such as Prince Charles,...
It’s much later than Brown or Blair think
THE working class electors in the safe Labour seat of Dunfermline and Fyfe ignored the crisis at the top of the Liberal Democrats, so...
The working people of the world must NOW take action to establish the...
THE Palestinian presidency on Wednesday expressed its great thanks and appreciation for the strong and clear Saudi position expressed in the Saudi statement issued...
Huge $8.6bn loss at General Motors
GENERAL Motors (GM) bosses admitted on Thursday that their losses for 2005 were $8.6bn, their largest since 1992 when the board of directors was...
Western-backed terrorists attacking Damascus from Eastern Ghouta!
THE British capitalist press is seeking to whip up a storm over what it calls two days of ‘hysterical violence’ by Assad forces in...
IRAQ – the last rites for the occupation and its stooges
PRESIDENT George W Bush’s plan to stabilise Iraq through a military ‘surge’ is ‘a lost cause’, said the New York Times last Sunday. The New...
Palestinian prime minister Abbas in London this week for official meeting with Starmer!
Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, arrived in London on Sunday night for an official three-day state visit at the invitation of Keir...
French government collapses
ON Monday the French government effectively collapsed as a direct result of a massive split in the leading ranks of the ruling Socialist Party...
Cameron-Osborne Are No Joke!
THE row over the Tories so-called ‘pasty tax’ has become a dangerous diversion in the hands of the Labour leadership who are intent on...
Any attempt to ban Rail and Post strikes must be met with a general...
THE DECEMBER 12 general election will take place in the middle of an unprecedented wave of strikes as workers show their revolutionary determination to...
NATO’s arms being exported from Libya to terrorists everywhere
THE NATO armed intervention that supported the Islamist revolt in Libya succeeded in murdering Colonel Gadaffi and smashed up the most advanced and prosperous...
Stop The Bosses Plan To Smash Trade Unions – Recall The Tuc To...
PM Sunak yesterday accused RMT leader Mick Lynch of causing ‘misery for millions’ with the ‘cruelly timed’ pay rise walk-outs by rail workers. He...
Banks to do immigration checks! Smash this racist Tory government!
FROM January 1st banks and building societies will be legally obliged to check the current accounts of 76 million account holders and compare them...
Death rate running a third higher as NHS cuts take their toll!
THE current death rate in England and Wales is running about one-third higher than its normal rate for this time of year, official statistics...
Tories are readying to impose new taxes, and engage in massive wage cutting! Remove...
EARLIER this week, Apple was priced on the US stock market at $2.3tn (£1.7tn), more than the combined ‘value’ of the entire FTSE 100. The...
Northern Rock crisis coming to a head
THE collapse of the US sub-prime market has produced a major banking crisis in the UK, which has seen the Northern Rock bank being...
Forward to the August 20th Gate Gourmet workers march
TUC General Council members gave a good welcome to lobbying locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday morning. A number promised to attend the anniversary...
Teachers must not fight alone – TUC must call a general strike
The annual conferences of the two largest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, meeting at the weekend heard that the unions and the...
Labour to match the Tories cut for cut!
‘BUT my argument starts by recognising that tough times will continue,’ said Labour leader Miliband yesterday on his policy for dealing with the crisis. He...
MP’s ‘Can’t live on £60,000 a year’!
MP’s ‘Can’t live on £60,000 a year’. This was the defence put forward by Tory MP and former foreign secretary, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, to the...
Bush arrives in Middle East for war talks
US President George W Bush said he saw a new opportunity for peace in the Holy Land as he arrived in Israel on Wednesday...