Tories planning post election war vote on Syria
THE TORIES plan to call a snap vote in parliament to authorise British airstrikes against the legitimate Syrian government forces of President Assad should...
The Spectre Of Revolution Stalks Europe Says Farage
IT was Karl Marx who in 1848, two months before the February revolution erupted in France, began the Communist Manifesto with the words ‘A...
Master Obama Slaps Down Servant Cameron!
PM CAMERON received an almighty slap in the face on Wednesday when the Obama administration effectively told him to shut up and drop all...
‘We are not asking the west to choose our leaders’
THIS was the defiant and revolutionary message that came out of Egypt from demonstrators, and was shown in the western media, in response to...
Campbell has second thoughts about his evidence
ALASTAIR Campbell has had second thoughts about some of the evidence that he gave to the Chilcot inquiry last week when he said that...
‘No Kings’ mass movement emerging in the USA to smash Trump’s policies!
MILLIONS of demonstrators took to the streets in cities across the United States on Saturday, taking part in the ‘No Kings’ protest movement against...
No to a return of the Tories. Bring down Brown from the left
BROWN has survived the resignations of Hutton, Purnell, Smith, Flint, Blears, Hoon and others, and remains Prime Minister for the moment. The next test comes...
New universities going bust as education becomes a commodity
FORTY-SIX universities, mainly but not entirely made up of ex-Polytechnics, were put on a list by the Labour government, after the introduction of tuition...
Labour Party ramps up attack on NHS – TUC must call a general strike...
LABOUR Party shadow health secretary Wes Streeting doubled down on his attack on the NHS yesterday with a speech to a conference organised by...
French elections ‘shaken’ by surge in working class support for socialist policies
THIS WEEK has seen a dramatic upsurge of support amongst workers and youth in France for the outsider left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in the...
Fire service cut to the bone! Kick Tories out before another deadly fire breaks...
THE time between a 999 call and fire engines arriving on to the scene of a fire has increased. This is despite the Fire...
TUC must be forced to call a general strike to smash anti-union laws!
LAST Friday it was announced that Border Force staff at Heathrow Airport had voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over changes to...
Defending the NHS means sacking the BMA leadership
THE BMA leadership yesterday came out in favour of NHS rationing. It also supported the NHS having a written constitution, and being run by...
Labour’s collapse in front of the Tories proves the need to build the new...
ON Thursday the Labour Party suffered its worst defeat in a general election since 1935 and handed Boris Johnson’s Tory party a majority in...
Nationalise the PFI parasites!
EVERY year the Labour government is handing over £40bn to the consortia of financiers, property developers and construction giants in payments for Private Finance...
Blair using EU to attack workers’ wages and conditions
THE Blair government has only one real use for the EU, and that is as a tool for cutting the wages and increasing the...
After The Care Homes Massacre – Kick The Tories Out Now!
THE damning report released yesterday by the Public Accounts Committee on the effect of Tory policies towards the elderly in care homes came as...
Unite leaders share out the pain among its GM members
THE Unite leaders’ policy that workers must share the pain of the capitalist crisis bore more rotten fruit on Tuesday. This was when Unite’s...
Answer Macron’s declaration of war on French workers with a general strike
FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron made his annual New Year address to the nation yesterday calling for ‘unity’ and an end to the ‘hateful’ attacks...
Capitalism can’t afford common retirement age or decent pensions
CAPITALIST Britain is being driven backwards, not forwards by the deepening crisis of capitalism and the policies of the Blair-Brown Labour government, dedicated to...
World Socialist Revolution is only way to end imperialist slaughter
THE TORIES have damned the Starmer government for a foreign policy ‘shambles’ as political parties throughout the western imperialist nations grapple with coming to...
Only way to avoid an economic collapse is to cut government spending and slash...
JUST days before Andy Burnham is installed as PM on Monday, amid much speculation and lobbying about the future policies and the personnel of...
Socialist revolution only answer to capitalist debt crisis
Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves was making her pitch yesterday to the bankers and business bosses that any future Labour government would be a...
The lawyers have forced the government to retreat and put the trade union...
THE news that the coalition government has been forced to retreat over its proposed cuts to legal aid fees by the decisive actions of...
Bosses share bonanza
THE ages old reformist illusion that the worst excesses of capitalism can be curbed through a mixture of indignation and moral outrage received yet...
Wind of Change blows through Labour Party conference as UK faces revolution!
THIS Labour Party conference has been different in that the members of the Party and the trade unions have taken it over, and turned...
Putin’s withdrawal from Syria sends message to Assad and Obama!
THE decision of President Putin to begin withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria, after giving President Assad just a few hours notice, constitutes a...
100 women on hunger strike! Shut down Yarl’s Wood and ALL detention centres!
‘WE ARE not animals!’ women incarcerated in the notorious Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre have scrawled across their T-shirts. More than 120 women have...
Grenfell Towers are everywhere! Capitalism cannot be regulated, it must be overthrown!
THE TORY government is pushing its Building Safety Bill that it says addresses the big issue of fire safety raised by the horrific Grenfell...
Afghan Fall Out – Gates Attacks UK Defeatists
US Defence Secretary Gates has condemned as ‘defeatist’ a comment by the British commander in Afghanistan that the war there cannot be won. Speaking...
Don’t raise rates Chambers of Commerce warns B of E
ON the eve of the Bank of England’s monthly Monetary Policy Committee meeting over the Bank’s interest rate, the British Chambers of Commerce has...
Hands off Palestine – no annexations! Arab workers must remove ‘recognition’ regimes!
FOLLOWING the refusal of the Arab League to condemn the UAE for its recognition of the state of Israel, Bahrain has now followed the...
Saudi air strikes in Yemen as it mobilises 150,000 troops
SAUDI Arabian forces, joined by nine other countries, have launched a military operation in Yemen against Shi’ite Houthi rebels, the Saudi ambassador to the...
Stop the Afghan slaughter – withdraw troops now
TODAY the British ruling class is in mourning for the 100 British soldiers that they have sent to their deaths in Afghanistan, no mind...
British capitalism even more bankrupt than the Bank of England admits
LAST week, the Bank of England issued a ‘gloomy’ outlook for the UK economy with its growth forecast cut in half from that made...
Trump’s Terrorist Regime Kills Iranian Leaders As It Drives Forward To A New Middle...
IRAN’S most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been murdered by a US air strike in Iraq. The...
Defend Iran Againstfrench And US Threats
THE French government is threatening Iran with retribution if it does not give up its nuclear energy programme. The French Prime Minister, De Villepin, one...
Tory leader Badenoch wants to deport 150,000 workers a year using a Trump-style terrorist...
TORY Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged that she will deport 150,000 workers a year using Trump-style immigration squads in raids on working class...
Capitalist state gives support to Walsh’s diktat!
THE decision by a Judge in chambers to rule the BA strike action illegal is a major blow at the legal right to strike. It...
US engulfed by political crisis as Biden is forced out
ON SUNDAY, US president Joe Biden caved in to the demands of senior Democrats and the Wall Street supporters of the party to step...
Private Landlords enjoy subsidies while evicting the poor
IN the 1950s and 60s, the name Peter Rachman became synonymous with ‘slum landlord’ and the brutal methods used to drive out tenants whose...
Post Office scandal piles pressure on all main political parties
On Monday, the House of Commons was treated to the sight of MPs from all the political parties united in an orchestrated show of...
No bailout of capitalism – expropriate the main industries and banks!
YESTERDAY the UK’s three biggest airlines launched legal proceedings in a bid to overturn the government’s new quarantine rules that require air passengers from...
Cameron’s all-powerful police state is to fight the working class
THE beginning of PM Cameron’s speech to the recalled House of Commons was an attempt to divorce the youth uprising that is taking place...
Labour refuses to demand the resignation of Health Secretary Hunt!
ON MONDAY, in the House of Commons, Health Secretary Hunt was asked an urgent question as to why he had covered up for, and...