Homelessness is growing like a plague – Nationalise the banks and the building industry...
THE homelessness rate across England is at its highest since 2018, after Tory government policies have forced a record number of families to live...
Bosses demand Labour government wages all-out austerity war on workers as UK capitalism collapses...
THE UK’s main bosses’ organisation, the CBI, has turned on the Labour government with a vengeance over the increase in employers’ National Insurance Contribution...
UK Workers Are Threatened By Covid-19 Mutations – Trade Unions Must Bring Down Tories...
HOSPITALS in the south of England say they have seen a ‘real rise in pressure’ as the number of Covid patients needing treatment rapidly...
After Bradford – No Change In Labour Policies
LABOUR Party leader Miliband said on Thursday that both national and local factors were to blame for the party’s massive defeat at the hands...
Blair stands by 90 days internment as Clarke negotiates its defeat
PRIME Minister Blair stands convinced that 90-days internment without charge is not just desirable but is absolutely indispensable for satisfying the Metropolitan Police’s minimum...
Myanmar working class intervene with powerful general strike to bring down Military Junta!
MYANMAR (formerly called Burma) was brought to a halt yesterday as hundreds of thousands of workers and youth answered the call for a general...
TUC Must Support Next Saturday’s Mass Rally, Recognise The Palestinian State And Demand That...
SATURDAY saw the concrete proof of just how much support the brave Palestinian people have won in their battle to undo the dirty work...
Workers Must Defend The Palestinian People By Bringing Down The US And UK Governments!
THE head of the politburo of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has issued a stern warning against any Israeli military operation on the southern...
Good Riddance To Campbell – Now Chuck Out All The ‘Lib Dem Lovers’ Before...
THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Labour Party was absolutely correct to expel Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former ‘spin doctor’, for voting...
Spectre of Revolution hangs over World Economic Forum
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, held at Davos in Switzerland, started this week with the spectre of the world socialist revolution...
Defeat May’s rotten deal! Forward to a ‘No Deal’ on March 29 and a...
PM May has now created a massive political crisis in the UK by revealing her real position on Brexit. For over a year...
There Will Be No Labour Leadership Election Says Tony Woodley
TONY Woodley, the Unite joint general secretary, has stepped into the row over the demand for a Labour Party leadership debate and a leadership...
Global debt crisis threatens to bring down governments, the Bank for International Settlements warns....
THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this week issued a warning that governments across the world are at risk of imploding unless they deal...
Forward to the victory of Syria – no deal with Kerry and Obama
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry arrived in Moscow yesterday to see Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov and also President Putin. His mission, during which he...
Scandalous Academies!
AN academy chain in London set up by the Tory schools minister Lord Nash is having its education curriculum drawn up by his daughter. The...
Accessories To Murder!
THE Israeli Cabinet, after its weekly meeting on Sunday, issued a statement that it was greatly encouraged by the ‘low-key’ international response to its...
Business rates hike is to bankrupt the NHS – Time to bring the ...
NHS hospitals and GP surgeries in England and Wales face a massive £635 million hike in their business rates by the May government over...
UK must follow Ireland’s lead and organise general strike action in support of Palestine!
RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, announced on Thursday that Ireland will not take part in next year’s Eurovision song contest if Israel is a contestant,...
Capitalist crash drives HBOS into the arms of Lloyds TSB
THE Federal Reserve Bank’s $85bn ‘rescue’ of AIG was carried out to stave off an immediate international financial and business collapse. It has turned...
The first step towards a government of generals
GENERAL Sir Richard Dannatt is to become Defence Minister if there is another Tory government. He will do so, not by becoming a Tory MP...
US debt crisis will crash Wall Street and plunge the US and world capitalism...
THE US economy, the largest and most powerful capitalist economy in the world, is in the grip of a crisis that will plunge America...
Starmer embraces ‘harsh light of fiscal reality’ as he demands working class pays for...
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to ‘embrace the harsh light of fiscal reality’ in a speech delivered in Birmingham yesterday, in what was...
US-UK imperialist forces must be driven out of Syria and the Middle East!
THE United States might have lost control over the situation in Syria and cannot fulfill their pledge to separate the opposition from the terrorists,...
Global youth are striking against climate change! To save the planet capitalism must be...
YOUTH in their hundreds of thousands rose up all over the world yesterday in a global strike against climate change. In every continent, and in...
Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Sri Lanka
SRI LANKA is facing a revolutionary upheaval as workers and young people took to the streets over the weekend demanding the immediate resignation of...
UK Is £2 Trillion In Debt – Tories Are Ringing The Alarm Bells...
UK GOVERNMENT debt has risen above £2 trillion and hit £2.004 trillion for July. The debt is £227.6bn more than last year. It is...
Nicholson warns huge debt crisis facing NHS after May 7
JUST retired NHS chief Sir David Nicholson CBE has left the NHS with a pension pot worth almost £1.9 million, after earning a basic...
German bourgeoisie demands bigger Greek cuts
THE crisis of the European Union sharpened yesterday when the German Finance Minister warned the Greek bourgeoisie that it would not get access to...
The meeting where the ‘N’ word could not be mentioned!
THERE were no questions allowed at the Unite TUC fringe meeting in Liverpool on Tuesday evening evening, so determined was the Woodley-Simpson leadership that...
Workers and the trade unions must take action to bring down split Tories!
ON Friday 15th September 14 trade unions representing over a million nurses and NHS staff wrote to Tory Chancellor Hammond, to demand a 3.9%...
Rail fares and inflation are let rip – as wages and benefits are frozen...
RAIL commuters were protesting at Waterloo Station in London yesterday after they heard that ticket price rises of between 8% and 13% are to...
Bigot Straw Stirs Up Division Amongst Workers
LABOUR MP Straw has been a Blackburn MP for 27 years and has long been aware that numbers of Muslim women in Blackburn wear...
Free Mohammed al-Qiq
The Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq is close to death according to independent doctors who have visited him in the hospital where he is being...
Stagnant Eu Heading For A Crash!
EUROZONE inflation has fallen to its lowest level since the height of the 2008 financial collapse, sliding further into what the European Central Bank...
The Massive Human Price Of Boeing’s Profits – The Only Solution Is Expropriation...
THE US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has the responsibility for aircraft safety, did nothing to ground Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft despite their own...
Trade Unions Must Defend The Nurses Right To Strike By Calling A General Strike...
AS LONG AGO AS LAST FEBRUARY, the Regulatory Policy Committee’s report on the Tory proposed anti-strike legislation found the government had not fully assessed...
Sunak extends furlough as Bank of England prints another £50 billion to try and...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the furlough scheme will be extended until the end of March next year, with the government continuing...
President Obama is for unilateralism, but not in his lifetime
PRESIDENT Obama, now in eastern Europe, has announced his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, but has added that he does not...
TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers
THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...
Imperialist ‘vulture funds’ plundering Africa
THE High Court in London was due to rule yesterday in the case of an American-owned investment fund suing the Zambian government to repay,...
No support for imperialist war in Syria – forward with world socialist revolution
TODAY, the House of Commons is to engage in an emergency debate on Britain joining the US bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria. In this...
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...
Tory plans for their police state! Step too far even for EU Courts
THE Tories’ new mass surveillance laws got a setback this week when the European Court of Justice ruled that its snoopers’ charter, the Investigatory...
Trade union bureaucrats put two fingers up to May Day
TRUE to form, the voice of the trade union bureaucracy, the Stalinist Morning Star counted tens of thousands of marchers on the TUC’s May...
The strike wave sweeping Britain demands a new leadership in trade unions, come to...
THE STRIKE wave sweeping across Britain has a revolutionary content. Since the capitalist crisis first burst into the open with the banking collapse of 2008...