THE STERN REVIEW: Trust me, I’m a banker!
ON WEDNESDAY Sir Nicholas Stern presented his Review of the Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by Chancellor Gordon Brown. Stern is the Chief Economist...
After the students national march . . .
ALMOST 25,000 students marched through London on Sunday demanding free education, despite the lack-lustre campaign by the leadership of the National Union of Students...
NO reconstruction, only destruction in Afghanistan
THE top NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Jones, has just apologised for the death of up to 80 Afghan civilians in a series...
Forward with the Greek socialist revolution
THE Greek working class remains undefeated as the clashes between teachers and students with the riot police in Salonica on Thursday have proven. The source...
Maliki Objects To US-Puppet Army Raid On Sadr City
YESTERDAY was the first day after the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad announced that he had given the Iraqi puppet government a timetable...
Carry out our timetable or else, US tells Iraqi puppets
IN his press conference yesterday, the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad revealed, with the US commander, General Casey standing next to him, that...
Stalinist bureaucracy Shanghaied by working class
THE Chinese working class is definitely on the march. It has already compelled the Stalinist bureaucracy to start bringing in legislation forcing the western capitalist...
Phillips draws back after opening Pandora’s Box
TREVOR Phillips yesterday warned that Britain was becoming polarised and that the controversy over women wearing veils would lead to worse riots than were...
Union leaders must call action now over NHS pay or resign!
THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Labour government has declared all-out war on all NHS staff with its decision to impose a...
World Capitalist Crisis Driving World Revolution
The US economy is at the centre of the worldwide capitalist economic crisis. It is in slump, with major industries, such as the motor car...
Defend the NHS – Stop the job cuts – Bring down Blair and Brown
ON Tuesday, at the Prime Minister’s monthly press conference, the NHS chief executive, David Nicholson confessed that he did not know how many jobs...
Baker Reveals Iraq Get Out Plan
A PANEL of White House advisers led by a former Secretary of State, James Baker, is reported to be recommending a major shift of...
All Asians Are Suspect Says Special Branch
FOLLOWING the remarks of Dannatt, the armed forces chief of staff, about the country having lost its ‘moral compass’ since the ‘anchor of Christian...
Sinn Fein Ready To Embrace The Psni
THE decision by Sinn Fein to accept the north of Ireland law courts and the police service wholeheartedly (including the special branch) completes the...
Army publicly breaks with the Blair government
YESTERDAY’S statement by the army commander in chief, Dannatt, represented a major intervention into politics by a bourgeois officer corps that is supposed to...
Scrap the Special Immigration Commission
AT a time when the government is still seeking to extend the period the police have for holding a person without charging them from...
Cutting wages is the key says BofE boss
BANK of England chairman Mervyn King’s speech in Winchester on Tuesday night was governed by a central axiom for the survival of British capitalism. He...
Iraq – the end of the imperialist adventure in sight
SENATOR Warner, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee concluded, after his recent visit to Iraq, that the US game was...
Bush Threatens North Korea With War
YESTERDAY North Korea shook the imperialist powers who had assumed that the workers state would not dare to proceed to test a nuclear weapon. North...
Blair An Agent Of US Imperialism
PRIME minister Blair is frequently accused of replacing the established form of bourgeois rule in Britain, through an elected parliament, a government and a...
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...
US Threatens North Korea With War
‘WE are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea, we are not going to accept it,’ US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher...
Thousands Driven Out Of Their Homes!
AFTER the initial declarations of the British and other NATO forces that they were going to Afghanistan to win ‘hearts and minds’ through engaging...
Palestinian civil war aids Israel
THE Palestinian masses and their organisations must unite to fight their enemy which is the Zionist state of Israel, backed up and supported by...
British Army Finds Afghan Solution!
THE Afghan war saga continues. First of all it was the tour of duty that would last for three years, with Labour Defence Minister John...
Unions Dither While NHS Logistics Is Sold!
LAST Wednesday, the trade unions with the support of the majority of the Labour Party constituency parties defeated the government on the vital issue...
Oil War Looms In The Caucasus!
RUSSIA is recalling its ambassador to Tbilisi after Wednesday’s provocative arrests of four Russian officers on spying charges, and is beginning a partial evacuation...
Occupy NHS Logistics on October 1 – trade unions must take strike action!
WEDNESDAY’S twin votes at the Labour Party conference against NHS privatisation emphasised for all to see just how great is the isolation of the...
British capitalism, backward, parasitic, and ripe for revolution
A REPORT by business research firm Datamonitor says that people in the UK are borrowing on average almost twice that of citizens in other...
We should have been the Thatcherites, Blair tells LP
IN his parting speech as Prime Minister to the Labour Party conference, Blair administered his kiss of death to Gordon Brown, telling his Chancellor...
Demand for national strike action growing over NHS Logistics
TONIGHT at 10pm the five NHS Logistics distribution centres will be picketed by striking staff fighting to stop the privatisation of the NHS supplier. They...
Brown to give power over NHS away to independent committee
CHANCELLOR Brown yesterday, on the BBC Politics Show, sought to trump his rival, the outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair, in the competition between them...
Bring Out All The Unions To Defend The NHS!
THE situation could not be clearer. The whole of the trade union movement and the majority of non-trade unionists support the 24-hour strike actions...
A Case Of Strange Bedfellows
THE Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has come back from the US convinced that the Labour government must change its position against the use...
British imperialism filmed at work
A COURT martial in Wiltshire yesterday heard that Corporal Donald Payne was filmed as he abused and swore at hooded Iraqi detainees, in September...
Browne’s speech: Taleban fighters throw NATO into crisis
LABOUR’S Defence Secretary Des Browne admitted yesterday that the Taleban resistance movement in Afghanistan is making NATO’s attempt to control the country ‘harder than...
Youth reject a life in debt!
AFTER almost 10 years of a Labour government under Prime Minister Blair, young people who get jobs after leaving university find they end up...
Pope Benedict Pours Fuel On The Fire Then Says Sorry
EX SS soldier Pope Benedict XVI yesterday apologised in person for causing offence to Muslims in a speech in Bavaria last week. In his...
Take mass action on September 21 to stop NHS privatisation
UNISON members working for NHS Logistics will take two 24-hour strikes over the next two weeks to fight the Labour plan to privatise the...
With Dick’s Promotion The Capitalist State Shows It Is The Boss
COMMANDER Cressida Dick is to become a deputy assistant commissioner, the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) announced on Tuesday. On July 22 2005 Dick was in...
Brown Won’t Retreat From Blair Agenda
PREMIER Blair got his well deserved come-uppance at the TUC Congress on Tuesday, while the co-author of his policies Gordon Brown was welcomed like...
Blair jeered, and Gordon Brown condemns walk-out delegates
YESTERDAY Premier Blair could not raise a single clap for his answers to questions about his privatisation drive in the public sector, in the...
Gate Gourmet Locked Out Workers Refused Entry To Tuc Congress
YESTERDAY the leadership of the TGWU refused entry, as visitors, to the TUC Congress to some 20 locked out Gate Gourmet workers who have...
Unions Must Put The Labour Party House In Order
THE main trade union leaders are determined that the crisis of the Labour government should be kept out of the TUC Congress in Brighton. They...
Nato Wants 2,500 More Troops In Afghanistan
ANOTHER British soldier has died after a shooting in the Iraqi town of Al-Qurna, north of Basra. The soldier was the 118th member of...