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...
Energy bills and rent through the roof! Benefits cut! Wages cut! Tories must be...
GAS and electricity prices have gone through the roof leaving families unable to pay their bills, with hundreds of thousands sitting in freezing cold...
Miners charged with murder – ANC stands with the bosses!
THE SOUTH AFRICAN ANC government and its state apparatus have taken a very clear class stand, alongside international capital, with their decision to charge...
Kiss of death for Deutsche Bank and the world banking system
THE writing is most definitely on the wall for Europe’s largest bank, with the kiss of death being delivered over the weekend when German...
Brown Remains The Bankers’ Man!
GORDON Brown was putting on a show of humbleness last night when he admitted on TV that he was not perfect but had made...
Darling can’t look the capitalist crisis in the face
CHANCELLOR Darling began his budget speech yesterday on a note of contrived optimism saying that ‘today’s budget will take Britain through the most serious...
EU ripped apart by crisis – time to bring it down and advance to...
WITH the Labour right-wing openly organising at the party conference in Brighton this week to bind the party firmly to a campaign to remain in...
To defend NHS bring down the Tories and nationalise drug companies!
ON Budget Day when the Chancellor is expected to ignore the cash crisis facing the NHS – after the service has suffered massive cuts...
UK police state spying on MPs is legal says IPT!
NOTHING is being allowed to halt or even get in the way of the all-powerful GCHQ spy machine that has been long established as...
McDonnell rejects socialist policies of mass nationalisation of industry in favour of a deal...
LAST Thursday, Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell outlined Labour’s economic policy for the general election which amounted to piling even more debt on the...
Cameron-Clegg set the bounty hunters on the poor!
First it was people on various disability benefits who were the enemy. The Cameron line is that these people are dodgers who should...
Capitalism is pauperising workers – forward to the British socialist revolution!
BRITONS have the most mental health problems of any rich country, figures have revealed, as ministers battle a surge in benefit claims linked to...
Enough is Enough! – With no time to lose lobby the TUC and demand...
THE ACCUSATION that the Tory government is paralysed waiting on the outcome of the leadership battle between Truss and Sunak is very wide of...
TUC must call a general strike to bring in a workers government and socialism
THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) will be holding its annual conference in Brighton from Sunday 7th September to Wednesday 10th September. It is taking place...
Post-Trident nuclear missiles will be targeting Russia
THE Blair-Brown government intends to spend hundreds of billions of pounds on building a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to deliver the replacement of...
Economists warn US-Israeli war on Iran will push a further 200,000 UK households into...
THE UK economic think-tank, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Niesr), this week issued yet another warning that the US-Israeli war on...
Defend your homes with a socialist revolution!
THE Thatcherite dream of creating a nation of home owners is already a nightmare for millions struggling to make their mortgage repayments. It is...
No escape for capitalism as stock markets crash
ON THE very day that Boris Johnson hailed the start of the economic bounce-back for capitalism with a return to work, the international stock...
US Steps Up Missile Attacks On Pakistan
WITH the world’s attention focussed on the capitalist crisis, the US military have unleashed a series of massive attacks on the Afghan and Pakistani...
Socialist revolution the only way to prevent mass unemployment
THE ANNOUNCEMENT this week by the aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls Royce that it is to slash 4,600 jobs in the UK as part of...
All Out On May 1!
PRIME Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown have declared war on the public services and their staff, with closures, cuts, redundancies and pay...
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...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Feed The Planet
OXFAM warned yesterday that average prices of staple crops will more than double in 20 years if urgent action is not taken to change...
Banking Crisis Heading For The Precipice!
THE INABILITY of the US economy to recover from its jobs slump, alongside the colossal indebtedness of the EU banks – German, Italian, French...
Labour is going to bring a co-payment system into the NHS
AS the economic crisis deepens, the drive to privatise the NHS is being stepped up on a number of fronts. One is the growing...
Well Done – The Syrian Delegation In Geneva!
ALL workers must support the stand of the Syrian delegation at the Geneva 2 Conference. This stand was that there had to be a full...
Tories plan Boot Camps for Youth
THE Tory attacks on youth have reached a fever pitch over the past week with the announcement of more measures to be taken by...
Accept £4 billion of London NHS cuts or pay for treatment says NHS England
LONDON Hospitals are at ‘breaking point’ according to a report from NHS England over a £4 billion funding gap. NHS England (London region) director Dr...
Trump Threatens To De-Fund New York, Seattle And Portland!
THE TRUMP administration has stepped up its war on ‘Marxists and radicals’ naming three major cities that it has targeted to strip of their...
Defeat paramilitary policing in UK with socialist revolution
THOUSANDS of workers and young people in cities throughout the country, peacefully protesting against the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, were met...
Crisis-ridden US imperialism to stay in Afghanistan and send troops to Cameroon!
PRESIDENT Barack Obama has admitted defeat in Afghanistan and has decided to keep 5,500 US troops there when he leaves office in 2017, according...
Stop all evictions – socialist revolution the answer to mass homelessness
YESTERDAY the temporary ban on evictions in England ended, leaving hundreds of thousands of people facing being thrown out of their homes for rent...
Tory Leadership Crisis Deepens, While Labour’s Right Wing Lashes Out At Corbyn!
THE CRISIS-ridden Tory leadership has launched its campaign to elect a new leader to replace the shattered May, who betrayed Brexit and then piloted...
US moving to ground war in Iraq and Syria
THE United States is poised to step up the war in Iraq and Syria with the sending of more US ground forces. Speaking to...
Brown and Blair’s grab for Africa
BEFORE our eyes, the Live Aid movement has been transformed into a Live 8 movement, whose purpose has become to support the British Prime...
Johnson Government Must Be Brought Down – TUC Must Call General Strike!
THE capitalist system is now poised to go into its greatest ever crisis and crash because of its mountains of debt. Workers face massive...
NHS crisis can only be resolved by kicking out the Tories and going forward...
THE Commons Health and Social Care Committee of MPs yesterday published a report calling on the Tory government to come up with a ‘long...
Force the TUC to call general strike to bring down Tories!
THE working class is being left with no alternative by the government than to take general strike action to prevent all of its gains...
Brown outlines new attack on teachers and state education!
‘IN the past those who had the raw material – the coal, the oil and the basic commodities, or the infrastructure – the ports...
Tories prepare for civil war against the working class
IN HIS closing speech to the Tory conference, Cameron pledged that a future Tory government would scrap the Human Rights Act, a position that was...
More Air Strikes As Israel Lashes Out At The West Bank And Gaza Strip!
ISRAELI warplanes continued with their airstrikes on Gaza on Sunday morning, hitting a factory in Rafah. On Friday, an Israeli missile strike on Gaza killed...
Trade Unions Must Not Stand By And Watch NHS Being Closed!
ON Thursday evening hundreds of Enfield residents were led by the North East London Council of Action into Chase Farm hospital to protest at...
Junior doctors must call new strike and the BMA and TUC must stop with...
THE BMA warned yesterday that ‘Politically driven mismanagement is undermining patient care in England. It was responding to a report from the King’s Fund...
Time To Put The Tory Libdem Coalition Out!
WHEN the leaders of the Coalition are forced to pledge publicly that it will go the distance and will not split apart, the...
New Palestinian Intifada emerging at a time when Israel is split and divided with...
THE Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has issued a warning that the Israeli military raids and Israeli...