The English Revolution of 1640s becomes burning issue today
THE FRONT page of The Daily Telegraph yesterday led with an article headed: ‘John McDonnell threatens to march on the palace and tell the...
Workers must support Russia – the US-UK trade unions must stop war drive by...
FOR SOME weeks the UK and US ruling classes have been telling the world that Russia is just waiting to invade the Ukraine, that...
Starmer urges send British jets to the Ukraine to combat Russia!
Dispatching British fighter jets to Ukraine ‘to police the skies against Russia above the Ukraine’, emerged as a planning proposal at Sir Keir Starmer’s...
King admits no recovery in sight
THE Bank of England governor, Mervyn King got ready for a somersault in economic policy yesterday, when he told the Treasury Select Committee that...
Police Chief Tapes Talks With Ministers
THE Metropolitan Police chief Blair was yesterday forgiven by the Attorney General for secretly tapping at least one of their conversations ‘for future reference’. It...
German and UK military chiefs say ‘we must rearm’ and prepare for war with...
BRITAIN and Germany’s highest ranking military chiefs have just made an unprecedented joint appeal to the workers of Europe to accept the ‘moral case’...
Make the TUC demonstration on June 18 a mobilisation for a general strike to...
THE TUC has called a national demonstration to London’s Parliament Square on Saturday 18th June. Announcing the demonstration the TUC said: ‘On Saturday 18th June,...
Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the fire
YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...
Brave Gazans Set Out To Break The Israeli Sea Blockade
A NUMBER of Palestinian activists yesterday set off in two boats on a sea journey from Gaza towards the naval limits set by Israel,...
NHS under siege – TUC must act
TORY Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced on June 2nd that the NHS must ‘stop making excuses’ and deliver ‘its side of the bargain’ going...
Arrogant Carney Rubbishes Miliband!
THIS week, in an attempt to cash in on the universal hatred felt by the working class and middle classes towards banks and bankers,...
Workers Must Occupy Gm Luton And Ellesmere Port And Demand Their Nationalisation
NEXT MONDAY June 1 GM will seek Section 11 Bankruptcy, cutting off GM Europe with less cash than is required to see the week...
Assad is ready for a national referendum for Syrians to decide on their...
CURRENTLY parallel with the peace talks in Astana, uninvited Turkish and US forces are operating in Syria in a move to attempt...
A fighting Public Sector Alliance to defend wages and jobs
THE Communication Workers Union yesterday announced its latest plans for strike action after the first national strike for a decade last week, which was...
End Of The Road For The UK-US Afghan War
THE news that the death toll of British soldiers in Afghanistan passed the 400 mark this week has been greeted with outpourings of grief...
May is broken, as is the Tory party and the capitalist system – It...
WHEN the Tory Daily Telegraph runs on its front page a headline that Theresa May is ‘limping into oblivion’ it couldn’t be a clearer...
Deepening world capitalist crisis is creating wars and revolutions
NATO and Russia held ‘frank and serious’ talks despite ‘profound disagreements’ as their ambassadors met on Wednesday for the first time since 2014, alliance...
US-UK Refuse To Demand Israeli Ceasefire!
YESTERDAY’S UN Security Council emergency meeting on Gaza ended without the issuing of a resolution after the US and the UK refused to vote...
Cameron Favours New Anti-Union Laws
LAST Saturday, the Tory leader, Cameron, told the Daily Telegraph that if he should win the General Election he is ready to toughen the...
Petrol price rises leading to new fuel blockade
UK petrol and diesel prices are still rising in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with the average cost of petrol now at 95.1 pence...
This Is A War That Has To Be Won!
UNITE co-leader Tony Woodley stated yesterday that it was not possible to get an agreement with BA and cancel the BA cabin crew...
UK and US complicit in Saudi Arabian war crimes
LAST Saturday saw what was one of the worst atrocities committed in the Yemen since Saudi Arabia, along with its Gulf allies, launched an...
US workers taking action to drive up wages and defend their jobs
THE once-mighty US economy is facing a wave of strikes by powerful sections of the working class who are determined to drive up their...
Imperialism In Crisis – As Islamist Clients Turn On Their Masters
IMPERIALISM is in disarray. Tens of thousands of Islamist fighters – initially assisted by western governments, such as the UK government, and their secret...
Blair Witch-Hunts The Unborn
‘WE can clamp down on anti-social children before birth’, said Prime Minister Blair on Thursday. That anti-social behaviour is in the genes, is the...
HSBC a repeat offender that will never change
IN September 2014 HSBC settled claims that it made false representations in selling mortgage bonds to the giant US mortgage companies Fannie Mae and...
Iraq’s 50,000 ‘Ghost Soldiers’
THE new Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has announced that an investigation has uncovered that the Iraqi state was paying the wages of 50,000...
Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe
THE EU IS IN DESPERATE CRISIS with the established political order breaking apart in country after country, from Ireland and the UK to Austria, Greece...
Record Rise Of Public Sector Debt Means More Savage Cuts
THE Tory-led coalition’s public sector debt for November has shot up to £23.3 billion, £5.9 billion more than the figure for November 2009. It...
Blair seeking legislation to overrule the courts
THE Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has had his plans for a government veto over the law courts made public after a leak of his...
Blair Wants To Split The Labour Party And Join With Remain Tories And Lib-Dems!
THE DEPTH of the crisis of the UK ruling class can be gauged by the fact that they have been forced to bring the...
Tory austerity plus ‘Project Fear’ produces terror!
THE News Line and Workers Revolutionary Party extend our condolences to the family of Labour MP Jo Cox who was murdered in her West...
China, Russia Vote For Security Council Savage Sanctions Against North Korea
THE UN Security Council last Friday unanimously adopted a new set of draconian US-proposed sanctions against North Korea to further strangle its energy supplies...
Time for the trade unions to take action to remove broken coalition
The Sunday Mirror/ComRes survey of 2,002 voters has rattled the cages of the major political parties. It shows that Labour is leading with the support...
Trade unions must act now to defend living standards!
BANK of England Governor Mervyn King sent a letter to Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday because inflation has taken off. Under statutory obligations put in place...
Rebellion erupts against Osborne’s budget attack on disabled!
CHANCELLOR Osborne’s just-declared Budget has touched off such anger that he is already being counselled to abandon his masterplan to make savage cuts on...
TUC must call a General Strike to defend NHS
JUNIOR doctors start six days of strike action today, the longest strike by doctors in the history of the NHS, over their demand for...
Rate Rises Will Lead To Banking Collapse
ON Thursday night, the captains of British capitalism assembled for a sumptuous banquet at London’s Mansion House to listen to the latest economic plans...
Lagarde issues world crisis warning
CHRISTINE Lagarde, the chief of the IMF, warned the bosses and the bankers yesterday, in a speech in Japan, that the crisis is a...
EU rights court sends UK citizens to US ‘supermax’ prisons!
THE European Court of Human Rights has backed the extradition of five men from the UK to the US which intends to put them...
Queen’s Speech Sees Her Government Dodging Big Issues!
WEDNESDAY’S Queen’s Speech began with an evasion that her government would continue to seek a ‘high-wage low-welfare economy’. This was said at a time when...
Duncan Smith’s ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Peddles Lies!
THE Department for Work and Pensions has admitted lying to the public by making up stories from fictional claimants, and passing them off as...
Second wave drives deaths up by 98%! Get rid of capitalism now … it’s...
THE SECOND wave of coronavirus has hit the UK with devastating consequences, and the Tory government’s efforts at bringing in measures to curb the...
Mosul Falls – Imperialist Policy Collapses In Middle East
LARGE numbers of people have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants from the ISIS pro-Al Qaeda group effectively...
Massive strike action greeted by Tory coalition threats!
AS millions of public sector workers, teachers, firefighters, local government workers and many other sections took strike action yesterday, Prime Minister Cameron pledged to...