Workers & youth take on the French government
THOUSANDS of students took to the streets in major cities throughout France yesterday in the struggle against Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s First Employment...
US Rushes Drones And Hellfire Missiles To Iraq
THE US has sent 75 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles to Iraq, with many more on the way. They are to be used to try to...
UK readying for war in the Gulf
THE West’s escalation of its onslaught on Iran could see Britain sending military reinforcements to the Gulf shortly, following the passage of HMS Argyll...
EU preparing Greek ‘regime change’!
THE debt talks between Greece and its international creditors collapsed on Thursday night with German Chancellor Merkel telling the Greek PM Tsipras to shut...
Gove declares war on state education! Kick the Tories out!
THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has unleashed yet another broadside against state education and the teaching profession in a speech on Monday where...
There Is Not A Moment To Waste – TUC Must Call General Strike...
THE RMT and the NASUWT have put down a motion at the TUC Conference condemning the new Tory scabs charter and calling for a...
Latest IMF report – Corporations in US, Britain and Europe facing bankruptcy
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) this week produced its latest Global Financial Stability Report, its half-yearly analysis of the state of the world’s banks...
Answer Royal Mail’s war on trade unions with a general strike
THE POSTAL workers union, CWU, is now in a headlong collision with a Royal Mail management openly moving to destroy the union as an...
CHILDREN ARE DYING EVERY DAY! Hospitals have been bombed! Doctors say that they have...
THE UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has warned that already low levels of aid trickling into Gaza have dwindled further, with the situation...
Millions face fuel poverty – Nationalise the energy industry
Yesterday’s report by the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group (FPAG) that 300,000 households will be plunged into fuel poverty by Christmas is not just a scandal...
Revolution On The March In The Eu!
THE working class pushing forward against the EU’s austerity programmes has thrust the Eurozone into crisis, and created the conditions for the collapse of...
Capitalism is ‘At War’ – answer Cameron with general strike
BRITISH capitalism is ‘at war’ Cameron told the bosses yesterday, an ‘economic war’ which requires the state to rip up the rule book, strip off...
Free the Chagos Islands – Britain’s own Guantánamo Bay!
ON WEDNESDAY the General Assembly of the United Nations delivered a stunning vote which overwhelmingly condemned the continuing occupation of the Chagos Islands. By 116...
Johnson launches a class war against UK workers and youth – Forward to Socialist...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for a speedy end to ‘dependence’ on Russian oil and gas, comparing it to ‘addiction,’ in his...
TUC must heed the call from Palestinian trade unions and call a general strike...
THE UN agency for Palestinian refugees yesterday issued the latest dire warning that time is running out for any chance of averting a catastrophic...
End homelessness by putting an end to the system that deliberately creates it –...
A HOMELESS man has been found dead in a tent after sleeping rough in the snow in freezing temperatures. The man, named locally as...
Turkey Poised To Invade Northern Iraq
THE Turkish army is poised to invade northern Iraq in order to respond to PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) attacks on its troops, which...
NATO is being broken apart by imperialist rivalries – a Labour government must quit...
YESTERDAY the two-day summit of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) opened in London to celebrate 70 years of this imperialist war machine. Trump joined the...
Starving The Poor!
AS hard evidence emerges about how the ‘local welfare assistance’ scheme is operating in practice across England, it is quite clear that deliberately starving...
Police officer charged as a neo-Nazi recruiter! Another probed for ‘raping policewomen’. Disband the...
A METROPOLITAN Police officer is facing jail after acting as a recruiter for a banned neo-Nazi terrorist group. PC Benjamin Hannam, from Edmonton in...
Sinking Deeper Into The Afghan Morass
THE talk by the commander of the British forces in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, that ‘missions by special forces and air strikes by unmanned...
Reject May’s deal! No capitulation! BREAK WITH THE EU NOW! Forward to Socialism!
TORY PM May’s crisis over her Brexit deal, which is a complete capitulation to the EU, is reaching explosion point. She was the...
Jewish workers support Corbyn! Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism! Forward to the Palestinian state!
THE JEWISH Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies on Monday night launched a demonstration outside the House of Commons accusing Labour leader Jeremy...
Rees-Mogg warns Tories that attempts to block Johnson will plunge Tory Party into civil...
FORMER Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned the Conservatives against any attempt to block Boris Johnson if he seeks to stand in another parliamentary...
Break with the EU Now! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
THE publication of the EU’s draft separation treaty with the UK has intensified the conflict between the UK and the EU ruling classes and...
TUC shocked that Tories break their promises!
THE TUC leadership reacted with shock when Theresa May made it quite clear that she had absolutely no intention of fulfilling her pledge to...
20 per cent government cuts and wage-freezing being planned
THE moment of truth is fast approaching for British capitalism. The British capitalist economy is in its death agony with falls in production taking place...
Millions of Palestinians facing death by starvation – unions must call general strikes in...
UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, has accused Israel of ‘starving civilians’ including a million children in Gaza by deliberately blocking food...
Met chief demands police be beyond the law
IT emerged yesterday that the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, has been lobbying the Tory home secretary for changes in the...
Lesson of the Shrewsbury Appeal victory and Mittings inquiry – capitalist state must...
ON WEDNESDAY the leaders of 12 of the largest and most prominent trade unions issued a letter demanding immediate action to ensure transparency in...
Another US blow for Pakistan!
THE US Congress yesterday froze $700 million of aid to its ally Pakistan until it gets assurances that Pakistan will combat the spread of...
A planned famine grips Gaza – the working class must intervene and support Palestinians
THE Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval of a plan to occupy Gaza, following the Palestinian factions’ acceptance...
Trump’s trade war prepares the way for a real war against China! The only...
US PRESIDENT Trump sharply escalated his trade war with China yesterday, more than doubling tariffs on $200bn (£153.7bn) worth of Chinese goods. The US is...
Pna And Fatah Want To Disarm Fighters
ONE can now see why the Zionists and the US government were so keen to get rid of Yasser Arafat. He not only refused to...
Ex Bank of England boss demands let ‘zombie’ companies crash to save capitalism
FORMER Bank of England governor Mervyn King this week called for heavily indebted ‘zombie’ companies to be allowed to ‘disappear’ taking with them, although...
Expropriate the bankers and bosses!
IT WAS asserted by economists long ago that labour is the source of all wealth, and Federick Engels – the lifelong friend and collaborator...
Disband the EU – forward to a Socialist United States of Europe
THE latest attempt to advance, by sleight of hand, to a united capitalist state of the European Union for the benefit of the...
Answer NHS crisis with general strike and occupations
THIS week saw the crisis in the NHS reach breaking point with at least 17 hospitals in England declaring they faced a ‘major incident’...
Corporatist union leaders are serving the bosses
WITH capitalism in its greatest crisis, and with tens of millions of jobs and tens of millions of people’s lives being destroyed after the...
End The Dirty War In Afghanistan!
THE deaths of two more British soldiers, blown up by IEDs in Afghanistan, has brought the total number of British troops killed in...
Forward To Jerusalem!
THE Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday that eight Security Council members are guaranteed to vote in favour of the Palestinian bid for full...
Requiem For The British Economy !
GORDON Brown, the man who sold off a good portion of the British gold reserves for a relative pittance, and boasted that he had...
The world must act to defend Palestinians
YESTERDAY morning Israel announced that all the crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel were closed. Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak...
Barclays gambles on the Brown safety net while Northern Rock’s losses rise
SPECULATIVE casino banking, without risk for the bankers, thanks to the Brown government’s pledge to never let a big bank fail, is the way...
Close down the Murdoch press – forward to a workers government
LABOUR leader Miliband, true to form, has spoken up for new media ownership rules to limit Rupert Murdoch’s ‘dangerous’ and ‘unhealthy’ concentration of power. He...