No justice under capitalism for De Menezes family
THE decision of the Crown Prosecution Service that no individual will be charged over the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes, but that the...
Worldwide strikes against Amazon’s brutal exploitation of workers – socialist revolution only answer
WORKERS at the online retail giant Amazon warehouse in Minnesota were out on a six hours-long strike yesterday called to coincide with the company’s...
Workers targeted by loan companies to pay for private medical treatment
‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) deals, along with other personal loan arrangements, are being aggressively pushed out for NHS patients as part of the...
Arab League army to fight Iran not Israel or its US backers!
THE Arab summit has been deciding that it will form its own armed force based on Egypt and Saudi Arabia to fight subversion, extremism...
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...
Austria mobilising troops and armour at the Brenner Pass against refugees from Italy!
AUSTRIA is ready to deploy troops and armour at the Brenner Pass – the border crossing with Italy – if the influx of refugees...
EU car & steel industries in crisis – UK must leave EU NOW –...
SHARES in India’s Tata Motors collapsed by almost 30 per cent yesterday after the company reported gigantic losses at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). On Thursday,...
Imperialism Risks Armageddon in Gulf
The news this week, that the army and security services have informed government ministers that there is a ‘25% to 50% chance’ that there...
Thousands Of NHS Redundancies Are To Go Ahead – Trade Unions Must Take Action...
THOUSANDS of NHS staff redundancies in England are now to be forced through after a deal was reached with the Treasury to allow the...
Workers strikes hit the Sarkozy regime
FIRST of all the French electorate gave the right wing Sarkozy regime a bloody nose, and now yesterday’s general strike by the public sector...
The CWU leaders are refusing to fight for their membership
THE unsolicited public display of pacifism yesterday by the CWU leadership, in the face of the most vicious daily attacks on their membership...
US forced to back down over North Korea and agree talks
IN A DRAMATIC about face, US Vice President Mike Pence stated yesterday that the Trump administration is now looking at holding diplomatic talks with...
MPs defend council housing – report condemns government plans
The House of Commons Council Housing Group of MPs from all parties yesterday launched its report Support for the Fourth Option for Council Housing. This...
Israeli Fury At Palestinian Unity!
PALESTINIAN president, Mahmud Abbas, and Hamas leader, Khaled Mishaal, yesterday signed the Palestinian Unity Agreement in Cairo, putting an end to the split in...
CWU must spread the action to the entire public sector
THE reality of the situation facing postal workers is that after two series of mass strike actions during which they have shown they are...
Tory ‘power grab’ to save capitalism by bringing in a police state
THE TORY rush towards creating a police state controlled directly by the government has even got the chief constables and Police and Crime Commissioners...
Answer Labour’s war on benefits with a general strike to kick them out and...
Labour yesterday unveiled its much trailed ‘Get Britain Working’ plan, hailed by Starmer’s government as the ‘biggest employment reforms in a generation’, to drive...
One million youth unemployed – Capitalism has got to go!
THE three months to September to 2.62 million, as youth unemployment rose above a million. Yet not one trade union leader called for action...
RCN – thousands of nurses leaving NHS as Labour opens the door to private...
ANALYSIS by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has found that over 32,000 student nurses in England could drop out of their courses by...
World Bank chief fears youth and world revolution!
When the President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, concluded a summit of the bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the statement...
UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to defend their wages...
AS WORKERS well know, the coming winter is going to be a desperate affair with sky-high inflation and food and energy rationing, leaving families...
British Capitalist Economy Down The Pan!
THE latest Office of National Statistics (ONS) GDP figures show two quarters – six months – of zero growth in the British capitalist...
Milburn makes his move for the Labour leadership
TWO former Cabinet ministers have e-mailed all Labour MPs, calling for an ‘open debate’ on the party’s future. The two are Charles Clarke, the ex-Home...
Tories responsible for deaths in care homes and amongst NHS workers – Time to...
THIS week, the Tories’ criminal liability for the deaths of thousands of health care workers, the elderly and the disabled was revealed in two...
We Salute The Heroes Of Paris Who Stood Up To 9,180 Riot Police Who...
IN PARIS, on Saturday, against the advice of the more moderate members of the ‘Yellow Vests’ movement, 10,000 French workers and youth demonstrated their...
15,000 troops ready for Slavyansk assault!
THERE are now more than 15,000 Ukrainian military servicemen plus reserve forces and the Right Sector movement, with around 160 tanks, 230 infantry combat...
Barber’s two ‘big worries’, the crisis of capitalism and workers’ anger!
BRENDAN Barber the TUC general secretary in his New Year message confesses that he has two ‘big worries’ for the year 2008. He...
Data bases and electronic spying won’t save the bourgeoisie
THE inventor of the genetic technology behind the national DNA database has said that the database’s unlimited expansion to include millions of people who...
Putin Defies The Imperialists Diktat And Visits Mariupol Promising To Rapidly Rebuild The City!
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has visited Mariupol and vowed that new comfortable residential quarters for the people will continue being constructed in Mariupol in...
Netanyahu Forced Into An Election – Israelis Must Dump Him And Vote For Peace...
THE RULING coalition government of Israel this week collapsed in chaos after just seven months, forcing an unprecedented fourth general election in four years. The...
Bank for International Settlements warns global capitalism on brink of collapse – time to...
THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS), known internationally as the ‘central bank for central banks’, issued an apocalyptic warning on Sunday that the global...
Labour demands students foot the bill to bail out bankrupt universities
ON Monday, Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced that university tuition fees will be increased for the first time in eight years. Phillipson’s increase means...
Murder in the Med – a product of the capitalist crisis
THE appalling death of up to 950 people fleeing the war-torn regions of the Middle East and North Africa has prompted the political representatives...
Israeli regime deliberately violating ‘peace deal’ since very first day
ON SUNDAY, US president Donald Trump insisted that his ‘peace deal’ between the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and the Israeli regime was holding despite...
Corbyn has no answer for the Tory onslaught on workers and trade unions!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday at the TUC conference had no answer to the Tory onslaught on the trade unions. In particular, he ignored the...
An all-out assault on the working class and the poor
TORY attempts to convince the working class, the middle class and the poor that the ‘recovery’ has begun and things are looking better, are...
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...
Crisis-ridden capitalism has had its day. Forward to the World Socialist revolution!
AMID all the furious propaganda about an imminent Russian invasion of the EU and the drive to rearm NATO for war, the defence policy...
Build millions of council houses to solve housing crisis
PUBLIC sector workers such as firefighters, teachers, and nurses, cannot afford to buy homes in seven out of 10 UK towns, because of the...
The Treasury and the Banks are in a panic over the Metro crash!
UK Treasury officials are locked in talks with the Bank of England after Metro Bank’s shares plunged by more than 31%. The bank is now...
Ending the capitalist crisis needs more than reformist policies
JOHN McDONNELL the newly appointed Labour shadow chancellor, made his first speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday outlining the ‘new economics’ that he...
GPs denounce Tory plans to roll out vaccine for putting patient lives at risk
VER 1,000 GPs have written to Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock demanding that the government produces a ‘full plan’ for the roll out of...
Palestinians defiant as Gulf State rulers forge war alliance with Israel
YESTERDAY Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett met with the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayad al-Nahyan, in the first official state...
Tory Nationality & Borders Bill will make rescuing refugees from drowning illegal!
ON MONDAY night, the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (the Policing Bill) passed its third reading in Parliament on its way to...
Forward to a public sector general strike to smash Brown’s wage cutting policies
GMB members working in the NHS yesterday voted by over 96% to reject the 2008 pay offer in a consultative ballot on the government’s...