The working class faces the threat of state terrorism!
TWO videos, one by the FBI and one by the British police, have just been issued giving advice to people about actions they should...
NHS being bankrupted, to keep crisis-ridden capitalism going!
THE message from the government over the proposed dissolving of the South London Healthcare Trust and the closure of its major hospitals is...
MODERNITY = mass murder, executions and ID cards
BLAIR yesterday announced the latest line of government spin – that compulsory ID cards, state-run mass fingerprinting and DNA bases, along with no-jury trials...
UK capitalists on their knees with the deepest recession since records began!
OFFICIAL figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released yesterday show that gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 20.4% in the three months...
Nationalise LDV and GM Vauxhall – no Royal Mail privatisation!
WITH even more right-wing forces seeking to bring down the Brown government from the right, trade unions now have an opportunity to show their...
Eurozone collapsing – forward to United Socialist States of Europe
This week sees yet another desperate round of talks between the two leaders of the eurozone, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas...
Western-Backed Syrian Opposition Committing War Crimes!
THE US, UK, French, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari-backed ‘Syrian rebels’, who have been armed, equipped, financed and recognised as the representatives of the Syrian...
Truss Must Go And The Tory Government And Her Cronies With Her!
Monday’s Daily Telegraph had in its editorial an early celebration of a PM Truss ‘victory’ in getting her Tory party to accept the abolition...
Bosses threaten car workers jobs if they vote to leave EU
THE giant German car maker, BMW, has written to every one of its 8,000 employees in Britain making the thinly veiled threat that in...
Smash anti-strike bill by forcing TUC to call a general strike to kick the...
THE TUC yesterday published an analysis that showed that 5.5 million workers in England, Scotland and Wales would have their right to strike threatened...
Votes scrapped at Labour Party conferences
THE leaders of big trade unions lined up behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth on Sunday to ensure...
A victory for the ‘March 15’ revolutionary youth
THE force of the Arab revolution, sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East, yesterday won a new victory when the campaign of the...
Gaza children face death from starvation – the UK trade unions must act to...
THE Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has renewed its warning of an imminent humanitarian disaster in the enclave due to the...
Capitalist crash drives HBOS into the arms of Lloyds TSB
THE Federal Reserve Bank’s $85bn ‘rescue’ of AIG was carried out to stave off an immediate international financial and business collapse. It has turned...
Renationalise gas and electricity to deal with massive price rises
YESTERDAY British Gas raised its gas and electricity prices by a massive 22 per cent, on top of a 14 per cent mark-up imposed...
British capitalism faces a financial disaster and economic collapse
INTERNATIONAL financiers, hedge-funds and speculators took just one day to savage Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first budget on Wednesday with interest rates on UK...
Don’t watch the Tamils being slaughtered – join the Parliament Square protests!
THE Sri Lanka Army yesterday stepped up its murderous shelling of its so-called ‘safety zone’ in the Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal and Vadduvaakal areas of north-east...
Europe’s energy bill hit $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the start...
THE SOARING price of energy has cost Europe $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the beginning of the biggest, deepest economic crisis...
TUC MUST demand recognition of the State of Palestine and call for an international...
SPEAKING in Madrid yesterday, the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the recognition of a Palestinian state is ‘in Europe’s geopolitical interests’. The Spanish...
TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers
THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...
The debt of the British capitalist class is equal to the country’s economic output...
OFFICIAL data shows that the UK state debt is equal to the country’s economic output for the first time since the 1960s, amid the...
Behind The Crisis Talks In Minsk On Wednesday!
THE ‘peace talk’ that suggests Merkel and Hollande are seeking to organise a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis, acceptable to all, the imperialist...
Iran Has The Right To Nuclear Power
THE Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, made it very clear last Wednesday what Iran’s position is on its right to develop...
The Unity Of The Working Class With The Oppressed Nations Is The Way To...
IRAN launched a multiple missile attack against two bases in Iraq that contain US troops and other coalition forces on Wednesday night in retaliation...
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...
Stop Royal Mail being thrown to the private equity wolves!
POSTCOMM, the postal regulator has called for the part privatisation of the Royal Mail, supposedly to safeguard the quality of the UK’s mail delivery...
The lessons of Katrina and Buncefield
A VIDEO showing President George W Bush being warned on the eve of Hurricane Katrina that the storm could breach New Orleans’ flood defences...
Tamil And Sinhalese Workers Must Unite To End Rajapakse Dictatorship
THE Rajapakse dictatorship in Sri Lanka, which is backed with British finance and arms, and British big business investment, is continuing with its dictatorship...
Tories declare war on trade unions – defend the right to strike with a...
TODAY’S Queen’s speech includes plans by the Tories to make all-out strikes by rail unions and other transport workers illegal. Tory transport secretary Grant Shapps...
Irish TUC mass demo puts Barber and Woodley to shame!
120,000 trade unionists and their supporters, including over a hundred workers who are part of the occupation of the Waterford Crystal plant, marched through...
US-UK war unleashed licenced mass murder onto the Iraqi people!
LAST Friday night, Wikileaks published the secret US field reports and war logs from the battlefield that is Iraq, detailing recorded civilian deaths, torture...
British capitalism bankrupt, backward and stuck at the bottom!
UK unemployment fell by 57,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to May, leaving the unemployed rate stuck at 7.8% in the UK,...
Afghan crisis – the Dutch won’t go so the Brits must take the strain!
YESTERDAY the Dutch parliament delayed its decision to send more than 1,000 Dutch troops to Afghanistan, as part of a NATO force, under British...
Crisis-ridden US capitalism driven towards war
US capitalism really has got its back to the wall, and has somewhat lost its balance, when its Treasury Secretary, Geithner, says that he...
High Court rules in favour of extradition of Assange to the US – trade...
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s threat of extradition to the US became even more imminent yesterday as the High Court ruled in favour of the...
US death toll rockets in Iraq
FIVE more American troops were killed and three were captured near Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, in a pre-dawn attack on Saturday. The...
Standard and Poor puts a pistol to the head of the eurozone
GERMAN Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble has said Standard & Poor’s (S&P) threat to downgrade all eurozone countries, and saddle them with ruinous interest charges...
Bankrupt Barber won’t fight for workers!
ADDRESSING the Scottish TUC yesterday, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber was desperate to show that the addition of another million unemployed in the next...
Chancellor Brown prudently bends his ‘golden rule’
CHANCELLOR Brown, in testimony to the Treasury Select Committee, has announced that he is bending his much vaunted ‘golden rule’ – that the government...
Workers will not pay for Carillion bankruptcy – drive out the privateers with...
20,000 jobs in the UK and a similar number of jobs abroad are under threat with the collapse of the giant construction company Carillion...
Tories In Biggest Ever Crisis! Force TUC To Call General Strike To Boot Them...
THE TORY Party is now in its biggest ever crisis, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Health Secretary both resigned on Tuesday...
Brown gives billions more to the banks
AMID banks posting further huge losses and their share prices collapsing, after the near extinction of the world’s largest banks last October, Prime Minister...
100 Million Nigerians live on less than $1 a day – despite Nigeria’s vast...
THE numbers of Nigerians living in poverty, in the midst of vast oil riches, has risen to nearly 61 per cent. Poverty has risen sharply...
The world crisis is driving forward world
THE world crisis of the capitalist system is deepening rapidly, and is creating a political and revolutionary crisis in the major capitalist states, where...
McCluskey must meet with Gate Gourmet sacked workers!
LEN McCluskey, winner of the election for the post of Unite general secretary, said on Wednesday that ‘I have a huge agenda in front...