Production Slump Shocks Coalition As Crisis Deepens
THE UK capitalist economy slumped in the fourth quarter of 2010, contracting by 0.5 per cent, instead of the meagre 0.5 per cent growth...
TUC leader O’Grady makes PM May a unity offer!
IN a lecture to the London School of Economics (LSE) on Tuesday TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady made a ‘national government’ call to the...
Zionist parliament finalises ‘death penalty’ bill targeting Palestinian abductees
On Sunday, news outlets across Israel revealed the finalised plans by the Zionist regime to carry out executions of Palestinians abducted by the Israeli...
US Ruling Class Offers Iran A Rotten Deal
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday said that the US would talk to Iran if it will suspend its nuclear programme. Rice made...
Form Councils Of Action To Stop Savage Council Cuts And Bring Down The Tories!
THE LEADERS of England’s councils have predicted the inevitability of ‘unpalatable cutbacks’ in vital council services next year as a result of the Tories...
US combat troops quit – Iraqi masses will now deal with the puppets they...
THE last US army combat brigade pulled out of Iraq on Thursday morning, allegedly bringing to an end all US combat operations. These...
US political crisis over the failure to defeat Hamas will bring down President Biden!
THE abject failure of the imperialist-backed Israeli regime to smash Hamas and crush the resistance of the Palestinian people to the brutal occupation is...
Bank of England to ‘crucify the consumer’
NOT ONLY has the world crisis of capitalism now been accepted as the reality by even the most sceptical of the bourgeoisie, its different...
Any attempt to ban Rail and Post strikes must be met with a general...
THE DECEMBER 12 general election will take place in the middle of an unprecedented wave of strikes as workers show their revolutionary determination to...
After April 24: Defeat pay cuts with an extended general strike!
TENS of thousands of teachers, college lecturers and civil servants are striking today against government-imposed pay cuts. As a result of the action by the...
Trump dumps Ukraine as US capitalism gears up for war on the working class...
Last Friday, US president Donald Trump met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in a ‘summit’ that Trump boasted would finally end the imperialist ‘proxy’...
Unison Leaders Betray Their Members!
AT the September Labour Party and TUC conferences the trade union leaders, amongst them the leaders of the UNISON trade union, made out that...
Cameron’s Worthless Pledges!
CAMERON’S warning that the NHS must ‘Reform or die’ and his statement that the ‘NHS is in danger’, were clear admissions that there is...
More and more repression in Brown’s Queen’s Speech
THE Queen’s Speech yesterday outlined yet more attacks in the coming parliament on workers and youth in Britain by the Brown government, alongside a...
200,000 Civil Servants taking strike action
ON Wednesday over 200,000 civil servants and over 200 government departments will be strike bound for the day. Civil servants...
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...
The US and UK are making war on asylum seekers! Workers trade unions...
THE Biden administration has imprisoned tens of thousands of asylum seekers in US prisons where they suffer lengthy detention, severe physical and psychological harm...
NHS privateers off-shore tax haven bonanza exposed
WHILE the NHS is being brought to its knees financially through austerity cuts, with hospitals and entire health authorities facing bankruptcy, NHS privateers are...
Unite suspends Angela Rayner – now is the time for the working class to...
LAST FRIDAY, the Unite union’s annual policy conference overwhelmingly passed an emergency motion condemning both the local Labour-controlled council and the Labour government over...
US on brink of bankruptcy – forward to socialist revolution
The once mighty US economy is set to take another irrevocable step to bankruptcy tomorrow with the news that the ‘super’ congressional committee charged...
Anti-Russian campaign of the US and UK ruling classes leads to the assassination of...
THE assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, on Monday by an ex-policeman Mevlut Altintas – who was sacked after the failure...
Occupy Vauxhall/Opel plants – nationalise GM Europe to defend jobs!
General Motors plans to close the Opel plant in Antwerp, Belgium this winter, with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs. Workers in Antwerp...
Corbyn Displays The Bankruptcy Of Reformism At The TUC!
WHAT has emerged out of the bankruptcy of Parliament this week is that the Labour leadership, along with the other opposition parties and rebel...
UK Must Not Appoint New EU Commissioner – Time To Quit The EU Without...
THE EU HAS begun its legal action against the UK to attempt to force it to either appoint a new UK EU Commissioner, or...
Israel bombs ‘safe’ Rafah camp with Palestinians ‘burnt alive’ in melting tents
ON SUNDAY night, Israeli planes launched a devastating attack on a tent camp in the Tel Al Sultan neighbourhood in western Rafah which is...
Hunt is going to speed up NHS ‘industry’
YESTERDAY Health Secretary Hunt insulted the NHS, and NHS workers, and the intelligence of the working class as a whole, when he labelled the...
Labour Party ramps up attack on NHS – TUC must call a general strike...
LABOUR Party shadow health secretary Wes Streeting doubled down on his attack on the NHS yesterday with a speech to a conference organised by...
UK workers must bring down Trump’s Tories to leave the EU and bring in...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has named three of his Tory candidates to replace May as the prime minister of his choice. All three of Trump’s...
NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT PLAN AWAKENS MEMORIES OF THE 1960s and ’70s COUP PLOTS TO...
THERE IS VERY great resistance to the proposal of Labour leader Corbyn that he should put down a motion of no confidence in PM...
SOUTH AFRICA: Legacy of the revolution betrayed
THE fighting in Johannesburg and its surrounding black townships, over the past week – with more than 23 people being killed, pitched battles with...
British capitalism is stuck in the mire of slump!
THE UK’s public sector net borrowing hit a record high of £20.3 billion in November, official figures show. The figure was the highest for any...
Respond to the death agony of imperialism by organising the victory of the worldwide...
ON FRIDAY, June 21, The Republic of Armenia officially recognised the State of Palestine, raising the number of countries that recognise Palestinian statehood to...
Extend lecturers strike into a general strike to defend pensions and education
TALKS began yesterday between the University and College Union (UCU) and Universities UK (UUK), the body representing all universities, at the conciliation service ACAS...
Action needed to defeat Royal Mail privatisation
NOTHING demonstrates the complete bankruptcy and downright treachery of the reformist trade union leadership more clearly than the gyrations being performed by the leadership...
Refugees From Imperialist Wars Are Welcome – Our Enemy Is At Home!
YESTERDAY the Tory government started to make good its pledge to mobilise the full might of its state armed forces against a handful of...
Iranians celebrate 47th anniversary of the revolution that ended imperialist rule of Iran
YESTERDAY, millions of Iranians took to the streets across the country to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the revolution that overthrow the hated Pahlavi...
Blair demands end of EU farm subsidies
THE knives are out between the British ruling class and its Franco-German opposite numbers. The press conference at the end of Blair’s visit to Moscow,...
Brown and Blair – two sides of the same coin
WITH Blair’s political reputation destroyed by the Iraq war, and the massive resistance to his attack on the Welfare State, and with the media...
Capitalist crisis – Big bank losses and oil over $86
DESPITE having seen Northern Rock share prices crash by 60 per cent, queues of depositors outside branches taking out £2bn of their savings and...
100 years since the start of the great imperialist slaughter!
YESTERDAY, August 4th, saw the leaders of the major imperialist powers remembering the centenary of the start of the first great imperialist slaughter, the...
Labour Party Conference Opens With ‘God Save The King’ Instead Of A Minute’s Silence...
THE opening of the Labour Party conference took a new turn yesterday when the Labour Party leader Starmer, who has played a key part...
French And UK Workers Must Unite To Bring Down Macron And Johnson With Socialist...
THE imperialist powers are not only in their greatest crisis ever, they are completely split and divided. The UK is prepared to take legal action...
Disband The Police Death Squads!
THE fact that armed police used internationally banned dum dum bullets, seven of which splintered, expanded and exploded inside the head of Jean Charles...
Backstabber Starmer Is Splitting Labour. He Wants To Be Part Of A Tory-Led...
JEREMY Corbyn will not be a Labour candidate at the next general election, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has said. Corbyn the former...
Terrified financial investors dump UK stocks – time for a general strike to dump...
US President Donald Trump rolled into Britain on Tuesday night, his second state visit as President, to bask in the adulation of PM Keir...