British imperialism filmed at work
A COURT martial in Wiltshire yesterday heard that Corporal Donald Payne was filmed as he abused and swore at hooded Iraqi detainees, in September...
US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis and NATO to organise a war with...
PM Boris Johnson said yesterday that Ukrainians are ‘fighting heroically’ and with ‘great success’ in some places against Russian troops who have intervened to...
International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli war crimes against Palestinians
THE chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, confirmed on Wednesday that the ICC has opened a formal investigation into war...
Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU
THE ALLEGED ‘poisoning’ of Russia’s unsuccessful opposition leader Alexei Navalny by a ‘Novichok-like nerve agent’ has been trumpeted by the capitalist press as if...
As the capitalist system rushes towards the precipice – the great gains of the...
PANIC gripped the UK ruling class yesterday as the bond markets ‘were thrown into chaos and a crisis’ that is bringing new cost of...
Labour Becomes The Anti-Immigrants Party
THE number of immigrants allowed into the UK under the current ‘points system’ will have to be reduced because of the economic crisis, and...
French and UK workers must unite to smash capitalism and fight for socialism!
FRENCH workers and youth have risen up against the Macron-military police dictatorship and on Saturday launched massive attacks on the capitalist state’s police forces...
Maude-Miliband Unite To Condemn Pension Strikers
YESTERDAY’S stoppage in defence of pensions saw 90 per cent of PCS members stopping work, the biggest turn-out for strike action in the union’s...
Novelist Sally Rooney wins massive support for boycotting Israel
BEST-SELLING Irish novelist Sally Rooney has won massive support from fellow writers and artists for her support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement (BDS)...
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...
Warning – Police Are Armed And Dangerous!
THAT the times are really changing was rammed home once again yesterday. People are angrily reacting to the news that 4,000 highly trained police officers...
IMF Declares UK Economy going bust
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, issued the gravest warning yet on the state of the UK economy on Tuesday,...
IMF says banks stuck in ‘Doom Loop’ – Socialist revolution the only way to...
TEN YEARS on from the banking crash that brought the world’s financial system to the very edge of going over the fiscal cliff, the...
Stalinist bureaucracy Shanghaied by working class
THE Chinese working class is definitely on the march. It has already compelled the Stalinist bureaucracy to start bringing in legislation forcing the western capitalist...
Action not words required to win Gate Gourmet struggle
LAST Thursday afternoon, at a meeting attended by TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, TGWU leader Tony Woodley told the Gate Gourmet shop stewards that...
PFI debts are strangling NHS
LAST Friday, the ‘independent’ health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), finally issued its report on healthcare provision at the Barts Healthcare Trust,...
Iraqi puppet government splits after Maliki refuses to order US withdrawal
THE political bloc of anti-occupation Shia cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, yesterday quit the Iraqi puppet government with its six ministers quitting the cabinet. They walked out...
Forward To The One State Solution – As Zionist Mobs Attack Palestinians And ...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the unelected Zionist leader Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference in Jerusalem yesterday. Netanyahu thanked US...
JOHN KERRY’S LAST STAND! – derided by Netanyahu!
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu damned US Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Wednesday over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict saying that it was biased...
End low pay through a general strike!
TODAY, hundreds of thousands of workers and young people will take to the streets of London, Glasgow and Belfast in mass demonstrations called by...
Rail Companies ‘milking the system’ – Renationalise the Railways now
RAIL passengers are being hit by rail fare hikes that are ‘truly staggering’, according to the Labour Party transport spokesman Andy McDonald. The increases, which...
Furlough ends, Universal Credit slashed – Socialist Revolution the only way forward
FURLOUGH ended today, with 1.6 million estimated to be still on the scheme while next Wednesday, the Tories will slash Universal Credit by £20...
Macron Urges Trump To Establish Permanent Bases In Syria!
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday April 15 told the assembled media that it was he who had convinced US President Donald Trump to...
Revolution At Home And Abroad – Victory To Hamas And To The UK Workers...
THE appointment of Yahya Sinwar as the new political leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, after the Israeli assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, has...
Russia Considering ‘Partnership’ With The US
US DEFENCE Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday insisted that the US change of mind over basing tracking radar and anti-missile missiles in Poland and...
Lessons of 1926 are vital for today!
THIS year there is great interest in the 80th anniversary of the general strike of 1926. It is not hard to work out why....
Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Coalition!
TRANSPORT UNION RMT has called on its members and the entire trade union movement to get out on the streets in full support of...
PARIS ERUPTS AS POLICE ATTACK WORKERS ON MAY DAY and the CGT union urges...
THE major French trade union the CGT has protested at the massive attack on peaceful demonstrators by riot police and and vigilantes and has...
More Air Strikes As Israel Lashes Out At The West Bank And Gaza Strip!
ISRAELI warplanes continued with their airstrikes on Gaza on Sunday morning, hitting a factory in Rafah. On Friday, an Israeli missile strike on Gaza killed...
Economic and political collapse of British capitalism – socialist revolution the only answer
THE KNIVES are out for Tory prime minister Boris Johnson after his disastrous performance over sleaze, U-turns over social care and now his bizarre...
Form Councils Of Action To Stop All Evictions! Take Over Empty Properties To House...
THE UK is in the grip of a huge housing crisis with workers who have jobs and earn wages being evicted by greedy landlords...
Trade Unions Must Not Stand By And Watch NHS Being Closed!
ON Thursday evening hundreds of Enfield residents were led by the North East London Council of Action into Chase Farm hospital to protest at...
Young Workers Are Sleeping In The Streets, While The Bosses And Bankers Get Richer...
WORKERS earning wages, employed in respected professions are sleeping in the streets and working during the day, or night is something shockingly new to...
Time to smash Brown’s public sector reform (privatisation)
PREMIER Brown’s pre-budget comment piece in the Financial Times was written so that he could talk directly to his constituency, the bosses. He...
Nationalise the drug companies and end agency staffing to save NHS
THE NHS is today fighting for its life, with even more savage cuts to come after the election. The Tories are actively planning to regionalise...
Leaving the European Union will require a workers socialist revolution!
PM MAY last Monday afternoon, in her first statement to MPs in parliament since her Florence speech last month and her debacle at the...
Browne echoes Bush on need for bigger army
PRESIDENT Bush, on Wednesday, called for a major expansion of the US army, and yesterday, the British Defence Minister, Browne, slavishly echoed his master’s...
Tory hypocrites vow to create a land of ‘opportunity for all’
TORY leader Cameron treated his audience to a big dose of Tory hypocrisy yesterday, when he vowed in the final speech to the Tory...
Answer Labour plans to drive youth off benefits with a general strike to kick...
UNEMPLOYED youth are once again the number-one target for a Labour government, determined to slash the UK’s benefit spending. A year ago, Labour unveiled its...
US prepares no-fly zone over Syria
THE news that the US secretary of state, John Kerry, was forced to scrap a planned visit to Israel in order to attend an...
TERRORISM BILL: Defeat Blair’s police-state measures!
THE Labour government’s new Terrorism Bill, published yesterday, will be debated by MPs in the House of Commons today. For the past few days, Prime...
Trump announces 5-day pause on military strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure
THE WORLD’S stock markets plunged upon opening yesterday morning following US president Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Iran that it had 48 hours to open...
Defend the NHS – bring down the government!
Yesterday the NHS was officially opened up by the coalition government to the vultures of the private healthcare industry, whose only aim is to...
Forward to the Third Intifada
THE US SPECIAL envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, who negotiated the basis of the power sharing agreement in the north of Ireland,...
Revolutionary crisis in France
The first round of voting in the French presidential election, held last Sunday, produced an unprecedented defeat for the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and his...