Putin Moves To Reassure Western ‘Partners!’
WITH the shelling and bombing of eastern Ukraine still taking place, and with tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in southern Russia, President Vladimir...
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...
Hands Off Rt! Defend Democratic Rights! Russia Is Not The Enemy! Our...
THE decision by the UK state-owned NatWest Bank to cancel RT’s (Russia Today) UK bank accounts is a crude attempt by...
Law lords rule for US imperialism to keep the Chagossians in exile
THE House of Lords appeal court yesterday reversed the three decisions taken by seven senior judges, in previous court hearings, that the Chagos Islanders...
Eurasian Economic Union, and the China-Russia gas plan, a double blow against imperialism!
RUSSIA, Belarus and Kazakhstan have just signed the historic Eurasian Economic Union. It comes into effect in January 2015, and will get rid of...
Corbyn’s Balancing Act Faces Its Moment Of Truth!
THE ABRUPT decision by Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage not to contest the 317 seats held by the Tories in the general election means...
Mass Unemployment And Poverty Is All Capitalism Has To Offer Workers And Youth!
THE NUMBER of people claiming unemployment benefit in the UK soared to 2.1 million in April – the first full month of the coronavirus...
The majority of Russians want the return of the USSR
THE LATEST poll of Russian people has revealed that the number who want a return of the USSR has set a new record. The Levada-Centre...
Straw’s cover up for illegal MI6 actions in Greece exposed
Greek newspaper Proto Thema has named the MI6 chief at the British embassy in Athens, after he was accused of organising British and Greek...
ECB interest rate cut is last throw of the dice. Forward with European socialist...
ON Thursday afternoon Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), announced that the bank has cut its benchmark interest rate from 0.5%...
Iraq war veterans sent into New Orleans
YESTERDAY 300 Arkansas national guards were sent into the hurricane hit city of New Orleans, after having just returned from Iraq. The Governor of Louisiana,...
CWU nationwide industrial action deadline on July 2
THE CWU Conference last Wednesday backed two emergency motions from the postal executive calling on the government to remove the threat of privatisation, facilitate...
Revolution in Ireland and Britain!
IRELAND this week has erupted in a confrontation between workers and the Irish government over soaring diesel and petrol prices resulting from the US-Israeli...
Trade unions must use their power to stop Assange’s extradition to the USA!
HOME SECRETARY Patel has not been humbled in the slightest by the decision of the European Human Rights Court to consider that her attempt...
Unions to call for London-wide strike action to defeat Tory attack on TfL workers
RAIL unions have pledged mass industrial action in response to the Tory attacks on the jobs, pay and pensions of workers at TfL (Transport...
Netanyahu’s coalition rips away façade of Israeli ‘democracy’ – trade unions must boycott Israel
OVER 10,000 people took to the streets of the main Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday in protest against the policies unveiled last...
Junior doctors are fighting for the NHS – demand the TUC stands with them,...
TODAY’S strike by junior doctors must be supported by the entire trade union movement and the working class. What is at stake in this dispute...
TUC leaders must call a general strike or be forced to resign!
THE annual conference of the TUC, due to start a week tomorrow, is the first conference of the leadership of the trade union movement...
Boycott Israel – Arm the Palestinian masses! Forward to the Palestinian state with Jerusalem...
HAMAS and Fatah have given sharply different responses to the adoption of Monday’s United Nations Security Council vote in favour of the Trump plan...
Oil War Looms In The Caucasus!
RUSSIA is recalling its ambassador to Tbilisi after Wednesday’s provocative arrests of four Russian officers on spying charges, and is beginning a partial evacuation...
London’s Met police to be split with directly recruited detectives!
THE news yesterday that, for the first time, London’s Metropolitan police will be directly recruiting plainclothed detectives with no previous experience of policing is...
Labour brings 20% interest payments into its health market
NHS trust hospitals and Primary Care Trusts are to be charged 10 per cent interest on money they borrow from their strategic Health Authority...
Labour splits apart as Starmer fights for survival
THE civil war that has been simmering within the Labour Party erupted this weekend following the decision by Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC)...
Tories split over massive debt crisis! Make the bosses pay for their crisis through...
THE TORY Party split over how to pay off the massive debt run up bailing out the bosses during the coronavirus pandemic is now...
Health unions in head-on collision with the government over pay! Entire working...
UNIONS representing NHS workers have written directly to the Tory government over their pay. The fourteen unions represent over a million NHS workers. The...
Fighting inflation means fighting capitalism
CHANCELLOR Darling said on Sunday that pay rises for people ‘from the boardroom to the shopfloor’ need to be ‘consistent’ with the 2% inflation...
Labour splits emerging as Starmer faces ‘mother of all rebellions’
FOLLOWING Prime Minister’s Questions session in Parliament on Wednesday left wing Labour MP Richard Burgon went on social media warning that Keir Starmer will...
More ‘breadline poor’ after 10 years of Labour governments
The gap between the rich and poor has widened in recent years and is greater than at any time in the past 40 years,...
Working Class In UK Requires A New And Revolutionary Leadership!
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak dropped any pretence that British capitalism would stage a miraculous ‘bounce back’ when he confessed that the country faces ‘a...
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...
Gaza war crimes exposed – unions must call worldwide boycott of Israel
ISRAELI soldiers at a military academy have exposed the essence of the cold-blooded and murderous nature of the recent Israeli army onslaught into the...
SLUMP SET TO DEEPEN WARNS BofE GOVERNOR
The Bank of England governor Mervyn King yesterday admitted that the UK entered a recession in the middle of 2008. Stunned by the...
Capitalism’s world crisis can only be resolved through socialist revolution
THE LATEST latest annual report from the BIS (Bank for International Settlements) on the economic crises gripping world capitalism couldn’t have been clearer –...
British imperialism being cut down to size by the crisis
BRITISH imperialism, at the height of its power and even up to the 1930s, had at its heart the dictum of sea power, that...
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...
Royal Mail’s Privatisation Bill includes the end of the daily delivery
THE Coalition’s Business Secretary, Cable, told MPs last week in the House of Commons that the Bill to privatise the Royal Mail ‘will maintain...
Oil Heading For $200 A Barrel
OIL reached a new record price above 120 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, with New York’s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for...
All Trade Unions Must Join The Battle To Defend The NHS With A General...
THE battle has now been joined to defend the NHS, which the Tory government is determined to destroy, to return the UK to the...
Tories seek to inspire fear as they tell unemployed ‘get on your bike’
EX-ARMY officer Iain Duncan Smith, the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, was yesterday planning just how to force unemployed workers to give up their...
Sanctions on Russia rebound on US as countries dump the dollar as dominant world...
ONE OF the main consequences of the US-led sanctions designed to strangle the Russian economy and lead to regime change has been to hasten...
Occupy to stop hospital closures – trade unions must bring down the Coalition with...
IN THE UK at the moment there are dozens of District General Hospitals – some of the best in the world – set for...
US Opening Up Second Front In Africa
MILLIONS of Africans will understandably be fearful at the latest strategic initiative that US President George Bush has just announced. The president has instructed his...
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...
NATO warmongers meet in Brussels
NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the ‘long-term security implications’ of Russia’s response to the US-UK-EU inspired coup in Kiev, and...
Comet collapse and private equity
Last Friday the administrator brought in to wind down the collapsed electrical retailer chain Comet announced that 330 staff would be made redundant with...