Barclays Vice Chair On NHS Commissioning Board
YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Health told the House of Commons that the government will be taking a step back from the...
Examine practicalities of a general strike by organising it now!
THE TUC Congress was dominated by the growing mass anger of the working class at the Tory-led coalition policy of wage freezing and massive...
Blair convinces nobody with his education market
YESTERDAY saw the Prime Minister seeking to reinvent himself as the champion of the people and a supporter of ‘social justice’. Speaking in...
Forward To The British Socialist Revolution! And The World Socialist Republic!
HOME SECRETARY Shabana Mahmood has issued a ban on what she calls a ‘hate march’, that is the Al Quds Day Protest on Sunday...
Assad the main enemy, not IS say the US, France and the UK!
ON Tuesday morning in New York President Putin said that determining the fate of Syria should be in the hands of the Syrians,...
Brown Warns Against Labour ‘Extremists’
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday did his best to hand back the political initiative to his politically battered and discredited Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...
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...
Defend living standards! Nationalise the oil and gas companies!
JUST a few months ago the UNISON leadership accepted the government’s below inflation wage cutting deal over three years. Now the union has had...
Palestinian Prisoners Society Warns Of A Dangerous Escalation In The Systematic Repression Of Palestinian...
THE Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society have warned of a dangerous escalation in the systematic repression carried out...
Reconstitute The Ussr!
UKRAINE’S decision to suspend a deal on closer EU ties and sign a Russian aid agreement instead has helped avoid bankruptcy, Prime Minister Mykola...
France restricts weekend demonstrations as protests spark civil liberties struggle!
AUTHORITIES in France have banned or restricted demonstrations in a number of cities ahead of Saturday, 24th October, following violent disturbances during the previous...
The Eurozone Commits Collective Suicide!
THE Eurozone committed ‘collective suicide’ last week when EU finance ministers met and agreed a deal that they heralded as a historic breakthrough in...
Demand The TUC Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tories And Nationalise...
UNITE has revealed that Harrods is the ‘first employer’ to threaten staff with the new law allowing agency workers to break strikes and engage...
Unlimited Bonuses For The Bankers As Workers Face Runaway Inflation And Poverty!
THE new Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is reported to be preparing to scrap the cap on the multi-million pound bonuses bankers award themselves. Originally the...
Tuc Leaders Are Betraying The Working Class
THE 150,000 workers who turned out in London on Saturday, as well as the thousands in Glasgow and Belfast, represent a massive change...
NEC declares war on Labour Party members with the support of the Law Courts
THE Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Labour Party right wing and against Labour Party democracy last Friday afternoon, when it banned...
Ashdown – Not Wanted In Afghanistan
FOLLOWING the recent expulsion by the Afghan puppet government of two British diplomats – they were carrying out secret negotiations with the Taleban in...
Moroccan leaders stab Palestine in the back with another ‘normalisation’ deal with Israel!
ISRAEL and Morocco announced they are to ‘normalise ties’ in another US-brokered deal. On Thursday, Morocco became the fourth Arab country since August to strike...
Bush, Blair, Obama, And Cameron Are The War Criminals!
THAT the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants against Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, his son and his brother-in-law, on...
Trump escalates his war against Iran and the workers of the world!
IN what amounts to a declaration of war between US imperialism and Iran, US president Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that a massive US...
Taleban at the gates of Islamabad, says Clinton
US IMPERIALISM is now beating the war drums as far as military intervention into Pakistan is concerned, with its leading officials ‘warning the world’...
MASS MURDER CONTINUES IN PALESTINE WHILE THE UK’s TRADE UNION LEADERS DO NOTHING!
THE HAMAS Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Sunday that 47 Palestinians were martyred and 139 injured in six Israeli massacres in the...
‘The war against terror’ – a war that cannot be won!
IT’S official. The western imperialist states are engaged in a ‘war against terror’, which they have been waging since the Bush-Blair axis was formed...
Forward to Colombian revolution!
COLOMBIA, the country that has been hailed by the US as the second most populous ‘democracy’ in South America and a key partner in...
Grenfell tenants were treated as ‘sub-citizens’. All those responsible for the fire must...
TENANTS of the Grenfell Tower warned time and again about the dangerous building they were living in, but their cries for action fell on...
Hands Off Syria – Down With Obama & Cameron’s War Drive!
THE Syrian government has said over a long time that it would never use chemical weapons against its own people. Yesterday, the General Command of...
Britain to be one big prison!
THE coalition government has published its plans to turn Britain into one big prison with its own version of the US’ two strikes and...
IMF out to bankrupt Greece, leak reveals
THE Wikileaks organisation dropped a bombshell on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last Saturday when it published the transcript of a private conversation between...
Defend the Welfare State! Keep the Tories out! Forward to a workers government!
THOUSANDS of workers, students and youth will be marching today to defend the ‘Welfare State’ from the attacks of the current Labour government, and...
Taliban cuts the US-UK imperialist powers down to size – now the US and...
THE US AND UK imperialist powers have just suffered a historic defeat in Afghanistan. Last week, even as they scuttled out of the country,...
Hands off Syria – its people must decide its future
THE Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has reiterated that the sole way to resolve Syria’s current crisis is through a ‘national model’. He added: ‘What...
Starmer’s speech – an application to join a national coalition with the Tories!
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s first speech to a Labour Party conference yesterday was acclaimed by his supporters as heralding a ‘new dawn’ for the...
No to school reopening and a forced return to work – for a general...
WHILE the Tories were hailing the relaxation of the lockdown rules that came into effect yesterday in England as a giant step forward, senior...
Hague recognises Syrian opposition while Qatar and Saudis supply the guns and cash!
The ‘Friends of Syria Conference’ in Tunis has seen the representatives of the United States and the UK, Clinton and Hague, laying into Russia...
Labour reach new depths of treachery over NHS
AT the weekend the new Labour shadow health secretary, Andrew Burnham, delivered a treacherous stab in the back to the NHS with the announcement...
Labour’s Stirrup to be sacked early, as Tory MP appeals to Mullah Omar!
THE Tory Defence Secretary Fox yesterday revealed that Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, chief of the defence staff, is to be sacked early,...
Defiant Assad Puts Imperialists Into A Crisis!
PRESIDENT Assad’s recent statement to the AFP news agency reflects the huge change in the internal Syrian situation thanks to the successful alliance between...
Capitalism makes billions out of coronavirus – time to get rid of it!
THE CAPITALIST contempt for the health and safety of workers in the pursuit of profit has been highlighted this week by the giant on-line...
Cameron’s ‘One Nation’ excludes the working class, youth and poor!
THE Queen yesterday outlined that her government ‘will legislate in the interests of everyone in our country. It will adopt a one nation approach’. This...
Unite leaders betray airport workers – for an emergency conference to elect a...
THE BETRAYAL by the leadership of the Unite union plunged to new depths last week in the negotiations between the union and the management...
One year since the first Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March 2020!
ON 23 March 2020, Boris Johnson outlined measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, with a series of stop-go lockdowns. Since then, of the major...
A Royal Commission to privatise the NHS!
THE right-wing think tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), which promotes free-market capitalism, has just produced a report entitled ‘An NHS Royal...
Occupy Honda, Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tories, Quit The Eu...
THE Unite trade union has described Honda’s decision to press ahead with the closure of its Swindon plant by 2021 as a ‘body-blow of...
The capitalist state tools up for the struggle against the working class
YESTERDAY, Prime Minister Blair made a written statement to the House of Commons announcing that the Home Office is to be split in two. There...
Answer Tory preparations to make strikes illegal with a general strike
DR Mary Bousted, the joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), made a last minute plea to the Tories on Sunday for...