Israel lurches further right as Defence Minister Yaalon resigns!
THE resignation yesterday of the Israeli defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, signals a sharp turn to the right by the government of Binyamin Netanyahu. Yaalon announced...
Never mind the claimants – use lie detectors on the politicians
WORK and Pensions Minister John Hutton said yesterday that lie detectors will be used to help root out benefit cheats in job centres later...
On The Eve Of The Budget, Workers Are Demanding Action To Bring Down...
THE TUC General Council has met and issued a statement on the crisis. In it, it disgracefully treats the Tory government as a potential...
Times Rich List shows that austerity UK has become a paradise for the...
THE just-published Sunday Times rich list shows that in austerity-hit UK – where millions of workers have not had a rise in the ten...
Labour Is The Rajapaksa Regime’s Sponsor
ON Tuesday evening President Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, was due to address the prestigious Oxford Union in front of an invited audience. He...
Overthrowing capitalism only way to eradicate Covid variants
THE NEW variant strain of Covid-19, given the name Omicron by the World Health Organisation (WHO), burst onto the world scene last week although...
Now The Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Defend The NHS By Bringing...
NHS CONSULTANTS in England today begin two more days of industrial action, and have announced further strike dates in October, demonstrating their commitment to...
US-UK strikes at Syrian army on eve of Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia –...
LAST Monday, the US-led coalition airforce in the Middle East, that includes the UK, attacked and bombed Al-Bukamal near the Syrian border with Iraq...
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...
Sunak’s speech a declaration of war on workers to make them pay for the...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his speech to the Tory Party conference yesterday pledged to ‘double down’ on his plans to resuscitate drowning British...
Carey calls to ‘defend Britain’s Christian identity’
IN a call that will be enthusiastically taken up by the BNP, which champions Christian civilisation, the ex-Archbishop of Canterbury, Carey has urged the...
Force the TUC to call general strike to bring down Tories!
THE working class is being left with no alternative by the government than to take general strike action to prevent all of its gains...
Organising Socialist Revolution Is The Only Way Out Of The Capitalists Crisis!
THE decision by the Bank of England to keep interest rates at 5.25%, the highest level for 16 years, came as no surprise despite...
The Stalinist theory of one country with two social systems has encouraged the...
THE EVENTS in Hong Kong over the past month have seen thousands of people storming the Hong Kong parliament and raising the Union Jack...
Labour supports and covers up for torturers
THE Court of Appeal yesterday forced the British Labour government and its Foreign Secretary, Miliband to publish seven paragraphs concerning the torture of a...
Tory Party stuck with broken May as leaders fear the mass movement driving Labour...
IN NORMAL times a Tory party that had been taken into an ‘unnecessary’ snap election with its leader demanding that the electorate return it...
Hamas Condemns Arab States Joining NATO Anti-Russian War Manoeuvres!
HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement which recently fought a successful 11 day war with Israel against its occupation of Palestine, has condemned the participation...
Scotland Yard refuses to back down as the capitalist state gives up on bourgeois...
TORY leadership rivals Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have found themselves leading the condemnation of Scotland Yard after a senior officer threatened to prosecute...
Coaliton Policies Put The Elderly On The Breadline
RISING costs and rampant price inflation are leaving half of older people living on the breadline. According to the AGE UK charity nearly half are...
Workers must fight massive increases in the cost of living with a general strike...
THE United Kingdom has seen the biggest rise in ‘absolute poverty’ in 30 years, according to new data published by the Department for Work...
Trump Will Live To Regret His Empty Davos Boasting! US Debt Mountain Will Lead...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s address to the annual get together of politicians, billionaires, bankers and other assorted ‘running dogs’ of capitalism at the World...
Money No Object For Privatising Schools
A REPORT published yesterday by the public spending watchdog the National Audit Office reveals the massive amount of money the Tory-led coalition is prepared...
New Syria War Planned Using Old ‘Wmd’ Lies!
THE war drums are beating with increasing intensity for armed intervention by imperialism into Syria to effect the smashing up of the Assad regime, the...
Make the TUC demonstration on June 18 a mobilisation for a general strike to...
THE TUC has called a national demonstration to London’s Parliament Square on Saturday 18th June. Announcing the demonstration the TUC said: ‘On Saturday 18th June,...
US to arm Ukrainian coupists
US imperialism has reacted to the breakdown of talks at the weekend of the Contact Group on Ukrainian reconciliation with threats to massively intervene...
May urging unions and Labour to support her Brexit deal! Down with May’s deal!...
TORY PM May spoke to Unite’s Len McCluskey and the GMB’s Tim Roache by phone on Thursday for the first time since taking office,...
Blair launches anti-Brexit plot as Starmer raises remaining in Single Market and Customs...
THE wiping out of the Socialist Party and the Republican Party in France, the ruination of the Fifth Republic and the elevation of the...
Labour believes that the elderly must be made to pay
IT has emerged that it is a question of principle for the Labour government that elderly people who are now living in nursing and...
Inflation Surges As Bosses Slash Wages And Jobs
THE government revealed yesterday that inflation shot up in December with CPI inflation reaching 3.7% (up from 3.3%), and the RPI rate, which...
Starmer plans to use racism to split working class in an attempt to hold...
THERE has been an outpouring of rage over the speech by Labour prime minister Keir Starmer on Monday unveiling the government’s immigration White Paper...
Scrap the regional fire control centres!
THE House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee report on the government’s plan, to replace 46 Fire Control centres with nine new...
Working Class Must Use Its Power To Smash Capitalism And Go Forward To Socialism!
SINCE the Hamas uprising against the Israeli occupation and siege of Gaza on 7 October 2023, the Israeli war of reprisal and genocide has...
Lord Turner gives up on capitalism – forward to the socialist revolution!
CAPITALISM is not delivering on its promise to raise living standards, Lord Adair Turner, a former head of the business lobby the CBI, has...
Tories-Lib Dems declare war on the working class
The unemployment rate for the three months to March 2010 was 8.0 per cent, up 0.2 per cent on the quarter, the Office for...
The Palestinian people and the US, UK and EU workers are now in the...
IN RESPONSE to legal action taken by Adalah – The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – Israeli authorities have clarified that...
US workers must form a Labour Party
THE Republican Party has won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, and now controls both Houses of Congress, turning the final...
Capitalist state uses ‘guilt by association’ to attack youth
A REPORT by Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre For Crime and Justice Studies published last week focuses on the way police and prosecutors collude to...
China is not the enemy – the enemy is at home – forward to...
THE CHINESE People’s REPUBLIC is now the number one enemy for US imperialism and its UK ‘running dog’. The war is on all fronts,...
Vote WRP, restore free state education, and abolish student fees
AN official review into government funding of universities led by Lord Browne, the former chief executive of BP, will not be published until after...
Knives out in the Labour cabinet mask a crisis of bourgeois rule
JUST three members of the Labour cabinet put out a statement on Saturday supporting their leader Gordon Brown. Chancellor Darling, deputy leader Harman and skills...
GM jobs crisis hits UK-EU!
THE week long closure of the two remaining GM owned Vauxhall plants in the UK at Luton and Ellesmere Port which started yesterday marks...
Inflation Persists As Mpc Rate Rise Faction Grows
WITH CPI inflation reaching 3.2 per cent (0.2 per cent down), inflation for June remained 1.2 per cent above the Bank of England target....
TRADE UNIONS MUST TAKE ACTION TO FORCE PM MAY TO RETURN VENEZUELA’S GOLD AT...
LAST Wednesday US national security advisor John Bolton threatened that the US administration was putting every foreign bank ‘on notice’ if they failed to...
Working class will smash Johnson’s fantasies with socialist revolution
TORY prime minster Boris Johnson yesterday delivered a speech composed entirely of wishful thinking from which reality was completely excluded. In Johnson’s fairy-tale world British...
Bring down the Tories to end benefit cuts and homelessness!
THE Tories are continuing to lash out at the working class and the poor. Last week housing charity Shelter revealed that new government figures on...