The working people of the world must NOW take action to establish the...
THE Palestinian presidency on Wednesday expressed its great thanks and appreciation for the strong and clear Saudi position expressed in the Saudi statement issued...
Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the fire
YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...
Irish Union Votes To Repudiate Bank Debt!
The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union is to contact ‘like-minded unions’ to seek ‘international legal opinion regarding the possibility of mounting a successful legal...
US Mounts Drone Assault On The Yemen
AFTER withdrawing its embassy staff from 20 countries, the US ruling class has now launched a drone blitz on the Yemen, with three drone...
Lobby the TUC on September 7th! Demand it calls a general strike to bring...
INDIVIDUAL US military personnel assisting the war crimes of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza and the Palestinian West Bank territory could be prosecuted...
Syrian opposition demands a no-fly zone!
THE announcement that the western and Saudi-Qatari backed ‘opposition’ in Syria is no longer committed to the UN Security Council-backed Annan ceasefire comes as...
The Tory ‘NHS Road to Recovery’ is their plan to privatise the NHS!
ON TUESDAY, Tory health secretary Savid Javid outlined his ‘new vision for NHS reform’ which turned out to be just a repetition of the...
Children Going To School Hungry!
THE survey by the ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) into child poverty has exposed what the reality of bankrupt capitalism means for millions...
Smash Israeli Annexation Plan – Forward To The Palestinian State!
ISRAEL’S illegal annexation of Palestinian land due to start yesterday failed to materialise as the entire scheme was plunged into disarray. July 1 had been...
UK political crisis emerges over demands for ceasefire in Gaza!
THE House of Commons dived headlong into a political crisis as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support for...
IRA gives up armed struggle to join the democrats
‘All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms. ‘All Volunteers have been instructed to assist the development of purely political and democratic programmes...
Labour sells out on state education
THE Labour shadow education minister, Stephen Twigg, made a speech yesterday that was billed as ‘wresting’ the initiative on education from the Tories –...
Army demanding reinforcements for Afghanistan
JUST a few months ago, the then Defence Minister John Reid was telling the media – while trying to douse public concern...
Hewitt Demands An NHS £250 Million Surplus!
HEALTH Secretary Hewitt, who not so long ago said that there would be no limits to privatisation in the NHS, yesterday revealed that she...
US Trade Gap Widens As Banks Get Ready For Economic Storm
THE US trade gap widened in January to $44.45bn (£29.53bn) from December’s figure of $38.14bn, the US Commerce Department has reported. Much of the rise...
BIS warning of global financial crash!
GLOBAL financial markets are dangerously stretched and may unwind with shock force as liquidity dries up, the Bank of International Settlements has warned. BIS boss...
NHS is faced with ‘mission impossible’ because of a Tory imposed ‘unbridgeable’ financial...
NHS services in England are now, facing head on, a ‘mission impossible’ to meet the standards required by the government, the NHS ‘Providers’ health...
Three Tory ministers resign to join anti-Brexit parliamentary coup! Workers must respond with mass...
PM MAY, having refused to quit the EU on March 29th which is still the official legal date for leaving, has paid the political...
Trump Backs Counter-Revolution Against Chinese Workers – Time To Complete The World Socialist Revolution!
US president Donald Trump yesterday seized the opportunity for US imperialism to make a provocative intervention in the internal affairs of China by backing...
NHSTogether must organise strike action to defend GPs!
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown’s government is targeting General Practitioners (GPs) in its rush to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). Two key barriers to a...
Renationalise railways or regime change says ASLEF
ASLEF is the first trade union to call for ‘regime change’, a change in the leadership of the Labour government if it continues to...
Karzai gets worried that MI6 is negotiating his removal!
THE NEWS that top-level British diplomatic efforts are continuing in Afghanistan to try to prevent the expulsion from the country of two senior foreign...
Starmer apes Tory promises of a ‘bonfire of regulations’ to open the UK up...
STARMER pledged the Labour government would slash red tape in his speech to the billionaire investors and bankers who gathered in London yesterday at an...
Sanders concedes but ‘political revolution’ will continue!
‘HILLARY Clinton must become the next president of the United States,’ Bernie Sanders told the Democratic Convention on Monday. These words touched off huge...
Greek workers must build their revolutionary leadership
THE fact that the Greek working class brought Syriza from nothing to power, in the course of one general election, has been correctly taken...
Palestinians force Israel to agree ceasefire in Gaza
LAST Friday Israel launched a murderous bombardment on the Gaza Strip killing at least 27 Palestinians, including two pregnant women and at least two infants,...
US warns Pakistan over gas pipeline link with Iran
THE Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on Monday officially inaugurated the final construction phase of the Iran-Pakistan gas...
Right wing resorts to discredited Blair!
THE anti-Corbyn candidates must be pretty desperate if they are prepared to allow ex-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to appear and give a speech...
Neither savage deflation or massive inflation but socialism!
LABOUR’S last Chancellor, Alistair Darling, has urged the Tories to set about printing or borrowing even more money to finance growth. It must be remembered...
Bank interest rate rise deepens capitalist crisis
THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee raised its base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.75 per cent yesterday. This was the first...
Palestinians warn Israel over Jabal al-Baba ethnic cleansing!
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Monday warned Israel that the Jabal al-Baba community to the east of Jerusalem is a red line, warning...
Johnson blurts out that greed is ‘good’ for capitalism
IN A VIDEO call with Tory backbenchers on Tuesday night, prime minister Boris Johnson boasted that capitalist greed was responsible for the UK’s vaccination...
Sunak admits ‘borrowing will have to end’ and prepares for war against the working...
IN THE Spectator magazine this week, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak broke ranks with the official Tory line that British capitalism could survive by indefinitely...
US launches the new grab for Africa!
PRESIDENT Obama has hailed the ‘new Africa that is emerging’, as US imperialism seeks to re-grab Africa after its destruction of the Libyan Jamahiriyah....
Stop the return of British troops to Helmand province!
THE Taleban armed forces are now retaking Sangin town in Helmand Province, which was taken over as a British responsibility after the retreat from...
‘Bloodbath’ in Gaza hospitals as Israel ramps up genocidal war
A NEW REPORT by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has indicted Israel for using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. Omar Shakir, HRW’s Israel...
With the US economy smashed Trump is aiming to return to office through a...
WHAT began as a Black Lives Matter movement sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has developed into a nationwide movement...
The Brown Government Is The Enemy Of The People
PREMIER BROWN told his monthly news briefing yesterday of the war that he is waging on the country’s youth and the 110,000 ‘problem families’...
California’s budget ‘meltdown’
CALIFORNIA’S Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal state of emergency yesterday in a move to put pressure on members of California State Legislature...
Drive Tory rabble out with a general strike to bring in a workers government...
THE House of Commons privileges committee published its report into former prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday and it turned out to be even more...
UNISON ‘ready to strike’ while Brown is bringing bosses into his cabinet
‘I SEND this message to Gordon Brown. We are prepared to fight. We are prepared to strike. And we are going to win,’ General...
US ‘Defence Cutbacks’ are a cynical fraud!
WHEN the gullible read the headline paragraph, that US Defence Secretary, Chuck Hagel, has unveiled plans to ‘shrink’ the US Army to its smallest...
UN Security Council passes resolution to put Trump in supreme control of Gaza
ON MONDAY, the United Nations Security Council voted by 13 to 0 to pass a US-drafted resolution that effectively puts president Donald Trump in...
King sees nothing but the ‘black cloud of uncertainty’
THE Governor of the Bank of England yesterday poured gallons of ice cold water over the prospects of British and world capitalism. King cut the...
GERMAN ELECTIONS: Workers deliver a blow to free market ‘reforms’
AFTER Sunday’s General Election, Germany did not have a Chancellor, or a government yesterday. This plunged the country into a huge economic and political...