Chase Farm Closure Kills!
THE death of 2-year-old Muhammad Hashir Maveed last Wednesday is a tragic warning of the cost to human life that must inevitably result from...
Build millions of council houses to solve housing crisis
PUBLIC sector workers such as firefighters, teachers, and nurses, cannot afford to buy homes in seven out of 10 UK towns, because of the...
EU using rubber bullets and stun grenades against refugees!
AT the Idomeni crossing from Greece into Macedonia refugees are clashing with Macedonian soldiers and police, as they try to reopen the border near...
The lessons of Katrina and Buncefield
A VIDEO showing President George W Bush being warned on the eve of Hurricane Katrina that the storm could breach New Orleans’ flood defences...
Anger over Saddam’s death silences Blair
AT last President Bush has stammered out a few words about the lynching of President Saddam Hussein, saying that he would have preferred to...
Meet Tory payback time for working class with a general strike to kick them...
THE END of September is ‘payback time’ for the working class as far as the Tories are concerned. This is when all the debt incurred...
Brown Won’t Retreat From Blair Agenda
PREMIER Blair got his well deserved come-uppance at the TUC Congress on Tuesday, while the co-author of his policies Gordon Brown was welcomed like...
Even the right-wing bourgeois press is being threatened by the state!
THE furore in the bourgeois press about the lenient treatment handed out to the Tory culture secretary, Maria Miller, who was found guilty of...
Grenfell – never again! Build Councils of Action – organise a general strike! Get...
THE HORROR felt by millions of people after the Grenfell Tower inferno which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children, immediately...
REVOLUTION – the only future for youth!
SINCE the election of the Tory-led coalition government in 2010, young people have been hammered into the ground to the extent that they face...
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...
Corus must be nationalised to defend jobs and living standards!
LAST Saturday thousands of steel workers and their families marched in the North-East to stop the closure of the Redcar Corus plant. The closure...
British capitalism not in ‘technical recession’. It is diving into a Great Depression!
YESTERDAY, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) produced figures on the state of the UK economy that showed it had fallen into a ‘technical...
US budget deal threatens working class
ON Tuesday night, the chairs of the US House and Senate budget committee, Paul Ryan (Republican) and Patty Murray (Democrat), held a joint press...
Turkish crisis strengthens the Syrian people and President Assad
SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that the Turkish president Erdogan may be using the ‘coup attempt’ in Turkey to eliminate his opponents...
Shooting at the UK’s Afghan Sandhurst!
THE ‘row’ that left an Afghan officer cadet dead and three NATO troops injured at the UK-established ‘Sandhurst in the Sand’ in Helmand province...
Baghdad bombings blow to Bush!
MORE than 200 people were killed in Baghdad on Wednesday in five bombings. This is the highest number of deaths in a single day...
Shut Down Young Offenders Institutions – The Only Future For Youth Is Through A...
THE DISGRACEFUL conditions imposed on ‘youth offenders’ have been revealed by another report from Peter Clarke the chief inspector of prisons in England and...
The Occupation Is Responsible For All Of The Killings In Palestine
A PALESTINIAN teenager from occupied East Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early on Wednesday in revenge for the killing of three Israeli settler youth...
Israeli War Criminals Must Now Face Arrest, Detention, And Trial By A War Crimes...
THE US, Israel’s major backer and armer, has condemned the International Criminal Court (ICC) decision to launch a full investigation into Israeli war crimes. In...
Eurozone Crisis Is Hitting Every Country
IN a week when Greece and Spain witnessed massive strikes and demonstrations against austerity measures – designed to drive the working class and youth...
Russia Pledges Its Support For Serbia
DEPUTY Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was in Belgrade yesterday for talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Medvedev is...
UK Trade Unions And Unions Worldwide Must Take Action Against Israel!
229 Arab and international human rights organisations and networks have strongly condemned the assassination of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, after she...
There was no fire safety report before refurbishing Grenfell – Build Council of Action...
GRENFELL Tower was safe until the refurbishment took place, when it was wrapped in highly flammable insulation and cladding, described by fire safety experts...
Unite leader admits the union’s role is to prevent strikes – time to kick...
THE SUDDEN announcement on Monday that the boss of British Airways, Alex Cruz, was being sacked was greeted by the Unite union leaders as...
The world crisis is driving forward world
THE world crisis of the capitalist system is deepening rapidly, and is creating a political and revolutionary crisis in the major capitalist states, where...
The British ruling class embraces a corpse
MARGARET Thatcher was ignored by the bourgeoisie for 23 years after she was put out of office by the Tory leadership in 1990. This...
To defend NHS bring down the Tories and nationalise drug companies!
ON Budget Day when the Chancellor is expected to ignore the cash crisis facing the NHS – after the service has suffered massive cuts...
Myanmar – working class intervene with national strikes to bring down military dictatorship
WORKERS across Myanmar (formally Burma) came out on a nationwide general strike yesterday demanding the overthrow of the military dictatorship which was imposed last...
Johnson Pleads For Compromise – The Working Class Must Finish The Job!
BORIS Johnson revealed his plans for a Brexit deal at the Tory Party conference yesterday before formally putting his proposals to the EU. Johnson’s deal...
British MPs reduced to whinging while Taliban take control!
WHILE the Taliban’s top political leaders arrived in Afghanistan to take control of the country, British MPs held an emergency debate in Parliament yesterday...
Bankers warn of global debt time bomb. Socialist revolution is the only answer
THIS WEEK, the global banking body, the Institute of International Finance (IIF), revealed that global debt had shot up to an eye-watering $281 trillion...
Trade unions must form a Council of Action in Kensington to requisition the 1,652...
THE HORROR felt by millions of workers after the Grenfell Tower inferno which claimed the lives of many men, women and children...
Met chief’s agenda – police ‘justice’ and troops on the streets!
Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, presented his ‘wish list’ of latest demands to the Labour government, when speaking to the Police Superintendents’ Conference...
UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to defend their wages,...
WITH food banks running out of food, the poor are being condemned, not just to poverty but to a starvation existence, of begging on...
Call general strike to stop the Trade Union Bill becoming law
DELEGATES at the Trade Union Congress in Brighton yesterday unanimously voted for motion 18 to defend the right to strike and political protest, and...
King’s Fund warns NHS being systematically destroyed!
A REPORT from the independent health think-tank, the King’s Fund, has revealed that the NHS is systematically being destroyed through government-imposed financial cuts. The Fund...
Bank of England split over interest rates revealing chaos and demoralisation at the heart...
THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday made the surprise decision to hold UK interest rates at 5.25% instead of the widely...
Capitalism about to bounce over the edge of the precipice!
IN THE week that Boris Johnson boasted that the lifting of coronavirus lockdown measures heralded the start of the economic ‘bounce back’, it became...
Obama Pledges To ‘Eliminate’ Threat Posed By Iran
YESTERDAY Hillary Clinton revealed that she will formally end her campaign for the White House on Saturday, and throw her full support behind her...
The state is looking to take control
THE capitalist state used to be the mailed fist concealed within the velvet glove in Britain. Its real power was covered by the parliamentary...
Imperialists and their puppets defeated in Aleppo – Now forward to the Palestinian state!
ON Tuesday evening there was dancing in the streets of Aleppo as residents celebrated the defeat of the Islamist factions that had been armed,...
Workers’ May Day marches throughout Europe against EU!
MAY DAY marches throughout the EU were full of explosive class tensions reflecting the battle that workers are waging to defend their living standards and...
Miliband’s ‘fight door-to-door’ bombast has no answers for workers and youth
ED MILIBAND kicked-off Labour’s election campaign yesterday with a speech full of bombast and empty promises, but which has at its core the main...
North Korea Does Not Want To Go The Way Of Libya!
NORTH Korea has said it may pull out of a summit with US President Donald Trump that was due to take place on June...