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...
War exposes weakness and bankruptcy of capitalism in UK and Europe!
CITY AM, the business and financial newspaper, published an opinion piece yesterday which included a lengthy quote from Karl Marx on the profound effects...
US unions being driven to historic break with Democrats
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said last Friday that US workers want an ‘independent’ labour movement designed to help the working class, not a specific...
Cable grovels – a prisoner of the Tories
CABLE, the man who was threatening the ‘nuclear option’ of walking out of the Tory-led coalition, has meanwhile grovelled to his Tory betters. This was...
Imperialist ‘surge’ in Iraq and Afghanistan = mass slaughter
SIX Iraqi primary schoolchildren have been slaughtered by a US helicopter spraying al-Nedawat village with machine gun fire and hitting a primary school, in...
McDonnell rejects socialist policies of mass nationalisation of industry in favour of a deal...
LAST Thursday, Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell outlined Labour’s economic policy for the general election which amounted to piling even more debt on the...
Labour to hand police the power to ban demonstrations in move to establish a police state...
KEIR STARMER’S Labour government’s plans to ‘tighten’ protest laws were confirmed by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Sunday. The new powers handed to the police...
A socialist government and a socialist foreign policy needed to defeat terrorism!
NEWS LINE sends its condolences to the families and friends of the 22 people, including children, who were killed and the 59 who were...
All The Trade Unions Must Come Out With The Junior Doctors!
PM Sunak has said he is yet to make a ‘final decision’ on whether to accept the recommended pay rises for public sector workers. Official...
Thousands Of NHS Redundancies Are To Go Ahead – Trade Unions Must Take Action...
THOUSANDS of NHS staff redundancies in England are now to be forced through after a deal was reached with the Treasury to allow the...
Smash the Bedroom Tax with a general strike!
A GRANDMOTHER, who because of the Bedroom Tax, had to pay an extra £20 a week, has thrown herself in front of a...
Cameron drives to war
PM Cameron made it perfectly clear in the House of Commons on Wednesday that he is determined to go to war in Syria to...
Palestinians warn that UK troops on the ground in Gaza under pretext of supporting...
PALESTINIANS have warned Britain and other Western countries backing the US, against deploying troops on the ground in the besieged Gaza Strip under the...
Forward to the August 20th Gate Gourmet workers march
TUC General Council members gave a good welcome to lobbying locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday morning. A number promised to attend the anniversary...
Refugees from imperialist wars are welcome – the enemy of the working class is...
ON WEDNESDAY it was revealed that the Tory government is considering building an ‘asylum processing centre’ in the South Atlantic on Ascension Island. The Foreign...
Parents Queue At 3Am To Get Their Children Into Breakfast Clubs!
MORE than 130 parents queued outside a school in Cardiff, Wales from 3am Thursday morning to try and get their child a space at...
MAY DAY 2009 – A movement for World Socialist Revolution!
MILLIONS of workers took to the streets on May Day in countries throughout the world, from Los Angeles to London, Havana to Harare. Several May...
Labour’s new leaders tell right wing that they can vote to bomb Syria along...
LABOUR MPs should be given a free vote on military action in Syria, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said on Tuesday night, at a Guardian-sponsored...
Trade union bureaucrats put two fingers up to May Day
TRUE to form, the voice of the trade union bureaucracy, the Stalinist Morning Star counted tens of thousands of marchers on the TUC’s May...
Shut down the House of Lords and purge the House of Commons! Leave the...
THE MAY government avoided a House of Commons defeat for the Brexit Withdrawal Bill last Tuesday by making promises to the leading Tory Remainer,...
Hamas urges workers of the world to march on the first anniversary of the...
THE Hamas revolutionary leadership yesterday called for organising mass marches and broad solidarity events in all cities and capitals of the world on the...
On May Day, on the TUC march on May 12, & on Nakba Day...
THE ‘GREAT March of Return’ has become the beacon for all Palestinians and the workers of the world to unite in the struggle...
Truss Condemns Any ‘Windfall Tax’ On Oil Company Profits Saying ‘Profit Is Not A...
TORY PARTY leadership contender Truss has defended the billions of profits being made by the energy companies amid the soaring price rises that are...
Grenfell Tower Deaths Were Avoidable – Time To Nationalise The Banks And Building Industry!
THE Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was the result of ‘dishonest companies, successive governments, and a lack of strategy by the fire...
Cluster bombs still killing Lebanese children
The UN’s humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, yesterday described Israel’s use of cluster bombs in south Lebanon during the final three days of the conflict...
World capitalism facing ‘attack of the debt tsunami’ warn global financial leaders!
A REPORT on Wednesday by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) warned that the world is drowning under an unprecedented and increasing amount of...
Bush bull cannot cover over US defeat
BRITISH troops have just scuttled out of Basra, leaving the various militias of the city in full control. They have settled down at Basra airport,...
‘We are the masters now’ say Tories and employers
THE TORY-led coalition is poised to give all power to the employing class through neutering employment tribunals and giving the employers their own ‘charter’...
US President Trump threatens Iranian revolution – US, EU & UK workers must respond!...
US President Donald Trump has already publicly stated that the US capitalists will run and ‘own’ Venezuela’s colossal oil wealth. This was after Trump sent...
Break The Blockade Of Gaza!
GAZA is being reduced from a massive prison for the Palestinian people to one in which they are homeless, jobless, and beginning to go...
The Working Class Must Intervene To Resolve The Brexit ‘Debate’!
LAST Tuesday afternoon, in the House of Commons, the knives were out for the Brexit referendum result, and for the millions of workers who...
Syriza Begins T0 Swing To The Right!
GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said he is confident that agreement can be reached with creditors over the repayment of ‘Greece’s debts’,...
Iraq – Time For Britain To Cut And Run
SATURDAY’S engagement in Basra was a serious one for British imperialism. One Lynx helicopter was lost, shot down by a Strella missile and five British...
Greece heralds a capitalist collapse and the European socialist revolution
THE Standard and Poor (S&P) credit rating agency downgraded Greek government bonds on Wednesday sending government stocks and share prices on the Athens Stock...
UK capitalism is in its death agony – It is time to organise the...
THE Bank of England yesterday raised interest rates by the most in 33 years from 2.25% to 3%, and accompanied its action with a...
BA’s nail in the coffin of legal strike actions – by courtesy of Unite’s...
THE UNITE trade union leadership announced yesterday that after the cabin crew membership ‘voted last month overwhelmingly, and for the third time, to take...
Capitalist world order torn apart by Trump’s trade war – forward to world socialist...
STOCK MARKETS across the world crashed following US president Donald Trump finally revealing the details of his trade war against the world. The speculators and...
Following renationalisation of Southeastern, the trade unions must call a general strike to bring...
SOUTHEASTERN rail collapsed into public ownership yesterday with the RMT revealing the true cost of the government’s slavish devotion to subsidising private profit capitalism. In...
Nato Issues A Warning To Russia!
NATO’S military commander in Europe has issued a warning to Russia about the build-up of its forces on Ukraine’s border. Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Gen...
Tensions rise in the Baltics and the Balkans!
LAST WEEK the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice visited Moscow to meet with the Russian president Vladimir Putin. She insisted that although Russia...
Zionist parliament approves draft ‘death penalty’ bill targeting Palestinians
ON MONDAY, the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, approved the first reading of a bill that allows the Zionist regime to legally pass the death...
Cameron takes a begging bowl to India
PRIME Minister David Cameron and the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government have decamped from London to New Delhi this week to drum up business, such...
UK workers must organise political and industrial action to make sure the UK leaves...
TORY PRIME minister Theresa May suffered another humiliating defeat in parliament on Tuesday when the latest version of her ‘deal’ with the EU was...
Capitalist world crisis is rapidly deepening – creating the conditions where the working class...
SHOCK economic data on Thursday revealed a crash of 0.1 per cent in the UK’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for two consecutive months, with...
How to win the firefighters struggle!
THE six-hour strike by firefighters on New Year’s Eve was a demonstration of the solidarity and determination of FBU members across the country to...