New Sri Lankan President Is As Hated As Rajapaksa And Will Have...
SRI LANKAN MPs have elected prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country’s new president, despite his extreme unpopularity with Sri Lankan workers and youth...
BJP defeated in regional election as India’s masses turn on Modi!
INDIA’S prime minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing BJP party suffered a massive political defeat at the hands of voters in West Bengal on...
The Death Agony Of Capitalism Requires A Socialist Revolution!
THE crisis of the capitalist system erupted on Saturday with an opening salvo of explosive tariffs imposed by the US President Trump on his...
Time The TUC Organised General Strike Action To Aid The Establishment Of Palestinian State!
THE TUC has just published a statement condemning Israel and stating that ‘The illegal occupation of Palestine means that Palestinians face violations of their...
The battle for public opinion has been won – now take action to win...
THE postal workers have the support of the mass of the British people, the public sector trade unions and the other trade unions making...
Stop NHS privatisation to end the bed cuts
HEALTH Secretary Hewitt warned over a month ago that if NHS trusts failed to resolve their growing debt crisis, hospital departments would be closed...
World debt is leading to hyper-inflation and a socialist revolution!
AN ARTICLE in Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph by its chief economics commentator, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, highlighted the inevitable consequences following the massive amount of borrowing carried...
The Tory crisis is the source of the Labour ‘racism’ provocations!
THE attempt to frame up Ken Livingstone as a rabid racist, after similar attempts to do the same to Labour leader Corbyn, who was...
Trade Unions Must Not Stand By And Watch NHS Being Closed!
ON Thursday evening hundreds of Enfield residents were led by the North East London Council of Action into Chase Farm hospital to protest at...
Greek Government Starts A Pogrom!
GREECE is currently having its books and the success of its austerity measures examined by the EU Troika, made up of the representatives...
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...
Tories rushing into NHS privatisation, while Labour attacks them for delaying the privatisation project!
THE TORIES are planning to knife the NHS through a massive expansion of the private health sector. The Labour turncoats are meanwhile critical of them...
TUC must call general strike to bring down Starmer government!
LABOUR MPs are now warning that Keir Starmer’s days as Prime Minister are well and truly numbered. On Wednesday, a clearly shaken Starmer faced demands...
Gangster capitalism emerges at House of Commons committee!
THE ex-chief executive of British Home Stores (BHS), Darren Topp, told a parliamentary committee yesterday morning that the former owner of BHS, Dominic Chappell,...
100 years since the start of the great imperialist slaughter!
YESTERDAY, August 4th, saw the leaders of the major imperialist powers remembering the centenary of the start of the first great imperialist slaughter, the...
Labour gives support to Tories’ austerity cuts
Two reports this week bring home that the reality facing millions of workers and their families under this rotten, bankrupt British capitalist system is...
Workers must force through the break with the EU with a socialist revolution
THE Brexit negotiations have just begun and already it is being spelt out to the UK ruling class that the ‘divorce settlement’ that...
CWU nationwide industrial action deadline on July 2
THE CWU Conference last Wednesday backed two emergency motions from the postal executive calling on the government to remove the threat of privatisation, facilitate...
UK-NATO attempt on Gadaffi’s life fails!
THE murderous attack on the home of Saif al Arab, the youngest son of Colonel Gadaffi, killed Saif and three grand children of the...
Workers Must Take Action To Put An End To Capitalism
THE TIME is here when workers must respond to the growing chorus from the professional servants of the bourgeoisie for savage, and even more...
Bring Down The Tories! UK Must Not Support Trump’s War On Syria!
RUSSIA will take all political, diplomatic and military retaliatory measures if necessary should the United States deliver a strike on Syria, Russian State Duma...
Iran wants to talk – US–UK want to impose sanctions
THE Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared that he is ready to talk to President Obama and other leaders and have a ‘fair, logical’...
Nasrallah promises Israel an even bigger shock
HEZBOLLAH’S victory over Israel in the July war of 2006 changed the relationship of forces in the Middle East, and the significance of that...
The Bully State and forced labour is to replace the Welfare State
TWO hundred thousand young people aged between 16 and 18, 11 per cent of that total age group, who are unemployed with no...
Mv Rachel Corrie Nears Gaza!
NOT content with destroying its ‘alliance’ with Turkey by murdering nine of its citizens and wounding many more, the Israeli government has let it...
With inflation set to quadruple, the working class must take action to defend...
UK inflation will quadruple to about 4% in the second half of next year and cut disposable income, the National Institute for Economic and...
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...
Get ready for the crash – capitalism is ringing the alarm bells!
ALARMED by the impending crash of over-valued world stock markets, the deputy governor of the Bank of England (BoE) warned investors yesterday to prepare...
Putin wants a ‘game with rules’ with imperialism!
PUTIN posed the question at last week’s International Discussion Club in Sochi: ‘The World Order: New Rules or a Game without rules’. (see feature) He...
Imperialist lies over Aleppo – a cover for their own war crimes
SUNDAY’S emergency meeting of the UN Security Council witnessed the orchestrated attack on the Syrian people and Russia by the imperialist powers. The meeting was...
Johnson Has Been Forced Out – Now The TUC Must Act To Bring Down...
BORIS Johnson finally resigned as Prime Minister early yesterday after more than 50 Tory ministers and aides jumped ship and left him floundering to...
Tories Vote To Keep Blair In Office!
IN Tuesday night’s vote in the House of Commons on the Blair government’s Education Bill, 67 Labour MPs voted against, wiping out the government’s...
Starmer’s latest U-turn as Labour government reels from another crisis – time to bring...
Labour prime minister Keir Starmer performed yet another abrupt U-turn yesterday when he was forced to abandon plans to cancel 30 local government elections in...
Trade unions must take action to defend the NHS
AS far as the NHS is concerned the vultures are now gathering for the kill. On Monday, News Line publicised a leaked e-mail ...
Nemtsov loved by the US and UK ruling classes – hated by the...
YESTERDAY over 20,000 people marched in Moscow and several thousand in Leningrad to mourn the death of Boris Nemtsov. The vast majority of the Russian...
Iran deals a heavy blow at US bases and assets across the region!
THE Iranian foreign ministry said yesterday that Iran’s armed forces have dealt a heavy blow to US bases and assets across the region, in...
Famine ‘unfolding’ in Gaza – trade unions must call general strikes to bring down...
THE UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which monitors hunger and starvation across the world, yesterday issued a warning that the ‘worst case...
Reeves budget drives split in party as Labour MPs fear anger of workers over...
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves denied that Wednesday’s Budget was anything other than a massive austerity attack on workers with the sick and disabled deliberately...
As Imperialism Hits The Rocks – Forward To The Victory Of The World Socialist...
US AND UK-backed Islamists are on the run from their last stronghold in Idlib province in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported...
Israel invades Rafah and blocks all aid to Gaza – working class must call...
ON MONDAY evening, the political bureau of Hamas announced that it had approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. This surprise move prompted the BBC’s International...
Warning – Police Are Armed And Dangerous!
THAT the times are really changing was rammed home once again yesterday. People are angrily reacting to the news that 4,000 highly trained police officers...
Working Class In UK Requires A New And Revolutionary Leadership!
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak dropped any pretence that British capitalism would stage a miraculous ‘bounce back’ when he confessed that the country faces ‘a...
No Obama Recovery Plan
A VERY hard pressed Obama, right at the start of his state of the Union message, was forced to summon the ‘God of Battles’...
Turn the imperialist war against Russia into a civil war to smash British Capitalism
THE BRITISH ruling class has now made it crystal clear that it favours a class war on two interconnected fronts. On the home front it...
US mass murder in western Mosul is aiding, abetting and strengthening ISIS – and...
AFTER over a month of silence, the western media have had to acknowledge that hundreds of civilians are being killed in western Mosul by...