Axing free TV licences: the spark to unite pensioners, youth and workers to kick...
THE Tory government has now launched war on the elderly, the youth and the working class simultaneously! There is a war on the youth, with...
Delphi Battle Looms For US Trade Unions
THE battle lines are being drawn up in the United States between the vanguard of the working class in the auto industry and the...
Ferguson resistance joins hands with Walmart workers
THE US working class is now definitively on the march after six days of action in the town of Ferguson culminated in calls...
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...
‘Currency wars’ will lead to imperialist war
THE meeting of the G20 group – the 20 leading countries in the world – concluded in Seoul yesterday with the usual empty claims of...
Generals threaten coup against Macron as France and Europe face bankruptcy
LAST WEEK, an explosive letter from 25 senior retired French generals was published in the right-wing Valeurs Actuelles magazine threatening President Macron with an...
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,...
SLUMP SET TO DEEPEN WARNS BofE GOVERNOR
The Bank of England governor Mervyn King yesterday admitted that the UK entered a recession in the middle of 2008. Stunned by the...
Labour MPs condemn gov. for planning ‘shameful trade deal’ with Israel!
THE Labour government has outraged a large number of Labour MPs and very many Labour Party members and supporters by proceeding with its plan...
Tories-Lib Dems want more than £20bn of NHS cuts by 2014
THE new Tory Secretary of State for Health Lansley was appointed on Wednesday and has immediately put on record that he will...
Time to make war on Brown and Mandelson
BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson, in the words of the bourgeois media ‘came out fighting’ over the weekend to ‘make war’ on the CWU leaders...
Truss Is Shattered While Johnson Is Posing As The Man To Save UK Capitalism!
LIZ Truss, who not so long ago posed on the Polish border on a British tank expressing her hostility to Russia, before becoming more...
Heseltine joins Blair’s campaign for an anti-Brexit uprising!
LORD Heseltine is notorious for his closure of the mining industry in 1993, as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the Major...
Now is the time to establish the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital!
ISRAEL’S governing coalition has become a minority in parliament after lawmaker Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi from the Meretz party, quit her post. Zoabi announced her resignation...
Obama Dumps Two-State Solution!
PROPONENTS of the two-state solution to Palestine, that is the creation of two separate states, Israel and Palestine through peaceful negotiations, with East Jerusalem...
Greek bourgeoisie organising pogroms
AS the economic crisis continues to tear Greece apart and drives forward a revolutionary surge amongst workers and youth, so it is driving the...
French Election results: the 5th Republic is dead, forward to the Socialist Republic
THE RESULT of the first round of the French Presidential election has justly been described as a ‘seismic’ shift in the country. For the first...
The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Stop Israel’s Mass Murder!
AN international human rights organisation says Israel is pressing ahead with a ‘systematic policy of targeting civilians’ in the Gaza Strip, including bombardment of...
Starmer gets pat on the head from Trump for Labour ramping up class war...
THE cringing prostration of Labour prime minster Keir Starmer to US president Donald Trump finally paid off at the weekend when Trump condescended to...
Bolton Arrives To Boost Johnson And Open The Door For UK Troops In The...
JOHN BOLTON, President Trump’s National Security Adviser, was in town yesterday recruiting mercenaries to the US cause, including its trade war with China and...
Defend All Jobs And Services And Send The Bailiffs Packing!
HARD PRESSED councils facing the threat of bankruptcy at the hands of the Tory government, and facing the prospect of having government commissioners imposed...
THE TUC Congress must call a general strike in support of the workers...
THE Hamas Movement declared on Tuesday that the US administration bears direct responsibility for the continuation of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip. The Movement...
Osborne seeking showdown with unions
ON Thursday the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, made an emergency statement to parliament on the international economic crisis that is engulfing British capitalism to...
The UN Committee Against Torture Condemns Israeli Regime!
THE United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of ‘organised torture’ against Palestinians. In a report published...
‘A DIFFICULT TIME AHEAD’ WARNS B of E CHIEF, KING
CPI inflation is expected to hit 5% later this year due to higher energy and other utility bills that will continue rising by up...
Pakistani workers & farmers pay for the imperialists’ crisis
EVERY day the number of people affected by the torrential rain and flooding in Pakistan is mounting. More than 20 million have been hit....
Saddam Murder Within Days
THE decision to hang the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, and also the Iraqi Vice-President, Taha Yasin Ramadan – whose sentence was increased from life...
Sinn Fein joins the UK capitalist state
‘THE time is now right to support the PSNI’ (Police Service of Northern Ireland), Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams told delegates at the Sinn...
The blind Chancellor who cannot see the crisis
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday could not see and would not even hear of a crisis in the British capitalist economy that he has presided...
Quit Afghanistan now says Ashdown – as Cameron and Hague plan new wars in...
EX-Special Boat Service operative Ashdown can recognise a major defeat when it stares him in the face, and refuses to go away. He has called...
Defend the NHS with trade union led occupations and a general strike!
THE creation of new nursing assistant posts should be scrapped and money invested in ‘real nurses’, experts said yesterday ahead of the rollout of...
Corbyn has no answer for the Tory onslaught on workers and trade unions!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday at the TUC conference had no answer to the Tory onslaught on the trade unions. In particular, he ignored the...
Tories lay groundwork for police military dictatorship to force a return to work
THE INSTITUTE of Directors (IoD) has warned that 250,000 businesses could sack workers as the Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak runs down the furlough scheme. Sunak...
Massive turn-out of workers to fight Tory austerity
THE 250,000 workers and youth who marched on Saturday, along with the thousands who also marched in Glasgow and Liverpool, proved once again that...
Confident Of US Support Israeli Terrorists Kill Three Palestinian Youths And Torture Five Others!
ISRAELI forces have shot and killed three young Palestinians during overnight raids on several areas of the occupied West Bank. Two of the victims lost...
Full Support For The Doctors’ Strike
EVERY TRADE UNION and all trade unionists must support today’s 24 hour strike action by the BMA doctors’ trade union, and must be demanding...
Israel uses facial recognition in drive to turn West Bank into a concentration camp
ISRAEL has escalated its campaign of total surveillance of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank utilising a mass programme of facial recognition to build...
Trump escalates trade war with China and prepares for a shooting war – only...
THE TRUMP administration has ratcheted up the confrontation with China with an escalation of its economic trade war, coupled with a provocative military build-up...
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...
Car industry collapses in UK and Europe under impact of capitalist crisis
THE BRITISH car industry is steadily collapsing as a result of the world economic crisis, figures produced yesterday highlighted. According to the Society of Motor...
US bosses handed $1.5 trillion by Trump – Forward to the US socialist revolution!
THE US Senate has approved by 51 votes to 48 a measure slashing the taxes of the rich and the major banks and companies...
Tory conference splits as preparations for an extra-parliamentary party emerge!
THE Tory Party annual conference opened on Monday and was immediately defined by ministers speaking to a near empty hall, as delegates couldn’t be...
Starmer’s ‘national mission’ is to save capitalism and to make workers pay for it!
YESTERDAY, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer delivered what was billed as a keynote speech that would outline once and for all the policies Labour...
Victory to Syria – down with imperialism and Stalinism!
THE Syrian war has reached a ‘stalemate’ and President Bashar al-Assad’s government will call for a ceasefire at the Geneva conference on the state’s...
Now is the time to break the siege of Gaza
FREEDOM FLOTILLA Volunteers seized during Israel’s murderous raid of last Sunday night, many of whom were beaten and tortured (see page one) are...