Care Home Big Five Demand A State Subsidy!
THE National Living Wage could result in a ‘catastrophic collapse’ in the number of care homes, according to the five biggest private providers, Four...
There must be general strikes in the UK, the EU and the USA to...
ISRAELI military forces invaded the al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday morning in a continuation of the violent attacks on Palestinian worshippers gathered for dawn prayers...
There must be ‘non-negotiable rules’ Kelly tells minorities
COMMUNITIES Secretary Ruth Kelly, launching a Commission on Integration and Cohesion yesterday, declared: ‘I believe that we should celebrate and clearly articulate the benefits...
Revolution coming to North America!
THE continuing Egyptian revolution – in particular the determined occupations of Tahrir Square and the fearless struggle of Egypt’s workers for their rights...
Bring down the Tories to end benefit cuts and homelessness!
THE Tories are continuing to lash out at the working class and the poor. Last week housing charity Shelter revealed that new government figures on...
Health unions in head-on collision with the government over pay! Entire working...
UNIONS representing NHS workers have written directly to the Tory government over their pay. The fourteen unions represent over a million NHS workers. The...
Imperialism threatens Iran but is fearful of the working class at home!
Donald Trump’s belligerent ‘last-chance’ threat to Iran to resume diplomatic talks about abandoning its nuclear programme or face US military attacks in two weeks,...
Putin driving Belarus into the arms of the EU
‘IT is of utmost importance for us to establish good relations with the West,’ said President Lukashenka of Belarus on Tuesday. This statement is a...
Trade unions must take general strike action in support of Palestinian masses!
THE UN’s World Food Programme has warned that Palestinians in Gaza are facing starvation after Israel launched a brutal aggression on Gaza last month....
We should have been the Thatcherites, Blair tells LP
IN his parting speech as Prime Minister to the Labour Party conference, Blair administered his kiss of death to Gordon Brown, telling his Chancellor...
Only answer to banking crisis is expropriation!
THE COALITION government’s policy to ‘ring-fence’ the banks is at best a cosmetic attempt to appear to be trying to protect retail banking, and...
A desperate Trump targets Iran’s civilian infrastructure
AN increasingly desperate US president Donald Trump authorised a wave of strikes against civilian infrastructure in southwestern Iran on Wednesday. These latest attacks followed overnight...
US and UK workers must bring down Trump and the Tories and go forward...
DONALD TRUMP has arrived in the UK to try his hand at regime change. He is treating the UK ruling class with supreme contempt, as...
French Stalinists step in to help Sarkozy
OVER a million French civil servants went on strike yesterday, joining the hundreds of thousands of railworkers, busworkers and gas and electricity workers who...
No ‘trade-off’ for the NHS: Kick out the Tories instead!
THE HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stevens, yesterday released the report ‘Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’, a report that makes...
Don’t Stop At Dumping Slavers, Dump The UK And US Ruling Classes With Socialist...
THE TORY leadership reacted in fury this week after the statue of the notorious slave trader Edward Colston was torn down and dumped in...
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...
Darling Outlines Cuts For All – Except The Bankers And Bosses
THE price of gold has touched $1,000 an ounce for the first time in six months, more than three times greater than what it...
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...
UK workers must support the Hamas call for action against genocide!
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in a statement on Wednesday, called on the ‘free people of the world to escalate popular protest’ against the...
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...
Call a national postal strike and bring out all the public sector
ROYAL Mail chairman Allan Leighton reiterated yesterday that the organisation cannot afford to improve its 2.5 per cent pay offer, despite staff voting 77...
US-UK Plays Sectarian Card In Iraq
YESTERDAY the role model for US-UK imperialism was Pontius Pilate, as the US military and Prime Minister Blair sought to wash their hands of...
Howard condemns ‘judicial activists’ as security risks
Tory leader Michael Howard was yesterday bending over backwards to give every support to the Labour Prime Minister Blair and his war against democratic...
Israeli worthless promise to de-escalate violence against Palestinians immediately followed by murderous settler attack
ON SUNDAY, a meeting in Jordan between top Israeli and Palestinian officials, called in a bid to halt the surge in deadly violence by...
The Fire Brigade Is Not To Blame For The Grenfell Inferno!
‘THE whole thing was hell, it was like a war zone,’ fire crew manager Charlie Batterbee, part of the first crew who entered Grenfell...
Holbrooke, Blair, Thaci, mafia wars and organ theft
THE Council of Europe has named the Kosovo Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, as a mafia leader who organised the sale of drugs and weapons...
Tory leader Badenoch wants to deport 150,000 workers a year using a Trump-style terrorist...
TORY Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged that she will deport 150,000 workers a year using Trump-style immigration squads in raids on working class...
US Federal Reserve is too scared to raise interest rates!
ON Thursday evening, the US Federal Reserve policy committee decided yet again that it did not dare to raise interest rates by a fraction...
Answer Cameron’s war on two fronts with a General Strike
DAVID Cameron’s speech outlining his ‘five-year plan to fight extremism’ was in reality an outline of the Tory government’s war plans for both the...
Miliband appeals to Tory and UKIP voters!
FOR many years the Labour Party projected itself as the champion of the working class, hence its very close ties with the trade unions,...
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...
Tory GP funding formula robs the poor and gives to the rich
A STUDY published this week in the British Journal of General Practice shines a searchlight on one of the main causes of ‘health inequality’...
Unemployment and inflation rising, as British capitalism crumbles!
THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 43,000 to 2.5 million during the three months to February, the highest figure since...
Rate cuts and printing pound notes – Brown’s recipe for disaster
THE Bank of England yesterday cut interest rates to 1.5 per cent, the lowest level in its 315-year history, since the start of the...
US crisis pauses before another leap forward!
THE deal pushed through Washington late Wednesday night to raise the US debt ceiling – at present standing at a massive $16.7 trillion –...
Close the EU’s concentration camps!
THE agreement between the EU and Turkey on dealing with the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist-inspired wars in the Middle East has...
Tory Would-Be Leaders Are Paralysed With A Fear Of The Working Class! Bring Them...
TUESDAY night’s live debate between the five remaining Tory hopefuls to replace Theresa May and become prime minister, was a stark demonstration of the...
Leaked documents reveal a failed mass-murder machine
THE leaked 90,000 US Afghan war documents once again show – as did the My Lai mass killings of the Vietnamese people – the...
Lessons from the 1984-85 miners strike
THE government papers released under the 30-year rule concerning the 1984-85 miners strike confirm that Thatcher and the Tories, despite their considerable preparations over...
Labour MPs and the trade unions must junk the Lammy plan to ditch trial...
DOZENS of Labour MPs have correctly attacked the plan of the Justice Minister and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy to axe trial by jury...
To defend jobs and pensions bring down the coalition!
UNIVERSITY STAFF and students are under massive attacks from the Tory-led coalition. Coalition ministers are pressing ahead with 25% funding cuts, and the UCU trade...
Forward to the Palestinian state!
ISRAEL’S Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ordered the termination of all non-security related coordination with the Palestinian Authority (PA), in response to the UN...
Labour Continues To Persecute The Poor
LABOUR’S leaders love the rich and have no time for the poor. As a government, Labour turned Britain into a second tax-free home for Russian...
Balls and Miliband argue for a permanent cuts regime
LABOUR leader Miliband’s speech of yesterday was a pre-election attempt to bolster up support from workers by arguing that Labour will be...