Banking ‘reforms’ won’t stop them collapsing
Yesterday in parliament the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, announced that the coalition government intended to accept ‘in full’ the proposals on reforming the banks...
NATO’s arms being exported from Libya to terrorists everywhere
THE NATO armed intervention that supported the Islamist revolt in Libya succeeded in murdering Colonel Gadaffi and smashed up the most advanced and prosperous...
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...
Trump Is Organising A US Coup Not A Presidential Election Campaign!
IN HIS FOURTH of July speech US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claims are out to...
28th anniversary of declaration of Palestinian independence!
SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saed Erekat said yesterday that the international community has failed in its responsibility to correct the...
Businesses threaten to relocate before Brexit! Nationalise them and put them under workers’ management!
RESEARCH for the Institute of Directors showed yesterday that a third of UK businesses are considering moving abroad after Brexit. The IoD said that...
Unions must act NOW to reinstate Gate Gourmet workers!
TODAY scores of T&G members will be picketing the Gate Gourmet plant at Heathrow Airport, as they have every day since they were locked...
UK gov is bullying councils to keep schools open – while TUC issues mass...
THE Johnson government’s Covid-19 crisis intensified as it ordered London and most of Essex and Hertfordshire to join Tier 3 at 00:01 GMT yesterday. This...
Forward to the end of the occupation of Iraq
BOTH American generals and ex-British ambassadors have been predicting that Iraq is either on the brink of civil war or that it has already...
‘Prime Minister’ Brown shows the City he is their man
Gushing Gordon Brown began his speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet on Wednesday night, by exhibiting his fawning subservience to the audience of bankers....
Build the Fourth International – the world party of the socialist revolution!
ON Thursday, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, issued the starkest warning yet that the debt crisis gripping the eurozone...
Bring down the crisis-ridden Tories – forward to a workers government and socialism!
GOVERNMENT plans to increase National Insurance levels for self-employed people – announced in the Budget last week – have been dropped by the Tory...
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...
No single market! No Customs Union! TUC call a general strike to...
THE DIVISIONS within the Tory Party are rapidly sharpening, with an ever widening gulf between those who want to remain in the EU and...
Unions must take strike action over wages & jobs!
YESTERDAY’S inflation rate figures for January are not a shock, in fact, they are an understatement of what the real inflation rate is, as...
Left Fabianism cannot beat the bosses! Forward to the British socialist revolution!
LABOUR Leader Corbyn, launching Labour’s manifesto at Bradford University yesterday, sought to launch a gradual Fabian ‘revolution’, at a snail’s pace, to begin to...
Don’t raise rates Chambers of Commerce warns B of E
ON the eve of the Bank of England’s monthly Monetary Policy Committee meeting over the Bank’s interest rate, the British Chambers of Commerce has...
City Link Closure The Prelude To New Year Class Showdown!
THE Christmas Day announcement that parcel delivery firm City Link had gone into administration was ‘disgraceful’, the RMT said yesterday. Its general secretary Mick...
Tories abandon Leeds leg of HS2! All unions must strike to kick Tories out...
THE TORY government announced the scrapping of the Leeds leg of the HS2 (High Speed Two) rail on Thursday and in doing so has...
Bring down the May government – nationalise the banks and major industries!
BEFORE the Brexit referendum on June 23rd the masses of British workers refused to capitulate to the vast barrage of propaganda from...
Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ equals US imperialism making war on workers of the world
PRESIDENT TRUMP has launched his ‘Liberation Day’ offensive against the working class of the world, including the workers of the USA. Trump, in retaliation for...
High Court rules Tory laws on use of agency workers to break strikes is...
THE Tories suffered a setback yesterday in their drive to legalise strike breaking when the High Court ruled that its agency worker regulations are...
The only way to really defend Venezuela is for the working class to smash...
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech last Tuesday night that a coup attempt by a small group of the military had...
Migrants contribute zero says May and adds ‘Send them back!’
THERESA May, at the Tory Party conference yesterday, knocked any notion that there could be a caring Tory Britain on the head as she...
CWU leaders capitulate to Royal Mail bosses – Time to build a new leadership...
LAST Friday, the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) finally revealed to their members in Royal Mail (RM), details of the treacherous sell-out...
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’...
Taleban Offensive Actions On The Rise
THERE is no need for major changes in current Afghan strategy, US president Barack Obama told Congress according to a letter released by the...
Smash Imperialism To Get Rid Of Nuclear Weapons!
WORLD leaders at the Washington summit on nuclear security have heard the direst warnings yet from President Obama of the danger of nuclear...
IRA gives up armed struggle to join the democrats
‘All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms. ‘All Volunteers have been instructed to assist the development of purely political and democratic programmes...
As world crisis deepens the UK working class needs to take power and bring...
THE working class of the world faces a revolutionary autumn and winter, as the major imperialist powers step up their war in the Ukraine...
Bank of England poised to raise interest rate as inflation spirals out of control!
THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, has issued the starkest warning that the UK economy faces a massive inflationary spiral and...
Tory counter-revolution must be defeated!
THE Tories yesterday announced that as part of the autumn anti-trade union legislation they will be stopping public sector workers automatically paying subscriptions to...
No support for imperialist war in Syria – forward with world socialist revolution
TODAY, the House of Commons is to engage in an emergency debate on Britain joining the US bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria. In this...
Call Day Of Action To Defend The NHS
A BLOC of twelve trade unions have joined together to campaign against the Labour government’s health service ‘reforms’, that is the Brown-Blair programme for...
White Helmets are ‘the right kind of terrorists’ as far as Tories concerned
THE TORY UK immigration minister Caroline Nokes told the BBC that Britain had ‘resettled’ as refugees 100 members of the notorious White Helmets group and...
Tory Coalition Turns To Civil War Tactics!
THE Tory-led coalition is planning to reintroduce the Riot Act nearly 40 years after it was abolished in England and Wales. Under proposals set out...
Ukraine – Under The Iron Heel Of The Imf!
THE coupist regime in Kiev has reached a preliminary deal with the International Monetary Fund to try to unlock $27 billion of ‘international support’...
Israel is an ‘apartheid regime of Jewish supremacy!’ says Israeli human rights group B’Tselem
THE Israeli Human Rights group B’Tselem has issued a paper stating that Israel is not a democracy but an ‘apartheid regime’ that systematically oppresses...
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...
US Forming New Military Alliance
US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice arrived in the Ukraine yesterday, and immediately interfered in Russia’s internal affairs, condemning Russian legislation that will restrict...
Inflation rising – slashing wages and threatening jobs! Trade unions must take action to...
INFLATION rose to 3.1% in November, the highest in nearly six years, as the squeeze on households continued and prices rose, slashing further into...
EU slumps while UK inflation rises!
THE eurozone economy shrank in the third quarter from April to June by 0.2%, with France having a third consecutive quarter of no growth...
Trump Courts North Korea To Avoid A War On Two Fronts!
THE SIGNED Joint Statement of US President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, issued from the Singapore Summit yesterday morning, commits Trump ‘to provide...
Bank of England hike in interest rates will push workers and the middle class...
YESTERDAY’S announcement by the Bank of England of an increase in interest rates from 0.5% to 0.75% will be disastrous for the vast majority...
‘Tanks not Welfare’ demands the capitalist class. Bring them down with a general strike...
HUNDREDS of thousands of Iranians marched defiantly in Tehran and other Iranian cites yesterday in solidarity with Palestine against Israeli genocide, for a Palestinian...