Starmer’s Labour government in the ‘pocket of millionaires’ – time to bring it down
ON THE EVE of this week’s Labour Party conference, left-wing Labour MP Diane Abbott attacked the Labour leadership saying that under Keir Starmer the...
There must be sprinklers in schools! No more fire deaths! Kick the Tories out!
AFTER the horror of Grenfell Tower fire, where so many men, women and children burned to death, the big issue is ‘is anyone safe...
May has capitulated to the EU and looks to Labour for rescue! Time for...
TORY PM May’s latest capitulation to the European Union over Brexit has been met with furious anger from Brexiteers and others in her own...
Wind of Change blows through Labour Party conference as UK faces revolution!
THIS Labour Party conference has been different in that the members of the Party and the trade unions have taken it over, and turned...
US healthcare privateer to head NHS England!
WITH the appointment of Simon Stevens as the new head of NHS England, the Tory-led coalition have put in charge of the day-to-day running...
Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer foresees a summer of discontent organised by the far right
ASKED yesterday whether the country faced a ‘Summer of Riots’, the Labour Party Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer responded: ‘It’s obvious to me, and...
Build the Fourth International all over the EU – Forward with the European Socialist...
THE Greek Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) has announced that unemployment reached 27% last February, while youth unemployment (15-24 years old) reached 64.2%, from 54.1% in...
Brexit Moment Of Truth Fast Approaching! The Working Class Must Be Ready To Take...
YESTERDAY was the last working day before Parliament is due to be prorogued ahead of a new Queen’s Speech. The House of Commons is...
24.4% (5.64m) of Spanish workers are unemployed!
THE number of unemployed people in Spain reached 5,639,500 at the end of March, with the unemployment rate hitting 24.4%, with youth unemployment at...
Trump’s war on Venezuela draws condemnation from China and Russia
Russia and China have both expressed their support for Venezuela as it confronts a US blockade of oil tankers entering or leaving the country...
Osborne pledges balanced austerity budgets
CHANCELLOR Osborne used his annual address at the Mansion House on Wednesday night to announce that he will be selling off the government’s share...
Labour cutting thousands of jobs! Trade unions must bring Labour down with general strike!...
THE PCS trade union has responded to Labour’s huge civil service cuts pronouncements. A shocked and shaken PCS said: ‘The impact of making cuts will...
The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class – time to...
MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...
Tories secret plan for fire sale of NHS land and a mass closure of...
DETAILS of the secret Tory plan for a ‘fire sale’ of NHS land and buildings emerged yesterday following an analysis carried out for the...
Call national strike action! Form a public sector alliance!
OVER 12,000 postal workers are taking strike action today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and the executive dictatorship by Royal Mail, while...
‘Refugees are not Terrorists’ – the real terrorists are the bosses and bankers
LAST Saturday thousands of refugees and their supporters marched through the streets of the Italian capital, Rome, venting their anger over the police attack...
50 years since Chile coup – vital lessons for the working class today
MONDAY 11th September will be the 50th anniversary of the seizure of power by the Chilean military, led by general Augusto Pinochet, backed by...
Clarke Tells Blair It’s Time To Go
TONY BLAIR may not be able to recover his authority and leadership after recent damaging events, former Blair Home Secretary, Clarke has said. Charles...
Labour Champions The State Against Parliament
THE fact that the Home Secretary maintained in the House of Commons yesterday that she had not known Tory MP Damian Green was to...
NATO warmongers meet in Brussels
NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the ‘long-term security implications’ of Russia’s response to the US-UK-EU inspired coup in Kiev, and...
The Republicans Are In A Desperate Crisis While The Democrats Have No Way Forward...
US PRESIDENT TRUMP going down with the coronavirus has sharpened the crisis of the imperialist powers, including the UK, who were up till now...
End TUC collaboration with Tories
The news this week that Unison, the largest public sector union, has launched a legal challenge to the coalition government’s white paper on the...
Trade Unions Must Take Action Over Gaza
FORTY-THREE Palestinians were killed by Israeli tanks and rocket fire on UN-run schools late on Monday night and during Tuesday. The schools were well...
Save the NHS by bringing down the Tories and expropriating the bosses and the...
THE NHS is the greatest of the gains that the working class made in the period immediately after the Second World War. It was brought...
Israel lurches further right as Defence Minister Yaalon resigns!
THE resignation yesterday of the Israeli defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, signals a sharp turn to the right by the government of Binyamin Netanyahu. Yaalon announced...
Irish banks ‘death spiral’ – forward to socialist revolution
THE latest stage in the complete disintegration of the Irish banking system was described by one analyst of the capitalist market as a ‘death...
The Unity Of The Working Class With The Oppressed Nations Is The Way To...
IRAN launched a multiple missile attack against two bases in Iraq that contain US troops and other coalition forces on Wednesday night in retaliation...
Blair Wants Government Control Of Judges
THE Blair government announced yesterday through its Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, that it was going to bring in legislation that will tell judges how...
The US is being humiliated in Iraq – not Saddam
IT IS the United States of America that is being humiliated in Iraq and not Saddam Hussein. The idea that putting pictures – provided by...
Tory government responsible for thousands of unnecessary deaths – time to kick them out!
YESTERDAY marked the 10th anniversary of the BBC Panorama programme that exposed the shocking treatment of the patients at Winterbourne View, a private hospital...
Palestinians defiant as Gulf State rulers forge war alliance with Israel
YESTERDAY Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett met with the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayad al-Nahyan, in the first official state...
Answer The ‘Shock And Awe’ Budget With A General Strike
THE Tory-Lib Dem shock and awe budget is due next Tuesday. Already workers, pensioners and youth are calling for action against this savage attack that...
Revolution Emerging All Over Europe
THE Portuguese government has agreed to look for alternatives to th social security tax rise, just one week after huge anti-austerity street protests shook...
TAKE ACTION to stop Chase Farm closure!
THE Independent Reconfiguration Panel, set up to cut and close the NHS, has once again recommended to Health Secretary Lansley that the closure of...
Smash the capitalist state, sack the chief constables, no to police commissioners!
THE Tory-LibDem coalition is set to introduce a ‘reform programme’ for the police that will establish regimes of elected police commissioners, who will have...
Red Cross confirms that the Afghan ‘Black Hole’ does exist
THE Red Cross has confirmed that the US airbase at Bagram does contain a prison within a prison, complete with a torture chamber, that...
‘Israel’s war of annihilation won’t break our will!’
THE President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, has said that the Palestinian people will remain steadfast and adhere to their legitimate rights,...
Tory coronavirus inquiry is an attempt to put off reckoning with working class
ON WEDNESDAY, Tory prime minister Boris Johnson announced that there would be ‘a full and independent inquiry’ into the government handling of the coronavirus...
Bankrupt UK economy plunges deeper into slump
There was no cheer for the British bourgeoisie on Monday when three separate reports from the Institute of Chartered accountants and the accountancy group...
A Record £65.5 Billion Trade Deficit For 2005
THE UK trade deficit with the rest of the world for 2005 was a catastrophic £65.5 billion. The deficit on goods and services...
Hammond and Carney in ‘war games’
THE Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, and the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, were forced to sit a test...
US and South Korea ‘pour gasoline onto the fire’ says North Korea
THE US and South Korea have begun conducting annual military drills, ignoring North Korean appeals to halt the exercises. Last week North Korea appeared to...
Security Council Votes To Ban The Bomb – But Not Yet!
THE UN Security Council yesterday voted unanimously to oppose the spread of nuclear weapons, and that the nuclear powers on the Security Council must...
Reject Gate Gourmet mass sackings deal!
A MASS meeting of the 710 TGWU trade union members, sacked and locked-out at Gate Gourmet, will take place at the Monsoon Club in...
British MPs reduced to whinging while Taliban take control!
WHILE the Taliban’s top political leaders arrived in Afghanistan to take control of the country, British MPs held an emergency debate in Parliament yesterday...