Trump announces 5-day pause on military strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure
THE WORLD’S stock markets plunged upon opening yesterday morning following US president Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Iran that it had 48 hours to open...
Fatah junta seizes control of the West Bank
YESTERDAY President Abbas decreed the ending of parliamentary rule in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as he appointed an illegal government headed...
Trade unions must unite to defend bursaries and stop hospital closures!
TWO very important NHS trade union conferences are currently taking place this week, the RCN, nurses union, and the BMA doctors. Already the RCN supported...
Labour Set To Deport Thousands Of Asians And Africans
RETROSPECTIVE changes to the Highly Skilled Migration Programme (HSMP) which originally passed into law in 2006 will mean thousands of non-EU migrants being forced...
Tories are readying to impose new taxes, and engage in massive wage cutting! Remove...
EARLIER this week, Apple was priced on the US stock market at $2.3tn (£1.7tn), more than the combined ‘value’ of the entire FTSE 100. The...
Reply to the US-UK attacks on the Palestinians by making October 10th the first...
THE Hamas movement has condemned the Israeli occupation’s brutal aerial attacks on Hezbollah and the Lebanon as a ‘dangerous escalation’ and ‘part of the...
Israel To Invade Gaza After Bombing And Starving Its Population! The TUC Must...
THE WHO (World Health Organisation) has joined the United Nations in urging Israel to immediately halt its invasion of Gaza which has already been...
Capitalism has no ‘safety net’ to save it from economic crash
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) can no longer act as the world’s ‘lender of last resort’ according to a task force of currency experts...
World crisis deepening to explosion point!
JAPANESE stocks led big falls across Asia on Tuesday, posting their biggest drop in nearly 10 months, as investors became hysterical about falling oil...
Trump and Pence threaten Venezuela with military intervention!
PRESIDENT Trump, in his latest speech on restarting the Afghan war, made it clear he is not just interested in ‘killing terrorists’. He insisted: ‘We...
Stop The Council Cuts – Bring Down The Coalition!
COUNCILS all over the UK are poised to make the most savage cuts ever that will wreck and destroy local communities by destroying all...
EU implementing its regime-change plan for Greece!
GREECE’S Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras offered new concessions to the country’s creditors in a letter that was received by them last Tuesday. In the...
TORIES FACE WIPE OUT – WHILE LABOUR MPs PLAN EU ELECTIONS COUP!
WITH THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS fast approaching, the bourgeois democratic system through which the capitalist ruling class has ruled over the working class in the...
Lift the ban from the Gaza Under-19 team!
THE banning of the Under-19 Gaza football team from coming to play in Britain after they had been invited to play against Chester...
Baa And Virgin Air Industry Workers Are Ready For Action
NEWS LINE sends its greetings and full support to the British Airports Authority workers who have decided to take strike action at seven major...
Video intercept proves UK troops are operating in Ukraine as NATO risks nuclear war...
THE RELEASE last Friday of a video call between senior German military leaders has caused a massive row within the NATO countries with its...
Judiciary Now Leading The Charge Against 2016 Referendum!
WE ARE now reaching the moment of truth in the struggle to carry out the result of the 2016 referendum which instructed Parliament that...
GPs must follow junior doctors lead and strike to defend contracts and defend...
VERY ANGRY BMA GPs met in conference on Saturday where they carried motions to fight ‘underfunding’ and a rapidly growing workload that ‘threatened NHS...
Hamas urges workers of the world to take action and salutes the growing mass...
IN A statement issued on Friday to mark International Jerusalem Day, Hamas declared that the occasion arrives this year as the Palestinian people steadfastly...
Tories Consciously Undermining The Union!
THE Tories this week pushed through parliament their plans for ‘English votes for English laws’ under which only English MPs would have the right...
‘NHS Standing On A Burning Platform’ – Time To Deal With The Arsonists!
THE NHS is standing on a ‘burning platform’ is the stark assessment of Professor Sir Mike Richards, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of...
Starmer attacks strikers while ruling class prepares to ditch Tories for a new party...
THE general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), Jo Grady, delivered a stinging condemnation of Labour leader Keir Starmer yesterday after he...
Satellite to celebrate 30th anniversary of Iranian Revolution
IRAN launched its first satellite into space powered by its own rocket system, Safir-2, on Monday night. The research and telecommunication satellite was put...
Carter condemns Gaza blockade and urges talks with Hamas
EX-US president Jimmy Carter, who negotiated the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, yesterday called the Israeli blockade of Gaza ‘a crime’...
‘Blue Wave’ fails to remove Trump – the Democrats are part of the problem...
THE DEMOCRATS have taken control of the US House of Representatives in the mid-term elections, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump. However, the Republicans...
Defend living standards! Nationalise the oil and gas companies!
JUST a few months ago the UNISON leadership accepted the government’s below inflation wage cutting deal over three years. Now the union has had...
Italian workers show the way with massive strikes in support of Gaza – demand...
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth took action throughout Italy on Monday after Italian trade unions called a nationwide strike in support of Palestinians in Gaza and...
Japan Rearming To Back US Aggression Against China
THE Japanese government, ignoring yet again its own constitution, which bans Japan having aggressive military forces, has approved a new national security strategy, and...
WALSH SLAPS DOWN UNITE AND McCLUSKEY – Trade unions must call mass actions to...
THE Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has urged BA to step back from its ‘opportunistic fire and rehire’ plans, which will send thousands of...
EU moves to suspend all aid to Palestine
YESTERDAY the European Union followed the example of the US and suspended its aid to the Palestine National Authority. The EU has given $400...
brown proposes to rob the workers to rescue the bankers
YESTERDAY saw the big international push get under way to try to rescue the bankers of the world from the crisis of their capitalist...
Capitalism plunging into catastrophic banking crash – time to put it out of its...
LAST Friday the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed and its assets seized by the American Federal Reserve in the biggest banking crash...
TUC Leader O’Grady To Quit – TUC Must Organise General Strike For June 18th!
THE General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Frances O’Grady, is to step down after nine inglorious years at the helm of the...
Gm And Magna Reach Agreement In Principle
GENERAL Motors and Magna and its Russian partner Sberbank (which includes the Gaz carmaker) have reached an agreement in principle over the contract...
TUC urges Tories to ‘withdraw from the brink’. Stop pleading and call a general...
THE TORY government is refusing to hold any serious negotiations with the rail trade unions for the simple reason that it is introducing anti-strike...
Wall Street crashes. Capitalism goes over the brink!
LEHMAN Brothers and Merrill Lynch, two pillars of the capitalist world’s banking system, have gone. The first declared bankruptcy, after the US Federal Reserve...
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...
Unite leaders drop any criticism of Starmer – now is time to build a...
THE RULES conference of Unite, the largest union donor to the Labour Party, yesterday voted to reject a motion calling to disaffiliate from the...
Tory ‘power grab’ to save capitalism by bringing in a police state
THE TORY rush towards creating a police state controlled directly by the government has even got the chief constables and Police and Crime Commissioners...
Spanish youth shake Zapatero government
The Spanish municipal and regional elections that were held on Sunday took place under unprecedented conditions as thousands of youth and workers defied the...
Mandelson to read last rites for GM Luton – workers must occupy the plant...
BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson – who did not lift a finger to save the LDV van factory from administration, to which it was consigned...
Socialist revolution the answer to capitalist crisis
ONE SURE SIGN that capitalism is rapidly heading for an economic crash of historic proportions is the regularity in which increasingly desperate articles are...
Tories tearing each other apart over net zero emissions – prepare for revolution there...
GRANT Shapps, the Tory secretary of state for energy security and net zero, yesterday unveiled the government’s latest strategy to achieve net zero emissions...
The Bank of E grapples with the contradictions of the capitalist economy
IN its latest report the Bank of England monetary committee has rejected the line put forward in the budget by the Chancellor of the...
British capitalism is on the rocks of the capitalist crisis – the only way...
IN THE Daily Telegraph of January 1st one Robert Tombs writes under a headline: ‘As in 1914 and 1939, we may be sleepwalking towards...