Defend benefits! down with ‘universal credit’!
THE announcement yesterday that the work and pensions minister, Iain Duncan Smith, had won his battle with the treasury over bringing in a single ‘universal...
Head of Oxfam GB damns UK as ‘morally incoherent’ over arming the Israeli genocide!
THE head of Oxfam GB, Halima Begum, has damned the UK government for supplying arms to Israel while simultaneously providing humanitarian aid to Gaza...
Labour leaders split over increasing income tax and abolishing welfare state!
YESTERDAY’S ‘bombshell U-turn’ over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget plans not to increase income tax has exposed the civil war in...
Bosses want a nation of coolies!
WITH house prices increased by 10.2% (19% in London) in the last 12 months, and with rents at astronomic heights, plus rail fares about...
Energy bills will force millions into abject poverty – socialist revolution only way forward!
OVER one-in-eight UK households live in fear that they can’t make any further cuts to spending to pay the massive increase in energy bills...
Tory war against GPs must be answered by the entire working class kicking the...
THE TORY government has launched a vicious war against GPs. 778 GP surgeries have closed in the last eight years alone, forcing patients to move...
Tory plans for their police state! Step too far even for EU Courts
THE Tories’ new mass surveillance laws got a setback this week when the European Court of Justice ruled that its snoopers’ charter, the Investigatory...
Fighting Words Must Be Matched By Fighting Deeds!
LAST Wednesday, Dave Prentis, general secretary of the country’s second largest union, Unison, made a speech urging a ‘popular uprising in defence of the...
Abbas backs Hamas – no ceasefire till blockade ended
PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas has backed calls by Hamas for an end to the economic blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel as one...
Saudis hit again! Victory to the Houthis! End war on Yemen!
THE SAUDI regime has been hit again! The Yemeni Army yesterday released footage of a large-scale military offensive in which three Saudi brigades were...
Unite’s ‘line in the sand’ must be enforced with strike action and occupations
ONE of the leaders of Unite, the country’s largest union, yesterday stated that: ‘A line in the sand over further privatisation of the NHS...
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...
EU is going up in flames! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
THE European Union is like a huge powder magazine that started to smoulder even before the Brexit vote in the UK on June 23rd,...
BA seeks to put the boot into Heathrow workers
BA is seeking to put the boot into its workforce at Heathrow to create a climate of intimidation and fear. It has announced in its...
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...
MPs’ Committee fears new mortgage bubble!
A VERY nervous House of Commons Treasury Select Committee has just asked the Bank of England to clarify its role in ensuring that the...
WTO warns that a bigger crash than 2008 is on the way! Forward with...
THE WORLD Trade Organisation chief Roberto Azevedo said on Wednesday that the economic collapse and job losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic would be...
Following renationalisation of Southeastern, the trade unions must call a general strike to bring...
SOUTHEASTERN rail collapsed into public ownership yesterday with the RMT revealing the true cost of the government’s slavish devotion to subsidising private profit capitalism. In...
Imperialism Is On The Point Of Defeat As The World’s Financial Institutions Panic
THE IRANIAN ambassador in London, Seyed Ali Mousavi, has spoken to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg in a pre-recorded interview in which he correctly warned...
TUC must support the railworkers by calling a general strike to bring down the...
WORKERS up and down the country, struggling to feed their families in the face of a massive price inflation that is growing all the...
London’s Met police to be split with directly recruited detectives!
THE news yesterday that, for the first time, London’s Metropolitan police will be directly recruiting plainclothed detectives with no previous experience of policing is...
Inflationary crisis driving revolution across EU and UK! Time to build the Fourth...
AS INFLATION soars and the cost of petrol rapidly rises, workers across Europe are being forced to protest, with strikes spreading like wildfire. European energy...
£16.5bn for the military as Tories plan a war on public sector workers to...
THE TORIES have exceeded all previous borrowing records, taking the British bosses’ national debt to its highest level ever since records began, reaching £2.3tn....
Chuck out the coalition to deal with growing mass unemployment
UK unemployment has increased to 2.64m, a rise of 128,000 in the three months to October, the highest level since 1994, with 1,027,000 youth...
Iran has inflicted a major defeat on imperialism causing huge crisis for Zionist state
THE HUMILIATING peace deal that US president Donald Trump was forced to accept following the abject failure of the US-Israeli war on Iran has...
Tory Party Turns On Cameron Over Syria
PRIME Minister Cameron said last Thursday night that he would respect the defeat of his ‘strike Syria’ government motion by 285-272 in the House...
UK capitalism crashes under impact of energy crisis – put it out of its...
TORY ministers were locked in crisis talks with energy suppliers yesterday as the threat of gas shortages in Britain are so huge that they...
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...
Welsh government plans to implement Tory drive to close hospitals and destroy the NHS
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the Welsh government yesterday that it was embarking on a strategy to ensure patients only go to hospital when it is...
US fears its forces can’t fight war on two fronts
THE scale of the insurgency in both Iraq and Afghanistan has got the Pentagon rattled. It fears that the US strategic requirement, to be...
Human Rights Watch Denounces Israeli Apartheid Crimes!
AN international leading human rights watchdog, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), has accused the Israeli authorities in a 213-page report titled ‘A Threshold Crossed:...
Dollar collapsing as gold reaches $1,000 an ounce
ON August 15 1971, the then president of the United States, Richard Nixon ended the gold backing for the US dollar, which up till...
Magna to sack 10,000 – Woodley congratulates Mandelson and Brown
THE Unite trade union leadership has reacted to the news that GM has handed over GM Europe to Magna, in a deal bankrolled by...
We Salute The Heroes Of Paris Who Stood Up To 9,180 Riot Police Who...
IN PARIS, on Saturday, against the advice of the more moderate members of the ‘Yellow Vests’ movement, 10,000 French workers and youth demonstrated their...
TUC leaders condemn Autumn Statement but refuse to take any action!
THE TUC leaders are unanimous in their condemnation of the latest Tory autumn statement, but yet again refuse to call any action to bring...
3,000+ refugees have been on hunger strike in detention centres since 2015! Shut them...
THE HOME Office itself has produced figures showing that more than 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers have been on hunger strike in the last...
‘No strategy to deal with crisis’ – ruling class
‘WE HAVE no ability to turn the economy around. When the next recession comes it is going to be deeper and last longer than...
Starmer out! General strike from Oct 7th to defend winter fuel payments!
FRESH from his defeat at the Labour Party Conference by the successful vote against his policy to scrap the winter fuel payment to pensioners,...
Greek working class delivers blow to EU capitalism
THE victory of Syriza in the Greek election represents a huge blow by the Greek working class against European capitalism. Syriza, the coalition of the...
The English Revolution of 1640s becomes burning issue today
THE FRONT page of The Daily Telegraph yesterday led with an article headed: ‘John McDonnell threatens to march on the palace and tell the...
Capitalism Gripped By Historic Crisis
THE world crisis of capitalism is being hit by a convergence of the crisis to which all the central banks, economists and politicians have...
Chuck out the TUC leaders who are incapable of defending jobs and wages!
UNITE, the largest union in Britain and Ireland, reacted to the news that Sheffield University has decided to sack over 8,000 of its employees...
EU Makes A Fool Of Johnson – Time For The UK Working Class To...
THE BRITISH Prime Minister was given the ‘Greek plus’ treatment by the EU leadership on Monday when the EU assembled British ‘Remainers’ to boo...
Trade unions must act now and call general strikes to kick out Tories and...
THERE has been no let-up in the murderous bombardment of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a tiny city on the border with Egypt...
‘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...