Defend the NHS – Stop the job cuts – Bring down Blair and Brown
ON Tuesday, at the Prime Minister’s monthly press conference, the NHS chief executive, David Nicholson confessed that he did not know how many jobs...
150 Plus Contributors To The New York Times Organise Boycott For Palestine!
MORE than 150 contributors to The New York Times have announced a boycott of the paper’s opinion section, protesting its ‘clear bias’ in its...
Take strike action to support the firefighters and trade unionism
THE use of police dogs to ‘protect’ scabs at a south London fire station during yesterday’s one day strike by London FBU members shows...
Tory Nationality & Borders Bill will make rescuing refugees from drowning illegal!
ON MONDAY night, the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (the Policing Bill) passed its third reading in Parliament on its way to...
Youth in Europe erupt against more austerity
ON Sunday a mass movement of workers led by young people took to the streets of cities across Europe in a powerful demonstration of...
It’s much later than Brown or Blair think
THE working class electors in the safe Labour seat of Dunfermline and Fyfe ignored the crisis at the top of the Liberal Democrats, so...
Tory Austerity forces parents to rely on baby banks for essentials – time to...
IN LAST year’s autumn budget Tory chancellor Philip Hammond claimed that ‘austerity is coming to an end’ in Britain. Hammond’s claim backed up Theresa May’s...
Saudi air strikes in Yemen as it mobilises 150,000 troops
SAUDI Arabian forces, joined by nine other countries, have launched a military operation in Yemen against Shi’ite Houthi rebels, the Saudi ambassador to the...
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...
Rescue US – The Eu Bosses Plead With Chinese Stalinists
AS details emerge of the desperate measures hammered out in Europe on Wednesday night in an attempt to save the eurozone from collapse and...
The world capitalist crisis rattles bourgeois intellectuals as the working class turns against the...
IT is a fact that at times of acute economic crisis in the world capitalist system the minds of bourgeois economists and commentators are...
The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Stop Israel’s Mass Murder!
AN international human rights organisation says Israel is pressing ahead with a ‘systematic policy of targeting civilians’ in the Gaza Strip, including bombardment of...
Big Business To Access NHS Patients Data
IT was disclosed this weekend that by Autumn every high street pharmacy, from the local independent pharmacy right through to the giant supermarket chains...
Expropriate out of control banks!
THE giant international bank HSBC is ‘cast-iron certain’ to break the regulatory rules, the laws which are supposed to govern banking practices, again. These were...
Opportunist union leaders sell public sector workers’ future
OPPORTUNIST trade union leaders in the health, education and civil service sectors yesterday sold out the future of public sector workers by agreeing that...
Debt crisis requires social revolution
WHEN it comes to desperate, mindless optimism the French president, Francois Hollande, is a world leader. In a speech given in Japan over the weekend,...
Defend North Korea! Prevent nuclear war by a revolutionary disarming of imperialism!
IN AN OPEN declaration that it is prepared to plunge the world into a nuclear war US imperialism has threatened that it ‘is prepared...
No fighter planes for Ukraine – only a socialist revolution can stop imperialist war
UKRAINIAN president Volodymyr Zelensky turned up in Britain on Wednesday to address Parliament in a speech demanding that the UK supply fighter planes for...
US forced to back down over North Korea and agree talks
IN A DRAMATIC about face, US Vice President Mike Pence stated yesterday that the Trump administration is now looking at holding diplomatic talks with...
Turkish army invades northern Iraq while US planes bomb Syrian army
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called talks on Syria in New York for December 18-19. Kerry said that the United States and its...
Programme of action needed to prevent capitalist catastrophe
YESTERDAY Adams Childrenswear announced that it had closed down 111 of its stores throughout the UK, and that its remaining 160 shops would stay...
US seeking to destroy Venezuela – UK workers must take action
AFTER the failure at the Guri hydroelectric power plant left much of Venezuela without power last Thursday night, Venezuelan authorities, after a huge effort,...
Tuc General Council Must Meet To Defend Right To Strike!
COMMENTING on yesterday’s decision in the High Court banning the BA cabin crew strikes, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘This is a desperately...
Local elections being delayed as the crisis of UK capitalism deepens!
A FURIOUS backlash erupted on Thursday against the Labour government’s cancellation of May’s local government elections, which could deprive 10 million citizens of the...
Banks teeter on edge of collapse – Official
THE European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of its latest stress tests carried out on 123 European banks on Sunday, results which showed...
Refugees From Imperialist Wars Are Welcome – Our Enemy Is At Home!
YESTERDAY the Tory government started to make good its pledge to mobilise the full might of its state armed forces against a handful of...
Israel bombs ‘safe’ Rafah camp with Palestinians ‘burnt alive’ in melting tents
ON SUNDAY night, Israeli planes launched a devastating attack on a tent camp in the Tel Al Sultan neighbourhood in western Rafah which is...
Demoralised Davos surveys the debacle of the world capitalist crisis!
THE World Economic Forum meeting in Davos to celebrate capitalism finds the assembled chief executives, politicians and would-be prophets much more pessimistic and frightened...
Tories have insulted NHS workers by ‘rewarding’ them with a 1% ‘pay rise’. ...
NURSES, midwives and NHS workers around the country are enraged by the Tory plan set out in the Chancellor’s budget to ‘reward’ them with...
Smash Privatisation – Renationalise!
THE privatisation of the railways has been a complete disaster and for the families of those killed in rail crashes it is a disaster...
UK, US & EU Trade Unions Must Take Action To Establish The State Of...
THE Palestinian people are now being murdered by the Israeli ruling class with the UK, US and EU ruling classes looking on. The Ministry of...
TUC leaders must bin Johnson’s empty pledges and call a general strike to bring...
PM JOHNSON’S Tory conference speech was completely empty bombast that sought to cover over the economic catastrophe that is developing throughout the capitalist system...
As Capitalism Shuts Down Workers Must Be Mobilised To Fight For Socialism!
THE SCENE has been set for today’s budget by the crash of the stockmarkets on Monday March 9th when trillions of pounds were wiped...
Decade of Tory NHS cuts has disabled the NHS! 4.6m now wait for operations....
THE SURGE in coronavirus cases in January hit key services including cancer and even routine surgery, NHS England figures released on Thursday exposed. Over the...
Nationalise all Industry and Banks – not just Railways
THE demand for the re-nationalisation of the railways and public transport is becoming unstoppable, as workers and the vast majority of the middle classes...
BMA Is Hoping For NHS Deal While The Labour Government Is Getting Ready For...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) is calling on the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, to focus his time and attention on offering a deal that...
UK, US And EU Workers And Youth Must Support Iranian Revolution – The Enemy...
FRESH from his failure to grab Greenland US President Donald Trump has turned his attention to the Iranian Revolution and issued his warning to...
US-UK in a stampede to quit Afghanistan!
IN the light of President Obama’s determination to quit Afghanistan, and his acknowledgement that the US has been talking to the Taleban, the UK’s...
Pogromist Johnson Speaks Up For The Security Services
BORIS JOHNSON writes in Monday’s Daily Telegraph, in the wake of the Rigby trial, ‘the most important question now is how we prevent other...
Hands off Iran – Forward to the state of Palestine
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has voiced his ‘dismay’ over remarks by Iran’s president calling for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. Annan...
Chancellor Brown prudently bends his ‘golden rule’
CHANCELLOR Brown, in testimony to the Treasury Select Committee, has announced that he is bending his much vaunted ‘golden rule’ – that the government...
No recovery in the US, EU or UK – socialism the only way forward
THE UK’S Bank of England yesterday followed the lead of the US Federal Reserve Bank whose Chairman Bernanke had on Tuesday said that...
Labour splits apart as MPs turn on Starmer
STARMER’S government is splitting apart, as Labour MPs turn on the prime minister, accusing him of creating a ‘toxic culture’, after the latest development...
Blair launches anti-Brexit plot as Starmer raises remaining in Single Market and Customs...
THE wiping out of the Socialist Party and the Republican Party in France, the ruination of the Fifth Republic and the elevation of the...
British capitalism is breaking apart
THE one clear message that emerged from Cameron’s speech yesterday was that the political representatives of the capitalist class in Britain have given up...