BHS workers’ jobs and pensions destroyed as firm is looted!
THE decision on Thursday by the administrators to close all 163 BHS stores and throw 11,000 workers out of a job with immediate effect...
On the eve of massive cuts – the cry goes up to ‘redefine ...
THE number of children living in poverty in the UK remains 2.3 million, government figures show. This situation has seen thousands of families depending on...
Unions must call a general strike to support Gaza and put an end to...
THE Bureau of the UN General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People reaffirmed last Wednesday night its...
Sack TUC traitors who collaborate with Tories and bosses – Build a new leadership...
CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak opened his Budget speech on Wednesday with an appeal to ‘put aside party politics, and act in the national interest’ in...
Sack the RBS bankers! Workers management of the nationalised banks!
CITY Minister Lord Myners yesterday said shareholders should take action to stop million pound bonuses after Royal Bank of Scotland directors threatened to resign...
Support RMT Southern strikers, defend rail safety and jobs with them, and renationalise the...
EVERY worker in the country, not just every commuter, must support the five-day RMT strike action on Southern. It is a fight for jobs, and...
Oil Price Rises Driving Up Inflati0N
RISING crude oil prices are driving up the price of petrol at the pumps. Petrol is now at around 92 pence a litre, an increase...
After 100 days – Cameron pledges to step up class war!
PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...
Terrified British Ruling Class Spies On The Workers
THE ruling class’s national DNA data base has on it a sample of the DNA of every person in the UK who is arrested,...
14,000 Iranian university professors condemn attacks on IRGC!
MORE than 14,000 Iranian university professors have condemned the European Union’s designation of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a so-called terrorist organisation,...
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...
Tories Want To Go From Starving Children To Pauperising Pensioners!
THIS week Tory prime minister Boris Johnson was forced to make a humiliating retreat over free school meals following a campaign led by the...
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...
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...
No Sell-Out Deal With Eu! Forward To Socialism In The UK And To The...
THE government of Boris Johnson has reached decision point over the EU. It is to be made under conditions of a growing and terrible...
Anc Leopard Will Not Change Its Spots!
TOP members of South Africa’s ruling ANC party met yesterday to discuss the political crisis that has emerged in the wake of the ANC’s...
Greek vote provokes revolutionary crisis
YESTERDAY''S Greek presidential vote heralds the start of a fresh eurozone crisis that threatens to bring down the Eurozone and with it the whole...
Corbyn On The Ballot Paper – Another Defeat For Labour Right Wing!
THE decision of the Labour Party NEC in a secret vote, by 18-14, for Labour leader Corbyn to go forward onto the leadership ballot...
Trade unions, the economic crisis and the class struggle
Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC, and other trade union leaders met secretly with David Cameron last week, the first such meeting between...
Labour leaks its Fabian draft programme for keeping capitalism and the EU!
THE leaked draft of Labour’s election manifesto yesterday brought out the predictable headlines in the press warning of the dangerous ‘socialist’ Jeremy Corbyn. But a...
Tory austerity gives workers choice of ‘eat, heat or pay rent’ – Time to...
‘EAT, heat or pay rent’ that is the stark choice facing millions of low paid and unemployed workers living in private rented accommodation in...
Tottenham Uprising – The First Of Many
THE uprising that took place in Tottenham on Saturday night came 48 hours after the police shooting of a local man, Mark Duggan, and...
Kenyan explosion rooted in land theft and the capitalist crisis
KENYA has been convulsed for nearly a week by an uprising of the poor and the landless who have been absolutely pauperised by the...
Assad warns of new war danger in the Middle East
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad warned yesterday that the Israeli attack on the Gaza humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters, in which nine Turkish citizens...
Milburn makes his move for the Labour leadership
TWO former Cabinet ministers have e-mailed all Labour MPs, calling for an ‘open debate’ on the party’s future. The two are Charles Clarke, the ex-Home...
it’s your money for your life says NICE
IF NICE and the ‘NHS health reformers’ have their way, free health care at the point of need is destined for the dustbin of...
UK An Out-Of-Control Police State!
THE revelation by Sky News of the ‘Stingray’ programme, where fake mobile phone towers are set up to capture people’s mobile calls without their...
Riga humiliation for Bush and NATO
WHILE President George Bush was condemning EU leaders for not sending more forces to Afghanistan to fight the Taleban, officials of the main central...
China, Russia Vote For Security Council Savage Sanctions Against North Korea
THE UN Security Council last Friday unanimously adopted a new set of draconian US-proposed sanctions against North Korea to further strangle its energy supplies...
Defend Iran Againstfrench And US Threats
THE French government is threatening Iran with retribution if it does not give up its nuclear energy programme. The French Prime Minister, De Villepin, one...
Putin’s speech confirms the bankruptcy of the Stalinist bureaucracy
RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin opened his annual State of the Nation address on Wednesday by highlighting that Russia has been able for the first...
Bring Down The May Government, Quit Eu And Bring In Socialism!
GENERAL LORD Dannatt, the chief of the General Staff from 2006-2009, writing in The Daily Telegraph, has bemoaned the ‘national embarrassment of almost...
Labour and Tories ‘virtually indistinguishable!’ says the press!
IN A DAMNING assessment of the Tory government, The Daily Telegraph yesterday declared that: ‘The Tories under Rishi Sunak have shifted further left, 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...
Labour Cabinet Minister Fears For Her Seat
THE Labour government’s policy to cut, close, reconfigure, and privatise the NHS has caught up with a number of senior government ministers, including leading...
Bank of England – workers must pay for capitalist inflation – Only socialist revolution...
NOT TO WORRY about spiralling inflation, MPs were told on Monday by senior members of the Bank of England, as the soaring cost of...
Bourgeois Democracy Is A Fraud! Brexit Needs A Socialist Revolution!
ON TUESDAY night prime minister Theresa May suffered a humiliating defeat on a vote on the Tory finance bill - when an amendment which...
The first step towards a government of generals
GENERAL Sir Richard Dannatt is to become Defence Minister if there is another Tory government. He will do so, not by becoming a Tory MP...
Britannia sinking beneath the waves of the capitalist crisis!
THE bourgeois media is currently working overtime publicising the ‘bad news’ about the British capitalist economy. Everybody now knows that youth unemployment (the 16-24 age...
Revealed – plan for US imperialism to take complete control of Gaza after Palestinians...
ON Sunday, the Washington Post paper reported details of a 38-page ‘prospectus’ that is circulating ‘within the Trump administration’ laying out plans to ‘take...
Enemy Well And Truly Inside The Gates!
SIMON Stevens the new Chief Executive of NHS England is no stranger to the NHS and the struggle to privatise it. He was chief...
Defend car jobs! Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot!
VAUXHALL Chairman Jonathan Browning announced yesterday that the General Motors (GM) subsidiary is to cut about 900 jobs, by the end of August, at...
What Should Be Done About Gordon Brown
DAVID Miliband yesterday urged the Labour Party to rally behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is facing mounting opposition in the working class because...
US–UK organising Palestinian civil war
THERE is no doubt that the US and UK ruling classes are hard at work seeking to organise a Palestinian civil war. The object is...
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...