Balls’ conscription for 16 to 18 year olds
SCHOOLS Secretary and chairman of the Fabian Society Ed Balls, has already made his mark in Britain. Before he became a minister he was part...
Stop The Dirty War In The Yemen!
AT PM’s Questions, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Corbyn raised the issue of the UK’s sale of...
Labour’s left leadership is paralysed as Blair and Co move in for second referendum!
PM May yesterday attacked former Labour PM Tony Blair accusing him of ‘undermining’ her Brexit talks by calling for a second referendum. In fact Blair’s...
US vetoes UN resolution on Gaza as it openly ‘stands with Israel’ in imperialism’s...
ON WEDNESDAY, the US vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution demanding ‘an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’ in Gaza. The draft resolution also...
SA hunger can only be ended by a socialist revolution
ONE in four South Africans are unemployed, and poverty is rife eighteen years after the release of Nelson Mandela and 14 years after he...
Down with all zero-hours contracts!
‘JOBSEEKERS’ will lose their benefits, or their Universal Credit when it is introduced, if they turn down zero-hours contracts, the government has said. This new...
Cutting wages is the key says BofE boss
BANK of England chairman Mervyn King’s speech in Winchester on Tuesday night was governed by a central axiom for the survival of British capitalism. He...
Imperialist War Equals Massacre And Dehumanisation
A US SOLDIER in Afghanistan has killed at least 16 civilians and wounded five men, women and children. Nato said it was investigating...
Severe Child Poverty On The Rise Under Labour
RESEARCH by charity ‘Save the Children’ has found that between 2004 and 2008, an additional 260,000 children were pushed into severe poverty in the...
Lobby TUC for general strike to bring down coalition
THIS year the Trade Union Congress meets in Bournemouth from the 8th to 11th September under conditions where, if the Tory-led coalition government have...
Kick out privatising hospital managers – place NHS under the management of medics and...
THE aftermath of the sentencing on Monday of Lucy Letby for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others at...
Labour’s plan to demolish the public sector
LABOUR’S Minister for Communities and Local Government, David Milliband, yesterday addressed the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) Annual Conference called ‘Empowerment not abandonment’. He...
Labour’s Programme Requires A Socialist Revolution To Carry It Out!
LABOUR’S manifesto has caused consternation within the ranks of the Tory press, with yesterday’s Telegraph editorial claiming it ‘amounts to nothing short of dismantling...
Baghdad bombings blow to Bush!
MORE than 200 people were killed in Baghdad on Wednesday in five bombings. This is the highest number of deaths in a single day...
Support Catalan independence! Down with the Spanish and EU ruling classes! Forward to a...
CATALAN leader Carles Puigdemont has called for a ‘democratic opposition’ to the imposition of direct rule from Madrid after the Spanish government terminated his...
Pakistani military is beseiged – but nuclear weapons are safe says Clinton
AT her press conference in London yesterday the US Secretary of State, Clinton, volunteered that the Taleban attack on the headquarters of the Pakistani...
Car Factories Could Be Closed In A Matter Of Weeks Says Unite! Occupy Them...
FOR THE first time since coronavirus erupted in China shutting down Chinese manufacturing, cutting off the supply of vital components and commodities to the...
After The 500,000-Strong Pro-Palestine Demo Last Saturday, The TUC Must Recognise Hamas As The...
THE Hamas Movement has confirmed that no aid has entered the Gaza Strip, accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of misleading international public opinion...
Bloody Sunday – Put the British State in the dock for murder along with...
YESTERDAY the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) announced that there was enough evidence to prosecute one soldier, soldier F, for the murder of two people,...
Business Secretary Reynolds can’t keep blast furnaces going!
THE British Labour government’s business secretary has refused to confirm if the government can get the sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep...
Bankrupt Italian Capitalism Is Set To Crash And Bring The Bankrupt Eu Down With...
ITALY’S economic crisis is reaching the point of explosion, an explosion that even bourgeois economists fear will bring down the eurozone and the entire...
Get Ready For War says NATO, as capitalist crisis reaches its explosion point!
‘CIVILIANS IN THE WEST must prepare for all-out war with Russia within the next 20 years’, a NATO Admiral, Rob Bauer warned in the...
Bankrupt Britain Faces Huge Welfare Cuts!
IN HIS Autumn Statement on the economy, Chancellor Osborne outlined many more years of severe austerity with billions more in welfare cuts to be...
Answer Tory plans to use military as strike breakers with a general strike...
With nurses and thousands of NHS workers planning to take national strike action next month over their demands for pay increases to protect them...
TUC calls Emergency Special Congress to fight anti-strike laws – demand it calls a...
FOLLOWING the Tories announcing on Monday that they had completed their ‘consultation period’ over the minimum service levels rules for railway, ambulance and border...
End misery of bankrupt capitalism with socialist revolution
LAST Friday the European Banking Authority released the findings of this year’s Stress Test for European banks. These stress tests, introduced one year ago, are...
Hamas’ statement on the ceasefire. Millions of British workers support Hamas – so must...
HAMAS and Israel have expressed in statements their readiness to resume hostilities after they agreed to a Qatar-mediated pause in fighting. The deal includes the...
A US Debt Default Is Behind Growing Demands To End Ukraine War!
THE White House National Security Council spokesman has sounded the alarm about the looming US debt default and the way that it is putting...
French workers confront Macron’s Thatcherite assault
TRAIN drivers and other workers at the French state railway SNFC began three months of rolling stoppages on Monday evening, as trade unions push...
Cluster bombs still killing Lebanese children
The UN’s humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, yesterday described Israel’s use of cluster bombs in south Lebanon during the final three days of the conflict...
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...
Lords defeat Tory police state bill – trade unions must now take action to...
THE TORY government’s plan for a police state dictatorship over the trade unions and all public protest movements took a big hit yesterday when...
Meet Tory payback time for working class with a general strike to kick them...
THE END of September is ‘payback time’ for the working class as far as the Tories are concerned. This is when all the debt incurred...
Spanish workers on the road to revolution
SPANISH PM Mariano Rajoy has just announced a 3% VAT rise from 18%-21%, and a series of austerity measures that will cut the Spanish...
After Bradford – No Change In Labour Policies
LABOUR Party leader Miliband said on Thursday that both national and local factors were to blame for the party’s massive defeat at the hands...
June 30th must be a one-day general strike!
PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union leader Mark Serwotka said yesterday, just before the massive vote for strike action on June 30th by his PCS...
Billions Being Laundered Through The City Of London – Nationalise The Banks!
HOME SECRETARY Amber Rudd has warned that billions of pounds have been laundered through the City of London. She has plans for a new...
Free Bradley Manning – The Exposer Of Imperialist Secret Diplomacy!
A MILITARY judge is expected to rule shortly on a request to dismiss all charges against the US soldier Bradley Manning, accused of passing...
Knives out in the Labour cabinet mask a crisis of bourgeois rule
JUST three members of the Labour cabinet put out a statement on Saturday supporting their leader Gordon Brown. Chancellor Darling, deputy leader Harman and skills...
How to win the firefighters struggle!
THE six-hour strike by firefighters on New Year’s Eve was a demonstration of the solidarity and determination of FBU members across the country to...
The struggle to seize Libya’s oil wealth intensifies with the US, Saudis, Egypt and...
AFTER over a month of fighting to take Libya’s capital, Tripoli, General Khalifa Haftar – who broke with Colonel Gadaffi to flee to the...
To deal with MRSA – end NHS privatisation!
MRSA is now linked to nearly 1,000 deaths each year in NHS hospitals. There is no doubt that it is a product of the...
Forward To The Victory Of The World Socialist Revolution – Smash Capitalism!
IT really is ‘scoundrel time’ when the bosses of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) admit that Britain’s economy is increasingly vulnerable if not...
Defend Public Services through a general strike
ON THE day that MPs were voting on going to war once again in the Middle East, a very senior civil servant made it...
Starmer Wants To Impose EU Laws Onto The UK Working Class
PM SIR KEIR STARMER has just unveiled legislation that will give the power to the PM to adopt EU legislation without giving MPs a...