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...
Reopen Mining Industry – No To Nuclear Power
British capitalism is today facing a massive energy crisis, largely of its own making. It was after all, Thatcher and Heseltine who shut down...
Re-nationalise the Railways
Yesterday’s announcement that the Tory-led coalition government’s much heralded investment in the railways is to be financed solely through fare increases is a catastrophe...
Prosecute bosses that do not pay the minimum wage! Overthrow capitalism!
‘NAMING and shaming’ bosses who refuse to pay workers even the minimum wage is not enough, trade union GMB correctly insisted yesterday, demanding...
Iran deals a heavy blow at US bases and assets across the region!
THE Iranian foreign ministry said yesterday that Iran’s armed forces have dealt a heavy blow to US bases and assets across the region, in...
Brown planned troops on the streets after Lehman collapse
IN 2008, the then-Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, actively considered ordering armed troops onto the streets of Britain as his response to the collapse...
Shut Down Young Offenders Institutions – The Only Future For Youth Is Through A...
THE DISGRACEFUL conditions imposed on ‘youth offenders’ have been revealed by another report from Peter Clarke the chief inspector of prisons in England and...
UK workers must support the struggle for Palestinian state!
EARLY on Wednesday morning Israeli occupation forces shot and killed two Palestinian youth, a 17-year-old and a 20-year-old, and injured at least two others...
PM May gets panic attack – Labour must get after the Tory fox, and...
IN HIS Birmingham rally on Saturday Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, got an ecstatic welcome from masses of people for his denunciation of the Tory...
The Capitalist System Deserves To Perish
THE run on shares last Friday, particularly bank shares, devastated capitalists and capitalism. The Royal Bank of Scotland saw its shares crash by 25 per...
Defend the NHS with a general strike! Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry!
ONE in five new drugs will be rationed on the NHS under new plans to ‘save the health service money.’ This is the latest...
Homelessness rises by 134%! Socialist revolution needed to build millions of council homes!
HOMELESSNESS has risen by a startling 134% since the Tories came to power in 2010, with the amount of people sleeping on the...
Blair criminalising an entire nation
YESTERDAY the Labour government was carrying on with its campaign to demonise the country’s youth, reaching truly laughable levels of trivial pursuit. Its supporter,...
Trump Can’t Get Rid Of Obamacare – But US Workers Can Get Rid...
PRESIDENT Trump’s efforts to smash ex-President Obama’s healthcare system, which provides cheaper health insurance for the low paid and the poor (Obamacare), have...
Bury bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism
SUNDAY marked the fifth anniversary of the biggest banking collapse in the history of capitalism to date. On 15 September 2008 Lehman Brothers, a massive...
Khaddam Calls For Syrian Uprising
THE former Syrian Vice-President, Abdul Halim Khaddam, set himself up as a would-be Quisling for President Bush yesterday, after he called for a...
Make the TUC call a general strike now to boot out the Tories and...
RAIL, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) members will be joined by many other trade unionists today at 7.00am and on Saturday 26th March at...
Greek workers on the march to socialist revolution
THE Greek working class, Greek youth and the majority of the middle class and the small farmers have battled the EU imposed austerity programmes...
US-UK rescues ISIS fighters from Raqqa – no doubt they will now be sent...
PM MAY made crystal clear yesterday that Russia is the main enemy of crisis-wracked UK imperialism. In fact, Tory newspapers have been making it...
Judges and lawyers demand end to UK arms to Israel. It’s time the TUC...
OVER 600 UK lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including three former supreme court justices, have written to Rishi Sunak warning that the UK...
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...
Demand the TUC call a general strike to defend NHS workers from Tory pay...
IF THE Tories hoped that the last minute scramble to head off the anger of NHS workers by increasing the derisory and insulting 1%...
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...
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...
1,000 Israeli reservist pilots publicly demand an end to the Gaza War!
UP to 1,000 Israeli pilots and aircrew published a full-page letter in multiple Israeli newspapers on Thursday directly challenging prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal...
Crown won’t prosecute police killers
AT a briefing on their investigation into the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station on July 22, the Independent Police...
All Asians Are Suspect Says Special Branch
FOLLOWING the remarks of Dannatt, the armed forces chief of staff, about the country having lost its ‘moral compass’ since the ‘anchor of Christian...
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...
Socialist revolution is the answer to capitalist austerity and poverty wages
OVER a million public sector workers across Britain are paid poverty level wages according to a report issued yesterday by the Living Wage Foundation. 1.2...
Second wave drives deaths up by 98%! Get rid of capitalism now … it’s...
THE SECOND wave of coronavirus has hit the UK with devastating consequences, and the Tory government’s efforts at bringing in measures to curb the...
Education cuts and £9,000 fees destroying the future for youth
AFTER record A-Level results, hundreds of thousands of students will be refused university places this year because of the coalition’s savage cuts policy. After being...
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...
Tory government imploding – time for unions to call a general strike to kick...
THE ECONOMIC crisis engulfing British capitalism is causing a seismic split in the Tory government, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a rebellion from...
UK capitalism is heading for a crash. Socialist revolution is the only solution!
PANIC has erupted in the UK government after economic data released on Thursday revealed that UK production crashed to just 0.1 per cent of...
Parliament Is Being Broken Apart By Brexit Crisis!
PM MAY is facing a revolt from at least 15 Tory MPs who are threatening to vote with the majority of Labour MPs...
Syriza trying to carry on from where the former government left off!
SYRIZA policy going into the general election, through which it came to office, was to write off most of Greece’s 322bn euro debt. It demanded...
‘Sell Everything!’ Shrieks The Rbs!
IN his November Autumn statement, Chancellor Osborne was full of optimism that the crisis of world and British capitalism was being resolved, with his...
No ‘windfall tax’ – nationalise the energy companies
TORY ministers are in a state of despair over the complete inability of the Johnson government to come up with any measures to ‘help’...
Scrap Academies – restore free state education
THE Academy school project – to replace state owned schools, with ‘independent’, millionaire sponsored, and privately run schools, who hire the staff that...
The Bank of England is set to embark on a series of interest rate...
THE UK has ‘no alternative’ but to hike interest rates in a bid to make borrowing much more expensive to try to slow down...
BoE chief: British capitalism ‘turning clock back’ to 18th century!
THE SPLIT in the leading bodies of the Bank of England over whether or not to raise interest rates has emerged just shortly after...
Tuc Congress Must Demand All British Troops Out Of Afghanistan!
WITH ten British troops killed in Helmand province so that just hundreds of people could vote – and after five per cent turned out...
Yemen defiant in face of imperialist onslaught – Forward to victory of World Socialist...
ON SUNDAY, thousands of Yemenis marched through the streets of the capital Sana’a against the US/Saudi blockade of their country and holding American imperialism...
Don’t be foolhardy – Bush urges Chinese Stalinists
PRESIDENT George W Bush on Wednesday said China would be ‘foolhardy’ to push down the dollar in retaliation for the massive US pressure...
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...