Chinese Stalinists’ bid to rescue bankrupt capitalism
CHINESE Stalinist leader President Hu Jintao has sent Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Vice President Xi Jinping on international visits in a vain attempt...
Long live the Iraqi, Lebanese and Palestinian revolutions! Drive the imperialists out of the...
IRAQI government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi told the official Iraqi News Agency on Saturday that the authorities are going to issue arrest warrants for a...
Answer capitalist crisis with a socialist revolution
ON Wednesday the world capitalist crisis deepened after the US Federal Reserve cut its interest rate from 4.75 per cent to 4.50...
Mandelson to read last rites for GM Luton – workers must occupy the plant...
BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson – who did not lift a finger to save the LDV van factory from administration, to which it was consigned...
Bankrupt Barber won’t fight for workers!
ADDRESSING the Scottish TUC yesterday, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber was desperate to show that the addition of another million unemployed in the next...
Terminal 5 – BA gets ready for its ‘Wapping’
THE buzz word in the financial media yesterday was ‘Wapping’. The media was referring to the union busting operation carried through by Rupert Murdoch in...
Russian Military Chief Warns Don’t Attack Iran
AN Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday that the Iranian government hopes that the International Atomic Energy Agency will produce an unbiased report on...
Labour plans ruthless cuts and mass privatisation of public sector to ‘save’ British capitalism
The Telegraph newspaper has revealed an internal letter from Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Treasury department ordering cabinet ministers to be ‘ruthless’ in identifying public...
Arm Ukrainian workers! Red Army must chase the junta out of Kiev!
THE UK-US-EU backed counter-revolution is now in full swing in eastern Ukraine, where no deed is too foul for their stormtroopers of the Right...
TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defeat anti-union laws!
Following the passing of the Strikes (Minimum Service Level) Act in July, the Tories on Friday launched a six week ‘consultation on the reasonable...
Massive turn-out of workers to fight Tory austerity
THE 250,000 workers and youth who marched on Saturday, along with the thousands who also marched in Glasgow and Liverpool, proved once again that...
Turning Mothers Into Informers
WITH the western powers losing their war in Syria, after the British and American workers refused to allow their governments to send troops or...
Labour Traitors Dance To Billionaire George Soros’ Tune!
AFTER their defeat in the House of Commons last Wednesday over the EU Withdrawal Bill, the billionaire George Soros’ ‘Best for Britain’ movement ...
Netanyahu under siege as he imposes sanctions on Palestine!
THE Israeli cabinet has approved the ‘legalisation’ of five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and further sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for...
New Curriculum abolishes childhood
THIS week, children and young people return to school in England where they face being subjected to a new education curriculum devised by the...
CQC head demands thousands of NHS bed closures!
DAVID Prior, the new head of the NHS regulatory body the Care Quality Commission, nailed his colours firmly to the Tory mast of privatising...
Brown lambasts Tube strikers and public sector workers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown mounted an outspoken attack on members of the RMT railworkers’ union on strike at the London Underground bankrupt maintenance company...
US-UK Beat War Drums Over The Ukraine – Workers Must Get Ready For General...
THE United States, and its NATO allies, with the UK in the lead, and the right wing Ukrainian regime out in front are daily...
Production Slump Shocks Coalition As Crisis Deepens
THE UK capitalist economy slumped in the fourth quarter of 2010, contracting by 0.5 per cent, instead of the meagre 0.5 per cent growth...
Turn the massive marches for Palestine into Socialist revolutions to smash capitalism!
SOUTH Africa’s Minister of Justice, Ronald Lamola, stood firm yesterday outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, maintaining that Israel has...
Sanctions on Russia rebound on US as countries dump the dollar as dominant world...
ONE OF the main consequences of the US-led sanctions designed to strangle the Russian economy and lead to regime change has been to hasten...
All out action needed to defend pensions and jobs
THE CWU is warning that 40,000 jobs will go as a result of increased mechanisation of the Royal Mail system. It is also objecting...
Labour’s knives are out for use against the UK’s working class and its youth...
THE future of the youth minimum wage is now under review by the former Health Secretary Alan Milburn. The alleged ‘social mobility’ expert has told...
Now sack the union leaders to bring down the Tories and bring in a...
THE ‘Leave’ victory in the just-held referendum constitutes a huge revolutionary victory for the working class and the poor of the UK who voted...
Coalition putting over-65s to work!
UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen by 65,000 in the three months to May, while the number of newly unemployed in receipt of the JobSeekers Allowance, for...
Capitalism in deflationary crisis
THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday unveiled a report entitled ‘Better Off Britain’ which it claimed offered a radical blueprint to raise living standards...
British capitalism is collapsing – TUC must call a general strike to kick out...
NEW car sales in Britain plunged in March by 15.7% compared to the same period last year, a massive drop that spells out the...
Sunak in crisis over Rwanda judgement while Starmer stands with Tories and US imperialism...
PRIME minister Rishi Sunak saw the Tory plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda shredded by the Supreme Court ruling them unlawful on Wednesday. Five...
A fighting Public Sector Alliance to defend wages and jobs
THE Communication Workers Union yesterday announced its latest plans for strike action after the first national strike for a decade last week, which was...
Respond To The Grenfell Tower Inferno With A Socialist Revolution!
IMMEDIATELY after the damning report on the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was published the House of Commons was packed with MPs...
Break with the EU NOW! Forward to a Workers Government and forward to the...
FOLLOWING 17m plus workers voting to ‘Leave’ in the 2016 EU Referendum, the UK is leaving the EU on March 29th 2019, two years...
Defend the NHS! Stop the wholly-owned subsidiaries in their tracks!
THERE are Unite and Unison trade union protests in York and Chesterfield today against moves by two NHS trusts to set up wholly-owned subsidiaries...
Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ is a national government
GORDON Brown yesterday launched his campaign to take over the job of Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. He spoke about his ‘new ideas and...
Stock markets around the world crash as the US plunges into recession
STOCK markets in Europe and Asia crashed yesterday morning as the international financial world suddenly woke up to the grim reality that US capitalism...
Action needed to defeat Royal Mail privatisation
NOTHING demonstrates the complete bankruptcy and downright treachery of the reformist trade union leadership more clearly than the gyrations being performed by the leadership...
Answer Tories’ ‘perversion of democracy’ with a general strike to kick them out
YESTERDAY’S meeting of the Tory ‘Brexit War Cabinet’ at Chequers was convened under conditions where the entire Tory leadership was openly at war with...
British forces in a crisis in Afghanistan
THE British army went into Helmand province in Afghanistan like lions, with their officers explaining that they were going to take on the Taleban,...
Football fans rise up to drive back the big capitalist bosses!
ON SUNDAY night, the investment bankers, venture capitalists and hedge funds, who own the six biggest football clubs in Britain, announced that they were...
Labour under Starmer, and UK capitalism are heading for state bankruptcy!
THE capitalist press is currently trumpeting the latest news from Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves, that she is set to unveil a £19bn black hole...
Israel is a terrorist state – while anti-Zionism is not a form of racism!
YOU can tell that the split and divided Tory party and capitalist class in the UK are in very serious trouble when they have...
TIME TO FIGHT FOR THE NHS – the Junior Doctors have shown the way!
THE official figures for NHS trusts in England for the first three months of the financial year (April to June) have just been released...
Labour trying to hide jobless figures
WITH unemployment set to go up by at least one million this year, to three million, the government is in a panic. Its panic is...
TUC Congress must call a general strike to support the State of Palestine
WHILE welcoming the limited ‘humanitarian pause’ in the Gaza war to allow the polio vaccination of young Gazan children by the World Health Organisation...
NHS privateer investigated for ‘unsafe’ GP Service
Serco, the country’s top privateer in the NHS and other public services, is under investigation over allegations that it ran an ‘unsafe’ GP out-of-hours...
Brics Challenge To Almighty Dollar!
MOSCOW believes that the US capitalists are targeting it with sanctions ‘because the events in Ukraine have not developed the way Washington scripted them,’...