Turkish crisis strengthens the Syrian people and President Assad
SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that the Turkish president Erdogan may be using the ‘coup attempt’ in Turkey to eliminate his opponents...
EU and the US ruling classes are the enemy of the world’s poor and...
A CHARITY rescue vessel, the Alex, on Saturday brought 41 shipwrecked migrants into port in Lampedusa. This is the second boat to defy Italy’s...
Sack Gove, May and Cameron! TUC must call a general strike to bring down...
EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove, who has carried forward the privatisation battle against the teaching trade unions, and driven forward the Free School-Academy agenda,...
Chagossians must have the right to return – the US base on Diego Garcia...
A BIG delegation of the 2,000 Chagossians who are living in Crawley, plus delegations from the FBU, GMB and POA trade unions will be...
Labour right-wing renegades split, time to kick out the rest and demand a socialist...
AFTER weeks of speculation, seven right-wing Labour MPs announced yesterday that they are resigning from the Labour Party, citing ‘institutional anti-Semitism’ and the ‘shameful’...
World capitalism collapsing into wars and economic crash – Forward to the victory of...
THE World Economic Forum commenced its annual meeting at the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos this week with US president Donald Trump due to deliver...
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...
Unemployment Crisis Deepening
TOTAL unemployment stood at 2.46 million for the three months to December, down 3,000 on the figure for the previous three months. However, long-term...
30% rise in the numbers ‘sleeping rough’!
THE number of people forced to live and sleep on the streets has more than doubled since 2010, the year the Tory-led coalition came...
Illegal and deadly restraints still in use, smash the racist capitalist state
Just 16 months after a man died whilst being restrained by private security guards on board an aircraft, the House of Commons home office...
The TUC and the public sector must support the postal workers’ struggle
WITH the result of the CWU Royal Mail industrial action ballot due on Thursday, the bosses are getting ready for action, while the position...
Dictatorship in Greece – socialist revolution the only way forward
THE unelected and EU-imposed Greek ‘interim’ PM, Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank who played a major part in getting Greece...
Starmer clears out Corbynite Long-Bailey to clear the way for a national government with...
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has unceremoniously sacked shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. This is the MP who was the main contender standing against...
A bankrupt Tory budget for a bankrupt Britain!
CHANCELLOR Hammond outlined a bankrupt policy for a bankrupt Britain yesterday in the House of Commons. The paper-thin disguise for this bankruptcy was Hammond’s...
Gaza – Israeli soldiers admit killing Palestinians without restrictions, out of ‘boredom’!
THE Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Wednesday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into recent confessions by Israeli soldiers...
Gm-Fiat Shock For World’s Motor Workers
GENERAL Motors is about to end its ‘honeymoon’ relations with the US motor workers’ trade union, the UAW. Up till now the UAW leaders have...
British workers must make the TUC call a general strike to bring in the...
THE United Nations has confirmed that more than 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave Rafah, amid intensified Israeli strikes on the southern city...
Imperialism threatens Iran but is fearful of the working class at home!
Donald Trump’s belligerent ‘last-chance’ threat to Iran to resume diplomatic talks about abandoning its nuclear programme or face US military attacks in two weeks,...
No State Control Of The Media!
THE OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), the political cloak for NATO, has issued a warning about the agreement to establish an...
The BBC supports starving the people of Gaza
THE BBC is part of the British capitalist state whose job it is to look after the interests of the ruling class. It has...
Tory contempt for working class as Sunak offers ‘work coaches’ to solve mass unemployment
YESTERDAY Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his new Job Entry Targeted Scheme (JETS) that he claimed will ‘provide fresh opportunities to those that 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...
Workers targeted by loan companies to pay for private medical treatment
‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) deals, along with other personal loan arrangements, are being aggressively pushed out for NHS patients as part of the...
Hands Off Syria – Smash The Gulf Feudal Regimes
THE Syrian government has informed the UN envoy, Kofi Annan, that it will respect the cease fire agreement that it is a party to,...
Labour Party leaders move to stab Brexit in the back! Forward to a political...
AS IS to be expected the Labour leadership has been unable to hold fast to the Corbyn line that the party will support Brexit....
Oxfam’s Pleas To The Bankers Will Be Ignored – World Revolution Is The...
‘THE IMF must abandon demands for austerity as the cost-of-living crisis drives up hunger and poverty worldwide’ is the demand being made by Oxfam. Oxfam’s...
Now is the time to build the world Trotskyist movement!
ON Wednesday, the general secretary of the TUC, Frances O’Grady, penned another begging letter to the Tory government, this time to the Secretary of...
Nationalise The Banks Jail The Bankers
THE capitalist media has been forced, in recent days, to reveal some of the misdoings of the great banks that stand astride the...
Blair Wants To Split The Labour Party And Join With Remain Tories And Lib-Dems!
THE DEPTH of the crisis of the UK ruling class can be gauged by the fact that they have been forced to bring the...
Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
ON TUESDAY over three million French workers took to the streets with massive demonstrations in Paris and Marseilles to make sure that Sarkozy got...
‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher’ the Daily Telegraph advises Tory...
SATURDAY’S Daily Telegraph gave the Tory leadership candidates some advice. This was: ‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher – and the...
Make Feb 1st the start of a general strike to kick out the Tories!
THE Tory ‘Strikes (Minimum Services Levels) Bill’, unveiled by business secretary Grant Shapps this week has been criticised by sections of the bourgeois press...
Build Fourth International Throughout Africa
THE victory of the strike of the Lonmim miners will inspire not just the workers of South Africa and Africa as a whole, but...
Economic Crisis Deepening! More Austerity And A Banking Crash On The Way!
A LEAKED document obtained by the Labour Party has revealed that the Treasury faces a black hole of up to £16bn in its finances...
UK military torn apart by ‘internal warfare’
THE ARMED wing of the British capitalist state is being torn apart by ‘internal warfare’, according to a report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph. This major...
Organise a general strike to kick out the Tory-LibDem regime
EVERYONE has had the chance to work out what the Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition government’s Comprehensive Spending Review means, with £81bn in cuts hitting jobs...
Trade Unions must occupy hospitals threatened with closures! Come to the ATUA conference!
THE NHS is the battleground within which the class struggle in this country is being fought out to the finish. The Tory government plans...
Mossad’s prints all over Gaza bombing!
YESTERDAY in the aftermath of the bombing in Gaza that killed five leading Hamas fighters, and a five-year-old girl, accusations and counter-accusations were being...
ICC prosecutor ‘equates the victim with the executioner’ in proposing arrest warrants for Israeli...
YESTERDAY, Karim Khan KC, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), issued a statement proposing that arrest warrants be issued for Israeli...
Labour demands students foot the bill to bail out bankrupt universities
ON Monday, Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced that university tuition fees will be increased for the first time in eight years. Phillipson’s increase means...
Home Office is ‘institutionally racist’! The way to end the ‘hostile environment’ is to...
THE HOME Office is ‘institutionally racist’. This is the verdict of the first draft of the ‘lessons learned’ review by Wendy Williams, HM Inspector...
French workers and youth out to bring down Macron through a general strike!
YESTERDAY, French workers and youth took to the streets in a massive confrontation with the government of Emmanuel Macron and his plans to privatise...
High Court rules Tory laws on use of agency workers to break strikes is...
THE Tories suffered a setback yesterday in their drive to legalise strike breaking when the High Court ruled that its agency worker regulations are...
‘Bully’ Hunt thinks that he can dictate to the doctors
FIRST they came for the working poor and the youth with their massive and continuing austerity cuts; then they came for the trade unions...
Capitalist Debt Crisis Demands A Socialist Revolution!
THE deepening world capitalist crisis is poised to see entire nation states defaulting, plunging their banks into an even more desperate crisis, deepening the...