135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians tortured and murdered in Israeli prisons returned to Gaza
THE Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that officials from Gaza’s health ministry had told it that at least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by...
Revolution and counter-revolution in Bahrain and Libya
THE US State Department urged US citizens on Tuesday not to travel to Bahrain and suggested Americans there should leave at once due ...
Meet Tories’ brutal attacks on workers with a general strike
THE Tory party conference greeted with rapturous applause the pledge by George Osborne that any future Tory government would drive the working class into...
Tory Party stuck with broken May as leaders fear the mass movement driving Labour...
IN NORMAL times a Tory party that had been taken into an ‘unnecessary’ snap election with its leader demanding that the electorate return it...
Time to expropriate the banks and jail the bankers
THIS week has seen the essence of the banking fraternity emerge after HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, which was rescued by the UK taxpayers in...
Tories plan to pauperise and then privatise the NHS – make the TUC...
IN ITS WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL the Daily Telegraph sought to shed crocodile tears for the striking health workers who are continuing to battle against the...
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 ...
Putting The Trade Union Leaders To Shame
SEVEN people were arrested at Prestwick Airport yesterday, after appointing themselves as ‘citizen weapons inspectors’, and forcing themselves onto a US cargo flight to...
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...
Mursi follows on from Mubarak as the US’ man in Cairo
PRESIDENT MURSI of Egypt has followed up his successful negotiation of the end of the current round of Israel’s war with Gaza – which...
Energy bills will force millions into abject poverty – socialist revolution only way forward!
OVER one-in-eight UK households live in fear that they can’t make any further cuts to spending to pay the massive increase in energy bills...
IDS’ war to starve and break the poor!
JUST how ruthlessly Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is conducting the ruling class’ war on the poor can be seen in...
US Raises Interest Rates To The Highest Level In 22 Years – The Workers...
THE US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years, as it fights to stabilise prices in the world’s...
Workers must fight massive increases in the cost of living with a general strike...
THE United Kingdom has seen the biggest rise in ‘absolute poverty’ in 30 years, according to new data published by the Department for Work...
Charlotte becomes a class war zone! The US socialist revolution is emerging
THE US National Guard have arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina, with armed-to-the-teeth state troopers lining the streets and turning the city into a war...
Reactionary Gove wants a pro-imperialist syllabus
THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has advanced his plan to rid the GCSE English exam of classic books and plays he considers to...
Capitalist world order torn apart by Trump’s trade war – forward to world socialist...
STOCK MARKETS across the world crashed following US president Donald Trump finally revealing the details of his trade war against the world. The speculators and...
Carney steps up his anti-May war!
THE war between the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, and Tory prime minister Theresa May was stepped up on Wednesday when...
Army demanding reinforcements for Afghanistan
JUST a few months ago, the then Defence Minister John Reid was telling the media – while trying to douse public concern...
Spectre of revolution haunting TUC leaders!
THE real essence of the capitalist crisis penetrated into the heart of the Trades Union Congress yesterday, as delegates assembled for their annual conference...
Don’t let BA’s cabin crew fight alone – call a general strike
British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March. The Unite union confirmed...
Seven Labour MPs Have The Whip Suspended After Voting To Scrap Two-Child-Benefit Cap
SEVEN Labour MPs have had the whip suspended for six months after voting against the Labour government on an amendment to scrap the two-child...
Tories, LibDems are in crisis – kick them out now!
AS the results of Thursday’s local council elections come in and are poured over by the main political parties and the pundits in the...
£16.5bn for the military as Tories plan a war on public sector workers to...
THE TORIES have exceeded all previous borrowing records, taking the British bosses’ national debt to its highest level ever since records began, reaching £2.3tn....
Put capitalism out of its misery with the socialist revolution
THE one thing guaranteed by the world economic crisis of the capitalist system, is that all the weakness, greed and corruption of the ruling...
Health privateer takes NHS to court over right to profit from health – time...
PRIVATEER Circle Health is once again taking legal action to overturn the decision to cancel its contract to run the Nottingham NHS Treatment Centre. Rushcliffe...
Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tory-Led Coalition
THE TUC met yesterday afternoon to discuss pay and pensions and the planned mass demonstration and day of action on March 26 against the...
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...
Call for Labour to ‘shake off the unions’
THE election of a Tory government has seen the class war sharpened to explosion point. Already new anti-union laws have been announced that will...
BA workers reject wage cuts! Renationalise BA Now!
A MASS meeting of more than 3,000 British Airways cabin crew workers yesterday threw out by a massive majority the airline’s plans to slash...
Osborne Mugs The Pensioners!
WEDNESDAY’S budget left no room for doubt about who the coalition government intends should pay to bail out the bankrupt British economy – pensioners,...
Defend the NHS with a general strike to bring the Tories down and bring...
EVERY day brings a new savage attack by this Tory government on the NHS. At the beginning of the week the shock announcement broke that...
Us Capitalism Is On The Rocks! The US Working Class Is Faced With...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump yesterday unveiled his three-phase plan for opening up businesses in America proclaiming, ‘We’re starting our life again. We’re starting rejuvenation...
Now send Brown packing – forward to a workers government!
Blair stood down yesterday, driven out of power by the Iraqi insurgency and the British workers’ determination to defend their welfare state. The disorientated...
Bush, Blair, Obama, And Cameron Are The War Criminals!
THAT the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants against Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, his son and his brother-in-law, on...
US opens missile base in Romania and plans for bases in Poland and Hungary
AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...
Russia Considering ‘Partnership’ With The US
US DEFENCE Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday insisted that the US change of mind over basing tracking radar and anti-missile missiles in Poland and...
REVOLUTION – the only future for youth!
SINCE the election of the Tory-led coalition government in 2010, young people have been hammered into the ground to the extent that they face...
Russia defies imperialism – Time for the world socialist revolution
YESTERDAY, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that he had ordered the Russian military to carry out a special operation in the Donbass region in...
Brown’s empty words cannot hide he is the bankers’ man
‘I want to talk to you about a new settlement for new times. A fair Britain for the new age. . . my unwavering...
US capital Washington DC in recession as unemployment soars
LAST week, Mark Zandi, the chief economic analyst at the giant investment bank Moody’s, described the US as being ‘on the precipice of recession’. The...
US Ruling Class Forced To Nationalise Bankrupt Mortgage Giants
THE nationalisation of the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac mortgage finance companies by the ultra right wing Bush administration is a forced admission of...
Blair, Thatcher lavish praise on fellow Tory Heath
IN THESE days, when capitalist Britain is being rocked by the world economic crisis and the disaster of its imperialist policies in Iraq and...
BMA Junior Doctors reject Tory-imposed contract!
THE decision by the British Medical Association (BMA) to refuse to re-enter contract negotiations for doctors in training will be welcomed by every trade...
Anti-Brexit coup under way – ‘Country before Party’ means bringing in military police state!
WITH PM May seeking a miracle rescue by the EU getting rid of the backstop, in the real world a coup is being launched...