EU moves to suspend all aid to Palestine
YESTERDAY the European Union followed the example of the US and suspended its aid to the Palestine National Authority. The EU has given $400...
Capitalism is ‘At War’ – answer Cameron with general strike
BRITISH capitalism is ‘at war’ Cameron told the bosses yesterday, an ‘economic war’ which requires the state to rip up the rule book, strip off...
CIA Using Diego Garcia As A Torture Centre
NO WONDER both the British and US governments are absolutely determined that none of the Chagos Islanders be allowed to return to their...
Seattle Police Chief Quits As Working Class Gears Up To Deal With Trump!
SEATTLE’S chief of police has thrown in the towel and quit on the same day that the city council voted to reduce the police...
Blair Fears Facing War Crimes Tribunal
YESTERDAY it was alleged that ex-Prime Minister Blair made representations to the Prime Minister concerning the ‘independent inquiry’ into the war in Iraq, which...
EU crisis deepens in London and Athens
THE great EU referendum crisis in the UK has sharpened after PM Cameron denied his earlier remarks that after he had negotiated a deal...
Tories pushing health insurance to smash NHS! Organise general strike NOW!
THE SPECTRE of health insurance to ‘top-up’ the NHS has raised its ugly head. It is part of the arsenal of weapons turned on...
Workers being forced into 19th century ‘housing’ conditions!
LAST Tuesday, the Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden, Siobhan McDonagh used a debate in parliament to highlight the barbaric and dangerous conditions homeless...
Unite leaders betray airport workers – for an emergency conference to elect a...
THE BETRAYAL by the leadership of the Unite union plunged to new depths last week in the negotiations between the union and the management...
Project Fear Gives Way To Pledges Of Retribution
SPEAKING with Labour’s former Chancellor Lord Darling by his side, in full support, the Tory Chancellor Osborne yesterday pledged violent retribution against the electorate...
King Fiddling While Rome Burns!
THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of England, King, spoke to the gathered ranks of big business on Thursday evening at his Mansion House feast,...
World Crisis Driving Capitalism Into Wars And Revolutions – Time To Carry Out The...
WITH the US, EU and the UK capitalist economies and regimes in a growing and desperate economic and political crisis, the imperialist powers are...
Morales pledges to rule for the oppressed
EVO MORALES is the first Indian to become the President of Bolivia ending decades of rule by a white ruling class elite which presided...
Hezbollah Battling Thousands Of Israeli Troops
THE Israeli government has been given the go-ahead by President Bush to mobilise up to 30,000 reservists, who are now joining the battle to...
Post Office scandal piles pressure on all main political parties
On Monday, the House of Commons was treated to the sight of MPs from all the political parties united in an orchestrated show of...
BA CRISIS – no to sackings and wage cuts – Renationalise!
BRITISH Airways has decided to cut 1,700 jobs and introduce a two-year pay freeze for cabin crew. It also intends to discuss wage cuts...
False start for Psaki in sanctions assault race!
US President Obama has not yet signed a bill clearing the way for more economic sanctions against Russia. The US State Department confirmed ...
Imperialist Gangsters Prepare Iran War
IN A situation where their NTC proteges are not even sitting securely in the saddle in Libya, the UK and the US ruling classes...
FOOD BANKS becoming the rule in poverty-stricken UK
THERE are currently 270 food banks across the UK where poverty-stricken workers and youth are directed to get subsistence amounts of food. As the capitalist...
Johnson’s ‘Defiance’ Of The EU Will Not Fool Workers – He Voted For May’s...
THE NEW Tory PM, Boris Johnson, now has a cabinet dominated by ‘Leavers’ after his massive clear-out of ‘Remainer’ ministers, following his victory in...
Hodge Spreads Subversion In The Fabian Society
THE Labour government is visibly collapsing day by day, with even ministers expressing opposition and saying that they had doubts about Blair’s foreign ...
Cameron and Tories in crisis
THE understanding that in times of acute capitalist crisis the ruling class can no longer rule in the old way is being borne out...
Get British troops out of Afghanistan now!
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown and Defence Secretary Des Browne yesterday sent their condolences to the families of four more British troops killed in Afghanistan...
Civil war declared as Tories are torn apart by the capitalist crisis – Kick...
CIVIL WAR in the Tory Party has erupted as Boris Johnson and his allies launch a coordinated attack on PM Rishi Sunak, with the...
Hero Mandela dies – Forward to socialism in South Africa
NELSON Mandela, one of the great heroes of the anti-Apartheid struggle who was jailed for 27 years on Robben Island for his opposition to...
Emergency Action needed to win Gate Gourmet dispute
THE Gate Gourmet strikers are fighting in the most determined fashion to win back their jobs in the face of a hostile union busting...
Putin lays down law to Soviet states
THE Putin regime has infuriated the British bourgeoisie by its strengthening of the state owned gas and oil sectors of the Russian economy, at...
Blow the whistle on the Tories by kicking them out
THE TORY health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, yesterday announced that the government is to issue for consultation draft guidelines that, it claims, will end the...
Ferguson battle anticipates US revolution
THE tactics weaponry and ammunition used in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, by the police and Missouri National Guard, have led to...
Anti-Russian campaign of the US and UK ruling classes leads to the assassination of...
THE assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, on Monday by an ex-policeman Mevlut Altintas – who was sacked after the failure...
Students and universities under savage coalition attack
IN ORDER that the universities can have their budgets slashed and be privatised or closed, students are to be charged up to £9,000 a...
UK Ruling Class To Proscribe Wagner Group And Harass Supporters Of The Ukrainian...
THE Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner Group, which was being cheered to the rafters when its members were said to be marching on...
Working Class In Ukraine Winning Over The Army
ON SATURDAY a National Assembly was held in the Black Sea city of Odessa, and other assemblies were held in all of the...
Starmer calls for ‘coalition of the willing’ as world capitalism tears itself apart
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer addressed Parliament yesterday reporting on the emergency defence summit of European leaders he’d convened in London at the weekend. This...
No economic solution to capitalist crisis as BIS warns financial markets at risk
THE BANK for International Settlements (BIS) – dubbed the bank for central banks – issued a dire warning in its latest quarterly review that...
Workers across the world support call for a ‘Strike for Gaza’
HOSPITALS in the Gaza Strip are ‘stretched to breaking point’ and infections are ‘exploding’ the UN reported yesterday. The United Nations Office for the Coordination...
Take strike action to support FBU!
THE London Firefighters one day strike last Saturday has drawn a swift response from the capitalist state, via their mouthpieces in the bourgeois press. Commenting...
£9.2 billion NHS money given to privateers – time to expropriate them
IN JANUARY this year the Tory secretary of state for health, Matt Hancock, told MPs that ‘there is no privatisation on my watch’ of...
Coalition in crisis, bring it down
The disarray, confusion and splits within the Tory/LibDem coalition government were brought out sharply over Monday’s announcement by Tory chancellor, George Osborne, that he...
Down with the EU – Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe
A VERY senior US official, Michael Froman, has warned Britain against leaving the 28-nation European Union saying such a move would cost London economically. Froman...
Tories seeking to bust the CWU and all of NHS trade unions. Time to...
THE CWU trade union representing postal workers says Royal Mail’s chief executive Simon Thompson is to blame for a round of strikes in the...
Organise a general strike! Bring down Brown government! Go forward to socialism
THE leaders of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the University and College Union (UCU) and the...
Russian troops return to bases, giving the Ukrainian government the chance to break with...
RUSSIAN troops have completed their training drills in Belarus, very close to neighbouring Ukraine, and will begin returning to their bases, the Ministry of...
TGWU leaders and TUC committed to 675 Gate Gourmet redundancies
YESTERDAY morning Gate Gourmet strikers were dismissing and rubbishing the letters that they have been receiving from the company. These offered them a minimum pittance...
Putin Calls For Referendums In The Donbass And For Workers To Decide To Join...
ALL WORKERS, youth and trade unionists must support the decision of Russian leader Putin to call up reservists to serve in the Ukraine, and...