US ruling class splitting apart – time for the World Socialist Revolution
LAST Friday’s ruling by the US Supreme Court that president Donald Trump did not have the authority or right to impose his ‘Liberation Day’...
Labour and Tories ‘virtually indistinguishable!’ says the press!
IN A DAMNING assessment of the Tory government, The Daily Telegraph yesterday declared that: ‘The Tories under Rishi Sunak have shifted further left, and...
Halt The Israeli Onslaught On Gaza! Labour Must Recognise State Of Palestine!
TWO MORE Palestinians were killed yesterday morning in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip, said medical officials, bringing the number of Palestinians...
Call A General Strike Now!
THE demand for a general strike to bring down the government has been driven by the working class onto the immediate agenda of the...
Only way to defend the NHS is to kick out the Tories and bring...
ON SUNDAY the 72nd anniversary of the NHS, created in 1948 by Clement Attlee’s post-war Labour government, was marked by handclapping, with Boris Johnson...
Only a sliding scale of wages can defend workers from inflation
OFFICIAL figures have confirmed that consumer price inflation surged to 5.4% in 12 months to December – up from 5.1% month before – the...
Bourgeoisie Trembles At The Approaching Catastrophe!
THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, made it clear this week that the banking system faces total collapse due to ‘systemic...
Osborne launches permanent austerity war against workers
CHANCELLOR OSBORNE underlined the precarious nature of his ‘recovery’ when he told the House of Commons yesterday ‘the job is not done…we don’t squander...
Labour has no answer to the problems that the working class and middle class...
MILIBAND’S Labour Party yesterday said that if it was the government it would offer the long-term unemployed a guarantee of a six-month job. This...
No confidence in Gove by heads
At their annual conference the largest head teachers union, NAHT, passed a motion of no-confidence in the Tory education minister Michael Gove and the whole...
Windrush just ‘tip of the iceberg’ – time to kick out the Tories and...
IN A MONUMENTAL act of cynicism, the Tory government on Monday announced that this Friday will be designated ‘Windrush Day’ and that henceforth 22nd...
Miliband wants to break with unions so Labour can form a national government...
STANDING with the ‘One Nation’ Tory slogan behind him, Labour leader Miliband yesterday outlined his intention to wrest the Labour Party completely away from...
End low pay through a general strike to kick out the government
ON the day that NHS workers took strike action for the first time in 30 years, and in the case of midwives the first...
Crisis hit Osborne pledges ruthless class war on workers, pensioners and youth
CHANCELLOR Osborne began his Autumn Statement yesterday ‘We will do whatever it takes to protect Britain from this debt storm . ....
US Ends Quantitative Easing!
THE US Federal Reserve has announced it is ending its quantitative easing (QE) stimulus programme begun in 2008. The six years since the banking collapse...
Labour is rushing to Johnson’s defence. Make the TUC call a general strike...
THE TORIES have launched the most vicious attack on the working class since they came to power in 2010. After ten years of austerity,...
Pentagon launches Africa command centre
AS PAY negotiations between the American car giants General Motors (GM) and Ford, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) have reached a critical point,...
A billionaires’ paradise – the UK under Blair and Brown
IN the last 12 months the working class and the vast majority of the middle class have desperately struggled under a huge and...
Ashrawi condemns Israeli onslaught and urges EU and US to stop rewarding Israel
PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) EC member Hanan Ashrawi has strongly condemned Israel’s escalation of its illegal and inhumane measures in and around Jerusalem and...
Security Council extends Iraq occupation mandate
THE imperialists and their Chinese and Russian stooges on the UN Security Council have extended the mandate of the US-led occupation armies in Iraq,...
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...
We need more doctors and nurses not less
AS a result of Tory and Labour health reforms designed to break up the NHS, we now have thousands of unemployed nurse graduates and...
Trade unions must unite to defend bursaries and stop hospital closures!
TWO very important NHS trade union conferences are currently taking place this week, the RCN, nurses union, and the BMA doctors. Already the RCN supported...
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...
Speaker determined to stop Brexit! Organise the General Strike to shut Parliament down and...
TORY leadership candidate Dominic Raab has threatened to prorogue Parliament, shutting it down at the end of October to ensure that the UK leaves...
Brown wants to form a Blairite government
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has confirmed to the BBC that he will run a Blairite administration if he becomes prime minister. He said that...
Military in Myanmar dump Aung San Suu Kyi for civil war against Burma’s ...
N THE early hours of Monday the military in Myanmar (formerly called Burma) seized power in a coup that saw the country’s leader Aung...
Bankers failing to stem capitalism’s chronic crisis
THE Bank of Japan (BoJ) took emergency measures yesterday in a desperate attempt to rescue the country’s stagnant economy (growth rate 0.4%) and boost...
Make May apologise for 100 years of the Balfour Declaration!
PM May has gone out of her way to insult the Palestinian people by declaring her pride in the 100th anniversary of the Balfour...
Russia resisting regime change in Syria!
RUSSIA said yesterday that it strongly disagreed with changes to its draft UN Security Council resolution on Syria made by the western imperialist powers. ‘Unfortunately,...
Step Up The Struggle For Palestine
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas has pledged that he will submit a resolution to the UN Security Council to make a decision that the Israeli occupation...
BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY RIP – FORWARD TO THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!
BOTH THE MAJOR parliamentary parties, Tory and Labour are in turmoil, with splits taking place and more splits to come, as the ruling class...
Tory coronavirus inquiry is an attempt to put off reckoning with working class
ON WEDNESDAY, Tory prime minister Boris Johnson announced that there would be ‘a full and independent inquiry’ into the government handling of the coronavirus...
Tories to slash public services by £17bn
UK PUBLIC services will be slashed by up to £17 billion, the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned, as Tory chancellor Rishi...
UN poverty expert slams Tory ‘hypocrisy’ over austerity – end poverty with socialist revolution
THE UNITED Nations rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston, has issued a damning attack on the Tory government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic describing...
Steel workers must reject the Tata steel deal – vote ‘NO!’
AT the end of this month, steel workers at Port Talbot are to vote on a deal struck between their unions and Tata Steel...
Eu To Throw Irish Workers To The Wolves
PRESSURE is being piled onto the Irish government to accept a further EU bail-out of between 60bn to 80bn euros, which will mean handing...
Tories Are Behaving Like Rats Caught In A Trap Of Their Own Making!
PM MAY, having suffered her third defeat in the House of Commons over her Brexit deal with the EU is now completely disorientated, while...
CWU leaders embrace privatisation!
A BALLOT of CWU members announced this week showed a vote of 94% in favour of a ‘legally binding contract’ between the leadership of...
Brown hints about withdrawal from Basra
PRIME Minister Brown was yesterday midway to giving up his ‘there is no timetable for a withdrawal from Iraq’ line – imposed on him...
New right-wing party to replace Tories being organised as spectre of revolution haunts British...
AS THE Tory Party continues to disintegrate by the hour, demands from the ruling class for a new right-wing party to emerge from the...
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...
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...
14,000 Iranian university professors condemn attacks on IRGC!
MORE than 14,000 Iranian university professors have condemned the European Union’s designation of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a so-called terrorist organisation,...
Defend every job! Bring down coalition! Expropriate the bosses!
UK unemployment rose by 49,000 to almost 2.5 million in the three months to the end of November, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...