Oil giants make huge profits – nationalise oil and energy industries now!
WHILE workers face skyrocketing energy bills forcing millions to go without heat this winter the giant oil and gas company Shell has announced annual...
30th anniversary of Malvinas war – reject imperialist war hysteria
Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas (Falklands) war, a war involving a tiny island with a population in 1982 of less than...
UAW refusal to accept immediate wage cuts scuppers bail-out
THE $14bn (£9.4bn) bail-out deal for the Big Three US car giants has failed to get the support of the US Senate. Its refusal came...
Eurasian Economic Union, and the China-Russia gas plan, a double blow against imperialism!
RUSSIA, Belarus and Kazakhstan have just signed the historic Eurasian Economic Union. It comes into effect in January 2015, and will get rid of...
AMCU rejects corporatist agreement with SA bosses
THE decision by the South African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) not to sign the Framework Agreement for a Sustainable Mining Industry...
Tories continue to tear each other apart! Time for the working class to bring...
THE government on Thursday defied the 4pm deadline for handing over Johnson’s unredacted messages and notebooks to the Covid inquiry. It now faces legal...
Britain ordered to slash spending on welfare benefits or face huge tax rises
BRITAIN must cut spending on welfare benefits or face a miserable cycle of repeated tax rises every year, JP Morgan, the world’s largest bank,...
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...
Occupy Peugeot! Build a new leadership in the unions!
LEADERS of the trade unions said they were shocked by PSA Peugeot-Citroën’s announcement on Tuesday that it is closing its Ryton factory in Coventry,...
Blair’s decisive moment of NHS transition
LABOUR’S re-spun campaign to close local Accident and Emergency Departments, and entire District General Hospitals, in favour of Regional Centres of Excellence got under...
Crisis of European capitalism deepens – Down with the EU! Forward to the Socialist...
THE Bank of England delivered its first announcement of 2017 on the economy yesterday, claiming that British capitalism had defied all expectations of a...
Working class will smash Johnson’s fantasies with socialist revolution
TORY prime minster Boris Johnson yesterday delivered a speech composed entirely of wishful thinking from which reality was completely excluded. In Johnson’s fairy-tale world British...
Palestinians warn that UK troops on the ground in Gaza under pretext of supporting...
PALESTINIANS have warned Britain and other Western countries backing the US, against deploying troops on the ground in the besieged Gaza Strip under the...
YELTSIN – the hero of western capitalism, a corrupt and criminal Stalinist
THE bourgeois media and bourgeois political leaders have made it perfectly clear in the last few days that Boris Yeltsin, the...
Tories intend to put an end to the NATIONAL Health Service
IT IS crystal clear with the Tories seeking to impose even bigger cuts if they are re-elected in May, that under their rule the...
Shut Kensington council down! Form a Council of Action to run the Borough!
'THE COUNCIL needs to be shut down … Workers should take over and workers' unions should defend them,' Zoe Bernard from Ladbroke Grove, said...
‘Vile police’ and Tory grandees battle it out!
A PETTY incident – the refusal of Downing Street police officers to allow the Tory chief whip to ride his bicycle through the gates...
Crunch Time For The British Banks
BOTH the HSBC and Barclays banks along with the Royal Bank of Scotland have suffered major share losses in the past week, as investors...
The last-ditch attempt to save the euro and head off revolution
ON Thursday the European Central Bank (ECB), after months of prevarication and splits within its ranks, finally took the decision to launch the eurozone’s...
Gaza a disaster area! Take action to force Israel to lift its blockade!
UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness said yesterday that large regions of the Gaza Strip are a ‘disaster area’. Furthermore he called on the world community to...
16,000 Police Enforcers Hit London’s Streets
A VAST force of police was mobilised for last night’s action against the masses of youth who have been showing just how much they...
World banking system faces melt-down
THE world crisis of capitalism has sharpened to the extent that even the staid Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has been forced to express...
FBU leaders, fire chiefs and Home Office unite to throw firefighters into the ...
FITTING masks to NHS workers, moving dead infected bodies, driving ambulances, making face shields, carrying out tests and delivering food to the elderly: all...
STOP the war say MPs and bring the Taleban into government
MPs on the House of Commons foreign affairs committee ran up the white flag yesterday when they declared in their report that peace talks...
Woodley And Barber Know No Shame!
Trade union leaders in Europe have warned that the present ‘spectacular growth’ of the private equity venture capitalist deals is ‘unsustainable’ and ‘stoking up...
Cameron Poses As The Soldiers’ Friend
THE government is to write into law for the first time the principles of a ‘military covenant’, which will give members of the navy,...
While NHS workers scrabble for PPE Tories pay £1 million a day to keep...
A MASSIVE mountain of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is currently sitting on Felixstowe docks while frontline healthcare workers are still being forced to work...
US Unemployment Rises Along With Repossessions!
THE number of US workers signing up for unemployment benefits and leaving non-farming payrolls has risen sharply for the second consecutive week. The US Labour...
Call Day Of Action To Defend The NHS
A BLOC of twelve trade unions have joined together to campaign against the Labour government’s health service ‘reforms’, that is the Brown-Blair programme for...
Scabby TUC says it’s powerless and agrees a consensus with Heseltine
AT THE last TUC Congress its leaders were forced by the anger of delegates to accept and agree a resolution that the TUC was...
World Crisis Of Capitalism Requires World Revolution
CAPITALISM is a worldwide system dominating the whole planet, in which there is no national solution to the problems brought about by the latest...
Moment of truth for Greece!
GREECE’S Syriza government delayed yesterday’s 300m euros (£216m) debt repayment to the IMF, saying that it will pay over to the Troika (the...
Blair an imperialist from head to foot
YESTERDAY in Australia, Blair, for all he was worth, was pushing the George Bush imperialist line that ‘we’ have a duty to liberate the...
Cynical US Slaps Pakistan’s Wrist Over Bin Laden ‘Treason’
SADDAM Hussein and Colonel Gadaffi led Arab nationalist, secular regimes in Iraq and Libya, and were both opposed to Al Qaeda on principle and...
Tory energy bill freeze will cost workers £130 billion – get the Tories out...
AN article in Monday’s Daily Telegraph by Sherelle Jacobs bluntly states: ‘Liz Truss has just two months to save broken Britain from terminal decline.’ Jacobs...
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...
Hayes & Ward must go! Build a new leadership in the CWU!
AS 2,000 postal workers were gearing up for a 24-hour strike on Friday against Royal Mail’s plans to close mail centres, Dave Ward, the...
Labour plans war to privatise Royal Mail
THE Brown government is organising a £3bn sell-off of up to one third of the Royal Mail, a privatisation that will cost up to...
Hamas fighters deal heavy blows against Israel, while Gaza masses remain undefeated!
MORE than 700 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry...
EU in crisis – forward with the European socialist revolution
The crisis of European capitalism is so severe that it has driven the bourgeoisie to tear at each other’s throats in a frenzy of...
Rail Companies ‘milking the system’ – Renationalise the Railways now
RAIL passengers are being hit by rail fare hikes that are ‘truly staggering’, according to the Labour Party transport spokesman Andy McDonald. The increases, which...
The great Labour democrats launch a purge so that they can support the Tories
THE leader of one of the UK’s biggest trade unions has had his vote in the Labour leadership election rejected. His voting paper has...
Libya faces a bloodbath as imperialist stooges fight for control
A BLOODBATH is being predicted in Libya after the leader of the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), General Khalifa Haftar, launched a military offensive...
Defend state education – defeat academies drive
TEACHERS at Copland School in Wembley, who took part in their fifth one day strike against being forced into academy status yesterday, must be...
US and UK are being driven to war by the growing capitalist crisis
US SECRETARY of state Mike Pompeo used his speech in Berlin last Friday to threaten nothing short of war against Russia, China and Iran,...