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 ...
Egyptian Army Mobilises For Military Coup
GENERAL Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s army chief, whose force is paid for by the United States, has warned that the current political crisis ‘could...
Starmer must be sacked now – TUC must call a general strike to bring...
If Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer believed that sacking Peter Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to the United States would provide him with some...
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...
Police don’t serve the public–they oppress it
ON the eve of yesterday’s 15,000 strong Police Federation demonstration through London, against the staging of their 2.6 per cent pay award, reducing it...
US at the Security Council traces the crisis back to Lenin and Trotsky
SAMANTHA Power, the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, did not waste any time in attacking the Russian veto of the imperialists’ ...
Governor King fears crash – time to go forward to socialism
Last Friday, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, issued a dire warning that Britain risks another financial crisis unless the government introduces...
US military is building up in Jordan as US imperialism fears the collapse of...
THE US administration of Joe Biden has deployed a record number of American troops to Jordan, a country that sits at the heart of...
There Must Be Action To Halt Royal Mail And NHS Privatisation
THE Royal Mail faces privatisation this summer after the passage of the Postal Services Bill through parliament yesterday after its third reading. The legislation will...
Defend jobs, wages and rights – bring down Brown government
PRIME Minister Brown’s alliance with the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party has paid off with the passage by nine votes of his amendment to the...
Blair plans to close NHS hospitals!
TODAY the Labour Government will publish its Health White Paper. Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt gave a preview of its aims over the weekend, that...
Bankrupt Barber won’t fight for workers!
ADDRESSING the Scottish TUC yesterday, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber was desperate to show that the addition of another million unemployed in the next...
Hamas defiant after Israel’s ‘unilateral ceasefire’
PALESTINIAN resistance movements and their fighters remained defiant after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared on Saturday that the Israeli War Cabinet had decided to...
Private equity companies make millions from public services
THE GUARDIAN newspaper on Sunday reported in an exclusive analysis of the extent of private equity companies takeover of UK public services found that...
Stop the pensions betrayal!
THE membership, branch leaderships and regional leaderships of the local government trade unions must stop the betrayal of their final salary pensions by union...
Capitalist Crisis Is Deepening As Bankers Lose Confidence In Countries Repaying Debts!
THE CRISIS OF CAPITALISM, in reality its death agony, is now being played out all over the capitalist world with headlines screaming out that...
Labour’Shuts Out Black And Asian Masses
THE ‘biggest shake-up of the immigration system in 45 years’ got underway yesterday, according to the Brown government. The ‘shake-up’ is that the British ruling...
NHS staffing crisis – only solution kick out the Tories!
THE shortage of NHS staff in England has reached the point where patients are being warned that they will have to get used to...
Only Socialist Revolution can end inequality
NOTHING demonstrates more graphically the increasing polarisation between the working class and the capitalist class than the gigantic and ever-increasing differentials between the obscene...
Answer Macron’s declaration of war on French workers with a general strike
FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron made his annual New Year address to the nation yesterday calling for ‘unity’ and an end to the ‘hateful’ attacks...
Davie and Turness resign from BBC in orchestrated campaign to end all criticism of...
Tim Davie, director general of the BBC, and Deborah Turness, chief executive of BBC News, both abruptly resigned on Sunday night following a concerted...
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...
The TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and start...
UNTIL NOW ISRAEL has been able to kill an average of 100 children every day in its relentless bombing campaign on the besieged Gaza...
Western-Backed Syrian Opposition Committing War Crimes!
THE US, UK, French, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari-backed ‘Syrian rebels’, who have been armed, equipped, financed and recognised as the representatives of the Syrian...
To defend NHS bring down the Tories and nationalise drug companies!
ON Budget Day when the Chancellor is expected to ignore the cash crisis facing the NHS – after the service has suffered massive cuts...
Time For The UK Trade Unions To Take Strike Action In Support Of Palestine!
THE top United Nations human rights official has warned of the worsening situation for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the ‘unconscionable death...
Heathrow Battlefield
TONY Woodley, the TGWU general secretary, commenting on the sacking of one of the leading members of the TGWU by BA yesterday, and the...
Student uprising spreads from US to UK and Europe – It is the spark...
THE explosive eruption of students in America against the genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza, with the full support of the capitalist...
Queen’s speech intensifies coalition attacks on jobs pensions and basic rights!
THE Queen’s speech spelt out that her Tory-LibDem government is to step up its war against public sector pensions, continue to place the...
Western Bosses Alliance Breaks Apart At Quebec G7 Summit!
THE G7 summit has ended in tantrums, with US President Donald Trump lashing out at Canada’s Trudeau, who was hosting the gathering. Trump from...
Putin Makes An Offer To Africa That The Capitalists Are Incapable Of Making!
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has told a summit of African leaders that Russia will give them tens of thousands of tonnes of grain within...
Head of Oxfam GB damns UK as ‘morally incoherent’ over arming the Israeli genocide!
THE head of Oxfam GB, Halima Begum, has damned the UK government for supplying arms to Israel while simultaneously providing humanitarian aid to Gaza...
‘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...
Defend the right to strike by forcing the TUC to call a general strike...
THE Tories wasted no time in placing their anti-strike laws before parliament yesterday in their determination to break the trade unions and inflict the...
Gove’s new ‘extremism definition’ prepares way for crackdown on all opposition to Israeli genocide
COMMUNITIES secretary Michael Gove in Parliament yesterday made a short statement introducing the Tories new definition of extremism which now encompasses ‘non-violent extremism’. Almost all...
Obama, Cameron Sign Up For War In Syria
US President Barack Obama has signed a covert, secret order authorising the CIA and other US state agencies to support the Syrian counter-revolutionaries, the...
UK and US have lost the war and now they want to steal any...
AFTER a tortuous series of talks in Geneva the Russian Foreign minister Lavrov has announced the signing of five documents which include agreements reached...
Junior doctors and student nurses lead the way Now call a general strike!
THE decision by the BMA on Monday to walk away from the negotiations over the imposition of new contracts for junior doctors and to...
Unions must purge Brown cabinet!
THE defeat of the Labour Party in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election – by 7,860 votes, making a 17.6% swing to the Tories from...
McCluskey promises illegal action!
IN a full-page article in Thursday’s Guardian newspaper, the leader of the country’s biggest union, Len McCluskey, announced that the Unite executive had unanimously...
100,000 Youth Lay Siege To Parliament!
YESTERDAY huge masses of youth marched on the House of Commons, which was deciding to bring in tuition fees of £9,000 a year, turning...
Francis report will be used to impose mass hospital closures
NHS staff should face prosecution if they are not open and honest about mistakes, according to the public inquiry into failings at Stafford Hospital. In...
Oil companies make massive profits from imperialist war
THE giant oil company BP revealed yesterday that its profits more than doubled in the first three months of the year because of the...
Bring down the crisis-ridden Tories – forward to a workers government and socialism!
GOVERNMENT plans to increase National Insurance levels for self-employed people – announced in the Budget last week – have been dropped by the Tory...
Postal workers are standing up to management bullies
POSTAL workers in towns and cities all over the UK were forced out on unofficial strike yesterday morning when management sought to impose the...