Syrian Army Has Pro-US ‘Rebels’ On The Run
THE SYRIAN army is now having great successes against the pro-US and Islamic forces that have been seeking to destroy Syria and divide it...
Trade Unions And The Tuc Must Take Action With The Nurses To Bring Down...
NURSING STAFF have voted to strike in the majority of NHS hospitals across the UK, and the nurses union, the RCN, has called on...
Tuc Congress Must Demand All British Troops Out Of Afghanistan!
WITH ten British troops killed in Helmand province so that just hundreds of people could vote – and after five per cent turned out...
Tory budget–tax relief for bosses, tax increases for low paid!
THE headlines in the bourgeois press yesterday howled about Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, breaking a cast-iron Tory election manifesto pledge that there would be...
98 deaths in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan
ON the brink of the third anniversary of the Anglo-US invasion of Iraq, the US based Human Rights First organisation has released a report...
Labour Party bankrupt financially and politically – unions must break from it and build...
THE POLITICAL bankruptcy of the Labour Party is now matched by its financial bankruptcy as, under the leadership of Keir Starmer, it has become...
Capitalist leaders have lost confidence in the system and are preparing for the worst!
THESE are fearful times for the leaders of EU capitalism. The fear factor is not just present in Brussels. Admiral Alan West, who...
As Putin, Merkel, Macron And Erdogan Talk Peace In Istanbul, Israel And The...
As Putin, Merkel, Macron and Erdogan were meeting in Istanbul on Saturday evening to discuss the future of Syria, Israeli planes were bombing Gaza...
Cameron dreams on while stock markets collapse
IN a radio interview yesterday morning the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, pronounced that the UK economy was seeing a ‘balanced economic recovery.’ All this...
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...
Socialist revolution is the only answer to the ‘economic tsunami’ swamping capitalism!
THIS week, forecasts for the increase in household energy bills were dramatically increased to over £4,200 for an average UK household in January next...
Ukrainian workers refuse to end occupations!
THE agreement, styled as a ‘de-escalation roadmap’, reached at Geneva last Thursday by representatives from Russia, US, EU and the Ukraine coupist government, represents...
Orange Counter-Revolution Defeated!
THE OPPOSITION leader Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Party of the Regions, has won the Ukrainian presidential election, and has defeated Prime Minister...
Demagogue Brown ‘names and shames’ the public sector
THE PCS trade union yesterday accused the bankers’ Prime Minister, Gordon Brown of ‘beginning a bidding war on who can cut the most.’ The...
TUC leaders must call a general strike or be forced to resign!
THE annual conference of the TUC, due to start a week tomorrow, is the first conference of the leadership of the trade union movement...
Forward to the Greek Socialist revolution
SUNDAY’S general election in Greece saw the working class voting for Syriza, because of the lack of any revolutionary alternative, to keep the New...
Defend the NHS with a general strike to bring down Tories
TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been told in a letter from NHS bosses that the NHS is ‘no longer able to meet the...
French publisher arrested in UK under anti-terror laws as ruling classes unite against workers
ON Monday, Ernest Moret, who works at the Paris based publisher Editions La Fabrique, was stopped by Metropolitan Police officers after travelling to London...
IMF warns coronavirus threatens to crash world economy
Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued a stark warning on Sunday that the world’s ‘fragile’ economic recovery could be...
Brown Won’t Retreat From Blair Agenda
PREMIER Blair got his well deserved come-uppance at the TUC Congress on Tuesday, while the co-author of his policies Gordon Brown was welcomed like...
Labour pledges limitless billions to arm Ukraine while refusing to support workers’ pay demands
IN A speech yesterday at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Labour’s shadow defence secretary, John Healey, pledged that any future Labour government would...
54% increase in energy bills means destitution for millions! Nationalise entire industry! General strike...
YESTERDAY, the energy regulator Ofgem announced the amount by which charges for gas and electricity will shoot up in April as it raised the...
Chelsea Tories just could not wait to start evicting
JUST hours after Tory leader Cameron announced that council houses were no longer going to be ‘homes for life’ – but were to be...
Inflation Surges As Bosses Slash Wages And Jobs
THE government revealed yesterday that inflation shot up in December with CPI inflation reaching 3.7% (up from 3.3%), and the RPI rate, which...
Workers & youth take on the French government
THOUSANDS of students took to the streets in major cities throughout France yesterday in the struggle against Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s First Employment...
Hutton provocation will result in ‘summer pensions war’
TODAY’S publication of the Hutton Report on public sector pensions will be like a red rag to a bull as far as the membership...
Labour to ‘relax’ restrictions on banks risking massive increase in house repossessions!
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is committing the Labour government to follow in the footsteps of US president Donald Trump by enthusiastically embracing policies to...
Bring Out All The Unions To Defend The NHS!
THE situation could not be clearer. The whole of the trade union movement and the majority of non-trade unionists support the 24-hour strike actions...
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...
US-UK rescues ISIS fighters from Raqqa – no doubt they will now be sent...
PM MAY made crystal clear yesterday that Russia is the main enemy of crisis-wracked UK imperialism. In fact, Tory newspapers have been making it...
Miliband’s Labour saves Cameron government
ON MONDAY evening, Labour Party leader Miliband completely betrayed the interests of the working class, the youth and the majority of the middle class...
UK banks will have to refinance £800bn of debt
JUST days after the Tory-led coalition’s ‘emergency budget’ declared war on the working class, the poor, the middle class, children and pensioners – with...
10 million workers will be hit by tax increases as Labour ‘picks the side’...
LOWEST paid workers will be hit the hardest by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves budget’s ‘stealth tax’ unveiled on Wednesday. Reeves desperate to avoid accusations of...
Greek workers and Palestinian masses are allies
THE Greek Pasok capitalist government, that is using its state forces to bludgeon and gas tens of thousands of workers protesting against its sell-off...
Axe the privateers – Defend NHS beds
THE BMA yesterday condemned the Reform report, ‘Fewer Hospitals, more competition’, stating in response to the Reform privatisation manifesto that ‘bed...
May reveals Tories fear of revolution
YESTERDAY’S speech to the Charity Commission by Tory prime minister, Theresa May, attracted much comment on her proposals on raising the profile of mental health...
Trump fears spectre of socialist revolution
ON TUESDAY, US President Donald Trump delivered his second address to the UN General Council but instead of the normal Trump arm-waving threats to...
Government determined to destroy District General Hospitals
THE HSJ (Health Service Journal) has done a service to the NHS, and its tens of millions of users. It has revealed just how...
Novelist Sally Rooney wins massive support for boycotting Israel
BEST-SELLING Irish novelist Sally Rooney has won massive support from fellow writers and artists for her support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement (BDS)...
No Pensions sell-out! Sack Prentis and Barber! Forward to the General Strike! Build new...
THE reformist trade union leaders are once again, on the pensions issue, showing that they are organically incapable of defending the basic gains of...
‘Medieval’ levels of health inequality have devastating effects on NHS
On Sunday, the Guardian newspaper published part of the results from its months-long investigation into the effects of poverty on the NHS. Included in the...
Israel military in crisis – calls up 60,000 reservists to occupy Gaza City
ON MONDAY Hamas reported that the group had agreed terms for a ceasefire plan for Gaza that calls for a 60-day pause in fighting...
Iranians celebrate 47th anniversary of the revolution that ended imperialist rule of Iran
YESTERDAY, millions of Iranians took to the streets across the country to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the revolution that overthrow the hated Pahlavi...
It’s The Afghans Who Will Have To Retake Musa Qala
CURRENTLY a great deal of propaganda hot air is being expended hailing the action that British forces are taking to ‘liberate’ the town of...
Jail those responsible for Grenfell Tower inferno! Join the million march to kick the...
SEVENTY six people are still unaccounted for after the Grenfell Tower inferno, police confirmed yesterday and also that criminal proceedings have begun to investigate...