Imperialist provocations against Iran a prelude to war
IMPERIALIST preparations for war against Iran were ramped up even further on Tuesday with completely unsubstantiated claims that Iran was responsible for the ‘hijacking’...
French Government Passes Pensions ‘Reforms’ Without A Vote!
THE French government has chosen the moment – when France, Europe and the world is obsessed by the coronavirus crisis – to launch a...
Taxation Slump Hits Labour!
A WEEK ago the Chairman of the Bank of England, King, suggested that those who said they were seeing the ‘green shoots of recovery’...
US mass murder in western Mosul is aiding, abetting and strengthening ISIS – and...
AFTER over a month of silence, the western media have had to acknowledge that hundreds of civilians are being killed in western Mosul by...
McDonnell rejects socialist policies of mass nationalisation of industry in favour of a deal...
LAST Thursday, Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell outlined Labour’s economic policy for the general election which amounted to piling even more debt on the...
Unions must strike for a 10% wage rise!
The results of a consultative ballot of 600,000 local government and school members of the Unison union recorded a massive 70% rejection of the...
Clinton Pleads With Taliban To Talk
US SECRETARY of State Clinton was on a special mission to Afghanistan on Wednesday, the day after she expressed her hope in Tripoli, that...
Palestinian masses break the blockade and start tearing down the walls
THE Palestinian revolution has shown the way forward by blowing a massive hole in the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, so that hundreds of...
Tuc Must Call General Strike To Kick Out Starmer’s Government
THE continuing collapse of the Starmer-led Labour government was on public display on Wednesday when in a pathetic attempt to reassert his absolute control,...
Johnson moves to put the skids under Prescott
THE Blairite cabinet, faced with the working class rejecting Blair, his war on Iraq, his onslaught on the Welfare State, and with popular revulsion...
Down With The US ‘Proximity Talks’
US VICE-PRESIDENT Joe Biden is in Israel where he has declared that the just agreed ‘proximity talks’, which will see US envoy George Mitchell...
After 100 days – Cameron pledges to step up class war!
PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...
Satellite to celebrate 30th anniversary of Iranian Revolution
IRAN launched its first satellite into space powered by its own rocket system, Safir-2, on Monday night. The research and telecommunication satellite was put...
Kelly forges ahead with schools’ privatisation
AMID media speculation that Blair’s government is willing to compromise on plans for independent ‘trust schools’, contained in next month’s Education Bill, the reality...
Hamas Insists That Israel Must Agree To A Permanent Ceasefire!
Hamas says it has submitted its response to a US-backed plan for a ceasefire in Gaza, with a senior official telling the BBC that...
Trump escalates trade war with China – Only Socialist Revolution can end crisis of...
THE WORLD’S stock markets fell dramatically on Tuesday following US president Donald Trump’s latest move to ratchet up US capitalism’s trade war with China...
Only socialist revolution can stop industrial collapse
THE BALLYMENA-based Wrightbus company went bust yesterday, throwing 1,200 workers out of a job with immediate effect. On top of this, 1,700 jobs in the...
Nationalise The Banking System To Put An End To Capitalism
THE credit ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded 15 global banks and financial institutions. The UK banks downgraded were Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, HSBC and...
IMF-US and Global Debt ‘unsustainable’ – socialist revolution only answer to capitalist crisis!
THIS week the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the world organisation charged with protecting the international capitalist financial system, held its weekly annual meeting in...
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...
NHS 2007: Pull your own teeth out!
EVERY day Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Health Secretary Alan Johnson churn out propaganda about ‘improving’ the National Health Service (NHS) and people’s...
‘Tanks not Welfare’ demands the capitalist class. Bring them down with a general strike...
HUNDREDS of thousands of Iranians marched defiantly in Tehran and other Iranian cites yesterday in solidarity with Palestine against Israeli genocide, for a Palestinian...
ANC in crisis as workers and poor demand their liberation from capitalism
YESTERDAY the South African president Thabo Mbeki said that the acrimony in the African National Congress, the mainly black ruling party in South Africa,...
Build the Fourth International – the world party of the socialist revolution!
ON Thursday, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, issued the starkest warning yet that the debt crisis gripping the eurozone...
Palestine to sue UK over the Balfour Declaration!
MAHMOUD Abbas, the Palestinian president, is to sue Britain over its 1917 Balfour declaration that paved the way for the establishment of Israel in...
CWU strike is solid
On the picket line at Greenford Mail Centre in west London yesterday morning, CWU member Stephen Byrne told News Line: ‘Today and tomorrow are...
Al-Sadr Calls To End US Occupation Of Iraq
THE White House has finally endorsed the text of the US-Iraq unequal treaty that will allow the US to keep 150,000 troops in Iraq...
Defend the Royal Mail – Form a public sector alliance – Bring down the...
FOLLOWING the publication of the coalition’s Postal Services Bill, Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, said: ‘The government has wasted no time in flogging...
Answer Labour plans to drive youth off benefits with a general strike to kick...
UNEMPLOYED youth are once again the number-one target for a Labour government, determined to slash the UK’s benefit spending. A year ago, Labour unveiled its...
US Ruling Class Admit Strategic Defeat In Iraq
WITH 400 billion dollars already spent on digging US imperialism into a very deep hole in Iraq, the Baker committee of elder statesmen or...
Tories plan to pauperise and then privatise the NHS – make the TUC...
IN ITS WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL the Daily Telegraph sought to shed crocodile tears for the striking health workers who are continuing to battle against the...
Answer jobs massacre at Vauxhall with occupations and a general strike
AFTER weeks of speculation it was finally confirmed yesterday that the giant but bankrupt General Motors was pulling out of Europe, selling off its...
Nationalise BA – Get Rid Of Work-For-Nothing Capitalism
THE Willie Walsh plan for rescuing BA from the capitalist crisis is quite straightforward. He has gone beyond wage cuts, he wants ‘his’ 40,000...
Labour Foreign Secretary embraces Netanyahu while Palestinians are massacred in Gaza!
LAST Saturday, at least 88 Palestinians were killed and over 289 injured by Israeli bomb strikes on the displaced peoples camp in Khan Younis,...
Johnson goes down with coronavirus – plunging his anti-working class regime into crisis! Time...
THE TRADE union leaders and the Labour Party are currently cementing their role as the most enthusiastic would-be partners of the Tory government and...
Portuguese bailout accelerates EU disintegration
THURSDAY’S announcement that Portugal had finally been forced into asking for a massive 90 billion euro (£79 bn) bailout from the European Central Bank...
Trade unions must call a general strike to stop Tories ending all Covid restrictions
YESTERDAY, Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the ending of all remaining Covid restrictions in England this week. The Tories’ ‘Living with Covid’ plan means...
Trump takes US to brink of war with Iran! Workers must rise up to...
US PRESIDENT Trump took America to the brink of war with Iran ... and then pulled back at the very last minute on Thursday...
French revolution stuns EU bosses and political leaders
THE 55 per cent vote, by the working class and the rural population of France against the European Constitution, is a body blow to...
TUC must take action to stop the extradition of Julian Assange and to release...
JULIAN ASSANGE, who has lost his latest legal appeal, is ‘dangerously close’ to being extradited to the US, his family and observers of his...
Poroshenko crushed in elections – forward to Ukrainian workers taking back power and returning...
THE WORKERS and small farmers of Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to the right-wing oligarchs and to the EU and US imperialism when they...
Taliban Wins The War!
THE news that the United States and Britain are going to the United Nations security council to push for UN sanctions against 18 top...
Free the five and give them full British citizenship
THE UK government has requested the release of five British residents from US custody at Guantanamo Bay, something which the Blair government, in which...
UK, US and EU workers must organise the World Socialist Revolution!
HIGHWAYMAN Trump has spelt it out that a 10% tariff is to be imposed on all UK goods sent to the USA from Britain...
Obama Dumps Two-State Solution!
PROPONENTS of the two-state solution to Palestine, that is the creation of two separate states, Israel and Palestine through peaceful negotiations, with East Jerusalem...