UK workers must support the struggle for Palestinian state!
EARLY on Wednesday morning Israeli occupation forces shot and killed two Palestinian youth, a 17-year-old and a 20-year-old, and injured at least two others...
Expropriate out of control banks!
THE giant international bank HSBC is ‘cast-iron certain’ to break the regulatory rules, the laws which are supposed to govern banking practices, again. These were...
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)...
Bar the way to Greece coup with socialist revolution
THE crisis in Greece has reached breaking point this week with the unelected European Commission threatening to declare a ‘state of emergency’ in the...
Trade unions must call a general strike to support the state of Palestine. Turn...
THE President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, has received US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at the presidential headquarters in the city...
Cameron equating journalism with terrorism
THE UK government is hell-bent on using the just-agreed Royal Charter for the regulation of the media to impose a system of state control...
Workers of the UK and USA must send May, Trump and the EU packing...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump, on arrival to the UK on Thursday, did an interview with the Sun newspaper in which he said that he...
CQC head demands thousands of NHS bed closures!
DAVID Prior, the new head of the NHS regulatory body the Care Quality Commission, nailed his colours firmly to the Tory mast of privatising...
Fight slave labour bosses at Gate Gourmet and Irish Ferries
THE British and Irish trade unions are under serious and heavy attack at Gate Gourmet at Heathrow airport, and at Irish Ferries. At Gate Gourmet,...
50 years since Chile coup – vital lessons for the working class today
MONDAY 11th September will be the 50th anniversary of the seizure of power by the Chilean military, led by general Augusto Pinochet, backed by...
Capitalism’s ‘Ship Of Fools’ Heading For The Rocks!
WHEN the most right-wing Tory supporting newspaper in the country turns on the Tory government, accusing it of gross incompetence and heading for disaster,...
Follow Holby City Equity Take Strike Action With Junior Doctors
THE Equity trade union members who play the doctors and medical staff in the BBC medical drama Holby City have offered their full support...
World Bank issues a warning that attacking Iran will have cascading impact on the...
THE President of the World Bank, Ajay Banga, has warned that the US-Israeli aggression against Iran will have a cascading impact on the global...
THE BANK looks to inflation to pauperise the workers and Middle Class
THE pound fell sharply on Wednesday against both the dollar and the euro as the money markets were shaken to the core by the...
Trade unions must support Vestas occupation and fight for its nationalisation!
THE Vestas wind turbine factory in the Isle of Wight has been occupied by workers who are determined to fight for their jobs, and...
UAW reformists propose to surrender gains of US workers
THE UAW leaders are prepared to ‘suspend’ all of the gains of US autoworkers to try and assist the big bosses of GM, Chrysler,...
Labour to let multi-nationals take over NHS Primary Care Trusts
THE government is set to turn the screws of further NHS privatisation on the NHS with its plans to invite private health insurance...
Western-backed terrorists attacking Damascus from Eastern Ghouta!
THE British capitalist press is seeking to whip up a storm over what it calls two days of ‘hysterical violence’ by Assad forces in...
Don’t vote to bomb Syria! Victory to Assad – forward to Palestine!
IN August 2013, MPs rejected by 285-272 votes UK military intervention by the Cameron government to bomb President Bashar al-Assad’s government out of power,...
There must be general strikes in the UK, the EU and the USA to...
ISRAELI military forces invaded the al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday morning in a continuation of the violent attacks on Palestinian worshippers gathered for dawn prayers...
Israel has brought record unemployment and mass starvation to the Gaza Strip – Revolution...
MAHMOUD Radwan sits among the ruins of his destroyed home, contemplating an uncertain future amidst a labour crisis unlike any he has seen before,...
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...
Capitalism’s ‘storm clouds’ herald revolution
AT THE end of last week the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, announced that all his stated austerity plans in last autumn’s budget statement were...
Free social care and care homes for the elderly
THE just-published ‘State of Social Care’ report from the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) was greeted as ‘a damning indictment of a...
Inflation surge hits working class families!
THE UK’s CPI inflation rate rose sharply in October to 2.7%, a rise of 0.5%, following increases in tuition fees and food prices, with...
British capitalism and its state – poisonous, rotting and ripe for revolution!
THE CRISIS of the British capitalist state has been highlighted by the News International scandals which will do for the British ruling class what...
Northern Ireland – Massive NHS Cuts On The Agenda
MORE THAN 700 nursing posts are under threat in Northern Ireland as part of wider plans to cut almost 2,500 health service jobs over...
May appeals to Labour Right-Wing to save her
THE TOTTERING Tory government of Theresa May was dealt another massive blow on Wednesday night when the ten Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs abstained...
All out on November 4th – UK must apologise for Balfour Declaration – UK...
PALESTINIAN Foreign Minister Riyad Malki said yesterday that Palestine is still waiting for the US Administration to submit its ideas and plan for achieving...
End the Israeli occupation of Palestine!
IT IS 40 years since Israeli warplanes destroyed the Egyptian airforce on the ground and Israeli troops occupied the Sinai peninsula, occupied Syria’s Golan...
Yates Demands A Heavily Armed Paramilitary Police Force!
BRITAIN’S top counter-terrorism officer, Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner Yates, has demanded that paramilitary police forces be established in the UK, and insists that they...
Full Support For The Doctors’ Strike
EVERY TRADE UNION and all trade unionists must support today’s 24 hour strike action by the BMA doctors’ trade union, and must be demanding...
Miliband launches attack on unions and the Labour Party
LABOUR leader Miliband is planning to allow non-Labour Party members to be registered as supporters, and to vote in leadership elections, in the affiliated...
Afghan war lost – withdraw British troops now!
THE imperialist invasion of Afghanistan is coming apart at the seams. In fact, the UK troops themselves are now rejecting it, as a legitimate operation,...
Restoring nurses’ & midwives’ bursaries – a matter of life or death for...
THERE is a desperate lack of nurses in the NHS. Currently, overloaded nurses are doing the job of three people, working 12-hour shifts in...
Gove calls for parents to scab
Over the weekend the Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove issued a call for parents to volunteer to break Thursday’s strike by civil servants and...
Syriza trying to carry on from where the former government left off!
SYRIZA policy going into the general election, through which it came to office, was to write off most of Greece’s 322bn euro debt. It demanded...
Tories wiped out in North Shropshire by-election. Now is the time for the TUC...
THE VOTE came in at 4am on Friday morning for the North Shropshire by-election. The Liberal Democrats won, taking a seat the Tories have...
Carney tells banks to find £11.4 billion to save them going bust
DESPITE all the recent words from Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, about the underlying health of British capitalism, his actions yesterday...
Well done BA cabin crew – Now Unite must use its full strength on...
AT Gatwick and at Heathrow on Sunday morning pickets got tremendous support from passing motorists, coaches and lorries, and fellow airport workers. The lines of...
National Audit Office Says Families Will Live In Fire Deathtraps Until Mid-2022!
IT HAS been three years since the horrific Grenfell fire which killed 72 men, women and children. Three years and there are still seven...
Unemployment and slave labour – the bourgeois future for youth
‘UK unemployment falls to 2.56 million’, is the fraudulent headline, with Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith declaring: ‘It’s the private sector...
Trade Unions Must Name The Date For The General Strike To Free Palestine And...
OVER 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of London on Saturday, protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. The protest, organised by the...
Cut in interest rates by the Fed will accelerate capitalism’s world crash
THE US CENTRAL Federal Reserve Bank on Wednesday performed an abrupt U-turn on its policy of attempting to hold back the vast amount of...
Labour Reformism Is Rotten To The Core – The Working Class Needs A Revolutionary...
LABOUR’S defeat in the 2019 general election is a historic one, since its central feature was the way that the safest Labour seats in...