North Korea Has The Right To Self Defence
YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, condemned North Korea’s testing of an intercontinental missile that when developed will have the capacity to deliver...
British imperialism filmed at work
A COURT martial in Wiltshire yesterday heard that Corporal Donald Payne was filmed as he abused and swore at hooded Iraqi detainees, in September...
Put Cameron, Hague and Obama on trial, and free Assange!
ACCORDING to William Hague, the Tory Foreign Minister and Acting Prime Minister, Britain has a ‘legal obligation’ to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to...
US engulfed by political crisis as Biden is forced out
ON SUNDAY, US president Joe Biden caved in to the demands of senior Democrats and the Wall Street supporters of the party to step...
Big Business Demands Billi0Ns More To Save Their Bankrupt Economy!
BIG BUSINESS warned yesterday that, with the return of the lockdown by PM Johnson, thousands of firms will go to the wall. They demanded...
Fed policy of ‘draining liquidity’ will trigger new crash! End bankrupt capitalism with socialist...
WORLD capitalism is on the verge of an even bigger, catastrophic economic collapse and there is absolutely nothing the central banks or governments can...
US abandons Kurds in northern Syria and gives green light to Turkish invasion
TURKEY has been given the green light to invade northern Syria by the US following the abrupt decision by the Trump administration on Sunday...
Trump Seeks To Impose A Worldwide Capitalist Dictatorship – Workers Must Mobilise To...
CHINA yesterday accused the White House of ‘bullying practices’ after Donald Trump imposed 104 per cent duties on Chinese goods into the US in...
Grenfell Tower Inquiry Ends This Week
THE FIVE years-long inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed the lives of 72 people entered its final stage this week with closing...
Pharmaceutical companies exploit the sick for profit – expropriate them now!
THE LATEST scandal over the obscene profits of giant pharmaceutical companies emerged this week with the news that campaigners are demanding that the Tory...
‘We are going to create the largest social enterprise sector in the world’ says...
PRIMARY CARE Trusts are to be abolished and replaced by Federations of GPs who will purchase healthcare for their patients from both the public...
French General Strike escalates in fight to bring down Macron
THE MASS strikes and demonstrations throughout France today mark the sharp escalation of the confrontation between French workers and the ‘bankers’ government of president...
Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe
THE EU IS IN DESPERATE CRISIS with the established political order breaking apart in country after country, from Ireland and the UK to Austria, Greece...
Overthrow imperialism the only way to get rid of terrorism!
MANY people were killed or seriously injured in terrorist attacks at Brussels international airport and a city metro station on Tuesday morning. Two explosions hit...
Time for the working class across the world to put an end to capitalist...
On Monday, US president Donald Trump made a desperate attempt to try to prevent the entire world capitalist economy from collapsing into recession as...
Donors cough up to keep Syrian refugees out of EU while their Islamists sabotage...
WESTERN leaders and their allies have opened a donor conference in London with an urgent plea for billions of pounds in aid for refugees...
TUC must be forced to call a general strike to smash anti-union laws!
LAST Friday it was announced that Border Force staff at Heathrow Airport had voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over changes to...
Labour’s drive for Foundation Trusts and privatisation kills!
The Royal College of Nursing has described the Healthcare Commission’s investigation into emergency care at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust as ‘shocking’ and said that...
Trade union inquiry needed into London transport disaster
YESTERDAY’S tube and bus disaster in London, with 33 dead and hundreds injured, has already been claimed as a terrorist attack, despite the fact...
Tories plan to axe half a million hospital appointments each year in drive to...
HEALTH Secretary Steve Barclay did the rounds of the TV studios on Sunday to declare an all-out war on doctors, nurses and patients, as...
Stop The Airport To Win The BA Cabin Crew Struggle!
BA has moved closer to a merger with Spanish national carrier Iberia after striking a deal with its pension trustees to ‘neutralise’ its pensions...
Grenfell crisis – many millions are living in unsafe buildings eight years after the...
NEW research has found that 136 firefighters who were exposed to toxic smoke at Grenfell are now suffering from occupational diseases. 1 in 4...
Sri Lanka Tea Workers Battle For £2 A Day
SRI LANKAN tea workers, some 400,000 strong, are mainly Tamil women workers, who work for around £1 a day and live, along with their...
Revolution not bourgeois aid or charity, the future for Africa
ON Saturday, leaders of the capitalist world, from the Pope and his Cardinals to various Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and not a few Chancellors...
Lesson of De Menezes murder – break up police death squads!
AT the moment it looks as if a fierce battle is being fought between the Labour government and the opposition parties over the fate...
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...
Financial Crisis Worsening, Says The Imf
IN its just-published Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF has found that ‘Confidence remains fragile despite recent policy actions’, and that the ‘Euro area...
Renationalise gas and electricity to deal with massive price rises
YESTERDAY British Gas raised its gas and electricity prices by a massive 22 per cent, on top of a 14 per cent mark-up imposed...
Macron only scrapes a win thanks to abstentions and anti-Le Pen votes!
THE RESULT of the French presidential election on Sunday saw the right-wing Emmanuel Macron winning with 58.54% of the vote, beating the leader of...
UN Admits Al-Qaeda Bombing Damascus!
THE UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has admitted that Al-Qaeda is behind two deadly suicide car bomb attacks in Syria last week. Fifty-five people were...
Israel threatens to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza
THE DAILY Telegraph reported at the weekend that they had been told by two Israeli officials that daily ‘violations’ by the Palestinian resistance movement...
Tories boost their navy in the Gulf, part of a ‘Maritime Coalition’ against Iran!...
TORY foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to ‘reverse cuts to the size of the Royal Navy’ if he becomes prime minister. Hunt has...
Reject the SNP attempt to split the working class! Forward to Socialist United States...
THE LEADER of the Scottish Nationalist Party, Nicola Sturgeon, dropped a bombshell yesterday with her announcement that she intends to push through a vote...
Students and UCU to ‘take to the streets!’
SHOWING contempt for parliament, the watchdog for university access (Offa) yesterday gave the green light to all universities to increase tuition fees in England...
‘A positive response’ says Bush on Iran
US President George W Bush has welcomed Iran’s initial reaction to a proposal from the EU states designed to achieve a deal with...
Osborne announces more austerity and refuses to guarantee the NHS
CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday outlined ‘a Britain that is growing, creating jobs and paying its way’. He added more Walter Mitty observations such as: ‘The latest...
Bank of England has no tools to prevent capitalism crashing – socialist revolution is...
ANDREW Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, used an interview on the BBC yesterday to once again insist that British capitalism is...
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...
Trump Setting Out To Impose A Greater Israel On The Palestinians By Force...
WITH his declaration that the Trump Administration no longer recognises that the imposed Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal, US Secretary...
TUC must boycott Israel!
IT is a disgrace that at this week’s TUC Congress there are no resolutions on the Middle East and Afghanistan where over...
Corbyn For Pm – Bring Down The Tories And Forward To Palestine!
THESE are truly desperate times for the Tories. Their government is selling out Brexit. Their party is split and divided, with Boris Johnson challenging...
Johnson reveals his feet of clay with his two-year transition plan to remain in...
AFTER ALL the bluster from Boris Johnson about delivering Brexit and that leaving the EU by October 31st was a ‘do or die’ issue,...
Obama Finds It Tough Going In Moscow
PRESIDENT Obama has urged a ‘reset’ in relations between the US and Russia. This comes after the defeat that the US and NATO suffered in...
Rowley reveals scale of police corruption – time to disband the police and go...
THE newly installed Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, yesterday stated that the Met faced its biggest corruption crisis since the 1970s. The crisis, that...
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 ...