Human rights groups quit UK’s fake torture inquiry!
TEN leading human rights organisations, along with victims of torture and their lawyers, have withdrawn from the British government’s Detainee Inquiry because they believe...
Mass arrests in Pakistan – general elections ‘postponed’
GENERAL Pervez Musharraf has carried out his second military coup. The first made him president, and last weekend’s, in his own words, ‘prevented the...
US Military Chief Undermines The President Over US Troops In Iraq
THE US’ top military commander General Dempsey has broken ranks with President Obama by telling the Senate Armed Services Committee that US...
Occupy And Nationalise Vauxhall Plants
THREE companies have bid to take over GM Europe from the crisis-stricken US giant. They are Italian carmaker Fiat, Canadian parts maker Magna and...
US plans to use nuclear bunker busters against Iran
THE New Yorker has published an article by award winning journalist Seymour Hersh, that claims that the US administration of President G W Bush...
Watch out! The bank robbers are still at large!
‘MORE and more leverage in the system. The whole building is about to collapse anytime now. . . Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab....
Unison Leaders Betray Their Members!
AT the September Labour Party and TUC conferences the trade union leaders, amongst them the leaders of the UNISON trade union, made out that...
Middle East gripped by revolutionary crisis
THE crisis in Palestine and the crisis in the Middle East is deepening rapidly to the point where its contradictions are sharpening to the...
TERRORISM BILL: Defeat Blair’s police-state measures!
THE Labour government’s new Terrorism Bill, published yesterday, will be debated by MPs in the House of Commons today. For the past few days, Prime...
French And British Workers Take Action Against The Bosses
IT was Karl Marx who said that the French would start the revolution, that the British would be inspired to take it further and...
Right To Strike Under Attack
The announcement by the Tory media, culture and sport secretary, Jeremy Hunt, that cabinet ministers are actively discussing the introduction of Ronald Reagan style...
Red Cross confirms that the Afghan ‘Black Hole’ does exist
THE Red Cross has confirmed that the US airbase at Bagram does contain a prison within a prison, complete with a torture chamber, that...
Brown Demands Pay And Pension Cuts
‘WE would fight any attempts to impose a wage freeze,’ UNISON warned in the wake of Gordon Brown’s call for public-sector pay rises to...
American revolution will replace the failed American dream
UAW car workers President Ron Gettelfinger last Thursday lifted the lid just a little on the lives of tens of millions of US workers,...
Education Bombshell – The University Cuts Begin!
THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday condemned the decision by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to reduce funding for university...
General strike now to stop destruction of the NHS!
NHS HOSPITALS are facing an immediate cut of £1.6 billion, with the government ordering NHS Trusts to ‘balance their books’ by making cutbacks and...
Brown, Mitchell and Obama threaten Palestinians with a dirty deal
PALESTINIANS are once again being threatened with a dirty deal after the Netanyahu-Brown meeting in London. After a Brown declaration that Britain is Israel’s ‘true...
Forward to a national strike and a national demonstration on July 17
DAY one of the London CWU’s three-day strike action was a massive success, after the move by the Royal Mail and the government...
Pakistan resisting US demands for new offensives
PAKISTAN’S army has just announced that it will launch no new offensives on its territory in 2010. At the same time the US Defence...
New Orleans war zone – 20,000 National Guards, and US army helicopter fired on
THE United States ruling class, running the world’s number one super-power and presiding over the richest nation on Earth, was yesterday shown to be...
Terminal 5 – BA gets ready for its ‘Wapping’
THE buzz word in the financial media yesterday was ‘Wapping’. The media was referring to the union busting operation carried through by Rupert Murdoch in...
Brown pledges all to the CBI
‘Let me start by thanking you – directors, executives, managers representing companies from all over the UK – for the contribution you are making...
Portuguese economic and political crisis reaches explosion point!
PORTUGAL’S borrowing costs have jumped to over 7%, meaning that it will shortly have to seek another IMF-EU bailout, by offering even more cuts...
Hundreds Of Thousands Being Referred To Foodbanks
HUNDREDS of thousands of welfare claimants are being denied support by the social services, and are being referred to foodbanks by Job Centre staff...
IRAQ – the last rites for the occupation and its stooges
PRESIDENT George W Bush’s plan to stabilise Iraq through a military ‘surge’ is ‘a lost cause’, said the New York Times last Sunday. The New...
Miliband is a fraud!
ED Miliband’s speech to the National Policy Forum was devoted to the theme that Labour, while ‘going beyond’ the completely discredited open worship of...
US combat troops quit – Iraqi masses will now deal with the puppets they...
THE last US army combat brigade pulled out of Iraq on Thursday morning, allegedly bringing to an end all US combat operations. These...
T&G & TUC must call strike action to reinstate Gate Gourmet workers!
THE 670 Gate Gourmet workers, members of the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G), sacked over a month ago for taking strike action, know...
No To Propping Up Backward Capitalism – Overthrow It With Socialist Revolutions
BOTH Washington and London were yesterday involved in a desperate race against the clock. Labour let it be known, Sunday mid morning, that it will...
Labour stands by crumbling capitalism to the end
ON Monday Chancellor Darling opened his pre-budget report with a piece of cheerful idiocy, saying that he was ‘confident that the UK, as an...
Greek bourgeoisie organising pogroms
AS the economic crisis continues to tear Greece apart and drives forward a revolutionary surge amongst workers and youth, so it is driving the...
Removing the Blair gang is a matter of vital public safety
PRIME Minister Tony Blair announced yesterday at his monthly press conference that he would not ‘give an inch to terrorism’, and vowed to combat...
McCluskey and the ideologically-driven Tory cuts
WRITING in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper the general secretary elect of Unite, Len McClusky, was forced to use the dread words ‘general strike’ in the...
Army publicly breaks with the Blair government
YESTERDAY’S statement by the army commander in chief, Dannatt, represented a major intervention into politics by a bourgeois officer corps that is supposed to...
25 years since the Malvinas war
THE 1982 Malvinas (Falklands War) was a decisive event not just for Britain’s Foreign Policy but for its home policy. The islands off the Argentinian...
Royal Mail steps up closure plan – CWU must act
Postal workers were hit last week with the announcement by Royal Mail that it is stepping up its closure plan for half of the...
Blair is speeding up the privatisation drive
ON all fronts the Blair government is speeding up its privatisation offensive, so that his governments can leave as their legacy for big...
Israel continues with its Gaza massacres
ISRAEL has rejected the UN security council resolution calling for a ceasefire and a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and is determined to carry...
Eurozone crisis reaches crunch
MONDAY’S’ summit meeting of the European Union leaders took place under siege conditions in Brussels as the city was paralysed by a general strike...
Bush Kicks Blair In The Crutch
IT has long been Prime Minister Blair’s contention that the strategic interests of the British ruling class demand 100 per cent support for the...
Support the firefighters and the postal workers
FIRE chiefs in Warwickshire are planning to close seven fire stations and axe a third of fire appliances with the loss of one hundred...
Victoria Nuland – The Organiser Of Ukraine Coup Visits Athens!
IN Greece, the Syriza government, which was elected to break with the Troika of the European Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank,...
Cabinet Office Leads Fight To Smash Royal Mail
FOLLOWING instructions from the government’s Cabinet Office to government departments to put their mail out to tender to get the best cutthroat deal, ...
Universities are for students, not big business!
ALMOST a third of young people (31 per cent) starting at university this autumn are being forced to live with their parents, because they...
Saudis oil war is deepening the world crisis
SAUDI Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, has said the oil producers’ cartel, Opec, will not cut production even if the price falls to $20...