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...
University lecturers start fresh mass strike action
THE THIRD wave of a countrywide strike by members of the University and College Union (UCU) began yesterday with a five-day walkout at 38...
Financial Services Authority Warns Of Inevitable Collapse
WITH business sure that the Bank of England is due to raise interest rates to at least five per cent, warnings are being made...
EU, US and UK rulers are provoking war in the Ukraine! Workers of the...
BRITISH forces arrived yesterday in Ukraine to ‘train up Ukrainian troops’ while the US has sent in weapons, to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to...
Tories pushing health insurance to smash NHS! Organise general strike NOW!
THE SPECTRE of health insurance to ‘top-up’ the NHS has raised its ugly head. It is part of the arsenal of weapons turned on...
Democrats revolt against Obama!
PRESIDENT Obama’s attempt to establish a cheaper insurance market that would provide full cover for up to 40 million poor Americans is under all-out...
Gates Gives Pakistan Its Orders
NO sooner has the US’s man, Musharraf, been decisively beaten in the Pakistan elections, than the US through its Defence Secretary Gates is issuing...
British War Crimes In Iraq Will Just Not Go Away – Even The UK...
AS IS WELL KNOWN the moment that US President Bush heard about the criminal terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in NewYork on Tuesday...
Lobbying Bill A Conscious Attack On The Working Class
THE Tory-led coalition’s proposed new Lobbying Bill is sending shock waves throughout the leadership of the TUC, as its full import becomes known. This bill,...
Balls Is The Bankers Man!
BEFORE the 1997 election, the Blair-Brown gang proved to big business that they were the right men to run capitalism by conducting a war...
British capitalism can afford wars but not benefits!
BOTH Prime Minister Blair and Chancellor Brown insisted yesterday, in support of Works and Pensions minister Hutton, that single parents must look for work...
Pfi Robbers Are On The Job! Expropriate Them Now!
THE PRIVATE Finance Initiative (PFI) that Gordon Brown introduced during the Brown-Blair Labour governments has provided a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions for...
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...
NATO States To Deliver War Planes To Kiev As US And UK Plan...
THREE NATO countries will deliver more than 70 warplanes for the use of Ukraine, military representatives in Kiev announced yesterday morning. According to a statement...
Brown Wants To Introduce Youth Conscription
PRIME Minister Brown on Sunday promised that bringing in a compulsory community service programme for youth will be a part of his next general...
‘Let them eat cake!’ Brown turns his back on the workers!
ADDRESSING the bosses of the Scottish CBI, Prime Minister Gordon Brown assured them that his government will not be giving workers, the poor and...
Brown Threatens Royal Mail Funding!
AT THE CWU rally at Central Hall yesterday afternoon, CWU leader Billy Hayes presented a successful outcome of the postal workers struggle as relying...
Long Live The Libyan Revolution
THE forty-year-old Libyan revolution is being celebrated with enthusiasm this week by the Libyan masses in Tripoli. The revolution, led by Colonel Gadaffi, put an...
Truss Is Shattered While Johnson Is Posing As The Man To Save UK Capitalism!
LIZ Truss, who not so long ago posed on the Polish border on a British tank expressing her hostility to Russia, before becoming more...
Murdoch withdraws BskyB bid – Now bring down coalition!
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister announced that a judge-led phone hacking inquiry will have powers to call media proprietors, editors and politicians to give evidence,...
Keogh creating a two-tier inferior NHS and proud of it
THE BIG push is on to destroy the national network of A&Es that millions of people depend on, and to convert at least 100...
Nationalise the drug companies and end agency staffing to save NHS
THE NHS is today fighting for its life, with even more savage cuts to come after the election. The Tories are actively planning to regionalise...
To Get Rid Of The Coronavirus – Get Rid Of The Capitalist Drive For...
YESTERDAY, Boris Johnson announced new emergency laws making social gatherings of more than six people illegal in England from next Monday. This law applies to...
Bush threatens war with Iran and demands the support of his reluctant feudal allies
US PRESIDENT George W Bush yesterday warned of the ‘Iranian threat’ during his speech in Abu Dhabi. While speaking about the role of the United...
Only a revolution wIll halt the Bahrain grand prix
VERY heavy clashes between masses of anti-government protesters and the Bahraini security forces continued into last night, ahead of tomorrow’s F1 Grand Prix. The...
US imperialism is discussing Israeli air strikes on Iran’s oil industry!
CLEARLY rattled by Iran’s 180-strong missile barrage, fired at Israel in retaliation for Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon,...
Save the NHS by bringing down the Tories and expropriating the bosses and the...
THE NHS is the greatest of the gains that the working class made in the period immediately after the Second World War. It was brought...
Greek debt is on an ‘explosive path’ says the IMF
THE International Monetary Fund has warned that Greece’s debts are on an ‘explosive path’ in its first annual review of the country’s economy since...
Don’t let Cameron bomb Syria – Forward to the victory of Syria and the...
THE capitalist media and its Tory masters are working around the clock to drum up a majority for Cameron, made up of Tories and...
Israeli air raids on Gaza as Netanyahu threatens war with Iran!
THE Palestinian government has condemned the Saturday night-Sunday morning Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip which killed two Palestinian youth and injured many...
Barrett appointed to US Supreme Court in drive to declare a Trump defeat a...
WITH JUST eight days to go before the US presidential election the right wing judge Amy Coney Barrett was appointed to the American Supreme...
Trade union leaders should resign as well!
IN a statement on Friday, the day after the general election disaster for reformism, the TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady showed just what a...
US workers bracing themselves for ‘fiscal cliff’
THE US labour movement is now bracing itself for a last minute ‘deal’ on the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ with the Republican Party, in which the...
Pakistan’s creeping coup being organised by the US
A FEW weeks ago President Obama announced 30,000 extra US troops for Afghanistan. Now the US has given its full support to President Karzai of...
TUC pledges solidarity with workers in Middle East – time to force TUC to...
ON MONDAY, the General Council of the TUC issued a lengthy ‘interim statement on Iran’ which condemned ‘the dangerous escalation of military actions, precipitated...
World Bank Report – capitalism stands on brink of financial crash
THE WORLD stands on the brink of a financial crash according to the latest biannual Global Economic Prospects report from the World Bank. This warns...
Stock Markets Crashing Worldwide!
THE sharp rises followed almost immediately by even bigger losses on the international stock markets over the past few days, point in only one...
Blair’s not going anywhere – except over to the Tories
PRIME Minister Blair, speaking to one of his major supporters, Murdoch’s Sun newspaper yesterday, spelt out that he was not going into early retirement...
Workers and elderly to be hammered for the benefit of privateers
CURRENTLY all over the country A&E’s are being closed, in some areas entire hospitals are to be demolished, while the number of private patients...
Desperate capitalism moves towards hyperinflation
LAST week the Republican presidential candidate and multi-billionaire property speculator, Donald Trump, unveiled his plan for saving US capitalism from economic catastrophe. During a lengthy...
Bring Down The Tories To Stop The Drive To A New Imperialist World War!...
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned of the ‘real’ danger of World War III breaking out, as 40 capitalist states met in Germany...
Merkel’s ‘Grand Coalition’ – Germany’s crisis deepens!
ANGELA MERKEL, the leader of Germany’s right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU), announced on Monday: ‘We have the basis for coalition talks. The CDU will...
Workers must organise unions to take the UK out of the EU on October...
THE EU’s Brexit negotiator Barnier has set the scene for this week’s ‘Brexit showdown’ in the House of Commons by rejecting out-of-hand PM Johnson’s...
Millions Of Workers And Youth Join The Struggle To Liberate Palestine And Establish The...
SATURDAY saw a vast crowd of 250,000 workers, including very large numbers of enthusiastic and determined youth, take to the streets of London for...
British capitalism even more bankrupt than the Bank of England admits
LAST week, the Bank of England issued a ‘gloomy’ outlook for the UK economy with its growth forecast cut in half from that made...