Blair Wants Government Control Of Judges
THE Blair government announced yesterday through its Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, that it was going to bring in legislation that will tell judges how...
US-UK-Eu The Imperialist Split Widens!
AS the world crisis of capitalism develops at breakneck speed, so the splits between the imperialist nations become more open, pitching the US against...
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...
Youth for revolution!
THE massive growth in unemployment sparked by the worldwide financial collapse in the capitalist system in 2008 is hitting youth so hard that the...
US Ex-Soldier Diplomat Resigns In Protest At Afghan War
WHILE President Obama remains undecided and continues to dither about what the US strategy should be in Afghanistan, his diplomats are making their...
Bulgarians Hit Out At Cameron
THE President of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev, has correctly rebuked Tory leader Cameron for peddling nationalism and isolationism. It is ironic that the UK – which...
New Health Act must be smashed along with the government that has brought it...
THE Tory-led coalition will now be able to close all of the hospitals on its hit list, and more as it wishes, to ‘save’...
Revolution coming to North America!
THE continuing Egyptian revolution – in particular the determined occupations of Tahrir Square and the fearless struggle of Egypt’s workers for their rights...
Examine practicalities of a general strike by organising it now!
THE TUC Congress was dominated by the growing mass anger of the working class at the Tory-led coalition policy of wage freezing and massive...
Imperialist Vultures Gather Over Syria
HAVING failed to overthrow President Assad of Syria by force of arms, the imperialist powers are now turning to Russia, and are seeking the...
‘Israel’s war of annihilation won’t break our will!’
THE President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, has said that the Palestinian people will remain steadfast and adhere to their legitimate rights,...
Brown pledges to bring morality to the bankers!
AT yesterday’s Labour Party conference Premier Brown focused on the ‘wrong choices’ that the Tories had made over policies to deal with the...
Lobby the TUC on September 7th! Demand it calls a general strike to bring...
INDIVIDUAL US military personnel assisting the war crimes of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza and the Palestinian West Bank territory could be prosecuted...
Make the TUC call a general strike to Bring down the coalition, Smash the...
TODAY at 9am the TUC General Council is discussing a motion from the Prison Officers Association (who have no right to strike) that urges...
Thousands Driven Out Of Their Homes!
AFTER the initial declarations of the British and other NATO forces that they were going to Afghanistan to win ‘hearts and minds’ through engaging...
Gangster capitalism emerges at House of Commons committee!
THE ex-chief executive of British Home Stores (BHS), Darren Topp, told a parliamentary committee yesterday morning that the former owner of BHS, Dominic Chappell,...
The Jubilee turns sour as capitalism crashes
THE Jubilee ‘celebrations’ have turned out to be a petty, momentary diversion for sections of the middle class, away from the real drama...
Scotland Yard refuses to back down as the capitalist state gives up on bourgeois...
TORY leadership rivals Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have found themselves leading the condemnation of Scotland Yard after a senior officer threatened to prosecute...
Biden in Kiev trying to shore up coupist regime
US Vice-President Joe Biden told the assembled right wingers at the Ukraine parliament yesterday that the US stands with the country’s new leaders in...
Tory war on unemployed must be answered with a general strike to kick them...
THE LATEST Tory onslaught on the unemployed was revealed by Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday when he praised the ‘Way...
No recovery for capitalism from 2008 crash – forward to socialist revolution
A RECENT analysis by Sky News has shown that the ‘recovery’ of British capitalism since the world banking crash in 2008 is actually smaller...
Trump escalates trade war with China and prepares for a shooting war – only...
THE TRUMP administration has ratcheted up the confrontation with China with an escalation of its economic trade war, coupled with a provocative military build-up...
Form Councils Of Action To Stop All Evictions! Take Over Empty Properties To House...
THE UK is in the grip of a huge housing crisis with workers who have jobs and earn wages being evicted by greedy landlords...
The TUC supports the UK and US war plan for the Ukraine, and demands...
THE TUC has stabbed all Ukrainian anti-fascists in the back, and its own members along with them, with its letter to the UK Chancellor...
Fatah Must Change Its Leadership
THE victory of the Hamas movement in the fighting in the Gaza Strip is a huge setback for the imperialist diplomacy of the US...
Labour squeezing poor and cutting services to prop up the banks
CHANCELLOR Darling has told his cabinet colleagues there will be no more money made available for schools, hospitals or transport. These vital services face cuts,...
Trump And The US Ruling Class Up To Their Necks In The Afghan Quagmire!
THE US ruling class and its leader President Trump (allegedly much versed in the ‘art of the deal’) are now up to their necks...
The Working Class Must Intervene To Resolve The Brexit ‘Debate’!
LAST Tuesday afternoon, in the House of Commons, the knives were out for the Brexit referendum result, and for the millions of workers who...
Capitalist State Is Preparing For Seven-Day Blackouts In UK!
THE UK CAPITALIST STATE is currently engaged in a war on two fronts. The first is to aid the right wing Ukrainian regime with hundreds...
End the NHS cuts! Reopen the A&Es!
FINANCIAL pressures could get in the way of the drive to improve care following the Stafford Hospital scandal, experts said yesterday, confirming the obvious,...
Junior doctors will vote to reject rotten Hunt-BMA deal!
THE BMA leadership have allowed themselves to be taken for a ride by Health Secretary Hunt! The government that imposed provocation after provocation onto the...
The Palestinian people and the US, UK and EU workers are now in the...
IN RESPONSE to legal action taken by Adalah – The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel – Israeli authorities have clarified that...
Labour Taking Action To Make The Workers And The Poor Pay For The Crisis...
THERE is no doubt that Labour’s proposed benefit cuts are a ‘violation of workers rights’ which will harm ill, disabled and poorer workers in...
No escape for capitalism as stock markets crash
ON THE very day that Boris Johnson hailed the start of the economic bounce-back for capitalism with a return to work, the international stock...
A billionaires’ paradise – the UK under Blair and Brown
IN the last 12 months the working class and the vast majority of the middle class have desperately struggled under a huge and...
Turkish crisis strengthens the Syrian people and President Assad
SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that the Turkish president Erdogan may be using the ‘coup attempt’ in Turkey to eliminate his opponents...
Obama about-turn on war crimes!
PRESIDENT Obama said one thing before his election, and now he is saying something else altogether. During his campaign he stood up against the torture...
Cameron dreams on while stock markets collapse
IN a radio interview yesterday morning the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, pronounced that the UK economy was seeing a ‘balanced economic recovery.’ All this...
Trade Unions Must Call General Strikes To Bring Down The Ruling Classes That Are...
SPEAKING at a press conference in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on Thursday, Abdallah al-Dardari, UN assistant secretary-general and director of the UN Development Programme...
3,000+ refugees have been on hunger strike in detention centres since 2015! Shut them...
THE HOME Office itself has produced figures showing that more than 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers have been on hunger strike in the last...
Hunt stays silent over whether government was informed of plot against Khashoggi by...
IT HAS got very hot in the warmongers’ kitchen when reputedly fire-proof US militarists like US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, and Secretary of State...
Don’t Stop At Dumping Slavers, Dump The UK And US Ruling Classes With Socialist...
THE TORY leadership reacted in fury this week after the statue of the notorious slave trader Edward Colston was torn down and dumped in...
Army is ‘sick’ from Iraq & Afghan campaigns
ONE in every fourteen British soldiers, almost 7,000 are sick or injured at a time when every regiment of 600 faces a shortfall of...
London’s Met police to be split with directly recruited detectives!
THE news yesterday that, for the first time, London’s Metropolitan police will be directly recruiting plainclothed detectives with no previous experience of policing is...
Call national strike action! Form a public sector alliance!
OVER 12,000 postal workers are taking strike action today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and the executive dictatorship by Royal Mail, while...