French workers press forward as Stalinists retreat
MASS meetings of rail and transport workers were voting in France yesterday to continue their strike actions in defence of pensions. The RATP...
Currency War Prelude To Shooting War!
LEADERS of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank came out yesterday with dire warnings about the emerging ‘currency war’. Speaking on the eve...
NHS privatisation can seriously damage your health!
NOBODY knows the number of botched or mismanaged operations being carried out by the private Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) businesses, funded by the...
Barclays Vice Chair On NHS Commissioning Board
YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Health told the House of Commons that the government will be taking a step back from the...
Anarchists Being Used To Increase Police-State Powers
LAST Saturday’s 500,000-strong TUC demonstration against the coalitions cuts policy has shaken the coalition, and given the capitalist state a lot to think about. Such...
Palestine erupts on 44th anniversary of Six-Day-war
IN 1967, Israel, in the infamous ‘Six-Day War’, used its air power, and its backing from the Western powers, to defeat Arab armies and...
CBI calls for more anti-union laws!
YESTERDAY the employers’ organisation, the CBI, was joined by Tory London mayor, Boris Johnson, in demanding further laws to outlaw strike action against the...
Nationalise the Pharmaceutical Industry
AT last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, 100 pharmaceutical companies and private health care companies issued a statement demanding that governments around the...
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...
Postal workers want indefinite strike action NOW!
CWU members have voted, in a 67 per cent turnout, a much bigger turnout than in a British general election, for strike action, with...
Renegade Field joins Cameron – while Milibands search for a ‘new opportunism’
FRANK Field, the notorious Labour party right winger has joined the Tory coalition and is to be its ‘Poverty Tsar’, no doubt bringing back...
To defend the NHS, bring down the Brown government and bring in a workers...
TODAY’S Senior Consultants BMA conference is due to hear a warning from Doctor Jonathan Fielden to Premier-elect Gordon Brown that he...
Lagarde admits crisis as deep as five years ago!
IMF CHIEF Christine Lagarde opened her speech of last Monday in Washington with a dose of false optimism. She said: ‘Let me begin by saying...
UCU Warns Against Student Poll Tax
1381 was the historic year when the peasantry rose up against the imposition of the Poll Tax in a revolt that speeded up the...
US Steps Up Missile Attacks On Pakistan
WITH the world’s attention focussed on the capitalist crisis, the US military have unleashed a series of massive attacks on the Afghan and Pakistani...
Withdraw all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan
THE fact that six RAF Harrier GR7 jets are to remain in Afghanistan to support the 4,000 British troops who are being assembled in...
Greek workers on the march to socialist revolution
THE Greek working class, Greek youth and the majority of the middle class and the small farmers have battled the EU imposed austerity programmes...
Public Sector Disaster F0R British Capitalism
THE UK’s public sector net deficit for October reached £11.4bn and is the highest monthly deficit since records began. The national debt at...
Brown wants to form a Blairite government
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has confirmed to the BBC that he will run a Blairite administration if he becomes prime minister. He said that...
Trade unions must take action to support the Tamil people
THOUSANDS of Tamils demonstrated on Westminster Bridge on Monday evening against the failure of the Brown government to lift a finger to save the...
Workers & youth take on the French government
THOUSANDS of students took to the streets in major cities throughout France yesterday in the struggle against Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s First Employment...
Tory Party Forces Cameron To Fire Miller!
MARIA MILLER has been forced to resign. After publicly displaying her arrogant determination to defy all the calls for her to go – a...
Ireland – hurtling towards a socialist revolution
THE right-wing Fine Gael party is set to form a coalition with its traditional partner, the right-wing Labour party, after a ‘political revolution’ which...
Take Strike Action To Defend The NHS
THE Royal College of Nursing, the nurses trade union, yesterday announced that it is seeking a judicial review to force the Blair government to...
Greece must be sacrificed – Osborne dons his butcher’s apron!
CHANCELLOR Osborne was in the mood for sacrifices on Tuesday and as is his way, the way of the British bourgeoisie, these sacrifices were...
Brown And King Split As British Capitalism Founders
PM Brown has reacted to the Bank of England chief’s public admonition that the next Budget must not plunge the UK into another flood...
War on the unemployed – bring down the coalition
THE news this weekend that the private companies are bidding for 40 new welfare contracts represents another stage in the Tory-LibDem coalition’s relentless drive...
Localism Bill a cover for mass sackings and privatisation
YESTERDAY saw the Tory-led coalition finally unveil its so-called ‘Localism Bill’, which is central to its plans to make massive cuts in local government...
Cameron poised to send UK troops into Iraq!
PM Cameron is poised to send British troops into Iraq. This is why he is unwilling to recall Parliament after it rejected his...
Brown gives billions more to the banks
AMID banks posting further huge losses and their share prices collapsing, after the near extinction of the world’s largest banks last October, Prime Minister...
Portuguese bailout accelerates EU disintegration
THURSDAY’S announcement that Portugal had finally been forced into asking for a massive 90 billion euro (£79 bn) bailout from the European Central Bank...
US crisis intensifies!
THE US dollar, reflecting the crisis of the US capitalist economy, is now sinking fast against both the euro and the pound sterling. Rising...
Workers Must Take Action To Put An End To Capitalism
THE TIME is here when workers must respond to the growing chorus from the professional servants of the bourgeoisie for savage, and even more...
No Fees Or Loans And Restore Student Grants For All!
AFTER Blair and Brown abolished students’ grants and introduced a regime of fee paying for university education – putting an end to free university...
Labour Champions The State Against Parliament
THE fact that the Home Secretary maintained in the House of Commons yesterday that she had not known Tory MP Damian Green was to...
Victory to Libya Bring down the coalition!
AFTER initial hesitation, and no doubt after a talking to by President Obama, and after President Sarkozy jumped the gun with his announcement, the...
Brown and Darling saving the bosses by savaging the workers
AS is his way, the Prime Minister addressed the CBI bosses organisation yesterday, just hours before his Chancellor was due to declare to the...
Cameron’s all-powerful police state is to fight the working class
THE beginning of PM Cameron’s speech to the recalled House of Commons was an attempt to divorce the youth uprising that is taking place...
Bankrupt airlines need to be nationalised!
YESTERDAY BALPA, the pilots’ union, sounded the alarm at the crisis of the major airlines. This has been immeasurably sharpened by the eruption and continuing...
US-UK in a stampede to quit Afghanistan!
IN the light of President Obama’s determination to quit Afghanistan, and his acknowledgement that the US has been talking to the Taleban, the UK’s...
SOUTH AFRICA: Legacy of the revolution betrayed
THE fighting in Johannesburg and its surrounding black townships, over the past week – with more than 23 people being killed, pitched battles with...
Blair wants toothless trade unions; Barber agrees
PRIME Minister Blair on Saturday, at a Unions 21 conference, urged unions to modernise to ‘seize the opportunities of globalisation and the changing nature...
World Capitalist Crisis Driving World Revolution
The US economy is at the centre of the worldwide capitalist economic crisis. It is in slump, with major industries, such as the motor car...
Enough Is Enough Say Wythenshawe Electors
NONE of the three main parties have very much to shout about over the outcome of the Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election. Labour’s Michael Kane...
Drive Privateers Out Of The NHS!
THERE are more and more tragedies which prove that private companies, whose purpose is solely to make profits, have no place in the NHS. We...