US planning peace talks while building Gaza’s ‘wall of steel’
IT seems that the United States is preparing the ground to make the Palestinians an offer that they will not be able to refuse...
US healthcare privateer to head NHS England!
WITH the appointment of Simon Stevens as the new head of NHS England, the Tory-led coalition have put in charge of the day-to-day running...
No Return To Private Healthcare – It’s Capitalism That Is Broken Not The NHS!
THE NEW Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s first recorded words in office as Labour’s Health Secretary were to condemn the National Health Service, telling the...
Labour And Trade Union Leaders Move To The Right!
THE Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Liam Byrne, yesterday joined hands with Cameron and Osborne with his declaration in the Guardian newspaper that Beveridge,...
Unions Must Dump Blair, Brown And Beckett
THE decision of up to 40 members of Foreign Secretary Beckett’s local Labour Party branch, Derby South, to quit the party, concretely proves that...
Big pensions for bosses, poverty for workers
A new report by the Incomes Data Services and the High Pay Commission has thrown the spotlight on the issue of pensions, and the...
With inflation set to quadruple, the working class must take action to defend...
UK inflation will quadruple to about 4% in the second half of next year and cut disposable income, the National Institute for Economic and...
Doctors strike to defend the NHS and to defend patient care!
ALMOST 50,000 resident (junior) hospital doctors started their 5-day strike yesterday against the government’s refusal to fund their claim for a pay increase of...
Two-day Greek General Strike – time for all-out indefinite action!
LAST week the two main Greek trade union organisations representing workers in the public and private sector called a two-day general strike starting today...
Answer Osborne with Councils of Action and a General Strike
In an interview on Sunday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made it absolutely clear that as far as the coalition government is concerned there...
Trump Will Live To Regret His Empty Davos Boasting! US Debt Mountain Will Lead...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s address to the annual get together of politicians, billionaires, bankers and other assorted ‘running dogs’ of capitalism at the World...
Recall The Tuc Congress To Call General Strike To Support The Junior Doctors
THE latest two-day strike action of the junior doctors has been a resounding success with massive picket lines, and huge public support, while the...
Cameron Get Out – follow Harper’s lead!
HARD-LINE Tory immigration minister Mark Harper has just resigned after he admitted that he was employing a cleaner who was not legally entitled to...
French General Strike As Working Class Defends Its Pension Rights Against Macron And The...
FRANCE yesterday was paralysed by a general strike called by the trade unions in response to the attempts by the government of president Macron...
Capitalism being torn to shreds by coronavirus – forward to world socialist revolution
CORONAVIRUS sent the world’s stock markets crashing when they opened yesterday morning, with £100 billion wiped off the value of London’s top listed companies. Leading...
Labour is sharpening the knife to cut the throat of the NHS – what...
LABOUR’S HEALTH SECRETARY Wes Streeting has made public his vow to scrap more than a million ‘pointless’ NHS hospital appointments. The Health Secretary whined that...
New Curriculum abolishes childhood
THIS week, children and young people return to school in England where they face being subjected to a new education curriculum devised by the...
Coalition Aiming To Cut The Mentally Ill!
THE government is planning to strip mentally ill people of their state benefits if they do not agree to undergo treatment for anxiety and...
Hamas Urges Palestinian Youth To Escalate The Conflict With Israeli Forces!
THE Hamas Movement has urged the young people of the West Bank and all the Palestinian masses to join forces with each other and...
The TUC Must Call A General Strike To Stop The Israeli Massacres Of Palestinians!
ISRAELI occupation forces have committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of...
ALL trade unions must strike with Junior Doctors on February 10th!
JUNIOR doctors are to take strike action on February 10th after rejecting the government’s proposals in negotiations, where the government was represented by NHS...
Capitalist state uses ‘guilt by association’ to attack youth
A REPORT by Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre For Crime and Justice Studies published last week focuses on the way police and prosecutors collude to...
The Crisis In The Ukraine
THE imperialist-backed attempted coup to oust the Ukrainian government and replace it with a pro-imperialist regime, has now taken the open form of a...
Desperate US and UK warmongers play the lying WMD card
IN March 2003, the US-UK axis led by warmongers Bush and Blair – after claiming that there was irrefutable evidence that Iraq possessed weapons...
The Bank of E grapples with the contradictions of the capitalist economy
IN its latest report the Bank of England monetary committee has rejected the line put forward in the budget by the Chancellor of the...
Kick the Tories out! Get rid of capitalism to prevent a health catastrophe of...
NHS WAITING lists in England could more than double in the coming months, from the current figure of 5.3 million people to around 13...
Only one answer to mass unemployment – Socialist Revolution
WHILE firms and businesses are closing down as furlough ends and millions of workers are being thrown out of work, the Tories launched their...
Answer jobs massacre at Vauxhall with occupations and a general strike
AFTER weeks of speculation it was finally confirmed yesterday that the giant but bankrupt General Motors was pulling out of Europe, selling off its...
Working class must take decisive action as UK heads for gigantic crash
STARMER’S Labour government is in a state of complete meltdown, with the prime minister himself struggling to keep his job under the impact of...
Nationalise Lonmin – forward with South African socialist revolution
The massacre of 34 striking miners at the hands of the ANC government’s police last Thursday marked a decisive point in the development of...
Israel closes Irish embassy in fury over Ireland’s recognition of Palestine and its support...
THE DECISION by the Israeli regime on Sunday to close its embassy in Dublin brought a swift response from Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister) Simon...
Blind leading the blind at BofE!
A MONTH before the start of the 2007 financial crash, the Bank of England was completely unaware of the impending biggest disaster in the...
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...
UK planning for war right across the Mediterranean!
THE imperialist powers are now working overtime to explode the Mediterranean region, from Libya to Turkey, into one huge raging fire. The UN Security Council...
Bankrupt Barber won’t fight for workers!
ADDRESSING the Scottish TUC yesterday, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber was desperate to show that the addition of another million unemployed in the next...
Blair hits out at ‘black crime’ – calls to ‘take out’ black youth
BLAIR in his Callaghan Memorial lecture in Cardiff came out as an admirer of the right wing Labour premier, who he says ‘had neither...
Bp Leads Shares Crash As Banking Crisis Grows!
OIL giant BP’s share price has fallen nearly 17 per cent to £4.12, its lowest level since March 2009. The sharp sell-off came as it...
IMF warns US banking crisis threatens stability of world capitalism!
THE IMF (International Monetary Fund) has issued another stark warning that world capitalism is at serious risk of an international financial crisis caused by...
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...
Smash The Anti-Union Laws!
THE RMT has called off its Network Rail strike action of signal workers after the judiciary declared it to be illegal, using the ruling...
Parliament turns a blind eye to the mass slaughter and starvation of tens of...
THE reconstituted House of Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls (CAEC), made up of members of four select committees – Business, Innovation and Skills,...
UK Must Stop Arming Saudi Arabia And Must Rush Food Aid To The Yemen
THE TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that all those behind the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi should be brought to justice,...
Tories Want To Go From Starving Children To Pauperising Pensioners!
THIS week Tory prime minister Boris Johnson was forced to make a humiliating retreat over free school meals following a campaign led by the...
Energy bills will force millions into abject poverty – socialist revolution only way forward!
OVER one-in-eight UK households live in fear that they can’t make any further cuts to spending to pay the massive increase in energy bills...
Labour Intends To Prop Up Capitalism And Continue From Where The Tories Left Off!
KING Charles yesterday outlined his new Labour government’s law-making plans in his speech to Parliament. The Labour Party now has an overall majority over all...