Johnson’s new attack to break up the NHS
LABOUR’S Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced plans yesterday to allow well-off patients to make so-called ‘co-payments’ for drugs and extra treatments, while still receiving...
TUC – defend the junior doctors, call a general strike now!
THE war against junior doctors and their fight to defend the NHS has been ramped up by the Tory government acting through the General...
Reject postal sell-out deal!
THE reply of the leaders of the CWU postal workers union, Billy Hayes and Dave Ward, to the injunction obtained by the ruthless Royal...
US Begins Serious Peace Talks With Taliban – It Now Knows It Cannot Win...
THE 2001 SEPTEMBER 11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York was seized on by President Bush as the green light for...
To disband the police force and defend the NHS from privateers the TUC...
ON Thursday, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced new government reforms of the police disciplinary system which means that in future any police officer...
Venezuela must not support the Rajapakse regime!
THE Sri Lankan working class, both Tamil and Sinhalese, is suffering under the ‘iron heel’ of the Rajapakse dictatorship. This has killed tens of thousands...
Tories must be made to withdraw junior doctors’ contract and abandon contract imposition!
THE proposal, made by 22 medical colleges and faculties for a five-day pause in the drive to impose new junior doctors’ contracts in England,...
Taleban inflict serious reverse on US–UK forces in Camp Bastion!
IT HAS emerged that the US-UK forces lost six Harrier jump jets – completely destroyed with two more badly damaged – in the highly...
Tory Big Brother will be spying on everybody!
THE News International empire’s phone hacking and spying, and the way that it sought to regulate the government and bend the police force to...
Scots workers reject nationalism – now for revolution
SCOTTISH workers rejected the narrow reactionary nationalism of the SNP on Thursday because of the fact that they hate both the Scottish and English...
Israel calls for the US to take action against Syria
SYRIA yesterday condemned the UN report into the assassination of the former Lebanese Premier, Hariri – a report which pointed the finger of blame...
EU is going up in flames! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
THE European Union is like a huge powder magazine that started to smoulder even before the Brexit vote in the UK on June 23rd,...
ICJ Genocide hearing told Israel turning Gaza into ‘mass grave’ for Palestinians and aid...
THE INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice (ICJ) started its hearings yesterday on the use of humanitarian aid as ‘weapons of war’ by the Israeli regime...
GPs TO BUY AND SELL HEALTH COMMODITY
WITH less than three weeks to go before the start of the Tory-led coalition government’s plan to open up the entire NHS to the...
Turkey And Libya Prepare For Med Oil War Against Greece, And Egypt!
AN EXPLOSIVE situation that threatens all-out war between the NATO powers is fast developing in the Mediterranean region in a struggle to seize the...
US Closes Its Embassy In Kiev As It Hands Over Missiles To Ukraine To...
THE likelihood of an escalation in the Ukraine conflict could significantly increase in the next two months, as long as the just-defeated US President...
Build workers militias all over the Ukraine!
THE illegal Ukrainian regime, that came to power through a US-EU-backed and financed coup, yesterday accused Russia of carrying out an armed invasion of...
Work till you drop for the working class
LORD Turner, the ex-CBI boss, is proposing that workers work a number of extra years before they take the state pension. Turner says that...
Labour holds seat – Tories just beat BNP and are as popular as swine...
THE working class saw the Tories, and the Scottish Tories of the SNP, off in Thursday’s by-election in Glasgow North East. On...
Time to dump capitalism in the ‘dustbin of history’ along with Labour leader Starmer!
LEN McCLUSKEY, general secretary of the Unite union, said that Labour Party leader Keir Starmer faces being ‘dumped into the dustbin of history’ in...
Government responsible for seriously damaging the quality of mental health care!
CUTS to adult mental health services in England are damaging the quality of care given to patients, a report by the King’s Fund...
End the regime of forced prepayment meters – nationalise British Gas and all...
IN THE WEEK when the giant oil and gas company Shell announced record profits of £32.2 billion, on the back of the soaring cost...
Full Support For The RMT And Tssa Strikers!
THE RMT began the first of its two 48-hour strikes on Tuesday night against the plan of London Mayor Boris Johnson to close all...
Shias And Sunnis Must Form Revolutionary Government In Iraq
THE Kurdistan Region intelligence chief, Lahur Jangi, has said that according to his estimates there were 400 to 450 British nationals in the ranks...
The eurozone is a pack of cards ready to collapse, says the economist who...
THE man who is credited as the principle architect of the single European currency 14 years ago has just warned that his ‘project’ is...
EU split and breaking up – Forward to the United Socialist States of Europe
LAST THURSDAY, the 27 heads of the European Union held a video conference call to decide the EU’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic. The...
Western-Backed Syrian Opposition Committing War Crimes!
THE US, UK, French, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari-backed ‘Syrian rebels’, who have been armed, equipped, financed and recognised as the representatives of the Syrian...
Tories split over Brexit! Both May and her Brexit sell-out deal are dead in...
EVEN before Theresa May stood up to deliver her statement yesterday on the Brexit deal, she had agreed with the EU her government was...
Obama cementing anti-China alliance
JUST ahead of his arrival in Japan yesterday, US President Barack Obama assured Japan that islands at the centre of its territorial disputes with...
US, UK, Turkey Make Sure Syrian Truce Collapses
A POWERFUL car bomb exploded in Damascus on Friday, on the first day of the Syrian cease-fire, killing five people and injuring 32. Thus was...
Brown orders troop retreat from Basra City
BRITISH troops retreated from Basra City, quitting their base in the Presidential Palace on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab waterway in the dead...
UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to defend their wages,...
WITH food banks running out of food, the poor are being condemned, not just to poverty but to a starvation existence, of begging on...
Dump May Regime And Her Grammar Schools!
TORY PM May yesterday launched her new offensive attempting to restore ‘secondary moderns’ by allowing every school to become a selective grammar school, and...
The trade unions must call a general strike to bring down the Labour regime...
THE British capitalist economy is in ruins and heading rapidly into the dustbin of history. It is bankrupt and its leaders are politically bankrupt, adding...
No economic solution to capitalist crisis as BIS warns financial markets at risk
THE BANK for International Settlements (BIS) – dubbed the bank for central banks – issued a dire warning in its latest quarterly review that...
Trade unions must act now to defend living standards!
BANK of England Governor Mervyn King sent a letter to Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday because inflation has taken off. Under statutory obligations put in place...
‘Clear-cut robbery in Cyprus’ – the penalty for the crime is revolution!
THE Cypriot parliament yesterday postponed an emergency session on the 7-10% banking tax imposed by the EU on every depositor in the country’s...
World Socialist Revolution is only way to end imperialist slaughter
THE TORIES have damned the Starmer government for a foreign policy ‘shambles’ as political parties throughout the western imperialist nations grapple with coming to...
Tory plans for their police state! Step too far even for EU Courts
THE Tories’ new mass surveillance laws got a setback this week when the European Court of Justice ruled that its snoopers’ charter, the Investigatory...
Sunak prepares for war on working class to pay off capitalism’s massive debt
OVER 250,000 small firms and companies are destined to collapse this year according to research carried out by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Nearly...
Nurses determined to fight the Tories – all trade unions must strike with them...
The annual conference of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Brighton this week is taking place at a time when the entire NHS...
Putin driving Belarus into the arms of the EU
‘IT is of utmost importance for us to establish good relations with the West,’ said President Lukashenka of Belarus on Tuesday. This statement is a...
Brown planned troops on the streets after Lehman collapse
IN 2008, the then-Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, actively considered ordering armed troops onto the streets of Britain as his response to the collapse...
CHILDREN ARE DYING EVERY DAY! Hospitals have been bombed! Doctors say that they have...
THE UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has warned that already low levels of aid trickling into Gaza have dwindled further, with the situation...
UK military torn apart by ‘internal warfare’
THE ARMED wing of the British capitalist state is being torn apart by ‘internal warfare’, according to a report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph. This major...