Workers must take action to put an end to rail privatisation!
TORY MP Sir Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill, told the House of Commons and Transport Secretary Chris Grayling yesterday, that the Rail Industry...
Mass murder in the Med!
THIS week the UN announced that 300 migrants had drowned after being forced into unseaworthy boats in a desperate attempt to escape the wars...
Ukraine On The Brink Of Civil War
THE sacking of the Ukrainian prosecutor-general, Svyatoslav Piskun by President Yushchenko has brought the Ukraine to the brink of a civil war...
The 1% NHS pay award is a slap in the face for all trade...
THE trade unions are unanimous in their condemnation of the 1% pay award for NHS workers. Even the TUC, which considers PM May to be...
Scottish Labour strikes a blow at UK imperialism’s war plans
SCOTTISH Labour yesterday struck a blow at the war plans of British imperialism when its Perth conference decided to call for the Trident nuclear...
Tories and military show contempt for Parliament
THE ‘sovereign will’ of parliament was shown to be a complete fiction with the exposure of the participation of British pilots in bombing raids...
Rail strike ‘solid and determined’ as passengers join union in demanding re-nationalisation
YESTERDAY’S strike by RMT guards working for the privateer Southern rail network was ‘rock solid’, with RMT general secretary Mick Cash saying: ‘The resilience...
Arrogant Carney Rubbishes Miliband!
THIS week, in an attempt to cash in on the universal hatred felt by the working class and middle classes towards banks and bankers,...
Osborne announces more austerity and refuses to guarantee the NHS
CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday outlined ‘a Britain that is growing, creating jobs and paying its way’. He added more Walter Mitty observations such as: ‘The latest...
Tory MPs rebel while cringing Labour saves Cameron and Osborne
AFTER all the fake sound and fury of parliamentary question time, with party leaders locked in apparent combat without quarter given or asked for,...
Strike to support nurses and defend the NHS!
THE anger of nurses working in the National Health Service (NHS) at having a pay cut imposed upon them this year, by the government...
Johnson’s ‘Defiance’ Of The EU Will Not Fool Workers – He Voted For May’s...
THE NEW Tory PM, Boris Johnson, now has a cabinet dominated by ‘Leavers’ after his massive clear-out of ‘Remainer’ ministers, following his victory in...
No war with Syria – answer the £20bn of cuts by kicking out the...
PM Cameron is due to drive forward Tory war plans both at home and abroad this week. Today, he is meeting President Hollande to prepare...
Forward With The World Socialist Revolution!
ON every front – the economic, the political and the ideological – the capitalist ruling classes and their system are reeling and in desperate...
Egypt must keep open Gaza’s Rafah crossing!
THE Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which has been closed for the past five months, was opened for two days at...
Corbyn appeases Labour’s right wing – the UK must leave the EU, as decided...
THE UK was changed forever when the over-confident Tory leadership of Cameron and Osborne got the House of Commons to agree a resolution...
Defend your homes with a socialist revolution!
THE Thatcherite dream of creating a nation of home owners is already a nightmare for millions struggling to make their mortgage repayments. It is...
No education cuts Restore free state education
CHANCELLOR Darling has announced that £600m will be ‘saved’ by 2012/13 from across ‘higher education, science and research budgets, including student support’, meaning...
Kiev, EU and US facing defeat in East Ukraine!
UKRAINIAN President Petro Poroshenko has cancelled a visit to Turkey, citing ‘Russian troop deployments’ in the east of the country. His announcement came as...
‘Bloodbath’ in Gaza hospitals as Israel ramps up genocidal war
A NEW REPORT by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has indicted Israel for using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. Omar Shakir, HRW’s Israel...
Romney condemned by Solidarity and the Palestinians!
REPUBLICAN presidential nominee Romney won endorsement from former Polish president and former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, only to see the Solidarity...
Judges attack ‘unlawful’ terror laws – police demand more repression
YESTERDAY the capitalist state was split over the Blair government’s police state attacks on democratic rights. Two Law Lords attacked Home Office plans,...
Strike wave hits UK as workers rise up against bankrupt capitalism!
AS CHRISTMAS approaches, the strike wave sweeping Britain is far from abating, in fact it is growing in strength and determination by the day...
Hands Off Rt! Defend Democratic Rights! Russia Is Not The Enemy! Our...
THE decision by the UK state-owned NatWest Bank to cancel RT’s (Russia Today) UK bank accounts is a crude attempt by...
Form public sector alliance to defend the NHS – Forward to a workers government!
THE just published survey of the NHS, carried out for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) trade union, found that 90 per cent of...
General Strike Needed To Defend The NHS!
DR MARK Porter, Chair of the British Medical Association Council, opened their annual representatives meeting with a speech that tore into the policies of...
Capitalism is in its death agony! Forward to the victory of the World...
BRITAIN’S main sickness benefit is ‘not fit for purpose’ and ‘deters people from taking up work’ a Labour government review has found. A report by...
US-Turkey Fighting Over Northern Syria!
THE Syrian government has condemned the invasion of northern Syria by Turkish ground forces, cynically called ‘Operation Olive Branch’, an invasion that was preceded...
Karzai talks with the Taleban as US policy comes unstuck
THE situation in Afghanistan has gone from bad to worse as far as the imperialist powers and their plans for the region are concerned. Last...
Trump sends troops to steal Syrian oil! Kurds and Syrian army unite to drive...
WHEN US President Donald Trump abruptly announced on October 9 that all US troops would be pulled out of northern Syria, his administration indicated...
Bank shares fall while AIG and HBOS live on borrowed time!
SHARE price collapses continued yesterday after the bankrupting of the fourth largest US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, and the ‘rescue’ of Merrill Lynch by...
UK workers must support the struggle for Palestinian state!
EARLY on Wednesday morning Israeli occupation forces shot and killed two Palestinian youth, a 17-year-old and a 20-year-old, and injured at least two others...
Defend state education, stop privatisation!
TODAY'S joint strike by two unions at Middlesex University must be the start of action to defend jobs and the very existence of a...
Only answer to banking crisis is expropriation!
THE COALITION government’s policy to ‘ring-fence’ the banks is at best a cosmetic attempt to appear to be trying to protect retail banking, and...
Workers will demand Unite’s national action against fire and rehire be stepped up to...
YESTERDAY the Unite union announced it is launching a campaign to end fire and rehire with ‘coordinated strikes and actions across the country’. In a...
As Capitalism Shuts Down Workers Must Be Mobilised To Fight For Socialism!
THE SCENE has been set for today’s budget by the crash of the stockmarkets on Monday March 9th when trillions of pounds were wiped...
Working class turns on the Blair-Brown gang
LABOUR suffered a net loss of 331 seats in local elections in England and Wales on 1 May. It also lost out to Tory...
Greece heralds a capitalist collapse and the European socialist revolution
THE Standard and Poor (S&P) credit rating agency downgraded Greek government bonds on Wednesday sending government stocks and share prices on the Athens Stock...
Reject Labour’s racist points system!
A NEW points-based immigration system for workers who want to come to the UK from outside the EU was unveiled by Home Secretary Charles...
Shut down Campsfield – repeal all racist immigration acts
ONCE again yesterday morning, Campsfield detention camp was on fire, with coachloads of prison officers, the ‘tornado team’ armed with riot shields, arriving and...
Blears Speaks With Forked Tongue
HOME Office minister Blears has had a strenuous week. On the one hand she has been working to support British Transport Police Chief Johnston....
Euro-Med condemns Israel for turning Gaza into a ‘genocidal ghetto’
Euro-Med, the Geneva-based independent Human Rights Monitor, issued a press release on Monday condemning the Israeli regime for turning the Gaza Strip into a...
‘Bleak Houses’ and desperate living conditions for workers and youth in the UK –...
THE REPORT by Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, ‘Bleak houses: Tackling the crisis of family homelessness in England’, reveals the ‘terrible reality’...
Hamas demands prosecution of ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ for war crimes against Palestinians
IN RESPONSE to the so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) announcement on Monday that it is closing its operation in Gaza, the Hamas resistance movement...
Tory war games preparing summer war with unions
FIRST of all Prime Minister Cameron wrote that the entire public sector, local government, the NHS and education were to be taken over by...