It’s much later than Brown or Blair think
THE working class electors in the safe Labour seat of Dunfermline and Fyfe ignored the crisis at the top of the Liberal Democrats, so...
MPs’ Committee fears new mortgage bubble!
A VERY nervous House of Commons Treasury Select Committee has just asked the Bank of England to clarify its role in ensuring that the...
Kenyan explosion rooted in land theft and the capitalist crisis
KENYA has been convulsed for nearly a week by an uprising of the poor and the landless who have been absolutely pauperised by the...
UK trade unions must take action to end the UK’s criminal treatment of Chagossians...
THE prime minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth has indicted the UK government for committing ‘crimes against humanity’ for refusing to allow Chagossians to return...
Production Slump Shocks Coalition As Crisis Deepens
THE UK capitalist economy slumped in the fourth quarter of 2010, contracting by 0.5 per cent, instead of the meagre 0.5 per cent growth...
Gove declares war on state education! Kick the Tories out!
THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has unleashed yet another broadside against state education and the teaching profession in a speech on Monday where...
Hayman gets a CBE while Met chief Blair puts his holidays first
THE ‘shoot to kill’ section of the Metropolitan Police force is proceeding full speed ahead, knowing that it has the complete support of the...
Abbas ready to break with US imperialism! UK workers must support the Palestinian...
IN A huge development in the fight of the Palestinian people to establish their own independent state, the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on...
Middle East On The Brink As Mad Dog Israel Attacks Beirut, Baghdad & Damascus!
LEBANON’s president, Michel Aoun, on Monday condemned an Israeli drone attack on Beirut at the weekend as a ‘declaration of war’ that justifies a...
Northern Ireland – Massive NHS Cuts On The Agenda
MORE THAN 700 nursing posts are under threat in Northern Ireland as part of wider plans to cut almost 2,500 health service jobs over...
Labour Party leaders knife Corbyn to prepare way for National Government with...
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party over his remarks on Thursday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn’s...
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...
Israeli Forces Killed Their Own Settlers In A Panic Response To Hamas’ October Push!
SCORES of Palestinian civilians were brutally murdered and many others injured yesterday as the Israeli genocide campaign in Gaza entered its 44th day in...
After April 24: Defeat pay cuts with an extended general strike!
TENS of thousands of teachers, college lecturers and civil servants are striking today against government-imposed pay cuts. As a result of the action by the...
Police Officer Chauvin squeezed the life out of George Floyd! Murder trial puts the...
FOR NINE minutes and twenty-nine seconds police officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd’s neck, Hennepin county courthouse in downtown Minneapolis heard...
Capitalist state kept quiet about illegal phone tapping
METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has ordered a senior officer to ‘establish the facts’ – concerning the knowledge that the police had –...
US unions being driven to historic break with Democrats
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said last Friday that US workers want an ‘independent’ labour movement designed to help the working class, not a specific...
Trade Unions must occupy hospitals threatened with closures! Come to the ATUA conference!
THE NHS is the battleground within which the class struggle in this country is being fought out to the finish. The Tory government plans...
The only way to ‘fix’ capitalism is to overthrow it and advance to socialism!
THE euphoria over figures released this week that the UK inflation rate in July had dropped to 6.8%, meaning that prices were shooting up...
Only a Socialist Revolution can force the break with the bosses’ and bankers’ EU!
NOTHING summed up the crisis that is gripping the leadership of the trade unions like the TUC’s joint statement this week, with the bosses...
Build The Wrp In 2008!
THE TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, in his New Year’s message said that his two fears for 2008 were the dangers of a banking...
US opens missile base in Romania and plans for bases in Poland and Hungary
AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...
Public sector unions must take strike action over pensions
THE Fire Brigades Union said yesterday that it will consider industrial action over government plans to ‘reform’ its members’ pensions by dramatically extending the...
Hezbollah unites the Arab masses against Zionism and imperialism
THERE is not the slightest doubt about it – Hezbollah’s military action in the Shabaa Farms area of the disputed border with Israel, showed...
Unite The Masses In The Gulf Against Imperialism
SADDAM HUSSEIN went to his death bravely and heroically, executed by agents of imperialism – the leaders of a puppet government that came to...
After The Care Homes Massacre – Kick The Tories Out Now!
THE damning report released yesterday by the Public Accounts Committee on the effect of Tory policies towards the elderly in care homes came as...
To deal with MRSA – end NHS privatisation!
MRSA is now linked to nearly 1,000 deaths each year in NHS hospitals. There is no doubt that it is a product of the...
What A Difference The War Drive Against Russia Makes For Ukrainian Refugees!
THE Tory government is offering all households in the UK £350 a month to take in people fleeing the war in the Ukraine. Housing...
Blair paved the way for Davis and Howarth
IT was Prime Minister Blair who insisted that the 7th July bombings and the July 21 attempted bombings were nothing to do with the...
Banking disaster overshadows Brown-Darling budget
BLACKSTONE, the world’s biggest private equity capitalist raider, has reported a collapse in its profits in the last three months...
Troika poised to show Greece the door
GREEK PM Antonis Samaras is meeting the organisation of Greece’s international creditors, the Troika (IMF, EU, ECB), to try to persuade it to give...
It Is The Ruling Classes That Must Say Their Prayers!
IN 2008 the world financial system stood on the very brink of the abyss with banks and industries facing the immediate prospect of crashing...
Trade Union Renegade Doing Blair’s Dirty Work
THE former CWU postal workers trade union leader, Alan Johnson, yesterday moved into action at the behest of the Prime Minister to urge that...
TAKE ACTION IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE – CALL GENERAL STRIKES IN US, EU and...
NABIL Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, warned on Sunday of the grave consequences of Israel’s threats to carry out what could be...
General Sanders Says That The UK Army Must Be Ready For A War To...
THE new Chief of the General staff, Sir Patrick Sanders, yesterday urged that Britain must be ready to fight Putin, comparing the present situation...
US National March for Palestine takes place today in Washington – US workers &...
MASSIVE demonstrations are sweeping the United States in support of Palestine. There have been big marches and rallies in New York, Chicago, Texas, San...
MPs defend council housing – report condemns government plans
The House of Commons Council Housing Group of MPs from all parties yesterday launched its report Support for the Fourth Option for Council Housing. This...
Sunak Wants A War With Russia And A Class War Against The Working Class...
THE British ruling class has decided that there is only one way out of the historic crisis of British capitalism, and that is to...
Tories refuse to negotiate – opt for a fight to the finish. Junior doctors...
YESTERDAY the BMA junior doctors’ leader Dr Johann Malawana said, referring to the forthcoming strike actions: ‘No junior doctor wants to take this action,...
Consultants are fighting for the NHS – the working class must rally behind them...
YESTERDAY, NHS consultants went out on a two-day strike, the first in nearly 50 years, over their demand for an increase in pay to...
Political Revolution In Kyrgyzstan
THE Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, spoke by phone Thursday with the new interim leader in Kyrgyzstan whose ‘peoples government’ has been placed in...
As The Economic And Political Crisis Of Capitalism Deepens The US And UK...
WORKERS throughout the world have experienced, through massive job losses and huge wage cuts, just how the world crisis of the capitalist system is...
US prepares no-fly zone over Syria
THE news that the US secretary of state, John Kerry, was forced to scrap a planned visit to Israel in order to attend an...
Accept £4 billion of London NHS cuts or pay for treatment says NHS England
LONDON Hospitals are at ‘breaking point’ according to a report from NHS England over a £4 billion funding gap. NHS England (London region) director Dr...
Not just European banks but world capitalism is a ‘lost cause’
THE panic gripping the world capitalist class over the impending crash of the banking system reached another new level on Monday with the publication...