Tories plan to pauperise and then privatise the NHS – make the TUC...
IN ITS WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL the Daily Telegraph sought to shed crocodile tears for the striking health workers who are continuing to battle against the...
Trump pledges to make US capitalism great again by pauperising the US workers and...
ALARM is spreading among US imperialism’s imperialist rivals at incoming US president Donald Trump’s pledge to make ‘America Great Again’ by pauperising the whole...
US ‘putting a knife to China’s neck’
ON MONDAY the Chinese government issued a document accusing US president Donald Trump’s administration of ‘trade bullyism practices’ that represent the ‘greatest source of...
Working Class Is On The March – Tuc Must Call A General Strike To...
DRIVEN forward by the shock of capitalism’s energy catastrophe the working class is now on the march. Unite Wales union NHS members have voted to...
No amount of pressure will force the Tories to even talk about pay –...
TENS of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers across England walked out yesterday at the start of two days of strike action. Members of the...
Kick out TUC leaders who refuse to fight and are begging Tories to extend...
FROM TODAY the Tory furlough scheme starts to unwind with businesses forced to contribute 10% of furloughed workers’ wages, rising to 20% in August...
New generation organises five section strike! TUC must call a General Strike to end...
A NEW generation of workers is now organising themselves into unions and is combining their labour power by striking together. There is no doubt...
Israel is stepping up its war on Lebanon & Palestine – The UK trade...
THE Israeli army yesterday continued its bloody war on Lebanon for the 20th consecutive day, launching dozens of airstrikes, bombing homes and gatherings, and...
Netanyahu under siege as he imposes sanctions on Palestine!
THE Israeli cabinet has approved the ‘legalisation’ of five settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and further sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for...
Bring Down Blair Over Pensions
THE big pensions clash between the trade unions and the government is underway after nine unions representing 1.5 million council workers agreed to ballot...
Mass arrests in Pakistan – general elections ‘postponed’
GENERAL Pervez Musharraf has carried out his second military coup. The first made him president, and last weekend’s, in his own words, ‘prevented the...
Governor of BoE blames workers for inflation – Only a sliding scale of wages...
WITH INFLATION in the UK running at over 7% and gas and electricity bills shooting up by 54%, millions of workers face being driven...
Israel’s NSO’s Pegasus Project hacks the phones of over 50,000 people worldwide
A DETAILED investigation carried out by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based non-profit media organisation, the human rights group Amnesty International and world media organisations has...
Forward To The Greek Revolution!
THE PASOK socialist party and its leader, George Papandreou, won a landslide election victory on Sunday in Greece's snap general election, winning over 43...
Lebanon rises up after government ‘negligence’ kills 154! Socialist revolution is the...
THE LEBANESE bankers’ state has collapsed, undermined by the worldwide capitalist crisis which has plunged the country into a desperate situation of bankruptcy, mass...
Support Iran’s right to a nuclear programme
YESTERDAY in London, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, met to discuss hauling Iran in front of the Security...
Make TUC day of workplace action the first day of a general strike across...
ISRAELI troops crossed the border into southern Lebanon yesterday in what they described as ‘limited, localised and targeted ground raids’ after approval was given...
Desperate Blair dashes to Baghdad
WITH British troops in the south of Iraq in danger of taking heavy casualties at the hands of an insurgency that has taken over...
Bosses demand a prison workforce to keep wages below poverty level
IT EMERGED yesterday that desperate UK food companies are begging Tory ministers to let them use prisoners to work in meat processing plants as...
The lesson of Orgreave is smash the capitalist state!
THE Independent Police Complaints Commission issued a report on Friday detailing the findings of its two and a half year long inquiry into...
Labour Now A Fifth Column For The Eu! Socialist Revolution Needed To Carry Out...
WEDNESDAY’S humiliating defeat of the Tory government over the EU Withdrawal Bill signalled the emergence of a bloc between the Labour Party, now firmly...
General Strike To Defend The Cwu! Smash The Union Busters! Defeat Privatisation!
POSTAL workers are not surprised at the leak which shows that Royal Mail management, with the support of the Brown government, intends to impose...
Pakistan resisting US demands for new offensives
PAKISTAN’S army has just announced that it will launch no new offensives on its territory in 2010. At the same time the US Defence...
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,...
White Helmets are ‘the right kind of terrorists’ as far as Tories concerned
THE TORY UK immigration minister Caroline Nokes told the BBC that Britain had ‘resettled’ as refugees 100 members of the notorious White Helmets group and...
Boycott Israel To Demand A Palestinian State
THE Israeli armed forces, under orders from the Israeli government, are continuing to attack defenceless Palestinian women, children and men in the Gaza Strip,...
Merkel-Sarkozy deal will fail to stem euro crisis
THE media were out in force at the end of last week to hear German Chancellor Angela Merkel reveal details of a bail-out package...
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...
Russia defies imperialism – Time for the world socialist revolution
YESTERDAY, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that he had ordered the Russian military to carry out a special operation in the Donbass region in...
Coalition imposed pay freeze hits workers and middle class
A report issued on Monday by the independent Resolution Foundation spells out exactly the desperate situation being faced today by the so-called ‘squeezed middle’,...
Lesson Of The Sangin Rout – Quit Afghanistan While You Are Still Able To!
BRITISH troops in the Sangin area of Afghanistan’s Helmand province are to be replaced by US forces, the UK’s Defence Secretary Liam Fox has...
Lilliputian Smith, the would-be great dictator!
LABOUR right winger Owen Smith, in his desire to satisfy the big bosses and the bankers, is going even further than the Tories after...
Unreal capitalism deserves to perish!
THE crash of the British banks continued yesterday after Royal Bank of Scotland declared a £27bn loss for 2008 on Monday and its share...
Law cannot be allowed to get in the way of profiteering
THE Attorney General – the same official who ruled after much equivocation that the war with Iraq was legal – on Thursday told the...
Socialist revolution only answer to capitalist debt crisis
RACHEL Reeves is due to deliver her first Autumn Budget as Labour Chancellor next Wednesday, and is already promising ‘tough decisions’ on cuts and...
Central banks cutting off ‘free money’ means a world economic crash for capitalism
NOT EVERY bourgeois economic commentator has swallowed the upbeat line peddled by central bankers that capitalism has weathered the storm of its economic crisis...
US workers taking action to drive up wages and defend their jobs
THE once-mighty US economy is facing a wave of strikes by powerful sections of the working class who are determined to drive up their...
Windrush just ‘tip of the iceberg’ – time to kick out the Tories and...
IN A MONUMENTAL act of cynicism, the Tory government on Monday announced that this Friday will be designated ‘Windrush Day’ and that henceforth 22nd...
May’s speech exposes the weakness at the heart of the Tory Party
THERESA May’s speech closing the Tory conference on Wednesday revealed all the weakness of the Tory Party – a party reeling from the mass...
Abbas-Obama Talks Fail To Reach Agreement!
JUST BEFORE his talks with President Abbas on Monday, President Obama said: ‘I think everybody understands the outlines of what a peace deal would...
Palestinian leadership says peace talks will fail!
THE Palestinian leadership in Ramallah is working on the basis that the peace talks with Israel will fail and that both sides know...
Record Rise Of Public Sector Debt Means More Savage Cuts
THE Tory-led coalition’s public sector debt for November has shot up to £23.3 billion, £5.9 billion more than the figure for November 2009. It...
Famine ‘unfolding’ in Gaza – trade unions must call general strikes to bring down...
THE UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which monitors hunger and starvation across the world, yesterday issued a warning that the ‘worst case...
Cut in interest rates by the Fed will accelerate capitalism’s world crash
THE US CENTRAL Federal Reserve Bank on Wednesday performed an abrupt U-turn on its policy of attempting to hold back the vast amount of...
Boycott Israel after Gaza massacres
ISRAEL faced widespread international condemnation over the killing of eight Palestinian civilians on Friday, including three children while they picnicked on a Gaza beach....