Barrett appointed to US Supreme Court in drive to declare a Trump defeat a...
WITH JUST eight days to go before the US presidential election the right wing judge Amy Coney Barrett was appointed to the American Supreme...
Rescue US – The Eu Bosses Plead With Chinese Stalinists
AS details emerge of the desperate measures hammered out in Europe on Wednesday night in an attempt to save the eurozone from collapse and...
Labour-Tory Race To The Right!
TEACHERS will have to be re-licensed every few years or face the sack under a future Labour government. This is the just unveilled position of...
Fight VAT increases with mass actions to bring down coalition
THE increase of VAT from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent today will mean destitution for millions of unemployed and low paid workers...
Greek workers and youth erupt in fury over deadly rail crash
THOUSANDS of Greek workers, students and youth took to the streets at the weekend in a further extension of the anger that has erupted...
Defend Public Services through a general strike
ON THE day that MPs were voting on going to war once again in the Middle East, a very senior civil servant made it...
Taleban Cease-Fire In Swat Angers US!
THE Pakistani Taleban in the Swat valley border areas with Afghanistan have signed a permanent cease-fire with the Pakistan government and are starting to...
Sudanese workers must form a workers’ government to rule Sudan!
SUDAN’S military leaders have scrapped all existing agreements with the main opposition coalition, and have cynically declared they will hold elections within nine months. The...
Labour Set To Drive Workers Off The Roads
ALISTAIR Darling, the Labour government transport minister, yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to drive millions of working class drivers off the roads with a...
Ukrainian Workers Reject Putin Plea To Accept Kiev Coup Regime
PRESIDENT Putin on Wednesday urged Ukrainian workers to postpone their referenda on self-determination. He said: ‘We are calling on representatives of regions in southeastern...
Victory to the South African socialist revolution!
Public sector unions in South Africa, supported by the whole of the working class, are in conflict with the ANC government over a decent...
Tories hand billions to private rail companies while demanding workers keep TfL from...
THE TORIES unveiled this week proposals for funding Transport for London (TfL) that will force the working and middle class to bear the huge...
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 ‘wouldn’t last 30 seconds’ if voters back leaving EU
PM Cameron earlier last week insisted he would remain Prime Minister even if he lost the June 23 referendum. This position has been challenged in...
Blair fans anti-youth hysteria – while capitalist state gunmen return to work
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, joined in the hysterical attack that the state and bosses are launching on Britain’s youth. Millions of young people...
Two Years Since ‘Operation Protective Edge’
TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack...
‘Moderate anti-extremist’ seeks talks with US
HASSAN Rouhani has hailed his election as Iran’s president as a ‘victory of moderation over extremism’. The cleric won just over 50 per cent of...
‘Green Shoots’ – A Mirage Of Desperate Capitalists
THE European Central Bank is having nightmares about the state of the 25 banks that underpin the financial system of the Eurozone within the...
War on the unemployed – bring down the coalition
THE news this weekend that the private companies are bidding for 40 new welfare contracts represents another stage in the Tory-LibDem coalition’s relentless drive...
Syrian Army poised for victory in Aleppo
THE news at the weekend that the Syrian army had successfully driven Jaysh al-Fateh out of the western areas around Aleppo marks another decisive...
Obama revamps US imperialism’s war cabinet
BARACK OBAMA, United States President-elect, announced the latest appointments to his White House cabinet on Monday. He made Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, confirmed that...
UK and US complicit in Saudi Arabian war crimes
LAST Saturday saw what was one of the worst atrocities committed in the Yemen since Saudi Arabia, along with its Gulf allies, launched an...
US-UK stand by as Israel prepares Gaza ground attack
YESTERDAY morning Israel allowed about 450 foreign passport holders to leave the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing near Beit Hanoun, after refusing to...
Labour Party ramps up attack on NHS – TUC must call a general strike...
LABOUR Party shadow health secretary Wes Streeting doubled down on his attack on the NHS yesterday with a speech to a conference organised by...
Lord Jones and Sir Richard Branson turn on Brown
TWO of the Brown government’s big business backers Lord Digby Jones, the ex-CBI boss and Richard Branson, the Thatcherite businessman have unsurprisingly turned-coat. No doubt...
Obama’s Second Coming – Full Of Empty Words
OBAMA began his second term on Monday, after four years of office which saw GM and other motor car giants go bust, Lehman Brothers...
Ten-hour day for schoolkids!
AT ONE time it used to be said that British workers were working such long hours that they did not have an opportunity to...
Imperialist war on Iran drives up unemployment in UK – time for the working...
AT A press conference yesterday morning, prime minister Keir Starmer attempted to reassure workers that the Labour government would protect them from the economic...
Splits and crisis dominate Europe
LAST weekend the French government collapsed as the splits within the cabinet turned into open warfare between President Holland and his finance minister, Arnaud...
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...
To defeat terrorism– withdraw from Iraq and smash imperialism
THURSDAY’S ‘bomb attacks’ – which did not cause a single serious injury but caused widespread alarm and panic – not least amongst the security...
Tories to axe benefits starting off with barring ‘foreigners’!
THE Tory Party has launched its campaign to force the working class to pay the bill for the worldwide capitalist crisis of the bosses,...
OECD warns of a global property prices crash
THE Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has sent out a New Year warning that global property prices have increased so dramatically that...
Students To Fight Closure Of University Of London Union!
SENIOR academics confirmed yesterday that they are set to shut down the University of London Union, recommending that ‘ULU in its current form ceases’...
Restoring nurses’ & midwives’ bursaries – a matter of life or death for...
THERE is a desperate lack of nurses in the NHS. Currently, overloaded nurses are doing the job of three people, working 12-hour shifts in...
Abbas – Sharon Summit Cancelled!
PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas’ summit with the Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, which was due today, has been cancelled after Abbas said he was opposed to...
Tory Civil War – Now Is The Time To Bring Them Down
IT is an expression of the depth of the crisis of British capitalism, that Duncan Smith, the ex-Tory leader, the would-be Puritan...
Capitalism in its greatest financial crisis, says Brown
THE Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who once boasted that he had resolved the crisis of capitalism and its tendency to go from boom to...
University lecturers start fresh mass strike action
THE THIRD wave of a countrywide strike by members of the University and College Union (UCU) began yesterday with a five-day walkout at 38...
Lid lifted on US torture regime while the UK’s role is redacted!
THE REPORT by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) very belatedly exposes the CIA torture regime that was imposed after the 2001...
Palestinian civil war aids Israel
THE Palestinian masses and their organisations must unite to fight their enemy which is the Zionist state of Israel, backed up and supported by...
TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defeat anti-union laws!
Following the passing of the Strikes (Minimum Service Level) Act in July, the Tories on Friday launched a six week ‘consultation on the reasonable...
Tuc Leaders Are Betraying The Working Class
THE 150,000 workers who turned out in London on Saturday, as well as the thousands in Glasgow and Belfast, represent a massive change...
Record unemployment, record poverty and misery – socialist revolution the only answer
THE number of young people out of work has reached a record high of almost one million, according to the latest unemployment figures. ...
Defend NHS hospital care with occupations and a general strike!
A REPORT issued by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) this week exposes the appalling state of hospitals in England as the NHS is...