European capitalism hits the rocks
THE capitalist EU is being battered senseless this week by an economic crisis that is relentless and a working class that is refusing to...
Sunak Seeks To Militarise Working Class Youth As Well As Banning All Strikes!
TORY PM Sunak yesterday sought to win back big business by stating that after the forthcoming general election has been won on July 4th,...
Demoralised Davos surveys the debacle of the world capitalist crisis!
THE World Economic Forum meeting in Davos to celebrate capitalism finds the assembled chief executives, politicians and would-be prophets much more pessimistic and frightened...
Cameron wants to create an army of the homeless
TORY LEADER Cameron yesterday unveiled the spectre of workers sleeping on the streets with his new diktat that council housing should no longer be...
CBI bosses demand NHS privatisation
THE CBI boss Richard Lambert spoke up yesterday at the CBI Public Service Summit to insist that the financial belt-tightening that the Brown government...
Kabul Taking The Place Of Saigon In The Pantheon Of US Imperialist Disasters
THE Taleban yesterday carried out another daring attack in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, with gun and shellfire taking place near to...
Strikebreaker Hunt demands ‘call off NHS strike!’
‘BRITAIN needs a pay rise!’ These were the cynical words of PM Cameron last Friday in Washington, after five years of remorseless wage-cutting in...
Cameron lays out mass privatisation programme
IN A speech yesterday, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, promised to privatise every public service in the country, to ‘open up’ public services...
The Trade Unions Must Defend Every Job!
THE London and New York stock markets were in free fall yesterday, losing hundreds of points, with tens of billions of dollars and pounds...
Bankrupt capitalism aims to balance the books through foreign aid cuts and vicious austerity...
ON TUESDAY, Tory PM Boris Johnson narrowly avoided defeat on a motion to cut UK foreign aid after a rebellion by Tory MPs. In the...
Death while under ‘restraint’
THE death of a 46-year-old family man being deported from Heathrow has thrown the spotlight on the entire racist immigration policy and its private...
American dream turns to nightmare!
HUNDREDS of US cities are going bust, either destroyed by the banking and property collapse or by the crisis of the major US industries. The...
Private equity group to ‘cut and slash’ Chrysler
DAIMLERCHRYSLER is selling a 80.1 per cent share in its crisis-hit American Chrysler division to the private equity group Cerberus for $7.4bn. President George...
TUC must take the lead in the establishment of the state of Palestine by...
MASSIVE Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah ‘are not the end of the story’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared – after Israeli jets bombed...
Greek workers must build their revolutionary leadership
THE fact that the Greek working class brought Syriza from nothing to power, in the course of one general election, has been correctly taken...
Tories to wield privatisation axe!
AFTER years of promising that the NHS is ‘safe in our hands’ accompanied by pledges that budgets would be protected with a ring fence...
Big Business To Access NHS Patients Data
IT was disclosed this weekend that by Autumn every high street pharmacy, from the local independent pharmacy right through to the giant supermarket chains...
Bury The Health And Social Care Bill Now!
ON March 15 at the historic Special Representative Meeting (SRM) of the BMA, which its Council was forced to call to decide on the...
Myanmar working class intervene with powerful general strike to bring down Military Junta!
MYANMAR (formerly called Burma) was brought to a halt yesterday as hundreds of thousands of workers and youth answered the call for a general...
Nationalise The Banks Jail The Bankers
THE capitalist media has been forced, in recent days, to reveal some of the misdoings of the great banks that stand astride the...
US-Israel Organising Cyber Warfare
THE New York Times has revealed that the United States and Israel were behind the Stuxnet virus cyber-warfare attack on Iran and its nuclear...
NOW is the time for the TUC to call a general strike to support...
THE nurses’ strike actions have revealed that they have the massive support of the vast majority of the working class in the UK, and...
Davis Calls On The Cabinet To Revolt – Now Is The Time To Bring...
NOW that the ex-Brexit negotiator Davis has called for the Cabinet to rise up against the May government’s permanent Customs Union, and her plan...
Well done BA cabin crew – Now Unite must use its full strength on...
AT Gatwick and at Heathrow on Sunday morning pickets got tremendous support from passing motorists, coaches and lorries, and fellow airport workers. The lines of...
Wall Street crashes. Capitalism goes over the brink!
LEHMAN Brothers and Merrill Lynch, two pillars of the capitalist world’s banking system, have gone. The first declared bankruptcy, after the US Federal Reserve...
Answer Plot To Revoke Article 50 With A Socialist Revolution
THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected an attempt by the UK government to prevent the European Court of Justice (ECJ) judges hearing a legal...
Turn the massive marches for Palestine into Socialist revolutions to smash capitalism!
SOUTH Africa’s Minister of Justice, Ronald Lamola, stood firm yesterday outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, maintaining that Israel has...
Go forward to socialism – only way to avoid threatening catastrophe!
JAPAN is the second biggest power in the capitalist industrial world, behind the United States. It has just announced that its industrial output dropped...
Answer Tory Royal Mail Provocation With A General Strike
ROYAL Mail shares are to be sold by mid-October, with the government under-pricing the industry and selling for between £2.6bn to £3.3bn to make...
Trump And Allies Plan To Attack And Loot Afghanistan!
PRESIDENT Trump has told the US people he has changed his mind about Afghanistan being a futile conflict, and that now the US, and...
Ashrawi condemns Israeli onslaught and urges EU and US to stop rewarding Israel
PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) EC member Hanan Ashrawi has strongly condemned Israel’s escalation of its illegal and inhumane measures in and around Jerusalem and...
Iraqis Hail The Shoe Thrower As Their Hero
YESTERDAY Iraqis of all of the different sects and persuasions were united and marching and demonstrating in Baghdad, Basra, Najaf, Kerbala, Tikrit, Fallujah, Mosul...
Grenfell Tower Deaths Were Avoidable – Time To Nationalise The Banks And Building Industry!
THE Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was the result of ‘dishonest companies, successive governments, and a lack of strategy by the fire...
No support for imperialist war in Syria – forward with world socialist revolution
TODAY, the House of Commons is to engage in an emergency debate on Britain joining the US bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria. In this...
Desperate UK and French imperialism begins new ‘Grab for Africa’
EARLIER this week French aircraft bombed the positions of the anti-imperialist forces in the Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) led by Laurent Gbagbo, while French...
Time for a general strike to stop the war!
‘THIS is a tremendous demonstration of the anger of the British people against what Blair has done in Iraq and is threatening to do...
Record numbers miss out on first choice secondary schools – Bring all schools back...
NATIONAL Offer Day was yesterday, with record numbers of children missing out on their first choice of secondary school. More than half a million...
Hunt steps up war on NHS
THE Tory drive against doctors and health workers throughout the NHS was reaffirmed last week when re-appointed health secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed that GPs...
Throw the paltry Tory NHS pay cut ‘offer’ out! Nothing less than 3.9%+£800 will...
NHS staff who have suffered a 15% pay cut since 2010 have been offered a ‘new deal’ from the government. A leaked document shows...
Tories are planning a state of emergency so as to ban all strikes!
AT prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Rishi Sunak told MPs that he was planning ‘tough’ legislation to outlaw strikes completely. However, the right wing press...
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...
Tanks enter West Bank as Zionist regime escalates genocidal war
ON SUNDAY, Israeli military forces deployed tanks into the northern West Bank refuge camp at Jenin, a move denounced by the Hamas resistance movement as...
Carnage and bloodbath on world stock markets deepens – socialist revolution is the only...
LAST Monday, the American Dow Jones Index, which records the share prices of the top US companies and banks, recorded the biggest drop in...
Starmer gets pat on the head from Trump for Labour ramping up class war...
THE cringing prostration of Labour prime minster Keir Starmer to US president Donald Trump finally paid off at the weekend when Trump condescended to...
Capitalism’s ‘storm clouds’ herald revolution
AT THE end of last week the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, announced that all his stated austerity plans in last autumn’s budget statement were...