‘Medieval’ levels of health inequality have devastating effects on NHS
On Sunday, the Guardian newspaper published part of the results from its months-long investigation into the effects of poverty on the NHS. Included in the...
Join WRP to build the revolutionary leadership!
THE leadership scuffling that is taking place in the Labour Party is underlining one major fact – its crisis is terminal. This is a party...
Drive to bring local performance-related pay into the NHS must be defeated
THE chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) Chris Hopson, representing more than 200 NHS trusts across England, has called for the ripping...
Mandelson’s Secret Business Interests!
PETER Mandelson is one of five Labour government cabinet ministers who insists on his business interests being a secret and for that purpose has...
Tories crash – now boot them out with a general strike to bring in...
THE TORIES have crashed with their twin by-elections disasters. They lost Kingswood, where Labour needed an 11-point swing and also lost Wellingborough, where an...
Nationalise Eurotunnel Rail Service!
THE collapse of the Eurotunnel rail service, at the hands of a normal European winter, with no service for four days, and passengers left...
Tory Chairman Quits While Johnson Skulks In Rwanda Hoping That Something Will Turn Up
THE TORY wipe-out in the two by-elections has left the great leader skulking in Rwanda, while his Tory Party chairman Dowden has resigned, writing...
World bankers are in charge as the IMF justifies turning the money tap on...
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) made a wildly optimistic prediction yesterday that soaring UK inflation would become nothing more than a historical blip in...
Trump And Blair Are Furious As The Taliban Heads For Government!
THE success of the Taliban movement and the mass of the Afghan people in securing a US and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the...
Inflation rages, the trade deficit widens and the bosses demand even tougher anti-union laws
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday kept rates at 0.5%. Inflation however is continuing to rise as world oil, wheat, meat, cotton and...
NHS under siege – TUC must act
TORY Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced on June 2nd that the NHS must ‘stop making excuses’ and deliver ‘its side of the bargain’ going...
Nurses announce strike days as they join the mass strike wave sweeping the UK...
THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) confirmed yesterday that nurses will go on strike for two days in the two weeks before Christmas on...
Palestinian Presidency Condemns The Killing Of Six Palestinians By The Zionist Occupiers!
THE Palestinian presidency has expressed its strong condemnation and rejection of the crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces in Jenin camp yesterday evening,...
The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class – time to...
MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...
Ukraine dumped by an imperialism too weak to defeat Russia
IT HAS become clear over the past days that Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky have been unceremoniously dumped by the imperialist powers and...
Iran defeating US and Israel as world capitalism reels from closure of Hormuz Strait
THE ISRAELI regime claimed yesterday morning that the secretary of Iran’s national security council, Ali Larijani, was murdered in overnight strikes on Tehran. The Iranian...
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,...
Capitalism’s world crisis can only be resolved through socialist revolution
THE LATEST latest annual report from the BIS (Bank for International Settlements) on the economic crises gripping world capitalism couldn’t have been clearer –...
Price Explosion threat to working class
ENERGY bills will rise by more than 60% within the next few years, a report for the UK’s biggest domestic energy supplier Centrica said...
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...
Join the YS lobby of TUC Special Congress on Saturday to demand TUC calls...
MATT Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and president of the TUC, has warned of industrial confrontation ‘unseen since the 1970s’...
Nagasaki anti-militarism!
LAST week saw the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest war crimes in human history, the dropping of the two Atomic bombs onto...
Unions must take industrial action to defend the NHS
THE Labour government is continuing to pressurise NHS Trusts to become Foundation Trust businesses, and is continuing to force through the privatisation process. To...
Arafat was poisoned but his struggle lives on!
THE results from the first forensic tests to be carried out on the remains of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have confirmed the universally held...
10 million workers will be hit by tax increases as Labour ‘picks the side’...
LOWEST paid workers will be hit the hardest by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves budget’s ‘stealth tax’ unveiled on Wednesday. Reeves desperate to avoid accusations of...
Workers Of The World Unite To Smash Racism And To Win Socialism!
MICHAEL Fallon, Tory defence secretary, did an Enoch Powell (he made his anti-immigrant ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech in 1968) when he claimed on Sunday...
Junior doctors’ strike piles pressure on Sunak and the Tories!
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is already reeling under the pressure from day one of the historic six-day strike by junior doctors. The Tories have...
Carney Says Time Is Not Right For Interest Rate Rise!
THE TIME is not right for an interest rate rise, Bank of England governor Mark Carney said at the Mansion House. In his speech, Carney...
State terror at home and abroad!
THE UK capitalist state has always used terrorist attacks, such as the latest attack in Tunisia, to strengthen its continuing preparation of special armed...
Refugees Must Be Welcomed – The Bosses Must Be Sent Packing!
FOLLOWING the successes of the Syrian army’s drive into Idlib province, President Erdogan of Turkey has begun to carry out his revenge policy. Since the...
Millions Of Workers And Youth Join The Struggle To Liberate Palestine And Establish The...
SATURDAY saw a vast crowd of 250,000 workers, including very large numbers of enthusiastic and determined youth, take to the streets of London for...
Imperialist mad dogs bomb Pakistan ‘ally’ and step up Syrian intervention!
THE desperate crisis of world capitalism is driving forward world revolution, as the continuing revolutionary eruptions in Greece and the eurozone states, and the...
Only Socialist Revolution can end this chaotic farce in Parliament and secure a break...
THERESA May ‘survived’ the vote of no confidence in her leadership of the Tory Party by 200 votes to 117 on Wednesday night –...
Blair’s ‘legacy’– Student debts set to soar!
THIS week, as college and school students receive their A level examination results and consider going to university, the latest survey by the NatWest...
Bank of England warns that the AI stock market bubble is on verge of...
THE Bank of England on Wednesday warned of a growing risk of a ‘sudden correction’ in the world stock markets. The massive Artificial Intelligence...
Answer Osborne with Councils of Action and a General Strike
In an interview on Sunday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made it absolutely clear that as far as the coalition government is concerned there...
Egyptian revolution in permanence!
THE Egyptian army opened fire on thousands of workers and young people in Tahrir Square on Saturday morning, killing four and wounding 117. ...
Free Assange and Manning! The imperialists must be put on trial for ‘war crimes’!
BRITISH police entered the Ecuadorian embassy in central London on Thursday, which is technically Ecuadorian territory, arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Australian who...
No justice under capitalism for De Menezes family
THE decision of the Crown Prosecution Service that no individual will be charged over the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes, but that the...
Leaked documents reveal a failed mass-murder machine
THE leaked 90,000 US Afghan war documents once again show – as did the My Lai mass killings of the Vietnamese people – the...
America on verge of ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
NEARLY 42 million American workers and their families face losing access to food stamps as funding for what is officially called the Supplement Nutritional...
World’s Stock Markets Set For Financial Crash!
IT was reported yesterday that a survey of the top professional ‘money managers’ revealed that these investment experts believe that the world’s leading stock...
Tory-led House of Commons Committee slaps down Cameron over Syria!
THE Government has received another slap in the face for its plan to cement relations with the US by pushing a resolution through...
Barbaric anti-homeless spikes scandal
THE picture showing one-inch-long metal spikes driven into the pavement in the doorway of a block of luxury flats in central London in order...
‘Let them eat cake!’ Brown turns his back on the workers!
ADDRESSING the bosses of the Scottish CBI, Prime Minister Gordon Brown assured them that his government will not be giving workers, the poor and...