Hague refuses to halt assault on Sirte
ON Tuesday Foreign Minister Hague told Sky TV that he would not tell the counter-revolutionaries to cancel their planned assault on the city of...
Maude signals plan to ban strikes
The Tory cabinet office minister, Francis Maude, made a fantastical offer to the TUC and leaders of the public sector unions last Friday when...
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...
Defend the right to strike by forcing the TUC to call a general strike...
LAST week, the Tories’ strike-breaking agency worker regulations were thrown out after the High Court ruled they were unlawful. This judgement quashed an appeal by...
P&O sackings expose the ‘sham’ of consultation with the unions – only a general...
THE CHIEF executive of P&O Ferries, Peter Hebblethwaite, appeared before a joint hearing of the transport and business committee of MPs yesterday to answer...
Deutsche Bank collapse will crash the world’s banking system!
DEUTSCHE Bank, the largest and most important bank in Europe, sacked its British born chief executive John Cryan after just three years in the...
‘Do Or Die’ Johnson Has Already Faced An Attempt To Remove Him!
THE JUST-elected Tory leader Boris Johnson has already faced an attempt to remove him by Tory Minister of State for Europe Sir Alan Duncan,...
US-Turkey Fighting Over Northern Syria!
THE Syrian government has condemned the invasion of northern Syria by Turkish ground forces, cynically called ‘Operation Olive Branch’, an invasion that was preceded...
Cameron-Clegg set the bounty hunters on the poor!
First it was people on various disability benefits who were the enemy. The Cameron line is that these people are dodgers who should...
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...
German bourgeoisie demands bigger Greek cuts
THE crisis of the European Union sharpened yesterday when the German Finance Minister warned the Greek bourgeoisie that it would not get access to...
For A Nuclear Bomb Free Middle East
IRAN took a calculated risk yesterday when it reached an agreement with the US and its allies that it would allow extensive and exhaustive...
It’s bags of gold for the Taleban, but wage cuts for the workers!
ALL the ‘we will win the war in Afghanistan’ propaganda has now been dumped as the political leaders of imperialism have begun to grasp...
Putin wants a ‘game with rules’ with imperialism!
PUTIN posed the question at last week’s International Discussion Club in Sochi: ‘The World Order: New Rules or a Game without rules’. (see feature) He...
Sunak Budget – tax cuts for banks and corporations – poverty for working people
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled the government’s spending plans in a budget he billed as preparing the country for a new ‘age of...
Recall the TUC Congress now to sack the TUC leaders for their refusal to...
LAST month, the TUC unanimously passed an emergency motion headed: ‘Stop the escalation of war in the Middle East’ and committed the TUC ‘to...
Sinn Fein Takes Its Seat On Six Counties Policing Board
DAITHI McKay, Martina Anderson and Alex Maskey of Sinn Fein have just taken their seats on the Policing Board of the PSNI, the...
No Military Action Against Iran – At This Point Says Rice
BRITAIN’S Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has just revealed the policy of the British government on Iraq – or has he? He said that Iran...
Junior doctors have been ‘insulted’ by exclusion from any NHS pay rise. They...
JUNIOR doctors have been excluded from any NHS pay rise, and they are furious. Yesterday, their union, the British Medical Association (BMA), announced they...
Obama selects his bourgeois team to save US capitalism
BARACK OBAMA has just been elected by an explosion of popular support and anger that has united the working class and brought the majority...
EU set to EXPLODE
THE developing world-wide economic crisis is now bringing the contradictions inside the EU together and sharpening them to the point of a massive transformation...
Bring Down The Tories! UK Must Not Support Trump’s War On Syria!
RUSSIA will take all political, diplomatic and military retaliatory measures if necessary should the United States deliver a strike on Syria, Russian State Duma...
British workers require socialism not circuses!
FOR the second day running the bourgeois media have been dominated by the Olympic opening extravaganza organised brilliantly by Danny Boyle, who used and...
STOP the war say MPs and bring the Taleban into government
MPs on the House of Commons foreign affairs committee ran up the white flag yesterday when they declared in their report that peace talks...
UK cluster bombs used by Saudi Arabia in Yemen war crimes
THE NEWS yesterday that analysis by UK government officials that British-made cluster bombs are being used by the Saudi-led coalition in its war against...
ACTION must be taken by the trade unions to defend the NHS
THE crisis of the NHS has reached the point of its transformation. Because of the fake NHS pricing mechanisms imposed by Labour, NHS hospitals are...
Stock markets around the world crash as the US plunges into recession
STOCK markets in Europe and Asia crashed yesterday morning as the international financial world suddenly woke up to the grim reality that US capitalism...
TORIES FACE WIPE OUT – WHILE LABOUR MPs PLAN EU ELECTIONS COUP!
WITH THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS fast approaching, the bourgeois democratic system through which the capitalist ruling class has ruled over the working class in the...
Tamil And Sinhalese Workers Must Unite To End Rajapakse Dictatorship
THE Rajapakse dictatorship in Sri Lanka, which is backed with British finance and arms, and British big business investment, is continuing with its dictatorship...
Trades unions must take action to end NHS privatisation
‘END this ludicrous, divisive and expensive experiment of the market in healthcare in England.’ This was the call from Dr Hamish Meldrum, the Chairman of...
Royal Mail Organises The Strikebreakers
THE postal workers dispute intensified yesterday when, with Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool already out on unofficial strike, the action was spreading all over the...
Defend state university education against the coalition barbarians!
LORD Browne’s review of university funding is to recommend a threefold increase in tuition fees. Lord Browne (former head of BP) is proposing to raise...
Imperialists Drive To Break Up Iraq
THERE can be only one gainer from a civil war in Iraq, that will lead to the breaking up of the country into three...
Illegal and deadly restraints still in use, smash the racist capitalist state
Just 16 months after a man died whilst being restrained by private security guards on board an aircraft, the House of Commons home office...
Answer Brown’s attacks with a general strike
THE rapidly deepening debt crisis of the capitalist system is leading to a financial collapse and a slump of historic proportions as the bankers’...
UK And French Workers Are Taking Action Against The Bosses And The Bankers –...
THE head of the UK’s Unite trade union has accused the government of having a ‘sinister reason’ for ‘not doing a deal’ with nurses...
Pensions crisis will revolutionise millions
‘THERE is no obligation on the part of employers to provide pensions’, said the National Association of Pension Funds yesterday. This was its response to...
IDS’ war to starve and break the poor!
JUST how ruthlessly Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is conducting the ruling class’ war on the poor can be seen in...
Stock markets crash in US and across the world – socialist revolution is only...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s tariff increases imposed on China, Mexico and Canada come into effect today but already this has set off a massive...
Robertson’s call to murder Chavez is US policy
EX-US presidential candidate Pat Robertson, an ultra religious leader of the US’ ‘moral majority’ has just called for the US state to murder...
Occupy GM, Ellesmere Port and Luton & nationalise to defend jobs
THE UK’s biggest car manufacturer, Vauxhall, with plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton, has admitted its more than 5,000 jobs are under massive threat...
Union leaders offer to save capitalism
BORIS JOHNSON’S address to the nation on Sunday night about ‘relaxing’ the lockdown rules has been widely criticised by the leaders of the Labour...
Ireland – hurtling towards a socialist revolution
THE right-wing Fine Gael party is set to form a coalition with its traditional partner, the right-wing Labour party, after a ‘political revolution’ which...
UK workers must bring down Trump’s Tories to leave the EU and bring in...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has named three of his Tory candidates to replace May as the prime minister of his choice. All three of Trump’s...
Blair is speeding up the privatisation drive
ON all fronts the Blair government is speeding up its privatisation offensive, so that his governments can leave as their legacy for big...