French revolution coming to a head!
THE massive strike movement against the Socialist Party-imposed anti-union laws is continuing in France with the railways due to take national strike action today...
Labour is driving youth out of universities!
THE education policies imposed by Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government are depriving many young people of the opportunity of going into Higher Education and...
The trade unions must follow the example of the ruling class and deal with...
THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...
Pna And Fatah Want To Disarm Fighters
ONE can now see why the Zionists and the US government were so keen to get rid of Yasser Arafat. He not only refused to...
One Year Of The Egyptian Revolution!
HUNDREDS of thousands of Egyptian workers and youth gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday to mark one year since the start of the revolution...
Smith Commission’s anti-working class Trojan Horse
THE Smith Commission has proposed, with the support of all the major parties, that the Scottish Parliament should have the power to set income...
NHS – Coalition Moves In For The Kill!
A FIVE-YEAR plan for the NHS – produced by NHS England, Public Health England, the regulator Monitor, the NHS Trust Development Authority, Care Quality...
Police Aim To Put The Nation Under Its Thumb
The Blair government is aiming to engineer a situation whereby the carrying of an identity card by every person is compulsory, and at the...
Luxury liners are going in – but the aid is nowhere to be seen...
THE fact that Luxury cruise liners are still docking in Haitian ports, not very far from the epicentre of the earthquake, which has killed...
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’...
Postal workers call a national strike ballot!
25,000 postal workers are to go on 24-hour strikes this Friday in London, and in many parts of the country on Friday, Saturday and...
The currency crash and the socialist revolution
THE decision by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to abandon its three-year cap on the franc last Thursday has had an immediate and catastrophic...
Egyptian Army Mobilises For Military Coup
GENERAL Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s army chief, whose force is paid for by the United States, has warned that the current political crisis ‘could...
Capitalism is a broken system – nationalise the banks and the car industry
British Banks have been recapitalised by the working class, who were not consulted by the government before the Prime Minister took the decision...
The crisis savages the workers while the rich double their wealth
THE total wealth of the richest 1,000 individuals and families in Britain has more than doubled in the last 10 years to £547bn, the...
Strike to support nurses and defend the NHS!
THE anger of nurses working in the National Health Service (NHS) at having a pay cut imposed upon them this year, by the government...
End misery of bankrupt capitalism with socialist revolution
LAST Friday the European Banking Authority released the findings of this year’s Stress Test for European banks. These stress tests, introduced one year ago, are...
Teachers Vote For General Strike
AT THEIR annual conference last Saturday the NUT (National Union of Teachers) passed a resolution committing the union to a strike ballot over attacks...
Egyptian Revolution Drives Zionism Into Massive Crisis!
PALESTINIANS are poised to march in their millions on 15th September both inside and outside the occupied territories, and throughout the world, including...
Trotskyism is the Marxism of today
THIS Sunday’s rally marks the 68th anniversary of the assasination of Leon Trotsky, and the 39 years of the Trotskyist daily paper, first published...
Bolivia nationalises oil and gas resources
BOLIVIA’S President Morales has gone from having a conference last week in Havana with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, which established a...
A Plague Of Locusts
ONCE again the spotlight has been put on the private equity locusts. This time a Financial Times investigation has shown how TPG, CVS and...
A Record £65.5 Billion Trade Deficit For 2005
THE UK trade deficit with the rest of the world for 2005 was a catastrophic £65.5 billion. The deficit on goods and services...
A Palestinian state – Not in our lifetime say Zionist leaders
MORE than 15 Israeli air strikes on Thursday, Friday and early Saturday destroyed Gaza Strip water, power and roads and killed seven Palestinians. Yesterday,...
Stalinism betrays Libya – build Fourth International to smash imperialism
As forces loyal to the Libyan revolution and its leader Colonel Gadaffi continue to fight on against the NATO-led onslaught on Tripoli, the imperialist...
Gaza war crimes exposed – unions must call worldwide boycott of Israel
ISRAELI soldiers at a military academy have exposed the essence of the cold-blooded and murderous nature of the recent Israeli army onslaught into the...
Heathrow class struggle sharpens as Terminal 5 looms
THE closer we get to the new Terminal Five, the more intense the class struggle becomes between the bosses of the BAA (British Airports...
Workers’ rights can only be secured by revolution
YESTERDAY the former ‘hammer’ of the teachers trade unions, Michael Gove, the new Justice Secretary who wants to abolish the Human Rights Act, was...
Haiti one year on – hungry masses live in tents, under threat from cholera...
ALMOST one year after the Haitian earthquake that made millions homeless, the working class and the poor of Haiti are still suffering. They are still...
The Banking Standards Commission selects three scapegoats for the capitalist crisis
THE farcically misnamed Banking Standards Commission (as if the banks had any standards) was created to try and prevent an even bigger banking collapse...
Free Joe Glenton! End criminal occupation!
DEMONSTRATIONS will be staged in eight different countries today, from Britain and the United States to Poland and Italy, demanding the release of British...
Sack The Leaders Who Are Selling Out Pensions
YESTERDAY the TUC leader Brendan Barber, who organised the betrayal of the 760 locked-out Gate Gourmet workers, and before that organised the betrayal of...
Baghdad bombings blow to Bush!
MORE than 200 people were killed in Baghdad on Wednesday in five bombings. This is the highest number of deaths in a single day...
Stand up to the bullying bosses with a general strike
THE ‘New Local Government Network’ was warning yesterday of a ‘tsunami of a public sector recession’ after the next general election when the just...
Bush talks peace as Israeli tanks kill eleven in Gaza
THE content of the Bush ‘peace offensive’ was yesterday revealed for the whole world to see when Israeli tanks, supported by artillery fire ...
Trade Unions Must Take Action Over Gaza
FORTY-THREE Palestinians were killed by Israeli tanks and rocket fire on UN-run schools late on Monday night and during Tuesday. The schools were well...
Bring down the May government – nationalise the banks and major industries!
BEFORE the Brexit referendum on June 23rd the masses of British workers refused to capitulate to the vast barrage of propaganda from...
Amnesty exposes deadly US air attacks on Syria!
AS IS well known, the Clinton-led Democratic Party has pledged that if and when she is elected as President of the USA, she will...
US Ruling Class Fails To Assassinate Maduro – Workers Must Defend The Venezuelan...
VENEZUELA’S President Nicolas Maduro has survived an assassination attempt during a military parade celebrating the 81st anniversary of the Bolivarian National Guard in the...
Intensifying crisis can only be resolved by world socialist revolution!
SO FAR twelve global banks have been publicly linked to the Libor rate-rigging scandal, and face as much as $22 billion in combined regulatory...
Stop Hospital Closures – Halt NHS Privatisation
THAT the record £2.1 billion NHS surplus should coincide with press headlines that the NHS is at breaking point is no accident. The winter has...
Poodle Brown can’t say no to Bush
PRIME MINISTER Brown showed yesterday, at his joint press conference with President Bush, that such is the historic decline and collapse of the power...
US-UK Forces Must Quit Afghanistan Now!
THE position of the imperialist powers in Afghanistan has become completely untenable. Their forces are not wanted either by the Taleban or the mass...
Cameron Favours New Anti-Union Laws
LAST Saturday, the Tory leader, Cameron, told the Daily Telegraph that if he should win the General Election he is ready to toughen the...
End the Iraq and Afghan wars! Let the Chagossians return home!
ON the fifth anniversary of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the working class and the young people of the UK and the US,...