Ex-Defence Minister Fox Demands A Class War Against Workers And Their Trade Unions!
THE coalition’s ex-Defence Secretary, Fox, put forward his demands for the Tory-led coalition’s March 21 crisis budget yesterday in the Financial Times. It was a...
The lessons of Katrina and Buncefield
A VIDEO showing President George W Bush being warned on the eve of Hurricane Katrina that the storm could breach New Orleans’ flood defences...
Israel attacks Gaza and Abbas cancels visit
YESTERDAY an Israeli aircraft bombed a building of the Hamas-run Executive Force in Gaza, killing at least one person and injuring about 45 others....
Revolution emerging in Pakistan!
EX-PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF has not been lying in his political grave for six months and already the lawyers are marching against the new regime of...
Answer the capitalist crisis with a socialist programme
THE deepening capitalist crisis has seen the breakdown of the decisive Doha Round of World Trade Organisation talks, with the United States refusing and...
Israel lurches further right as Defence Minister Yaalon resigns!
THE resignation yesterday of the Israeli defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, signals a sharp turn to the right by the government of Binyamin Netanyahu. Yaalon announced...
Answer corruption with socialist revolution!
WHEN Shakespeare had his character Marcellus observe in the play Hamlet that ‘something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ he had in mind...
Crisis deepens as shares crash worldwide!
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its concerns about Spain’s economy, saying ‘far-reaching’ reforms are needed to ensure its recovery. It said the country...
Tuc Must Act Over Cameron’s War!
ON MONDAY the bourgeois press proclaimed the rag-bag of mercenaries and brigands who make up the so-called ‘rebels’ had crushed the forces loyal to...
Detroit gets its dictator over workers’ jobs, unions and wages
AN emergency manager, in fact a financial dictator with powers over jobs, wages and conditions, has been appointed for the bankrupt US city of...
Forward to the end of the occupation of Iraq
BOTH American generals and ex-British ambassadors have been predicting that Iraq is either on the brink of civil war or that it has already...
Milosevic is dead but the crisis in the Balkans remains
THE death of Slobodan Milosevic in his cell at The Hague, four years into his trial by the imperialist powers for genocide, has left...
Bosses fear ‘worst financial crisis since the Second World War’
A JOINT report from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC) yesterday revealed the fears in business circles that the ‘credit...
Ukrainian coup under way!
UKRAINE’S President Viktor Yanukovych announced early yesterday the terms of the agreement that he had made with the Ukrainian pro-EU, pro-US opposition during talks...
Mandelson plan for uni cuts must be defeated
MANDELSON’S decision to lop £398m from the higher education budget, and to bring in third class tuition, will see thousands of workers in...
The capitalist state tools up for the struggle against the working class
YESTERDAY, Prime Minister Blair made a written statement to the House of Commons announcing that the Home Office is to be split in two. There...
Labour Party bankrupt financially and politically – unions must break from it and build...
THE POLITICAL bankruptcy of the Labour Party is now matched by its financial bankruptcy as, under the leadership of Keir Starmer, it has become...
PNA leaders bankrupt – unions must boycott Israel
The leak of confidential documents covering the ‘peace’ negotiations between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel reveals starkly the bankruptcy and futility of...
Government forced to revive the NHS Trusts it was bankrupting
IN the face of the rising anger of junior doctors, nurses, consultants, ancillary workers and patients over the Labour government’s policy of deliberately crashing...
US workers must form a Labour Party
THE Republican Party has won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, and now controls both Houses of Congress, turning the final...
Bring down Brown-Mandelson regime – forward to a workers’ government
YESTERDAY afternoon the PM’s office was leaking the speech that Brown is due to give to the TUC Congress on Tuesday. It stressed that if...
Build the Fourth International! Victory to the World Socialist Revolution!
YESTERDAY, millions of Egyptian workers and youth, from Alexandria to Cairo’s Tahrir Square and the city of Luxor and Ports Said and Suez, marched...
Stalinist bureaucracy Shanghaied by working class
THE Chinese working class is definitely on the march. It has already compelled the Stalinist bureaucracy to start bringing in legislation forcing the western capitalist...
Build the revolutionary party in Greece
THE daily demonstrations of youth and workers are continuing in Greece, over a week after the assassination of the 15-year-old school boy Alexis Grigoropoulos...
Defend every job! Bring down coalition! Expropriate the bosses!
UK unemployment rose by 49,000 to almost 2.5 million in the three months to the end of November, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
FBU pensions victory sets precedent for all public service workers
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) won a massive victory not only for their members but for all public service workers when the employment tribunal...
‘Big Society’ – wholesale destruction of the Welfare State
TORY prime minister, David Cameron, launched a desperate attempt yesterday to try and convince an incredulous public that his ‘Big Society’ policy is something...
Netanyahu turning the screws on Palestinians to the point of revolution!
THE Israeli Netanyahu regime is now working hard at its programme for the ‘final solution’ to the question of Palestine and the Palestinians. The Palestinian...
Running Scared Of Youth And Revolution!
THE German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned a Paris conference of French, German and Italian leaders on Tuesday that youth unemployment of almost 25%...
Bankrupt UK economy plunges deeper into slump
There was no cheer for the British bourgeoisie on Monday when three separate reports from the Institute of Chartered accountants and the accountancy group...
Brown Loves Bankers But Attacks Single Parents
AT the same time as the Brown government continues to spend hundreds of billions to ‘preserve’ the bankers and the capitalist system, his government...
Sack CWU collaborators!
THE drive by the leadership of the postal workers union (CWU) to transform it from an independent union fighting for the interests of its...
Russia responds to NATO moving eastwards
A RUSSIAN foreign ministry statement issued on Tuesday evening said: ‘If a US strategic anti-missile shield starts to be deployed near our borders, we...
UN Condemns Eu Over Mass Murder In The Med!
THE UN refugee agency has said once again that not enough is being done to save the lives of the tens of thousands of...
Iraq – Time For Britain To Cut And Run
SATURDAY’S engagement in Basra was a serious one for British imperialism. One Lynx helicopter was lost, shot down by a Strella missile and five British...
One day general strike to defend the NHS
IN the last two months the trade union movement and NHS professional organisations have been forced to take serious notice of the deepening crisis...
Reopen Mining Industry – No To Nuclear Power
British capitalism is today facing a massive energy crisis, largely of its own making. It was after all, Thatcher and Heseltine who shut down...
Trade union action to beat ‘stagflation’
TODAY 800,000 local council workers, members of the UNISON and UNITE trade unions, begin a two-day strike against a government-imposed wage cut, an offer...
‘We are not asking the west to choose our leaders’
THIS was the defiant and revolutionary message that came out of Egypt from demonstrators, and was shown in the western media, in response to...
Israelis mass tanks on Gaza border
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister has promised prolonged and extensive military action to free an Israeli soldier missing and presumed held captive in southern Gaza. Mouthing...
Brown and Blair – two sides of the same coin
WITH Blair’s political reputation destroyed by the Iraq war, and the massive resistance to his attack on the Welfare State, and with the media...
Imperialist lies over Aleppo – a cover for their own war crimes
SUNDAY’S emergency meeting of the UN Security Council witnessed the orchestrated attack on the Syrian people and Russia by the imperialist powers. The meeting was...
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...
Workers of the world unite – provided you speak English
LABOUR Party leader Miliband spoke yesterday on Labour’s ‘One Nation’ approach to cultural diversity and integration insisting that admission to this select body is...
The Capitalist System Deserves To Perish
THE run on shares last Friday, particularly bank shares, devastated capitalists and capitalism. The Royal Bank of Scotland saw its shares crash by 25 per...