Hedge fund speculators make super-profits out of starving millions across the world
A REPORT compiled by Unearthed, the investigative unit of the Greenpeace environmentalist organisation, and the independent journalist organisation Lighthouse Reports has thrown a light...
Sinn Féin Dumps Socialism
IRISH capitalism, its banks and industries have been entirely bankrupted, and what national sovereignty the country had has also been destroyed, after the...
US agreed Turkish air raids on northern Iraq
DOZENS of Turkish planes bombed supposed PKK bases in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing villagers, damaging infrastructure and forcing villagers to flee, local Iraqi...
Bankers fumble in the dark
‘THE recession has. . . certainly presented us with plenty of puzzles,’ says the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Charles Bean. Addressing the...
WITH THE TORIES COLLAPSING, THE BANKERS HOLD TALKS WITH SHADOW CHANCELLOR McDONNELL!
AN ARTICLE in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph revealed that a series of behind-the-scenes meetings has been taking place between members of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet...
Zionist pogrom against Palestinians – TUC must be forced to call a general...
THE invasion of the West Bank city of Jenin by 2,000 Israeli troops backed up by drone and air strikes has so far killed...
Cameron washes his hands of steel industry – steelworkers must occupy and organise...
CAMERON yesterday gave the ‘V’ sign to the appeals by the Unite and TUC leadership that there must be a temporary nationalisation of Tata...
A billionaires’ paradise – the UK under Blair and Brown
IN the last 12 months the working class and the vast majority of the middle class have desperately struggled under a huge and...
As occupation founders oil workers come to the fore
A BRITISH soldier has been killed in southern Iraq, bringing the number of British troops who have died in Iraq to 150, with thousands...
ICC refuses to act over Israel’s Gaza war crimes
PALESTINIAN youth and workers marched very bravely all over the occupied territories last Friday on Land Day, and they were met as usual by...
CWU leaders organise a consultative ballot !over pensions
TRUE to form the CWU leadership is declining to give any kind of leadership to its massive membership on the vital issue of the...
Sack the Hayes-Ward CWU leadership!
LAST Wednesday postal workers delivered a massive vote in favour of strike action to defend their jobs, terms and conditions, and for a pay...
Starmer out! General strike from Oct 7th to defend winter fuel payments!
FRESH from his defeat at the Labour Party Conference by the successful vote against his policy to scrap the winter fuel payment to pensioners,...
Eurozone meltdown!
THE European Central Bank (ECB) monthly policy meeting took place in Naples last Thursday under riot conditions. While Europe’s financial movers and shakers met in...
50 years since the Labour government handed the IMF control of the UK economy
YESTERDAY saw the start of the Labour Party conference. It also marks the 50th anniversary of the then Labour government going cap-in-hand to the...
US Democrats want Trump impeachment to form basis of bloc with Republican Party!
DONALD Trump became the first president of the United States to be impeached twice when the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to charge...
Tories Want To Turn Trade Unions Into Labour Fronts For The Bosses With Their...
THE TORIES are proposing to turn free and independent trade unions into ‘Labour Fronts’ run by the bosses with their new anti-trade union legislation. Under...
Labour’s first 100 days will see the working class using its power to drive...
LABOUR’S shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, delivered a speech yesterday laying out the priorities for the first 100 days of a Labour government. Within 100 days...
Corbyn appeases Labour’s right wing – the UK must leave the EU, as decided...
THE UK was changed forever when the over-confident Tory leadership of Cameron and Osborne got the House of Commons to agree a resolution...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Defend Jobs, Homes, Basic Rights And Deal With Climate...
THE TUC’s ‘Put People First’ march on Saturday brought 50,000 workers and youth onto the streets marching behind powerful contingents from the GMB and...
Forward With The Victory Of The French Socialist Revolution!
PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble Alliance has been brought down to earth with a bang after losing its absolute majority in the French National Assembly,...
30,000 Businesses Will Go Bust In 2024!
ECONOMISTS at the multi-national financial advice service PwC have issued a stark warning that nearly 30,000 businesses in the UK will collapse under the...
Barclays Vice Chair On NHS Commissioning Board
YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Health told the House of Commons that the government will be taking a step back from the...
Blairites and Tories form a counter-revolutionary alliance!
BLAIR, the universally hated and reviled ex-Labour prime minister, was thrown a lifeline in his quest to resurrect his political career as an anti-Brexit...
Pensions are now a revolutionary question
TUC leader, Brendan Barber, said yesterday in his gloom and doom-ridden New Year’s message that the Lord Adair Turner pensions report created ‘tough decisions’,...
US Threatens North Korea With War
‘WE are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea, we are not going to accept it,’ US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher...
Savage cut in ESA to claw back £1.4bn from the disabled!
THE peers of the House of Lords on Monday night capitulated to the Tory government over cuts to disabled people’s benefits to ‘encourage them...
Stop the A&E closure programme by booting out the Tory coalition
JUST days after Health Secretary Hunt was found to be acting unlawfully with his plan to close the A&E and other facilities at Lewisham...
Reformists Miliband and Balls sink to new depths of treachery – build the revolutionary...
YESTERDAY Labour leader Ed Miliband delivered his keynote speech to the party conference in which he firmly aligned himself with every reactionary anti-working class...
EU Warmongers Getting Ready For War – As The Capitalist Crisis Heads For A...
RUSSIAN leader Vladimir Putin said yesterday that ‘Europe is offering proposals for a “peace plan” for Ukraine that are unacceptable to Russia.’ He added that:...
Greek Revolution Erupts – With The Youth In The Lead!
IN all of the Greek cities there were clashes throughout yesterday between workers and youth and the riot police, and other Greek special forces....
Political crisis in Europe
The political crisis for the European bourgeoisie deepened yesterday following the results of exit polls at the end of the first round of voting...
Palestinian Prisoners Are Staging A Mass Hunger Strike – Now Is The Time ...
PALESTINIAN prisoners are staging a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons to protest against crackdowns and mistreatment by the prison officials. They say their strike,...
Railworkers Are Fighting For All Workers! TUC Must Be Made To Call General Strike
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has responded to the rocketing inflation rate. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: ‘Inflation reaching...
French youth rise up over death of 24 year-old after police attack music festival
THE GOVERNMENT of French president Emmanuel Macron went into a full blown crisis this week with riots in Nantes on Saturday where thousands of...
Free Julian Assange! Imperialists are the real war criminals!
JULIAN Assange’s extradition hearing resumed in London yesterday with the US government once again throwing in new charges at the last moment. According to reports,...
Police paramilitary rule
TODAY the Police Federation’ annual conference will be addressed by the reappointed Tory Home Secretary, Theresa May, an event that the Federation’s leaders are...
Labour prepares for war – time to kick them out!
IT was revealed this week that the Labour government is set to introduce changes to a new armed forces bill, due to come before...
With a 42% turnout French workers humiliate Macron!
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron’s party, La République en Marche, has won a parliamentary majority, just weeks after his presidential victory. With nearly all the...
PM May surrenders to EU! UK needs a workers government and a socialist revolution!
ON THURSDAY 23rd June, 2016, the EU referendum took place and the people of the United Kingdom took a revolutionary decision to leave the...
Bankrupt Brown speaks to the City of London
GORDON Brown began his Mansion House speech to the City of London on Monday night with a ringing but empty declaration. He said: ‘I want...
French workers are battling a Macron dictatorship while workers are now taking strike action...
THOUSANDS of French workers have blocked a key highway around Paris and have stepped up strike action at oil refineries in a new massive...
Israeli Police Attack Anti-Netanyahu Demonstrators As Israel Explodes!
ISRAELI police arrested 12 people and used water cannons before dawn on Sunday to disperse furious protesters against the policies of PM Netanyahu. Tens of...
Defiant Assad Puts Imperialists Into A Crisis!
PRESIDENT Assad’s recent statement to the AFP news agency reflects the huge change in the internal Syrian situation thanks to the successful alliance between...
Labour splits apart as Starmer fights for survival
THE civil war that has been simmering within the Labour Party erupted this weekend following the decision by Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC)...