Israel closes Irish embassy in fury over Ireland’s recognition of Palestine and its support...
THE DECISION by the Israeli regime on Sunday to close its embassy in Dublin brought a swift response from Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister) Simon...
Farage calls for mass deportation and detention centres
AT A press conference yesterday Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, set out the programme of mass deportation and detention of migrants if Reform...
Greek working class delivers blow to EU capitalism
THE victory of Syriza in the Greek election represents a huge blow by the Greek working class against European capitalism. Syriza, the coalition of the...
13,000 children killed in Gaza, while former Israeli general warns the Zionist regime has...
ISRAEL has killed over 13,000 children in Gaza since the start of its genocidal war according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF Executive...
Take strike action to support the firefighters and trade unionism
THE use of police dogs to ‘protect’ scabs at a south London fire station during yesterday’s one day strike by London FBU members shows...
Workers being forced into 19th century ‘housing’ conditions!
LAST Tuesday, the Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden, Siobhan McDonagh used a debate in parliament to highlight the barbaric and dangerous conditions homeless...
US mass murder in western Mosul is aiding, abetting and strengthening ISIS – and...
AFTER over a month of silence, the western media have had to acknowledge that hundreds of civilians are being killed in western Mosul by...
‘Extraordinary Rendition’ – Blair and Straw hear and see no evil
“WE conclude that the government has a duty to enquire into the allegations of extraordinary rendition and black sites under the Convention against Torture,...
Defend the NHS – Stop the job cuts – Bring down Blair and Brown
ON Tuesday, at the Prime Minister’s monthly press conference, the NHS chief executive, David Nicholson confessed that he did not know how many jobs...
US Ends Quantitative Easing!
THE US Federal Reserve has announced it is ending its quantitative easing (QE) stimulus programme begun in 2008. The six years since the banking collapse...
Welsh government plans to implement Tory drive to close hospitals and destroy the NHS
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the Welsh government yesterday that it was embarking on a strategy to ensure patients only go to hospital when it is...
TUC stands idly by watching the Tories bringing in anti-union laws and forming a...
PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak met Benjamin Netanyahu at Downing Street yesterday, just as the Israeli leader faces a huge crisis at home after he...
Austerity and Universal Credit to continue!
TORY chancellor Philip Hammond made a climb down in his budget speech yesterday to Theresa May, but there was no climb down over continuing...
Only answer to banking crisis is expropriation!
THE COALITION government’s policy to ‘ring-fence’ the banks is at best a cosmetic attempt to appear to be trying to protect retail banking, and...
Blair seeking legislation to overrule the courts
THE Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has had his plans for a government veto over the law courts made public after a leak of his...
UK-France Moving To Partition Libya
FOREIGN Secretary William Hague yesterday ordered the Libyan charge d‘affaires out of the UK along with all Libyan diplomats. Hague said: ‘We’re inviting the...
Tories Accuse Striking Nurses Of Murder As They Move To Knife NHS With Privatisation!
YESTERDAY Tory Health Secretary Barclay, who is refusing to negotiate with the NHS trade unions over NHS pay, accused striking nurses of putting patients’...
US Gunships Attack Fallujah As Sunni And Shia Unite!
THE US military has started using attack helicopters as well as jet fighters and bombers in attacks against the cities of Fallujah and...
French workers and youth out to bring down Macron through a general strike!
YESTERDAY, French workers and youth took to the streets in a massive confrontation with the government of Emmanuel Macron and his plans to privatise...
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...
The TUC must now call mass general strike action in support of Palestine and...
THE Hamas movement said on Saturday that the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the northern Gaza Strip and the Israeli occupation army’s attacks on...
Dollar collapse puts bankers into a spin
THE dollar has continued to collapse against the other major capitalist currencies leaving the pound at its highest price against the dollar since Britain...
Police Have No Regrets And No Remorse Say de Menezes Family
THE Metropolitan Police chief, Blair, has already gone, his going made inevitable by the disgraceful attitude that he took to the police murder of...
Unions Must Take Action To Defend The NHS!
HOSPITAL managers are to shut an NHS accident and emergency department down at night in order to combat a staffing crisis, caused by the...
Labour Mayor Andy Burnham reveals Labour MPs want him to oust Starmer
THE Labour Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph newspaper yesterday said that many Labour MPs have been privately...
Massive debt crisis reaches breaking point!
OVER the past few months there has been an increasing concern being expressed in the pages of the financial press about the huge bubble...
Shut down the House of Lords and purge the House of Commons! Leave the...
THE MAY government avoided a House of Commons defeat for the Brexit Withdrawal Bill last Tuesday by making promises to the leading Tory Remainer,...
Labour Planning Savage Attacks On Wages And Jobs – Unions Must Call A General...
JUST two weeks after the installation of ex-Manchester mayor Andy Burnham as PM, to save collapsing British capitalism from drowning in debt, Labour is...
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...
EU and Arab workers must unite to smash imperialism
FRENCH police have arrested several suspects over the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine massacre in Paris, which killed 12 people to ‘avenge an insult to...
Trump boasts that stock markets have gained $6 trillion since his election!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Monday outlined his new national security strategy. He stressed: ‘When the American people speak, all of us should...
Fed raises rates, as US bankers resolve to make the world pay for their...
THE US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 0.25 of a percentage point – its first increase since 2006. This is after years of...
UK judges have power to sentence protesters as terrorists without them being convicted of...
Today, four Palestinian Action activists may become the first protesters in Britain to be sentenced as terrorists without being convicted of terror offences. Last month,...
Trump Faces Impeachment – US Capitalism Faces Ruin – Forward To The US Socialist...
LAST WEDNESDAY President Trump sent a 100,000-plus howling mob on a mission to break into the Capitol building to stop the certification of election-winner...
Tories target workers, disabled and children to pay the bankers’ debts!
OSBORNE said of his emergency Budget yesterday; ‘Yes it is tough; but it is also fair.’ Further on in his speech he allowed just...
This Is A War That Has To Be Won!
UNITE co-leader Tony Woodley stated yesterday that it was not possible to get an agreement with BA and cancel the BA cabin crew...
Strike action at Heathrow needed to win Gate Gourmet struggle!
TALKS at Congress House last Tuesday, between the Trades Union Congress, the T&G and Gate Gourmet management were busy discussing the company’s ‘compromise agreement’. Gate...
Bring down Blair; bring in a workers’ government
THE crisis of the Blair government has intensified to the point where the government is now more deeply split and divided than ever, while...
Labour Reformism Is Rotten To The Core – The Working Class Needs A Revolutionary...
LABOUR’S defeat in the 2019 general election is a historic one, since its central feature was the way that the safest Labour seats in...
Consultants in revolt against Blair’s ‘health reforms’
Hospital consultants in the West Midlands are boycotting the new ‘reformed’ system for selecting junior doctors for specialist training. The consultants said they would...
Obama recognises the limits of US power
PRESIDENT Obama yesterday gave the go-ahead for a massive attack on the Afghan people in which tens of thousands of men, women and children...
Miliband to support Tory cuts and Royal Mail privatisation!
ED MILIBAND, the new Labour Party leader, has made it perfectly clear that his victory does not mean that he is going to oppose...
March ban aimed at trade unions, youth and students
THE news that the Tory Home Secretary, Theresa May, has issued a blanket ban on all marches and rallies in five London boroughs represents...
‘Bond vigilantes’ prepare to turn on collapsing British economy!
THE demand for the Bank of England to increase interest rates at the next meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) later this month...
Massive support for Tube workers’ strike – Now forward to a general strike
London Underground is closed down today as Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) members staged another 24-hour strike over jobs, pensions and in defence of...