NATO warmongers meet in Brussels
NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the ‘long-term security implications’ of Russia’s response to the US-UK-EU inspired coup in Kiev, and...
Corbyn Called A ‘Stalinist’ As Labour Right Wing Plots For A Second Referendum
LABOUR leader Corbyn has been accused of organising a ‘Stalinist purge’ after he sacked ex-leadership contender and Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Owen Smith on...
Cowen making workers pay for capitalism’s crisis in Ireland
IN A third attempt within six months to save bankrupt Irish capitalism, Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s Fianna Fail government unveiled a draconian budget on Tuesday,...
President Trump Refuses To Meet The Family Of Jacob Blake!
THE FATHER of Jacob Blake, the black man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, refused to ‘play politics’ with his son’s life’ when President...
Israel speeding up the demolition of Palestinian homes and schools!
AS the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration nears, the Israeli government, its armed forces and its legions of settlers are intensifying their programme...
The EU Remains In Charge As All Parties Await Its Decision On Extending Eu...
THE EU is definitely still in charge of Brexit and the ‘Brexit debate’. MPs await its decision today after Tory leader Johnson dumped the ‘no...
Miliband Praises Attlee But Plans To Bury The Welfare State
MlLIBAND, Balls and co are like circus performers on the highest of high wires, being buffeted by a huge economic gale that is pauperising...
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...
Banking Crisis Heading For The Precipice!
THE INABILITY of the US economy to recover from its jobs slump, alongside the colossal indebtedness of the EU banks – German, Italian, French...
Trade unions, the economic crisis and the class struggle
Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC, and other trade union leaders met secretly with David Cameron last week, the first such meeting between...
Nationalise BA to defend wages, jobs and pensions
BA managers were yesterday pledging a ‘fight to the death’ with the Unite trade union and its members to force through cuts in wages,...
Hamas election win – a victory for resistance
HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement) won a resounding victory in Wednesday’s general election securing 76 seats in the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), on the...
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...
Police and MI5 granted licence to kill by the Tories & Labour leaders!
POLICE spies and MI5 operatives have been given the green light to commit crimes with impunity after an extremely controversial law was passed on...
The great betrayal – NHS union leaders call off strike action!
NHS trade unions have called off (‘suspended’) today’s strike and betrayed their members by accepting the government’s decision not to pay the...
US-UK Alliance Allowed Massacre Of Tamils
AT the minimum 20,000 Tamil people were massacred on the Mullaitivu beach ‘no fire zone’ by Sri Lanka Army shelling, in the first 19...
Anti-union laws and wage cuts will stay – Brown tells trade unions
Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday gave a fitting reply to all those trade union bureaucrats who were saying that he could be forced to...
Derisory increase in minimum wage wiped out by inflation!
APPROXIMATELY 2 million low paid workers will be covered by the increase in the national minimum wage that came into effect yesterday. Under this increase...
NO benefits – and NO jobs either – the Duncan Smith plan
WORK and Pensions Secretary, ex-army officer Duncan Smith, yesterday addressed the world about ‘our broken benefits system’, when most people know what has broken,...
Socialist revolution the answer to youth and workers’ jobs crisis
A REPORT yesterday by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) warns that up to 350,000 youth aged between 19 to 24 face being thrown...
Hunt trying to assassinate the NHS!
JEREMY HUNT, who did a stint as a very pro-Murdoch Culture Secretary, was reshuffled out of that job and became Health Secretary as a...
US ‘job creation’ will come from Medicaid and Medicare cuts
LAST Thursday night US President Barak Obama addressed a joint session of the US Congress where he outlined his new initiative that would, he...
Reformists and Stalinists seek to break Greek teachers’ struggle
THE confrontation between Greek teachers and the Greek state and its EU masters has erupted this week after all teachers were served at the...
Defend the NHS with a general strike! Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry!
ONE in five new drugs will be rationed on the NHS under new plans to ‘save the health service money.’ This is the latest...
Police don’t serve the public–they oppress it
ON the eve of yesterday’s 15,000 strong Police Federation demonstration through London, against the staging of their 2.6 per cent pay award, reducing it...
Blair threatens to ‘close the book’ on the north
THE British and Irish premiers yesterday outlined their plan to restore direct rule from Westminster, via Dublin, if the Paisleyite DUP does not agree...
Kick out privatising hospital managers – place NHS under the management of medics and...
THE aftermath of the sentencing on Monday of Lucy Letby for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others at...
Truss and Kwarteng declare war on unions – TUC must respond with a general...
CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng has unveiled the plans by the Tory government to drive part-time workers back into full employment by cutting their benefits. Under the...
Balls and the ‘Little Englanders’ adopt racism as their policy
‘WE were wrong to allow so many eastern Europeans into Britain,’ says Ed Balls, referring to the large number of migrants from Poland and...
Osborne’s regime of pay freezes and wage cuts
IN his last budget speech before the general election, Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made the astounding claim that living standards will ‘grow strongly every...
By 278 votes to 0 MPs vote for extending the Universal Credit top-up beyond...
THE TORY government was delivered a massive blow on Monday evening when it was defeated by 278 votes to 0 when MPs voted for...
Pakistan – US threatens military intervention
Al-QAEDA founder Osama bin Laden is alive and sheltering in ‘lawless parts of Pakistan’ on the border with Afghanistan, according to US Director of...
42,000 BA Workers Are Being Threatened With New Contracts Today!
THE LEADER of the Unite trade union, Len McCluskey, said on Monday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to...
Smash Labour’s Class War Budget!
ARGUABLY the most damning indictment of Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget on Wednesday was the glowing endorsement the International Monetary Fund (IMF) greeted it...
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...
Defend state education, stop privatisation!
TODAY'S joint strike by two unions at Middlesex University must be the start of action to defend jobs and the very existence of a...
Defend state education – defeat academies drive
TEACHERS at Copland School in Wembley, who took part in their fifth one day strike against being forced into academy status yesterday, must be...
Israel is a terrorist state – while anti-Zionism is not a form of racism!
YOU can tell that the split and divided Tory party and capitalist class in the UK are in very serious trouble when they have...
Pakistan’s creeping coup being organised by the US
A FEW weeks ago President Obama announced 30,000 extra US troops for Afghanistan. Now the US has given its full support to President Karzai of...
1,002,296 have died from Covid-19 – Capitalism cannot deal with this crisis!
THE number of people worldwide who have died from Covid-19 has passed one million, reaching 1,002,296 with 33,378,462 infected, the Johns Hopkins University reported...
Saudi Arabia issues its demands to Qatar – submit or be crushed
YESTERDAY, Saudi Arabia issued a set of 13 wide-ranging demands to Qatar which it insists have to be met before the sanctions imposed on...
Labour right-wing renegades split, time to kick out the rest and demand a socialist...
AFTER weeks of speculation, seven right-wing Labour MPs announced yesterday that they are resigning from the Labour Party, citing ‘institutional anti-Semitism’ and the ‘shameful’...
Iraqi puppet government splits after Maliki refuses to order US withdrawal
THE political bloc of anti-occupation Shia cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, yesterday quit the Iraqi puppet government with its six ministers quitting the cabinet. They walked out...
Head teachers up in arms – schools being cut to the bone! All-out strike...
MORE than 7,000 heads have written a joint letter to 3.5 million families warning of the acute funding crisis in schools. The heads insist...
Scottish Power – huge profits and huge price rises
SCOTTISH Power has just reported a 95 per cent leap in its profits. It also warned its 5.2 million customers to prepare for a...