The lesson of Orgreave is smash the capitalist state!
THE Independent Police Complaints Commission issued a report on Friday detailing the findings of its two and a half year long inquiry into...
Britain wants to occupy Afghanistan for ‘decades’
SIR SHERARD Cowper-Coles, the high-flying diplomat who is Ambassador in Afghanistan, told BBC Radio 4 yesterday that British forces would have to stay in...
Gripped with crisis UK, US & French leaders abandon World Economic Forum
THE ANNUAL get-together of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos has been hit by a number of notable absences...
NHS pharmacy services under threat – warn unions
Unite is seeking an urgent meeting with Health Secretary, Andy Burnham ‘as NHS pharmacy services are threatened by a government decision’. Burnham is being asked to...
The lesson from the tower block fire disaster is stop the fire service cuts!
SIX people have been confirmed dead and many are missing after a huge fire engulfed a 24-storey North Kensington tower block, Grenfell Tower, after...
Russia And China Support Greek Privatisation
THE Greek working class and the youth are suffering under the ‘Iron Heel’ of the Troika (the European Union the European Central Bank and...
Free the Chagos Islands – Britain’s own Guantánamo Bay!
ON WEDNESDAY the General Assembly of the United Nations delivered a stunning vote which overwhelmingly condemned the continuing occupation of the Chagos Islands. By 116...
Assad is ready for a national referendum for Syrians to decide on their...
CURRENTLY parallel with the peace talks in Astana, uninvited Turkish and US forces are operating in Syria in a move to attempt...
Afghan election re-run collapses – US, UK completely discredited!
AFGHANISTAN’S re-run election will be held on November 7th as scheduled, said the Afghan Electoral Commission yesterday. It is to have just one candidate,...
Governor King Breaks Ranks With Osborne
UK PUBLIC sector borrowing has hit a record high of £14.4bn. After more than two years of Tory austerity measures, the deficit for August...
Huge food inflation as bosses and unions agree on wage cuts and job cuts
WORKERS in Britain are now feeling the ‘benefits’ of the British government’s policy of printing money to rescue the banks while allowing the pound...
Forward to the State of Palestine! The UK trade unions must call a...
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday issued a statement on the occasion of the ‘International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People’, stressing that the...
Britain’s ‘Treasure Islands’ for the super rich – while it’s super austerity for...
THE ‘Panama papers’ leak of 11 million documents shows that the rich and infamous worldwide, including heads of state, are avoiding taxation...
Police ‘execution’ sparks Minneapolis uprising – It will be supported by workers...
‘THEY EXECUTED my brother in broad daylight. People had to film that. People had to see that,’ Philonise Floyd the brother of George Floyd, killed...
CANADIAN WORKERS PREVENT ISRAELI CONTAINER SHIP DOCKING – AS NEW ISRAELI REGIME OK’S ‘FLAG...
CANADIAN workers on June 14th prevented an Israeli container ship from unloading by forming a picket line at the entrance to the Fairview container...
Video intercept proves UK troops are operating in Ukraine as NATO risks nuclear war...
THE RELEASE last Friday of a video call between senior German military leaders has caused a massive row within the NATO countries with its...
Irish and UK ruling classes uniting against working class
MARX says in his 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak,...
Answer The ‘Shock And Awe’ Budget With A General Strike
THE Tory-Lib Dem shock and awe budget is due next Tuesday. Already workers, pensioners and youth are calling for action against this savage attack that...
There Will Be No Labour Leadership Election Says Tony Woodley
TONY Woodley, the Unite joint general secretary, has stepped into the row over the demand for a Labour Party leadership debate and a leadership...
The Tory ‘NHS Road to Recovery’ is their plan to privatise the NHS!
ON TUESDAY, Tory health secretary Savid Javid outlined his ‘new vision for NHS reform’ which turned out to be just a repetition of the...
‘Left’ Tsipras government humiliated as workers abstain in general election
SYRIZA (the coalition of the left) party crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of the right-wing New Democracy (ND) party in the...
Increased sanctions on Russia drive the bosses’ war against the working class at home!
THE MOVE by the US, the UK and EU ruling classes to cut off all oil and gas supplies from Russia is now ‘unstoppable’...
Clinton Pleads With Taliban To Talk
US SECRETARY of State Clinton was on a special mission to Afghanistan on Wednesday, the day after she expressed her hope in Tripoli, that...
BIS Report – global ‘debt trap’ risk higher than ever and set to crash...
THE SWISS-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in its annual ‘health check’ on the world’s financial system has once again warned about the huge...
French General Strike As Working Class Defends Its Pension Rights Against Macron And The...
FRANCE yesterday was paralysed by a general strike called by the trade unions in response to the attempts by the government of president Macron...
Obama orders review over Syria
PRESIDENT Barack Obama has stepped up the number of US troops in Iraq to over 3,000 and has also admitted that there may be...
Trade unions must fight zero hours contracts
THE news that over one million workers now have ‘zero hours contracts’ and work only when their employer wants them, have no holidays or...
Oecd Calls For A Giant Firewall!
UK economic growth for the last quarter of 2011 has been revised downwards to a 0.3% contraction, another body blow to those who had...
French workers’ refusal to vote for austerity puts socialist revolution on immediate agenda
IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote...
US crisis intensifies!
THE US dollar, reflecting the crisis of the US capitalist economy, is now sinking fast against both the euro and the pound sterling. Rising...
Reconstitute The Ussr!
UKRAINE’S decision to suspend a deal on closer EU ties and sign a Russian aid agreement instead has helped avoid bankruptcy, Prime Minister Mykola...
‘Indirect incitement’ to be a terror offence
BUSH and Blair say that they are ‘fighting for democracy and freedom’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the more they step up this fight,...
Unions must pull the plug on the BNP!
THE BNP, a fascist movement, is to be promoted by the BBC with an invitation about to be sent to it to appear on...
Reject ‘unlimited fees’, restore free state education
LORD BROWNE’S Review was published yesterday, recommending unlimited tuition fees for university, with ‘the market’ setting the level. The coalition’s Business, Innovation and Skills Secretary,...
As the Tories sanction Russia, UK workers have to pay the bill with massive...
ENERGY bills are set to rise to an eye-watering £3,000 a year which will undoubtedly plunge millions of families into fuel poverty, where they...
Nato Meets Behind Steel Barriers, Under No Fly Zone!
THE NATO warlords are meeting in Newport today. That they are not the most popular people on the planet is proven by the...
‘At war’ Obama speaks about taking difficult decisions
PRESIDENT Obama’s inaugural address was Churchillian in tone, but lacking in concrete content, limiting itself to spelling out that the US ruling class was...
Tensions rise in the Baltics and the Balkans!
LAST WEEK the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice visited Moscow to meet with the Russian president Vladimir Putin. She insisted that although Russia...
Starmer clears out Corbynite Long-Bailey to clear the way for a national government with...
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has unceremoniously sacked shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. This is the MP who was the main contender standing against...
Blair is deliberately smashing the NHS
THE just announced 1,000 strong mass sackings at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire which includes 750 compulsory redundancies, as well as 370 nurses...
IMF warns Labour must carry on with cuts to satisfy the international money markets
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week joined in the chorus of bankers, speculators and capitalist financiers warning the Labour government that it must...
Horizon scandal piles more pressure on Tories as they face accusations of demanding compensation...
The Horizon IT scandal of the hounding of over 900 completely innocent Post Office managers by the Post Office leading to multiple prosecutions for...
IRAQ – MILLI0NS AT RISK FROM foul WATER, FIVE YEARS AFTER THE 2003 INVASION
THE International Committee of the Red Cross has issued a damning report that millions of Iraqis’ lives are threatened by foul water and diseases...
Stop The Whole Public Sect0R On April 24
THE NUT conference has made it perfectly clear that teachers have had enough of the wage cutting and privatisation policies of the Brown government....
We need more doctors and nurses not less
AS a result of Tory and Labour health reforms designed to break up the NHS, we now have thousands of unemployed nurse graduates and...