PARIS ERUPTS AS POLICE ATTACK WORKERS ON MAY DAY and the CGT union urges...
THE major French trade union the CGT has protested at the massive attack on peaceful demonstrators by riot police and and vigilantes and has...
Ending the capitalist crisis needs more than reformist policies
JOHN McDONNELL the newly appointed Labour shadow chancellor, made his first speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday outlining the ‘new economics’ that he...
UK Workers Are Threatened By Covid-19 Mutations – Trade Unions Must Bring Down Tories...
HOSPITALS in the south of England say they have seen a ‘real rise in pressure’ as the number of Covid patients needing treatment rapidly...
Education Crisis Deepens!
THERE was a 17% fall in the number of first-year undergraduates at UK universities in the first year of higher tuition fees, the latest...
Smash The Anti-Union Laws!
THE RMT has called off its Network Rail strike action of signal workers after the judiciary declared it to be illegal, using the ruling...
Nationalise all Industry and Banks – not just Railways
THE demand for the re-nationalisation of the railways and public transport is becoming unstoppable, as workers and the vast majority of the middle classes...
Capitalism must be overthrown to resolve its crisis!
The propagandists for the bourgeois order are rushing to try and defend the capitalist system as being blameless as far as the crisis is...
UN raises alarm over Palestinian hunger strikers –– Free them now!
THE United Nations (UN) has raised the alarm over the health condition of hunger-striking Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Standard and Poor puts a pistol to the head of the eurozone
GERMAN Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble has said Standard & Poor’s (S&P) threat to downgrade all eurozone countries, and saddle them with ruinous interest charges...
Johnson launches a class war against UK workers and youth – Forward to Socialist...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for a speedy end to ‘dependence’ on Russian oil and gas, comparing it to ‘addiction,’ in his...
German Ruling Class Gets Ready For Another War With Russia!
‘WE are witnessing a turning point … the world is not the same anymore,’ said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech last Sunday,...
British police demand internment camps
AT the same time as leading members of the Bush administration are seeking to shut down the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp after experiencing...
The US kettle calls the Pakistani pot black
THE US military’s top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, has accused Pakistan’s spy agency of having links with Taleban fighters who are targeting US forces....
No Ifs, No Buts – TUC must call an immediate general strike to support...
Over 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street last Saturday in a massive demonstration of support for Palestine and demanding an end...
Gourmet locked-out workers smash Woodley-Barber ‘compromise’ deal
THE Gate Gourmet catering company was forced to admit on Saturday that the ‘sweetheart’ deal, which the leaders of the TGWU and the ...
Flybe collapse just the start! Coronavirus has brought the crisis of capitalism to a...
LOW-COST British airline Flybe has collapsed with the loss of 2,000 jobs. The pilots union BALPA has put the blame squarely on the Tory...
Disband the EU – forward to a Socialist United States of Europe
THE latest attempt to advance, by sleight of hand, to a united capitalist state of the European Union for the benefit of the...
Hezbollah Battling Thousands Of Israeli Troops
THE Israeli government has been given the go-ahead by President Bush to mobilise up to 30,000 reservists, who are now joining the battle to...
UNISON must act to secure British withdrawal from Iraq
DELEGATES at the UNISON national delegate conference last Thursday passed a motion demanding the withdrawal of all British troops from Iraq by the end...
When The Victim Becomes The Criminal
STUDENT Alfie Meadows, who underwent an emergency brain operation after his head was broken by a police truncheon, when he was kettled during a...
170,000 workers marched for Palestine last Saturday. Trade unions must call a general...
THE WHO (World Health Organisation) has joined the United Nations in urging Israel to immediately rescind orders for the imminent invasion of Gaza which...
Ukrainian Stalinists giving way to EU-backed regime-change attempt
THE Ukrainian Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov, of the Stalinist Party of the Regions resigned on Tuesday in an attempt to draw the EU-backed right-wing...
Cameron gets his EU marching orders!
US president Barak Obama has issued his sternest warning yet to the Tory government of the dangers of Britain leaving the European Union. In an...
Brown must end UK support for Rajapakse – Victory to the Tamil Tigers
THE government of Sri Lanka led by President Rajapakse is currently fighting a war on two fronts, on behalf of US and UK imperialism. On...
Greek Debt Crisis Set To Explode Under The Eu!
TALKS on a Greek debt deal, it was reported yesterday, have ‘hit a snag’. The Institute of International Finance (IIF), and their creditors group...
Public Sector Alliance needed to defend the Welfare State and all jobs and services!
AS the capitalist crisis deepens, the Brown government’s attacks on the public sector become more frenzied. It is to be privatised or part-privatised. Hundreds...
Don’t stop at the House of Lords! Abolish Parliament and go forward to a...
ON Wednesday night, a spokesman for the Tory government delivered a blunt message to the House of Lords that they either accepted Brexit or...
Egypt must keep open Gaza’s Rafah crossing!
THE Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which has been closed for the past five months, was opened for two days at...
Sudanese Military Attacking General Strike! UK Unions And Labour Must Aid Sudanese...
THE SUDANESE military regime has once again shown its contempt for any real peace talks in the country, and its confidence that since it...
100 years since the start of the great imperialist slaughter!
YESTERDAY, August 4th, saw the leaders of the major imperialist powers remembering the centenary of the start of the first great imperialist slaughter, the...
Blair fans anti-youth hysteria – while capitalist state gunmen return to work
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, joined in the hysterical attack that the state and bosses are launching on Britain’s youth. Millions of young people...
It Is Time For The UK, EU And US Trade Unions To Recognise And...
A SENIOR member of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has said that there is no real will on the part of the United States...
Deepening world capitalist crisis is creating wars and revolutions
NATO and Russia held ‘frank and serious’ talks despite ‘profound disagreements’ as their ambassadors met on Wednesday for the first time since 2014, alliance...
Unison Leaders Vote For Another Blairite Government
FOR the whole period that Labour Left MP John McDonnell was seeking to get the backing of the 40 plus MPs that would have...
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...
May Attacks The Pensioners And Pursues Them Into The Grave!
PM MAY unveiled the Tory election manifesto yesterday in Halifax as she dumped Cameron’s policy towards the elderly and instead gave them a good...
The Real Tory Voice Speaks Out
THE declaration by Tory grandee, Lord Young – a key member of the Thatcher and Major governments that fought the NUM and supported Murdoch’s...
Bosses predict massive shocks after UK general election!
TO say that the international banking system and the world stock markets are in a state described as ‘nervous’ is to do great injustice...
Capitalist financial markets instruct Reeves to make billions of pounds cuts to welfare!
THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), an influential independent economic think-tank that dispenses ‘advice’ on financial matters to the government, has weighed in this...
Take strike action to support FBU!
THE London Firefighters one day strike last Saturday has drawn a swift response from the capitalist state, via their mouthpieces in the bourgeois press. Commenting...
Bankrupt Britain must take the revolutionary road – Make the TUC call a general...
THE leader of Birmingham City Council has apologised to the people of the city and insisted he had ‘no prior notice’ or knowledge of...
As Syria burns the Israeli regime intensifies its repressions of the Palestinians
THE Palestinian Minister of Finance, Shukri Bishara, has just addressed members of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) in New York, telling it that...
Braverman’s instruction to police to ‘ramp up’ stop-and-search inspired by fear of youth as...
ON MONDAY, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced that she is instructing all 43 police forces in England and Wales to ‘ramp up’ the...
Osborne to make £11.5bn spending review cuts!
ON a day during which it was announced by German bankers that Cyprus’ banks may never open again, and by the ONS that UK...
US death toll rockets in Iraq
FIVE more American troops were killed and three were captured near Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, in a pre-dawn attack on Saturday. The...