‘No quick fix’ in the Lebanon says Downing Street
YESTERDAY saw US landing craft from a US aircraft carrier taking off US citizens and others, who had to wade through the sea to...
308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla 308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla blockade busters
ON May 31 this year, Israeli commandos abseiled onto the deck of the ‘Mavi Marmara’, which was sailing in international waters on its way...
Build Millions Of Council Homes To House The Homeless
HOMELESS people die thirty years before the national average, says the latest research from Sheffield University commissioned by Crisis, the national charity for single...
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...
Hutton provocation will result in ‘summer pensions war’
TODAY’S publication of the Hutton Report on public sector pensions will be like a red rag to a bull as far as the membership...
Labour continues NHS privatisation offensive!
LABOUR Health Minister Burnham yesterday officially launched the extended choice network, a new extended list of hospitals and clinics, that include 15 private treatment...
Benefit cap to be lowered by £6,000 say Treasury officials
CHANCELLOR George Osborne, the hammer of the poor, is so determined not to increase the taxes of the rich that he is about to...
Cornwall Marches To Save Fire Service
TWO hundred firefighters and control room staff were joined by thousands of angry local residents in a 13-mile march from Camborne to Falmouth on...
Defend the Tamil people! Unite the Sri Lankan workers! Bring down the Rajipakse...
THERE is a war taking place in Sri Lanka, in which the government of President Rajipakse, armed, equipped, trained and financially supported by the...
Tory coalition aims to smash council housing and housing benefit!
IN his Emergency Budget, the Tory Chancellor Osborne said his government’s intention was to eliminate the ‘structural current deficit’ of the government by cutting...
Well Done – Unison Conference Rejects Histadrut
THE Unison National Delegate Conference has rejected ‘critical engagement’ with the Histadrut, the Zionist trade union, which plays a central role in the Zionist...
Revolutionary crisis shaking regimes all over Europe
GERMAN Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy on Saturday decreed that the preservation of the euro required a 70bn euro currency reserve fund and...
Cameron increases police powers for war on Welfare State
THE Tory-Lib Dem coalition government launched its White Paper Policing in the 21st century: reconnecting police and the people, on Monday. Home Secretary Theresa...
SA hunger can only be ended by a socialist revolution
ONE in four South Africans are unemployed, and poverty is rife eighteen years after the release of Nelson Mandela and 14 years after he...
Tuition fees must go!
STUDENTS going to university this autumn will face £3,000 a year tuition fees for the second year. But the trebling of fees –...
Record unemployment, record poverty and misery – socialist revolution the only answer
THE number of young people out of work has reached a record high of almost one million, according to the latest unemployment figures. ...
Pakistani military is beseiged – but nuclear weapons are safe says Clinton
AT her press conference in London yesterday the US Secretary of State, Clinton, volunteered that the Taleban attack on the headquarters of the Pakistani...
Tories Vote To Keep Blair In Office!
IN Tuesday night’s vote in the House of Commons on the Blair government’s Education Bill, 67 Labour MPs voted against, wiping out the government’s...
French revolution – spreading throughout Europe
FRANCE has been shaken for the past six months by an eruption of anger by the education trade unions and by student and school...
Mosul Falls – Imperialist Policy Collapses In Middle East
LARGE numbers of people have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants from the ISIS pro-Al Qaeda group effectively...
ANC in crisis as workers and poor demand their liberation from capitalism
YESTERDAY the South African president Thabo Mbeki said that the acrimony in the African National Congress, the mainly black ruling party in South Africa,...
Israel Cancels Military Delegation Visit To UK
ISRAEL cancelled the visit of a military delegation to Britain last week after British authorities could not guarantee that the Israeli occupation army’s...
Imperialist wars create millions of refugees
David Cameron, was at his most nauseating, hypocritical best yesterday when he delivered a speech marking the 800-year anniversary of the signing of the...
European capitalism hits the rocks
THE capitalist EU is being battered senseless this week by an economic crisis that is relentless and a working class that is refusing to...
The last-ditch attempt to save the euro and head off revolution
ON Thursday the European Central Bank (ECB), after months of prevarication and splits within its ranks, finally took the decision to launch the eurozone’s...
UNISON, TGWU, and GMB leaders all support Brown’s staged pay cuts!
ANYONE who was wondering why, at the TUC Congress, when union leaders were moving resolutions calling for coordinated industrial action against the Brown government’s...
Blair axes cabinet, but policies are the same!
IT WAS all change yesterday in the Blair cabinet and no change at all at the same time, as leading cabinet members were sacked...
Interest Rate War Rages Round Bank Of England
HOSTILITIES have broken out between rival gangs of economists on the eve of the meeting of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...
CBI bosses demand NHS privatisation
THE CBI boss Richard Lambert spoke up yesterday at the CBI Public Service Summit to insist that the financial belt-tightening that the Brown government...
TUC must take action to stop Labour’s NHS privatisation
UNISON accused the government yesterday of a ‘fundamental breach of trust’. This was after the Department of Health placed an advertisement in the official...
Claimant count rises as UK economy carries on sinking!
UK unemployment fell by 36,000 in the three months to the end of March, to 2.46 million. However, the number of people receiving...
Bankers gripped by fear are relying on ‘hope’!
THE new Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), Charles Bean said yesterday that when the so-called ‘credit crunch’ began last August central...
Close the EU’s concentration camps!
THE agreement between the EU and Turkey on dealing with the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist-inspired wars in the Middle East has...
Illegal and deadly restraints still in use, smash the racist capitalist state
Just 16 months after a man died whilst being restrained by private security guards on board an aircraft, the House of Commons home office...
Take the PCS civil servants up on ‘full support’ offer
LAST THURSDAY at 2pm as the postal workers came out on their 48-hour strike, the PCS civil service union sent a special message to...
Defend the NHS! No privatisation! Smash the health bill!
NEXT Tuesday the doctors’ trade union, the BMA, meets in London for an extraordinary Special Representative Meeting (SRM). 350 representatives of its 140,000 members,...
Vote Leave – bring down the Tories. For a workers government to defend jobs,...
THE UK Prime Minister, Cameron, has delivered a thinly disguised deadly threat to the UK working class. This is that if it has the...
Class issues in Zimbabwe’s elections
AS IS to be expected the imperialists, with Britain in the lead, are engaging in an economic blockade, black propaganda, etc to get rid...
Cameron’s Permanent War On Workers
‘TODAY the biggest challenge we face is economic,’ Cameron told his audience of City of London bosses on Monday night at the Lord Mayor’s...
The state is looking to take control
THE capitalist state used to be the mailed fist concealed within the velvet glove in Britain. Its real power was covered by the parliamentary...
Unemployment and inflation surges as Cameron threatens immigrants’ benefits
THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 80,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to July, official figures have shown....
For-profit university bust! End all fees, restore grants, drive private business out of education!...
AN EXTREMELY controversial for-profit college has gone bust leaving staff and students stranded, prompting unions to demand that the privatisation of education be stopped...
Anger over Saddam’s death silences Blair
AT last President Bush has stammered out a few words about the lynching of President Saddam Hussein, saying that he would have preferred to...
Israel receives a warning from Hezbollah!
PALESTINIAN children in Israeli jails are being subjected to torture, and physical and psychological abuse by Israeli officials, says the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’...
Parliament turns a blind eye to the mass slaughter and starvation of tens of...
THE reconstituted House of Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls (CAEC), made up of members of four select committees – Business, Innovation and Skills,...