Coalition plans Royal Mail sell-off at knock-down price
News broke yesterday that the long expected attempt by the coalition to sell off and privatise Royal Mail is set to occur this autumn. What...
Northern Rock crisis coming to a head
THE collapse of the US sub-prime market has produced a major banking crisis in the UK, which has seen the Northern Rock bank being...
British banks hit by Dubai collapse
AFTER the Abu Dhabi stockmarket experienced a record one-day fall of 8.3 per cent, and Dubai’s Financial Market Index fell 7.3 per cent yesterday,...
Conference On ‘Inclusive Capitalism’ Fears The Worst For The System!
ON Tuesday the world’s major investors, plus celebrities such as ex-President Clinton, confirmed admirers, and even relics of feudal society such as Prince Charles,...
Close Down The US Base On Diego Garcia!
FOREIGN Secretary Miliband yesterday admitted in the House of Commons that previous government denials that the island of Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands...
From Low Wage To No Wage Economy – Tories Plan Chain Gangs For Youth
CRISPIN Blunt, the justice minister, announced yesterday that instructions were being issued to the courts to the effect that unemployed offenders sentenced to the...
Britain’s ‘Black Hundreds’ Seeking State Support
UP to 1,500 English Defence League racists, plus foreign supporters, marched through Luton on Saturday, escorted by police from 27 forces as well as...
US, UK, Karzai Drive To Bribe The Taleban
ON the eve of the Afghan conference in London this week, UK and other Nato troops are to launch an offensive to take control...
BA Strike Ballot Result Today
TODAY Unite is announcing the result of its second strike ballot in three months for 13,000 BA cabin crew, which is expected to show...
Ukraine On The Brink Of Civil War
THE sacking of the Ukrainian prosecutor-general, Svyatoslav Piskun by President Yushchenko has brought the Ukraine to the brink of a civil war...
Britain involved up to its neck in rendition
LAST week, the House of Commons was told by the Foreign Secretary, Miliband, that it had been deceived in numerous statements by Labour government...
Racist laws must be smashed!
The uprising at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow has badly shaken the crisis-ridden, reactionary Blair government. It began last Tuesday night and continued into Wednesday,...
US unions being driven to historic break with Democrats
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said last Friday that US workers want an ‘independent’ labour movement designed to help the working class, not a specific...
Pentagon rails against the ‘Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act!’
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has issued a warning that legislation allowing families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia...
Japan Rearming To Back US Aggression Against China
THE Japanese government, ignoring yet again its own constitution, which bans Japan having aggressive military forces, has approved a new national security strategy, and...
NO reconstruction, only destruction in Afghanistan
THE top NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Jones, has just apologised for the death of up to 80 Afghan civilians in a series...
Build The Wrp And The Ys – Forward To The British Socialist Revolution
NOW is the time to build the WRP and the Young Socialists into the leadership of the working class and the student youth...
Tories Ally Themselves With Purnell To Beat The Unemployed
YESTERDAY in the House of Commons the Tories were glorying in the fact that their votes will make sure that Labour’s bill to force...
Counter-revolution in the classroom
A report issued yesterday outlining proposals to establish in Manchester an army-run ‘free school’, has given yet another sinister twist to the campaign by...
Labour Set To Drive Workers Off The Roads
ALISTAIR Darling, the Labour government transport minister, yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to drive millions of working class drivers off the roads with a...
Unions Must Take Strike Action To Stop ‘Son Of Star Wars’
THE real content of the ‘war against terror’ (a tool for promoting imperialist interests and for grabbing the world’s resources) has been proven with...
The Chagos Islanders Must Be Returned To Their Homes
YESTERDAY the Court of Appeal ruled that the Blair government had carried out an Abuse of Power when it overruled the assurance given by...
Sterling disaster – it crashes against the $ and the €
BANK of England governor King’s report, on the immediate prospects for British capitalism has produced a run on the pound – so precarious is...
Maliki Objects To US-Puppet Army Raid On Sadr City
YESTERDAY was the first day after the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad announced that he had given the Iraqi puppet government a timetable...
5.5 million households live in ‘fuel poverty’
THE number of UK households in fuel poverty rose by one million in 2009 to 5.5 million. The figures from the Department of Energy...
Hands off Iran – NO British Troops in the Middle East and...
‘IT simply is not true that they went into Iranian territorial waters and I hope the Iranian government understands how fundamental an issue this...
Essential relationship = master and servant
US President Barak Obama, in his speech to both houses of parliament last Wednesday, did little more than restate the old George Bush doctrine...
Capitalist crash drives HBOS into the arms of Lloyds TSB
THE Federal Reserve Bank’s $85bn ‘rescue’ of AIG was carried out to stave off an immediate international financial and business collapse. It has turned...
Bhutto Murdered By US Sponsored Military!
AT 6.16pm local time yesterday evening the Pakistani military assassinated Benazir Bhutto, putting a bloody end to the notion that there can be some...
British shoot to kill forces return to the North
THEY were withdrawn from the north of Ireland because there could not be a ‘peace process’ and a power-sharing regime while they were there,...
Thousands Driven Out Of Their Homes!
AFTER the initial declarations of the British and other NATO forces that they were going to Afghanistan to win ‘hearts and minds’ through engaging...
Kelly forges ahead with schools’ privatisation
AMID media speculation that Blair’s government is willing to compromise on plans for independent ‘trust schools’, contained in next month’s Education Bill, the reality...
Rice Raised The Issue Of Saddam Immediately After The Twin Towers Were Attacked
SUCH WAS the fawning support, given by Tony Blair to President George Bush, that Christopher Meyer, the ex-UK ambassador to the United States, was...
Defend Syria – bring down Cameron and Hague
GILLES DE KERCHOVE, the EU’s anti-terror chief yesterday told the BBC that hundreds of Europeans are now fighting with the counter-revolutionary forces in Syria...
North Korea Has The Right To Self Defence
YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, condemned North Korea’s testing of an intercontinental missile that when developed will have the capacity to deliver...
WikiLeaks reveals US gangster diplomacy
THE latest WikiLeaks release of US documents reveals the essence of US diplomacy, and it stinks to high heaven with its intense imperialist antagonism...
General Motors slashes workers’ healthcare
AMERICA’S largest manufacturing company, General Motors (GM), announced on Monday that its losses were $1.6bn in the three months to the end of September,...
Obama hosts Afghanistan and Pakistan war summit
ON THE eve of a meeting between US President Barack Obama, the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari in...
Blair’s plans remain a ‘Trojan Horse’ for an education market
A political storm of the highest order has broken out in Greece over mass phone-tapping. This follows revelations, at a special press-conference last Thursday in...
Labour Pushes For Pensions War
MORE than half a million civil servants are to be told that they will have to pay a lot more towards their pensions. This is...
Blair ‘comfortable’ with five shots to the head, shoot to kill policy
ON Sunday, Police Commissioner Blair told the world that the policy of shooting to kill ‘terrorist suspects’ was national policy, not just a Metropolitan...
Turkey Invades Northern Iraq
THOUSANDS of Turkish soldiers, backing a number of tank led armoured columns, crossed into northern Iraq on Thursday evening, after a massive artillery bombardment...
Army demanding reinforcements for Afghanistan
JUST a few months ago, the then Defence Minister John Reid was telling the media – while trying to douse public concern...
The US is being humiliated in Iraq – not Saddam
IT IS the United States of America that is being humiliated in Iraq and not Saddam Hussein. The idea that putting pictures – provided by...
CIA Using Diego Garcia As A Torture Centre
NO WONDER both the British and US governments are absolutely determined that none of the Chagos Islanders be allowed to return to their...