This Is A War That Has To Be Won!
UNITE co-leader Tony Woodley stated yesterday that it was not possible to get an agreement with BA and cancel the BA cabin crew...
‘The war against terror’ – a war that cannot be won!
IT’S official. The western imperialist states are engaged in a ‘war against terror’, which they have been waging since the Bush-Blair axis was formed...
Brown demands police-state detention law
AHEAD of MPs considering the Second Reading of the new Counter-Terrorism Bill in Parliament yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for extension of...
Take Strike Action To Halt Closure Of Automated Mail Centres
ROYAL MAIL, acting on its brief from the government has announced the closure of major automated sorting centres which will affect Liverpool. Oldham, Bolton,...
Obama Brings In New Iran Oil Sanctions!
US President Barack Obama has just signed into law a major defence bill which includes tough new sanctions against Iran, as well as allowing...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Feed The Planet
OXFAM warned yesterday that average prices of staple crops will more than double in 20 years if urgent action is not taken to change...
State threatens Climate Change Camp
YESTERDAY dozens of police officers were inspecting the beginning of the Climate Change camp, in a sportsfield owned by Imperial College, less than 1,000...
Debt crisis threatening students, home-buyers & public services
COMMENTING on a report from the Student Loan Company (SLC) on Monday, National Union of Students (NUS) President Gemma Tumelty said: ‘Fee loans, along...
EU rights court sends UK citizens to US ‘supermax’ prisons!
THE European Court of Human Rights has backed the extradition of five men from the UK to the US which intends to put them...
Labour And Trade Union Leaders Move To The Right!
THE Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Liam Byrne, yesterday joined hands with Cameron and Osborne with his declaration in the Guardian newspaper that Beveridge,...
British capitalism bankrupt, backward and stuck at the bottom!
UK unemployment fell by 57,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to May, leaving the unemployed rate stuck at 7.8% in the UK,...
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...
Gates Gives Pakistan Its Orders
NO sooner has the US’s man, Musharraf, been decisively beaten in the Pakistan elections, than the US through its Defence Secretary Gates is issuing...
Hamas answers Israeli massacre with a call for the Third Intifada
YESTERDAY, not content with killing over 300 Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza, and seriously wounding 900, Israel was massing tanks on the...
Stock Markets Crashing Worldwide!
THE sharp rises followed almost immediately by even bigger losses on the international stock markets over the past few days, point in only one...
More British Troops For Iraq!
WITHOUT any vote in the House of Commons hundreds of British troops are to be sent to Iraq, which is already being bombed by...
Forcing Boeing to halt 737 Max production threatens to crash US economy
THE GIANT US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has finally called a halt to all production of its 737 Max aircraft after the Federal Aviation Administration...
Mursi supports imperialist drive to overthrow Assad!
PRESIDENT MURSI caused a Syrian walk-out at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Tehran yesterday when he attacked the Syrian government and supported the...
Lesson of De Menezes murder – break up police death squads!
AT the moment it looks as if a fierce battle is being fought between the Labour government and the opposition parties over the fate...
Kerry Warns Russia Over Eastern Ukraine
THE US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Russia that it must not recognise the elections that are due to take place this...
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...
Cameron Touches Off Tory Leadership Dog Fight!
CAMERON is now going into the May 7th general election with a declaration that he does not intend to serve a third term, that...
Bell Tolls For UK Capitalism On June 23 Referendum Day!
THE Tory government is now split over its EU referendum, with six cabinet ministers, and over 100 MPs advocating a vote to leave the...
Coalition To Take The Axe To Council Spending And End ‘Ring-Fencing’
COUNCILS in England face a 10% cut in funding from central government as part of the coalition’s spending plans for 2015/16. As well, there...
Capitalist state uses ‘guilt by association’ to attack youth
A REPORT by Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre For Crime and Justice Studies published last week focuses on the way police and prosecutors collude to...
Osborne to lend billions to the bosses that the banks turn away
AT THE Tory Party conference on Monday, Chancellor Osborne outlined the three mistakes made by government, the bosses and the bankers which...
‘Blair and Straw have a great deal to answer for,’ says Alex Salmond
SNP foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond spoke up for millions of British people yesterday when he highlighted the role that one-time Labour PM Blair...
Defend your homes with a socialist revolution!
THE Thatcherite dream of creating a nation of home owners is already a nightmare for millions struggling to make their mortgage repayments. It is...
Care for the Elderly crisis – capitalist barbarism at work
WHEN workers pass the age at which their labour can be exploited for profit they become a useless burden on society as far as...
Scavenger Hague Leaps Into Ukraine Conflict
THE British Foreign Secretary Hague tweeted his support for the ‘new Ukrainian government’ on Saturday midday along with his German opposite number. However, there...
Royal Mail declares war but CWU carries on talking
ROYAL Mail has announced that it has brought the ‘period of calm’ in the Royal Mail to an end, and that it will be...
Nato Issues A Warning To Russia!
NATO’S military commander in Europe has issued a warning to Russia about the build-up of its forces on Ukraine’s border. Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Gen...
Capitalist governments crumble as crisis deepens!
ALL over the capitalist world, governments and administrations of all kinds are crumbling, as the deepening of the world crisis of capitalism sharpens the...
US-Israel Organising Cyber Warfare
THE New York Times has revealed that the United States and Israel were behind the Stuxnet virus cyber-warfare attack on Iran and its nuclear...
Russia resisting regime change in Syria!
RUSSIA said yesterday that it strongly disagreed with changes to its draft UN Security Council resolution on Syria made by the western imperialist powers. ‘Unfortunately,...
Desperate US and UK warmongers play the lying WMD card
IN March 2003, the US-UK axis led by warmongers Bush and Blair – after claiming that there was irrefutable evidence that Iraq possessed weapons...
Routine NHS operations to be privatised!
Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS medical director, has said that private companies will be asked to carry out routine operations to relieve pressure on...
Italy ‘Ungovernable’
THE bourgeoisie of Europe woke up on Tuesday morning to discover, to their horror, headlines proclaiming that the third largest economy in Europe had...
Abolish student loans and debt, and restore grants!
LAST Monday the coalition government’s drive to privatise every single public service and completely smash up the welfare state took yet another grotesque turn...
Demoralised Tory leaders are demanding a national government
THE prospects for the 2015 May 7 general election – taking place after more than five years of savage austerity measures that have...
After one year of the Libyan slaughter – Forward to Damascus urge Cameron, Sarkozy...
THE Libyan people are being told that they must celebrate the first anniversary of the ‘revolution’ (in fact, counter-revolution) that has destroyed their country,...
Low Paid UK By Permission Of The Tuc!
THE coalition government has named 70 companies that won’t pay workers the minimum wage. Even the government says that the 100 cases in the care...
Desperate Osborne swings the axe as the capitalist crisis deepens
IN HIS Spending Review of yesterday, drawn up at a time when the capitalist crisis is deepening, with inflation rising and the banks warning...
Lesson Of The Sangin Rout – Quit Afghanistan While You Are Still Able To!
BRITISH troops in the Sangin area of Afghanistan’s Helmand province are to be replaced by US forces, the UK’s Defence Secretary Liam Fox has...
Managers oppose the ‘enormous risk’ of the NHS White Paper
NHS managers have warned in a report from the NHS Confederation that the Lansley NHS White Paper will lead to hospital closures and constitutes...