Prison torture allegations – abolish G4S!
THE news that allegations that forced injections and electric shocks were used on prisoners at a South African prison run by the UK-owned G4S,...
Lagarde says Greek euro exit will ‘probably’ not mean end of euro
THE head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, admitted on Thursday that she could not ‘preclude’ Greece being forced out of the eurozone. This...
Pompeo Seeks To Build Alliance Against The Palestinian And Iranian Revolutions!
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo is currently in the Middle East organising an Israeli-Arab coalition to fight Iran and prevent a Palestinian state. Pompeo...
‘NHS Standing On A Burning Platform’ – Time To Deal With The Arsonists!
THE NHS is standing on a ‘burning platform’ is the stark assessment of Professor Sir Mike Richards, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of...
Democrats revolt against Obama!
PRESIDENT Obama’s attempt to establish a cheaper insurance market that would provide full cover for up to 40 million poor Americans is under all-out...
To rid the world of coronavirus capitalism must be overthrown and replaced by socialism
AMERICA, the wealthiest capitalist country in the world, on Wednesday recorded its highest daily level of Covid deaths with 3,157 new deaths recorded. This exceeds...
There must be sprinklers in schools! No more fire deaths! Kick the Tories out!
AFTER the horror of Grenfell Tower fire, where so many men, women and children burned to death, the big issue is ‘is anyone safe...
NATO plans for war on Russia as capitalism crashes! Forward with world revolution
IN WHAT was described as a ‘historic first’, a UK navy destroyer, HMS Duncan, was placed under the direct command of NATO and ordered...
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...
Nato air strikes clear way for counter-revolutionaries
IT is now crystal clear that the Nato airforces are in Libya to blast a way through the Libyan people, both fighters and civilians,...
Workers will demand Unite’s national action against fire and rehire be stepped up to...
YESTERDAY the Unite union announced it is launching a campaign to end fire and rehire with ‘coordinated strikes and actions across the country’. In a...
Starving Yemenis Are Eating Leaves – While The UK Supplies Saudis With Bombs And...
YEMENI families are starving with nothing to eat but leaves as Saudi Arabia steps up its deadly bombing campaign using British bombs and missiles...
Johnson refuses to resign – organise a general strike to kick him and the...
BORIS Johnson opened prime minister’s question time yesterday by apologising for giving the impression that lockdown rules, imposed by his Tory government, had not...
Tories plan to pauperise and then privatise the NHS – make the TUC...
IN ITS WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL the Daily Telegraph sought to shed crocodile tears for the striking health workers who are continuing to battle against the...
End all collaboration between TUC and Tories – build a new leadership to call...
TRADES Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Frances O’Grady’s speech to its annual conference contained no call for action from the unions to fight Tory...
Tories pledge to spend £10 billion on ‘Iron Dome’ for Britain to prepare for...
TORY leader Kemi Badenoch and her shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge, at their party conference this week, ramped up the war rhetoric unveiling plans...
Trade unions must strike to defend the NHS!
TOMORROW Central Surrey Health (CSH), a private company set up by nurses and therapists, will find out whether they have won the £22m contract...
200,000 Civil Servants taking strike action
ON Wednesday over 200,000 civil servants and over 200 government departments will be strike bound for the day. Civil servants...
Support the postal workers – Bring down Brown government
GORDON Brown launched his government of national unity yesterday by giving ex-Tory Sean Woodward a job in the cabinet (he defected from the Tories...
Oil Heading For $200 A Barrel
OIL reached a new record price above 120 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, with New York’s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for...
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...
Socialist revolution is the only way to smash capitalist police state!
ON TUESDAY, the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, US president Joe Biden met with Floyd family members. The meeting...
Tories retreat over junior doctors – now finish them off
THE eleventh hour climbdown by Tory health minister Jeremy Hunt over imposing new contracts on junior doctors has wounded him and exposed the weakness...
Labour must bring Tories down and carry through Brexit – One Ramsay Mac is enough!
ON TUESDAY night prime minister Theresa May suffered the biggest political defeat in British parliamentary history when her Brexit deal, signed and sealed with...
Head of Oxfam GB damns UK as ‘morally incoherent’ over arming the Israeli genocide!
THE head of Oxfam GB, Halima Begum, has damned the UK government for supplying arms to Israel while simultaneously providing humanitarian aid to Gaza...
Tanker attack provocation in the Gulf – US looking to launch war on Iran...
TWO oil tankers were attacked on Thursday morning in the Gulf of Oman. The Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous and Norway’s Front Altair were abandoned after two...
Lid lifted on US torture regime while the UK’s role is redacted!
THE REPORT by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) very belatedly exposes the CIA torture regime that was imposed after the 2001...
Coalition Policy Is To Financially Collapse Local Authorities
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that ‘multiple’ local authorities are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts. The...
Answer Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill with a general strike to kick the...
THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets at the weekend in mass ‘kill the bill’ demonstrations across the country against the...
UK planning for war right across the Mediterranean!
THE imperialist powers are now working overtime to explode the Mediterranean region, from Libya to Turkey, into one huge raging fire. The UN Security Council...
US Rushes Drones And Hellfire Missiles To Iraq
THE US has sent 75 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles to Iraq, with many more on the way. They are to be used to try to...
Satellite to celebrate 30th anniversary of Iranian Revolution
IRAN launched its first satellite into space powered by its own rocket system, Safir-2, on Monday night. The research and telecommunication satellite was put...
Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!
INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...
Saudi backers of ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Al Nusra Front accuse Qatar of...
LAST month US president, Donald Trump, turned up in Saudi Arabia to give his unqualified support to the ruling Saudi monarchy and their fellow...
Soros financing Pro-EU campaign in UK – Workers must demand that the UK quits...
US-HUNGARIAN billionaire George Soros has denounced Brexit as an ‘immensely damaging process’ for both the United Kingdom and the European Union, and has arrived...
UK and US imperialism’s drive to war must be answered through the victory of...
IN his ‘Letter to American Workers’, published in Pravda on August 22 1918, after the victorious Russian revolution, Lenin wrote, ‘We are now, as...
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...
Tories Split Over The Johnson–Sunak Decision To Raise National Insurance Contributions In April!
PM JOHNSON’S decision to bloc with Chancellor Sunak to see that National Insurance Contributions are raised in April by £12.9 billion has widened the...
Tories’ massive cuts of flood defences and Fire and Rescue Services have led...
THE Army has been called out in York, Leeds, and parts of Lancashire after flood defences failed. In the case of York the...
Make TUC day of workplace action the first day of a general strike across...
ISRAELI troops crossed the border into southern Lebanon yesterday in what they described as ‘limited, localised and targeted ground raids’ after approval was given...
Banks teeter on edge of collapse – Official
THE European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of its latest stress tests carried out on 123 European banks on Sunday, results which showed...
Simpson And Woodley Are Betraying The Working Class!
THE joint general secretaries of Unite, Britain’s biggest union, met with Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling at Number 11 on Thursday for crisis talks on...
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...
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...
Workers and youth forward to the Socialist revolution!
LAST Sunday the president of the National Union of Students (NUS), Aaron Porter, made a surprise visit to a meeting of students occupying University...