After massive London march for Palestine, the TUC must call a general strike for...
UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell has confirmed that the Israeli army has killed over 50 children in deadly attacks in Jabalia, northern Gaza, during...
US workers mobilise in fight for trade unions and unionisation!
STARBUCKS, the world’s largest coffee chain, has been stunned by an explosion of its workers demanding trade union rights across America. Last year, a group...
Hamas salutes the victory of the Syrian people which points the way forward for...
THE head of Hamas’ foreign political bureau Khaled Mishaal, said yesterday that the victory of the Syrian people heralds the victory for the Islamic...
Eurozone Crisis Is Hitting Every Country
IN a week when Greece and Spain witnessed massive strikes and demonstrations against austerity measures – designed to drive the working class and youth...
Asbestos: capitalism’s silent killer still killing workers and children!
WHILE the tragic death of 72 people in the Grenfell inferno threw an immediate spotlight on the criminal disregard of capitalism for human life,...
Taleban inflict serious reverse on US–UK forces in Camp Bastion!
IT HAS emerged that the US-UK forces lost six Harrier jump jets – completely destroyed with two more badly damaged – in the highly...
Call a national postal strike and bring out all the public sector
ROYAL Mail chairman Allan Leighton reiterated yesterday that the organisation cannot afford to improve its 2.5 per cent pay offer, despite staff voting 77...
With capitalism in crisis, and the NHS being knifed by Starmer – UK needs...
THE immediate ending of the pensioners’ Winter Fuel Allowance was necessary to prevent an economic collapse and a run on the banks, declared Lucy...
BIS predicts deflation and depression
LAST year the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was alone amongst banks in warning that the situation had similarities to that at the time...
Stop the UK arms sales to the Saudi and Bahraini despots!
DESPERATE for trade after Brexit, and for access to Middle East oil, bankrupt capitalist Britain is desperately licking the boots of Arab feudalists, while...
Ex-head of Fed warns ‘US capitalism under threat’
SPEAKING at the Policy Exchange in London this week Alan Greenspan, former head of the US Federal Reserve Bank, issued his direst warning about...
Pm May’s Education Review Is A Fraud – Unions Must Take Action To Abolish...
THE National Union of Students’ verdict on PM May’s review into post-18 education and funding is that ‘she is choosing to move the deckchairs...
Bush & Brown move in to exploit protests in Myanmar
UNITED States President George Bush declared at the end of last week: ‘I call on all nations that have influence with the (Myanmar) regime...
Unite campaign for ‘Workers Economy’ is a campaign for a Starmer-led win in 2025!
THE Unite trade union has issued a press release that dangles before its members and the working class the pledge that the union would...
Israel Is Stepping Up Its Onslaught On The Palestinian People!
THE Palestine Scholars Association (PSA) has warned that the Israeli occupation regime has transitioned from targeting the Palestinian people and their land to a...
Sarkozy sentenced to three years for corruption – Cameron still evades justice!
FRENCH ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in jail, two of them suspended, for corruption. He was convicted of trying to...
Britain Has Been, Is, And Will Continue Talking With The Taleban
PRIME Minister Brown told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that British forces are ‘winning the battle against the insurgency’ in Afghanistan. Using...
Tuc Congress Leaders Refuse To Fight!
ON Sunday at the TUC Congress delegates voted unanimously to defend the right to strike, with GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny declaring: ‘If the...
Israel Steps Up Its Genocide. The TUC Must Call A General Strike Now...
THE Palestinian Civil Defence Society (PCDS) reported on Tuesday that it has received numerous appeals regarding people trapped alive under rubble from homes and...
Defeat Tory-Lib Dem attacks on public sector pensions!
TORY Prime Minister David Cameron and his Deputy Nick Clegg have declared war on six million workers in the public sector and their pensions. Clegg...
Socialist revolution only solution to capitalist crisis
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer returned from holiday at the weekend to announce his new ‘robust’ plan to freeze the cap on electricity and gas...
Break with the EU NOW! Forward to a Workers Government and forward to the...
FOLLOWING 17m plus workers voting to ‘Leave’ in the 2016 EU Referendum, the UK is leaving the EU on March 29th 2019, two years...
Right wing Labour puts Corbyn and McDonnell on a very short Leash!
SIR Keir Starmer, Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary speaking at a Chatham House conference, has said that Labour will not support any Brexit deal negotiated...
Coalition opts for new anti-union laws and dictatorship
CIVIL SERVANTS are angry that Cabinet Office minister, and head of the Star Chamber to force through government policy, Francis Maude, is going...
Answer Tory Royal Mail Provocation With A General Strike
ROYAL Mail shares are to be sold by mid-October, with the government under-pricing the industry and selling for between £2.6bn to £3.3bn to make...
The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Bring Down Tories!
THE UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories says the Israeli military has ‘intentionally killed’ the aid...
Billionaire steps in to bail out the Labour Party
LAKSHMI Mittal, the Indian-born billionaire has donated £2m to the Labour Party, it was revealed yesterday. The fifth richest man in the world, who owns...
Obama told – ‘This nation is sick and tired of war!’
THE IMPERIALIST attempt to overthrow the Assad government in Syria has met a colossal resistance from the Syrian people, despite the hundreds of millions...
Bosses and bankers agree capitalism is ‘broken’ – time to put an end...
ANY LINGERING doubts about the morbid terror that is gripping the capitalist class were dispelled this weekend when 50 of the leading bosses from...
Brown to rescue banks by slashing wages and jobs!
CHANCELLOR Darling has followed up his appearance before the bankers at the Mansion House on Wednesday night, where he pledged that wage rises would...
World crisis of capitalism dominates
The world crisis of capitalism is asserting itself with a vengeance, defying every attempt by governments and the world financial system to bring it...
BA CRISIS – no to sackings and wage cuts – Renationalise!
BRITISH Airways has decided to cut 1,700 jobs and introduce a two-year pay freeze for cabin crew. It also intends to discuss wage cuts...
French And British Workers Take Action Against The Bosses
IT was Karl Marx who said that the French would start the revolution, that the British would be inspired to take it further and...
British Military Opposes Any Petraeus Surge In Afghanistan
GENERAL Petraeus is now the commander of all NATO forces in Afghanistan, and has declared that he intends to organise a NATO ‘surge’ in...
Osborne announces more austerity and refuses to guarantee the NHS
CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday outlined ‘a Britain that is growing, creating jobs and paying its way’. He added more Walter Mitty observations such as: ‘The latest...
The Egyptian Revolution Pushes Forward!
THE leading group representing the Egyptian bourgeoisie, around President Mursi, who is known as Mubarak with a beard, has just been massively shocked by...
Don’t go to A&E, ‘walking wounded’ told!
CONFRONTED with the appalling crisis in NHS hospitals’ A&E emergency services, the Labour government plans to restrict access to emergency departments, to save money...
Starmer’s ‘reshuffle’ sidelines Reeves and provokes a financial meltdown of British capitalism
THE UK parliament returned from the summer holidays on Monday and Labour prime minister Keir Starmer immediately caused a meltdown in the economy. The immediate...
The crisis is forcing the working class forward – Now build the WRP
Last week’s collapses on Wall Street and on the Japanese stock market emphasised to the whole world that the capitalist crisis is deepening. The...
Reid is talking liberty but is planning repression
HOME Secretary Reid yesterday spoke about the importance of liberty – a new subject for a Home Secretary who preaches the ‘war against terror’,...
Forward to the State of Palestine – from the river to the sea –...
IN a telephone conversation yesterday, President Mahmoud Abbas and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the latest developments in Palestine, especially in light of...
Simpson Aims To Prop Up The Brown Government
AT a time when the working class is starting to roar like a lion and demand and vote by over 90 per cent majorities...
China shocked by US plans for massive new tariffs!
THE CHINESE government has said that it is ‘shocked’ after the US government announced plans for massive new tariffs, escalating the trade war between...
67 Labour peers begin their coup attempt to drive Corbyn out of the Labour...
FOLLOWING hard on the heels of last week’s hatchet job carried out by the BBC Panorama programme, the Labour Party right wing have launched...
Nationalise The Banks To Resolve The Capitalist Crisis
MORE than $170 billion (£87 billion) has been wiped off the balance sheets of companies worldwide as a result of the collapse of the...