Carillion pension fund looted to pay billions to shareholders and bosses
THE collapse of the construction company Carillion has again thrown a spotlight on the systematic theft and looting of billions of pounds from workers’...
Workers must force through the break with the EU with a socialist revolution
THE Brexit negotiations have just begun and already it is being spelt out to the UK ruling class that the ‘divorce settlement’ that...
Call National Postal Strike! Form A Public Sector Trade Union Alliance!
THIS WEEK hundreds of London delivery offices, and a number of mail centres and other offices and hubs have been taking strike action, after...
Labour – Dancing To A Tory Tune – Is Attacking The Trade Unions
THE Unite union, which in recent years has prevented the Labour Party from going bust and has financed its election campaigns with donations of...
‘Cronyism and sleaze’ engulfing Tories, as bankrupt capitalism collapses. Forward with the Socialist...
SINCE GREENSILL Capital collapsed last month, all that is rotten throughout Parliament has been stirred up and has bubbled to the surface. The collapse...
Capitalism plunging into catastrophic banking crash – time to put it out of its...
LAST Friday the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed and its assets seized by the American Federal Reserve in the biggest banking crash...
Blair and Brown threaten the trade unions
THE message from the Blair-Brown leadership to the trade unions and their leaders is ‘face up to globalisation or cease to exist’. Even the two’s...
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...
Obama Puts British Imperialism In Its Place
WITH more than 100 million gallons of oil already freed to spew all over the US Gulf coast, the ‘special relationship’ between the US...
Bolivia nationalises oil and gas resources
BOLIVIA’S President Morales has gone from having a conference last week in Havana with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, which established a...
TUC must be made to call mass demonstrations and a general strike to bring...
PM Johnson yesterday fled the country to go to the Ukraine, where he will be able to adopt what he hopes will be a...
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...
Savage cuts have just begun in debt-ridden capitalist Britain
SPENDING on Welfare over this Parliamentary term has fallen by just £2.5bn despite the Tory-led coalition aiming to slash spending by £19bn. The Institute for...
Gove calls for parents to scab
Over the weekend the Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove issued a call for parents to volunteer to break Thursday’s strike by civil servants and...
Stop The Afghan War – The Enemy Is At Home
DEMOCRATIC presidents and prime ministers such as Obama and Brown have rushed into the Afghan breach to rubber-stamp their stooge Karzai as the president...
ECB interest rate cut is last throw of the dice. Forward with European socialist...
ON Thursday afternoon Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), announced that the bank has cut its benchmark interest rate from 0.5%...
Time for the US trade unions to break with Obama and form a...
PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address attempted to present an image of a presidency that was capable of achieving something for the...
Ukrainian corruption erupts into the open
ON SUNDAY, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky sacked his defence minister Oleksii Reznikov in what has been described as the biggest shake-up of his defence...
Thousands of car jobs under threat – Expropriate the bosses and bankers
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday stated that if Theresa May’s ‘Brexit Deal’ with the EU is defeated in parliament next week, then Labour will...
TUC Postpones Its Congress. It Is Time For A New And Revolutionary Leadership
THE RMT announced yesterday that the ‘RMT joins the whole nation in paying its respects to Queen Elizabeth' and that ‘the planned railway strike...
Arrogant Israel changes Arafat street name as Palestinian masses get ready for the Third...
AN Arab town council in Jatt, in Israel (occupied Palestine), has been forced to change a street name called after the former Palestinian leader...
US Attention Focuses On China
AT THIS moment all eyes are turned to China. The US government, and worried US trade union leaders are currently talking to the Chinese...
Oil War Looms In The Caucasus!
RUSSIA is recalling its ambassador to Tbilisi after Wednesday’s provocative arrests of four Russian officers on spying charges, and is beginning a partial evacuation...
End imperialist wars with victory of the world socialist revolution!
ON SUNDAY, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth insisted publicly that, despite the illegal bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, Donald Trump’s administration...
Stop The Dirty War In The Yemen!
AT PM’s Questions, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Corbyn raised the issue of the UK’s sale of...
Capitalism has no ‘safety net’ to save it from economic crash
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) can no longer act as the world’s ‘lender of last resort’ according to a task force of currency experts...
Harassing youth and their parents – Labour’s ‘vote winner’
HOME SECRETARY Smith yesterday revealed Labour’s master plan, at a ‘We’re Not Having It’ outrage conference, held to try to claw back its lost...
US-UK Refuse To Demand Israeli Ceasefire!
YESTERDAY’S UN Security Council emergency meeting on Gaza ended without the issuing of a resolution after the US and the UK refused to vote...
Hold Criminal Governments To Account, Says Cameron
UK Prime Minister David Cameron called for the ‘criminal’ Syrian government to be held to account, and threatened Syria’s people that there would be...
Recession-hit UK and EU diving into economic crash while Trump declares trade war on...
Yesterday, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) issued a warning to Labour’s chancellor Rachel Reeves that growth expectations amongst UK companies have taken ‘a...
Cameron and Osborne on the way out as Tory Party tears apart – now...
LAST Wednesday Chancellor Osborne, with all the arrogance of a Tory millionaire born to rule, stood up in parliament and announced that he was...
Rashid Rauf Freed – ‘Bomb Plot’ Collapses
A PAKISTANI judge yesterday ruled that there was no evidence to try Rashid Rauf on terrorist charges, or that he was a member...
Trump Leaps Into War With Syria – Where He Leads, The UK Ruling Class...
PRESIDENT Trump in his televised statement on Thursday night insisted that launching a 59-strong cruise missile attack on Syria was ‘in the national security...
US mass murder in western Mosul is aiding, abetting and strengthening ISIS – and...
AFTER over a month of silence, the western media have had to acknowledge that hundreds of civilians are being killed in western Mosul by...
Smash Royal Mail privatisation, defend the NHS, bring down the Brown government, forward to...
WORKERS at Lindsey power station, the Royal Mail and doctors have shown their strength in rejecting and fighting attacks on their jobs, their wages...
Greek workers must build their revolutionary leadership
THE fact that the Greek working class brought Syriza from nothing to power, in the course of one general election, has been correctly taken...
Netanyahu Forced Into An Election – Israelis Must Dump Him And Vote For Peace...
THE RULING coalition government of Israel this week collapsed in chaos after just seven months, forcing an unprecedented fourth general election in four years. The...
IMF predicts ‘worst economic fallout since the Great Depression’ – Only way out of...
INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund’s (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday: ‘We anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.’ ‘Just three months ago, we...
Labour supports Tory law to give police ‘near total discretion’ to outlaw protests
Police will have ‘near total discretion’ to ban protests, according to leading human rights lawyer Adam Wagner. ‘Secondary legislation’ introduced by the Tories in parliament...
Hamas defiant after Israel’s ‘unilateral ceasefire’
PALESTINIAN resistance movements and their fighters remained defiant after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared on Saturday that the Israeli War Cabinet had decided to...
May Loses Support Of Both The Remainers And Leavers – Looks To Labour To...
THAT BANKRUPT British capitalism and imperialism is unable to stand on its own two feet anymore is obvious. It faces the prospect of the...
A desperate Trump resorts to blockades of the Strait of Hormuz
On Monday, US imperialism ordered a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in a desperate attempt to crush Iran through economic sanctions. This is the...
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...
While NHS workers demand action, Prentis and Barber stay on their knees
YESTERDAY thousands of NHS workers took part in the ‘NHS Together’ Lobby of Parliament to demand an end to NHS privatisation. The lobbying...
Boris Johnson being dumped – time for a general strike to dump the entire...
BORIS JOHNSON is being dumped as prime minister, as Tory MPs held a vote of no-confidence in his leadership last night. Yesterday morning, the chairman...