TUC must take action to stop the extradition of Julian Assange and to release...
JULIAN ASSANGE, who has lost his latest legal appeal, is ‘dangerously close’ to being extradited to the US, his family and observers of his...
200,000 Local Authority Workers Face The Axe
AS the regime of savage cuts gets under way, in the run-up to the general election, it is no surprise that the local government...
Clinton, Netanyahu make a bloc on settlements
PALESTINE Authority President Mahmud Abbas has been completely undermined by the latest declaration of US Secretary of State Clinton. In it she supported the Israeli...
Israeli Police Cancel Settlers March! Trade Unions Must Take Action Now To Establish Palestinian...
ISRAELI police yesterday cancelled tomorrow’s annual massive settlers’ march through Jerusalem. The march celebrates the occupation of the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967 and...
Brazil erupts as social revolution hits South America
THE Brazilian government is deploying heavily armed troops to five main urban centres that are the driving force of the present uprising by the...
Teachers Vote For General Strike
AT THEIR annual conference last Saturday the NUT (National Union of Teachers) passed a resolution committing the union to a strike ballot over attacks...
Central banks cutting off ‘free money’ means a world economic crash for capitalism
NOT EVERY bourgeois economic commentator has swallowed the upbeat line peddled by central bankers that capitalism has weathered the storm of its economic crisis...
Throw out the deal – build a new leadership in the CWU
AFTER around eight or so weeks of secret negotiations – on-off-on talks – the CWU postal executive has capitulated to the Hayes Ward leadership,...
US Begins Serious Peace Talks With Taliban – It Now Knows It Cannot Win...
THE 2001 SEPTEMBER 11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York was seized on by President Bush as the green light for...
State Of Palestine Now Within Reach!
ISRAEL, after 50 days of slaughter in which over 2,000 Palestinians were killed, many of them children, tens of thousands wounded and hundreds of...
Euro crisis hits youth hardest – forward with European socialist revolution
THERE is no more pathetic sight than that of European bourgeois politicians and economists manically trying to convince both themselves and the world at...
US forced to talk with Iran and Russia
PRESIDENT BUSH’S officials confirmed yesterday that Iran had agreed to hold talks with the US on Iraq. The Iranian communique said: ‘Following consultations between...
Right-wing Labour MPs organise to support Tories and overturn ‘Leave’ vote
IT IS NOW becoming crystal clear that a concerted campaign by Labour right wingers to keep the disintegrating Tory minority government of Theresa May...
Adams bends the knee
ON Tuesday, during a 4-day visit to Ireland, Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, had a private meeting lasting 20 minutes...
Bush In Middle East To Organise New War Against Hezbollah
US President George W Bush has arrived in the Middle East and has vowed to bolster up the Lebanese army and to tackle Hezbollah,...
Defeat paramilitary policing in UK with socialist revolution
THOUSANDS of workers and young people in cities throughout the country, peacefully protesting against the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, were met...
German workers join European strike wave
MORE than 20,000 German doctors are taking strike action all this week demanding a cut in working hours and a 30-per-cent pay rise. The...
Corbyn comes out on top as May is jeered, laughed at and heckled!
THE separate questioning by SKY’s Faisal Islam, Jeremy Paxman and a small audience, of Labour leader Corbyn and PM May showed just how disorientated...
US explodes as workers and youth take to the streets to oppose Trump’s attacks...
LOS ANGELES, the second largest city in the US, exploded over the weekend following a massive raid on Friday by federal agents from Immigration...
British Ruling Class Is Split – Forward With The British Socialist Revolution!
THE FACT that a section of the capitalist state leaked the UK ambassador Darroch’s damning estimation of the abilities of President Trump and his...
TUC Leader Nowak Urges The Tories To Compromise With The Trade Unions Just As...
IN THE understatement of the year, the new leader of the TUC Paul Nowak warned yesterday that further strikes could lie ahead in 2023...
Italy on the edge of the abyss – the UK is next
THE European Union is being broken on the rocks of the deepening crisis of the world capitalist order. The leaders of France and Germany are...
Biden calls for regime change in Russia – workers prepare for regime change through...
IN AN unscripted departure from his speech in Poland on Sunday, US president Joe Biden blurted out that the real aim of the war...
Tories Bringing In New Police State Powers For Use Against Workers And The Trade...
THE LAW Courts are to get new police state powers to be used against striking trade unionists and protesting workers. The powers will stop the...
Union must end all ‘positive engagement’ with the employers – only occupations and strikes...
A STORM has erupted over the revelations that a taskforce set up in 2017, with the object of protecting the future of the Ford...
Ten-hour day for schoolkids!
AT ONE time it used to be said that British workers were working such long hours that they did not have an opportunity to...
CBI calls for more anti-union laws!
YESTERDAY the employers’ organisation, the CBI, was joined by Tory London mayor, Boris Johnson, in demanding further laws to outlaw strike action against the...
Rice Visit Is To Stir Up Wars And Civil Wars
US Secretary of State Rice’s visit to the Middle East is to organise the conditions for US attacks on both Iran and...
Tories intend to put an end to the NATIONAL Health Service
IT IS crystal clear with the Tories seeking to impose even bigger cuts if they are re-elected in May, that under their rule the...
Keep out the Tories – bring down the Blair-Brown government! Forward to socialism!
LABOUR was routed in Thursday’s regional and council elections losing by late yesterday afternoon 454 councillors and eight councils in England, while it lost...
Tusk threatens ‘Hell on Earth’ for working class!
WHEN Donald Tusk, the European Council President, speaking in Brussels came out with his comment that there is a ‘special place in hell’ for...
Truss makes it clear that ‘trade unions’ are the main enemy she is determined...
TORY prime minster Liz Truss closed the Tory Party conference yesterday with a speech designed to convince the party faithful that, despite performing a...
Unite leader admits the union’s role is to prevent strikes – time to kick...
THE SUDDEN announcement on Monday that the boss of British Airways, Alex Cruz, was being sacked was greeted by the Unite union leaders as...
Police ‘Yobs’ Bait Home Secretary
THE very well paid police force – loaded up with housing and other benefits, on Wednesday bit the hand that has been feeding...
With Food Banks Going Broke And The Tories Targeting The Railways The TUC Must...
THE TUC CONGRESS is set to meet on Tuesday October 18th, just as the Truss government is poised to take the rail trade unions...
Workers of the world must follow the lead of the students and take general...
THE Geneva-based rights group, Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) says Israel is ‘intentionally’ demolishing schools and medical facilities, including those run by the UN agency...
Occupy to stop car plant closures – nationalise the motor industry to defend...
YESTERDAY, US carmaker Ford announced it will close the car engine plant in Bridgend, South Wales, throwing all 1,700 workers out of a job...
Trade Unions Must Bring Labour Down And Go Forward To A Workers Government And...
THE Labour government is incapable of resolving the massive economic catastrophe that is building up under British and world capitalism. This requires massive nationalisation...
it’s your money for your life says NICE
IF NICE and the ‘NHS health reformers’ have their way, free health care at the point of need is destined for the dustbin of...
Peace Prize for the ‘Fourth Reich’
The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ‘six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe’, according to Thorbjoern Jagland...
NATO forces face defeat in Afghanistan
SIXTEEN US troops were killed in Afghanistan in July, more than were killed in Iraq! In fact, NATO casualties are mounting rapidly as...
European workers moving inexorably to revolution
THE CALL for European-wide, co-ordinated strike action to defeat the EU ‘austerity’ measures made by the leader of the Greek TUC is a sure...
Bourgeois Democracy Is A Fraud! Brexit Needs A Socialist Revolution!
ON TUESDAY night prime minister Theresa May suffered a humiliating defeat on a vote on the Tory finance bill - when an amendment which...
World Crisis Driving Capitalism Into Wars And Revolutions – Time To Carry Out The...
WITH the US, EU and the UK capitalist economies and regimes in a growing and desperate economic and political crisis, the imperialist powers are...
Tory Coalition Turns To Civil War Tactics!
THE Tory-led coalition is planning to reintroduce the Riot Act nearly 40 years after it was abolished in England and Wales. Under proposals set out...