Blair will ‘run criminals out of the country’
IT was Mussolini who said that he would drive the Mafia out of Italy and send it packing to the United States. Mussolini went...
Abolish Fees, Restore Grants And Free State Education For All
A REVIEW of university student fees in England has been launched by Business Secretary Mandelson. The object of the review is to increase, perhaps...
Tories engineer NHS ‘humanitarian crisis!’
OVER the weekend the British Red Cross made a call on the May government to allocate the necessary funds for health and social care,...
Student nurses join GPs and junior doctors in demanding action to defend the NHS
THE determined drive by the Tory government to cut the pay and conditions of every NHS worker, as a prelude to the ultimate aim...
Defend the PCS and all trade unions with a general strike
THE PCS TRADE UNION last Saturday issued a statement to its members announcing that it was the victim of a government plot to destroy...
Lord Turner gives up on capitalism – forward to the socialist revolution!
CAPITALISM is not delivering on its promise to raise living standards, Lord Adair Turner, a former head of the business lobby the CBI, has...
Unemployment and inflation rising, as British capitalism crumbles!
THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 43,000 to 2.5 million during the three months to February, the highest figure since...
GM BOMBSHELL – Magna out & GM Europe heads for ‘restructuring in earnest’
GM, now owned by the US government, has dropped a bombshell by turning down its deal with Magna and the Russian state-owned Sberbank, at...
Nationalise Honda, Nissan, Vauxhalls and the steel industry to defeat trade war closures!
HONDA yesterday issued a closure statement in which Katsushi Inoue, Chief Officer for European Regional Operations, Honda Motor Co. Ltd., and President of Honda...
GMB condemns Sedgefield council house privatisation
THE GMB Annual Congress has condemned the decision of the Labour government to privatise the council house stock in Prime Minister Blair’s own constituency,...
Build Millions Of Council Homes To House The Homeless
HOMELESS people die thirty years before the national average, says the latest research from Sheffield University commissioned by Crisis, the national charity for single...
Police cover-up over military-style operation against City protests
IAN TOMLINSON, a 47-year-old news vendor in the City of London, collapsed at 7.25pm on April 1 on his way home from work during...
Afghan war not worth fighting, say British workers
SIR Jock Stirrup, the British army commander, has admitted that the great majority of the British people are opposed to the imperialist war in...
Egypt warns Israel while Palestinians urge global Intifada!
EGYPT has warned it’s ready to respond militarily after Israeli troops seized a sensitive corridor of land along its border with the Gaza Strip. According...
Truss declares war on Russia and China in her Mansion House speech
IN HER speech on Wednesday night at the Lord Mayor’s banquet, Tory Foreign Secretary Liz Truss declared that Britain is in a state of...
Turning Mothers Into Informers
WITH the western powers losing their war in Syria, after the British and American workers refused to allow their governments to send troops or...
‘It’s A Social Revolution’ Says Archbishop Of Dublin
IRISH Congress of Trade Unions General Secretary Patricia King has warmly welcomed the overwhelming ‘yes’ vote in the marriage equality (gay marriage) referendum saying...
Britain wants to occupy Afghanistan for ‘decades’
SIR SHERARD Cowper-Coles, the high-flying diplomat who is Ambassador in Afghanistan, told BBC Radio 4 yesterday that British forces would have to stay in...
Only solution to world crisis of capitalism – World Socialist Revolution
TODAY we are living in the period of the death agony of the world capitalist system. Everywhere the crisis is ripping apart nation states,...
Tories wage starvation war against children of immigrant families and the entire working...
THE children of immigrant families are being deliberately starved by the Tories as part of their ‘hostile environment’ policy towards immigrant workers. Headteachers and...
US-Led Coalition Conducted 34,573 Air Strikes In Iraq And Syria Between August 2014 And...
THE US-UK-led military coalition reported on September 26 that it had conducted a total of 34,573 airstrikes in both Iraq and Syria between August...
Workers must answer state preparations by forcing through Brexit and putting an end to...
AFTER the news that over 3,000 troops were being mobilised for action after Brexit Day on March 29th, we have now been told that...
Italian banks’ debt of over £300 billion will crash the world banks
FOR years the Italian banking system has been kept on a life-support system of government bailouts as it sinks under the weight of astronomical...
Arrogant Osborne rewards the rich and savages the workers and the poor
CHANCELLOR Osborne’s second budget this year will be his first for a Tory government with an overall majority and he intends to use it...
US Opening Up Second Front In Africa
MILLIONS of Africans will understandably be fearful at the latest strategic initiative that US President George Bush has just announced. The president has instructed his...
Workers must mobilise to disarm the capitalist state to end police killings of workers...
RASHAN Jermaine Charles died after being arrested by the police in the early hours of Saturday morning, July 22 on Kingsland Road, Hackney, east...
BA’s nail in the coffin of legal strike actions – by courtesy of Unite’s...
THE UNITE trade union leadership announced yesterday that after the cabin crew membership ‘voted last month overwhelmingly, and for the third time, to take...
Interest Rate War Rages Round Bank Of England
HOSTILITIES have broken out between rival gangs of economists on the eve of the meeting of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...
Labour Pledges More Austerity!
POLITICAL ‘role reversal’ is the phrase being bandied about by bourgeois political commentators as they scratch their heads trying to make comparisons between the...
NHS A&E departmentsto be shut in scores
THE policy of the Labour government, as far as the NHS is concerned, is to hand over more and more of the NHS budget...
Time to put an end to the institutionally corrupt and racist police force ...
THE LONG independent report into the murder of 37-year-old private detective Daniel Morgan in south London in 1987 was finally published on Tuesday and...
Cameron Launches Campaign For UK To Remain In The Eu
CAMERON yesterday launched his campaign for a ‘Yes’ vote in an EU referendum – which has been pencilled in for June 2016 – telling...
Dont Talk To Israeli Leaders Say Palestinian Youth
OVER the past two days, Palestine National Authority security forces have been using force to try to prevent peaceful demonstrations of Palestinian youth opposing...
Unite and the major trade unions must defend jobs with occupations and a general...
THE UK government is considering intervening in large UK companies through ‘Project Birch’ to ‘save’ the firms that are going bust by more government...
Cameron’s ‘Chain Gangs’ For The Unemployed
THE PCS civil servants trade union yesterday rightly condemned the coalition government’s plans to force the long-term unemployed, and unemployed youth, to do manual...
BoE Governor Bailey blames elderly, sick and disabled for inflationary spiral driving the world...
ON MONDAY night Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, blamed a wave of early retirements for forcing the Bank to make its...
US workers and youth begin mobilising for revolution!
THE Communications Workers of America Executive Board has endorsed the youth-led Occupy Wall Street Movement. Occupy Wall Street youth campaigners have joined...
Imperialism threatens Iran but is fearful of the working class at home!
Donald Trump’s belligerent ‘last-chance’ threat to Iran to resume diplomatic talks about abandoning its nuclear programme or face US military attacks in two weeks,...
Myanmar – bloody military crackdown exposes weakness of the junta!
THE WEEKEND saw the bloodiest crackdown by the Myanmar military dictatorship when police and soldiers opened fire on demonstrators killing at least 18 and...
Defend the NHS! Stop the wholly-owned subsidiaries in their tracks!
THERE are Unite and Unison trade union protests in York and Chesterfield today against moves by two NHS trusts to set up wholly-owned subsidiaries...
US and UK cannot win Afghan hearts and minds!
THE massacres of the Afghan civilian population by air and missile attacks continue, proving that imperialist armies are in the business of mass murder,...
Darling Outlines Cuts For All – Except The Bankers And Bosses
THE price of gold has touched $1,000 an ounce for the first time in six months, more than three times greater than what it...
Mass strikes required to fight sackings and wage cuts
THE jobs crisis in the UK is sharpening to boiling point in the motor car industry and in the power construction industry, affecting...
The slump deepens as Labour steps up attacks on the poorest
UK Gross Domestic Product fell in the three months from April to June by 0.7% confirming that the slump is deepening and that the...
A Plague Of Locusts
ONCE again the spotlight has been put on the private equity locusts. This time a Financial Times investigation has shown how TPG, CVS and...