Syrian opposition demands a no-fly zone!
THE announcement that the western and Saudi-Qatari backed ‘opposition’ in Syria is no longer committed to the UN Security Council-backed Annan ceasefire comes as...
Irish enforced bail-out will bring EU to breaking point!
IRISH Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, and the Irish government, are being forced onto their knees by the EU and the European Central Bank...
Nagasaki anti-militarism!
LAST week saw the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest war crimes in human history, the dropping of the two Atomic bombs onto...
CWU must take action to stop post office closures
2,500 POST OFFICES are to be closed by 2009 and all that the CWU post office workers union is doing about this massacre is...
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...
No Cash For Operations – While £900 Million Pfi Scheme Collapses
EX-LABOUR MP Alice Mahon is considering taking the NHS to the High Court after the service refused to allow her access to a drug...
Lobby TUC Sept 9 to demand break from EU now and for a general...
THE REMAINER MPs have been dealt a minor blow by the Scottish courts. A Scottish judge has refused to order an immediate halt to...
Unemployment rises to 5.1% as the Tories and bosses move to fire millions...
THE UK’s unemployment figure rose to 5.1% in the three months to December, a five-year high, official figures from the Office for National Statistics...
Labour’s plan to demolish the public sector
LABOUR’S Minister for Communities and Local Government, David Milliband, yesterday addressed the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) Annual Conference called ‘Empowerment not abandonment’. He...
10,000 Jobs Threatened As Starmer Spends Billions On The UK Military!
CUTS to infrastructure projects like roads and school repairs threaten 10,000 UK jobs following outgoing PM Keir Starmer’s decision to cut billions of pounds...
Budget Day strikes – demand TUC calls a general strike to kick out the...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will be delivering his Budget speech today in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up...
Labour Is The Bankers Party!
THE New Labour Brown government has come out as the true representative of the biggest banks, as befits a government that has doubled the...
Bosses share bonanza
THE ages old reformist illusion that the worst excesses of capitalism can be curbed through a mixture of indignation and moral outrage received yet...
For the capitalist state the enemy is at home
THE launch in parliament of the new book, ‘Blacklisted: the Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists’, saw Labour MP John McDonnell read...
Blair stands by 90 days internment as Clarke negotiates its defeat
PRIME Minister Blair stands convinced that 90-days internment without charge is not just desirable but is absolutely indispensable for satisfying the Metropolitan Police’s minimum...
Shares crashing as oil nears $100 a barrel
THE US dollar is reeling against the euro. The US sub-mortgage crisis is deepening, with housing starts down by 10 per cent in September, while...
Israeli Forces Killed Their Own Settlers In A Panic Response To Hamas’ October Push!
SCORES of Palestinian civilians were brutally murdered and many others injured yesterday as the Israeli genocide campaign in Gaza entered its 44th day in...
Capitalism sinking under $199 trillion of debt
A MAJOR report by the McKinsey Global Institute exposes the historic depth of the crisis gripping the world capitalist system, a debt crisis of...
Time to dump capitalism in the ‘dustbin of history’ along with Labour leader Starmer!
LEN McCLUSKEY, general secretary of the Unite union, said that Labour Party leader Keir Starmer faces being ‘dumped into the dustbin of history’ in...
Security Council Votes To Ban The Bomb – But Not Yet!
THE UN Security Council yesterday voted unanimously to oppose the spread of nuclear weapons, and that the nuclear powers on the Security Council must...
Bloomberg Flops! Sanders Must Stand For President – US Unions Must Form Labour Party!
BILLIONAIRE Michael Bloomberg, whose wealth amounts to $64bn, has seen his bid to purchase first of all the Democratic nomination to be its presidential...
Tories ramp up war on unions
LESS than a week before the start of the TUC’s annual conference, the Tory government has unveiled a whole raft of new proposals to...
Labour will let bankers’ bonuses soar and make the working class pay for capitalist...
LABOUR’S shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves yesterday pledged any future Labour government to be the bankers’ best friend, ready and willing to facilitate awarding massive...
Iran warns the imperialist powers!
IRAN on Tuesday fired a shot across the bows of the imperialist powers when it threatened to halt the vital oil transport route from...
Tories to create a slave wage army of youth!
DAVID Cameron yesterday pledged that a future Tory government would ‘effectively abolish’ youth unemployment by simply forcing every young person to do ‘community work’...
Free The Prisoners Says Hamas And Stop Zionist Gaza Aggression!
‘LET Christmas celebrations be a global occasion to intensify all forms of global solidarity, to stop the Zionist aggression on Gaza,’ the Hamas Movement...
Brown’s gold sales lost the Bank of England £3.8bn
A DECADE ago, on May 7, 1999, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced plans to sell off a large part of Britain’s gold reserves. This was...
Victory To Hamas As Lieberman Quits!
THE United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met behind closed doors over the situation in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, but failed to reach an...
The capitalist state cannot be reformed – it must be smashed and replaced with...
IN THE TORY leadership campaign, of the six candidates left after the first round of voting five went to Oxford University and every one...
Reject BA Sell-Out!
THERE can be only one response by BA cabin crew to the latest attempt by the national leadership of Unite to impose a ‘settlement’...
Osborne to intensify Tory slave labour drive
LONG-TERM unemployed workers and youth will have to undertake work for no pay in return for their benefits, or else starve, with the government...
Boots Joins The NHS Privatisation Drive
CHEMIST giant Boots wants to breach the NHS system by bringing GPs and consultants into its stores as part of an alleged drive to...
Coupist regime begins ‘purification campaign’
CURRENTLY the Ukrainian parliament is under siege by fascist bands led by the Svoboda and Right Sector movements demanding that MPs pass a law recognising...
TIME TO FIGHT FOR THE NHS – the Junior Doctors have shown the way!
THE official figures for NHS trusts in England for the first three months of the financial year (April to June) have just been released...
Tory sleaze again – boot them out with a general strike!
NADHIM Zahawi, the Tory Party Chairman and ex Chancellor of the Exchequer, has for months been avoiding questions about his tax affairs, but on...
Hague refuses to halt assault on Sirte
ON Tuesday Foreign Minister Hague told Sky TV that he would not tell the counter-revolutionaries to cancel their planned assault on the city of...
Obama hosts Afghanistan and Pakistan war summit
ON THE eve of a meeting between US President Barack Obama, the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari in...
In US elections Sanders must defy Democrat campaign to stop him and stand for...
THE RACE to become the Democratic Party candidate to face Trump in November’s presidential election has come down to a fight between the democratic...
Saudi Arabia issues its demands to Qatar – submit or be crushed
YESTERDAY, Saudi Arabia issued a set of 13 wide-ranging demands to Qatar which it insists have to be met before the sanctions imposed on...
Trump Denounces The ‘Marxists’ As The Crisis Of US Capitalism Reaches Explosion Point!
IN HIS FOURTH of July speech on Saturday US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claimed were...
TUC must heed the call from Palestinian trade unions and call a general strike...
THE UN agency for Palestinian refugees yesterday issued the latest dire warning that time is running out for any chance of averting a catastrophic...
Crisis Of British Capitalism Is Reaching Explosive Proportions – Disaster Ahead Say Insolvency Specialists!
THE NUMBER of British businesses in immense financial distress and on the brink of collapse has soared by 25% to 650,000 during the past...
Austerity Forever Pledges Cameron
IN an interview given to the Daily Telegraph, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, declared that ‘austerity’ will be forever as far as he...
Tories rushing into NHS privatisation, while Labour attacks them for delaying the privatisation project!
THE TORIES are planning to knife the NHS through a massive expansion of the private health sector. The Labour turncoats are meanwhile critical of them...
Clashes In Israel While President Biden Fears That Netanyahu Will Address Congress!
CLASHES have broken out between the Israeli police and anti-regime protesters in Tel Aviv and across the occupied territories, with demonstrators demanding new elections...