‘Medieval’ levels of health inequality have devastating effects on NHS
On Sunday, the Guardian newspaper published part of the results from its months-long investigation into the effects of poverty on the NHS. Included in the...
Arab League army to fight Iran not Israel or its US backers!
THE Arab summit has been deciding that it will form its own armed force based on Egypt and Saudi Arabia to fight subversion, extremism...
Corbyn must drive out Labour’s Remain right wing – Time to build the WRP
WEDNESDAY’S meeting of the Labour Party’s shadow cabinet saw the deep split in the Labour leadership widen into a chasm as former loyal Corbyn...
Oust Sunak and bring back the call-up says the Tory Telegraph beating the...
THE TORY Daily Telegraph yesterday sounded the alarm bells, in the face of the ever deepening crisis of British capitalism. It was a double-barrelled message,...
North Korea Has The Right To Self Defence
YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, condemned North Korea’s testing of an intercontinental missile that when developed will have the capacity to deliver...
Disband the Met and the entire police force that serves only the interests of...
WHILE the TUC and trade union leaders frantically cancelled strikes and conferences as a ‘mark of respect’ over the death of 96-year-old Elizabeth II,...
Occupy to fight mass sackings! Nationalise the motor car industry!
GENERAL Motors yesterday presented the United States Department of Treasury with its restructuring plan to re-establish the bankrupt company through massive sackings of over...
Right wing Labour tosses its bomb into the Labour Party conference!
RIGHT WING Labour threw its bomb into the Labour Party conference yesterday when it penned an open letter suggesting that the UK should remain...
TGWU leaders and TUC committed to 675 Gate Gourmet redundancies
YESTERDAY morning Gate Gourmet strikers were dismissing and rubbishing the letters that they have been receiving from the company. These offered them a minimum pittance...
Netanyahu fills new Israeli government with racists and fascists for a pogrom against...
On Wednesday, the recently elected president of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, finally announced that he has assembled a ruling coalition cabinet between his Likud party...
Tories target workers, disabled and children to pay the bankers’ debts!
OSBORNE said of his emergency Budget yesterday; ‘Yes it is tough; but it is also fair.’ Further on in his speech he allowed just...
Blair Wants Government Control Of Judges
THE Blair government announced yesterday through its Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, that it was going to bring in legislation that will tell judges how...
Forward to a public sector general strike to smash Brown’s wage cutting policies
GMB members working in the NHS yesterday voted by over 96% to reject the 2008 pay offer in a consultative ballot on the government’s...
EU 750 billion euros ‘Recovery Fund’ nothing more than a Trojan Horse for...
LAST Tuesday the emergency summit of leaders of the EU 27 member states finally agreed to a 750 billion euros pandemic recovery fund after...
King sees nothing but the ‘black cloud of uncertainty’
THE Governor of the Bank of England yesterday poured gallons of ice cold water over the prospects of British and world capitalism. King cut the...
Capitalist State Tooling Up F0R Civil War
A SCOTLAND YARD review into the 2010 summer riots ‘Four Days in August’ shows very clearly that the capitalist state in the UK...
Labour trying to hide jobless figures
WITH unemployment set to go up by at least one million this year, to three million, the government is in a panic. Its panic is...
Obama about-turn on war crimes!
PRESIDENT Obama said one thing before his election, and now he is saying something else altogether. During his campaign he stood up against the torture...
US civil war on unions – forward with world revolution
The civil war by US capitalism against its own working class has erupted with a vengeance in the state of Wisconsin. In this state, the...
Occupy And Nationalise Ellesmere Port And Luton Stellantis Car Plants
ONE of the world’s biggest carmakers, Stellantis, has called on the Tory government to renegotiate part of the Brexit deal or risk losing parts...
Miliband Praises Attlee But Plans To Bury The Welfare State
MlLIBAND, Balls and co are like circus performers on the highest of high wires, being buffeted by a huge economic gale that is pauperising...
The ‘Peace Process’ is a Fraud!
THE long-serving Palestinian prisoners whom Israel has pledged to release, and whose pledge prepared the way for the Palestinian leader Abbas to reopen the...
Expulsion of diplomats attempt to demonise Russia – workers know the enemy is at...
The Czech Republic on Saturday expelled 18 Russian diplomats after claiming that two alleged Russian spies were behind a deadly explosion at a Czech...
NATO backs Turkish attack on Syria and the Kurds
NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels yesterday to support Turkey’s military campaign, nominally against the IS, but in fact against the Kurds and...
Ukrainian Workers Will Foil All Of The Plots To Restore Capitalism To The Ukraine!
US President Donald Trump has said that Kiev can ‘win all of Ukraine back in its original form,’ marking a major shift in his...
Break with the EU Now! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
THE publication of the EU’s draft separation treaty with the UK has intensified the conflict between the UK and the EU ruling classes and...
Carney’s Last Stand!
BANK of England Governor and chairman of the Financial Stability Board Mark Carney understands both that another major banking crash is on the way...
Mass Electoral Abstentions Show That French Capitalism Is Rotten! It Must Be Overthrown...
FRENCH bourgeois democracy, and with it French capitalism, is ‘sick’, and both are in a huge existential crisis. On Sunday, a record two-thirds of...
Demand TUC call a general strike to defeat anti-union laws
LAST November, the Tories were confidently predicting that when their anti-strike ‘Minimum Service Levels’ law was finally passed before Christmas, around 40% of rail...
The laws of the capitalist crisis dominate
AT the centre of the current media drive to find out, identify, and persecute the individuals, whether bankers and/or politicians who are held to...
UK capitalism is in its death agony – It is time to organise the...
THE Bank of England yesterday raised interest rates by the most in 33 years from 2.25% to 3%, and accompanied its action with a...
1 million forced onto Universal Credit while another 2 million get nothing – Tories...
THE NUMBER of people forced to claim Universal Credit soared by nearly a million in the past two weeks. According to the Department for Work...
‘Strongman’ Sunak tells unions there will be no talks and that they must accept...
THE British capitalist class and their government are now up to their necks in a massive crisis, that no attempts at fake bravado, or...
Israeli unions are striking for a Gaza ceasefire! The UK TUC must call a...
A NATIONWIDE strike swept across Israel yesterday, intensifying the mass pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree an immediate cease-fire and a prisoner...
The Republicans Are In A Desperate Crisis While The Democrats Have No Way Forward...
US PRESIDENT TRUMP going down with the coronavirus has sharpened the crisis of the imperialist powers, including the UK, who were up till now...
Trade union bureaucrats put two fingers up to May Day
TRUE to form, the voice of the trade union bureaucracy, the Stalinist Morning Star counted tens of thousands of marchers on the TUC’s May...
There Must Be A Real Struggle Against Ttip And Ceta Now!
LAST week at the annual conference of the TUC the largest union in the country, Unite, issued a grovelling plea to the Tory led...
Trade Unions Must Name The Date For The General Strike To Free Palestine And...
OVER 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of London on Saturday, protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. The protest, organised by the...
Sack CWU collaborators!
THE drive by the leadership of the postal workers union (CWU) to transform it from an independent union fighting for the interests of its...
Tories, with the support of the Labour Party, begin forcing asylum seekers on to...
THE TORIES kicked off their ‘stop the boats week’ yesterday with the announcement that the first 50 asylum seekers will be forced onto the...
Osborne furious over ‘back to the 1930s’ taunt
THE Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, was described in the bourgeois press as being ‘rattled’ by the news coverage of his Autumn Statement. In fact, ‘rattled’...
Tory MPs demand May resigns while Labour refuses to call for her removal
THERESA May returned from her Easter break to face Tory MPs united in demanding her resignation. Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, met...
UCU Warns Against Student Poll Tax
1381 was the historic year when the peasantry rose up against the imposition of the Poll Tax in a revolt that speeded up the...
Amnesty Calls Assad War Criminal For Bombing Isis!
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has accused the Syrian government of war crimes after it bombed the city of Raqqa, in northern Syria, which ISIS is seeking...
Defend the NHS with trade union led occupations and a general strike!
THE creation of new nursing assistant posts should be scrapped and money invested in ‘real nurses’, experts said yesterday ahead of the rollout of...