Brown Answers Nato Call
A BATTALION of 600 British troops will be sent to Kosovo, Defence Secretary Des Browne announced yesterday, after NATO requested extra soldiers...
UK workers are weighed down by debt while landlords are fattened on £21bn of...
LENIN, in his work ‘Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism’, wrote about one of the most important connections between the imperialist drive for colonies...
Free Assange – Jail the imperialists, the real war criminals
YESTERDAY, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has been unlawfully detained by...
The Spark That Started A Revolution!
OVER a million Greeks stopped work yesterday in a general strike while tens of thousands of Greek workers, unemployed and youth rallied in front...
Israel Remains Putin’s ‘Partner!’
THE RESPONSE of Russia’s political leadership, led by Vladimir Putin, to the Israeli raid on Syria that led to the death of 15 Russian...
National Audit Office Says Families Will Live In Fire Deathtraps Until Mid-2022!
IT HAS been three years since the horrific Grenfell fire which killed 72 men, women and children. Three years and there are still seven...
Tories getting ready to blitz NHS and Welfare State
YESTERDAY PM Cameron pledged that a Tory government will introduce a law, within 100 days of taking office, guaranteeing no rise in income tax...
Record inflation and record borrowing as British capitalism’s crisis worsens
THE UK CPI inflation rate rose to to 4.4% in February from the January figure of 4%, while the RPI inflation rate which includes...
US economy slumps as Obama proposes huge budget debts
THE American economy contracted by 6.2 per cent in the last three months of last year, as consumer spending dropped by 4.3 per cent...
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...
Debt crisis threatening students, home-buyers & public services
COMMENTING on a report from the Student Loan Company (SLC) on Monday, National Union of Students (NUS) President Gemma Tumelty said: ‘Fee loans, along...
‘Dozens Of Conspiracies’ But ‘Terror Threat Level’ Downgraded
HOME Secretary Reid, who has been making people’s blood run cold with his tales of dozens of conspiracies and thousands of terrorists, has reduced...
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...
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...
Osborne admits UK capitalism ‘critical’ in 2016-17
IN a speech yesterday and in interviews with the BBC, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, admitted that, contrary to everything he has said in...
De Menezes murder not a crime says state
THE current farce that is being played out, of trying a police death squad under the health and safety laws, is not only a...
The Massive Human Price Of Boeing’s Profits – The Only Solution Is Expropriation...
THE US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has the responsibility for aircraft safety, did nothing to ground Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft despite their own...
The workers of the world must now come to the aid of the Palestinian...
‘OUR right to self-determination is inalienable. It is not tied to a timeframe’, Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Thursday said...
Obama Prepared To Bomb Syria!
US President Barack Obama outlined his long-awaited ‘strategy’ on Wednesday night to ‘degrade and ultimately destroy’ the Islamist group ISIL that has established an...
Austria mobilising troops and armour at the Brenner Pass against refugees from Italy!
AUSTRIA is ready to deploy troops and armour at the Brenner Pass – the border crossing with Italy – if the influx of refugees...
TUC MUST demand recognition of the State of Palestine and call for an international...
SPEAKING in Madrid yesterday, the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the recognition of a Palestinian state is ‘in Europe’s geopolitical interests’. The Spanish...
Hands Off Syria – Forward to World Revolution
THE imperialist military alliance, NATO, meets today at the request of Turkey which will be invoking Article 4 of its treaty which covers threats...
Crisis splitting Tories, police chiefs, and military
THE Tory leadership publicly lambasted what it termed the police chiefs’ ‘wrong tactics’ for dealing with the youth uprising, during the special sitting of...
No to school reopening and a forced return to work – for a general...
WHILE the Tories were hailing the relaxation of the lockdown rules that came into effect yesterday in England as a giant step forward, senior...
GMB, Unison and Unite refuse to call action to bring down coalition
‘WORKING people in the UK can help stop the Conservative-led coalition from taking a wrecking ball to the fabric of daily life.’ This is the...
Kelly plans new attacks on council tenants
RUTH Kelly, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has backed proposals to end the long-term secure tenancies of working-class families living in...
Even Tory press admit British capitalism facing ruin – socialist revolution only answer for...
IF TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak harboured any hope that Wednesday’s spending review would reassure anyone that British capitalism could be rescued from complete ruin...
Close Down The US Base On Diego Garcia!
FOREIGN Secretary Miliband yesterday admitted in the House of Commons that previous government denials that the island of Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands...
Afghan crisis – more combat troops to be sent
THE British government’s Defence Secretary, Des Browne, said yesterday that he would be making a statement to the House of Commons as soon as...
Eurozone Crisis Is Hitting Every Country
IN a week when Greece and Spain witnessed massive strikes and demonstrations against austerity measures – designed to drive the working class and youth...
Smash all fees – build a new leadership in the NUS!
TODAY will see the second wave of student anger against the Tory government’s decision to treble tuition fees from around £3,000 to £9,000 a...
US Secretary of State Kerry and Chief of Staff Dunford speak with Netanyahu
THE US has reacted with fury to Russia’s ‘interference’ in the Middle East, that is, its invitation to President Assad to visit Moscow, and...
First the UK, now Italy – Forward to the European Socialist Revolution!
THE RAPIDLY unfolding crash of the EU drove the ruling class to take unprecedented action on Sunday to overturn the Italian election result...
Scrap the Public Private Partnership on the tube
METRONET, the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) within London Underground, has collapsed financially after years of failure to provide services required by the capital’s transport system. It...
Build millions of council houses to solve housing crisis
PUBLIC sector workers such as firefighters, teachers, and nurses, cannot afford to buy homes in seven out of 10 UK towns, because of the...
TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers
THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...
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...
Oxfam’s Pleas To The Bankers Will Be Ignored – World Revolution Is The...
‘THE IMF must abandon demands for austerity as the cost-of-living crisis drives up hunger and poverty worldwide’ is the demand being made by Oxfam. Oxfam’s...
The strike wave sweeping Britain demands a new leadership in trade unions, come to...
THE STRIKE wave sweeping across Britain has a revolutionary content. Since the capitalist crisis first burst into the open with the banking collapse of 2008...
The working class must force its leaders to call a general strike to bring...
PM Sunak’s new anti-trade union legislation will make the UK one of the most difficult countries in the world to go on strike, a...
National emergency declared in NHS as waiting lists soar!
Senior NHS doctors declared a state of national emergency in the NHS yesterday as waiting lists soared, with thousands of patients being treated in...
All out this Saturday to kick the Tories out! Forward to a workers...
EVERY WORKER AND YOUTH must take to the streets for this Saturday’s million strong: ‘Kick the Tories out march. Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell...
Bankrupt capitalism is responsible for 100,000 deaths in UK – Only a socialist revolution...
ON TUESDAY, the UK officially recorded 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 with half of these deaths being recorded since November 2020. Even this terrible number of...
Time For The US Working Class To Dump The Republicans And Democrats And Fight...
FORMER US President Donald Trump has been charged with illegal plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat. He is accused of four counts including...
Stop The Council Cuts – Bring Down The Coalition!
COUNCILS all over the UK are poised to make the most savage cuts ever that will wreck and destroy local communities by destroying all...