Workers have the right to self defence against terrorism & capitalism
SIX hundred new armed officers are being trained for anti-terrorist warfare in the city of London, the Metropolitan Police has announced. This will bring the...
Fight VAT increases with mass actions to bring down coalition
THE increase of VAT from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent today will mean destitution for millions of unemployed and low paid workers...
UK and US imperialism’s drive to war must be answered through the victory of...
IN his ‘Letter to American Workers’, published in Pravda on August 22 1918, after the victorious Russian revolution, Lenin wrote, ‘We are now, as...
Send ex-Goldman Sachs Carney packing
YESTERDAY the new head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, officially took up the reins from the outgoing Sir Mervyn King. Carney, formerly head...
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...
Israel-US considering attack on Syria and Iran
LATE last week, a leading Israeli minister said that the only people left in southern Lebanon were connected to Hezbollah, giving the Israeli military...
Workers want the Tories out but don’t want Miliband and Balls back
THIS IS the message that is coming out of the Bradford West by-election where Respect candidate George Galloway was ‘unexpectedly’, out of the blue,...
NHS Executives back away from imposition – Unions must take strike action
HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s contract imposition has already begun to hit the rocks with 10 of the 20 NHS executives who signed the Dalton letter...
Coalition Bringing In The Men To Butcher The NHS!
THE House of Commons Health Committee on October 18th discussed who was to fill the post of being chair of the NHS Commissioning...
Trade unions must take action to defend state pension!
ON WEDNESDAY the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, David Gauke, cynically used the fact that parliament was closing down for the holidays to announce...
President Trump Panics – And Pledges To Send In The Nuclear Submarines!
TRUMP’S declaration that he is sending two nuclear submarines into ‘appropriate regions’ to threaten Russia, has made public that he is preparing for the...
Time For A Ceasefire In Palestine And For Socialist Revolutions In The UK, US...
CONDEMNATIONS have poured in from countries world-wide after the United States once again vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that demanded an immediate...
EU and the US ruling classes are the enemy of the world’s poor and...
A CHARITY rescue vessel, the Alex, on Saturday brought 41 shipwrecked migrants into port in Lampedusa. This is the second boat to defy Italy’s...
Free Mohammed al-Qiq
The Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq is close to death according to independent doctors who have visited him in the hospital where he is being...
The way to peace in the Ukraine is to restore the Soviet Union!
THE MAYOR of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, has split the Ukrainian leadership over the issue of Russian sovereignty over the Crimea. Rejecting President Zelensky’s refusal to...
Occupy Vauxhall/Opel plants – nationalise GM Europe to defend jobs!
General Motors plans to close the Opel plant in Antwerp, Belgium this winter, with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs. Workers in Antwerp...
No let-up in NHS crisis – trade unions must act
WITH the dust barely settled on both the Labour and Tory Party conferences, the brutal reality of the economic crisis gripping British capitalism is...
It’s a sick society, not a ‘sick-note culture’ – as Cameron insults the unemployed
A ‘UNIVERSAL Credit’ is to be introduced in 2013, to replace all existing benefits. Cameron’s Welfare Bill includes sanctions for those turning down jobs...
Israel withdraws its 98th Commando division from Gaza as Cairo talks are due...
SIX months into Israel’s criminal war on Gaza, Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters have been engaged in intense combat around the city of Khan...
Economic Crisis Set To Wreak Havoc To Jobs And Homes
THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday warned that thousands of manufacturing jobs are about to be slashed by employers seeking to reduce their costs,...
World capitalist crisis driving forward Arab socialist revolutions!
THE ARAB leaders meeting on Wednesday at an economic summit in Egypt’s resort of Sharm el-Sheikh expressed ‘fears’ that poverty, unemployment and recession, coupled...
Imperialists prepare to launch war against Russia – workers must respond with revolution!
THE past week has witnessed the massive escalation by US imperialism and its faithful allies in the UK and Europe towards an all-out war...
Socialist revolution is the only answer to the ‘economic tsunami’ swamping capitalism!
THIS week, forecasts for the increase in household energy bills were dramatically increased to over £4,200 for an average UK household in January next...
NHS privatisation in London could ‘cost lives’
THE government’s Healthcare Commission published a report yesterday which called for National Health Service (NHS) hospital trusts to ‘do more to ensure they consistently...
Young Workers Are Sleeping In The Streets, While The Bosses And Bankers Get Richer...
WORKERS earning wages, employed in respected professions are sleeping in the streets and working during the day, or night is something shockingly new to...
The Palestinian people have been robbed of $50bn by Israel since 2020 – TUC...
THE PALESTINIAN people paid a heavy cumulative cost, estimated at $50 billion, between 2000 and 2020 due to the additional restrictions imposed by Israel...
TUC makes overtures to Johnson’s Tories – We must replace TUC traitors with a...
THE TUC yesterday published a statement that amounts to nothing less than an abject surrender to the Tory government and a grovelling offer to...
TUC leaders must call a general strike or be forced to resign!
THE annual conference of the TUC, due to start a week tomorrow, is the first conference of the leadership of the trade union movement...
Homeless deaths are rapidly increasing! Capitalism is rotten! Only socialism can take society...
THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has produced a new report which says that the true number of people sleeping on the streets ‘far exceeds’...
Youth and workers in global strike against climate change – Time to end the...
TODAY, a week of action across the world starts with a Global Climate Strike in at least 137 countries. This follows mass action in every...
HSBC new ‘dirty money’ laundering allegations
THE HSBC bank, the biggest bank in Europe, says it is looking into allegations that it has set up a large number of offshore...
We Salute The Heroes Of Paris Who Stood Up To 9,180 Riot Police Who...
IN PARIS, on Saturday, against the advice of the more moderate members of the ‘Yellow Vests’ movement, 10,000 French workers and youth demonstrated their...
CWU must organise national industrial action ballot!
BEING able to force the Brown-Mandelson government to ‘shelve’ the bill for the part-privatisation of the Royal Mail proves that the working class is...
Tories and Labour get ready for more state repressions
HOME Secretary Theresa May said yesterday that thousands of people are potentially at risk of being radicalised in the UK. ...
American dream turns to nightmare!
HUNDREDS of US cities are going bust, either destroyed by the banking and property collapse or by the crisis of the major US industries. The...
Time for Labour and the trade unions to put the Tories out!
THE Tory party leadership is now breaking apart at the seams with information about the leadership battle being leaked by the different contenders and...
Sack TUC traitors who collaborate with Tories and bosses – Build a new leadership...
CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak opened his Budget speech on Wednesday with an appeal to ‘put aside party politics, and act in the national interest’ in...
There can be no return to Bretton Woods – world socialist revolution is the...
AN ARTICLE in the Business section of the Daily Telegraph yesterday laid bare the historic depth of the crisis of world capitalism today. The article,...
Forward to Palestine
HAMAS on Sunday, along with the other Palestinian factions in Gaza, agreed to another 24-hour truce. Hamas’ statement read: ‘In response to the UN’s...
Stop Saudi-Israeli military intervention into Lebanon! Victory to Hezbollah!
AFTER the defeat of the imperialist powers and their terrorist proxies in Syria, the US, the other imperialist powers, and their Saudi-led allies are...
Answer Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill with a general strike to kick the...
THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets at the weekend in mass ‘kill the bill’ demonstrations across the country against the...
US-UAE-Israel Deal Is To Set Up Anti-Iran War Front!
THE announcement on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel have reached a peace deal did not emerge suddenly in the past...
Starmer prepares for reactionary coalition to impose capitalist crisis on workers – Socialist revolution...
THE MELTDOWN in the Tory vote in last Thursday’s local elections has sent a massive wave of despair throughout Tory MPs and the Tory-supporting...
UK An Out-Of-Control Police State!
THE revelation by Sky News of the ‘Stingray’ programme, where fake mobile phone towers are set up to capture people’s mobile calls without their...
Gate Gourmet workers defend the right to picket – now TGWU must make strike...
YESTERDAY, the determination and militancy of the 670 Gate Gourmet locked-out workers forced the High Court judiciary to acknowledge that they did indeed have...