TUC conference swings to the right – a new leadership must be built!
THIS year’s annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference marked a historic lurch to the right by the leadership of the trade unions. At a time...
Chinese Stalinists fear workers political revolution!
IN an extraordinary speech given at his annual press conference, the outgoing Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, warned that China risks a ‘historical tragedy’...
The NHS is one of the best!
THE NHS has been under heavy attack by both Tory and Labour governments for the last 17 years. They want to privatise it and...
France sends in more troops to join US forces in Syria
FRANCE, the former colonial power in Syria, has expanded its military presence in the country, supporting the United States which is organising Kurdish...
Italian Banks on verge of crash following Renzi’s defeat
THE defeat for the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, in Sunday’s referendum to change the Italian constitution and concentrate the political power in his...
US workers bracing themselves for ‘fiscal cliff’
THE US labour movement is now bracing itself for a last minute ‘deal’ on the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ with the Republican Party, in which the...
UK Must Stop Arming Saudi Arabia And Must Rush Food Aid To The Yemen
THE TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that all those behind the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi should be brought to justice,...
Amazon & Deliveroo pair up to super-exploit workers! Capitalism must go!
ONLINE retail giant Amazon is to invest hundreds of millions of dollars, it was announced yesterday, into the gig economy delivery service Deliveroo in...
Workers in UK and US must dismantle the imperialist war machine with a general...
AFTER Tuesday’s talks with the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella, President Putin spoke about the situation after the US’s 59 cruise missile...
Time For Action To Smash The Health Bill!
DOCTOR Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), has admitted that despite every attempt to co-operate with the coalition government,...
US-Turkey Fighting Over Northern Syria!
THE Syrian government has condemned the invasion of northern Syria by Turkish ground forces, cynically called ‘Operation Olive Branch’, an invasion that was preceded...
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...
The 1% NHS pay award is a slap in the face for all trade...
THE trade unions are unanimous in their condemnation of the 1% pay award for NHS workers. Even the TUC, which considers PM May to be...
Gove waging war on the teachers!
THE Education Secretary Michael Gove has urged school governors and heads that teachers who work to rule are in breach of contract and should...
30% rise in the numbers ‘sleeping rough’!
THE number of people forced to live and sleep on the streets has more than doubled since 2010, the year the Tory-led coalition came...
Socialist revolution will see the war criminals jailed!
A REPORT released yesterday by the Iraq Fatality Investigations, led by former High Court judge George Newman, has condemned the actions of four British...
Fire doors fail! Millions at risk! Kick Tories out before another fire breaks out!
FIRE doors in the Grenfell Tower failed, providing further evidence that this horrific tragedy could have been prevented. There is not a shadow of...
Carney’s ‘forward guidance’ comes a huge cropper!
BANK of England governor Carney has dumped his forward guidance policy under which interest rates would rise once the UK unemployment rate had been...
Labour’s crisis deepens the more it embraces Tory austerity!
THE bourgeois press is awash with the news that Labour leader, Ed Miliband, is facing calls from within his own shadow cabinet for him...
State Repression Of Youth Being Intensified
THE CRISIS of the capitalist system has led to huge attacks on working class and middle class youth who are daily being told in...
British imperialism’s major ally, Saudi Arabia is up to its neck in promoting terrorism...
A REPORT by the Henry Jackson Society, published yesterday, named Saudi Arabia as the main foreign promoter of Islamic extremism in Britain, stating that...
Unions Must Take Action To Defend The NHS!
HOSPITAL managers are to shut an NHS accident and emergency department down at night in order to combat a staffing crisis, caused by the...
Obama issues his orders over EU Referendum to his UK puppet state!
US President, Barak Obama, has issued his ultimatum to the British ruling class – stay in the EU or else! In a lengthy article in...
Workers of the UK and USA must send May, Trump and the EU packing...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump, on arrival to the UK on Thursday, did an interview with the Sun newspaper in which he said that he...
Hands off Palestine – no annexations! Arab workers must remove ‘recognition’ regimes!
FOLLOWING the refusal of the Arab League to condemn the UAE for its recognition of the state of Israel, Bahrain has now followed the...
Judges Take Just 5 Minutes To Reject Hunt’s Appeal
THE Court of Appeal’s ruling yesterday that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt did not have legal power to implement cuts at Lewisham Hospital in south-east...
Education Crisis Deepens!
THERE was a 17% fall in the number of first-year undergraduates at UK universities in the first year of higher tuition fees, the latest...
An all-out assault on the working class and the poor
TORY attempts to convince the working class, the middle class and the poor that the ‘recovery’ has begun and things are looking better, are...
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...
Welcome All Refugees – Forward To The Socialist United States Of Europe!
THE European Union was yesterday reeling, split and divided over the issue of taking quotas of refugees from the masses flooding into Europe. These masses...
US Trade Unions At The Crossroads
THE most powerful capitalist economy in the world is now living on a veritable knife edge, liable at any moment to crash spectacularly, bringing...
Massive debt crisis reaches breaking point!
OVER the past few months there has been an increasing concern being expressed in the pages of the financial press about the huge bubble...
Hands Off Syria – To ‘End The Cruelty And Carnage’
THE heads of five major UN agencies have issued a joint appeal to the international community, a code phrase for the imperialist...
OECD warns of a global property prices crash
THE Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has sent out a New Year warning that global property prices have increased so dramatically that...
End The Blockade Of Gaza – End The Occupation Of Palestine!
THE United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday condemned the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, stating the obvious that the siege inflicts pain...
KICK OUT THE TORIES ON JUNE 8th AND KICK OUT THEIR TUC COLLABORATORS...
THE leadership of the TUC yesterday stuck the knife into the backs of the working class when it called for workers to look more...
Kick The Profiteers Out Of The NHS!
THE report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire gives official and damming evidence of the plundering...
European banks are ‘screwed’ as ‘uncertainty’ rules
‘UNCERTAINTY’ is the word on the lips of every banker and bourgeois politician today as they grapple with a capitalist system that is unravelling...
Shut Down Young Offenders Institutions – The Only Future For Youth Is Through A...
THE DISGRACEFUL conditions imposed on ‘youth offenders’ have been revealed by another report from Peter Clarke the chief inspector of prisons in England and...
Capitalism Plunging Downwards – Socialist Revolutions Required
ON Monday, President Obama addressed the prospect of the USA going bust saying: ‘So to even entertain the idea of this happening – of...
Imperialism is the real terrorist, not Hezbollah
LATE ON Tuesday, Parliament passed without a vote a motion from the Tory home secretary, Sajid Javid, proscribing Hezbollah, which he claimed was a...
Throw Out The Tories – Forward To A Workers Government
TODAY the working class and the majority of the middle class must put the Cameron government out of office and return the Labour Party...
Defeat imperialist coup attempt in Ukraine
THE refusal at the last minute by the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovich, to sign up to a ‘partnership’ deal with the EU has led...
Israel Joins Al Qaeda In Attacking Syria
IN LINE with Obama’s policy of ‘leading from the rear’ (a tactic learnt after receiving some very, very harsh lessons in Iraq and Afghanistan),...
Italian banks are bust, as is the Italian government – the working class must...
A COLLISION between Italy and the European Union over a bailout of Italy’s collapsed banking system is getting closer by the day. It is...