Down with the Geneva 2 conference – victory to Assad’s Syria
RUSSIA’S Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that UN chief Ban Ki-moon’s decision to cancel Iran’s invitation to the ‘peace talks’ on Syria,...
No War! Greek And Turkish Workers Must Unite – Their Enemy Is At Home!...
WHILE President Trump is celebrating the Israel-UAE alliance against Iran and Palestine, and planning to extend it throughout the region, his NATO allies are...
US crisis pauses before another leap forward!
THE deal pushed through Washington late Wednesday night to raise the US debt ceiling – at present standing at a massive $16.7 trillion –...
Cutting deposit rates below zero is a gigantic gamble!
AN ‘historic gamble’, a giant ‘leap into the unknown’ – these were just two of the headlines that greeted the news that last Thursday...
US insists on direct talks as Israel refuses to halt settlement building
PRESIDENT Obama has summoned the Palestinian Authority leader, Abbas, and Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu to Washington for talks beginning on September 2, to resolve...
Passchendaele – where imperialism murdered hundreds of thousands of British & German workers
THE BATTLE of Passchendaele saw 275,000 British soldiers, workers in uniform, killed or wounded alongside 220,000 German workers in uniform. This was a great imperialist...
Trump seeks to blame China as he orders US workers back to work
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is seeking a scapegoat for the inevitable deaths of millions of people following a forced return to work while the...
All councils, student unions and trade unions must boycott Israel – Edelstein visit must...
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation has condemned the new Tory ‘guidance’ banning councils, NHS trusts and all publicly funded organisations from boycotting goods and services...
Iran nuclear talks at crucial stage as Saudis bomb Yemen
AT THE same time as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf state planes, with US support, are bombing the Yemen and its Houthi Shia rebels,...
TUC leaders can’t get enough of the EU’s corrupt corporatism and its anti-working class...
TUC GENERAL secretary Frances O’Grady this week re-hashed all the arguments used by the TUC before the 2016 referendum that only by remaining captive...
TUC must stand up for the disabled against the Tory government!
THE UN has slammed the UK, which it says has violated the Convention on Disabled People’s Rights. A damning UN report released yesterday states that...
One third of all people in UK have lived in poverty in the past...
ONE in three people in the country have ‘experienced poverty’ in the past four years. According to figures produced by the Office for National Statistics,...
Duncan Smith blames the poor and food banks for poverty
THE Tory Works and Pension Minister, Iain Duncan Smith, is furious with the accusation that the government’s policies of cutting all benefits to the...
EU split and breaking up – Forward to the United Socialist States of Europe
LAST THURSDAY, the 27 heads of the European Union held a video conference call to decide the EU’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic. The...
Police paramilitary rule
TODAY the Police Federation’ annual conference will be addressed by the reappointed Tory Home Secretary, Theresa May, an event that the Federation’s leaders are...
Labour refuses to demand the resignation of Health Secretary Hunt!
ON MONDAY, in the House of Commons, Health Secretary Hunt was asked an urgent question as to why he had covered up for, and...
French elections open up struggle for socialist revolution
THE RESULT of the French Presidential election on Sunday saw the right-wing centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron, winning with 65.5% of the vote beating the...
Tories’ catastrophic split – time to kick them out
THE Tory party was delivered shattering blows on the eve of its conference when Tory MP Mark Reckless stepped out onto the platform of...
Re-call TUC conference! Sack the traitors! – We need a leadership that will...
THE NHS crisis is ‘like being in a war,’ Patrick Carter, who advises Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, told the Royal College of Anaesthetists’...
Support The Ys March For Jobs!
YOUNG people today are under full scale attack from the Tory-led coalition. They are now fighting back. The Young Socialists are marching from...
Warning – Police Are Armed And Dangerous!
THAT the times are really changing was rammed home once again yesterday. People are angrily reacting to the news that 4,000 highly trained police officers...
Now Is The Time To Go Forward To The State Of Palestine!
THE war for the recovery of the land of Palestine is building up rapidly as the heroic Palestinian nation, men women and children battle...
Tory arrogance only possible because of TUC servility
THE past week has been dominated by the sheer arrogance of the Tory-led coalition as it prepares to implement its plans for the wholesale...
Generals threaten coup against Macron as France and Europe face bankruptcy
LAST WEEK, an explosive letter from 25 senior retired French generals was published in the right-wing Valeurs Actuelles magazine threatening President Macron with an...
Tory budget–tax relief for bosses, tax increases for low paid!
THE headlines in the bourgeois press yesterday howled about Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, breaking a cast-iron Tory election manifesto pledge that there would be...
Time For Action To Defend The NHS!
YESTERDAY both the RCN nurses and the Royal College of Physicians made it perfectly clear that the time has arrived when action to defend...
Right-wing Labour wants to force workers to remain in EU!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn finally bit the bullet yesterday afternoon when he announced he would issue a three-line whip to Labour MPs instructing them...
Hunt urges NHS to ‘Sign up for Safety’ while he cuts the service to...
HEALTH Secretary Hunt is urging the NHS in England to reduce the number of serious mistakes being made and save 6,000 lives over the...
Johnson Getting Ready To Follow Trump, End The Lockdown And Bring In Millions Of...
THE MASSIVE ‘Black Lives Matter’ marches this weekend saw millions of workers internationally and tens of thousands of youth and workers in the UK...
Tories move to scrap defence cuts and prepare for war!
ON Monday, the Chief of the UK General Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, said in his speech at the Royal United Services Institute, 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...
MPs SHOW THE WAY ON THE ISSUE OF PAY!
MEMBERS of Parliament will receive an 11% pay rise following the publication of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority recommendations later on this week The rise...
EU is going up in flames! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
THE European Union is like a huge powder magazine that started to smoulder even before the Brexit vote in the UK on June 23rd,...
After Brexit, Forward To The European Socialist Revolution!
PRIME Minister May in her letter to EU President Tusk has described the invoking of Article 50 to begin the UK’s withdrawal from the...
Tories & Labour are punished in council elections for refusing to carry out Brexit!
BOTH the Tories and Labour suffered huge defeats in the council elections yesterday for their cowardly refusal to implement the 2016 EU referendum result. Polls...
Cbi Demands Huge Cuts To Save The Bosses
THE employers organisation, the CBI, yesterday demanded that the Tory coalition government go even further than it has pledged, in destroying benefits and...
The only way to solve the housing crisis!
WRITING in the ‘Housing Question’ in 1872, Frederick Engels declared that the bourgeoisie was incapable of solving the housing question. He wrote: ‘As long as...
Tory-led coalition singles out young families for special treatment
THE Tory-led coalition has got working class and middle class families with young children in its sights for savage cuts as it seeks to...
Eurozone crisis creating revolution – build the Fourth International
THE barrage of propaganda from every mouthpiece of the capitalist class that the economic crisis of capitalism is over, suffered a blow last week with...
Obama Dumps Two-State Solution!
PROPONENTS of the two-state solution to Palestine, that is the creation of two separate states, Israel and Palestine through peaceful negotiations, with East Jerusalem...
Mass sackings on way in bankrupt Britain
IT’S ‘make or break’ time for UK manufacturing, according to the authoritative Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), an organisation not noted for...
Worst NHS winter crisis ever! NHS unions must join health strike in the north...
A&Es axed, children’s hospitals closed, nurses driven out because of overwork and under-pay, junior doctors at the point of exhaustion, GP surgeries shut down,...
France on the brink as government imposes anti-union laws!
THE French Socialist government’s cabinet has opted for a dictatorship over the working class by agreeing to force through its anti-trade union legislation, invoking...
EU and US fall out over oil, gas and Russian sanctions!
THE INCREASINGLY fractious relationship between the US and its rival capitalist bloc the European Union, is on the point of erupting into a full...
Chancellor’s Budget for starving the working class
OSBORNE’S BUDGET speech was devoid of any attempt to analyse the world crisis that is gripping capitalism and which is deepening by the hour,...