Stop Tory drive to war in Libya with a general strike
THE imperialist war drums are beating with a vengeance as advanced preparations for a direct military intervention into Libya by Britain, Italy, France and...
Defend the NHS! defend the Welfare state! Bring down the Coalition!
IN his recent budget speech Chancellor Osborne stated his objective is: ‘Building a modern reformed state we can afford.’ The truth of the matter is...
More fare rises! Re-nationalise the railways!
YESTERDAY the main rail unions held a series of protests at rail stations which involved the handing out of postcards to commuters detailing the...
New head of IMF warns $19 trillion debt time bomb will crash world economy
THE NEWLY-appointed head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued the starkest warning yet that world capitalism is on the point of...
BREXIT ‘DO OR DIE’ ON OCTOBER 31st NEEDS A GENERAL STRIKE TO FORCE IT...
PM JOHNSON urged MPs last night to back his EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill and approve a three-day timetable to consider the legislation and adopt...
Osborne pledges balanced austerity budgets
CHANCELLOR Osborne used his annual address at the Mansion House on Wednesday night to announce that he will be selling off the government’s share...
56 Refugees forced to sleep in a single office! Boot the Tories and their...
REFUGEES are being held in office space in Kent, with as many as 56 women and children crammed into a single room, sleeping together...
Demand that the UK recognises the state of Palestine – Attend our centenary rally...
IN A virtually unprecedented break with the normal language of international diplomacy, the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad Malki, has deservedly torn into British Prime...
Reject Eu Diktat Attempt – Leave The Eu At Once !
THE GIGANTIC farce of the Brexit negotiations hit a brick wall this week with EU officials accusing the British of failing to reveal its...
Parliament Is Being Broken Apart By Brexit Crisis!
PM MAY is facing a revolt from at least 15 Tory MPs who are threatening to vote with the majority of Labour MPs...
Turning A New Page In The NHS!
THE leaders of 10 NHS organisations have called in an open letter for a ‘new page to be turned’ in 2014. Powerful organisations including...
TUC – defend the junior doctors, call a general strike now!
THE war against junior doctors and their fight to defend the NHS has been ramped up by the Tory government acting through the General...
Osborne decrees huge wage and benefit cuts for the public sector and the poor
CHANCELLOR George Osborne in his Autumn statement was forced to admit failure, that his policies were not working and that he had been forced...
Bank for International Settlements warns of full-blown banking crash
THE Bank for International Settlements, the central bank of central bankers, in its latest quarterly review of the world banking system has just issued...
Alleged stonethrowers charged with attempted murder or targeted by snipers!
‘JUSTICE’ Israeli-style was displayed to the world on Thursday when five Palestinian teenagers were sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Israeli military...
Lebanon and Iraq erupt as masses demand political overthrow of their governments
LEBANON erupted over the weekend with renewed clashes between thousands of demonstrators and security forces on Sunday following violent clashes in Beirut on Saturday...
Trump Can’t Get Rid Of Obamacare – But US Workers Can Get Rid...
PRESIDENT Trump’s efforts to smash ex-President Obama’s healthcare system, which provides cheaper health insurance for the low paid and the poor (Obamacare), have...
ECB interest rate cut is last throw of the dice. Forward with European socialist...
ON Thursday afternoon Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), announced that the bank has cut its benchmark interest rate from 0.5%...
End futile talks with Israel! Forward to Palestinian state!
AHMAD Sa''adat, secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and Marwan al-Barghouthi, member of the Fatah Central Committee, have...
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...
Gripped with crisis UK, US & French leaders abandon World Economic Forum
THE ANNUAL get-together of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos has been hit by a number of notable absences...
The Firefighters are the heroes of Grenfell! Jail the real culprits – big business...
A LEAKED report by the chairman of the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry, Martin Moore-Bick, has found a scapegoat for the fire – they are...
South Africa crashes into economic depression – socialist revolution is the only way forward
ON WEDNESDAY South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the death at the age of 91 of George Bizos, the renowned human rights lawyer who...
London Bus Workers To Strike – Fighting Against Massive Wage Cuts And Zero Hours...
LONDON bus passengers should give their full support to London bus workers as they prepare for massive strike actions in the capital called by...
Leave The EU Now! Call A General Strike To Defend Jobs! Stop Pleading...
THE UK’s negotiator with the EU, Lord Frost, has said that there is still time for the UK and the EU to agree a...
‘Thousands upon thousands of people are living in dangerous homes’ says FBU leader Wrack!
ON JUNE 14th 2017, almost three years ago, fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block in North Kensington. It caused the deaths...
NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT PLAN AWAKENS MEMORIES OF THE 1960s and ’70s COUP PLOTS TO...
THERE IS VERY great resistance to the proposal of Labour leader Corbyn that he should put down a motion of no confidence in PM...
Grenfell – never again! Build Councils of Action – organise a general strike! Get...
THE HORROR felt by millions of people after the Grenfell Tower inferno which claimed the lives of so many men, women and children, immediately...
Disarm Imperialism To Stop New Korean War!
A REPORT issued yesterday by the highly respected and influential Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has bluntly warned that the drive to war by...
Only a Socialist Revolution can force the break with the bosses’ and bankers’ EU!
NOTHING summed up the crisis that is gripping the leadership of the trade unions like the TUC’s joint statement this week, with the bosses...
End war crimes by destroying capitalism with socialist revolution
THE TORY defence secretary Ben Wallace has been ordered by a judge to come up with an explanation as to why the British government...
The fate of UK banks linked to the fate of South Africa’s Zuma –...
‘THIS is the third high-profile money-laundering scandal to involve major British banks this year,’ John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, said yesterday, responding to reports...
Workers forced into debt and facing jail to keep the banks from crashing
T EMERGED yesterday that the number of debt repayment orders issued by the courts last year reached a record level of 1.15 million. These official...
US, UK And Eu Workers Must Act To Support Venezuelan Revolution!
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that he will not betray his country by yielding to Washington’s plan for regime change in Caracas, adding...
Tories Have Just Borrowed Billions While Doctors Say That They Are Being Treated Like...
PM JOHNSON has put the blame for the coronavirus firmly on the people, when he warned on the TV that the NHS could be...
Corbyn For Pm – Bring Down The Tories And Forward To Palestine!
THESE are truly desperate times for the Tories. Their government is selling out Brexit. Their party is split and divided, with Boris Johnson challenging...
£490bn goes missing! Time to overthrow British capitalism, quit the EU and go forward...
ALL THE talk by the Tories, and echoed by the Labour Party leadership, that capitalist Britain is fundamentally in good health economically, has just...
Smash the anti-union laws with a general strike
LAST Sunday fifty Tory MPs demanded the government bring in even more draconian laws aimed at breaking the growing strike movement that is gaining...
Labour leaks its Fabian draft programme for keeping capitalism and the EU!
THE leaked draft of Labour’s election manifesto yesterday brought out the predictable headlines in the press warning of the dangerous ‘socialist’ Jeremy Corbyn. But a...
New Curriculum abolishes childhood
THIS week, children and young people return to school in England where they face being subjected to a new education curriculum devised by the...
Bring down the Tories to stop the destruction of the NHS!
ON FRIDAY the GMB trade union declared that ‘Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt must resign,’ and warned that that the ‘NHS is tailspinning into...
US budget deal threatens working class
ON Tuesday night, the chairs of the US House and Senate budget committee, Paul Ryan (Republican) and Patty Murray (Democrat), held a joint press...
French workers and youth out to bring down Macron through a general strike!
YESTERDAY, French workers and youth took to the streets in a massive confrontation with the government of Emmanuel Macron and his plans to privatise...
King’s Fund Warning Must Be Acted On!
THE Quarterly Monitoring Report of the King’s Fund does not pull any punches about the future that the Tory-led coalition has planned out for...
Nut Warns Over Free Schools And Academies
COMMENTING on the latest Education at a Glance report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Christine Blower, General Secretary of the...