As the capitalist system rushes towards the precipice – the great gains of the...
PANIC gripped the UK ruling class yesterday as the bond markets ‘were thrown into chaos and a crisis’ that is bringing new cost of...
Labour supports and covers up for torturers
THE Court of Appeal yesterday forced the British Labour government and its Foreign Secretary, Miliband to publish seven paragraphs concerning the torture of a...
Imperialists In A Panic Over Syria’s Ghouta Victory!
THE Syrian government has denied the terrorist claims, that were expected, that Syria has launched a chemical attack on its own city of Douma,...
Bankrupt Britain Faces Huge Welfare Cuts!
IN HIS Autumn Statement on the economy, Chancellor Osborne outlined many more years of severe austerity with billions more in welfare cuts to be...
Capitalism facing ‘impending global disaster’ – time to put it out of its misery!
THE Tory Party annual conference ended on Wednesday with Sunak announcing he was cancelling the Northern leg of HS2 rail network – something that...
Orange Counter-Revolution Defeated!
THE OPPOSITION leader Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Party of the Regions, has won the Ukrainian presidential election, and has defeated Prime Minister...
New Health Act must be smashed along with the government that has brought it...
THE Tory-led coalition will now be able to close all of the hospitals on its hit list, and more as it wishes, to ‘save’...
Macron convenes crisis meeting after rushing back to France from EU summit!
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron convened a crisis meeting yesterday amid a wave of working class uprisings that engulfed France after a 17-year-old driver was...
Millions Of Workers And Youth Join The Struggle To Liberate Palestine And Establish The...
SATURDAY saw a vast crowd of 250,000 workers, including very large numbers of enthusiastic and determined youth, take to the streets of London for...
Chinese and Russian Stalinists are getting burnt by the crisis
THE Chinese Stalinists are now paying an enormous price for linking their fate with that of US capitalism. First of all they declared parts of...
End the torture of Julian Assange and stop his extradition to the US!
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange appeared in person at Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday in yet another routine administrative hearing to prolong his imprisonment up to...
Demand TUC call a General Strike!
The leaders of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have refused to condemn Labour right-winger Alan Milburn for accepting a position with the Tory-led coalition...
Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves declares war on workers to rescue British capitalism from bankruptcy
ON MONDAY, the new Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her shock and horror that no one had told her about a £22 billion ‘black...
Kick out TUC leaders who refuse to fight mass unemployment – build a revolutionary...
INTERVIEWED on Sky’s Sophy Ridge programme on Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady appealed for the Tories to unite with the TUC, saying: ‘Let’s...
Oil Price Rises Driving Up Inflati0N
RISING crude oil prices are driving up the price of petrol at the pumps. Petrol is now at around 92 pence a litre, an increase...
The USA Is Determined To Surrender Afghanistan To The Taliban!
A SEVEN-DAY ‘reduction in violence’ between the US and the Afghan Taliban began on February 21, with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying,...
Irish government disintegrates – forward to a workers and small farmers government
AFTER the resignation of the Foreign Minister and four other members of the Irish cabinet, the Prime Minister, Cowen has resigned as the...
Revolution – only way out for Ireland and Europe!
THE Irish Government’s guaranteeing 100 per cent of all banking deposits has resulted in the Irish state drowning in a bottomless pit of bail-outs....
IMF warns coronavirus threatens to crash world economy
Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued a stark warning on Sunday that the world’s ‘fragile’ economic recovery could be...
Workers must break Fortress Europe with Socialist Revolutions!
REFUGEE Day, last Wednesday, highlighted the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War with the number forcibly displaced reaching its highest for the...
Devolution of NHS in Manchester opens door to privatisation
FROM Friday 1 April, the Greater Manchester authorities have taken over a £6 billion health and social care budget to serve a population of...
Bank of England implicated in illegal Libor rigging
THE Bank of England, the UKs central bank and guardian of the country’s banking system, along with being responsible for the running of British...
Stalinism betrays Libya – build Fourth International to smash imperialism
As forces loyal to the Libyan revolution and its leader Colonel Gadaffi continue to fight on against the NATO-led onslaught on Tripoli, the imperialist...
Tories are planning a state of emergency so as to ban all strikes!
AT prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Rishi Sunak told MPs that he was planning ‘tough’ legislation to outlaw strikes completely. However, the right wing press...
The revolution in Nepal – part of the world revolution
LEON Trotsky’s theory of the Permanent Revolution shows how ‘the democratic tasks of the backward bourgeois nations lead directly, in our epoch, to the...
Quarter of a million workers in Britain will lose their jobs as result of US-Israeli...
Analysis by two top accountancy firms issued yesterday predicted that a quarter of a million workers will lose their jobs by the middle of...
Victory to Hamas! Defeat Zionism and imperialism!
THE murderous, cowardly missile attack by Israel on Gaza, which killed Ahmed al-Jaabari along with 10 other Palestinians including two children, was a long-planned attack...
UK ‘pirates’ are doing the USA’s dirty work policing the Med to keep out...
IRAN has summoned the UK ambassador after UK marines illegally seized an Iranian oil tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar. British Royal Marines swooped in...
Expulsion of diplomats attempt to demonise Russia – workers know the enemy is at...
The Czech Republic on Saturday expelled 18 Russian diplomats after claiming that two alleged Russian spies were behind a deadly explosion at a Czech...
Don’t let them drive the trade unions out of politics
IT IS now becoming obvious that the furore over parliamentary expenses and their alleged misuse, involving at least one leading Tory MP, was just...
End Of The Road For The UK-US Afghan War
THE news that the death toll of British soldiers in Afghanistan passed the 400 mark this week has been greeted with outpourings of grief...
World debt is leading to hyper-inflation and a socialist revolution!
AN ARTICLE in Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph by its chief economics commentator, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, highlighted the inevitable consequences following the massive amount of borrowing carried...
Crunch Time For The British Banks
BOTH the HSBC and Barclays banks along with the Royal Bank of Scotland have suffered major share losses in the past week, as investors...
Trade union leaders should resign as well!
IN a statement on Friday, the day after the general election disaster for reformism, the TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady showed just what a...
Workers do Battle All Over Europe!
GREEK riot police fired tear gas and beat Ministry of Culture workers yesterday morning after the workers had occupied the Acropolis in Athens demanding...
Youth unemployment driving world socialist revolution
This weekend, the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos debated the issue of youth unemployment worldwide, a debate that exposed the mortal terror being...
Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions
THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...
Starmer declares war on Iran – force TUC to call general strike to bring...
ON SUNDAY, Labour leader Keir Starmer caved in to Donald Trump’s demand that the UK join in the illegal murderous war launched jointly by...
Build revolutionary leadership in South African strike struggle!
THE South African 300,000-strong National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has called a one-day solidarity strike with the 1.3m public sector trade unionists who have...
Dockers in 20 Mediterranean ports call an International General Strike on Friday against Zionist...
THIS FRIDAY, workers in over 20 Mediterranean ports will take coordinated strike action to oppose the genocidal war waged by Israel to drive Palestinians...
US–UK organising Palestinian civil war
THERE is no doubt that the US and UK ruling classes are hard at work seeking to organise a Palestinian civil war. The object is...
Johnson suspends Parliament. Leave the EU on 31 October & forward to a workers...
YESTERDAY, the Tory government asked the Queen to suspend Parliament from 10 September, just days after MPs return, for 23 working days until 14...
Scabby TUC says it’s powerless and agrees a consensus with Heseltine
AT THE last TUC Congress its leaders were forced by the anger of delegates to accept and agree a resolution that the TUC was...
British imperialism stretched to breaking point – forward to the socialist revolution
JUST a week after Prime Minister Gordon Brown assured President George W Bush, that he had fallen into line with the requirements of the...
The Tory attack on Hamas is an attack on all Palestinians and the working...
LAST Friday, the Tory plan to designate the political wing of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas as a ‘terrorist organisation’ was nodded through Parliament...