Treasury Secretary’s insistence that America will not run out of cash only increases fears that...
ON SUNDAY, US president Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, felt compelled to appear on a US news channel to insist to the public...
Cameron’s ‘Chain Gangs’ For The Unemployed
THE PCS civil servants trade union yesterday rightly condemned the coalition government’s plans to force the long-term unemployed, and unemployed youth, to do manual...
As Zionist Mobs Launch Attacks On Palestinians Hamas Calls To Establish The Palestinian State
YESTERDAY, Zionist mobs were attacking Palestinians all over the occupied territories seeking to seize their homes and land and drive them off it. Israeli occupation...
Lammy Wants To Undermine The Right To Trial By Jury!
JUSTICE SECRETARY David Lammy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing rape,...
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...
Imperialist War abroad and class war at home – a general strike is the...
THE Trade Union Congress is meeting at a very crucial time for the working people of the UK and for the working people of...
Halt the NHS race to the bottom
AT a time when the privately owned treatment centres are being handed billions of pounds of the NHS Budget, without any investigation of just...
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...
Blair Wants Government Control Of Judges
THE Blair government announced yesterday through its Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, that it was going to bring in legislation that will tell judges how...
Trump Sheds ‘Crocodile Tears’ For Victims Of Thursday’s Downing Of Ukrainian Plane!
ON FRIDAY January 3rd, the USA carried out a terrorist drone attack on Baghdad airport, murdering General Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary...
Unprecedented video reveals 15 Palestinian medics and humanitarian workers executed by Zionist troops
TWO British Labour MPs were detained and deported by Israel on Saturday after they had attempted to enter the country as part of a...
Scrap the market in the NHS!
IPSWICH Hospital, in Suffolk, has been deprived of £2.5m because it provided much-needed care for its patients too quickly. This was discovered by accountants...
Time To Force The Tuc Off Its Knees – Forward To The British Socialist...
AN article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph delivered a sharp wake up call to the TUC and the trade union leaders who cling to the...
JOHN KERRY’S LAST STAND! – derided by Netanyahu!
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu damned US Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Wednesday over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict saying that it was biased...
Local elections being delayed as the crisis of UK capitalism deepens!
A FURIOUS backlash erupted on Thursday against the Labour government’s cancellation of May’s local government elections, which could deprive 10 million citizens of the...
Parliament Is Up To Its Neck In Sleaze – It Must Be Closed Down...
EX-TORY MP Owen Paterson has been a paid consultant for clinical diagnostics company Randox since 2015, and for meat distributor Lynn’s Country Foods since...
Blair’s call for an ‘alliance’ to attack Iran
PRIME Minister Tony Blair told businessmen from Britain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dubai yesterday: ‘We must mobilise our alliance of moderation...
Abolish the mountains of debt with revolution!
THE world capitalist crisis is turning the UK into a country composed of a relative handful of the very, very rich, a middle and...
Israeli high school students refuse to serve and oppose the oppression of the Palestinians!
HUNDREDS of Israeli high school students in a ‘Youth Against Dictatorship’ statement have announced that they will refuse to serve in the Israeli military...
Hamas fighters deal heavy blows against Israel, while Gaza masses remain undefeated!
MORE than 700 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry...
Labour Must Pledge To Recognise Palestine And To Stop Arming Israel
700 BRITISH artists have signed a pledge to boycott Israel as long as it ‘continues to deny basic Palestinian rights’. The group, Artists for Palestine...
UK military torn apart by ‘internal warfare’
THE ARMED wing of the British capitalist state is being torn apart by ‘internal warfare’, according to a report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph. This major...
Government responsible for seriously damaging the quality of mental health care!
CUTS to adult mental health services in England are damaging the quality of care given to patients, a report by the King’s Fund...
Force Blair out now! Forward to a workers’ government!
YESTERDAY was a letter writing day for Labour MPs. There were at least three different letters circulating among Labour MPs, including one signed by the...
IBM shares plunge over fears of an artificial intelligence bubble
INTERNATIONAL Business Machines (IBM), the giant US manufacturer of corporate computers suffered a massive drop in its share price on Monday as panic surrounding...
Greece must be sacrificed – Osborne dons his butcher’s apron!
CHANCELLOR Osborne was in the mood for sacrifices on Tuesday and as is his way, the way of the British bourgeoisie, these sacrifices were...
Pakistan – US threatens military intervention
Al-QAEDA founder Osama bin Laden is alive and sheltering in ‘lawless parts of Pakistan’ on the border with Afghanistan, according to US Director of...
Stand up to the bullying bosses with a general strike
THE ‘New Local Government Network’ was warning yesterday of a ‘tsunami of a public sector recession’ after the next general election when the just...
US Attacks Refugees With Its $65M Unrwa Cut!
EXECUTIVE Committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Zakaria al-Agha, said on Wednesday that the United States freeze of $65 million in its...
Israel invades Rafah and blocks all aid to Gaza – working class must call...
ON MONDAY evening, the political bureau of Hamas announced that it had approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. This surprise move prompted the BBC’s International...
South African workers must bring down the ANC and take the power!
SOUTH Africa has erupted with the announcement yesterday that the ANC government plans to deploy 25,000 troops after days of violent uprising by workers...
Gove’s new ‘extremism definition’ prepares way for crackdown on all opposition to Israeli genocide
COMMUNITIES secretary Michael Gove in Parliament yesterday made a short statement introducing the Tories new definition of extremism which now encompasses ‘non-violent extremism’. Almost all...
‘You must recognise the Palestinian state’ says the Palestinian Ambassador Zomlot
RECOGNISING the Palestinian state is the prerequisite for peace, not a by-product of peace,’ Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot said in an...
Cabinet Office Leads Fight To Smash Royal Mail
FOLLOWING instructions from the government’s Cabinet Office to government departments to put their mail out to tender to get the best cutthroat deal, ...
Demand TUC call a general strike to defeat anti-union laws
LAST November, the Tories were confidently predicting that when their anti-strike ‘Minimum Service Levels’ law was finally passed before Christmas, around 40% of rail...
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...
Britain Has Been, Is, And Will Continue Talking With The Taleban
PRIME Minister Brown told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that British forces are ‘winning the battle against the insurgency’ in Afghanistan. Using...
As Johnson gets May mark-2 ready – workers must take action to take the...
AS THE date for leaving the EU, October 31st comes closer and closer, all of the vultures are desperately gathering over the corpse of...
TUC must take a stand against Israeli genocide and the anti-union laws by calling...
ON Tuesday night, the United Nations General Assembly vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza was passed overwhelmingly with 10 countries, led by the...
Unite votes for speed-up and savage cuts at GM Vauxhall
THE Vauxhall-Opel GM bosses statement put out yesterday claimed as its subject: ‘Vauxhall and Opel employees dive into their pockets to support the company...
Murdoch’s Man, Hunt Savages The NHS With A View To Privatise
Local AFL-CIO leaders and trade unionists from across the United States were in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday to ask members of Congress to...
End the NHS cuts! Reopen the A&Es!
FINANCIAL pressures could get in the way of the drive to improve care following the Stafford Hospital scandal, experts said yesterday, confirming the obvious,...
Manufacturing contracts in October for sixth successive month
AFTER all of the Tory propaganda chatter about the ‘recovery has begun’ the reality is that the slump is deepening. The UK’s manufacturing sector,...
World capitalism hanging over the brink
WHAT bourgeois economists thought was unthinkable just a few days ago is now about to happen. In just four days time the United States is...
No Plan B – kick the coalition out!
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has gone through its ritual presentation of an ‘alternative’ budget in advance of the coalition government’s budget to be...