Working class will refuse to pay for Carillion bankruptcy
THE BANKRUPTCY last January of Carillion, Britain’s largest construction company, is going to cost the working class more than £150 million on top of...
Russia tells Ukraine – pay the market rate
THE Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that ‘Russia has begun implementing a scenario intended to destabilise the Ukrainian economy’, adding that this was ‘despite...
Miliband launches attack on unions and the Labour Party
LABOUR leader Miliband is planning to allow non-Labour Party members to be registered as supporters, and to vote in leadership elections, in the affiliated...
MASS MURDER CONTINUES IN PALESTINE WHILE THE UK’s TRADE UNION LEADERS DO NOTHING!
THE HAMAS Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Sunday that 47 Palestinians were martyred and 139 injured in six Israeli massacres in the...
Trump moans about Iran’s ‘unbelievable duplicity’ as US-Israeli war suffers crushing defeat
US president Donald Trump went incandescent with rage on Monday when his latest declaration that Iran was begging for peace talks and that new...
Hodge, Blears and Blair say foreigners to the back of the queue
LABOUR Industry Minister Margaret Hodge has won the support of Hazel Blears (Chairman of the Labour Party and a candidate for the deputy leadership...
Rumsfeld Raves About Nuclear ‘Bunker Bombs’
THE US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has defended, at an Asia-Pacific conference of regional defence ministers and military chiefs, the US drive to develop...
Manchester Arena bombing Inquiry condemns MI5, police & private security but lets the Tories...
POLICE and private security failed to apprehend the Manchester bomber, the damning report published by the public inquiry has concluded. Inquiry chairman Sir John...
Trade Unions must occupy hospitals threatened with closures! Come to the ATUA conference!
THE NHS is the battleground within which the class struggle in this country is being fought out to the finish. The Tory government plans...
Palestine Unity Government Formed – Now The World Must End Occupation!
THE Palestinian unity government has been sworn in, and has the backing of both the Fatah and Hamas movements. The defiant formation of the national...
Russian strike on foreign mercenary centre in Ukraine a massive blow against imperialist war...
ON SUNDAY morning around 30 cruise missiles fired by the Russian military hit the mis-named International Peacekeeping and Security Centre in western Ukraine, which...
Imperialist ‘surge’ in Iraq and Afghanistan = mass slaughter
SIX Iraqi primary schoolchildren have been slaughtered by a US helicopter spraying al-Nedawat village with machine gun fire and hitting a primary school, in...
Tories in crisis over Sunak tax revelations! Get them out with a general strike!
THE Tory government is in a state of crisis and near collapse as revelations pile up daily about the financial activities of Tory ministers...
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...
Desperate Labour Defence Secretary Healey wants to send British troops into the Ukraine to...
DEFENCE Secretary John Healey said yesterday that his hope was that he would be the first Defence Secretary to deploy British troops to the...
An entire nation becomes the ‘enemy within!’
AT ONE TIME the ‘enemy within’ was well defined as being the working class, especially its militant trade unionists and Trotskyists. Now capitalism is in...
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...
Russia And China Support Greek Privatisation
THE Greek working class and the youth are suffering under the ‘Iron Heel’ of the Troika (the European Union the European Central Bank and...
10,000 Jobs Threatened As Starmer Spends Billions On The UK Military!
CUTS to infrastructure projects like roads and school repairs threaten 10,000 UK jobs following outgoing PM Keir Starmer’s decision to cut billions of pounds...
Labour policy is pauperising graduates
FIFTY EIGHT per cent of graduates find they are still relying on their parents for financial support three years after graduation, a survey commissioned...
Pre-empt savage cuts with a general strike!
LIB DEM leader Nick Clegg has reiterated his original claim there will need to be ‘savage’ spending cuts. Clegg put forward the same...
Another US blow for Pakistan!
THE US Congress yesterday froze $700 million of aid to its ally Pakistan until it gets assurances that Pakistan will combat the spread of...
Nuclear India A Key Bush Ally
PRESIDENT Bush yesterday spent five hours in Afghanistan, most of it at the very heavily defended Bagram airport. He could not venture any further...
Rates On Hold As Economy Folds!
UK interest rates were kept on hold at 0.5% yesterday, the 26th month in a row that the Bank of England has left interest...
Hurrah! The brave Syrian people are taking back Aleppo and defeating imperialist powers!
REJOICE, rejoice at the great victories that the brave Syrian people are having in their struggle to prevent the Western imperialist powers and their...
The Tory ‘NHS Road to Recovery’ is their plan to privatise the NHS!
ON TUESDAY, Tory health secretary Savid Javid outlined his ‘new vision for NHS reform’ which turned out to be just a repetition of the...
Revolution not bourgeois aid or charity, the future for Africa
ON Saturday, leaders of the capitalist world, from the Pope and his Cardinals to various Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and not a few Chancellors...
Support the postal workers – Bring down Brown government
GORDON Brown launched his government of national unity yesterday by giving ex-Tory Sean Woodward a job in the cabinet (he defected from the Tories...
War declared against the working class as 800 P&O seafarers are sacked and replaced...
POWERFUL protests erupted in Liverpool, Hull and Dover yesterday after 800 P&O Ferries’ seafarers were sacked by decree and replaced by cheap labour. The RMT...
UCU Warns Against Student Poll Tax
1381 was the historic year when the peasantry rose up against the imposition of the Poll Tax in a revolt that speeded up the...
The time has come to organise the British socialist revolution!
THE abject and grovelling performance of PM Keir Starmer in parliament on Thursday succeeded in uniting Labour and Tory MPs who howled with rage...
Third World Britain beaten only by the USA
WOMEN in the UK are more than twice as likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth as those in Poland, Austria or Belarus, according...
Tories tearing themselves apart – time for a general strike to kick them out!
THE political crisis tearing the Tory government apart has assumed epic proportions over the release of Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages and private notebooks to...
50 years since Chile coup – vital lessons for the working class today
MONDAY 11th September will be the 50th anniversary of the seizure of power by the Chilean military, led by general Augusto Pinochet, backed by...
Capitalism in deflationary crisis
THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday unveiled a report entitled ‘Better Off Britain’ which it claimed offered a radical blueprint to raise living standards...
UK and US workers must unite to smash capitalism and imperialism! Forward to Socialism!
ELON Musk’s chainsaw wielding stunt with Argentine President Javier Milei before a conservative convention in the US on Thursday was a call to war...
Call Day Of Action To Defend The NHS
A BLOC of twelve trade unions have joined together to campaign against the Labour government’s health service ‘reforms’, that is the Brown-Blair programme for...
Eurozone Crisis Is Hitting Every Country
IN a week when Greece and Spain witnessed massive strikes and demonstrations against austerity measures – designed to drive the working class and youth...
Palestinians warn that UK troops on the ground in Gaza under pretext of supporting...
PALESTINIANS have warned Britain and other Western countries backing the US, against deploying troops on the ground in the besieged Gaza Strip under the...
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...
Replace Starmer’s anti-worker Labour regime with a workers government and socialism!
THE TUC yesterday published a poll of over 3,000 voters which showed conclusively overwhelming support for workers rights and pay increases to match the...
US piracy forces down Bolivian plane in search for Snowden
THERE is not the slightest doubt that Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have done a huge service to the whole of...
Occupy NHS Logistics on October 1 – trade unions must take strike action!
WEDNESDAY’S twin votes at the Labour Party conference against NHS privatisation emphasised for all to see just how great is the isolation of the...
Low Paid prevented from having a Family Life
A CASE brought before the Supreme Court yesterday spotlights the extent to which British capitalism inflicts not just indignity but the denial of the...
The raging coronavirus crisis is smashing up the worldwide capitalist economy!
ON FRIDAY £60 billion was wiped off the UK’s leading companies. The FTSE 100 plunged by 3.62%. In the US a rate cut saw...