Carter condemns Gaza blockade and urges talks with Hamas
EX-US president Jimmy Carter, who negotiated the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, yesterday called the Israeli blockade of Gaza ‘a crime’...
Brown’s Britain = super-exploitation and death for workers
GORDON Brown is now infamous as the friend of the equity capitalists who, thanks to him, pay no taxes, while he insists that the...
‘At war’ Obama speaks about taking difficult decisions
PRESIDENT Obama’s inaugural address was Churchillian in tone, but lacking in concrete content, limiting itself to spelling out that the US ruling class was...
Tanks enter West Bank as Zionist regime escalates genocidal war
ON SUNDAY, Israeli military forces deployed tanks into the northern West Bank refuge camp at Jenin, a move denounced by the Hamas resistance movement as...
EU in crisis – forward with the European socialist revolution
The crisis of European capitalism is so severe that it has driven the bourgeoisie to tear at each other’s throats in a frenzy of...
Johnson moves to put the skids under Prescott
THE Blairite cabinet, faced with the working class rejecting Blair, his war on Iraq, his onslaught on the Welfare State, and with popular revulsion...
‘Let them go bust’ says Bank of England chief
THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, in a letter to the House of Commons Treasury select committee has warned that efforts...
US workers deal Bush, Blair and Olmert a heavy blow
WHAT is being called in the US a ‘voter uprising’ has driven Bush’s Republicans out of their control of the House of Representatives, and...
TUC must support junior doctors with a general strike!
THE decision by the British Medical Association to authorise fresh strike action by junior doctors over the imposition of a new work contract is...
Miliband Lashes Out At The Unions
ON Wednesday night the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, launched a scathing attack on the leader of the largest trade union, Unite, denouncing him for...
Putin’s withdrawal from Syria sends message to Assad and Obama!
THE decision of President Putin to begin withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria, after giving President Assad just a few hours notice, constitutes a...
US troops flee from Afghan fighters – time to quit Afghanistan
US and Afghan troops have quit the village where Taleban fighters fought their way into a US base and killed nine US soldiers wounding...
Revolution emerging in Pakistan!
EX-PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF has not been lying in his political grave for six months and already the lawyers are marching against the new regime of...
Gaza has 45.2 % unemployment – Greek youth unemployment is 45%!
GAZA’S unemployment rate is among the world’s highest, at 45.2%, the UN has found. The territory continues to be blockaded by Israel, while the...
Obama Heading For The Fiscal Cliff – US Workers Beware!
OBAMA’S re-election is a product of the refusal of US workers to allow an all-out robber baron of capitalism, Romney, to have control over...
TUC corporatists must be kicked out! Come to the ATUA conference to build a...
THE TRADE Union Congress (TUC) organised the knifing in the back of the Southern guards’ and drivers’ struggle on Thursday, brokering a ‘deal’...
US Fed’s third emergency programme in 2 days fails to stop capitalist crash
THE US Federal Reserve announced late on Wednesday the third emergency programme in two days in an increasingly desperate and futile attempt to avoid...
At least three provinces reject the US’ Iraq constitution
IT IS remarkable that in a ‘constitutional referendum’ organised by a puppet government, in a country under occupation by the US and the UK,...
ECB takes desperate measures to try and stop EU economic collapse
LAST Thursday the European Central Bank (ECB) abandoned its previously proclaimed policy of ending free money handouts to the banks through quantitative easing (QE)...
Capitalism is on the rocks with the USA on the brink of a historic...
YESTERDAY, the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 4.5%, the twelfth consecutive increase in a row, pushing up borrowing costs to the...
Europe on strike from France, to Greece, from Germany to the UK – forward...
THE strike wave is spreading throughout Europe! In France workers are making it crystal clear that they will never allow the increases in the retirement...
Imperialism In Crisis In Egypt, Syria And The Yemen
THE US State Department has told its citizens and all non-emergency government staff to leave the Yemen ‘immediately’ due to increased threats to their...
Blair looks to the ‘Axis of Evil’ for rescue
THE killing of four British soldiers in Basra on Sunday with at least three seriously injured, and the killing of six US soldiers in...
Bring Out All The Unions To Defend The NHS!
THE situation could not be clearer. The whole of the trade union movement and the majority of non-trade unionists support the 24-hour strike actions...
Lagarde says Greek euro exit will ‘probably’ not mean end of euro
THE head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, admitted on Thursday that she could not ‘preclude’ Greece being forced out of the eurozone. This...
Labour Foreign Secretary embraces Netanyahu while Palestinians are massacred in Gaza!
LAST Saturday, at least 88 Palestinians were killed and over 289 injured by Israeli bomb strikes on the displaced peoples camp in Khan Younis,...
Build The Greek Section Of The Fourth International!
TENS of thousands of students, teachers and trade unionists are expected to take to the streets of Athens and other major Greek cities on...
Demand recall of the TUC to sack current leaders replacing them with a leadership...
Today will be the biggest day of strike action across the country in over a decade, with hundreds of thousands of workers from nearly...
Take Action To Stop US-UK-Israel Attack On Iran
WHAT is being termed as a coalition of trade unions (Unison, the GMB and Amicus), charities and faith groups yesterday warned Tony Blair that...
Bank of England appoint Bernanke, the architect of QE, to rescue British capitalism from...
At the weekend, bosses at the Bank of England announced that they had drafted in the ex-chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank (Fed),...
University lecturers start fresh mass strike action
THE THIRD wave of a countrywide strike by members of the University and College Union (UCU) began yesterday with a five-day walkout at 38...
The Palestinian leadership calls for international intervention. The workers of the world must respond!
THE PALESTINIAN Presidential spokesman Abu Rudeineh yesterday morning called for urgent international intervention after Israeli police broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the...
No Second Referendum! Bring Down The Tories! Forward To A Workers Government And...
EX-UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that ‘we should have a second referendum on EU membership.’ This is the biggest personal surrender note for...
Kerry Warns Russia Over Eastern Ukraine
THE US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Russia that it must not recognise the elections that are due to take place this...
Anti-union laws and wage cuts will stay – Brown tells trade unions
Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday gave a fitting reply to all those trade union bureaucrats who were saying that he could be forced to...
Working Class Is On The March – It Is Refusing To Pay The Bill...
THE UK working class is on the march, spurred forward by the worldwide crisis of the capitalist system, with Britain very much the weakest...
Rice supervises raising Middle East tensions
THE US through its secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, who has been in the Middle East for a week, is working hard to raise...
Imperialist powers are preparing for war with Russia by sending in the Islamists!
ELEVEN people have been detained after an attack by Islamists at a Moscow concert hall that killed 137, the head of Russia’s Federal Security...
The Iraq war, the world crisis and the socialist revolution
MARCH 2008 sees the US and UK armed forces and governments irreparably damaged as a result of their failure to subdue the Iraqi people...
Trump gears up for war against Iran – defeat imperialist war with socialist revolution
US IMPERIALISM launched an unprovoked wave of airstrikes against targets in both Syria and Iraq on Sunday, targeting bases controlled by Iraqi Popular Mobilisation...
Palestinian groups sign ‘national unity’ agreement for a united fight for victory and the independent...
YESTERDAY officials from 14 Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Fatah, signed a ‘national unity’ agreement in the Chinese capital Beijing that ended any divisions...
CAMERON ATTACKS THE SICK AND GPs OVER ‘SICK NOTE CULTURE’
AS FAR as this reactionary coalition government is concerned, anybody who is sick for more than four weeks in a year is probably engaging...
Gold hits over $2,000 an ounce as the capitalist robbers seek value!
ON TUESDAY the price of gold hit a record high of $2,000 (£1,530) an ounce, an increase of more than 30% this year. According to...
Murdoch Shops His Own Employees In Attempt To Save His Own Neck
FIVE journalists at the Sun newspaper have been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of corrupt payments to the police and other ‘public servants’. A Surrey...
Drive Out Zero-Hours Contracts
FIGURES released last Wednesday purport to show the UK unemployment rate for the three months to September fell to 7.4% from 7.6% – a...