Indignation is not enough – working class needs socialist policies
IN HIS first election speech, Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, expressed his anger and indignation over the policies of austerity ruthlessly carried out by...
Mass strikes required to fight sackings and wage cuts
THE jobs crisis in the UK is sharpening to boiling point in the motor car industry and in the power construction industry, affecting...
Abandon The ‘Fantasy Of The Right To Return’ Demands Netanyahu
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu put the final nails into the coffin of the two state solution when he urged, on Monday, that...
Labour heading for a major collision with the working class and its trade unions
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to tell workers that major unavoidable tax rises are on the way since she has inherited a £20bn...
Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Shows Her Tory Hand, Declaring There Will Be No Wealth...
WITH the Tory Party split and divided, Labour is now revealing its own pro-Tory proposals to make the working class pay for the continuing...
Victory to Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
TEXAS PACIFIC and its Gate Gourmet protege are not renowned for making apologies. In fact the opposite is the case. They are renowned for...
Force the TUC to call general strike to bring down Tories!
THE working class is being left with no alternative by the government than to take general strike action to prevent all of its gains...
NHS Care Cancelled Until Further Notice! Time To Get The Tories Out!
DR RICHARD Fawcett, a Royal Stoke Hospital consultant, has apologised for ‘third world’ conditions in the hospital’s A&E, saying that he was ‘heartbroken’ to...
Turkish army invades northern Iraq while US planes bomb Syrian army
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called talks on Syria in New York for December 18-19. Kerry said that the United States and its...
Victory To Syria – Smash Is, The Nusra Front And Their Western Backers –...
AT THE same time as the Nusra Front and the remnants of IS were shelling Damascus, and the Turkish imperialists were killing Kurds in...
Workers must support Russia – the US-UK trade unions must stop war drive by...
FOR SOME weeks the UK and US ruling classes have been telling the world that Russia is just waiting to invade the Ukraine, that...
French workers’ refusal to vote for austerity puts socialist revolution on immediate agenda
IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote...
Heading For A Housing Crash!
ON MONDAY trading on the Wall Street stock market in New Century Financial shares was halted, as the second largest US sub-prime mortgage lender...
Refugees Must Be Welcomed – The Bosses Must Be Sent Packing!
FOLLOWING the successes of the Syrian army’s drive into Idlib province, President Erdogan of Turkey has begun to carry out his revenge policy. Since the...
Bring down the crisis-ridden Tories – forward to a workers government and socialism!
GOVERNMENT plans to increase National Insurance levels for self-employed people – announced in the Budget last week – have been dropped by the Tory...
Blair’s ‘summary power’ for war on the working class
PRIME Minister Tony Blair launched the Labour government’s new ‘Respect Action Plan’ yesterday, declaring that he was setting out to overthrow basic democratic rights...
Lobbying Bill A Conscious Attack On The Working Class
THE Tory-led coalition’s proposed new Lobbying Bill is sending shock waves throughout the leadership of the TUC, as its full import becomes known. This bill,...
Trade unions must take strike action to free the 9,400 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli...
MORE than 9,400 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are marking Eid al-Adha under suffocating restrictions, dire conditions, and an unprecedented rise in abuse and...
Tories getting ready for class war! Time for the trade unions to put them...
EVERYBODY knows that the Tory government was completely unprepared for the Covid-19 crisis that erupted in the UK in December 2020. The Operation Cygnus exercise...
Restoring nurses’ & midwives’ bursaries – a matter of life or death for...
THERE is a desperate lack of nurses in the NHS. Currently, overloaded nurses are doing the job of three people, working 12-hour shifts in...
Bank of England & US Fed continue to pump out free money to attempt...
YESTERDAY, the Bank of England announced that it will be keeping interest rates on hold at the historical low of 0.1%. This was the unanimous...
Kenyan explosion rooted in land theft and the capitalist crisis
KENYA has been convulsed for nearly a week by an uprising of the poor and the landless who have been absolutely pauperised by the...
Arrogant Carney Rubbishes Miliband!
THIS week, in an attempt to cash in on the universal hatred felt by the working class and middle classes towards banks and bankers,...
Now is the time to form a Palestinian government of national unity
‘YOU do not want peace at all. You have destroyed all chances of peace and you should bear all the responsibility,’ Palestinian President Abbas...
NATO backs Turkish attack on Syria and the Kurds
NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels yesterday to support Turkey’s military campaign, nominally against the IS, but in fact against the Kurds and...
Take Strike Action To Defend The NHS
THE Royal College of Nursing, the nurses trade union, yesterday announced that it is seeking a judicial review to force the Blair government to...
No to Zuma or Ramaphosa –the South African workers must take the power!
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has noted the shocking testimony given to City Press by police officers who were among those...
One year since the Gate Gourmet lockout
ON August 10, 2005 Gate Gourmet, owned by Texas Pacific, locked out in a pre-planned operation over 800 workers, an assault that was calculated...
Coalition Government announces plan to end council housing
Earlier this week the Coalition government’s Housing Minister, Grant Shapps, unveiled the government’s plans to destroy the last vestige of affordable social housing. In what...
Howard condemns ‘judicial activists’ as security risks
Tory leader Michael Howard was yesterday bending over backwards to give every support to the Labour Prime Minister Blair and his war against democratic...
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...
THE BANK looks to inflation to pauperise the workers and Middle Class
THE pound fell sharply on Wednesday against both the dollar and the euro as the money markets were shaken to the core by the...
International inquiry finds no basis for Israeli claims against UNRWA that gave US and...
IN JANUARY, the Israeli regime unleashed a propaganda campaign against UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East,...
No fighter planes for Ukraine – only a socialist revolution can stop imperialist war
UKRAINIAN president Volodymyr Zelensky turned up in Britain on Wednesday to address Parliament in a speech demanding that the UK supply fighter planes for...
Unite Takes Action Against Serco BA And The Bank Of England!
YESTERDAY striking Serco workers from Bart’s NHS Trust, striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew, and striking Bank of England workers marched and picketed the...
Resistance has Obama on the run in the Middle East
UNITED States President Barack Obama made his first trip to Afghanistan on Sunday since he took office 14 months ago. The visit was aimed...
Sunak speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet pledges UK support to imperialist war across the...
FRESH from sacking Suella Braverman as Home Secretary in the morning, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak turned up on Monday evening to deliver a speech...
Occupy Vauxhall/Opel plants – nationalise GM Europe to defend jobs!
General Motors plans to close the Opel plant in Antwerp, Belgium this winter, with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs. Workers in Antwerp...
Landlords ban DSS tenants! End the housing crisis through putting an end to...
AT LEAST one in 10 landlords are ‘unlawfully’ advertising their flat for rent by saying that they do not accept tenants on housing benefit,...
Hamas demands prosecution of ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ for war crimes against Palestinians
IN RESPONSE to the so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF) announcement on Monday that it is closing its operation in Gaza, the Hamas resistance movement...
Hayes get 14 years – now for the rest of the banking fraternity!
CITY trader Tom Hayes has been found guilty of rigging global Libor interest rates. He has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. His...
General Sanders Says That The UK Army Must Be Ready For A War To...
THE new Chief of the General staff, Sir Patrick Sanders, yesterday urged that Britain must be ready to fight Putin, comparing the present situation...
‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher’ the Daily Telegraph advises Tory...
SATURDAY’S Daily Telegraph gave the Tory leadership candidates some advice. This was: ‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher – and the...
The UN Committee Against Torture Condemns Israeli Regime!
THE United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of ‘organised torture’ against Palestinians. In a report published...
Israel extends genocidal war to ‘safe’ city of Rafah
US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken arrived in Egypt yesterday at the start of yet another Middle East tour – his fifth since the...