Trade unions in the US and UK must support Palestinian hunger strikers
SEVENTY-FIVE Palestinian inmates have gone on hunger strike in support of two of their fellow prisoners, who have been on hunger strike for several...
Student nurses join GPs and junior doctors in demanding action to defend the NHS
THE determined drive by the Tory government to cut the pay and conditions of every NHS worker, as a prelude to the ultimate aim...
Cornwall Marches To Save Fire Service
TWO hundred firefighters and control room staff were joined by thousands of angry local residents in a 13-mile march from Camborne to Falmouth on...
The Palestinian Revolution Is On The Verge Of A Great Victory!
THE head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, said yesterday that the Palestinian revolution is on the ‘verge of a...
Ferguson Masses Begin To Disband The Police!
AFTER the announcement of the resignation of the chief of police in Ferguson, St Louis, an evening and midnight demonstration and celebration outside the...
NOW is the time for the TUC to call a general strike to support...
THE nurses’ strike actions have revealed that they have the massive support of the vast majority of the working class in the UK, and...
Capitalism diving into world recession – forward to world socialist revolution!
AT MIDNIGHT on Thursday the US tariff war on the rest of the world erupted as Donald Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ levies on imports from foreign...
Tories wiped out in North Shropshire by-election. Now is the time for the TUC...
THE VOTE came in at 4am on Friday morning for the North Shropshire by-election. The Liberal Democrats won, taking a seat the Tories have...
No renegotiations – Merkel and Sarkozy warn Greece
THE fact that Papandreou has had to sack the Greek Military General Staff at the same time as he has angered Sarkozy and Merkel...
UK And French Workers Are Taking Action Against The Bosses And The Bankers –...
THE head of the UK’s Unite trade union has accused the government of having a ‘sinister reason’ for ‘not doing a deal’ with nurses...
HAMMOND AND McDONNELL READY FOR A MacDONALD-STYLE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT!
DURING Tuesday’s questions and answers on Treasury matters in the Commons, the Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond informed MPs that he would block any attempt...
Netanyahu in secret talks with Obama
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and United States President Barack Obama held two sessions of secret talks at the White House yesterday, lasting a...
Renationalise the electricity and gas monopolies!
POWERGEN, the energy monopoly, is putting up the prices of its gas and electricity services by 18.4 per cent and 9.7 per cent, next...
Chagos Islanders To Lobby 10 Downing Street
A DELEGATION of Chagos Islanders from Crawley will be delivering a letter to the new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street this...
Duncan Smith’s ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Peddles Lies!
THE Department for Work and Pensions has admitted lying to the public by making up stories from fictional claimants, and passing them off as...
Putin draws a line and issues a warning over imperialist war preparations
RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin slammed the Western powers in his annual end-of-year press conference yesterday, telling the assembled journalists that Russia was cheated by...
UK’s economic, political and health crisis is reaching breaking point! Only a socialist revolution...
THE EDITORIALS in Friday’s and Saturday’s Daily Telegraph scream out for action to be taken by Labour leader Starmer to throw Corbyn and his...
Comet collapse and private equity
Last Friday the administrator brought in to wind down the collapsed electrical retailer chain Comet announced that 330 staff would be made redundant with...
Postal workers call a national strike ballot!
25,000 postal workers are to go on 24-hour strikes this Friday in London, and in many parts of the country on Friday, Saturday and...
One year since the first Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March 2020!
ON 23 March 2020, Boris Johnson outlined measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, with a series of stop-go lockdowns. Since then, of the major...
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...
White Helmets are ‘the right kind of terrorists’ as far as Tories concerned
THE TORY UK immigration minister Caroline Nokes told the BBC that Britain had ‘resettled’ as refugees 100 members of the notorious White Helmets group and...
US Fails In Drone Attempt On Life Of Taleban Leader
A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan’s tribal region killed at least 12 persons on Thursday. Drone aircraft fired two missiles on a religious seminary...
Only Socialist Revolution can achieve Brexit
TORY prime minister Theresa May is this week teetering on the brink of political annihilation as it emerged that her Brexit secretary, David Davis,...
Tories Use State Against Health Workers
TRADE UNION leaders are angry that the government has organised police and army scabbing on today’s four-hour NHS strike over the refusal of the...
28th anniversary of declaration of Palestinian independence!
SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saed Erekat said yesterday that the international community has failed in its responsibility to correct the...
The Capitalist Crisis Is Driving Forward Economic Collapse, Wars And Revolutions At Record...
FOOD prices in the UK continued to surge at the fastest rate in nearly 45 years in April, as inflation fell at a slower...
Manchester students tear down the fences. UK workers and youth are building up for...
STUDENTS have torn down prison-like fencing erected around their campus on the first day of the new nationwide lockdown. As the Tories allowed the second...
World’s Stock Markets Set For Financial Crash!
IT was reported yesterday that a survey of the top professional ‘money managers’ revealed that these investment experts believe that the world’s leading stock...
British Army Handed 300 Over To Afghan Torturers
AFTER the killing and torture of Baha Mousa in Iraq was supplemented by a court martial that refused to convict those responsible for his...
Bosses planning to incite youth against pensioners!
A £10,000 PAYMENT should be given to the young, while pensioners are taxed more, a new report by the Resolution Foundation into inter-generational fairness...
Bank of England pushes up interest rates as inflation spirals out of control!
THE BANK of England Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and decided to increase the interest rate by 0.25% to 0.75% in a futile attempt...
Strike wave intensifies this week – now is the time to call a general...
Today, over 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies are continuing national strike action called by the RMT union over pay,...
Petrol price rises leading to new fuel blockade
UK petrol and diesel prices are still rising in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with the average cost of petrol now at 95.1 pence...
EU 750 billion euros ‘Recovery Fund’ nothing more than a Trojan Horse for...
LAST Tuesday the emergency summit of leaders of the EU 27 member states finally agreed to a 750 billion euros pandemic recovery fund after...
TUC must call a general strike to expropriate the bosses and put an end...
MATT WRACK, the President of the TUC and the general secretary of the FBU, correctly said on election day, July 4th, that Labour’s post-election...
US at centre of world capitalist collapses
‘THERE is a real sense in markets today of the economy falling off a cliff.’ That was the verdict of Michael Saunders, the chief...
World crisis spurring on world revolution
THE Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King has forecast that there is a bumpy road ahead for both the national and the...
Only Socialist Revolution can force a break with the EU
TOM Watson, the right wing deputy leader of the Labour Party, escaped being unceremoniously chucked out of his position over the weekend following an...
Bank of England suspected of serious fraud!
THE Bank of England this week was revealed to be under investigation by no less than the Serious Fraud Office. Founded in 1694, the Bank...
Union leaders must take action to bring down the Tories – and reject working with...
THE WORLD Health Organisation has issued its ‘Test, Test and Test’ call as its main policy to lay the basis for dealing with the...
Consultants, Junior Doctors and rail workers are in struggle. TUC must call a general...
THE Junior Doctors and Consultants in England, faced with a ruling class that is determined to destroy the NHS, have joined forces and will...
Labour splits emerging as Starmer faces ‘mother of all rebellions’
FOLLOWING Prime Minister’s Questions session in Parliament on Wednesday left wing Labour MP Richard Burgon went on social media warning that Keir Starmer will...
Industry collapses in UK under impact of capitalist crisis
THE UK economy stagnated with no growth in the last quarter of 2019, according to official figures from the ONS (Office for National Statistics). Gross...
£490bn goes missing! Time to overthrow British capitalism, quit the EU and go forward...
ALL THE talk by the Tories, and echoed by the Labour Party leadership, that capitalist Britain is fundamentally in good health economically, has just...