British workers require socialism not circuses!
FOR the second day running the bourgeois media have been dominated by the Olympic opening extravaganza organised brilliantly by Danny Boyle, who used and...
German crisis – the beginning of the end for the EU!
A MONTH of intensive talks designed to cobble together a new coalition government in Germany ended late Sunday night when the pro-business Free Democratic...
Brown brings back Mandelson to fight the trade unions
WITH the financial storm clouds starting to burst around him, Prime Minister Brown has established with his cabinet reshuffle that he means every word...
US Economy Declines – As States Go Bust!
THE former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, has warned that the US economy is heading towards a deepening of the slump...
War on welfare – revolution the only way forward
Yesterday, more than two million people on Incapacity Benefit found themselves officially labelled by the Tory-LibDem coalition as scroungers and parasites living off the...
Global gas crisis busting EU and NATO apart! Forward to United Socialist States of...
A MAJOR global gas crisis has brought the crisis of the EU and the NATO military alliance to a head. The wholesale cost of gas...
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...
Labour saves Cameron
Just six weeks in power and the Tory government are so weak and divided that they can only survive through the treacherous support of...
Hands off Palestine – no annexations! Arab workers must remove ‘recognition’ regimes!
FOLLOWING the refusal of the Arab League to condemn the UAE for its recognition of the state of Israel, Bahrain has now followed the...
Socialist revolution is only way to resolve the ‘epic clash’ between bankrupt capitalism and...
It is not just British capitalism that is facing a financial crisis; the entire world capitalist system is being strangled by debt, and with...
Israel steps up brutal attacks on Palestinians
OVER the New Year the killing of Palestinian men women and children has continued unabated and in the most brutal fashion. On Sunday Israeli forces...
Israel closes Irish embassy in fury over Ireland’s recognition of Palestine and its support...
THE DECISION by the Israeli regime on Sunday to close its embassy in Dublin brought a swift response from Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister) Simon...
Labour smashed in Gorton and Denton! It is now time to organise the British...
LABOUR’S spectacular defeat in Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election in Manchester, although expected, has driven deep splits and recriminations within the party. Hannah Spencer, the...
£1.6 billion stock market sell off as capitalism crashes. Forward to world socialism!
THE amount withdrawn from equity funds last month was £1.6bn as the bosses panicked that PM Burnham will be forced to put up taxes....
TUC must call a general strike to halt Tory drive to runaway inflation and...
US stocks have made huge losses after a major sell-off last Friday on Wall Street. By Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly...
AMCU rejects corporatist agreement with SA bosses
THE decision by the South African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) not to sign the Framework Agreement for a Sustainable Mining Industry...
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...
Israel threatens to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza
THE DAILY Telegraph reported at the weekend that they had been told by two Israeli officials that daily ‘violations’ by the Palestinian resistance movement...
Occupy And Nationalise UK Gm Plants Now!
BOTH Spain and the UK have refused to sign the Memorandum of Understanding that binds together the Magna-Sberbank-GM deal under which there are...
End the legal thievery of the super-rich with expropriation and a socialist revolution!
THE SECRET hidden world of the mega rich, giant corporations, hedge funds, politicians, heads of State and the Queen has had the spotlight thrown...
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...
Israel military in crisis – calls up 60,000 reservists to occupy Gaza City
ON MONDAY Hamas reported that the group had agreed terms for a ceasefire plan for Gaza that calls for a 60-day pause in fighting...
Starmer pledges billions for military while doctors and nurses are hired to work in...
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Washington yesterday for a first meeting with President Trump since his inauguration last month. The situation in Ukraine...
Accept £4 billion of London NHS cuts or pay for treatment says NHS England
LONDON Hospitals are at ‘breaking point’ according to a report from NHS England over a £4 billion funding gap. NHS England (London region) director Dr...
Out With Prescott And Blair – Forward To A Workers’ Government
LAST month, Prime Minister Blair announced that John Prescott would not be resigning as Deputy Prime Minister, and that, in fact, he would go...
UN Forces Quit Mitrovica
THE divided town of Mitrovica was in turmoil yesterday morning, after UNMIK police and KFOR troops, in a major provocation, stormed a local court...
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...
Trade Unions Must Not Stand By And Watch NHS Being Closed!
ON Thursday evening hundreds of Enfield residents were led by the North East London Council of Action into Chase Farm hospital to protest at...
Revolution and counter- revolution in the Middle East
EGYPTIAN workers and youth have reoccupied Tahrir Square in Cairo, and are keeping the military and the police at bay, following Saturday’s deadly clashes...
Workers must apply ‘French tactics’ against a parliament that is trying to steal Brexit!
BRITISH parliamentary democracy was exposed as nothing more than a chaotic and rapidly collapsing sham on Tuesday when, for the first time in history,...
GM-Magna workers unite! Occupy and nationalise to save jobs!
GM WORKERS are rising up all over Europe against the GM-Magna deal, under which plants in Spain and the UK and Belgium are to...
Defend benefits! down with ‘universal credit’!
THE announcement yesterday that the work and pensions minister, Iain Duncan Smith, had won his battle with the treasury over bringing in a single ‘universal...
Jordan On The Brink Of Revolution
JORDAN has announced huge 76 per cent fuel price increases. In a statement the Jordanian government said that domestic fuel and kerosene prices had...
STPs are an agency of international capitalism, a Trojan Horse for the privatisation...
THE TORY Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) have been shrouded in secrecy right from the start as the Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, did...
EU law being used to slash wages and attack unions
THE wave of ‘wildcat strikes’ that are taking place in power stations and oil terminals throughout the UK have the full support of the...
Entwistle Put To The Sword
THE crisis of the capitalist state is rapidly deepening after the just-appointed ex-Director General of the BBC, George Entwistle, was publicly put to the...
5.5 million households live in ‘fuel poverty’
THE number of UK households in fuel poverty rose by one million in 2009 to 5.5 million. The figures from the Department of Energy...
With Dick’s Promotion The Capitalist State Shows It Is The Boss
COMMANDER Cressida Dick is to become a deputy assistant commissioner, the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) announced on Tuesday. On July 22 2005 Dick was in...
No single market! No Customs Union! TUC call a general strike to...
THE DIVISIONS within the Tory Party are rapidly sharpening, with an ever widening gulf between those who want to remain in the EU and...
The 1% NHS pay award is a slap in the face for all trade...
THE trade unions are unanimous in their condemnation of the 1% pay award for NHS workers. Even the TUC, which considers PM May to be...
Labour launches jobs massacre – savage benefit cuts and tax rises ahead!
JUST two days after the Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spring mini-budget ‘to grow the economy’ out of economic collapse, thousands and thousands of job losses...
Tories declare war on trade unions – defend the right to strike with a...
TODAY’S Queen’s speech includes plans by the Tories to make all-out strikes by rail unions and other transport workers illegal. Tory transport secretary Grant Shapps...
Labour NEC says it will take back control over funds
PRIME MINISTER Blair yesterday suffered a setback when the Labour Party’s NEC decided that it was going to take back control over the party’s...
A Record £65.5 Billion Trade Deficit For 2005
THE UK trade deficit with the rest of the world for 2005 was a catastrophic £65.5 billion. The deficit on goods and services...
Rail fares and inflation are let rip – as wages and benefits are frozen...
RAIL commuters were protesting at Waterloo Station in London yesterday after they heard that ticket price rises of between 8% and 13% are to...