Tories to slash public services by £17bn
UK PUBLIC services will be slashed by up to £17 billion, the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned, as Tory chancellor Rishi...
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...
Security Council extends Iraq occupation mandate
THE imperialists and their Chinese and Russian stooges on the UN Security Council have extended the mandate of the US-led occupation armies in Iraq,...
Mass Electoral Abstentions Show That French Capitalism Is Rotten! It Must Be Overthrown...
FRENCH bourgeois democracy, and with it French capitalism, is ‘sick’, and both are in a huge existential crisis. On Sunday, a record two-thirds of...
Greek students defeat privatisation attack
THE Greek right-wing government has been forced to withdraw its plans to push through the Greek parliament, an Education Bill, and a revision of...
Capitalist state steps back from the brink!
BRITISH Airways cabin crew cheered and danced and celebrated yesterday morning. They sang ‘We are the Champions’ after their strength forced a panel...
Capitalism Is In Its Greatest Ever Crisis. Now Is The Time To Organise The...
DURING stock market trading last Friday more than £12.8bn was wiped off the value of the UK’s bank stocks as the rumours of ‘bad...
Rail strike ‘solid and determined’ as passengers join union in demanding re-nationalisation
YESTERDAY’S strike by RMT guards working for the privateer Southern rail network was ‘rock solid’, with RMT general secretary Mick Cash saying: ‘The resilience...
Workers Must Support Corbyn Against The Tory And Labour Witch-Hunters!
THE BOURGEOIS media and Labour’s right wing pro-Zionists have no shame, as their attempts to label Labour leader Corbyn an anti-Semite show – otherwise...
GERMAN ELECTIONS: Workers deliver a blow to free market ‘reforms’
AFTER Sunday’s General Election, Germany did not have a Chancellor, or a government yesterday. This plunged the country into a huge economic and political...
One Year Of The Egyptian Revolution!
HUNDREDS of thousands of Egyptian workers and youth gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday to mark one year since the start of the revolution...
British capitalism bankrupt, backward and stuck at the bottom!
UK unemployment fell by 57,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to May, leaving the unemployed rate stuck at 7.8% in the UK,...
British capitalism can afford wars but not benefits!
BOTH Prime Minister Blair and Chancellor Brown insisted yesterday, in support of Works and Pensions minister Hutton, that single parents must look for work...
US not winning in Afghanistan admits US military chief
ADMIRAL Mullen the US chief of the general staff has stated that he is not convinced that the US is winning the war in...
Time For Action To Defend The NHS!
YESTERDAY both the RCN nurses and the Royal College of Physicians made it perfectly clear that the time has arrived when action to defend...
Workers’ rights can only be secured by revolution
YESTERDAY the former ‘hammer’ of the teachers trade unions, Michael Gove, the new Justice Secretary who wants to abolish the Human Rights Act, was...
Judge Dismisses CWU Appeal In A Few Minutes – Time For A General Strike...
IT TOOK just minutes yesterday for three High Court judges to hear and dismiss an appeal by the postal workers union (CWU) against an...
Cameron and Tories in crisis
THE understanding that in times of acute capitalist crisis the ruling class can no longer rule in the old way is being borne out...
Vote WRP, forward to the socialist revolution!
PM Brown yesterday announced that the general election will be held on 6 May and told voters Labour will take the ‘big decisions’ that...
A police-Fire Service merger is a Tory plan to destroy FBU and reorganise state...
THE news that has emerged that the Tory police and crime commissioner for Northamptonshire, Adam Simmonds, has been in secret talks for twelve weeks...
Routine NHS operations to be privatised!
Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS medical director, has said that private companies will be asked to carry out routine operations to relieve pressure on...
Unemployment at 7.7 per cent – food banks facing huge demand
UK jobless officially fell to 2.49m in the latest government figures, for the three months to August, showing a slight fall of 18,000, not...
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...
Targeted assassination of journalists as Zionist regime plans military occupation and massacre of Palestinians...
LATE on Sunday, a deliberate Israeli drone attack hit a tent for journalists located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, killing...
War on Iran expands threatening to crash stock markets and drive inflation
THE US and the Israeli regime ramped up their war against Iran and the people of the Middle East yesterday with an increased bombardment...
Treat the Council Tax as you did the Poll Tax!
THE Council Tax is set to rise by four per cent on average this year, more than double the government’s current rate of inflation...
US planning peace talks while building Gaza’s ‘wall of steel’
IT seems that the United States is preparing the ground to make the Palestinians an offer that they will not be able to refuse...
US, UK And Eu Workers Must Act To Support Venezuelan Revolution!
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that he will not betray his country by yielding to Washington’s plan for regime change in Caracas, adding...
Starmer announces creation of a ‘standing army’ as the Labour government moves to impose...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer emerged from an emergency COBRA meeting of ministers on Monday to announce the formation of a new ‘standing army’...
Tory party split over huge NI tax rise – It is time for the...
THE TORY government is being ripped apart from top to bottom, with every day bringing new reports of ministers fighting amongst themselves in a...
Attack on FBU an attack on every worker – defend the right to strike...
THE TORY move to make strikes illegal and ban trade unions stepped up yesterday with the official annual report on the fire service. The report...
Reformists and Stalinists seek to break Greek teachers’ struggle
THE confrontation between Greek teachers and the Greek state and its EU masters has erupted this week after all teachers were served at the...
Put Blair On Trial!
THE Fern Britton interview with Tony Blair on the BBC yesterday, squashed all of the notions that are being peddled that Blair was just...
Israeli land robbery continues as Human Rights Watch condemns Hamas!
ISRAEL has ordered Palestinian landowners to evacuate their land in the town of Tuqu’ in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli authorities...
Slump ‘deepening at an alarming pace’
THE British Chambers of Commerce yesterday published its Fourth Quarter Economic Survey of nearly 6,000 businesses. It highlights what it called ‘a...
British Capitalist Economy Down The Pan!
THE latest Office of National Statistics (ONS) GDP figures show two quarters – six months – of zero growth in the British capitalist...
Thousands of jobs threatened at Bridgend, Luton and Ellesmere Port!
YESTERDAY Unite leader McCluskey was at the Bridgend plant in south Wales to address the three shifts of workers at separate meetings on the...
UK Trade Unions Must Boycott Israel And Give Financial And Political Support To Palestinian...
THE new Israeli government, which includes known fascists, is now engaging in murderous attacks on the Palestinian people as it pushes to create many...
Blair Demands More Police State Measures
AT A TIME when his office is on trial over the state execution of Jean Charles de Menezes, Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair...
A British ‘barbaric act of aggression’ in Basra
THE Labour Government’s Defence Secretary, John Reid, declared yesterday that sending six Warrior tanks to demolish the wall of a prison compound in Basra,...
CIA Using Diego Garcia As A Torture Centre
NO WONDER both the British and US governments are absolutely determined that none of the Chagos Islanders be allowed to return to their...
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...
Workers must welcome all refugees and fight alongside them to get rid of capitalism!
THE FRENCH government is to raze the Calais refugee camp to the ground ‘within days’, forcibly removing every man, woman and child. After six months...
UK Workers Must Continue To Welcome Refugees And Organise To Smash Bankrupt Capitalism!
SINCE September, homeless people, including homeless asylum seekers and refugees, have been unceremoniously dumped back onto the streets of the UK. A study published in...
UK, US And EU Workers And Youth Must Support Iranian Revolution – The Enemy...
FRESH from his failure to grab Greenland US President Donald Trump has turned his attention to the Iranian Revolution and issued his warning to...