Tories engineer NHS ‘humanitarian crisis!’
OVER the weekend the British Red Cross made a call on the May government to allocate the necessary funds for health and social care,...
NHS staffing crisis – only solution kick out the Tories!
THE shortage of NHS staff in England has reached the point where patients are being warned that they will have to get used to...
US threatens Iran and Venezuela
YESTERDAY the United States Secretary of Defence and Secretary of State, Gates and Clinton, threatened Iran with extreme sanctions if it insisted on its...
IMF: World faces £9.5tn Covid bill as capitalism crashes into bankruptcy
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned yesterday that the Covid-19 crisis could cost the global economy a staggering £9.5 trillion in the biggest hit...
Afghan war not worth fighting, say British workers
SIR Jock Stirrup, the British army commander, has admitted that the great majority of the British people are opposed to the imperialist war in...
PFI debts are strangling NHS
LAST Friday, the ‘independent’ health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), finally issued its report on healthcare provision at the Barts Healthcare Trust,...
The working class will refuse to bail out the banks – only socialist ...
LLOYDS Bank, Britain’s biggest high street lender, yesterday announced that its profits for the first half of 2020 had been wiped out and that...
Forward to the State of Palestine – from the river to the sea –...
IN a telephone conversation yesterday, President Mahmoud Abbas and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the latest developments in Palestine, especially in light of...
Johnson pledges to send British troops to fight Russia in Nordic countries!
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson fancies himself as the ‘great dictator’. On Wednesday, he pledged to send British troops to defend Sweden and Finland from...
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...
Syria’s victory over the imperialist powers will transform Middle East
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad confirmed yesterday that his government will pardon all ‘militants’ who turn in their weapons, stressing that the policy has been...
Lobby TUC Sept 9 to demand break from EU now and for a general...
THE REMAINER MPs have been dealt a minor blow by the Scottish courts. A Scottish judge has refused to order an immediate halt to...
Trade unions must break with Blair and Brown to keep the Tories out
THE right wing of the Labour Party was shaken to its core yesterday after Monday’s meeting of the General Council of the Scottish...
Build The Wrp And The Ys – Forward To The British Socialist Revolution
NOW is the time to build the WRP and the Young Socialists into the leadership of the working class and the student youth...
Balls reveals intense ruling class fear
ED BALLS, the Schools Minister, and the former economics advisor to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, over the weekend dropped his political master right...
Putin And Lavrov Come To Obama’s Rescue!
OBAMA had been facing massive opposition in every State of the Union, with opinion polls saying that he faced defeat in any Congressional vote...
Free The Prisoners Says Hamas And Stop Zionist Gaza Aggression!
‘LET Christmas celebrations be a global occasion to intensify all forms of global solidarity, to stop the Zionist aggression on Gaza,’ the Hamas Movement...
Victory to Syria – down with imperialism and Stalinism!
THE Syrian war has reached a ‘stalemate’ and President Bashar al-Assad’s government will call for a ceasefire at the Geneva conference on the state’s...
The ‘bank of central bankers’ warns new banking collapse imminent
THE Swiss based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has just issued its starkest warning yet that the entire debt fuelled international banking system is...
The Banking Standards Commission selects three scapegoats for the capitalist crisis
THE farcically misnamed Banking Standards Commission (as if the banks had any standards) was created to try and prevent an even bigger banking collapse...
Airbus Workers Take To The Streets!
STRIKES and protest marches are taking place at Airbus plants in France and Germany for a third day after it was announced that over...
Imperialism Risks Armageddon in Gulf
The news this week, that the army and security services have informed government ministers that there is a ‘25% to 50% chance’ that there...
Trade unions must call a general strike to support the state of Palestine. Turn...
THE President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, has received US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at the presidential headquarters in the city...
Unemployment is soaring! Defending the ‘right to work’ means getting rid of capitalism!
UNEMPLOYMENT is set to soar to levels not seen since The Great Depression, the ‘Hungry 1930s’, when workers starved. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)...
Blair puts ‘the country’ before the Labour Party
BLAIR came clean on at least one issue at his monthly press conference and that was where his loyalties lie. They definitely do not lie...
Close the EU’s concentration camps!
THE agreement between the EU and Turkey on dealing with the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist-inspired wars in the Middle East has...
Osborne seeking showdown with unions
ON Thursday the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, made an emergency statement to parliament on the international economic crisis that is engulfing British capitalism to...
Cameron Get Out – follow Harper’s lead!
HARD-LINE Tory immigration minister Mark Harper has just resigned after he admitted that he was employing a cleaner who was not legally entitled to...
Children Going To School Hungry!
THE survey by the ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) into child poverty has exposed what the reality of bankrupt capitalism means for millions...
Bp Leads Shares Crash As Banking Crisis Grows!
OIL giant BP’s share price has fallen nearly 17 per cent to £4.12, its lowest level since March 2009. The sharp sell-off came as it...
Tories are planning a state of emergency so as to ban all strikes!
AT prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Rishi Sunak told MPs that he was planning ‘tough’ legislation to outlaw strikes completely. However, the right wing press...
Restore the free NHS! Halt privatisation & kick out the profiteers!
THE House of Commons Select Committee on Health published a report yesterday that set out to legitimise charging for healthcare within the National Health...
US fears its forces can’t fight war on two fronts
THE scale of the insurgency in both Iraq and Afghanistan has got the Pentagon rattled. It fears that the US strategic requirement, to be...
Ex–Blairite Short Reveals Blair Coup Against Cabinet
CLARE SHORT, one-time International Development Minister, revealed to the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday just how Blair, with the aid of Goldsmith, deceived the Cabinet and...
Ireland – hurtling towards a socialist revolution
THE right-wing Fine Gael party is set to form a coalition with its traditional partner, the right-wing Labour party, after a ‘political revolution’ which...
135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians tortured and murdered in Israeli prisons returned to Gaza
THE Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that officials from Gaza’s health ministry had told it that at least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by...
DECISIVE ACTION NEEDED TO DEfEND THE NHS AND WELFARE STATE
On Tuesday, NHS North West London announced that it would close A&E departments at Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing Hospitals. Two million west...
Brown’s National Economic Council ‘war cabinet’ will be making war on the workers
‘WE have agreed to make a solemn engagement as heads of state and government to support banking and financial institutions faced with the crisis,’...
Hunt left in place to spearhead NHS Privatisation!
ANYONE naive enough to believe for one second the promise made by the new Tory leader that dumping former chancellor George Osborne and replacing...
Time To Get The Tories Out!
CAMERON’S great achievement thus far has been to use the capitalist slump to push society backwards so that the rich are getting richer and...
Britain an economic ‘basket case’ – time to end capitalist crisis with Socialist Revolution
Yesterday, Roger Bootle, a senior advisor to Capital Economics, wrote in the Daily Telegraph an article headlined ‘Basket case Britain is back – and...
Russian & Chinese Stalinists support US threats against Iran
THE Chinese and Russian representatives at a meeting of the five permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council and Germany on...
Head teachers up in arms – schools being cut to the bone! All-out strike...
MORE than 7,000 heads have written a joint letter to 3.5 million families warning of the acute funding crisis in schools. The heads insist...
TUC must call general strike to bring down the Tories, and nationalise the banks...
WITH the Tories set to decide whether they want Boris Johnson or Sunak to continue with the job of completely destroying all of the...
Zionists ramp up attack on Rafah as fierce fighting breaks out in the north...
THE ISRAELI regime intensified its genocidal attack on the southern city of Rafah, which sits on the border with Egypt, over the weekend. Yesterday, Israeli...