Blair criminalising an entire nation
YESTERDAY the Labour government was carrying on with its campaign to demonise the country’s youth, reaching truly laughable levels of trivial pursuit. Its supporter,...
US Trade Unions At The Crossroads
THE most powerful capitalist economy in the world is now living on a veritable knife edge, liable at any moment to crash spectacularly, bringing...
CWU must spread the action to the entire public sector
THE reality of the situation facing postal workers is that after two series of mass strike actions during which they have shown they are...
Trump escalates trade war with China – Only Socialist Revolution can end crisis of...
THE WORLD’S stock markets fell dramatically on Tuesday following US president Donald Trump’s latest move to ratchet up US capitalism’s trade war with China...
US bombings condemned as a War Crime
THE medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has rightly denounced the targeted bombing by US planes of its medical centre in the...
Now The Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Defend The NHS By Bringing...
NHS CONSULTANTS in England today begin two more days of industrial action, and have announced further strike dates in October, demonstrating their commitment to...
Union must end all ‘positive engagement’ with the employers – only occupations and strikes...
A STORM has erupted over the revelations that a taskforce set up in 2017, with the object of protecting the future of the Ford...
No escape for capitalism as stock markets crash
ON THE very day that Boris Johnson hailed the start of the economic bounce-back for capitalism with a return to work, the international stock...
Tory Crisis Deepens As Economy Crashes And Coronavirus Surges!
‘WE WERE hoping for a V: a rapid economic bounceback. We would have probably settled for a W: a wobbly recovery, with dips along...
As world crisis deepens the UK working class needs to take power and bring...
THE working class of the world faces a revolutionary autumn and winter, as the major imperialist powers step up their war in the Ukraine...
Tuc Congress Leaders Refuse To Fight!
ON Sunday at the TUC Congress delegates voted unanimously to defend the right to strike, with GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny declaring: ‘If the...
MPs want a secret inquiry into the Afghan debacle and defeat!
THE UK government should set up an inquiry into ‘lessons learned’ after troops withdraw from Afghanistan at the end of this year, the MPs...
Israeli unions are striking for a Gaza ceasefire! The UK TUC must call a...
A NATIONWIDE strike swept across Israel yesterday, intensifying the mass pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree an immediate cease-fire and a prisoner...
Break with the EU – Forward to the British socialist revolution and Socialist United...
THE POLITICAL and economic crisis over Brexit has reached explosion point this week, with negotiations between the Tory government and the leaders of the...
Capitalism in deflationary crisis
THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday unveiled a report entitled ‘Better Off Britain’ which it claimed offered a radical blueprint to raise living standards...
Hands off Iran – NO British Troops in the Middle East and...
‘IT simply is not true that they went into Iranian territorial waters and I hope the Iranian government understands how fundamental an issue this...
End futile talks with Israel! Forward to Palestinian state!
AHMAD Sa''adat, secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and Marwan al-Barghouthi, member of the Fatah Central Committee, have...
OPCW aided Douma cover-up and the massive imperialist air strike that was launched by...
A JUST-LEAKED report by the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) engineers contradicts the chemical watchdog’s official report on the April 2018...
Blair demands end of EU farm subsidies
THE knives are out between the British ruling class and its Franco-German opposite numbers. The press conference at the end of Blair’s visit to Moscow,...
PM And Chancellor Sunak Forced To Self Isolate As Labour Continues Its Support For...
THE Prime Minister and Chancellor are to ‘now self-isolate as normal’ after both met with Health Secretary Sajid Javid who had tested positively for...
Brown’s bonanza for City speculators
ALMOST a third of Britain’s 700 biggest businesses paid no corporation tax in 2005-2006, according to a study carried out by the official National...
Shutting down News of the World won’t end Murdoch-Cameron crisis
RUPERT Murdoch has moved with great ruthlessness to try to make sure that he takes over BSkyB by shutting down the News of the...
US Trade Unions Ready To Take Action To Bring Down Trump!
IN AN unprecedented move, the American trade union AFL-CIO federation (the US equivalent of the TUC) issued a statement last Friday warning that the...
Tories want to criminalise anyone ‘undermining’ capitalism
ON SATURDAY, the Guardian reported that the Tories are working towards a new definition of ‘extremism’ that includes anyone who ‘undermines British institutions or...
NHS crisis can only be resolved by kicking out the Tories and going forward...
THE Commons Health and Social Care Committee of MPs yesterday published a report calling on the Tory government to come up with a ‘long...
Children starve in Britain while bankers reap billions
IN the same week that the capitalist banking system was exposed as a centre of criminal venality, lying and cheating in order to secure...
Truss demands war across Europe to crush Russia!
IN A KEYNOTE foreign policy speech at London’s Mansion House last night, Tory foreign secretary Liz Truss dispensed with the fiction of the imperialist...
Bankers gripped by fear are relying on ‘hope’!
THE new Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), Charles Bean said yesterday that when the so-called ‘credit crunch’ began last August central...
Two State Solution Was A Trap For Palestinians
ISRAEL’S tactic in the ongoing ‘peace talks’ with the Palestine National Authority has been to carry on stalling, for the last ten years, agreeing...
People forced into debt to pay for private treatment as Tories slash the NHS!
69,000 PEOPLE were forced to pay for private medical treatment in the final three months of last year, according to figures from the Private...
Knives Out Inside The Tory Party– Time For The Working Class To Bring Them...
AS THE Tory party implodes, and the lynch mob search mounts for the author or authors of the ‘Dirty Dossier’ that named 40MPs and...
Outsourcing companies facing ruin – socialist revolution is the only answer!
IT IS almost exactly one year since the dramatic collapse into bankruptcy and compulsory liquidation of the giant outsourcing and construction company Carillion. At the...
Karzai calls for rethink, as Taleban attacks mount
THE Afghan ‘government’ has called for a rethink of the US-led fight against the Taleban, after heavy casualties to civilians caused by US air...
Trade unions must take action to boycott Israel, and halt all arms supplies!
ISRAELI warplanes struck multiple targets across the Gaza Strip on Friday after a 72-hour ceasefire agreement ended at 8am, killing a child and injuring...
Thieves fall out in the European Union!
YESTERDAY the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, wielded the British veto over the Franco-German proposals to try and prop up the collapsing euro through...
BMA calls for arbitration while the Tories prepare a class war – It’s time...
IN THE midst of the historic four days of strike action by junior doctors this week, the leadership of the BMA have resorted to...
Tuc Must Call General Strike To Win The Rail Dispute And Go Forward To...
WITH a Civil War raging inside the completely split Tory Party there could be no better time for taking on the Tory regime, defeating...
French Government Passes Pensions ‘Reforms’ Without A Vote!
THE French government has chosen the moment – when France, Europe and the world is obsessed by the coronavirus crisis – to launch a...
Step Up The Struggle For Palestine
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas has pledged that he will submit a resolution to the UN Security Council to make a decision that the Israeli occupation...
Money No Object For Privatising Schools
A REPORT published yesterday by the public spending watchdog the National Audit Office reveals the massive amount of money the Tory-led coalition is prepared...
Germany’s two largest banks in merger talks, creating Europe’s biggest ‘zombie bank’
LAST weekend the two largest German banks, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, entered merger talks in a last desperate measure to delay a banking collapse...
UK Workers Are Threatened By Covid-19 Mutations – Trade Unions Must Bring Down Tories...
HOSPITALS in the south of England say they have seen a ‘real rise in pressure’ as the number of Covid patients needing treatment rapidly...
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...
The Not So Great Recovery!
THE UK economy grew by 0.8% in the second quarter of 2014, official figures are said to show. The figures, from the Office for National...
Truss portrays herself as Thatcher’s heir as Tories scheme to make war on the...
ON TUESDAY Tory Foreign Secretary Liz Truss used a photo opportunity to stake out her bid to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. The photo...