UN expert slams group of democratic states for ‘psychological torture’ of Julian Assange
The United Nations expert on torture has condemned the psychological torture inflicted on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying: ‘In 20 years of work with...
Bush arrives in Middle East for war talks
US President George W Bush said he saw a new opportunity for peace in the Holy Land as he arrived in Israel on Wednesday...
Second wave drives deaths up by 98%! Get rid of capitalism now … it’s...
THE SECOND wave of coronavirus has hit the UK with devastating consequences, and the Tory government’s efforts at bringing in measures to curb the...
Brown justifies anti-union action and pay cuts
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown insisted yesterday that meagre pay rises, that are phased in and amount to a pay cut, will be imposed by...
Johnson refuses to resign – organise a general strike to kick him and the...
BORIS Johnson opened prime minister’s question time yesterday by apologising for giving the impression that lockdown rules, imposed by his Tory government, had not...
Pro-Palestinian hunger strikers in immediate danger of dying as Lammy refuses to meet with...
On Saturday, two of the prisoners on hunger strike were taken to hospital, the latest of eight prisoners admitted to hospital since they began...
US imperialism is on collision course with the rest of the world in the...
IMMEDIATELY following the US illegal attack and kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro last Friday, the Trump administration has placed US imperialism on a...
No State Control Of The Media
THE Leveson report into media standards has been given to Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of its official publication today. The PM and deputy PM...
4.5m on the housing waiting list!
THE National Housing Federation (NHF) complains that the government has missed its home-building target for the last seven years and that the housing crisis...
British capitalism is stuck in the mire of slump!
THE UK’s public sector net borrowing hit a record high of £20.3 billion in November, official figures show. The figure was the highest for any...
Torturers must pay for their crimes!
YESTERDAY’S announcement by the coalition government that it has agreed to make huge payments to former detainees at the notorious Guantanamo Bay concentration camp...
Time to expropriate the banks and jail the bankers
THIS week has seen the essence of the banking fraternity emerge after HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, which was rescued by the UK taxpayers in...
Israel lurches further right as Defence Minister Yaalon resigns!
THE resignation yesterday of the Israeli defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, signals a sharp turn to the right by the government of Binyamin Netanyahu. Yaalon announced...
RMT to strike during COP26! The trade unions must follow RMT lead and strike...
STRIKE action during COP26 (The United Nations Climate Change Conference), from Sunday October 31 to Friday 12 November, is to go ahead after the...
The TUC Congress must demand that the State of Palestine is established from the...
THE Palestinian Centre for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared has called on the international community to take serious and effective action to compel Israel...
‘Refugees are not Terrorists’ – the real terrorists are the bosses and bankers
LAST Saturday thousands of refugees and their supporters marched through the streets of the Italian capital, Rome, venting their anger over the police attack...
Woodley And Barber Know No Shame!
Trade union leaders in Europe have warned that the present ‘spectacular growth’ of the private equity venture capitalist deals is ‘unsustainable’ and ‘stoking up...
Defeat BA’s union busting! All out in support of the cabin crew!
ON THE eve of the four-day strike by British Airways cabin crew, which begins today, the company’s Chief Executive Willie Walsh stepped up his...
US warns Pakistan over gas pipeline link with Iran
THE Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on Monday officially inaugurated the final construction phase of the Iran-Pakistan gas...
Tory coalition aims to smash council housing and housing benefit!
IN his Emergency Budget, the Tory Chancellor Osborne said his government’s intention was to eliminate the ‘structural current deficit’ of the government by cutting...
Capitalism’s ‘Ship Of Fools’ Heading For The Rocks!
WHEN the most right-wing Tory supporting newspaper in the country turns on the Tory government, accusing it of gross incompetence and heading for disaster,...
Gate Gourmet Locked Out Workers Refused Entry To Tuc Congress
YESTERDAY the leadership of the TGWU refused entry, as visitors, to the TUC Congress to some 20 locked out Gate Gourmet workers who have...
Bank interest rate rise deepens capitalist crisis
THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee raised its base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.75 per cent yesterday. This was the first...
Sunak Wants A War With Russia And A Class War Against The Working Class...
THE British ruling class has decided that there is only one way out of the historic crisis of British capitalism, and that is to...
Revisionists in alliance with Tory right-winger Ian Duncan Smith
AT a time when the crisis of the Labour government is reaching the point of explosion, the WRP and the Young Socialists are calling...
Build The Revolutionary Leadership Amongst Youth And Workers Worldwide
THE development of the world capitalist crisis is now affecting every section of the working class and the poor in every part of the...
Homeless deaths are rapidly increasing! Capitalism is rotten! Only socialism can take society...
THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has produced a new report which says that the true number of people sleeping on the streets ‘far exceeds’...
Short-term contracts driving teachers out of the profession
THE EIS (Educational Institute of Scotland) has warned that the increasing use of short-term contracts in Scottish schools is driving many newly qualified teachers...
Cameron the assassin
WITH his announcement on Monday that he had personally authorised the killing by drone of two young British citizens in Syria, Cameron revealed himself...
TUC – Time To Stop Talking! Call General Strike Now To Kick Out The...
THE TUC last Friday ‘reaffirmed’ its calls on the government to take over the running of P&O Ferries passenger and freight services ‘as a...
Teachers must not fight alone – TUC must call a general strike
The annual conferences of the two largest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, meeting at the weekend heard that the unions and the...
The UK banks were rescued – Now the Tories are throwing the steel industry...
LABOUR PM Gordon Brown, after the financial collapse in 2008 and with the full support of the Tories, rescued the UK banks from their...
Hamas Political Bureau member Basem Naim calls for new roadmap to implement ceasefire!
A MEMBER of Hamas’s political bureau, Basem Naim, has criticised Board of Peace representative Nickolay Mladenov for publishing a new roadmap to implement phase...
Scrap the Tory Health and Care Bill – it is a ‘privateers’ charter for...
TORY PM Johnson’s new Health and Care Bill currently going through Parliament, is a fresh attack on the NHS by a Conservative Party that...
The whole world rages at the persecution of the Palestinians yet the TUC still...
PALESTINE’S UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the UN Security Council to ensure ‘protection’ for Palestinians, who have increasingly come under deadly attacks...
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...
Tories’ Enabling Act Brings In Open Bourgeois Dictatorship
THE UK government in alliance with the Labour Party has over a three-day period pushed through an emergency law, the Data Retention and Investigatory...
Ruling class prepared to dump weak Johnson and move to dictatorial rule to wage...
THIS WEEK the Tories were warned by leading financiers and bankers that a quarter of a million firms in the UK will be crushed...
Blair Wants To Split The Labour Party And Join With Remain Tories And Lib-Dems!
THE DEPTH of the crisis of the UK ruling class can be gauged by the fact that they have been forced to bring the...
Renationalise the steel industry – the only way forward for steel workers
ON Wednesday, it was announced that the lengthy negotiations between Tata Steel and the German steel conglomerate, Thyssen-Krupp, have been concluded and that a...
Desperate Tories frantically witchhunt Corbyn – put them out on June 8th!
WITH just ten days to go before voting takes place in Theresa May’s snap general election the Tories are in a state of acute...
Hammond on the rocks of bankrupt British capitalism!
CHANCELLOR Hammond began his Autumn statement yesterday by saying, ‘Our task now is to prepare our economy to be resilient as we exit the...
Time for the working class to bury British capitalism
Sir Gus O’Donnell, the most senior civil servant in the country, has broken cover with the public admission that the crisis of the capitalist...
Tory new definition of terrorism in a crackdown on all opposition to Zionist...
MICHAEL Gove, the Tory Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, is due this week to unveil plans to ban individuals and...
Afghan Fall Out – Gates Attacks UK Defeatists
US Defence Secretary Gates has condemned as ‘defeatist’ a comment by the British commander in Afghanistan that the war there cannot be won. Speaking...