Balls’ conscription for 16 to 18 year olds
SCHOOLS Secretary and chairman of the Fabian Society Ed Balls, has already made his mark in Britain. Before he became a minister he was part...
Imperialism Playing With Syrian Fire
SYRIA’S Ba’athist leader Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western action against his country will cause an ‘earthquake’ that will ‘burn the whole region’, and...
Bourgeoisie In A Panic Over Scotland
POLLS showing that the campaign for Scottish independence could win the referendum, due to take place in nine days time, has caused panic amongst...
Build councils of action to support the postal workers
‘THIS has been the best-supported strike I’ve ever seen,’ CWU General Secretary, Billy Hayes told striking postal workers in Peckham yesterday. This was after the...
300,000 march on Downing Street for Palestine. TUC must call a general strike for...
THE Palestinian factions are standing fast! They have said that they will not sign any agreement or deal unless the people’s demands are achieved,...
ECB interest rate cut is last throw of the dice. Forward with European socialist...
ON Thursday afternoon Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), announced that the bank has cut its benchmark interest rate from 0.5%...
Disband the Met and the entire police force that serves only the interests of...
WHILE the TUC and trade union leaders frantically cancelled strikes and conferences as a ‘mark of respect’ over the death of 96-year-old Elizabeth II,...
The CWU leaders are refusing to fight for their membership
THE unsolicited public display of pacifism yesterday by the CWU leadership, in the face of the most vicious daily attacks on their membership...
Sainsbury Gets Out While The Going Is Good
WITH the police closing in to interview him under caution about the cash for peerages scandal, and after his government has been stunned by...
More and more repression in Brown’s Queen’s Speech
THE Queen’s Speech yesterday outlined yet more attacks in the coming parliament on workers and youth in Britain by the Brown government, alongside a...
NATO warmongers meet in Brussels
NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the ‘long-term security implications’ of Russia’s response to the US-UK-EU inspired coup in Kiev, and...
Defend North Korea against imperialist threats
THE government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced yesterday that it would ‘no longer be bound’ by the armistice that...
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...
UK Economy Gripped By Slump And Inflation
UK economic growth ground to a halt between April and June, according to the latest official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
Only Socialist Revolution will end capitalist inequality
The US is on the verge of slipping below bankrupt Greece on a world index of wealth inequality – this is the stark conclusion...
Chaos reigns as Tory Chancellor gets instructions from IMF and advice from Strictly Come...
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has delivered a thinly veiled instruction to the Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, to scrap his autumn budget statement due...
Austerity and Universal Credit to continue!
TORY chancellor Philip Hammond made a climb down in his budget speech yesterday to Theresa May, but there was no climb down over continuing...
US civil war on unions – forward with world revolution
The civil war by US capitalism against its own working class has erupted with a vengeance in the state of Wisconsin. In this state, the...
Tories plan to pauperise and then privatise the NHS – make the TUC...
IN ITS WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL the Daily Telegraph sought to shed crocodile tears for the striking health workers who are continuing to battle against the...
Only Gold Is Money, The Rest Is Paper Masquerading As Money
WEDNESDAY’S announcement by the German central bank (Bundesbank) that it was going to physically repatriate its vast gold holdings from New York and Paris...
‘The Next Global Shock Will Be Like An Earthquake!’
EUROZONE manufacturing activity has hit a three-year low at the same time as the banking crisis is reaching explosion point. Greece has run out...
Don’t stop at the House of Lords! Abolish Parliament and go forward to a...
ON Wednesday night, a spokesman for the Tory government delivered a blunt message to the House of Lords that they either accepted Brexit or...
US trade unions organising for a general strike if Trump refuses to leave
WITH LESS than two weeks to go before the US presidential election on November 3rd, president Donald Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton...
‘Welfare reforms’ a declaration of war against workers and youth
THE Tory pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, is a man on a mission – a mission to drive the unemployed, low paid and youth...
Well Done – The Syrian Delegation In Geneva!
ALL workers must support the stand of the Syrian delegation at the Geneva 2 Conference. This stand was that there had to be a full...
Prison torture allegations – abolish G4S!
THE news that allegations that forced injections and electric shocks were used on prisoners at a South African prison run by the UK-owned G4S,...
TGWU relies on the Sainsbury family to defend its members’ jobs and wages
YESTERDAY the TGWU leaders produced their statement of full support for the Sainsbury family in the battle to keep out the Texas Pacific-backed raiding...
Increased sanctions on Russia drive the bosses’ war against the working class at home!
THE MOVE by the US, the UK and EU ruling classes to cut off all oil and gas supplies from Russia is now ‘unstoppable’...
£9.2 billion NHS money given to privateers – time to expropriate them
IN JANUARY this year the Tory secretary of state for health, Matt Hancock, told MPs that ‘there is no privatisation on my watch’ of...
Ex-Bank of England boss believes world financial crash is ‘certain’ and ‘sooner rather than...
MERVYN KING, the head of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013, has added his name to the number of the capitalist world’s...
EU on brink of economic collapse
THE CONTINUED economic collapse of the EU was highlighted yesterday when it was officially acknowledged that Italy, the third largest economy in Europe, has...
TUC warns interest rate increases driving unemployment but has no answer except to beg...
YESTERDAY the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 5.25%, the 14th time in a row that rates have been increased as the...
Wages rising fast – a sick Tory joke!
THE food bank charity, the Trussell Trust says it has handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the...
End imperialist wars with victory of the world socialist revolution!
ON SUNDAY, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth insisted publicly that, despite the illegal bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, Donald Trump’s administration...
Nationalise Lonmin – forward with South African socialist revolution
The massacre of 34 striking miners at the hands of the ANC government’s police last Thursday marked a decisive point in the development of...
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH – TUC MUST ORGANISE GENERAL STRIKE for FEBRUARY 1!
YESTERDAY’S mass picket lines outside NHS hospitals are a direct result of the fact that the Tory government is insulting workers and will not...
US Patriots In Gulf Prepare Way For Israeli Strike At Iran
THE US has moved to prepare the way for an Israeli strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities by deploying missile shields in Qatar, the UAE,...
The Essence Of The Easter Rising!
THE bourgeois media has been awash this weekend with coverage of the centenary celebrations of the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin, with reports on...
Reject Eu Diktat Attempt – Leave The Eu At Once !
THE GIGANTIC farce of the Brexit negotiations hit a brick wall this week with EU officials accusing the British of failing to reveal its...
Bosses are in crisis worldwide! Now is the time to organise the British and...
FIVE THOUSAND trade unionists marched on Saturday in Cheltenham to mark the banning of trade unions at the GCHQ spy centre 40 years ago,...
Massive strike action greeted by Tory coalition threats!
AS millions of public sector workers, teachers, firefighters, local government workers and many other sections took strike action yesterday, Prime Minister Cameron pledged to...
Trump moves to make a deal with the Stalinist bureaucracy – workers must move...
UKRAINE has agreed the terms of a major minerals deal with the US, a senior official in Kiev has told the BBC. US President...
Withdraw British troops now! Bring down the Blair government!
MORE than 100,000 people are expected to take part in the anti-war demonstration in London today, according to its organisers, the Stop the War...
‘History at a turning point’ – forward to victory of world socialist revolution
THE ANNUAL meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos started yesterday on the theme of ‘history at a...
UK troops are on the Polish border – while US and UK forces are...
BRITISH TROOPS are now on the Belarus-Polish border answering a request by the Polish government to give it military support against thousands of Middle...