Blunkett quits against Blair’s wishes
YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair made it clear to the House of Commons during Question Time, that he had urged his Cabinet colleague, Blunkett,...
The world crisis and the fascist slaughter in Norway
THE fascist, Breivik, who carried out the mass murder of up to 100, mainly youth in Oslo and attempted to murder the Labour Prime...
With capitalism in crisis, and the NHS being knifed by Starmer – UK needs...
THE immediate ending of the pensioners’ Winter Fuel Allowance was necessary to prevent an economic collapse and a run on the banks, declared Lucy...
Putin defies Trump – Time to Build 4th International – Forward with World Socialist...
THE peace talks between Russia and the Western powers represented by Donald Trump have hit the buffers with an almighty bang after Russia refused...
Trade Unions Must Name The Date For The General Strike To Free Palestine And...
OVER 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of London on Saturday, protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. The protest, organised by the...
Union leaders are refusing to defend jobs in the face of the most vicious...
LAST week it was announced by BAE systems, the private defence company, that the shipbuilding industry was to be closed down in Portsmouth and...
Police want to use water cannon and rubber bullets
THE Metropolitan Police is considering its tactics after the failure of its containment and ‘kettling’ policies in Parliament square last Thursday, when...
Kick out privatising hospital managers – place NHS under the management of medics and...
THE aftermath of the sentencing on Monday of Lucy Letby for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others at...
End TUC collaboration with Tories
The news this week that Unison, the largest public sector union, has launched a legal challenge to the coalition government’s white paper on the...
Grenfell Tower – Tories tore up health and safety rules then invited cladding companies...
AN INVESTIGATION by Sky News into the role of the firms that produce the plastic used to cover the exterior of Grenfell Tower has...
Tories mired in scandal over Cameron and Greensill as financial collapse the ‘canary in...
THE MOST recent development in the collapse of Greensill Capital has been the revelations of all the lobbying for government bail-outs by ex-Tory prime...
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...
‘WE ARE AT WAR’ says Greek PM as workers prepare to storm parliament
THE Greek Socialist Party Prime Minister, Yiorghos Papandreou, told his party’s parliamentary deputies last Saturday that ‘no one likes emergency procedures but we are...
Brown lambasts Tube strikers and public sector workers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown mounted an outspoken attack on members of the RMT railworkers’ union on strike at the London Underground bankrupt maintenance company...
Cameron’s goose is well and truly cooked!
THE Liberal Democrats have won the Eastleigh by-election, with the UK Independence Party pushing the Conservatives into third place, with Labour as also-rans. Mike Thornton...
NHS to be butchered to pay the bankers’ debts
LARGE-scale hospital cuts and closures are now being organised for immediately after the next general election. These cuts have been dictated by the current enormously...
TUC Special Congress must call a general strike to smash the Tories and support...
IN A dramatic move the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter to urge the UN Security...
Lesson from by-elections: Labour Party’s finished! Build the revolutionary party!
JEREMY Corbyn MP, leader of the Labour Party, said yesterday on the Stoke-on-Trent Central and Copeland by-elections results that ‘Labour’s victory in Stoke is...
Election of Zohan Mamdani as New York Mayor sends shock waves through the US...
THE election of Zohan Mamdani as mayor of New York City on Tuesday has sent a massive shock wave throughout the administration of President...
Heading For A Housing Crash!
ON MONDAY trading on the Wall Street stock market in New Century Financial shares was halted, as the second largest US sub-prime mortgage lender...
The lesson from the tower block fire disaster is stop the fire service cuts!
SIX people have been confirmed dead and many are missing after a huge fire engulfed a 24-storey North Kensington tower block, Grenfell Tower, after...
State Death Squads In The UK
Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan’s investigation began more than three years ago when Belfast welder Raymond McCord claimed that his son, also called Raymond, had...
Maliki Objects To US-Puppet Army Raid On Sadr City
YESTERDAY was the first day after the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad announced that he had given the Iraqi puppet government a timetable...
P&O sackings expose the ‘sham’ of consultation with the unions – only a general...
THE CHIEF executive of P&O Ferries, Peter Hebblethwaite, appeared before a joint hearing of the transport and business committee of MPs yesterday to answer...
24.4% (5.64m) of Spanish workers are unemployed!
THE number of unemployed people in Spain reached 5,639,500 at the end of March, with the unemployment rate hitting 24.4%, with youth unemployment at...
Johnson Getting Ready To Follow Trump, End The Lockdown And Bring In Millions Of...
THE MASSIVE ‘Black Lives Matter’ marches this weekend saw millions of workers internationally and tens of thousands of youth and workers in the UK...
No socialist programme for Corbyn!
LABOUR leader Corbyn was full of confidence as he opened his campaign to be re-elected as leader of the Labour Party yesterday. He said:...
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...
Army is ‘sick’ from Iraq & Afghan campaigns
ONE in every fourteen British soldiers, almost 7,000 are sick or injured at a time when every regiment of 600 faces a shortfall of...
Starmer forced to condemn the racist police force – Disband it now!
FRESH from the Labour Party conference on Thursday, the Prime Minister Kier Starmer was forced to condemn the ‘shocking’ racism and misogyny in the...
Demolition of West Bank Khan al-Ahmar village is a war crime says Amnesty!
THE PLANNED demolition by Israeli forces of a West Bank village and the forcible transfer of its residents to make way for illegal Jewish...
RBS scandal demands workers expropriate the banks
THIS week yet another scandal has broken out concerning the practices of the banking system. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is once again in...
Not just European banks but world capitalism is a ‘lost cause’
THE panic gripping the world capitalist class over the impending crash of the banking system reached another new level on Monday with the publication...
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...
Tusk threatens ‘Hell on Earth’ for working class!
WHEN Donald Tusk, the European Council President, speaking in Brussels came out with his comment that there is a ‘special place in hell’ for...
One more turn of the police state screw!
YESTERDAY Home Secretary, Smith was having a go at presenting the introduction of biometric identity cards as a matter of personal convenience, and even...
Mubarak regime offers 15 per cent rise in pay and pensions!
WORKERS and youth in Cairo held mass demonstrations yesterday following the release of the detained Google executive and facebook radical Wael Ghonim. The demonstrators in...
Stop all evictions – socialist revolution the answer to mass homelessness
YESTERDAY the temporary ban on evictions in England ended, leaving hundreds of thousands of people facing being thrown out of their homes for rent...
The US is being humiliated in Iraq – not Saddam
IT IS the United States of America that is being humiliated in Iraq and not Saddam Hussein. The idea that putting pictures – provided by...
Working class must break with Labour now, the only prop of the Tory government...
100 TORY MPs voted against Boris Johnson’s ‘Plan B’ Covid restriction on Tuesday night, defying predictions earlier that Johnson had ‘won over’ a large...
Tories Are Afraid Of The Power Of The Trade Unions! This Power Must Now...
THE Tories are now in the grip of a hysteria which has being displayed by newspapers like the Telegraph on a daily basis. It prints...
National Civilian Service a prelude to National army Service!
THE ‘master’, Cameron, and his well-trained ‘Labour servant’, Miliband, yesterday stood shoulder to shoulder once again, condemning the masses of youth who took to...
Smash Trump’s ‘deal of the century’! Forward to the independent state of Palestine!
THE US-sponsored three-day conference held this week in the Gulf state of Bahrain to unveil the first stage of Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the...
Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU
THE ALLEGED ‘poisoning’ of Russia’s unsuccessful opposition leader Alexei Navalny by a ‘Novichok-like nerve agent’ has been trumpeted by the capitalist press as if...
Palestine suspends recognition of the state of Israel!
THE PALESTINIAN Central Council met in Ramallah on Sunday and Monday and, after deliberations on important matters for the Palestinian people, it made a...