Rail strike ‘solid and determined’ as passengers join union in demanding re-nationalisation
YESTERDAY’S strike by RMT guards working for the privateer Southern rail network was ‘rock solid’, with RMT general secretary Mick Cash saying: ‘The resilience...
French revolution stuns EU bosses and political leaders
THE 55 per cent vote, by the working class and the rural population of France against the European Constitution, is a body blow to...
US-UK Forces Must Quit Afghanistan Now!
THE position of the imperialist powers in Afghanistan has become completely untenable. Their forces are not wanted either by the Taleban or the mass...
Labour rats flee their sinking ship
COMMUNITIES Secretary Hazel Blears has resigned from the cabinet, on the eve of the local government and EU elections, delivering a major blow to...
US dismisses Iranian letter while Israel threatens nuclear attack
THE foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany and Xavier Solana the EU’s ‘Foreign Minister’, met on...
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...
Taleban at the gates of Islamabad, says Clinton
US IMPERIALISM is now beating the war drums as far as military intervention into Pakistan is concerned, with its leading officials ‘warning the world’...
BJP defeated in regional election as India’s masses turn on Modi!
INDIA’S prime minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing BJP party suffered a massive political defeat at the hands of voters in West Bengal on...
Lessons from the 1984-85 miners strike
THE government papers released under the 30-year rule concerning the 1984-85 miners strike confirm that Thatcher and the Tories, despite their considerable preparations over...
‘This is 1914 all over again’
THE architects of the Common Market, the forerunner of the European Union, freely admitted that they were seeking to carry out peacefully what Adolf...
McCluskey promises illegal action!
IN a full-page article in Thursday’s Guardian newspaper, the leader of the country’s biggest union, Len McCluskey, announced that the Unite executive had unanimously...
Record unemployment, record poverty and misery – socialist revolution the only answer
THE number of young people out of work has reached a record high of almost one million, according to the latest unemployment figures. ...
Greece on the brink of revolutionary explosion
YESTERDAY, there were major clashes on the streets of Athens as 6,000 riot police clashed with tens of thousands of workers and youth who...
Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Usa
THE New Orleans disaster stands as a testament – with its over 10,000 dead and over 200,000 refugees – to the bankruptcy of the...
Scourge of privatisation opens the NHS up to fraud!
ACCORDING to the BBC Panorama programme, broadcast last night, the NHS is being defrauded of £5 billion a year, a massive loss to a...
Brown must stop supporting the Rajapaksa government that murders Tamils
THE Brown government rails on about ‘breaches of human rights’ allegedly taking place in Zimbabwe and Burma, and makes all kinds of allegations...
No evidence behind police terror raid
IN the early hours of Friday morning a police raiding party of up to 250 officers broke into a home in Lansdown Road, Forest...
Take Action To Win The Winter War
ON FRIDAY, the Health Secretary Hewitt announced that the NHS is heading for a £623 million deficit by the end of March. This deficit is...
McDonnell makes his bid to lead government of national unity – while Corbyn calls...
JOHN McDONNELL made his bid to lead the proposed government of national unity to smash Brexit during his interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today...
North Korea successfully tests H-Bomb to be loaded onto an ICBM!
NORTH Korea has successfully tested an H-bomb, a nuclear weapon that it will now be able to load onto an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile...
Toxic Tories lash out at immigrants and the poor
PEOPLE who do not speak fluent English will be barred from public sector jobs which involve working directly with the public, the government has...
Tories must be made to withdraw junior doctors’ contract and abandon contract imposition!
THE proposal, made by 22 medical colleges and faculties for a five-day pause in the drive to impose new junior doctors’ contracts in England,...
Brown and Blair’s grab for Africa
BEFORE our eyes, the Live Aid movement has been transformed into a Live 8 movement, whose purpose has become to support the British Prime...
Household debt £300bn! Council evictions soar! Bring capitalism down!
HOUSEHOLD debt in UK is worse than at any time on record a new report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. Credit cards,...
Israel-US considering attack on Syria and Iran
LATE last week, a leading Israeli minister said that the only people left in southern Lebanon were connected to Hezbollah, giving the Israeli military...
Tory split deepens as demand to end ‘health and safety authoritarianism’ grows
THE CRISIS gripping the British ruling class is being directly reflected in the splits that are tearing the Tory Party apart over how to...
Open up the NHS demands Bush and the US drug companies
NOT content with wrecking Iraq, the US administration is moving in to wreck the British NHS on behalf of the US drug companies. ...
Bhutto Murdered By US Sponsored Military!
AT 6.16pm local time yesterday evening the Pakistani military assassinated Benazir Bhutto, putting a bloody end to the notion that there can be some...
Royal Mail – The Way Forward To Victory
THE announcement by the CWU of a programme of two 48-hour national strikes across all sections of Royal Mail, along with a programme of...
Israel withdraws its 98th Commando division from Gaza as Cairo talks are due...
SIX months into Israel’s criminal war on Gaza, Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters have been engaged in intense combat around the city of Khan...
Middle Class Faces Mass Unemployment. It Must Unite With The The Working Class To...
THE CRISIS engulfing British capitalism has drawn the organised working class, along with youth and entire sections of the middle class, into the struggle...
FOOD BANKS becoming the rule in poverty-stricken UK
THERE are currently 270 food banks across the UK where poverty-stricken workers and youth are directed to get subsistence amounts of food. As the capitalist...
Energy bills and rent through the roof! Benefits cut! Wages cut! Tories must be...
GAS and electricity prices have gone through the roof leaving families unable to pay their bills, with hundreds of thousands sitting in freezing cold...
TUC on its knees – time for a revolutionary leadership!
THE TUC New Year’s message (see page 3) has been delivered with TUC general secretary O’Grady on her knees appealing to the bosses and...
CWU leaders embrace privatisation!
A BALLOT of CWU members announced this week showed a vote of 94% in favour of a ‘legally binding contract’ between the leadership of...
GPs must follow junior doctors lead and strike to defend contracts and defend...
VERY ANGRY BMA GPs met in conference on Saturday where they carried motions to fight ‘underfunding’ and a rapidly growing workload that ‘threatened NHS...
This is how NATO is defending civilians in Libya
ON Saturday, the Red Cross visited Sirte, which has been under intense bombardment and shelling from NATO planes and ships, and by NATO’s ground...
Trade Unions Must Bring Labour Down And Go Forward To A Workers Government And...
THE Labour government is incapable of resolving the massive economic catastrophe that is building up under British and world capitalism. This requires massive nationalisation...
Coalition Policy Is To Financially Collapse Local Authorities
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that ‘multiple’ local authorities are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts. The...
Moment of truth for Greece!
GREECE’S Syriza government delayed yesterday’s 300m euros (£216m) debt repayment to the IMF, saying that it will pay over to the Troika (the...
There Must Be A Real Struggle Against Ttip And Ceta Now!
LAST week at the annual conference of the TUC the largest union in the country, Unite, issued a grovelling plea to the Tory led...
Truss Reveals That She Is Planning Huge Wage Cuts For Workers – Kick The...
AT A TIME when the cost of living is rocketing Tory leadership contender Truss has been forced to publicly scrap her plan to link...
Bank of England poised to raise interest rate as inflation spirals out of control!
THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, has issued the starkest warning that the UK economy faces a massive inflationary spiral and...
Carnage and bloodbath on world stock markets deepens – socialist revolution is the only...
LAST Monday, the American Dow Jones Index, which records the share prices of the top US companies and banks, recorded the biggest drop in...
Corbyn Displays The Bankruptcy Of Reformism At The TUC!
WHAT has emerged out of the bankruptcy of Parliament this week is that the Labour leadership, along with the other opposition parties and rebel...