Carillion pension fund looted to pay billions to shareholders and bosses
THE collapse of the construction company Carillion has again thrown a spotlight on the systematic theft and looting of billions of pounds from workers’...
Tory-Lib Dem Budget hitting the poor hardest – IFS report
WORKING class families and pensioners are being hit hardest by Chancellor George Osborne’s Emergency Budget. This is the key finding from a study by the...
Expropriate the bankers and bosses!
IT WAS asserted by economists long ago that labour is the source of all wealth, and Federick Engels – the lifelong friend and collaborator...
Deeper Into The Afghan Quagmire
BRITAIN’S top general in Afghanistan has backed the call of his US commander for 40,000 more troops to be sent into the Afghan quagmire,...
One Year Since The Marikana Massacre
THE MARIKANA massacre of mineworkers in South Africa one year ago, in which 34 miners were murdered by the police and hundreds injured, has...
Unite campaign for ‘Workers Economy’ is a campaign for a Starmer-led win in 2025!
THE Unite trade union has issued a press release that dangles before its members and the working class the pledge that the union would...
Eurozone crisis reaches crunch
MONDAY’S’ summit meeting of the European Union leaders took place under siege conditions in Brussels as the city was paralysed by a general strike...
Student nurses to be forced to pay for training!
THE results of the ‘consultation’ launched by the Tories on the 7th April on the proposal to end NHS funded bursaries for student...
Labour right-wing renegades split, time to kick out the rest and demand a socialist...
AFTER weeks of speculation, seven right-wing Labour MPs announced yesterday that they are resigning from the Labour Party, citing ‘institutional anti-Semitism’ and the ‘shameful’...
Time To Destroy The Anti-Union Laws With A General Strike And A Socialist Revolution!
THE FBU has made a decisive intervention, demanding that the trade unions build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament...
British Army Handed 300 Over To Afghan Torturers
AFTER the killing and torture of Baha Mousa in Iraq was supplemented by a court martial that refused to convict those responsible for his...
Milosevic is dead but the crisis in the Balkans remains
THE death of Slobodan Milosevic in his cell at The Hague, four years into his trial by the imperialist powers for genocide, has left...
Take action to defeat Labour’s plan to smash the NHS
THE leaking of Department of Health (DoH) documents, including ‘Pay and Workforce Strategy for 2008-11’, reveals the Labour government’s plan to slash NHS...
Palestine Unity Government Formed – Now The World Must End Occupation!
THE Palestinian unity government has been sworn in, and has the backing of both the Fatah and Hamas movements. The defiant formation of the national...
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...
Universities in crisis – courses slashed, thousands to be sacked and fees to soar!
UNIVERSITIES are being hit hard by the capitalist crisis with thousands of jobs and courses going, and with students facing a lifting of the...
Class Relati0Ns Sharpen In The Usa!
POLICE in the US state of Missouri, in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, are continuing to clash with protesters nightly, amid growing anger...
US Gunships Attack Fallujah As Sunni And Shia Unite!
THE US military has started using attack helicopters as well as jet fighters and bombers in attacks against the cities of Fallujah and...
Imperialists prepare to launch war against Russia – workers must respond with revolution!
THE past week has witnessed the massive escalation by US imperialism and its faithful allies in the UK and Europe towards an all-out war...
Starmer Wants To Impose EU Laws Onto The UK Working Class
PM SIR KEIR STARMER has just unveiled legislation that will give the power to the PM to adopt EU legislation without giving MPs a...
Tory ‘hostile environment’ programme alive and kicking – Stop mass deportation flight!
THE PLANNED deportation of 50 people to Jamaica, many of whom came to the UK as children, shows that the Tories racist hounding of immigrant...
Iran defeating US and Israel as world capitalism reels from closure of Hormuz Strait
THE ISRAELI regime claimed yesterday morning that the secretary of Iran’s national security council, Ali Larijani, was murdered in overnight strikes on Tehran. The Iranian...
Afghan crisis – the Dutch won’t go so the Brits must take the strain!
YESTERDAY the Dutch parliament delayed its decision to send more than 1,000 Dutch troops to Afghanistan, as part of a NATO force, under British...
Ttip Is Dead Says German Economy Minister!
BLURTING out the truth, the German economy minister, Sigmar Gabriel, has pronounced the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a free trade deal long...
Stop the war against Syria – smash austerity at home
THE humiliating climb-down by David Cameron over Syria on Wednesday night exposes for all to see the weakness of British imperialism, the coalition government...
The TUC Must Make Its Stand! Now Is The Time To Call A General...
THE annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) that starts this Sunday in Brighton is taking place as British capitalism is crumbling under...
Deepening world capitalist crisis is creating wars and revolutions
NATO and Russia held ‘frank and serious’ talks despite ‘profound disagreements’ as their ambassadors met on Wednesday for the first time since 2014, alliance...
Defend Libyan revolution! Stop and bring down the oil thieves! Victory to Gadaffi!
THE French ruling class yesterday officially recognised the Libyan counter-revolutionary rebels of the Transitional National Council as the country's legitimate government, and is due...
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...
Trade unions must strike to defend the NHS!
TOMORROW Central Surrey Health (CSH), a private company set up by nurses and therapists, will find out whether they have won the £22m contract...
Egypt Joins The Siege Of Gaza!
AT the same time as Mahmud Abbas is declaring that he will stop the eruption of a Third Intifada, the Egyptian government has actively...
US-UK officially warn Iran about interfering in Iraq
BRITAIN and the United States had the gall to officially protest, last Wednesday, to the Iranian government about Iranian interference into the internal affairs...
Gangster capitalism emerges at House of Commons committee!
THE ex-chief executive of British Home Stores (BHS), Darren Topp, told a parliamentary committee yesterday morning that the former owner of BHS, Dominic Chappell,...
US crisis pauses before another leap forward!
THE deal pushed through Washington late Wednesday night to raise the US debt ceiling – at present standing at a massive $16.7 trillion –...
Geneva Conference Must Not Impose ‘Transitional Regime’ On Syria
THE Syrian people and their supporters worldwide must be on the alert to see that the victories the Syrian masses and their army have...
Thirteen insurgents hung – Rumsfeld looks forward to a civil war
THE Iraqi puppet authorities have hung 13 people accused of taking part in the insurgency, the first execution of militant nationalists since the US-led...
Tories to prop up Blair over Trident, the shape of things to come
LARGE numbers of Labour MPs are opposed to Blair’s programme to renew the Trident submarine based, nuclear weapons delivery system. The eventual cost...
France and UK want air strikes after Assad’s victory at Al-Qusayr
THE Hezbollah TV channel yesterday showed a fighter planting a Syrian flag on Al-Qusayr’s clock tower while the Western powers’ surrogate, the Free Syrian...
Time To Throw The Rotten Coalition Out!
IT was put to Rupert Murdoch, at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday, that Thatcher could not have done without him and that he could not...
King George’s Ilford cancer unit to close for lack of nurses – Get the...
THE CEDAR CENTRE, the chemotherapy unit at the King George Hospital in Ilford is to shut down on November 12th, because it cannot find...
TUC leader pleads with EU president
YESTERDAY, Tory leader David Cameron hosted a breakfast meeting with the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, as part of his campaign to...
Another British Retreat From Kabul
PM Cameron has told MPs that 3,800 British troops – almost half of the current force serving in Helmand province – are to be...
Hunt Planning New Blitz On NHS And NHS Workers!
BOTH the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) trade unions yesterday warned that Health Secretary Hunt is planning...
Hands Off Syria – Down With Obama & Cameron’s War Drive!
THE Syrian government has said over a long time that it would never use chemical weapons against its own people. Yesterday, the General Command of...
Bankrupt Britain is heading for revolution!
THE OECD has warned that the British capitalist economy is the sick man of the capitalist world and is currently experiencing a record fall...