Close down the Murdoch press – forward to a workers government
LABOUR leader Miliband, true to form, has spoken up for new media ownership rules to limit Rupert Murdoch’s ‘dangerous’ and ‘unhealthy’ concentration of power. He...
Abbas forced to break all contacts with Israel. Now restore national unity government with...
PALESTINIAN President, Mahmud Abbas yesterday belatedly suspended the ‘peace negotiations’ and other contacts with Israel until the Israeli ‘criminal aggression on Gaza stops’. With 95...
Hands off Iran – NO British Troops in the Middle East and...
‘IT simply is not true that they went into Iranian territorial waters and I hope the Iranian government understands how fundamental an issue this...
China shows the way to defeat the coronavirus plague – while the British ruling...
THE creator of the Universal Credit onslaught against the working class and the poor, Iain Duncan Smith has launched an attack on China in...
A Record £65.5 Billion Trade Deficit For 2005
THE UK trade deficit with the rest of the world for 2005 was a catastrophic £65.5 billion. The deficit on goods and services...
Desperate Labour Defence Secretary Healey wants to send British troops into the Ukraine to...
DEFENCE Secretary John Healey said yesterday that his hope was that he would be the first Defence Secretary to deploy British troops to the...
Afghan election re-run collapses – US, UK completely discredited!
AFGHANISTAN’S re-run election will be held on November 7th as scheduled, said the Afghan Electoral Commission yesterday. It is to have just one candidate,...
Imperialist drive to war with Russia takes leap forward
THE war preparations by the imperialist nations against Russia took a giant leap forward this week with NATO and non-NATO troops massed in north-western...
The Death Penalty For Breivik – No Platform For Fascists!
THE fascist who killed 77 people, the majority of them at a youth school of the Norwegian Young Socialists, in bomb and gun attacks...
US Secretary of State Kerry and Chief of Staff Dunford speak with Netanyahu
THE US has reacted with fury to Russia’s ‘interference’ in the Middle East, that is, its invitation to President Assad to visit Moscow, and...
Unions must demand TUC call a general strike to support junior doctors and defend...
TODAY is the first of four days of strike action by junior doctors throughout the health service in England, in what is the biggest...
French and Greek workers reject austerity
The elections in France and Greece on Sunday demonstrated conclusively that Europe stands on the brink of a seismic revolutionary upheaval that will sweep...
Capitalism cannot solve housing crisis – only socialism can!
IN his emergency budget Chancellor Osborne made it crystal clear that the Housing Benefit of those struggling to exist under crisis-ridden capitalism was one...
Murdoch Shops His Own Employees In Attempt To Save His Own Neck
FIVE journalists at the Sun newspaper have been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of corrupt payments to the police and other ‘public servants’. A Surrey...
Vote ‘NO’ and organise Greek Socialist Revolution!
THE Syriza party won the last Greek general election with its declarations that once elected it would put an end to the austerity dictatorship...
Japan Rearming To Back US Aggression Against China
THE Japanese government, ignoring yet again its own constitution, which bans Japan having aggressive military forces, has approved a new national security strategy, and...
Trump sends in US military
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Monday said he would deploy the US military to US states that don’t use the National Guard in sufficient...
Blair Called In To Advise Trump On Gaza, And Dealing With The Revolutionary Palestinian...
‘I met murder on the way – He had the mask of Castlereagh – Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven blood-hounds followed him:’ THESE are the famous...
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...
Brown warns ‘bumps in the road ahead’
THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has presided over a capitalist state rescue of the bankrupt banking system, which has seen the deployment of up...
Darling Outlines Cuts For All – Except The Bankers And Bosses
THE price of gold has touched $1,000 an ounce for the first time in six months, more than three times greater than what it...
Socialist revolution the answer to capitalist crisis
ONE SURE SIGN that capitalism is rapidly heading for an economic crash of historic proportions is the regularity in which increasingly desperate articles are...
Israel is imposing water rationing forcibly on the Palestinian masses!
A NEW Oxfam report on Thursday has revealed how Israel has been systematically weaponising water against Palestinians in the war-torn Gaza Strip in total...
Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
ON TUESDAY over three million French workers took to the streets with massive demonstrations in Paris and Marseilles to make sure that Sarkozy got...
After The Care Homes Massacre – Kick The Tories Out Now!
THE damning report released yesterday by the Public Accounts Committee on the effect of Tory policies towards the elderly in care homes came as...
Capitalism is dead in the water!
ON Thursday, a member of the powerful Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, in an unguarded moment, blurted out the truth that exports from...
RBS crashes as banks get set for rate rises
LOSSES AT the state owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) were twice as bad as expected, at £1.13bn and much bigger than the £950...
GM strikers are fighting for all US workers
ABOUT 73,000 carworkers, members of the 600,000-strong United Automobile Workers (UAW) trade union, went on indefinite strike at 11am on Monday at General Motors’...
Holbrooke, Blair, Thaci, mafia wars and organ theft
THE Council of Europe has named the Kosovo Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, as a mafia leader who organised the sale of drugs and weapons...
China’s Historic Space Achievement demonstrates the strength of a planned economy
YESTERDAY, a Chinese spacecraft made a giant leap forward in human exploration of space when it became the first ever to land on the...
Fighting Words Must Be Matched By Fighting Deeds!
LAST Wednesday, Dave Prentis, general secretary of the country’s second largest union, Unison, made a speech urging a ‘popular uprising in defence of the...
TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers
THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...
The struggle to seize Libya’s oil wealth intensifies with the US, Saudis, Egypt and...
AFTER over a month of fighting to take Libya’s capital, Tripoli, General Khalifa Haftar – who broke with Colonel Gadaffi to flee to the...
US policy of attacking independent media outlets is proven
THERE have been quite a large number of journalists killed by US forces in Iraq, among them employees of Reuters and other European news...
Council election results weaken Labour in a self-inflicted wound and strengthen May!
LABOUR’S hopes crashed to earth in the just-concluded council elections. The eve of poll predictions of the Tories losing Wandsworth, Westminster and then Kensington...
PM Johnson Set To Put Brexit Deal With The EU To A Vote Today...
ANYTHING and everything is being used to try and prevent the House of Commons voting to give its support to the government’s Brexit deal...
The 1% NHS pay award is a slap in the face for all trade...
THE trade unions are unanimous in their condemnation of the 1% pay award for NHS workers. Even the TUC, which considers PM May to be...
Brown pledges to bring morality to the bankers!
AT yesterday’s Labour Party conference Premier Brown focused on the ‘wrong choices’ that the Tories had made over policies to deal with the...
Berezovskiy goes bust as capitalist crisis deepens!
POLICE were yesterday searching the home of Boris Berezovskiy. They were desperately looking for chemical, biological or nuclear material, so that they could...
Hundreds of blocks of flats are found to be death traps – over 3...
IN THE HUGE public outcry at the deaths of 72 people in the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, the demand for safety checks...
NHS Executives back away from imposition – Unions must take strike action
HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s contract imposition has already begun to hit the rocks with 10 of the 20 NHS executives who signed the Dalton letter...
Met chief Cressida Dick quits! Unions must call a general strike to disband the...
METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has quit! Millions will be cheering the news, and demanding that the whole Met Police force be disbanded...
Tories Lash Out At Poor And Migrant Workers
PM Cameron was yesterday pledging ‘action on welfare’ to ensure, as he put it, that ‘work is always a better option’ – not by...
EU tears apart as Italy accuses France of provoking civil war in Libyan ‘power...
THOUSANDS of Libyans have been forced out of their homes as fighting rages in the capital Tripoli between the forces of the UN-recognised ‘Government...
Middle East gripped by revolutionary crisis
THE crisis in Palestine and the crisis in the Middle East is deepening rapidly to the point where its contradictions are sharpening to the...