Eurozone crisis drives gold rush
LAST week the Greek Syriza government avoided defaulting on its debt repayment to the IMF by the skin of its teeth. Just before Tuesday’s deadline...
Taleban Cease-Fire In Swat Angers US!
THE Pakistani Taleban in the Swat valley border areas with Afghanistan have signed a permanent cease-fire with the Pakistan government and are starting to...
General Strike from October 10th to support Palestine and go forward to a UK...
THIS year’s British TUC Congress in Brighton from 8-11 September took key decisions to align trade unions with the pro-Palestine, pro-peace and anti-war movements,...
Cameron declares war on public sector – unions must answer with general strike
Tory prime minister, David Cameron, has finally come clean about the coalition plans for destroying the welfare state and the entire public sector. Yesterday, he...
May wants to put the UK into chains
WE already know that new legislation to be put forward by the government has as one of its features ‘internal relocation’ for British passport...
CBI bosses demand NHS privatisation
THE CBI boss Richard Lambert spoke up yesterday at the CBI Public Service Summit to insist that the financial belt-tightening that the Brown government...
Starmer’s ‘national mission’ is to save capitalism and to make workers pay for it!
YESTERDAY, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer delivered what was billed as a keynote speech that would outline once and for all the policies Labour...
Murder in the Med – a product of the capitalist crisis
THE appalling death of up to 950 people fleeing the war-torn regions of the Middle East and North Africa has prompted the political representatives...
Defend the NHS – bring down the government!
Yesterday the NHS was officially opened up by the coalition government to the vultures of the private healthcare industry, whose only aim is to...
No Ifs, No Buts – TUC must call an immediate general strike to support...
Over 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street last Saturday in a massive demonstration of support for Palestine and demanding an end...
British MPs reduced to whinging while Taliban take control!
WHILE the Taliban’s top political leaders arrived in Afghanistan to take control of the country, British MPs held an emergency debate in Parliament yesterday...
Palestinian PM calls on UN to act against Israeli apartheid, while Hamas insists that...
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on United Nations bodies, particularly the Children’s Fund (UNICEF), to follow up on the recent Human Rights...
Rajapakse And His Backers Will Not Defeat The Tamil People
YESTERDAY the imperialist-backed Rajapakse regime was claiming to have killed the LTTE leadership, including Velupillai Prabakaran, and that the struggle is now over. Its...
Bloody Sunday – Put the British State in the dock for murder along with...
YESTERDAY the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) announced that there was enough evidence to prosecute one soldier, soldier F, for the murder of two people,...
Henley New Labour Disaster – Less Votes Than The Bnp!
LABOUR’s fifth place at Henley, shamefully behind the fascist BNP, will go down in history as an example of a party being thrust into...
Tory Crisis Deepens As Economy Crashes And Coronavirus Surges!
‘WE WERE hoping for a V: a rapid economic bounceback. We would have probably settled for a W: a wobbly recovery, with dips along...
US launches its anti-Iran naval coalition in Gulf! Workers of US & UK rise...
THE US has launched its naval coalition of anti-Iranian forces seeking to police the Persian Gulf. The anti-Iran coalition includes Australia, Bahrain, the UK,...
Obama and Cameron’s heart eating allies
EVEN the Human Rights Watch group – veterans of the struggle to remove and liquidate the Gadaffi regime in Libya, and now immersed in...
Britain’s Third Afghan War Heads For Disaster
NINE UK soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in nine days, making 178 UK troops killed since 2001. The official propaganda line is that...
Gaza Residents Are Hit By Aid Strike!
THERE has been a very bitter winter in Palestine especially in the war ravaged Gaza Strip where tens of thousands of Gazans’ homes were...
UK Drone Assassins – Mass Murder As A Video Game!
THE House of Commons Defence Committee came out in favour on Monday of continuing massacres of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other places by...
Britain’s Criminal War Against The Kenyan Land Freedom Army
BRITISH conscripts were sent out to Kenya in the 1950s, where they were turned into brutes and sadistic killers, in the war of British...
Arm The Palestinian Masses Now!
ISRAEL has set Palestine ablaze yet again with the death in an Israeli prison of Maysarah Abu Hamdiyeh, a 64-year-old prisoner, who had been...
Private equity group to ‘cut and slash’ Chrysler
DAIMLERCHRYSLER is selling a 80.1 per cent share in its crisis-hit American Chrysler division to the private equity group Cerberus for $7.4bn. President George...
Tories to create a slave wage army of youth!
DAVID Cameron yesterday pledged that a future Tory government would ‘effectively abolish’ youth unemployment by simply forcing every young person to do ‘community work’...
Sunak Seeks To Militarise Working Class Youth As Well As Banning All Strikes!
TORY PM Sunak yesterday sought to win back big business by stating that after the forthcoming general election has been won on July 4th,...
Labour is driving youth out of universities!
THE education policies imposed by Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government are depriving many young people of the opportunity of going into Higher Education and...
Trump seeks to blame China as he orders US workers back to work
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is seeking a scapegoat for the inevitable deaths of millions of people following a forced return to work while the...
G7 nations unanimous in support of Israeli war crimes in Gaza!
THE United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Wednesday issued a damning statement that Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in...
The Israelis are bombing Palestine and killing thousands. The TUC must call a...
ISRAEL’S air force has delivered strikes on some 60 Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the press office of...
Coalition forcing in education commodity market
THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that the government was organising an ‘NHS-style crash’ pushing through ‘reforms’ to create an education...
UK political crisis explodes as Parliament refuses to support immediate ceasefire!
THE House of Commons tied itself up into knots on Wednesday as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support...
Strike action to defend sacked BA shop stewards
BRITISH Airways (BA) has sacked a second shop steward who had been charged with organising unofficial secondary strike action at Heathrow on August 11th-12th...
EU and the US ruling classes are the enemy of the world’s poor and...
A CHARITY rescue vessel, the Alex, on Saturday brought 41 shipwrecked migrants into port in Lampedusa. This is the second boat to defy Italy’s...
All Out On May 1!
PRIME Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown have declared war on the public services and their staff, with closures, cuts, redundancies and pay...
Tory ‘power grab’ to save capitalism by bringing in a police state
THE TORY rush towards creating a police state controlled directly by the government has even got the chief constables and Police and Crime Commissioners...
Take Strike Action To Defend The NHS
THE Royal College of Nursing, the nurses trade union, yesterday announced that it is seeking a judicial review to force the Blair government to...
Israel attacks Gaza and Abbas cancels visit
YESTERDAY an Israeli aircraft bombed a building of the Hamas-run Executive Force in Gaza, killing at least one person and injuring about 45 others....
The UK Army Drive To Recruit Youth Is Stepped Up As The Crisis Of...
THE BRITISH armed forces, especially the army, are making a big turn to recruit youth, with military colleges springing up everywhere. More than one-in-10 new...
Trump sends 15,000 troops to Mexican border – threatening to open fire on migrants!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump spat on the Statue of Liberty this week and the revolutionary history of the United States, especially its call from...
Tories’ education ‘tsar’ quits after schools offered just £50 per pupil per year
THE TORIES’ Education Recovery Commissioner for England, Sir Kevan Collins quit last week after 6.7 million school children were starved of the funds they...
Respond To The Grenfell Tower Inferno With A Socialist Revolution!
IMMEDIATELY after the damning report on the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was published the House of Commons was packed with MPs...
EU rights court sends UK citizens to US ‘supermax’ prisons!
THE European Court of Human Rights has backed the extradition of five men from the UK to the US which intends to put them...
Coalition Plans To Smash Workers’ Rights
THE REPORT outlining government proposals to smash up any rights workers have to secure employment and legal protection from unfair dismissal finally saw the...
Housing crash on the way!
THE latest Bank of England figures show that the number of new mortgages being given to house buyers has fallen by 20 per cent...