Post-Trident nuclear missiles will be targeting Russia
THE Blair-Brown government intends to spend hundreds of billions of pounds on building a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to deliver the replacement of...
Carney plans for state robbery of bank depositors’ cash!
ON Tuesday, amidst all the turmoil of the US presidential election, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, announced a financial bombshell...
UNISON, TGWU, and GMB leaders all support Brown’s staged pay cuts!
ANYONE who was wondering why, at the TUC Congress, when union leaders were moving resolutions calling for coordinated industrial action against the Brown government’s...
TUC must call general strike to smash the anti-union laws and support the State...
HUNDREDS of Palestinians are being brutally murdered and others injured as a result of the ongoing Israeli airstrikes and artillery bombardments across the Gaza...
Workers must defend the right of postal workers to strike in December!
THE MASSIVE vote by postal workers for strike action in December over Royal Mail tearing up the previous agreements on pay and conditions has...
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...
War declared against the working class as 800 P&O seafarers are sacked and replaced...
POWERFUL protests erupted in Liverpool, Hull and Dover yesterday after 800 P&O Ferries’ seafarers were sacked by decree and replaced by cheap labour. The RMT...
Treat the Council Tax as you did the Poll Tax!
THE Council Tax is set to rise by four per cent on average this year, more than double the government’s current rate of inflation...
Labour’s ‘business friendly’ manifesto is declaration of war on the working class!
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer launched the party’s ‘business friendly’ election manifesto in Manchester yesterday morning with the promise that a Labour government would put...
Bring down the Tories to stop the destruction of the NHS!
ON FRIDAY the GMB trade union declared that ‘Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt must resign,’ and warned that that the ‘NHS is tailspinning into...
US-UK Refuse To Demand Israeli Ceasefire!
YESTERDAY’S UN Security Council emergency meeting on Gaza ended without the issuing of a resolution after the US and the UK refused to vote...
The working class is being turned into the working homeless! Capitalism is rotting!...
NURSES, firefighters, and teachers are so badly paid that many are doing second jobs in order to survive! A vast majority rely on in-work...
UK workers are weighed down by debt while landlords are fattened on £21bn of...
LENIN, in his work ‘Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism’, wrote about one of the most important connections between the imperialist drive for colonies...
The capitalist state cannot be reformed – it must be smashed and replaced with...
IN THE TORY leadership campaign, of the six candidates left after the first round of voting five went to Oxford University and every one...
Sharon’s deception at the United Nations
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tried to cut a figure as the liberator of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip at the United...
Tories responsible for deaths in care homes and amongst NHS workers – Time to...
THIS week, the Tories’ criminal liability for the deaths of thousands of health care workers, the elderly and the disabled was revealed in two...
Forward To The General Strike And A Workers Government!
THE Daily Telegraph newspaper used its front page yesterday to kickstart a campaign for the police to enforce the Labour government’s latest terror laws...
US vetoes UN resolution on Gaza as it openly ‘stands with Israel’ in imperialism’s...
ON WEDNESDAY, the US vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution demanding ‘an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’ in Gaza. The draft resolution also...
The revolution in Nepal – part of the world revolution
LEON Trotsky’s theory of the Permanent Revolution shows how ‘the democratic tasks of the backward bourgeois nations lead directly, in our epoch, to the...
Brics Challenge To Almighty Dollar!
MOSCOW believes that the US capitalists are targeting it with sanctions ‘because the events in Ukraine have not developed the way Washington scripted them,’...
State violence escalates – three dead in eight days!
The news that yet another person has died after a confrontation with the police brings the total of deaths arising out of such incidents...
British workers must make the TUC call a general strike to bring in the...
THE United Nations has confirmed that more than 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave Rafah, amid intensified Israeli strikes on the southern city...
Labour has no answer to the problems that the working class and middle class...
MILIBAND’S Labour Party yesterday said that if it was the government it would offer the long-term unemployed a guarantee of a six-month job. This...
Nationalise all Industry and Banks – not just Railways
THE demand for the re-nationalisation of the railways and public transport is becoming unstoppable, as workers and the vast majority of the middle classes...
May humiliated and powerless – only socialist revolution can achieve Brexit!
ON TUESDAY night, Theresa May suffered yet one more humiliation at the hands of her own party when almost 100 Tory MPs voted against...
Western-backed terrorists attacking Damascus from Eastern Ghouta!
THE British capitalist press is seeking to whip up a storm over what it calls two days of ‘hysterical violence’ by Assad forces in...
40,000 Israeli reservists called up!
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel would ‘not tolerate the firing of rockets on our cities and towns’. His remarks came after...
Bring Out All The Unions To Defend The NHS!
THE situation could not be clearer. The whole of the trade union movement and the majority of non-trade unionists support the 24-hour strike actions...
Gate Gourmet Locked Out Workers Reject Woodley’s Rotten Compromise
TGWU leader Tony Woodley’s speech at Southall on Monday, and his remarks to journalists both before and after the meeting, were a dereliction of...
Israel uses facial recognition in drive to turn West Bank into a concentration camp
ISRAEL has escalated its campaign of total surveillance of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank utilising a mass programme of facial recognition to build...
Abbas ready to break with US imperialism! UK workers must support the Palestinian...
IN A huge development in the fight of the Palestinian people to establish their own independent state, the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on...
Second Xmas on the dole for 700,000!
ACCORDING to research published by the TUC on Monday, over 250,000 people will be spending their second successive Christmas on the dole. Even this figure...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Feed The Planet
OXFAM warned yesterday that average prices of staple crops will more than double in 20 years if urgent action is not taken to change...
Make the TUC call a general strike to bring down Labour and to bring...
DESPITE Labour’s election manifesto pledges and repeated promise of ‘No tax increases’ on income, National Insurance or VAT, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning a...
British workers require socialism not circuses!
FOR the second day running the bourgeois media have been dominated by the Olympic opening extravaganza organised brilliantly by Danny Boyle, who used and...
Tories target workers, disabled and children to pay the bankers’ debts!
OSBORNE said of his emergency Budget yesterday; ‘Yes it is tough; but it is also fair.’ Further on in his speech he allowed just...
Labour racists seek state dictatorship over immigrants
JUST imagine the furore there would be if British migrants to India were told that they would have to be conversant in Hindi, be...
Obama selects his bourgeois team to save US capitalism
BARACK OBAMA has just been elected by an explosion of popular support and anger that has united the working class and brought the majority...
Tories’ catastrophic split – time to kick them out
THE Tory party was delivered shattering blows on the eve of its conference when Tory MP Mark Reckless stepped out onto the platform of...
Germany in court over complicity in Zionist genocide – now is time for working...
YESTERDAY, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) started a hearing on a case brought by Nicaragua against Germany, which puts the German government in...
US political crisis over the failure to defeat Hamas will bring down President Biden!
THE abject failure of the imperialist-backed Israeli regime to smash Hamas and crush the resistance of the Palestinian people to the brutal occupation is...
Trump’s ‘deal’ strengthens Israel’s occupation of Palestine and restores colonial control over Gaza
PRESIDENT Trump, backed by ex-UK Premier Tony Blair, has given Hamas three or four days to respond to his so-called ‘peace plan’. He has...
The fate of UK banks linked to the fate of South Africa’s Zuma –...
‘THIS is the third high-profile money-laundering scandal to involve major British banks this year,’ John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, said yesterday, responding to reports...
Afghanistan A Graveyard For The British Army
BRITISH forces in Afghanistan have, just this month, suffered their highest injury rate since they invaded in 2001, new Ministry of Defence figures show. A...
Defend the NHS with a general strike to bring down Tories
TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been told in a letter from NHS bosses that the NHS is ‘no longer able to meet the...