Unite betrays Ealing strikers – Time to build a revolutionary leadership in the unions
THE ANGER expressed by Ealing Parking Service workers at the way in which the Unite leadership has sold their strike down the river reflects...
US inflation rockets up – world sitting on a ‘time bomb’
US INFLATION rate hit 7% last month – the highest since Ronald Reagan was president in 1982 – making it the seventh consecutive month...
Egyptian revolution in permanence!
THE Egyptian army opened fire on thousands of workers and young people in Tahrir Square on Saturday morning, killing four and wounding 117. ...
Re-nationalise the water companies
The Guardian paper has published an exclusive report that revealed that Thames Water, the UK’s biggest water company, diverted cash meant to clean up...
Millions of UK households and children driven into poverty by bankrupt capitalism – socialist...
THE NUMBER of people living in poverty in the UK has shot up to 16 million – the highest level since records began in...
Blair’s plans remain a ‘Trojan Horse’ for an education market
A political storm of the highest order has broken out in Greece over mass phone-tapping. This follows revelations, at a special press-conference last Thursday in...
NHS more popular than ever despite Tory propaganda campaign
A SURVEY by the polling company Ipsos MORI has revealed that the NHS is more popular amongst workers and the middle classes than those...
US opens missile base in Romania and plans for bases in Poland and Hungary
AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...
World Socialist Revolution is only way to end imperialist slaughter
THE TORIES have damned the Starmer government for a foreign policy ‘shambles’ as political parties throughout the western imperialist nations grapple with coming to...
Abolish student loans and debt, and restore grants!
LAST Monday the coalition government’s drive to privatise every single public service and completely smash up the welfare state took yet another grotesque turn...
Reject Labour’s racist points system!
A NEW points-based immigration system for workers who want to come to the UK from outside the EU was unveiled by Home Secretary Charles...
Expropriate out of control banks!
THE giant international bank HSBC is ‘cast-iron certain’ to break the regulatory rules, the laws which are supposed to govern banking practices, again. These were...
Britain hardest hit by world capitalist crisis
YESTERDAY’S reports on the state of the economy reveal more about the catastrophe gripping British capitalism, part of the world crisis. • The Bank of...
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...
US workers bracing themselves for ‘fiscal cliff’
THE US labour movement is now bracing itself for a last minute ‘deal’ on the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ with the Republican Party, in which the...
Starmer is making the poor pay for the crisis. The TUC must strike to...
FOLLOWING the failure of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ panic visit to beg, or borrow, £600 million from China, the Labour government of Keir Starmer is...
Syrian Foreign Minister tells UN that the US-UK military alliance must withdraw from Syria
ADDRESSING the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem confirmed that the US-UK...
The world must act to defend Palestinians
YESTERDAY morning Israel announced that all the crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel were closed. Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak...
The Way Forward – Starve The Working Class Says King!
THE governor of the Bank of England, in his Tuesday night speech detailed the source of the gigantic inflationary rise in living costs that...
Axing free TV licences: the spark to unite pensioners, youth and workers to kick...
THE Tory government has now launched war on the elderly, the youth and the working class simultaneously! There is a war on the youth, with...
Reformists and Stalinists seek to break Greek teachers’ struggle
THE confrontation between Greek teachers and the Greek state and its EU masters has erupted this week after all teachers were served at the...
Answer Brown’s attacks with a general strike
THE rapidly deepening debt crisis of the capitalist system is leading to a financial collapse and a slump of historic proportions as the bankers’...
The PM’s wife can speak out on rights – but the TUC cannot!
THE scale of the crisis that has hit capitalist Britain is now so great that it has forced the Prime Minister’s wife, Cherie...
Defend Public Services through a general strike
ON THE day that MPs were voting on going to war once again in the Middle East, a very senior civil servant made it...
US and UK are being driven to war by the growing capitalist crisis
US SECRETARY of state Mike Pompeo used his speech in Berlin last Friday to threaten nothing short of war against Russia, China and Iran,...
Tories move to scrap defence cuts and prepare for war!
ON Monday, the Chief of the UK General Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, said in his speech at the Royal United Services Institute, a...
Blair’s ‘summary power’ for war on the working class
PRIME Minister Tony Blair launched the Labour government’s new ‘Respect Action Plan’ yesterday, declaring that he was setting out to overthrow basic democratic rights...
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...
Anger over Saddam’s death silences Blair
AT last President Bush has stammered out a few words about the lynching of President Saddam Hussein, saying that he would have preferred to...
Israel boasts it will wipe Iran ‘off the face of the Earth’ as imperialism...
IRAN’S president Ebrahim Raeisi has condemned comments made by US president Joe Biden at a meeting last week with Israeli leaders where he pronounced:...
Labour’s deputy leader plans a party-within-a-party to smash Labour
THE PLOTS by the Labour right-wing, led by the deputy leader Tom Watson, to completely split the Labour Party and remove Corbyn have accelerated...
Police get armed as the state prepares for a showdown with working class
JUST over a month ago, Tory prime minister David Cameron announced that hundreds of extra armed police would be sent around the country to...
‘Clear-cut robbery in Cyprus’ – the penalty for the crime is revolution!
THE Cypriot parliament yesterday postponed an emergency session on the 7-10% banking tax imposed by the EU on every depositor in the country’s...
UK Military Chiefs Call To Bring Back Conscription As US-UK Prepare For War...
FORMER British military chiefs have told the Starmer-led Labour government that it, as the government of the UK, ‘must’ consider conscription ‘now’ before it...
Judges and lawyers demand end to UK arms to Israel. It’s time the TUC...
OVER 600 UK lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including three former supreme court justices, have written to Rishi Sunak warning that the UK...
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...
Occupy UK Car Plants! Call General Strike To Bring In Workers Government To Nationalise...
THE UNITE union, representing car workers, said yesterday that its members will fight ‘tooth and nail’ to safeguard Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant, and urged...
Bank of England warning that world stock markets on the verge of crash!
The Bank of England yesterday warned that the capitalist financial markets are at risk of ‘sharp correction’. In its latest financial stability report the Bank...
BBC reveals how police abuse body cameras – time to disband the police and...
IN 2005, the Metropolitan Police introduced a trial of body-worn cameras for police officers, a move that was quickly rolled out by forces throughout...
TUC to lobby Tory Party conference – to change Tory policy
THE TUC General Council statement issued on Saturday constitutes a betrayal of the working class and the trade unions. It seeks to divert...
A desperate Bank of England pumps another £100 billion of free money into the...
THE BANK of England (BoE) yesterday unleashed another round of Quantitative Easing (QE), adding another £100 billion to the amount of ‘free’ money they...
Trade Unions Must Take Action To Smash The Bedroom Tax!
TODAY is the day when the outrageous Bedroom Tax begins and hundreds of thousands of working people will see between 14% and 25% of...
Class struggle sharpens – Organise general strike!
900 construction workers were sacked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, north Lincolnshire yesterday in what the GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny called ‘a case...
Savage Greek property tax provokes mass revolt
In the past few days electricity bills delivered to Greek households have contained a demand for the hated new property tax. This tax, which ranges...
A police-Fire Service merger is a Tory plan to destroy FBU and reorganise state...
THE news that has emerged that the Tory police and crime commissioner for Northamptonshire, Adam Simmonds, has been in secret talks for twelve weeks...