STOP the war say MPs and bring the Taleban into government
MPs on the House of Commons foreign affairs committee ran up the white flag yesterday when they declared in their report that peace talks...
Blair criminalising an entire nation
YESTERDAY the Labour government was carrying on with its campaign to demonise the country’s youth, reaching truly laughable levels of trivial pursuit. Its supporter,...
British Imperialism Hits The Rocks! Time For Workers To Despatch It To The Dustbin...
CRISIS-RIDDEN British imperialism, split over whether to serve the European Union or the United States, is now like a ship without a rudder, and...
Universal Credit = war on benefits
YESTERDAY the Tory-led coalition launched its ‘pathfinder’ trial of the new Universal Credit System at a job centre in Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester. From here the government...
Now The Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Defend The NHS By Bringing...
NHS CONSULTANTS in England today begin two more days of industrial action, and have announced further strike dates in October, demonstrating their commitment to...
Disband the police force now – forward to a workers state and socialism
DAVID Carrick, a serving Metropolitan Police officer, admitted 49 offences in court on Monday, pleading guilty to 24 rape charges, and false imprisonments, and...
No more cuts! Defend the public services!
THE Newquay disaster proves what most people knew to be the case – that cuts in the fire service inevitably cost lives. Newquay is...
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...
Rice Raised The Issue Of Saddam Immediately After The Twin Towers Were Attacked
SUCH WAS the fawning support, given by Tony Blair to President George Bush, that Christopher Meyer, the ex-UK ambassador to the United States, was...
University applications are plummeting! Call General Strike to scrap all uni fees, restore grants...
SOARING university tuition fees, rents in student halls being hiked up, the complete removal of the student grant and the spiralling cost of living...
Pensions conflict sharpening UK class struggle to explosion point
WITH its threat to bring in new anti-union laws, that will prevent all legal strike action by all trade unions in the UK, if...
French Stalinists step in to help Sarkozy
OVER a million French civil servants went on strike yesterday, joining the hundreds of thousands of railworkers, busworkers and gas and electricity workers who...
Stop the war with a general strike to bring down coalition
ANGLO-US-FRENCH forces have killed over 100 Libyans and wounded hundreds more in their opening onslaught of cruise missiles, launched from the sea, and bombs...
French revolutionary tactics show British workers the way
THE two general strikes and the massive mobilisations of trade unionists, students, lycee students, and unemployed and working class youth which brought millions onto...
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...
Unsafe schools set to collapse! Pupils and teachers are in danger as Tories smash...
YESTERDAY’S Observer newspaper a champion of the rule of the British bosses and bankers, was forced to admit that it had been told by...
Darling’s forecasts ‘too optimistic’, says Treasury Committee
THE British capitalist economy and government finances are in a worse state than Chancellor Alistair Darling led everyone to believe when he delivered his...
Now Is The Time To Bring Down The Tories! Forward To A Workers Government!
TORY Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, resigned his cabinet post on Wednesday, admitting that his behaviour had ‘fallen below the high standards required’ of a...
World capitalism is set to crash – It must be replaced with the World...
JUST five months after being elected with a landslide majority, a life or death political and economic crisis has engulfed British capitalism. Labour PM Sir...
Labour To Slash The Benefits Of The Sick And The ‘Suspect’
The Labour government is absolutely determined to impress its big business backers and show them that it is ready to take action against ‘slackers’...
With The Tories At Their Weakest Now Is The Time For A General Strike...
SATURDAY’S massive turnout for the trade union sponsored mass demonstration with its lead banner declaring ‘Not One Day More – Tories out’ has spread...
Prentis appeals to Brown in vain
‘OUR time and patience is running out. The country is in a mess and we look to the Government to come up with serious...
Wealthiest 5 richer than poorest 20%
THE report by the charity Oxfam entitled ‘A Tale of Two Britains’ puts definite figures on the simple fact known by every worker that...
New Health Act must be smashed along with the government that has brought it...
THE Tory-led coalition will now be able to close all of the hospitals on its hit list, and more as it wishes, to ‘save’...
US arms Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia for war with Iran
THAT the US is preparing a new great war in the Middle East and the Gulf to destroy Iran and Syria is crystal clear...
Sunak Wants A War With Russia And A Class War Against The Working Class...
THE British ruling class has decided that there is only one way out of the historic crisis of British capitalism, and that is to...
Grenfell Tower Deaths Were Avoidable – Time To Nationalise The Banks And Building Industry!
THE Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was the result of ‘dishonest companies, successive governments, and a lack of strategy by the fire...
After April 24: Defeat pay cuts with an extended general strike!
TENS of thousands of teachers, college lecturers and civil servants are striking today against government-imposed pay cuts. As a result of the action by the...
Time To Sack The Leadership Of The FBU!
YESTERDAY’S closure of ten London fire stations, with the loss of 552 firefighter jobs and the axing of 14 fire engines, shows how little...
US unions being driven to historic break with Democrats
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said last Friday that US workers want an ‘independent’ labour movement designed to help the working class, not a specific...
Britain Apologises To Chagossians – Now Hand Them Back Their Islands!
BRITAIN has apologised to the Chagos Islanders for the ‘shameful’ way it evicted them from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The apology came...
British Chambers of Commerce looks to class war in New Year
FOR some days now, Minister Jowell has been campaigning in the cabinet to stop Gordon Brown being verbally beastly to the Tories, by bringing...
Chancellor’s Budget for starving the working class
OSBORNE’S BUDGET speech was devoid of any attempt to analyse the world crisis that is gripping capitalism and which is deepening by the hour,...
PM May hammers the poor as 7,585 families receive 50p housing benefit!
PM MAY makes a lot of noise about her concern for the ‘just about managing’, ie the middle classes in crisis-ridden Britain. In fact,...
British Government Must Recognise Hamas
IT IS AN indisputable fact that Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist, was freed by the Hamas movement just two weeks after Hamas took control...
Johnson’s ‘Freedom Worth Fighting For’ Means UK Workers Pay For War In Ukraine!
A ROW has broken out over £30m from the Welsh government’s budget being put towards the £1bn the UK is sending to Ukraine to...
Afghan Fall Out – Gates Attacks UK Defeatists
US Defence Secretary Gates has condemned as ‘defeatist’ a comment by the British commander in Afghanistan that the war there cannot be won. Speaking...
Broken Hague Stands Down While Gove Is Terminated By Cameron!
WILLIAM Hague has stood down as foreign secretary, but will stay in the cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons till the next...
US in political crisis as Biden faces growing calls to quit!
A ‘PERVASIVE sense of fear and uncertainty’ hangs over the US Democratic party as 81-year-old president Joe Biden faces increasingly strident calls for him...
News International, Parliament and the state
THE revelation yesterday that the News of the World (NoW) newspaper had quietly suspended its assistant editor (news), Ian Edmondson, just before Christmas, has...
Labour Party breaking apart – now is the time to build the WRP to lead...
THE Labour Party conference yesterday morning opened to boos and jeers from delegates furious at the Labour leadership’s manoeuvres to shunt the crunch vote...
BIS warning of global financial crash!
GLOBAL financial markets are dangerously stretched and may unwind with shock force as liquidity dries up, the Bank of International Settlements has warned. BIS boss...
LOW PAY – TUC Commission shows the problem, but runs away from a solution
YESTERDAY the TUC revealed in its ‘Commission on Vulnerable Employment’ report what everybody already knows. This is that low pay and slave labour...
New Palestinian Intifada emerging at a time when Israel is split and divided with...
THE Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has issued a warning that the Israeli military raids and Israeli...
Forward to a public sector general strike to smash Brown’s wage cutting policies
GMB members working in the NHS yesterday voted by over 96% to reject the 2008 pay offer in a consultative ballot on the government’s...