Afghan crisis – more combat troops to be sent
THE British government’s Defence Secretary, Des Browne, said yesterday that he would be making a statement to the House of Commons as soon as...
Dannatt would not use Lariam, but permitted it to be used on thousands...
FORMER Army chief of staff Lord Dannatt has apologised on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme for allowing British troops to take an anti-malaria drug...
Mandelson Gives The Thumbs Down To Luton!
BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson declared yesterday morning, before he even reached the Luton GM plant, that there would be no nationalisation of GM Luton –...
Tory government acted illegally! It has no right to rule and must be...
THE Supreme Court yesterday dealt a death blow to the Tory strategy to make it financially impossible for workers to take their employers...
Tory Coalition Turns To Civil War Tactics!
THE Tory-led coalition is planning to reintroduce the Riot Act nearly 40 years after it was abolished in England and Wales. Under proposals set out...
Biden’s ‘ironclad’ support for Israel as imperialism prepares for all-out war in Middle East
AT a press conference on Wednesday evening, US president Joe Biden announced that American imperialism was prepared for an all-out war in the Middle...
Blair stays at number 10 to try help Israel out of the Lebanese mire
PRIME minister Blair, at the last minute, postponed his holiday to try to assist the UN Security Council efforts, headed by France, to fashion...
Oil companies make massive profits from imperialist war
THE giant oil company BP revealed yesterday that its profits more than doubled in the first three months of the year because of the...
Unions must strike for a 10% wage rise!
The results of a consultative ballot of 600,000 local government and school members of the Unison union recorded a massive 70% rejection of the...
Tory-type austerity is now Ball’s centre ground
WRITING in the Guardian this week, Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, made it clear that the Labour leadership’s economic policy consisted solely of moving...
Trade Unions Must Dump Starmer And Labour’s Right Wing And Call A General Strike...
THE general secretary of the Unite union Len McCluskey has responded to Labour’s massive council election defeats and its disastrous loss in the Hartlepool...
Rejected Sunak brought back as Tory leader – unions must call a general strike...
Rishi Sunak was appointed Tory Prime Minister yesterday after his opponent Penny Mordaunt withdrew from the race at the last minute. Sunak was overwhelmingly rejected...
Britain wants to occupy Afghanistan for ‘decades’
SIR SHERARD Cowper-Coles, the high-flying diplomat who is Ambassador in Afghanistan, told BBC Radio 4 yesterday that British forces would have to stay in...
Bankrupt Tories cook the books while TU leaders do nothing
THE dust had barely settled on Tory chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement on the state of the British economy before the gaping holes in...
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...
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...
A Heinous Crime Against Humanity – Killing Of Palestinian Three-Year-Old Is Condemned!
PALESTINIAN prisoners held under Israel's so-called administrative detention policy are defiantly planning a mass open-ended hunger strike in protest at their unlawful and indefinite...
End the Israeli occupation of Palestine!
IT IS 40 years since Israeli warplanes destroyed the Egyptian airforce on the ground and Israeli troops occupied the Sinai peninsula, occupied Syria’s Golan...
Nagasaki anti-militarism!
LAST week saw the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest war crimes in human history, the dropping of the two Atomic bombs onto...
PFI, Foundation Trusts and £20bn of Tory cuts are preparing NHS closures & privatisation
FIGURES publicised by Labour’s shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, have shown that one third of England’s hospitals have been completely full at some time...
Bring down the Tories – the only way to defend and develop the NHS!
THE BMA’s just-published Survey of Doctors reveals the depth of the crisis that the Tory government has plunged the NHS into, as a result...
TUC must carry out decision for £10 Minimum Wage
THE revelation from the accountancy firm KPMG that their research has shown that one in six people, over 5 million, in work earn less...
Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the fire
YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...
Trump dumps Ukraine as US capitalism gears up for war on the working class...
Last Friday, US president Donald Trump met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in a ‘summit’ that Trump boasted would finally end the imperialist ‘proxy’...
Trump pushes US and world capitalism into slump and recession
LEADING bourgeois economists are making doom laden predictions about the effect of Donald Trump’s pledges to ‘make America great’ through trade wars and expelling...
Ireland, Spain and Norway have opened floodgates in recognising the state of Palestine –...
THE unity of western governments over previous unconditional support for the state of Israel and its illegal occupation of Palestine was blown apart yesterday...
UK and US imperialism’s drive to war must be answered through the victory of...
IN his ‘Letter to American Workers’, published in Pravda on August 22 1918, after the victorious Russian revolution, Lenin wrote, ‘We are now, as...
Managers oppose the ‘enormous risk’ of the NHS White Paper
NHS managers have warned in a report from the NHS Confederation that the Lansley NHS White Paper will lead to hospital closures and constitutes...
Abuse of elderly inevitable outcome of privatisation
A major study by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the quality of home care for the elderly in England has thrown the...
KOSOVO – An imperialist carve-up!
HASHIM Thaci, the former leader of the American-backed terrorist group, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and the Prime Minister in the Serbian province, declared...
Labour marshalling its strikebreakers
THE capitalist state has had to admit that its war on two fronts means that it cannot rely on the British army for strike...
Project Fear Gives Way To Pledges Of Retribution
SPEAKING with Labour’s former Chancellor Lord Darling by his side, in full support, the Tory Chancellor Osborne yesterday pledged violent retribution against the electorate...
Forward To The General Strike – Bring Down The Coalition, Stop All The Cuts...
500,000 workers, youth and pensioners marched through London on Saturday. Unlike the Labour leaders they were in total opposition to all of the savage cuts...
Starmer Betrays The Working Class By Planning A Massive Rise In Military Spending!
LABOUR PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer has almost immediately betrayed the massive working class electorate that voted him into office as Prime Minister. His first action...
Parliament Votes Lords Resolution Banning Any UK ‘No Deal’ Into Law!
THE HOUSE of Commons on Monday night voted by 390 votes to 81 to turn a House of Lords resolution into legislation that bans...
Trump and Musk tear up bourgeois democracy to wage war on workers in US
ELON Musk has launched a campaign of slashing jobs and closing federal departments with nothing but contempt for Congress. Musk, the world’s richest man, was...
The eurozone is a pack of cards ready to collapse, says the economist who...
THE man who is credited as the principle architect of the single European currency 14 years ago has just warned that his ‘project’ is...
Time To Destroy The Anti-Union Laws With A General Strike And A Socialist Revolution!
THE FBU has made a decisive intervention, demanding that the trade unions build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament...
British capitalism, backward, parasitic, and ripe for revolution
A REPORT by business research firm Datamonitor says that people in the UK are borrowing on average almost twice that of citizens in other...
French revolution – spreading throughout Europe
FRANCE has been shaken for the past six months by an eruption of anger by the education trade unions and by student and school...
Labour Now A Fifth Column For The Eu! Socialist Revolution Needed To Carry Out...
WEDNESDAY’S humiliating defeat of the Tory government over the EU Withdrawal Bill signalled the emergence of a bloc between the Labour Party, now firmly...
Capitalism is a broken system – nationalise the banks and the car industry
British Banks have been recapitalised by the working class, who were not consulted by the government before the Prime Minister took the decision...
Bankrupt McCluskey won’t take action to bring down the Tories!
IN A statement passed overwhelmingly by Unite’s policy conference in Brighton, the union stressed that its priority is to push for a general election...
Carney urges united action by the bourgeoisie of Europe
IN his speech in Dublin on Wednesday, Bank of England Governor Carney delivered a warning to the EU – as Greek shares collapsed on...
Greek Crisis To Explode All Over Europe!
AS 100,000 workers marched through Athens on May Day, and tens of thousands marched through large numbers of Greek towns and villages, it...