Trump Coup Attempt Fails
ON WEDNESDAY afternoon thousands of US president Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington before storming the US Congress to put a stop to the...
‘No strategy to deal with crisis’ – ruling class
‘WE HAVE no ability to turn the economy around. When the next recession comes it is going to be deeper and last longer than...
Osborne tax credits retreat but savage assault on Welfare State is stepped up!
CHANCELLOR Osborne was forced to make a humiliating retreat over working tax credits in the House of Commons yesterday after facing massive resistance to...
Blair Defies Labour Over Education Privatisation
LABOUR Prime Minister Blair has ruled out changes to his education reform (privatisation) plans despite a challenge by more than 50 Labour MPs,...
Osborne furious over ‘back to the 1930s’ taunt
THE Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, was described in the bourgeois press as being ‘rattled’ by the news coverage of his Autumn Statement. In fact, ‘rattled’...
Crunch Time For The Eurozone
August is traditionally the month when politicians, bankers and bureaucrats across Europe take an extended break away from the chaos of the economic meltdown...
FBU Warns Tory PM And London’s Labour Mayor ‘Not To Impose Unthinkable Cuts!’
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has vowed to fight ‘unthinkable’ proposals to cut the budget for the London Fire Brigade by £25m over two...
Osborne Mugs The Pensioners!
WEDNESDAY’S budget left no room for doubt about who the coalition government intends should pay to bail out the bankrupt British economy – pensioners,...
Cameron Proposes Britain’s Own Version Of G-Bay
DAVID Cameron chose the G20 meeting in Australia to unveil the latest coalition plans to strip British passport holders of their citizenship if they...
Corbyn stabs Brexit in the back for the benefit of the bosses and...
LABOUR leader Corbyn, in his response to PM May’s Monday update to the House of Commons ahead of this week’s European Council, made it...
308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla 308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla blockade busters
ON May 31 this year, Israeli commandos abseiled onto the deck of the ‘Mavi Marmara’, which was sailing in international waters on its way...
Only way to smash anti-strike law is by forcing TUC to call a general...
THE ILO (International Labour Organisation), the official body of the United Nations responsible for upholding workers’ rights, has slammed the Tory anti-strike laws and...
Gaza human rights centre issues call for international community to intervene to halt...
YESTERDAY marked Human Rights Day, a day observed annually across the world to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by...
Eurozone Crisis Is Hitting Every Country
IN a week when Greece and Spain witnessed massive strikes and demonstrations against austerity measures – designed to drive the working class and youth...
Israel-US considering attack on Syria and Iran
LATE last week, a leading Israeli minister said that the only people left in southern Lebanon were connected to Hezbollah, giving the Israeli military...
Bankrupt Brown speaks to the City of London
GORDON Brown began his Mansion House speech to the City of London on Monday night with a ringing but empty declaration. He said: ‘I want...
Italian banks are bust, as is the Italian government – the working class must...
A COLLISION between Italy and the European Union over a bailout of Italy’s collapsed banking system is getting closer by the day. It is...
Generals threaten coup against Macron as France and Europe face bankruptcy
LAST WEEK, an explosive letter from 25 senior retired French generals was published in the right-wing Valeurs Actuelles magazine threatening President Macron with an...
Anti-Brexit Coup Underway – Workers Must Take Action To Force UK Out Of Eu...
ON FRIDAY PM MAY let it be known that if she did not think that her EU deal would be agreed by parliament she...
Tusk threatens ‘Hell on Earth’ for working class!
WHEN Donald Tusk, the European Council President, speaking in Brussels came out with his comment that there is a ‘special place in hell’ for...
‘No quick fix’ in the Lebanon says Downing Street
YESTERDAY saw US landing craft from a US aircraft carrier taking off US citizens and others, who had to wade through the sea to...
Military in Myanmar dump Aung San Suu Kyi for civil war against Burma’s ...
N THE early hours of Monday the military in Myanmar (formerly called Burma) seized power in a coup that saw the country’s leader Aung...
Hunt warned by bankers that tax cuts must be funded through savage austerity cuts...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is preparing to deliver a Spring budget on Wednesday 6th March which he has signalled will concentrate on tax cuts...
Children starve in Britain while bankers reap billions
IN the same week that the capitalist banking system was exposed as a centre of criminal venality, lying and cheating in order to secure...
Blair Launches ‘Irreversible’ NHS-Education Market!
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that he was poised to make irreversible changes to primary and secondary education by bringing in an education market...
British capitalism ‘heading for disaster’ as Labour government fails to impose capitalist crisis on...
THE HUMILIATION heaped on prime minister Keir Starmer and his chancellor Rachel Reeves by the rebellion of backbench Labour MPs over their plans to ‘save’...
Resolve the world crisis of capitalism with the victory of the World Socialist Revolution
The world crisis of capitalism dominated the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. The splits between US imperialism and its...
Open The Doors To The Refugees, And Smash Capitalism And Imperialism!
A VERY young toddler was washed up on a Turkish beach on Wednesday, while his mother was also among those drowned at sea trying...
Mass Murder In Arab Jabur
WHILE President Bush was allegedly talking peace in the Palestinian town of Ramallah on Thursday, US B1 bombers and F16 fighters were raining 40,000...
Irish government disintegrates – forward to a workers and small farmers government
AFTER the resignation of the Foreign Minister and four other members of the Irish cabinet, the Prime Minister, Cowen has resigned as the...
Northern Rock sold at a loss as dictatorships rule in EU!
NORTHERN Rock (NR) plc is being sold to Virgin Money by the coalition government for £747m. After Northern Rock was nationalised in 2008 it...
Israel bombs last functioning hospital in Gaza – working class must force TUC to...
THE ISRAELI regime intensified its relentless land and air bombardment of Gaza this weekend, including the bombing of the last functioning hospital in Gaza...
State Department rubbishes ‘ignorant’ Blair
A POLITICALLY ‘sick’ Prime Minister Blair was yesterday delivered another major blow, this time at the hands of the US State Department, when...
TUC must take the lead in the establishment of the state of Palestine by...
MASSIVE Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah ‘are not the end of the story’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared – after Israeli jets bombed...
Myanmar – working class intervene with national strikes to bring down military dictatorship
WORKERS across Myanmar (formally Burma) came out on a nationwide general strike yesterday demanding the overthrow of the military dictatorship which was imposed last...
Turkish army invades northern Iraq while US planes bomb Syrian army
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called talks on Syria in New York for December 18-19. Kerry said that the United States and its...
Sunak pledges limitless billions of pounds to prolong war on Russia – nothing for...
TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak, in his first major policy speech last night, pledged to maintain and even increase military aid to Ukraine to...
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...
Make Turkey general strike indefinite to kick Erdogan out
THE Turkish trade unions called a two-day general strike for yesterday and today to express their outrage at the bombing on Saturday of the...
Hayman gets a CBE while Met chief Blair puts his holidays first
THE ‘shoot to kill’ section of the Metropolitan Police force is proceeding full speed ahead, knowing that it has the complete support of the...
Omicron strain batters USA as President Biden seeks to divert US workers’ anger with...
THE Omicron strain of the Coronavirus now accounts for more than 73% of new US cases of Covid-19, up from 13% just a week...
Shares Crash As Debt Crisis Explodes
IN London yesterday, the FTSE 100 rebounded momentarily, but then fell back into the red, down by 48.5 points by 1pm after a...
Erdogan urges Israel to end occupation while the UK celebrates Balfour Declaration!
THE Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Israel must stop its occupation of the Palestinian territories, which he says undermines any two-state...
TUC must answer zero-hours contracts with a general strike!
ON Wednesday night TV viewers were treated to a film clip on the news of the managing director of Sports Direct, Mike Ashley, pulling...
‘Hostile environment’ alive & kicking! Tories deport another 13 to the Caribbean. Stop all...
A LAST-DITCH legal attempt by two children to stop their father being forced onto a plane and deported to the Caribbean failed on Tuesday,...