Lebanon and Iraq erupt as masses demand political overthrow of their governments
LEBANON erupted over the weekend with renewed clashes between thousands of demonstrators and security forces on Sunday following violent clashes in Beirut on Saturday...
The biggest fall in living standards since 1931!
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that living costs have risen 25% in the past five years and placed an ‘unprecedented’ financial burden on...
A bankers budget from a bankers government
DESPITE all the government statements against leaking government information before it is to go before the House of Commons, the Treasury was at it...
Stop BA & Stop Baa Airports, To Win Cabin Crew Struggle!
BA cabin crew yesterday rejected the latest offer from BA with a massive 67 per cent voting to throw out by 3,419 votes to...
150,000 Deaths – Tories Put The Bosses First – They Refuse To Lock Down...
THE BMA yesterday condemned the 150,000 Covid deaths, so far, since the start of the pandemic. The reason for the mountain of corpses is...
Trump moves to make a deal with the Stalinist bureaucracy – workers must move...
UKRAINE has agreed the terms of a major minerals deal with the US, a senior official in Kiev has told the BBC. US President...
TUC Postpones Its Congress. It Is Time For A New And Revolutionary Leadership
THE RMT announced yesterday that the ‘RMT joins the whole nation in paying its respects to Queen Elizabeth' and that ‘the planned railway strike...
Build Millions Of Council Homes To House The Homeless
HOMELESS people die thirty years before the national average, says the latest research from Sheffield University commissioned by Crisis, the national charity for single...
Imperialists Drive To Break Up Iraq
THERE can be only one gainer from a civil war in Iraq, that will lead to the breaking up of the country into three...
Working class erupts as inflation rips through Europe – build sections of the 4th...
EUROPE has erupted in strikes as workers rise up against raging inflation which is driving down living standards to poverty levels across the EU. Germany,...
Worst NHS winter crisis ever! NHS unions must join health strike in the north...
A&Es axed, children’s hospitals closed, nurses driven out because of overwork and under-pay, junior doctors at the point of exhaustion, GP surgeries shut down,...
Half a million families will lose their homes if rates are put up, warns...
IN its direst warning to date on the scale of personal debt, the Bank of England has predicted that half a million families will...
America Getting Ready For Revolution!
AMERICA has erupted this week as the working class and youth have responded to the continued and unending violence meted out to them on...
Police call for more repression
METROPOLITAN Police Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur has submitted a document to the Labour government’s Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, calling for new laws that would...
UN report confirms that Capitalist austerity has driven millions into poverty in the...
A REPORT by an official UN agency has confirmed what every worker across Europe knows – namely that the savage austerity measures carried out...
Israeli high school students refuse to serve and oppose the oppression of the Palestinians!
HUNDREDS of Israeli high school students in a ‘Youth Against Dictatorship’ statement have announced that they will refuse to serve in the Israeli military...
Brown brings back Mandelson to fight the trade unions
WITH the financial storm clouds starting to burst around him, Prime Minister Brown has established with his cabinet reshuffle that he means every word...
Cable Urges Privatised Unis, A Graduate Tax, 2-Year Degree Courses And Part-Time Students
TWENTY FIVE per cent funding cuts will mean 33,844 jobs being destroyed in English colleges. This news comes just a week after an analysis...
World crisis hits eurozone
THE announcement by the unelected Italian prime minister, Mario Monti, that he is quitting the job sent the Italian economy into a massive crisis...
King Abdullah Of Jordan Calls For Immediate End To Israeli Aggression!
KING Abdullah II of Jordan warned yesterday against the catastrophic repercussions of the ongoing Israeli destruction of Gaza, emphasising the urgent need to address...
Massive doctors vote for strike action over pensions!
THE BMA LEADERSHIP has now called a 24-hour day of action on Thursday 21 June, during which only emergency or urgent care will be...
Refugees branded as ‘illegals’ by EU
THIS week, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, threatened that the EU would deport the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist...
Hands off Syria – its people must decide its future
THE Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has reiterated that the sole way to resolve Syria’s current crisis is through a ‘national model’. He added: ‘What...
Murdoch admirer Gove loves liberty and freedom
IT HAS emerged that Leveson, whose current inquiry was brought into being by Prime Minister Cameron, complained to the UK’s top civil servant after...
Hague Must Resign Over Libyan Debacle
THE latest NATO war crime, the bombing of the Libyan TV station, killing three technicians, was a repeat of a similar war crime,...
Law lords rule for US imperialism to keep the Chagossians in exile
THE House of Lords appeal court yesterday reversed the three decisions taken by seven senior judges, in previous court hearings, that the Chagos Islanders...
Stop imperialist war with the world socialist revolution
YESTERDAY US president Barak Obama finally launched the air and missile strikes he has been threatening inside Syria without the agreement of the Syrian...
Johnson regime in crisis as Tory base rejects ‘red wall’ and demands that workers...
THE TORY Party membership is currently teaching its Tory leadership a lesson in ‘class politics’ as the Amersham by-election result shows when the LibDems...
Kiev, EU and US facing defeat in East Ukraine!
UKRAINIAN President Petro Poroshenko has cancelled a visit to Turkey, citing ‘Russian troop deployments’ in the east of the country. His announcement came as...
New Labour Is Proposing 24-Hour Courts And Fast-Track Sentencing Of Workers And Youth!
COURTS ARE now to sit for 24 hours in order to impose fast-track sentencing under New Labour Emergency Government plans to crack down on...
Irish and UK ruling classes uniting against working class
MARX says in his 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak,...
UK economy is crashing into bankruptcy under the impact of the world capitalist crisis!
ONLY two weeks into 2025 and the capitalist world is reeling from an economic crisis of historic proportions – a crisis that has completely...
World Dollar Debt Crisis!
YET another authoritative report detailing the developing world banking crisis has surfaced – a report which if shorn of its dry academic language paints...
Union leaders go easy on Brown’s bosses’ budget
CHANCELLOR Brown’s budget yesterday outlined savage attacks on the working class, particularly low paid workers. His decision to abolish the 10 pence tax rate...
State to give bankrupt bankers cash in exchange for their paper rubbish
PRIME Minister Brown has made an appeal to the Wall Street bankers to be honest, surely a contradiction in terms. He wants them to publicly...
Truss and Kwarteng declare war on unions – TUC must respond with a general...
CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng has unveiled the plans by the Tory government to drive part-time workers back into full employment by cutting their benefits. Under the...
A Record £65.5 Billion Trade Deficit For 2005
THE UK trade deficit with the rest of the world for 2005 was a catastrophic £65.5 billion. The deficit on goods and services...
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...
State terror at home and abroad!
THE UK capitalist state has always used terrorist attacks, such as the latest attack in Tunisia, to strengthen its continuing preparation of special armed...
Rashid Rauf Freed – ‘Bomb Plot’ Collapses
A PAKISTANI judge yesterday ruled that there was no evidence to try Rashid Rauf on terrorist charges, or that he was a member...
Defeat paramilitary policing in UK with socialist revolution
THOUSANDS of workers and young people in cities throughout the country, peacefully protesting against the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, were met...
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...
TUC must call a general strike to defend the NHS
WITH the latest five days of strike action by junior doctors due to end tomorrow, the British Medical Association (BMA) has already set in...
Brown’s foreign policy shaped by defeats in Iraq & Afghanistan
FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband, the ‘rising star’ in the government, was given the task of presenting Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s foreign policy strategy at...
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...