Gove declares war on state education! Kick the Tories out!
THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has unleashed yet another broadside against state education and the teaching profession in a speech on Monday where...
Capitalism has no ‘safety net’ to save it from economic crash
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) can no longer act as the world’s ‘lender of last resort’ according to a task force of currency experts...
Obama recognises the limits of US power
PRESIDENT Obama yesterday gave the go-ahead for a massive attack on the Afghan people in which tens of thousands of men, women and children...
Teachers At War With The Government!
THE two biggest teachers unions have begun their annual conferences, where they will challenge the government over pay, Ofsted inspections and England’s Academies and...
Security Council extends Iraq occupation mandate
THE imperialists and their Chinese and Russian stooges on the UN Security Council have extended the mandate of the US-led occupation armies in Iraq,...
Restore the NHS! Bring down Blair
PRIME Minister Tony Blair made clear yesterday that the government is determined to force through the cuts and closures, privatisation and destruction of...
Starmer clings on – TUC must call a general strike to bring down the...
Keir Starmer survived as Labour prime minister by the skin of his teeth on Monday night as his cabinet rallied round him, inundating Labour MPs...
Britain, Germany, Spain And The US Poised On The Brink Of Recession
THE European Commission stated yesterday that the UK, Germany and Spain, key members of the EU, with Germany being the world’s biggest exporter, are...
US Mounts Drone Assault On The Yemen
AFTER withdrawing its embassy staff from 20 countries, the US ruling class has now launched a drone blitz on the Yemen, with three drone...
Tories Want To Bomb Syria!
TORY Defence Minister, Michael Fallon, with the full support of Cameron and leading members of the Labour Party, is calling for Britain to start...
Nurses are ‘not afraid to strike’ for the promised pay upgrades – RCN warns...
NURSES are ‘not afraid to strike’ over promised pay upgrades, the Royal College of Nursing union warned James Murray, the new Labour Health Secretary...
Hodge tries to stop any condemnation of Israel as a racist, apartheid state
THE ORCHESTRATED witch-hunt against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over scurrilous accusations that he and indeed vast numbers of Labour Party members are in fact...
The US and UK are making war on asylum seekers! Workers trade unions...
THE Biden administration has imprisoned tens of thousands of asylum seekers in US prisons where they suffer lengthy detention, severe physical and psychological harm...
Unions Must Call Action To Halt Tory Law Equating Journalism With Terrorism! They Must...
THE NUJ is warning that Home Office plans to ‘reform’ The Official Secrets Act ‘are a severe threat to journalism’. It is calling on...
Join the lobby of the TUC to demand they call an immediate general strike...
OVER 100,000 Royal Mail workers are striking again today. 30,000 BT Openreach engineers, along with 10,000 BT call centre workers are also on strike,...
Make the TUC call a general strike to bring down Labour and to bring...
DESPITE Labour’s election manifesto pledges and repeated promise of ‘No tax increases’ on income, National Insurance or VAT, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning a...
Defend the right to strike by forcing the TUC to call a general strike...
LAST week, the Tories’ strike-breaking agency worker regulations were thrown out after the High Court ruled they were unlawful. This judgement quashed an appeal by...
Johnson’s answer to recession – sell off social housing!
TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared in Blackpool yesterday to deliver what was billed as his great ‘reset speech’, to shore up his leadership...
Defend the NHS! Come to NE London Council of Action Conference!
EARLIER this week Chancellor Alistair Darling promised the most draconian cuts in public spending for 20 years as a result of the Labour government’s...
The Spectre Of Revolution Stalks Europe Says Farage
IT was Karl Marx who in 1848, two months before the February revolution erupted in France, began the Communist Manifesto with the words ‘A...
Obama brings in tough sanctions against Iran as he prepares to meet Netanyahu
PRESIDENT Barack Obama has signed into law the toughest ever US sanctions on Iran. The measures, on top of new UN Security Council and...
Germany’s two largest banks in merger talks, creating Europe’s biggest ‘zombie bank’
LAST weekend the two largest German banks, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, entered merger talks in a last desperate measure to delay a banking collapse...
Britain to be one big prison!
THE coalition government has published its plans to turn Britain into one big prison with its own version of the US’ two strikes and...
The Jubilee turns sour as capitalism crashes
THE Jubilee ‘celebrations’ have turned out to be a petty, momentary diversion for sections of the middle class, away from the real drama...
Build the Fourth International! Victory to the World Socialist Revolution!
YESTERDAY, millions of Egyptian workers and youth, from Alexandria to Cairo’s Tahrir Square and the city of Luxor and Ports Said and Suez, marched...
Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Egypt
THE US-backed and financed Egyptian army has given a 48-hour ultimatum to the US-backed and financed Muslim Brotherhood government (which supports the imperialist powers...
Famine ‘unfolding’ in Gaza – trade unions must call general strikes to bring down...
THE UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which monitors hunger and starvation across the world, yesterday issued a warning that the ‘worst case...
Tory Government Is Making War On The Rail Trade Unions – TUC Must Be...
THE RMT has revealed that the private rail companies war on the rail trade unions is being financed by the UK government, who are...
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...
Tories Greet NHS 70Th Annniversary With More NHS Cuts!
WHILE 70,000 NHS workers were marching through London on Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Tory-appointed bosses of NHS England were...
Labour’s ‘business friendly’ manifesto is declaration of war on the working class!
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer launched the party’s ‘business friendly’ election manifesto in Manchester yesterday morning with the promise that a Labour government would put...
Bring down Blair regime from the left
THE Blair government suffered two body-blows yesterday. Blair’s main cabinet ally, Blunkett, was forced to resign, and the government’s 66 majority was reduced to...
We Are Approachng A Moment Of Truth Says Osborne
KARL MARX was able to show that one of the fundamental contradictions of the capitalist system was the conflict between the need of the...
Stock markets crash as US supremacy in AI technology shattered by small Chinese company
ON MONDAY, $1 trillion was wiped off the value of America’s leading tech companies in a share crash caused by the tiny Chinese company DeepSeek. DeepSeek...
The Working Class Must Intervene To Resolve The Brexit ‘Debate’!
LAST Tuesday afternoon, in the House of Commons, the knives were out for the Brexit referendum result, and for the millions of workers who...
Spanish workers on the road to revolution
SPANISH PM Mariano Rajoy has just announced a 3% VAT rise from 18%-21%, and a series of austerity measures that will cut the Spanish...
Patients & staff paying price of £1bn NHS under-spend
LABOUR ministers are boasting that the projected £983m under-spend in the National Health Service are evidence that it has regained its ‘financial footing’. Health Secretary...
Bankers fumble in the dark
‘THE recession has. . . certainly presented us with plenty of puzzles,’ says the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Charles Bean. Addressing the...
Teachers must not fight alone – TUC must call a general strike
The annual conferences of the two largest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, meeting at the weekend heard that the unions and the...
Labour is going to bring a co-payment system into the NHS
AS the economic crisis deepens, the drive to privatise the NHS is being stepped up on a number of fronts. One is the growing...
Take strike action to support FBU!
THE London Firefighters one day strike last Saturday has drawn a swift response from the capitalist state, via their mouthpieces in the bourgeois press. Commenting...
The CWU leaders are refusing to fight for their membership
THE unsolicited public display of pacifism yesterday by the CWU leadership, in the face of the most vicious daily attacks on their membership...
The Lebanese cease-fire is a truce
DESPITE the recent heavy losses suffered by the Israeli army in trying to penetrate southern Lebanon, the objective of the US administration, its Israeli...
Full Support For The RMT And Tssa Strikers!
THE RMT began the first of its two 48-hour strikes on Tuesday night against the plan of London Mayor Boris Johnson to close all...
Iran wants to talk – US–UK want to impose sanctions
THE Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared that he is ready to talk to President Obama and other leaders and have a ‘fair, logical’...