EU and US fall out over oil, gas and Russian sanctions!
THE INCREASINGLY fractious relationship between the US and its rival capitalist bloc the European Union, is on the point of erupting into a full...
French workers’ refusal to vote for austerity puts socialist revolution on immediate agenda
IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote...
Workers & youth take on the French government
THOUSANDS of students took to the streets in major cities throughout France yesterday in the struggle against Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s First Employment...
Reject Tory fake pledges on NHS funding – Only Socialism will guarantee the NHS
THE SURPRISE announcement by Theresa May on Sunday that the Tories had plans to put £20 billion of extra funding into the NHS over...
Eu Leaders Make War Against Greek Workers
‘Down with the junta of the bankers! Kick out the swindlers of Brussels.’ These were the slogans being shouted by Greek workers and youth...
Bourgeoisie Trembles At The Approaching Catastrophe!
THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, made it clear this week that the banking system faces total collapse due to ‘systemic...
Cameron Launches Campaign For UK To Remain In The Eu
CAMERON yesterday launched his campaign for a ‘Yes’ vote in an EU referendum – which has been pencilled in for June 2016 – telling...
Putin draws a line and issues a warning over imperialist war preparations
RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin slammed the Western powers in his annual end-of-year press conference yesterday, telling the assembled journalists that Russia was cheated by...
Sunak not ‘daunted’ by job of driving through super austerity to rescue British capitalism!
Rishi Sunak delivered his first address to the nation as prime minister yesterday morning. He started by praising Liz Truss and Boris Johnson in a...
TUC organises a day of inaction against Tory union-busting laws!
IT was with much fanfare that the TUC announced on the 10th January that it would hold a national ‘protect the right to strike’...
Spanish Opel workers vote for strike action!
WORKERS at Opel’s factory in Zaragossa, Spain, have announced four days of strikes starting next week, after failing to reach an agreement with Magna...
NATO expands Afghan war – Britain to take the lead
NATO foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels, have endorsed a plan to expand the alliance’s role in Afghanistan with Britain taking the lead. It will...
Workers have the right to self defence against terrorism & capitalism
SIX hundred new armed officers are being trained for anti-terrorist warfare in the city of London, the Metropolitan Police has announced. This will bring the...
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,...
Macron desperate to reassert French imperial rule in Lebanon
FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron stepped up his blatant interference in Lebanon on Sunday when he issued Lebanese politicians an ultimatum that they must form...
Occupy to fight mass sackings! Nationalise the motor car industry!
GENERAL Motors yesterday presented the United States Department of Treasury with its restructuring plan to re-establish the bankrupt company through massive sackings of over...
Labour must pledge to nationalise Bombardier to defend 14,000 jobs!
PM May is said to be ‘bitterly disappointed’ that the US Department of Commerce and her friend President Trump have opted to impose a...
Bush bull cannot cover over US defeat
BRITISH troops have just scuttled out of Basra, leaving the various militias of the city in full control. They have settled down at Basra airport,...
Bankrupt Britain Faces Huge Welfare Cuts!
IN HIS Autumn Statement on the economy, Chancellor Osborne outlined many more years of severe austerity with billions more in welfare cuts to be...
Anti-Brexit coup under way – ‘Country before Party’ means bringing in military police state!
WITH PM May seeking a miracle rescue by the EU getting rid of the backstop, in the real world a coup is being launched...
Tories, with the support of the Labour Party, begin forcing asylum seekers on to...
THE TORIES kicked off their ‘stop the boats week’ yesterday with the announcement that the first 50 asylum seekers will be forced onto the...
Greek Debt Crisis Set To Explode Under The Eu!
TALKS on a Greek debt deal, it was reported yesterday, have ‘hit a snag’. The Institute of International Finance (IIF), and their creditors group...
THE TUC leaders who have deserted junior doctors and the NHS must be kicked...
YESTERDAY the Tory offensive against not just junior doctors but the entire foundation of the National Health Service reached a ‘watershed moment for the...
Labour sells out on state education
THE Labour shadow education minister, Stephen Twigg, made a speech yesterday that was billed as ‘wresting’ the initiative on education from the Tories –...
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...
US-UK imperialism has come to grief in Iraq
IRAQ’S election commission has barred almost 500 candidates and many parties from running in the ‘national’ elections on 7 March. A parliamentary committee says that...
Labour Foreign Secretary embraces Netanyahu while Palestinians are massacred in Gaza!
LAST Saturday, at least 88 Palestinians were killed and over 289 injured by Israeli bomb strikes on the displaced peoples camp in Khan Younis,...
US explodes as workers and youth take to the streets to oppose Trump’s attacks...
LOS ANGELES, the second largest city in the US, exploded over the weekend following a massive raid on Friday by federal agents from Immigration...
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...
Bosses Demand Lift The Lockdown While Pensioners Are Locked In At Home!
WITH British capitalism up to its neck in hundreds of billions of debt, and with the middle class small proprietors ruined, the cry is...
Working Class Is On The March – It Is Refusing To Pay The Bill...
THE UK working class is on the march, spurred forward by the worldwide crisis of the capitalist system, with Britain very much the weakest...
Cameron’s Magna Carta hypocrisy
THIS week the Tory-led coalition is set to announce yet more changes to the education syllabus, changes designed to further Cameron’s pledge to drive...
Workers Of The World Unite To Smash Racism And To Win Socialism!
MICHAEL Fallon, Tory defence secretary, did an Enoch Powell (he made his anti-immigrant ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech in 1968) when he claimed on Sunday...
US-UK-Eu The Imperialist Split Widens!
AS the world crisis of capitalism develops at breakneck speed, so the splits between the imperialist nations become more open, pitching the US against...
US dismisses Iranian letter while Israel threatens nuclear attack
THE foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany and Xavier Solana the EU’s ‘Foreign Minister’, met on...
The Chief Banker Condemns The Banks
THE governor of the bank of England, Mervyn King, has launched a scathing attack on the major UK banks, accusing them of trying to...
No Military Action Against Iran – At This Point Says Rice
BRITAIN’S Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has just revealed the policy of the British government on Iraq – or has he? He said that Iran...
TUC must call general strike to kick out Starmer’s Labour government and bring in...
PRIME minister Keir Starmer appeared before the House of Commons on Monday to try to placate Labour MPs and the public over the crisis...
Brown gives billions more to the banks
AMID banks posting further huge losses and their share prices collapsing, after the near extinction of the world’s largest banks last October, Prime Minister...
Tories seek to smash NHS up into 42 pieces! Entire working class must strike...
TORY Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the new government White Paper in Parliament on Thursday pushing a complete reorganisation of the...
Major warns Johnson of the fate of Charles I as fear of revolution grips...
IN AN interview yesterday morning ex-Tory prime minister John Major stated that he would personally take Boris Johnson to court if he attempts to...
Trade unions must reject Coalition attack on the unemployed and the poor
EX-ARMY officer Duncan Smith, the Coalition’s Work and Pensions Secretary, yesterday announced a Universal Credit to replace all benefits, and also ...
Trade unions must form a Council of Action in Kensington to requisition the 1,652...
THE HORROR felt by millions of workers after the Grenfell Tower inferno which claimed the lives of many men, women and children...
BMA launch ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into Pandemic
DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has launched its own ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic. This is ahead of the Tory...
Public Sector Alliance needed to defend the Welfare State and all jobs and services!
AS the capitalist crisis deepens, the Brown government’s attacks on the public sector become more frenzied. It is to be privatised or part-privatised. Hundreds...