No end to austerity under the Tories – workers must act to kick them...
TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered not so much a Spring Statement to parliament yesterday as a half hour of self-congratulation and boasting about how...
Future of steel depends on the Tories, says McCluskey
YESTERDAY, venture capitalists Greybull Capital, who purchased Tata’s steel works in Scunthorpe for £1, launched ‘British Steel’, hoping with the renaming, to...
US multi-billionaires tax revelations will fuel demand for the overthrow of bankrupt capitalism
TAX RETURNS of America’s richest people have been leaked to the investigative website ProRepublica and prove that the mega wealthy have been paying little...
Mubarak regime offers 15 per cent rise in pay and pensions!
WORKERS and youth in Cairo held mass demonstrations yesterday following the release of the detained Google executive and facebook radical Wael Ghonim. The demonstrators in...
Bank of England – people will just have to accept poverty as the price...
HUW PILL, the chief economist at the Bank of England, has made the official position of the bankers crystal clear when he insisted that...
One day FBU strikes must pave the way for a general strike!
LAST Friday the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced that it would kick off its defence of jobs and conditions with two days of strike...
Johnson condemns Corbyn and beats the war drums against Syria!
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spoke up yesterday to attack Jeremy Corbyn and to announce that it will be very difficult for the UK...
The Telegraph urges that ‘destroying Hamas’ is very much in this country’s interests &...
THE United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution calling for a halt to all arms sales to Israel, and for the regime...
To defend jobs and pensions bring down the coalition!
UNIVERSITY STAFF and students are under massive attacks from the Tory-led coalition. Coalition ministers are pressing ahead with 25% funding cuts, and the UCU trade...
Labour turns on Asian NHS doctors
ANOTHER shameful page of British imperialist history has been turned. This time tens of thousands of Asian and African doctors, recruited to come to...
Answer Tory plans to use military as strike breakers with a general strike...
With nurses and thousands of NHS workers planning to take national strike action next month over their demands for pay increases to protect them...
Trump defeated as Congress opposes any further military action!
WEDNESDAY’S historic vote in the US House of Representatives has split the US government over its unwinnable war against Iran when the Congress voted...
Schools being asset-stripped by academy trusts
THE HOUSE of Commons education committee has written to the Tory academies minister, Lord Agnew, expressing MPs’ concern about a ‘lack of transparency and...
Struggle against Assad and Iran more important to US-UK gangsters than defeating ISIS
UK Prime Minister Cameron said yesterday that the UK supports US airstrikes against the IS not with boots on the ground, but by other...
Socialist revolution is the only way to smash capitalist police state!
ON TUESDAY, the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, US president Joe Biden met with Floyd family members. The meeting...
Trump sends 15,000 troops to Mexican border – threatening to open fire on migrants!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump spat on the Statue of Liberty this week and the revolutionary history of the United States, especially its call from...
Treat the Council Tax as you did the Poll Tax!
THE Council Tax is set to rise by four per cent on average this year, more than double the government’s current rate of inflation...
Out with Hunt, out with the rotten coalition!
LABOUR is to demand a parliamentary vote over Culture Secretary Hunt’s breaching of the ministerial code, by refusing to take responsibility for the actions...
Socialist revolution is the only answer to the ‘economic tsunami’ swamping capitalism!
THIS week, forecasts for the increase in household energy bills were dramatically increased to over £4,200 for an average UK household in January next...
Working class must demand the TUC act and not sit back while Gaza is...
Yesterday Israel announced a ‘total’ blockade of Gaza, including a ban on food, electricity, water, and fuel. Announcing this move to strangle Gaza, Israeli defence...
Coulson, Cameron tools of the Murdoch empire
THE resignation of Coulson yesterday as Prime Minister David Cameron’s Director of Communications, follows on, almost immediately, from the police being forced to re-open...
NHS more popular than ever despite Tory propaganda campaign
A SURVEY by the polling company Ipsos MORI has revealed that the NHS is more popular amongst workers and the middle classes than those...
The Libyan people must drive out the imperialists and their agents and resume ownership...
ON JUNE 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were shot dead by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official...
Streeting’s NHS ‘Back to Basics’ is a mandate for full scale cuts and complete...
LABOUR’S health secretary Wes Streeting yesterday unveiled his new ‘trimmed down’ mandate for the NHS. Declaring that he would bring the health service ‘back to...
Japan under US protection says Clinton
CHINA has condemned the latest comments made by the United States over the disputed Diaoyu Islands in which Hillary Clinton said that Japan is...
Bank of England hike in interest rates will push workers and the middle class...
YESTERDAY’S announcement by the Bank of England of an increase in interest rates from 0.5% to 0.75% will be disastrous for the vast majority...
US workers taking action to drive up wages and defend their jobs
THE once-mighty US economy is facing a wave of strikes by powerful sections of the working class who are determined to drive up their...
Labour’s ‘worklessness tsar’ sets out platform for attack on youth and the welfare state
Yesterday, Labour’s ‘worklessness tsar’ Alan Milburn published an interim report that warned the UK faces a ‘generational fault line’ in which over 1.25 million...
Crisis-ridden US imperialism to stay in Afghanistan and send troops to Cameroon!
PRESIDENT Barack Obama has admitted defeat in Afghanistan and has decided to keep 5,500 US troops there when he leaves office in 2017, according...
Millions face fuel poverty – Nationalise the energy industry
Yesterday’s report by the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group (FPAG) that 300,000 households will be plunged into fuel poverty by Christmas is not just a scandal...
Biden begins his presidency with a missile attack on Syria and a refusal to...
PRESIDENT Biden has begun his presidency with a cowardly missile attack on Syria and a shameful wooing, in the most hypocritical manner possible, of...
British workers require socialism not circuses!
FOR the second day running the bourgeois media have been dominated by the Olympic opening extravaganza organised brilliantly by Danny Boyle, who used and...
Indignation is not enough – working class needs socialist policies
IN HIS first election speech, Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, expressed his anger and indignation over the policies of austerity ruthlessly carried out by...
100,000 Youth Lay Siege To Parliament!
YESTERDAY huge masses of youth marched on the House of Commons, which was deciding to bring in tuition fees of £9,000 a year, turning...
EU, US and UK rulers are provoking war in the Ukraine! Workers of the...
BRITISH forces arrived yesterday in Ukraine to ‘train up Ukrainian troops’ while the US has sent in weapons, to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to...
Lansley calls to ‘break down the system’
TORY coalition Health Secretary Andrew Lansley addressed the BMA doctors union conference in Brighton yesterday, telling delegates: ‘Every step we take we must take...
British capitalism faces a financial disaster and economic collapse
INTERNATIONAL financiers, hedge-funds and speculators took just one day to savage Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first budget on Wednesday with interest rates on UK...
Westminster Council demands unemployed do ‘voluntary work’
The Tory ‘flagship’ council, Westminster, yesterday unveiled its blueprint for dumping the savage cuts in local government finances squarely on the backs of the...
US Imperialism desperate to dominate its rivals
INTERNATIONAL ‘free trade’ agreements represent the attempt by the vast multi-national capitalist corporations to completely dominate the globe. The domination they seek is over...
Sunak warns capitalism is reaching a ‘tipping point’ – time to overthrow it with...
IN THE week after the hospital coronavirus death toll rose above 10,000, the lockdown measures are to be reviewed. Anticipating this review, Tory chancellor Rishi...
Saudi Arabia issues its demands to Qatar – submit or be crushed
YESTERDAY, Saudi Arabia issued a set of 13 wide-ranging demands to Qatar which it insists have to be met before the sanctions imposed on...
Anti-Russian campaign of the US and UK ruling classes leads to the assassination of...
THE assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, on Monday by an ex-policeman Mevlut Altintas – who was sacked after the failure...
Defend right to asylum – defend right to strike – general strike now!
YESTERDAY the Tories unveiled their ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ along with the admission that the bill itself is illegal under international law, not that this...
Universal Credit can’t be fixed: Abolish it along with the Tories!
THE TORY government suffered a defeat in the courts this week when the court of appeal dismissed a challenge by the Department for Work...
Bosses threaten share crash if Tories are removed from office!
AS the hysterical Tory media begin to run out of scare stories about Labour Party leader Miliband, the essence of the situation is asserting...