For the capitalist state the enemy is at home
THE launch in parliament of the new book, ‘Blacklisted: the Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists’, saw Labour MP John McDonnell read...
Blair’s great pensions robbery
LABOUR’S ‘pensions revolution’ is a major attack on the working class, the elderly and the youth. The origin of the ‘revolution’ is not that the...
Tories go from class war at home to war preparations abroad!
THE Tory class war at home means permanent austerity for the working class, with anti-union laws brought in to further chain up trade unions,...
Junior Doctors Are Defending The NHS – They Must Not Fight Alone!
AS the April 26th-27th strike action of the junior doctors approaches, the chorus of reproaches from the likes of Dame Sally Davies, Sir Bruce...
Euro crisis hits youth hardest – forward with European socialist revolution
THERE is no more pathetic sight than that of European bourgeois politicians and economists manically trying to convince both themselves and the world at...
Woodley Refuses To Call For Nati0Nalisation
TONY WOODLEY the TGWU leader and co-leader of the new UNITE trade union has already presided over the closure of a large chunk of...
Right Sector Leader Advising The Military
THIS week all pretence that the illegal regime, that took power in an imperialist-inspired and financed coup last year, rests on ‘popular democratic’ support,...
UK Opts For Syria Regime Change
WITH its recognition of the Syrian ‘opposition’ as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, the UK has joined France, Saudi Arabia and...
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...
Bankrupt capitalism aims to balance the books through foreign aid cuts and vicious austerity...
ON TUESDAY, Tory PM Boris Johnson narrowly avoided defeat on a motion to cut UK foreign aid after a rebellion by Tory MPs. In the...
Trades unions must fight for jobs for youth!
NEARLY half of all employers (45 per cent) will not be offering jobs to 16-year-old school-leavers and graduates this year. The Chartered Institute of Personnel...
NHS Staffing Crisis As Wages Are Forced Down And Conditions Worsened
THE shortage of NHS staff in England is worsening official figures show. One in 11 posts is vacant, with the situation particularly bad...
Chinese Stalinists’ bid to rescue bankrupt capitalism
CHINESE Stalinist leader President Hu Jintao has sent Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Vice President Xi Jinping on international visits in a vain attempt...
Sharon’s deception at the United Nations
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tried to cut a figure as the liberator of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip at the United...
Flood Disaster = Britain’s New Orleans
WE all saw the Katrina disaster, and what it did to New Orleans, destroying whole areas of the city and making them uninhabitable 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,...
French workers and youth out to bring down Macron through a general strike!
YESTERDAY, French workers and youth took to the streets in a massive confrontation with the government of Emmanuel Macron and his plans to privatise...
The Crisis In The Ukraine
THE imperialist-backed attempted coup to oust the Ukrainian government and replace it with a pro-imperialist regime, has now taken the open form of a...
85 Million Brits By 2081!
IN the recent period the government, the Bank of England and the employers have been glorying in the fact that the enlargement of the...
Labour’s drive for Foundation Trusts and privatisation kills!
The Royal College of Nursing has described the Healthcare Commission’s investigation into emergency care at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust as ‘shocking’ and said that...
Private equity group to ‘cut and slash’ Chrysler
DAIMLERCHRYSLER is selling a 80.1 per cent share in its crisis-hit American Chrysler division to the private equity group Cerberus for $7.4bn. President George...
Argentina Warns UK Against Militarising The South Atlantic
ARGENTINA is to raise the UK militarisation of the Malvinas Islands (Falklands) at the United Nations. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner...
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...
TUC must act on its resolution, organise the complete boycott of Israel, call a...
MISSILES are raining down on the people of Gaza, as the Israelis step up their war to prevent the establishment of the state of...
Tunisian Revolution Brings Down Interior Minister
TUNISIAN President Ben Ali has dismissed his interior minister and ordered the release of most of those detained during the current clashes over food...
Starmer’s ‘reshuffle’ sidelines Reeves and provokes a financial meltdown of British capitalism
THE UK parliament returned from the summer holidays on Monday and Labour prime minister Keir Starmer immediately caused a meltdown in the economy. The immediate...
BRING DOWN TORIES TO QUIT THE EU – DESELECT ALL LABOUR MPs WILLING TO...
AFTER her ‘Dancing Queen’ performance at the Tory Party conference, which acted as an introduction to extreme grovelling to Labour’s right wing, praising...
Workers will not get any ‘new deal’ from the Tories! Make the TUC call...
THE WINDRUSH scandal, missiles launched at Syria without even seeking permission from Parliament, the Grenfell fire disaster, the winter NHS meltdown, homelessness and rough...
US Attacks Refugees With Its $65M Unrwa Cut!
EXECUTIVE Committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Zakaria al-Agha, said on Wednesday that the United States freeze of $65 million in its...
Israeli genocide to be celebrated at Albert Hall Balfour Centenary!
YESTERDAY as the International Day for the Protection of Children was celebrated in countries across the world, the Palestinian Authority (PA) released chilling figures...
Jewish workers support Corbyn! Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism! Forward to the Palestinian state!
THE JEWISH Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies on Monday night launched a demonstration outside the House of Commons accusing Labour leader Jeremy...
Cameron wants the army and police to be above the law!
THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...
As Israel Steps Up Its Massacre Of Palestinians The TUC And Trade Unions Worldwide...
THE Israeli occupation forces in Palestine are continuing with their genocide and have committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the...
Right wing getting ready to split the Labour Party!
THE hysterical witch-hunting of Jeremy Corbyn that is being carried out by the bourgeois media, marshalled by Labour’s right wing pro-Tory rebel MPs, is...
Egypt must keep open Gaza’s Rafah crossing!
THE Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which has been closed for the past five months, was opened for two days at...
The Banks Are All Northern Rocks!
TEXAS PACIFIC GROUP’S decision to cut and run, taking with it the £179 million that was to be used to buy 23 per cent...
Cameron dreams on while stock markets collapse
IN a radio interview yesterday morning the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, pronounced that the UK economy was seeing a ‘balanced economic recovery.’ All this...
Brown Wants To Introduce Youth Conscription
PRIME Minister Brown on Sunday promised that bringing in a compulsory community service programme for youth will be a part of his next general...
Tories seek to inspire fear as they tell unemployed ‘get on your bike’
EX-ARMY officer Iain Duncan Smith, the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, was yesterday planning just how to force unemployed workers to give up their...
TUC on its knees – time for a revolutionary leadership!
THE TUC New Year’s message (see page 3) has been delivered with TUC general secretary O’Grady on her knees appealing to the bosses and...
Hezbollah Battling Thousands Of Israeli Troops
THE Israeli government has been given the go-ahead by President Bush to mobilise up to 30,000 reservists, who are now joining the battle to...
Postal Workers lose money in share crash – Renationalise Royal Mail
AT LAST month’s Labour Party conference, shadow chancellor John McDonnell floated the policy of a future Labour government introducing an ‘inclusive ownership Fund’ under...
Biden’s frenzied speech against Trump shows US capitalism is on the rocks! Forward...
IN A FRENZIED speech, US President Biden on Thursday accused ex-US President Trump and his supporters in the Republican Party of holding ‘a dagger...
Myanmar workers and youth on the path to armed revolution to overthrow military junta
THE MYANMAR embassy in London was taken over by representatives of the country’s military junta on Wednesday with the previous Ambassador Kyaw Zwar Minn...
Tensions rise in the Baltics and the Balkans!
LAST WEEK the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice visited Moscow to meet with the Russian president Vladimir Putin. She insisted that although Russia...