Coalition to widen student loans system!
LAST Thursday the government announced that it was starting a consultation process on its plans to widen the student loans system in further education...
USA tells Sunak that the UK must increase its military spending as NATO gets...
THE UK has just been given its marching orders by the USA that it must boost the size of its armed forces in response...
US Secretary of State Kerry and Chief of Staff Dunford speak with Netanyahu
THE US has reacted with fury to Russia’s ‘interference’ in the Middle East, that is, its invitation to President Assad to visit Moscow, and...
THE HOUSING CRISIS: Nationalise construction companies and banks!
AVERAGE house prices in Britain are now 10.5 per cent lower than they were a year ago, according to figures published yesterday by Nationwide,...
Chase Farm Closure Kills!
THE death of 2-year-old Muhammad Hashir Maveed last Wednesday is a tragic warning of the cost to human life that must inevitably result from...
The BBC supports starving the people of Gaza
THE BBC is part of the British capitalist state whose job it is to look after the interests of the ruling class. It has...
Unite plays ‘vital’ role for bosses in selling out fight for jobs!
UNITE yesterday launched a ‘learning hub, to improve employability’ for its members at Heathrow airport. Announcing the launching of this ‘learning hub@heathrow’, Unite stated that...
A general strike to bring down the Tories is the only programme for victory...
MICK LYNCH, general secretary of the RMT rail workers union, has denounced Labour leader Keir Starmer for being ‘not on the side of workers’...
The lawyers have forced the government to retreat and put the trade union...
THE news that the coalition government has been forced to retreat over its proposed cuts to legal aid fees by the decisive actions of...
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...
Millions Are Marching For Palestine – The TUC Must Call A General Strike To...
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth marched for Palestine in mass rallies that erupted throughout the UK on Saturday, and were more than...
US to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist movement
THE US yesterday raised tensions considerably between itself and Iran by declaring that the main body of armed men maintained by the Iranian...
Desperate capitalism moves towards hyperinflation
LAST week the Republican presidential candidate and multi-billionaire property speculator, Donald Trump, unveiled his plan for saving US capitalism from economic catastrophe. During a lengthy...
Heroic Iran Breaks US Blockade Of Venezuela As Its Oil Tankers Enter Venezuelan Waters!
ON SUNDAY, the Iranian embassy in Caracas posted a video of the first Iranian oil tanker arriving in Venezuelan waters. ‘The first Iranian tanker...
Obama woos the Iranian bourgeoisie
IRAN’S supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has welcomed President Obama’s change of rhetoric in relation to Iran but has however stated that what...
Unemployment Crisis Deepening
TOTAL unemployment stood at 2.46 million for the three months to December, down 3,000 on the figure for the previous three months. However, long-term...
8-day war games: US military train up Syrian terrorists! Workers of France, UK &...
US MILITARY forces have just held eight days of exercises with Syrian terrorists in the south of the country around the US military base...
NO benefits – and NO jobs either – the Duncan Smith plan
WORK and Pensions Secretary, ex-army officer Duncan Smith, yesterday addressed the world about ‘our broken benefits system’, when most people know what has broken,...
Call A General Strike Now!
THE demand for a general strike to bring down the government has been driven by the working class onto the immediate agenda of the...
Bourgeois Democracy Is A Fraud! Brexit Needs A Socialist Revolution!
ON TUESDAY night prime minister Theresa May suffered a humiliating defeat on a vote on the Tory finance bill - when an amendment which...
The Imf Issues Warning To The UK And Europe
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its growth forecast for Britain for the third time in nine months and warned George Osborne that...
Merkel-Sarkozy deal will fail to stem euro crisis
THE media were out in force at the end of last week to hear German Chancellor Angela Merkel reveal details of a bail-out package...
Labour Now A Fifth Column For The Eu! Socialist Revolution Needed To Carry Out...
WEDNESDAY’S humiliating defeat of the Tory government over the EU Withdrawal Bill signalled the emergence of a bloc between the Labour Party, now firmly...
The Crisis In The Ukraine!
THE OSCE has revealed the 12-point roadmap behind the September 5 truce signed in Minsk. The document, titled ‘Protocol on the results of consultations...
Unions act now against NHS cuts
A HUGE contract for health services, including end-of-life care in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, is being put out to tender with privateers such as Virgin...
Unions must take action! Occupy Bombardier! Bring down the coalition! Nationalise to...
THE proposed sacking of 1,500 Bombardier workers in Derby is the beginning of the end for the train construction industry in the UK, and...
Hunt Plans To Force The Disabled To Work – Time To Bring Down The...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Budget speech yesterday in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up to a...
US ruling class fears an uprising by workers following Wisconsin shooting
PROTESTS in the US state of Wisconsin erupted on Sunday evening following another shooting by police of a reportedly unarmed black man. According to reports,...
British imperialism being cut down to size by the crisis
BRITISH imperialism, at the height of its power and even up to the 1930s, had at its heart the dictum of sea power, that...
All unions must take action to support the postal workers!
POSTAL workers, members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are on strike today in north-east and south-east London against Royal Mail’s plans to axe...
Workers in UK and US must dismantle the imperialist war machine with a general...
AFTER Tuesday’s talks with the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella, President Putin spoke about the situation after the US’s 59 cruise missile...
Palestinian Prisoners Society Warns Of A Dangerous Escalation In The Systematic Repression Of Palestinian...
THE Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society have warned of a dangerous escalation in the systematic repression carried out...
Bank of England is clueless as financial crisis drives socialist revolution
IN what must be the most blinding statement of the obvious, senior members of the Bank of England admitted yesterday that they did not...
Palestinians throw shoes at UN chief Ban!
DOZENS of people threw shoes and stones at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s convoy as it entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Many of those...
British capitalism hits the rocks!
IN THE early hours of last Friday, a seismic crash in the value of the pound against the dollar caused panic amongst the world’s...
Trump’s trade war prepares the way for a real war against China! The only...
US PRESIDENT Trump sharply escalated his trade war with China yesterday, more than doubling tariffs on $200bn (£153.7bn) worth of Chinese goods. The US is...
Stop Saudi-Israeli military intervention into Lebanon! Victory to Hezbollah!
AFTER the defeat of the imperialist powers and their terrorist proxies in Syria, the US, the other imperialist powers, and their Saudi-led allies are...
Greek Revolution Erupts – With The Youth In The Lead!
IN all of the Greek cities there were clashes throughout yesterday between workers and youth and the riot police, and other Greek special forces....
China shocked by US plans for massive new tariffs!
THE CHINESE government has said that it is ‘shocked’ after the US government announced plans for massive new tariffs, escalating the trade war between...
Bring down the Tories – the only way to defend and develop the NHS!
THE BMA’s just-published Survey of Doctors reveals the depth of the crisis that the Tory government has plunged the NHS into, as a result...
China’s Historic Space Achievement demonstrates the strength of a planned economy
YESTERDAY, a Chinese spacecraft made a giant leap forward in human exploration of space when it became the first ever to land on the...
Seven Labour MPs Have The Whip Suspended After Voting To Scrap Two-Child-Benefit Cap
SEVEN Labour MPs have had the whip suspended for six months after voting against the Labour government on an amendment to scrap the two-child...
Starmer is making the poor pay for the crisis. The TUC must strike to...
FOLLOWING the failure of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ panic visit to beg, or borrow, £600 million from China, the Labour government of Keir Starmer is...
UN poverty expert slams Tory ‘hypocrisy’ over austerity – end poverty with socialist revolution
THE UNITED Nations rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston, has issued a damning attack on the Tory government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic describing...
With The Tories At Their Weakest Now Is The Time For A General Strike...
SATURDAY’S massive turnout for the trade union sponsored mass demonstration with its lead banner declaring ‘Not One Day More – Tories out’ has spread...