ROYAL MAIL PRIVATISATION WILL BE RESISTED – says postal workers leader
A LONDON postal workers’ leader yesterday warned the government they will face massive opposition, if they go ahead and try to break Labour’s election...
French ‘debt bomb’ threatens the entire capitalist world – forward to the World Socialist...
After a one-day pause on Wednesday, the mass mobilisation of students and workers across France resumed yesterday with nearly 400 schools and universities closed...
Darling’s forecasts ‘too optimistic’, says Treasury Committee
THE British capitalist economy and government finances are in a worse state than Chancellor Alistair Darling led everyone to believe when he delivered his...
UK workers are weighed down by debt while landlords are fattened on £21bn of...
LENIN, in his work ‘Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism’, wrote about one of the most important connections between the imperialist drive for colonies...
Bank calls for public spending to be slashed to protect profits!
THE capitalist class of Britain and Europe have been served with a warning that unless they act quickly to slash all public spending they...
Trump Setting Out To Impose A Greater Israel On The Palestinians By Force...
WITH his declaration that the Trump Administration no longer recognises that the imposed Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal, US Secretary...
Transport Unions Must Refuse To Transport Asylum Seekers To Rwanda!
THE TORY government’s racist drive to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda came unstuck on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) granted...
University applications are plummeting! Call General Strike to scrap all uni fees, restore grants...
SOARING university tuition fees, rents in student halls being hiked up, the complete removal of the student grant and the spiralling cost of living...
Corbyn’s ‘reshuffle’ exposes weakness of left reformism
LABOUR leader, Jeremy Corbyn, completed his first reshuffle of the shadow cabinet after a tortuous round of negotiations designed to keep the right-wing of...
King warns Carney and Coalition – don’t open inflationary floodgates
BANK of England Governor King is going into retirement a worried man – that his successor, the Canadian banker Carney in alliance with a...
Simpson refuses to fight the Coalition
DEREK Simpson, the Unite co-leader, was brought onto the Andrew Marr Show last Sunday to deliberately attempt to undermine the struggle in the trade...
Victory to Gate Gourmet locked-out workers
TEXAS PACIFIC and its Gate Gourmet protege are not renowned for making apologies. In fact the opposite is the case. They are renowned for...
Hewitt, Hoon and Cameron fail to shift Brown
ON Wednesday mid-day, ex-ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon sent a text to all Labour MPs asking them to support a call for a...
Forward to a public sector general strike to smash Brown’s wage cutting policies
GMB members working in the NHS yesterday voted by over 96% to reject the 2008 pay offer in a consultative ballot on the government’s...
Top of the capitalist agenda – raising food prices and starving the world
THE United Nations is warning of disturbances and revolutions in developing countries worldwide as its food price index hits an all-time high. The UN’s food...
Jobs And War Crisis Piles Up For Obama
YESTERDAY afternoon Barack Obama was in discussion with his economic advisers and with his allies as the crisis of US imperialism intensified on the...
The TUC Congress must demand that the State of Palestine is established from the...
THE Palestinian Centre for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared has called on the international community to take serious and effective action to compel Israel...
Imperialists step up war preparations against Iran
A report from the director of US national intelligence, James Clapper, issued last Tuesday signalled that imperialism’s war preparations against Iran have reached the...
Mandelson plan for uni cuts must be defeated
MANDELSON’S decision to lop £398m from the higher education budget, and to bring in third class tuition, will see thousands of workers in...
World Trade Unions Must Call General Strikes In Defence Of Iran And Palestine!
US PRESIDENT Trump has pledged to give Iran a beating after it fired ballistic missiles at American bases in Jordan. The US and Saudi Arabia...
Long Live the Libyan revolution!
YESTERDAY the bourgeois media were demanding to know ‘exactly why this killer was freed’, calling Abdelbaset Ali al Megrahi a...
UN Forces Quit Mitrovica
THE divided town of Mitrovica was in turmoil yesterday morning, after UNMIK police and KFOR troops, in a major provocation, stormed a local court...
Crisis Of British Capitalism Is Reaching Explosive Proportions – Disaster Ahead Say Insolvency Specialists!
THE NUMBER of British businesses in immense financial distress and on the brink of collapse has soared by 25% to 650,000 during the past...
Only answer to capitalist crisis – build WRP and sections of 4th International to...
THE CRISIS in the Tory party sharpened over the weekend, as the requirement to dump the economic collapse of British capitalism onto the backs...
To fight mass unemployment bring down Brown government
The number of UK unemployed rose by 164,000 between June and August, to 1.79 million, taking the official unemployment rate to 5.7% from...
Obama Looking For ‘Partners’
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S annual State of the Union speech was dominated by the internal situation of US capitalism, and his search for Republican partners...
National strike action to defend the Royal Mail and its workforce
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday warned that Royal Mail were planning sacking between eight and twenty per cent of the workforce, with London...
Developing Oil Crisis Makes It All The More Vital That The Working Class Takes...
THE SAUDI REGIME, backed to the hilt by the US and the UK, yesterday admitted that the Houthi movement’s drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s...
Now is the time to build the world Trotskyist movement!
ON Wednesday, the general secretary of the TUC, Frances O’Grady, penned another begging letter to the Tory government, this time to the Secretary of...
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...
Germany dives into deflationary spiral
THE crisis of world capitalism continues to batter the economies of the eurozone into the ground with virtually every day bringing forth yet more...
Patients assessed, treated & sent home on same day! The Tories ‘Long Term ...
THE TORY government, using their NHS Long Term Plan have stepped up their war against the health service, attempting to drive through measures that...
UK Drone Assassins – Mass Murder As A Video Game!
THE House of Commons Defence Committee came out in favour on Monday of continuing massacres of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other places by...
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...
Afghan Airport blasts kill 90 including 13 US troops! Imperialism’s historic defeat must spur...
THE US and UK’s military and political defeat in Afghanistan has laid bare the crisis of imperialism for the workers of the world to...
Rich 1% ‘Hoovering up’ all the wealth!
IN advance of the Tory budget on Wednesday, where chancellor Osborne is due to announce even more savage austerity cuts, the charity Oxfam has...
The IRGC hails the October 2023 offensive that sealed the fate of the Zionist...
THE Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has issued a statement marking the third anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, hailing the historic October 7, 2023,...
Capitalism Facing ‘Debt Annihilation’ While Its Supporters Panic And Prepare A New World...
OPTIMISM is in very short supply in the UK ruling class when it examines the state of British capitalism. The Business Comment in The Sunday...
CBI demands pay cuts in the private and public sectors
The CBI and ‘recruitment experts’ Harvey Nash revealed yesterday that half of all employers are planning to freeze pay altogether, and that only 4%...
Unions Must Stop Pleading With Bosses And The Tories And Use Their Strength To...
BORIS JOHNSON’S policy of do-nothing to combat or turn back the coronavirus has now been dumped after 229 scientists wrote to the government saying...
10 million workers will be hit by tax increases as Labour ‘picks the side’...
LOWEST paid workers will be hit the hardest by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves budget’s ‘stealth tax’ unveiled on Wednesday. Reeves desperate to avoid accusations of...
Saturday’s Palestine march must be the start of a general strike to establish the...
THE march in London this Saturday in support of Palestine and to end the complicity of the Labour government in Zionist genocide must be...
US-UK rescues ISIS fighters from Raqqa – no doubt they will now be sent...
PM MAY made crystal clear yesterday that Russia is the main enemy of crisis-wracked UK imperialism. In fact, Tory newspapers have been making it...
Unite and the major trade unions must defend jobs with occupations and a general...
THE UK government is considering intervening in large UK companies through ‘Project Birch’ to ‘save’ the firms that are going bust by more government...
Public services face privatisation catastrophe! Renationalise the lot under workers’ control!
THE COLLAPSES of Carillion, of East Coast Rail, of academy chain after academy chain, and now with the NAO report that private outsourcing giant...