Israel lurches further right as Defence Minister Yaalon resigns!
THE resignation yesterday of the Israeli defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, signals a sharp turn to the right by the government of Binyamin Netanyahu. Yaalon announced...
Law cannot be allowed to get in the way of profiteering
THE Attorney General – the same official who ruled after much equivocation that the war with Iraq was legal – on Thursday told the...
Answer NHS crisis with general strike and occupations
THIS week saw the crisis in the NHS reach breaking point with at least 17 hospitals in England declaring they faced a ‘major incident’...
Brown and Blair – two sides of the same coin
WITH Blair’s political reputation destroyed by the Iraq war, and the massive resistance to his attack on the Welfare State, and with the media...
Head teachers up in arms – schools being cut to the bone! All-out strike...
MORE than 7,000 heads have written a joint letter to 3.5 million families warning of the acute funding crisis in schools. The heads insist...
Workers Worldwide Must React To Trump’s 48-Hour Nuclear Deadline By Calling General Strikes To...
SIR KEIR STARMER has been informed by US imperialism's stooge, Israel, that Iran has developed inter-continental ballistic missiles capable of striking London ‘and dozens...
Hunt and Bailey will ‘do whatever is necessary’ to save bankrupt capitalism. Time to...
ON MONDAY night, 400 leading figures from the world of high finance and corporate business gathered at the Mansion House in London to hear...
Nurses and doctors strike to defend NHS while Starmer joins with Tories to denounce...
YESTERDAY, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) opened the ballot for strike action by nurses in response to the Tory pay offer of a...
Ukrainian Right Wing Draws Closer To Nato
THE decision by the Ukrainian government to offer joint use of missile attack and space early warning systems to the Western powers...
Defend the NHS with trade union led occupations and a general strike!
THE creation of new nursing assistant posts should be scrapped and money invested in ‘real nurses’, experts said yesterday ahead of the rollout of...
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...
Time for the working class across the world to put an end to capitalist...
On Monday, US president Donald Trump made a desperate attempt to try to prevent the entire world capitalist economy from collapsing into recession as...
US, UK, Turkey Make Sure Syrian Truce Collapses
A POWERFUL car bomb exploded in Damascus on Friday, on the first day of the Syrian cease-fire, killing five people and injuring 32. Thus was...
Defending the NHS means sacking the BMA leadership
THE BMA leadership yesterday came out in favour of NHS rationing. It also supported the NHS having a written constitution, and being run by...
US ‘Defence Cutbacks’ are a cynical fraud!
WHEN the gullible read the headline paragraph, that US Defence Secretary, Chuck Hagel, has unveiled plans to ‘shrink’ the US Army to its smallest...
Lift the siege on the Palestinians!
PRIME Minister Ismail Haniya’s Palestinian Authority (PA) national unity government, sworn in on Saturday, is being recognised and supported by more and more...
UK and US workers must unite to smash capitalism and imperialism! Forward to Socialism!
ELON Musk’s chainsaw wielding stunt with Argentine President Javier Milei before a conservative convention in the US on Thursday was a call to war...
Venezuela must not support the Rajapakse regime!
THE Sri Lankan working class, both Tamil and Sinhalese, is suffering under the ‘iron heel’ of the Rajapakse dictatorship. This has killed tens of thousands...
Chagos Islanders To Lobby 10 Downing Street
A DELEGATION of Chagos Islanders from Crawley will be delivering a letter to the new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street this...
UK and US trade unions must take general strike action to smash Israel’s genocide...
PALESTINIAN trade unions have issued a call on US labour to take concrete action against Israel’s genocidal attempt to smash the Palestinian people. In a...
Disband the Met and the entire police force that serves only the interests of...
WHILE the TUC and trade union leaders frantically cancelled strikes and conferences as a ‘mark of respect’ over the death of 96-year-old Elizabeth II,...
Socialist revolution is the only answer to unemployment of ‘biblical proportions’
AS THE END of the Tory furlough scheme looms, the reality of millions of workers being thrown on the scrapheap in the coming months...
TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and nationalise Thames...
FACED with an £18 billion debt mountain, the privatised Thames Water company yesterday set out its survival plans that involve increasing bills to £627...
All Out On May 1!
PRIME Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown have declared war on the public services and their staff, with closures, cuts, redundancies and pay...
MI5 deceived parliament – the judges decide
‘ONLY a full public inquiry will answer the public’s concerns about what has been done in our name,’ said the Reprieve organisation yesterday, following...
CWU leaders organise a consultative ballot !over pensions
TRUE to form the CWU leadership is declining to give any kind of leadership to its massive membership on the vital issue of the...
Bankrupt Britain is heading for revolution!
THE OECD has warned that the British capitalist economy is the sick man of the capitalist world and is currently experiencing a record fall...
Hague recognises Syrian opposition while Qatar and Saudis supply the guns and cash!
The ‘Friends of Syria Conference’ in Tunis has seen the representatives of the United States and the UK, Clinton and Hague, laying into Russia...
US Raises Interest Rates To The Highest Level In 22 Years – The Workers...
THE US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years, as it fights to stabilise prices in the world’s...
Tories fund campaign of on-line attacks on Corbyn by ‘shadowy’ charity run by ex-military
AT THE WEEKEND the Scottish newspaper the Daily Record published leaked documents that claims to reveal that a small ‘charity’, based in Fife and...
US-UK set to leave Afghanistan in shame
THE US is set to leave Afghanistan with its tail between its legs like a beaten dog, after Afghan officials said yesterday that the...
Truss portrays herself as Thatcher’s heir as Tories scheme to make war on the...
ON TUESDAY Tory Foreign Secretary Liz Truss used a photo opportunity to stake out her bid to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. The photo...
Irish and UK ruling classes uniting against working class
MARX says in his 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak,...
Defend the NHS – kick the government out
THE final report into the crisis at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Hospital Trust is due to be published in January after a considerable delay. In fact, the...
840,000 tenants are facing eviction over rent arrears – only socialist revolution can stop...
A REPORT by the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has warned of a ‘rent debt crisis’ as up to 840,000 people in England and...
Durham Miners’ Gala must demand a General Strike!
TENS OF thousands of workers and youth are taking part in today’s historic Durham Miners’ Gala at a time when the capitalist system is...
Build millions of council homes to solve housing crisis
CRISIS, the national charity for single homeless people, correctly fears that a massive surge in homelessness is ahead, as it opens its nine Crisis...
Government forced to revive the NHS Trusts it was bankrupting
IN the face of the rising anger of junior doctors, nurses, consultants, ancillary workers and patients over the Labour government’s policy of deliberately crashing...
North Korea Has The Right To Self Defence
YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, condemned North Korea’s testing of an intercontinental missile that when developed will have the capacity to deliver...
BA workers reject wage cuts! Renationalise BA Now!
A MASS meeting of more than 3,000 British Airways cabin crew workers yesterday threw out by a massive majority the airline’s plans to slash...
Brown & Mandelson are not talking down the pound, they are planning to scrap...
THE EU Commission’s President Barroso has been told by the ‘people who matter’, ie by members of the Labour government, that they now...
Make Hammond’s Budget his last by a general strike to kick the Tories out...
THE Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, closed his autumn budget statement on Wednesday with the announcement that this would be his ‘first and last’. Faithfully obeying...
Israel’s finance minister orders preparations for the Israeli annexation of occupied West Bank
ISRAEL’S extreme right wing finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, on Monday ordered preparations for the Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of Donald...
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...
Bosses threaten car workers jobs if they vote to leave EU
THE giant German car maker, BMW, has written to every one of its 8,000 employees in Britain making the thinly veiled threat that in...