Workers have the right to self defence against terrorism & capitalism
SIX hundred new armed officers are being trained for anti-terrorist warfare in the city of London, the Metropolitan Police has announced. This will bring the...
Baha Mousa – British Army Torture Inquiry Opens
was kept with other Iraqis under the control of British troops, and with the knowledge of their officers and various intelligence officials. They were systematically...
No to Zuma or Ramaphosa –the South African workers must take the power!
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has noted the shocking testimony given to City Press by police officers who were among those...
Army brought in as police demand complete legal immunity from prosecution
FOLLOWING a mass walkout by armed police over the decision to charge an unnamed armed police officer with murder over the shooting of 24-year-old...
The split in the British ruling class is clearing the way for the British...
THE POUND was sent crashing down yesterday against the US dollar and the euro prompting the bourgeois press to howl about ‘the end of...
Stop Royal Mail being thrown to the private equity wolves!
POSTCOMM, the postal regulator has called for the part privatisation of the Royal Mail, supposedly to safeguard the quality of the UK’s mail delivery...
Labour must condemn any secret talks with the Tories and mobilise to bring them...
‘I GOT us into this mess, and I will get us out of it’ PM May told the massed ranks of Tory backbenchers at...
Corbyn faces coup if elected
LAST week the right-wing of the Labour Party showed their desperation over the snowballing support for the Jeremy Corbyn leadership campaign by trotting out...
Balls Agrees With The Tories!
THE Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, engaged in a nauseating charade on Wednesday of verbally attacking his Tory opposite number whilst at the same...
Cosatu, the CP, the NUM and the police attack the Lonmin miners
ON 27th October the Minister of Education and South African Communist Party General Secretary, Blade Nzimande, along with Cosatu and National Union of Mineworkers...
TUC must stand up for the disabled against the Tory government!
THE UN has slammed the UK, which it says has violated the Convention on Disabled People’s Rights. A damning UN report released yesterday states that...
Starmer promises the working class ‘pain’ – workers will respond with a socialist revolution!
PM STARMER told an invited audience yesterday morning in the Downing Street Rose Garden: ‘I promised this government would serve people like you.’ He told...
Truss Is Shattered While Johnson Is Posing As The Man To Save UK Capitalism!
LIZ Truss, who not so long ago posed on the Polish border on a British tank expressing her hostility to Russia, before becoming more...
Capitalist State Tooling Up F0R Civil War
A SCOTLAND YARD review into the 2010 summer riots ‘Four Days in August’ shows very clearly that the capitalist state in the UK...
Workers pay with their lives for the bosses’ profits – socialist revolution the only...
YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its report breaking down the number of deaths from Covid-19 in 2020 by occupation. The key conclusion...
Tories declare war on unions
THE Tory-led coalition, faced with this Thursday’s one-day strike by two million workers, is driving forward preparations for new anti-union laws which will make...
Don’t watch the Tamils being slaughtered – join the Parliament Square protests!
THE Sri Lanka Army yesterday stepped up its murderous shelling of its so-called ‘safety zone’ in the Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal and Vadduvaakal areas of north-east...
Brown Demands Pay And Pension Cuts
‘WE would fight any attempts to impose a wage freeze,’ UNISON warned in the wake of Gordon Brown’s call for public-sector pay rises to...
Victory to Syria – down with imperialism and Stalinism!
THE Syrian war has reached a ‘stalemate’ and President Bashar al-Assad’s government will call for a ceasefire at the Geneva conference on the state’s...
3,000 new settler homes planned! Trade unions must take action to end Israeli...
ISRAEL has approved more than 3,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank. Settlers have spent the last weeks engaging in a reign of...
Backward Britain – Reading shuts Physics Department
THE backwardness of British capitalism was revealed yesterday for all to see when Reading University shut down its Physics Department. As usual, the reality is...
Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova heading for huge upheavals!
THE Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, travelled to Brussels yesterday morning to sign, along with Georgia and Moldova, the ‘partnership’ agreement with the European Union. It...
May Appeals To The People As The Eu Insists There Can Be No...
A DESPERATE Prime Minister May has written a letter to the nation asking the people of the UK for their support to pressurise a...
It Is The Ruling Classes That Must Say Their Prayers!
IN 2008 the world financial system stood on the very brink of the abyss with banks and industries facing the immediate prospect of crashing...
Corbyn Called A ‘Stalinist’ As Labour Right Wing Plots For A Second Referendum
LABOUR leader Corbyn has been accused of organising a ‘Stalinist purge’ after he sacked ex-leadership contender and Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Owen Smith on...
Capitalism is ‘At War’ – answer Cameron with general strike
BRITISH capitalism is ‘at war’ Cameron told the bosses yesterday, an ‘economic war’ which requires the state to rip up the rule book, strip off...
Cameron increases police powers for war on Welfare State
THE Tory-Lib Dem coalition government launched its White Paper Policing in the 21st century: reconnecting police and the people, on Monday. Home Secretary Theresa...
Spectre of Revolution hangs over World Economic Forum
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, held at Davos in Switzerland, started this week with the spectre of the world socialist revolution...
Labour will not reverse hospital closures!
THE Health Services Journal (HSJ) has just revealed that the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA) officials are keeping confidential (that is well hidden) until...
Blair’s decisive moment of NHS transition
LABOUR’S re-spun campaign to close local Accident and Emergency Departments, and entire District General Hospitals, in favour of Regional Centres of Excellence got under...
Support Catalan independence! Down with the Spanish and EU ruling classes! Forward to a...
CATALAN leader Carles Puigdemont has called for a ‘democratic opposition’ to the imposition of direct rule from Madrid after the Spanish government terminated his...
Students across the US rise up against genocidal war in Gaza showing the way...
STUDENTS across America have risen up against the barbaric genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza and in support of Palestine in a...
Chuck Out The New NHS Pay Offer – It’s Divisive, Still Staged And A...
UNISON yesterday told its members that the barely improved health employers offer which has been approved by the Brown government is ‘the best that...
Celebrate Giap’s Victory
MILLIONS of workers and youth both in Vietnam and throughout the world are mourning the death of General Giap, who led the military...
Brexit Moment Of Truth Fast Approaching! The Working Class Must Be Ready To Take...
YESTERDAY was the last working day before Parliament is due to be prorogued ahead of a new Queen’s Speech. The House of Commons is...
‘A Gift from God’ Erdogan describes coup attempt!
TURKEY’S President Erdogan has called the just concluded coup attempt that saw parliament bombed and 250 people killed ‘a gift from God... because this...
Labour trying to hide jobless figures
WITH unemployment set to go up by at least one million this year, to three million, the government is in a panic. Its panic is...
Police spies inquiry reveals the capitalist state conspiracy against the working class and its...
IN HIS opening statements to the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the lawyer acting for the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence condemned the inquiry for...
Imperialist drive to war with Russia takes leap forward
THE war preparations by the imperialist nations against Russia took a giant leap forward this week with NATO and non-NATO troops massed in north-western...
Coalition building a landlords’ paradise – bring back Council Housing! Now!
THE Coalition government is busily building a paradise for the landlords, the latest Shelter Rent Report shows. In this paradise, private tenants, who can no...
Barbaric anti-homeless spikes scandal
THE picture showing one-inch-long metal spikes driven into the pavement in the doorway of a block of luxury flats in central London in order...
TUC must call a general strike to bring in a workers government and socialism
THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) will be holding its annual conference in Brighton from Sunday 7th September to Wednesday 10th September. It is taking place...
Close the EU’s concentration camps!
THE agreement between the EU and Turkey on dealing with the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist-inspired wars in the Middle East has...
Cameron shows his contempt for parliament
TORY leader Cameron was allowed to bluff his way through yesterday’s debate, on his special statement on the Murdoch-Coulson scandal, held after it caused...
Free Mohammed al-Qiq
The Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq is close to death according to independent doctors who have visited him in the hospital where he is being...