As Putin, Merkel, Macron And Erdogan Talk Peace In Istanbul, Israel And The...
As Putin, Merkel, Macron and Erdogan were meeting in Istanbul on Saturday evening to discuss the future of Syria, Israeli planes were bombing Gaza...
French youth revolution will set Europe ablaze!
NEITHER the Gendarmerie, nor troops or even the fatwas of the ‘holy men’ can stop the French youth rebellion, which is the product of...
No To Three Years Of NHS Wage Cutting
NURSES and other NHS workers have been offered a three-year pay deal worth 8% by the government. NHS trade union leaders who are prepared...
No deal with Cameron to accept Anti-Union Act – Make TUC call general strike!
UNITE leader McCluskey has made Tory PM Cameron an offer by letter to accept the thresholds necessary for legal strike action, as proposed in...
56 Refugees forced to sleep in a single office! Boot the Tories and their...
REFUGEES are being held in office space in Kent, with as many as 56 women and children crammed into a single room, sleeping together...
A bankrupt budget for a bankrupt economy
THE AIM of every government in 2008 is to ‘maintain stability through the world economic slowdown’, said Chancellor Darling yesterday in his budget...
Blair plans to close NHS hospitals!
TODAY the Labour Government will publish its Health White Paper. Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt gave a preview of its aims over the weekend, that...
Hamas Political Bureau member Basem Naim calls for new roadmap to implement ceasefire!
A MEMBER of Hamas’s political bureau, Basem Naim, has criticised Board of Peace representative Nickolay Mladenov for publishing a new roadmap to implement phase...
Tories get ready for war with Syria
PM Cameron is facing a direct legal challenge over a new version of the ministerial code which has been produced and which omits a...
Starmer declares it’s ‘un-British’ to oppose genocide – it is time for a general strike...
WRITING in the Times newspaper yesterday, Labour Prime Minister Starmer urged students not to attend the protests called at universities across the country to...
Third World Britain beaten only by the USA
WOMEN in the UK are more than twice as likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth as those in Poland, Austria or Belarus, according...
By 278 votes to 0 MPs vote for extending the Universal Credit top-up beyond...
THE TORY government was delivered a massive blow on Monday evening when it was defeated by 278 votes to 0 when MPs voted for...
Health unions in head-on collision with the government over pay! Entire working...
UNIONS representing NHS workers have written directly to the Tory government over their pay. The fourteen unions represent over a million NHS workers. The...
UK arming Israel and supplying it with drones, sniper rifles and other murderous equipment!
DURING almost a month of Friday demonstrations in Gaza, called the ‘Great March of Return’, the Israeli army has used snipers to shoot dead...
Bush is confronted by the legacy of Hurricane Katrina
UNITED States President George Bush was in New Orleans yesterday on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the city. The hurricane killed...
Karzai To Release Prisoners From Bagram’s G-Bay Jail
WASHINGTON has expressed concern about a plan by the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai to release scores of prisoners considered by the US...
IMF-US and Global Debt ‘unsustainable’ – socialist revolution only answer to capitalist crisis!
THIS week the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the world organisation charged with protecting the international capitalist financial system, held its weekly annual meeting in...
Tory-Led Coalition Sets Up A ‘Star Chamber’
HISTORICALLY, the term Star Chamber is synonymous with feudal oppression and dictatorship over the people and over parliament, specifically with the attempts of...
Only Revolution Can Solve The Housing Crisis
THE Tory/LibDem coalition cuts to housing benefit come into effect today with devastating consequences for all unemployed or low paid workers who rely on...
In US elections Sanders must defy Democrat campaign to stop him and stand for...
THE RACE to become the Democratic Party candidate to face Trump in November’s presidential election has come down to a fight between the democratic...
Junior doctors’ strike piles pressure on Sunak and the Tories!
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is already reeling under the pressure from day one of the historic six-day strike by junior doctors. The Tories have...
Labour is considering capitalist state regulation of newspapers
THE Labour government is considering a plan to impose state regulation of journalists and newspapers! Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has published preliminary proposals that would...
Revolution not bourgeois aid or charity, the future for Africa
ON Saturday, leaders of the capitalist world, from the Pope and his Cardinals to various Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and not a few Chancellors...
US imperialism preparing war on Iran – workers must stop this war by overthrowing...
THIS week US imperialism ratcheted up its preparations for an all-out military war against Iran. On Monday, Donald Trump’s national security advisor and warmonger-in-chief John...
British government inquiry into ‘complicity in torture’ is a fraud
ON Wednesday the government published the Evidence Protocol for the ‘inquiry’ into allegations of British complicity in torture – a year after the inquiry...
Revolution is the only way forwards!
THE working class of Europe is rising up to fight the savage spending cuts now being imposed by governments across the Continent. When the UK...
‘Education not Emigration’ needs a socialist revolution in Ireland
IRISH government plans to increase university fees from 1,500 euros to 2,500 euros led to Wednesday’s 40,000 strong students march in Dublin, and to...
Down With The US ‘Proximity Talks’
US VICE-PRESIDENT Joe Biden is in Israel where he has declared that the just agreed ‘proximity talks’, which will see US envoy George Mitchell...
Johnson Government Must Be Brought Down – TUC Must Call General Strike!
THE capitalist system is now poised to go into its greatest ever crisis and crash because of its mountains of debt. Workers face massive...
Baghdad bombings blow to Bush!
MORE than 200 people were killed in Baghdad on Wednesday in five bombings. This is the highest number of deaths in a single day...
Workers must defend the right of postal workers to strike in December!
THE MASSIVE vote by postal workers for strike action in December over Royal Mail tearing up the previous agreements on pay and conditions has...
Chancellor’s Budget for starving the working class
OSBORNE’S BUDGET speech was devoid of any attempt to analyse the world crisis that is gripping capitalism and which is deepening by the hour,...
Nationalise The Motor Car Industry
US and European car employers yesterday warned that ‘their’ industry faced wipeout, ‘victims’ of the slump in the motor car industry and the financial...
Revolution Is The Only Road For Youth
RECORD numbers of young people, 835,000 18-24 year-olds, are not in school, college or work in England, official figures are showing. This is an increase...
Iran wants to talk – US–UK want to impose sanctions
THE Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared that he is ready to talk to President Obama and other leaders and have a ‘fair, logical’...
TUC Proposes A Labour Front With The Tories
WITH great fanfare the Tories have announced that they are following in the footsteps of President Roosevelt who, in 1933, launched the ‘New Deal’...
Sack the Hayes-Ward CWU leadership!
LAST Wednesday postal workers delivered a massive vote in favour of strike action to defend their jobs, terms and conditions, and for a pay...
British Imperialism Wants To Redraw Map
IRAQ is in the middle of a civil war, the country’s former interim puppet prime minister, Iyad Allawi, said yesterday. Allawi was appointed by...
Kick out the yellow trade union leaders
THE GATE GOURMET bosses were cock-a-hoop yesterday, and no wonder – after the leader of the TUC, Barber, and the leaders of the...
Tory conference splits as preparations for an extra-parliamentary party emerge!
THE Tory Party annual conference opened on Monday and was immediately defined by ministers speaking to a near empty hall, as delegates couldn’t be...
Tories Are Down – Now They Must Be Put Out!
THE Tories are down but they are not out! The trade unions must mobilise for action at once to deliver a knock-out blow to...
Answer Tories’ ‘perversion of democracy’ with a general strike to kick them out
YESTERDAY’S meeting of the Tory ‘Brexit War Cabinet’ at Chequers was convened under conditions where the entire Tory leadership was openly at war with...
Time To Get The Tories Out!
CAMERON’S great achievement thus far has been to use the capitalist slump to push society backwards so that the rich are getting richer and...
Support Iran’s right to a nuclear programme
YESTERDAY in London, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany, met to discuss hauling Iran in front of the Security...
Johnson Declares War On Youth With ‘Chain Gang’ Threat
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has declared war on youth in the UK with his ‘Beating Crime Plan’ which labels youth as ‘criminal’ and targets...