Trade unions must take general strike action in support of Palestinian masses!
THE UN’s World Food Programme has warned that Palestinians in Gaza are facing starvation after Israel launched a brutal aggression on Gaza last month....
Victory To Hamas As Lieberman Quits!
THE United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met behind closed doors over the situation in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, but failed to reach an...
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...
Tusk threatens ‘Hell on Earth’ for working class!
WHEN Donald Tusk, the European Council President, speaking in Brussels came out with his comment that there is a ‘special place in hell’ for...
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...
UK and US imperialism’s drive to war must be answered through the victory of...
IN his ‘Letter to American Workers’, published in Pravda on August 22 1918, after the victorious Russian revolution, Lenin wrote, ‘We are now, as...
State Death Squads In The UK
Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan’s investigation began more than three years ago when Belfast welder Raymond McCord claimed that his son, also called Raymond, had...
Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the fire
YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...
The Banking Standards Commission selects three scapegoats for the capitalist crisis
THE farcically misnamed Banking Standards Commission (as if the banks had any standards) was created to try and prevent an even bigger banking collapse...
French Stalinists step in to help Sarkozy
OVER a million French civil servants went on strike yesterday, joining the hundreds of thousands of railworkers, busworkers and gas and electricity workers who...
Hamas answers Israeli massacre with a call for the Third Intifada
YESTERDAY, not content with killing over 300 Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza, and seriously wounding 900, Israel was massing tanks on the...
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...
Oecd Calls For A Giant Firewall!
UK economic growth for the last quarter of 2011 has been revised downwards to a 0.3% contraction, another body blow to those who had...
Israel To Invade Gaza After Bombing And Starving Its Population! The TUC Must...
THE WHO (World Health Organisation) has joined the United Nations in urging Israel to immediately halt its invasion of Gaza which has already been...
‘Currency wars’ will lead to imperialist war
THE meeting of the G20 group – the 20 leading countries in the world – concluded in Seoul yesterday with the usual empty claims of...
French workers press forward as Stalinists retreat
MASS meetings of rail and transport workers were voting in France yesterday to continue their strike actions in defence of pensions. The RATP...
NHSTogether must organise strike action to defend GPs!
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown’s government is targeting General Practitioners (GPs) in its rush to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). Two key barriers to a...
Miliband’s ‘national interest’ is an ‘imperialist interest’
FOREIGN Secretary Miliband declared to his audience, right at the start of his Oxford College speech last Tuesday evening, that ‘we’ must not let...
Expropriate the landlords, build millions of council homes
WHEN the Tory Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, starts accusing his coalition government of ‘Kosovo-style social cleansing’ in the capital over the plans to...
Justice – Just Another Bourgeois Commodity For Sale
THE Coalition’s ‘Justice Secretary’ Chris Grayling plans to make further savage cuts in the £2bn legal aid bill in England and Wales, to...
No recovery in the US, EU or UK – socialism the only way forward
THE UK’S Bank of England yesterday followed the lead of the US Federal Reserve Bank whose Chairman Bernanke had on Tuesday said that...
HSBC new ‘dirty money’ laundering allegations
THE HSBC bank, the biggest bank in Europe, says it is looking into allegations that it has set up a large number of offshore...
Foreign Secretary Hunt prostrates himself before the USA and President Trump!
FOREIGN Secretary Hunt’s debut in the USA saw him prostrate himself in front of US imperialism in the most fawning and sychophantic manner. He...
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...
Crime Pays – For The Banks
‘BY means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of...
Osborne’s regime of pay freezes and wage cuts
IN his last budget speech before the general election, Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made the astounding claim that living standards will ‘grow strongly every...
US warns Pakistan over gas pipeline link with Iran
THE Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on Monday officially inaugurated the final construction phase of the Iran-Pakistan gas...
Starmer’s Labour regime must be replaced by a workers’ government
Sir Keir Starmer is set to become the UK’s first Labour prime minister since 2010 after his party’s landslide general election victory. Labour is...
Saab goes bust as GM’s Opel-Vauxhall crisis deepens
GM’S crisis has deepened with the collapse of its deal to sell Saab, and as the EU states do battle over whose plants are...
World Socialist Revolution only answer to capitalist war at home and abroad!
The political crisis of the Stalinist bureaucracy in Russia, that emerged dramatically on Friday with the march on Moscow by the mercenary Wagner group,...
London Midland drivers fight wage cut
LONDON MIDLAND drivers have refused to work voluntary overtime on Sundays after the company cut their pay for the day to single time. The rail...
Putin lays down law to Soviet states
THE Putin regime has infuriated the British bourgeoisie by its strengthening of the state owned gas and oil sectors of the Russian economy, at...
Welcome all Refugees! Bankrupt EU spreads racist poison!
THE Danish parliament has just voted to rob asylum seekers of their valuables – so that they pay for their upkeep. This policy immediately brings...
Hague Must Resign Over Libyan Debacle
THE latest NATO war crime, the bombing of the Libyan TV station, killing three technicians, was a repeat of a similar war crime,...
Banks teeter on edge of collapse – Official
THE European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of its latest stress tests carried out on 123 European banks on Sunday, results which showed...
Kick out the Tories, abolish academies and free schools to defend free state education
TEACHING unions yesterday published a report detailing the effects of the Tory policy of slashing public spending on schools – increased class sizes across...
Reject Hunt’s hit squads – act to defend the NHS
TODAY Tory health minister, Jeremy Hunt, is unveiling his plan to send ‘hit squads’ into ten NHS hospital trusts to carry out a witch-hunt...
Gove humiliated but remains in office
TORY education secretary Michael Gove suffered a humiliating defeat on Thursday when he was forced to drop his flagship proposal to replace GCSEs with the...
End the regime of forced prepayment meters – nationalise British Gas and all...
IN THE WEEK when the giant oil and gas company Shell announced record profits of £32.2 billion, on the back of the soaring cost...
Labour gives support to Tories’ austerity cuts
Two reports this week bring home that the reality facing millions of workers and their families under this rotten, bankrupt British capitalist system is...
MPs condemn Labour’s ‘surveillance society’
THE House of Commons votes on Wednesday on extending the amount of time that the police can hold a ‘terrorist suspect’ without charging them...
Wal-Mart Asda Blinks First To Avoid Costly Five Day Strike Action
‘GMB members win the right to collective bargaining in the UK, Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots’, is what the GMB trade union optimistically labelled the...
Labour MPs must vote to break from the EU today, and prepare to go...
ON THURSDAY morning, the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and Tory PM Johnson announced a Brexit deal. After three years, the EU...
Unions must take strike action to stop lifting of Covid-19 restrictions on July 19th!
HE BRITISH Medical Association (BMA) doctors’ trade union has spelt it out that pressing ahead with lifting final Covid-19 restrictions in England on July...
The issue is the shoot to kill policy says de Menezes campaign
THE family of Jean Charles de Menezes, murdered by police on the Tube on July 22, have called for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir...