Ashrawi condemns Israeli onslaught and urges EU and US to stop rewarding Israel
PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) EC member Hanan Ashrawi has strongly condemned Israel’s escalation of its illegal and inhumane measures in and around Jerusalem and...
Eu On The Brink!
THE entire capitalist economy of Europe took a decisive step towards total meltdown with the admission last Thursday that agreement on a Europeanwide bail-out...
Counter-revolution prepares behind cloak of Olympic Games
THE news that the coalition government is preparing to deploy ground-to-air missiles at next year’s London Olympic games has been greeted with amused bafflement...
FOOD BANKS becoming the rule in poverty-stricken UK
THERE are currently 270 food banks across the UK where poverty-stricken workers and youth are directed to get subsistence amounts of food. As the capitalist...
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...
Gaza Residents Are Hit By Aid Strike!
THERE has been a very bitter winter in Palestine especially in the war ravaged Gaza Strip where tens of thousands of Gazans’ homes were...
Time to put imperialism out of its death agony with victory of world socialist...
LAST FRIDAY, Labour’s armed forces minister, Al Carns, was ramping up the increasingly strident calls for the whole country to step up and prepare...
Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any attack on the country
THE commander of Iran’s armed forces Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard said on Tuesday that Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any...
Deepening capitalist crisis is driving the US-UK axis to war with Russia!
US DEFENCE Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the US fleet of warships to remain in the Mediterranean Sea, driving up the tensions between the...
Corbyn intends to end the rule of banking class with regulations!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn wound up this week’s Labour Party conference with a speech that he insisted outlined policies for ‘socialism in the 21st...
Trump Will Live To Regret His Empty Davos Boasting! US Debt Mountain Will Lead...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s address to the annual get together of politicians, billionaires, bankers and other assorted ‘running dogs’ of capitalism at the World...
EU economy at the end of the road
THE economy of the Eurozone countries is sinking even deeper into crisis making a mockery of all the talk about an economic ‘recovery’. This was...
UK capitalism is being torn apart politically and economically
THE CRISIS restrictions on Greater Manchester by the Tories reveal that the collapse of British capitalism has reached such a point that the unity...
It’s The Afghans Who Will Have To Retake Musa Qala
CURRENTLY a great deal of propaganda hot air is being expended hailing the action that British forces are taking to ‘liberate’ the town of...
US trade unions must evict Trump and break with Democrats to found a Labour...
PRESIDENT TRUMP has stated that he has no intention of leaving the White House and the presidency voluntarily. He said on Saturday: ‘We all know...
US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis to organise a new world war –...
PM Boris Johnson is now fighting on two fronts. At home, against the Metropolitan Police inquiry into his law-breaking, and the demand that he be...
Zero-hours contracts and below legal minimum wages dominate in private care agencies
ANALYSIS by the GMB union of figures in the national Skills for Care database reveals that care workers employed in the private sector are...
No Military Action Against Iran – At This Point Says Rice
BRITAIN’S Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has just revealed the policy of the British government on Iraq – or has he? He said that Iran...
The biggest fall in living standards since 1931!
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that living costs have risen 25% in the past five years and placed an ‘unprecedented’ financial burden on...
Motor City Goes Bankrupt – Unions Denounce Orr Power Grab!
DETROIT, once the motor car capital of the USA where hundreds of thousands of workers used to flock looking for good jobs in the...
Trump’s ‘war on two fronts’ against ‘millions of illegal immigrants’ at home...
THE US military is sending an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East as it builds up war tensions to try to intimidate Iran...
UK at the back of the queue for at least 10 years threatens...
THE UK could take up to 10 years to negotiate trade deals with the US if it leaves the EU, Barack Obama has said. In...
Oil giants make huge profits off backs of workers – nationalise the oil and...
AS MILLIONS of families face massive increases in their energy bills when the Tories raise the cap on prices by 54% in April, the...
Demand that the UK recognises the state of Palestine – Attend our centenary rally...
IN A virtually unprecedented break with the normal language of international diplomacy, the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad Malki, has deservedly torn into British Prime...
US Threatens North Korea With War
‘WE are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea, we are not going to accept it,’ US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher...
Tories prepare for perfect storm of anger from workers – General strike now to...
AS THE annual conference of the TUC, this year conducted on-line, opens, the GMB union released analysis of official data showing that 100,000 care...
US Casualties Mount In Iraq
US forces in Iraq suffered 24 deaths in Iraq in May, more than any month since September 2008. The total number of US casualties since...
DRIVE THE MAY GOVERNMENT OUT! MARCH ON PARLIAMENT ON JULY 1st!
THE May government has now entered the world of the surreal. It has just about been able to schedule a Queen’s Speech of sorts...
Unite leaders beg the Tories for permanent furlough! New leadership required in trade...
UNITE, with a membership of 1.4 million, wielding the power to strike and shut down vast proportions of industry, has reduced itself to begging...
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...
‘This is 1914 all over again’
THE architects of the Common Market, the forerunner of the European Union, freely admitted that they were seeking to carry out peacefully what Adolf...
Standard and Poor puts a pistol to the head of the eurozone
GERMAN Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble has said Standard & Poor’s (S&P) threat to downgrade all eurozone countries, and saddle them with ruinous interest charges...
Ed Balls ending Universal Benefit
YESTERDAY the Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, announced that the Labour Party has officially abandoned the principle of universal benefits in the interests of...
Labour Is The Rajapaksa Regime’s Sponsor
ON Tuesday evening President Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, was due to address the prestigious Oxford Union in front of an invited audience. He...
Greek workers and youth erupt in fury over deadly rail crash
THOUSANDS of Greek workers, students and youth took to the streets at the weekend in a further extension of the anger that has erupted...
Trump Wants The Whole World To Pay For The Crisis And Death Agony Of...
DEEP splits among the imperialist powers emerged this week over the rapidly growing support for a Palestinian state, at the same time as Trump...
Berezovskiy calls for the violent overthrow of Putin
FOR some time the Blair government has been bringing in draconian anti-terrorist legislation, such as the Terrorism Act 2000. It has been boldly ‘identifying’ terrorism...
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...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei murdered in a bombing raid by Israel and the...
IRAN’S Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been killed and in fact murdered in a major assault on Iran by Israel and the United States,...
Capitalism’s world economy is heading for a catastrophe – the only way out is...
‘THE US is staring at a possible hard landing while Europe is struggling and China is sinking!’ This is the message from the Daily Telegraph’s...
UK banks fail stress test while manufacturing collapses
LAST Friday the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the results of its stress test on 51 of the biggest banks throughout Europe and Britain. Fearful...
BA sacks 12,000 workers while Unite and the GMB register their ‘shock’ and nothing...
THE GIANT Unite and GMB trade unions have greeted the news that British Airways is to make 12,000 workers redundant with shock, dismay and...
Labour Set To Drive Workers Off The Roads
ALISTAIR Darling, the Labour government transport minister, yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to drive millions of working class drivers off the roads with a...
UK government must answer war crimes charges in both Iraq and Yemen!
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has condemned UK war crimes in both the Yemen and in Iraq. In the Yemen UK-supplied weaponry to Saudi Arabia has been...
ONLY a Socialist revolution can provide a future for workers and youth!
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled his latest attempt to resuscitate British capitalism in the midst of a crisis that has destroyed the economic...