Trump caves in over Ukraine – now is the time to get rid of...
AMERICA’S junior imperialist allies in the UK and Europe were in a state of shock as details of US president Donald Trump’s climbdown over...
Workers action shakes Rajapakse
A FIERCE struggle has erupted in Sri Lanka between the military-police dictatorship of Mahinda Rajapakse and over a hundred thousand garment workers in the...
Judges Take Just 5 Minutes To Reject Hunt’s Appeal
THE Court of Appeal’s ruling yesterday that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt did not have legal power to implement cuts at Lewisham Hospital in south-east...
Brown insists on wage cuts for workers & billions for bankers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown justified pay cuts for workers in the public services and the billions handed over by the Treasury to the bankrupt...
Make TUC day of workplace action the first day of a general strike across...
ISRAELI troops crossed the border into southern Lebanon yesterday in what they described as ‘limited, localised and targeted ground raids’ after approval was given...
Defeat The May-Corbyn Pact To Knife Brexit – No To A National Government!
TORY Prime Minister May emerged from her meeting with her cabinet on Tuesday and immediately issued a letter to every Tory MP calculated to...
UN condemns Tory government for its onslaught on the disabled!
THE UK government’s welfare ‘reforms’ amount to a ‘systematic violation’ of the rights of disabled people, according to an inquiry by the United Nations...
Eu Abyss Opens As Irish Decide On Referendum
THE Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos was in Brussels yesterday seeking final approval from Germany and France for Greece’s second bailout deal. Greece is continuing...
Oil giants make huge profits – nationalise oil and energy industries now!
WHILE workers face skyrocketing energy bills forcing millions to go without heat this winter the giant oil and gas company Shell has announced annual...
A general strike to kick out the Tories and bring in socialism will end...
THIS WEEK, the boss of British Gas, Chris O’Shea, sent letters to 7,500 of its service engineers informing them that on Wednesday 14 April...
Stop Saudi-Israeli military intervention into Lebanon! Victory to Hezbollah!
AFTER the defeat of the imperialist powers and their terrorist proxies in Syria, the US, the other imperialist powers, and their Saudi-led allies are...
Workers and elderly to be hammered for the benefit of privateers
CURRENTLY all over the country A&E’s are being closed, in some areas entire hospitals are to be demolished, while the number of private patients...
Blears Speaks With Forked Tongue
HOME Office minister Blears has had a strenuous week. On the one hand she has been working to support British Transport Police Chief Johnston....
Economic collapse driving US capitalism towards war with China
AT THE end of January, $1 trillion was wiped off the value of America’s leading high-tech companies – the so called ‘Magnificent Seven’ –...
Trump admits world economy faced collapse unless he caved in and admitted defeat at...
ON WEDNESDAY night, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Iran and the US was formally signed by both US president Donald Trump and Iranian...
British capitalism is on its knees – put an end to it with a...
WITH British capitalism on its knees and the Tory Party and the ruling class split from stem to stern over the European Union, Tory...
Trade unions must call general strike to bring down May government and bring...
ON TUESDAY Theresa May launched what has been billed as her final attempt to cobble together a parliamentary majority amongst MPs for her ‘new’...
On The Eve Of The Budget, Workers Are Demanding Action To Bring Down...
THE TUC General Council has met and issued a statement on the crisis. In it, it disgracefully treats the Tory government as a potential...
Chilcot won’t rule on Iraq war legality
CHILCOT opened his report of his inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war yesterday by stating that it was not the job of his very...
Nato Issues A Warning To Russia!
NATO’S military commander in Europe has issued a warning to Russia about the build-up of its forces on Ukraine’s border. Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Gen...
Worldwide Capitalist Crisis Requires The Victory Of The World Socialist Revolution!
YESTERDAY saw a massive escalation in the world trade war when the US was given the green light by the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...
Crisis Deepening – Revolution Not Recovery Is On The Agenda
THE CBI bosses organisation yesterday foresaw a ‘recovery’ from the capitalist crisis, but was forced by circumstances beyond its control to admit that, at...
Obama tries to put a sticking plaster over the gaping wounds of US capitalism
US President Barack Obama has hailed the deal reached with the Republican Party to avert a ‘fiscal cliff’ of huge tax rises and spending...
Bank of England warns global financial crash is coming!
Last week, the Bank of England issued another of its increasingly strident warnings that a ‘sudden correction’ in the value of major technological companies...
Renationalise railways or regime change says ASLEF
ASLEF is the first trade union to call for ‘regime change’, a change in the leadership of the Labour government if it continues to...
Firefighters, postal workers, teachers must unite to smash privatisation!
THE TORY-led coalition is working overtime to privatise the public sector and turn it into a bonanza, a big killing for the big business...
Rajapakse And His Backers Will Not Defeat The Tamil People
YESTERDAY the imperialist-backed Rajapakse regime was claiming to have killed the LTTE leadership, including Velupillai Prabakaran, and that the struggle is now over. Its...
As Capitalism Shuts Down Workers Must Be Mobilised To Fight For Socialism!
THE SCENE has been set for today’s budget by the crash of the stockmarkets on Monday March 9th when trillions of pounds were wiped...
The Telegraph urges that ‘destroying Hamas’ is very much in this country’s interests &...
THE United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution calling for a halt to all arms sales to Israel, and for the regime...
‘Oppressed will rise all over the world’ – says Iranian president
Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad has hailed his election win as a new Islamic revolution which he said he hoped would now spread its way...
G20 debt pile reaches $135 trillion – Capitalism is breaking apart – forward with...
THIS WEEK the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another warning that the world capitalist financial system is on the verge of a gigantic...
Workers must take action to put an end to rail privatisation!
TORY MP Sir Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill, told the House of Commons and Transport Secretary Chris Grayling yesterday, that the Rail Industry...
£9.2 billion NHS money given to privateers – time to expropriate them
IN JANUARY this year the Tory secretary of state for health, Matt Hancock, told MPs that ‘there is no privatisation on my watch’ of...
Italy’s financial ‘doom loop’ will strangle the entire banking system warns Carney
THE FINANCIAL ‘doom loop’ that is tightening around the necks of the Italian banking system will send the Italian banks and the Italian...
Blair looks to the ‘Axis of Evil’ for rescue
THE killing of four British soldiers in Basra on Sunday with at least three seriously injured, and the killing of six US soldiers in...
TUC conference swings to the right – a new leadership must be built!
THIS year’s annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference marked a historic lurch to the right by the leadership of the trade unions. At a time...
Tory Party Crisis Deepens – Time For The Trade Unions To Get Rid Of...
THE TUC trade unions have a duty, and have the power to end the death agony of the Johnson government. Even bankers have remarked...
Nationalise oil and energy industries under workers management and without compensation now!
Yesterday, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) published its plan to cut energy bills by re-nationalising energy retail companies. The plan, issued in advance of next...
The revolution in Nepal – part of the world revolution
LEON Trotsky’s theory of the Permanent Revolution shows how ‘the democratic tasks of the backward bourgeois nations lead directly, in our epoch, to the...
Desperate Tories frantically witchhunt Corbyn – put them out on June 8th!
WITH just ten days to go before voting takes place in Theresa May’s snap general election the Tories are in a state of acute...
Tories out to destroy free speech
THE full extent of the Tory plans to smash up the right to free speech was revealed yesterday by an unlikely source, the new...
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...
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...
Osborne decrees huge wage and benefit cuts for the public sector and the poor
CHANCELLOR George Osborne in his Autumn statement was forced to admit failure, that his policies were not working and that he had been forced...
Imperialism Is On The Point Of Defeat As The World’s Financial Institutions Panic
THE IRANIAN ambassador in London, Seyed Ali Mousavi, has spoken to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg in a pre-recorded interview in which he correctly warned...