TUC must call general strike to bring down Starmer government!
LABOUR MPs are now warning that Keir Starmer’s days as Prime Minister are well and truly numbered. On Wednesday, a clearly shaken Starmer faced demands...
Hamas denounces the Israeli Military hijacking of the Handala aid ship
THE Hamas movement has strongly denounced the Israeli military hijacking of the Handala aid ship in international waters and the abduction of its passengers,...
Housing crisis can only be solved through socialist revolution!
TWO reports this week have driven home the message that in the 21st century a bankrupt British capitalist system can no longer provide even...
Labour MPs rebel and threaten to bring down Starmer
WHAT was described as a ‘fiery’ meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, addressed by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, took place on Monday...
Ten Million Households Are Suffering
TEN million households are suffering from the financial and political crisis says Which? as it calls on the coalition government, ahead of its Autumn...
Tory war on two fronts against Russia and working class at home
THE RUSSIAN army on Saturday accused the UK of being involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and that the same...
German election crisis for Merkel
The economic and political crisis in the Eurozone countries is now firmly expressing itself in Germany, the dominant capitalist nation in Europe and the...
Israel invades Rafah and blocks all aid to Gaza – working class must call...
ON MONDAY evening, the political bureau of Hamas announced that it had approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. This surprise move prompted the BBC’s International...
Bank of England has no tools to prevent capitalism crashing – socialist revolution is...
ANDREW Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, used an interview on the BBC yesterday to once again insist that British capitalism is...
Benefits slashed while bankers prosper
Today Parliament votes on the Tory coalition bill to place a 1% cap on all benefits and tax credits for the next three years...
No War! Greek And Turkish Workers Must Unite – Their Enemy Is At Home!...
WHILE President Trump is celebrating the Israel-UAE alliance against Iran and Palestine, and planning to extend it throughout the region, his NATO allies are...
Starmer announces creation of a ‘standing army’ as the Labour government moves to impose...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer emerged from an emergency COBRA meeting of ministers on Monday to announce the formation of a new ‘standing army’...
Tories Open Up The Battle Against Socialism
THE content of the ‘devolution campaign’, which has now developed into the ‘Home Rule for England campaign’ was revealed yesterday when Tory Justice Secretary...
Puppet master Obama gives puppet Cameron’s strings a tweak
THE White House on Thursday issued a ‘Readout of the President’s Call with Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom’. The record of the phone...
Economic Crisis Is Smashing Up Europe!
YESTERDAY official statistics for France show that core inflation had actually fallen into negative figures, - 0.2%, for the first time in recorded history...
Belfast City Council Gives A Lead To The Workers Of Ireland And The UK!
BELFAST City Council has given a big lead to the workers of Ireland and the UK by voting to urge the UK and Republic...
Carney tells banks to find £11.4 billion to save them going bust
DESPITE all the recent words from Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, about the underlying health of British capitalism, his actions yesterday...
PM Sunak Ditches HS2 And Launches Savage Cuts To Smash The Trade Unions!
THE GMB trade union yesterday slammed the scrapping of the HS2 Northern route, the biggest cut in the rail network since the days of...
The Trade Unions Must Defend Every Job!
THE London and New York stock markets were in free fall yesterday, losing hundreds of points, with tens of billions of dollars and pounds...
Force leaders who won’t fight to resign – organise a general strike!
THE third reading of the Health and Social Care Bill was approved by MPs by 65 votes on Wednesday evening, with just four LibDem...
Second Xmas on the dole for 700,000!
ACCORDING to research published by the TUC on Monday, over 250,000 people will be spending their second successive Christmas on the dole. Even this figure...
Egypt bombs Derna and pledges Libyan intervention
EGYPT’S Air Force, on Monday morning bombed Islamic State positions in Derna, Libya, after IS beheaded 21 Coptic Christian Egyptians. The city was also bombed...
Turning A New Page In The NHS!
THE leaders of 10 NHS organisations have called in an open letter for a ‘new page to be turned’ in 2014. Powerful organisations including...
Defeat imperialist coup attempt in Ukraine
THE refusal at the last minute by the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovich, to sign up to a ‘partnership’ deal with the EU has led...
French and UK workers must unite to smash capitalism and fight for socialism!
FRENCH workers and youth have risen up against the Macron-military police dictatorship and on Saturday launched massive attacks on the capitalist state’s police forces...
Abolish the monarchy – forward to a workers’ republic and socialism!
DETAILS of the settlement between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre to end her claim that she was forced to have sex with the Duke...
4.5m on the housing waiting list!
THE National Housing Federation (NHF) complains that the government has missed its home-building target for the last seven years and that the housing crisis...
Afghan crisis deepens as deadline nears
AFGHANISTAN’S finance minister has said deadlock over the disputed presidential election has cost the economy $5bn, so far. Omar Zakhilwal has said he will have...
US economy slumps as Obama proposes huge budget debts
THE American economy contracted by 6.2 per cent in the last three months of last year, as consumer spending dropped by 4.3 per cent...
Osborne’s capitulation to banks
Yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, introduced legislation on banking reforms – reforms which he is desperately trying to insist will prevent the continuing...
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...
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...
Unions Must Be Made To Take Action To Defend Steel Industry Jobs And Pensions!
THE TORY government is on the brink of a savage attack on Tata Steel workers’ pensions, and after four weeks of consultation will be...
FBU anger mounting – strike action on the way!
FIREFIGHTERS risk their lives every time they are called out. They never know what they are going to have to tackle, and often do...
Putin cuddles up to the West over Ukraine!
SUNDAY night’s meeting between the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has shown conclusively the counter-revolutionary nature of...
Labour plan to drive sick back to work or off benefits with weight-loss injections
PRESENT at Labour’s International Investment Summit on Monday were representatives from Lilly – the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. This coincided with an announcement from the...
Osborne to slash £5bn from welfare – answer with general strike
In today’s Autumn statement on the economy, the Tory chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, will announce that he intends to ‘kick start’ British...
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...
ICJ Genocide hearing told Israel turning Gaza into ‘mass grave’ for Palestinians and aid...
THE INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice (ICJ) started its hearings yesterday on the use of humanitarian aid as ‘weapons of war’ by the Israeli regime...
Lobby the TUC on 27 April to demand they take action to support the...
THE lobby of the TUC general council meeting tomorrow is crucial for the fight, not just in defence of the junior doctors, but to...
You must accept capitalism and its cuts orders Johnson
YESTERDAY, Alan Johnson, the ex-CWU postal workers leader, warned the trade unions that they must accept the capitalist crisis, and as slaves of capital...
Bankrupt Italian Capitalism Is Set To Crash And Bring The Bankrupt Eu Down With...
ITALY’S economic crisis is reaching the point of explosion, an explosion that even bourgeois economists fear will bring down the eurozone and the entire...
Ireland – hurtling towards a socialist revolution
THE right-wing Fine Gael party is set to form a coalition with its traditional partner, the right-wing Labour party, after a ‘political revolution’ which...
Smash Labour’s right wing coup attempt – Leave the EU at once!
THE Labour Party leadership has moved to sell out and stab the Brexit referendum result and the working class in the back. Keir Starmer, Labour’s...
Palestine – the UK unions must take action in support of Palestinian people!
THE Palestinian Presidency has strongly condemned the ‘dangerous Israeli escalation against our people in the Gaza Strip, which so far has resulted in the...