US assembles imperialist navy in Red Sea to attack Yemen
ON MONDAY, the US Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin, announced the creation of a ‘multinational security initiative’ – including the UK and major imperialist...
EU and US fall out over oil, gas and Russian sanctions!
THE INCREASINGLY fractious relationship between the US and its rival capitalist bloc the European Union, is on the point of erupting into a full...
Trade unions must fight zero hours contracts
THE news that over one million workers now have ‘zero hours contracts’ and work only when their employer wants them, have no holidays or...
Stop The Police Chiefs Taking Over The Fire Service!
JUST a few weeks ago the Grenfell Tower inferno burnt men, women and children to death, because the fire was able to take...
EUROPE IN CRISIS! Build the 4th International!
IT was no accident that last Thursday’s storming of the Greek state broadcasting (ERT) building by riot police and the brutal eviction of the...
Time for the US trade unions to break with Obama and form a...
PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address attempted to present an image of a presidency that was capable of achieving something for the...
Tories fund campaign of on-line attacks on Corbyn by ‘shadowy’ charity run by ex-military
AT THE WEEKEND the Scottish newspaper the Daily Record published leaked documents that claims to reveal that a small ‘charity’, based in Fife and...
Pensions crisis will revolutionise millions
‘THERE is no obligation on the part of employers to provide pensions’, said the National Association of Pension Funds yesterday. This was its response to...
World capitalism at the ‘tipping point’ of collapse – time to put an end...
A RELIABLE gauge of the panic gripping the capitalist class over the fast developing world crisis of capitalism and its crushing effect on the...
Strike wave hits UK as workers rise up against bankrupt capitalism!
AS CHRISTMAS approaches, the strike wave sweeping Britain is far from abating, in fact it is growing in strength and determination by the day...
Defend jobs & pay! Nationalise the car industry!
FIAT, the multinational car monopoly based in Italy, is in talks with the German government and the Works Council at Opel, the subsidiary of...
Defend the NHS – Kick the Tories Out!
BARTS Health NHS Trust, the biggest hospital trust in the country, will go £134.9 million in the red by the end of March according...
State Department rubbishes ‘ignorant’ Blair
A POLITICALLY ‘sick’ Prime Minister Blair was yesterday delivered another major blow, this time at the hands of the US State Department, when...
Imperialists keep out of Zimbabwe! Forward to a workers and small farmers government
THE MUGABE regime has been beaten in the polls by the trade union backed Movement for Democratic Change and is now considering its options...
US multi-billionaires tax revelations will fuel demand for the overthrow of bankrupt capitalism
TAX RETURNS of America’s richest people have been leaked to the investigative website ProRepublica and prove that the mega wealthy have been paying little...
Tories seeking to bust the CWU and all of NHS trade unions. Time to...
THE CWU trade union representing postal workers says Royal Mail’s chief executive Simon Thompson is to blame for a round of strikes in the...
Demand the TUC bring down the Tories
ON Thursday Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, delivered a speech proclaiming that as far as the government is concerned ‘the matter is closed’: he...
Sanders concedes but ‘political revolution’ will continue!
‘HILLARY Clinton must become the next president of the United States,’ Bernie Sanders told the Democratic Convention on Monday. These words touched off huge...
NHS A&E departmentsto be shut in scores
THE policy of the Labour government, as far as the NHS is concerned, is to hand over more and more of the NHS budget...
Poroshenko crushed in elections – forward to Ukrainian workers taking back power and returning...
THE WORKERS and small farmers of Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to the right-wing oligarchs and to the EU and US imperialism when they...
Occupy And Nationalise Ellesmere Port And Luton Stellantis Car Plants
ONE of the world’s biggest carmakers, Stellantis, has called on the Tory government to renegotiate part of the Brexit deal or risk losing parts...
Blair is deliberately smashing the NHS
THE just announced 1,000 strong mass sackings at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire which includes 750 compulsory redundancies, as well as 370 nurses...
Ttip Is Dead Says German Economy Minister!
BLURTING out the truth, the German economy minister, Sigmar Gabriel, has pronounced the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a free trade deal long...
End free movement in EU urges May as Tory crisis deepens!
THE deepening worldwide capitalist crisis is driving forward revolution with seven-league boots. The crisis is threatening a new banking and industrial crash at any moment...
Labour MPs being whipped to keep Tories in power!
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer instructed his party’s MPs to abstain in last night’s vote on the Tories’ new Covid regulations tier system, thus ensuring...
Iran Is Not The Villain Of The ‘Nuclear Threat’
PRESIDENT Obama made it crystal clear in his 11.45pm Saturday night address, over the just-signed six-month interim nuclear agreement with Iran, that he is...
Rate cuts and printing pound notes – Brown’s recipe for disaster
THE Bank of England yesterday cut interest rates to 1.5 per cent, the lowest level in its 315-year history, since the start of the...
US government shuts down as ruling class split widens
THE US government has begun to shut itself down after the two houses of Congress failed to agree a budget by midnight Monday. The Republican-led...
Cameron poised to send UK troops into Iraq!
PM Cameron is poised to send British troops into Iraq. This is why he is unwilling to recall Parliament after it rejected his...
Workers do Battle All Over Europe!
GREEK riot police fired tear gas and beat Ministry of Culture workers yesterday morning after the workers had occupied the Acropolis in Athens demanding...
Withdraw all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan
THE fact that six RAF Harrier GR7 jets are to remain in Afghanistan to support the 4,000 British troops who are being assembled in...
IMF demands destruction of welfare state to save capitalism from debt crisis Answer bankers...
THE IMF (International Monetary Fund) this week sounded the alarm bells for the world capitalist crisis when it announced the real scale of the...
Palestinian PM calls on UN to act against Israeli apartheid, while Hamas insists that...
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on United Nations bodies, particularly the Children’s Fund (UNICEF), to follow up on the recent Human Rights...
The Tories are split to the hilt! The trade unions must bring them down...
THE SPLIT in the Tory Party over the planned hike in National Insurance (NI) has got wider and deeper! Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s proposed 1.25...
The Tory Party is blowing apart! TUC must call a general strike to kick...
Liz Truss was only installed as Prime Minister little more than 4 weeks ago but yesterday a senior Tory minister, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly,...
Revolution and counter- revolution in the Middle East
EGYPTIAN workers and youth have reoccupied Tahrir Square in Cairo, and are keeping the military and the police at bay, following Saturday’s deadly clashes...
The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class – time to...
MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...
Obama asks Congress to decide on war or peace
IN A MAJOR abdication of Presidential power, Obama has given the US Congress the task of deciding whether there should be a strike on...
US & UK bosses supply, train, and equip the Saudi killing machine! UK trade...
SAUDI journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who lived for years in the US, walked into the Saudi embassy in Turkey over a week ago, and did...
Bankrupt British capitalism must be removed by organising a Workers and Young Socialists revolution
FOLLOWING the failure of the US-Israeli illegal and unprovoked ‘shock and awe’ aerial blitzkrieg on Iran launched on 28 February, Iran’s fierce defence of...
Free Assange and Manning! The imperialists must be put on trial for ‘war crimes’!
BRITISH police entered the Ecuadorian embassy in central London on Thursday, which is technically Ecuadorian territory, arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Australian who...
Business Secretary Reynolds can’t keep blast furnaces going!
THE British Labour government’s business secretary has refused to confirm if the government can get the sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep...
US to arm Ukrainian coupists
US imperialism has reacted to the breakdown of talks at the weekend of the Contact Group on Ukrainian reconciliation with threats to massively intervene...
The US and UK bosses are planning major attacks on Russia and China! ...
AT A summit last Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned his American counterpart Joe Biden that US support for Taiwanese independence is ‘playing with...
Irish banks ‘death spiral’ – forward to socialist revolution
THE latest stage in the complete disintegration of the Irish banking system was described by one analyst of the capitalist market as a ‘death...