Biden Leads The Charge For Russian Regime Change!
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden made his first annual State of the Union Address late Tuesday night, opening with an attack on Russia that was...
It’s still austerity, more austerity and yet more austerity from Osborne and the Tories
The UK economy grew by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2014, compared to 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the...
General strike shakes the Rajapaksa regime! Forward to workers power!
LAST Thursday, the Sri Lankan capital Colombo was halted as hundreds of thousands of trade unionists and their supporters took to the streets in...
BofE keeps interest rates at record level and promises further rises!
AS WIDELY predicted, the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday voted to hold the UK key base interest rate at 5.25% while...
Treat the Council Tax as you did the Poll Tax!
THE Council Tax is set to rise by four per cent on average this year, more than double the government’s current rate of inflation...
Britain’s ‘Treasure Islands’ for the super rich – while it’s super austerity for...
THE ‘Panama papers’ leak of 11 million documents shows that the rich and infamous worldwide, including heads of state, are avoiding taxation...
Workers must use their power to smash capitalism and put an end to the...
SINCE the onset of Israel’s brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip, the Israeli military’s use of live ammunition to kill and wound Palestinian...
Chinese Stalinists fear workers political revolution!
IN an extraordinary speech given at his annual press conference, the outgoing Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, warned that China risks a ‘historical tragedy’...
Scavenger Hague Leaps Into Ukraine Conflict
THE British Foreign Secretary Hague tweeted his support for the ‘new Ukrainian government’ on Saturday midday along with his German opposite number. However, there...
Bankers’ bonuses are a diversion
The headline news throughout the bourgeois media yesterday was that Stephen Hester, Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, had magnanimously bowed to...
Cameron, Sarkozy poised to send ground troops into Libya!
SARKOZY and Cameron visited Tripoli yesterday, not to celebrate any illusory ‘victory’, but to shore up the NTC counter-revolutionaries, who are already fighting amongst...
Japanese Imperialists Flex Their Muscles
JAPANESE Nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has just been re-elected and has immediately begun a drive to prepare for war against China and North...
Abbas – Sharon Summit Cancelled!
PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas’ summit with the Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, which was due today, has been cancelled after Abbas said he was opposed to...
IBM shares plunge over fears of an artificial intelligence bubble
INTERNATIONAL Business Machines (IBM), the giant US manufacturer of corporate computers suffered a massive drop in its share price on Monday as panic surrounding...
US bosses handed $1.5 trillion by Trump – Forward to the US socialist revolution!
THE US Senate has approved by 51 votes to 48 a measure slashing the taxes of the rich and the major banks and companies...
Smash The Capitalist Police State – Forward With The Socialist Revolution
THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER yesterday reported that the UK police chiefs have formally asked the government to make it harder to investigate and prosecute officers,...
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...
Prescott slams Miliband’s failure as Labour opportunists panic
FIRST of all we had Labour ex-Health Secretary Burnham serving notice on Miliband that he had until the spring to challenge the Tory-led coalition...
Brown Trying To Buy Time For Capitalism
LAST week a Tory MP had to apologise to the House of Commons because he had said that the government should ‘let the recession...
US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis and NATO to organise a war with...
PM Boris Johnson said yesterday that Ukrainians are ‘fighting heroically’ and with ‘great success’ in some places against Russian troops who have intervened to...
Answer Airbus threat to thousands of jobs in UK and Europe with occupations...
YESTERDAY, Airbus announced that it will scrap all production of its flagship A380 superjumbo aircraft, a giant cruise liner with two decks and capable...
Syriza trying to carry on from where the former government left off!
SYRIZA policy going into the general election, through which it came to office, was to write off most of Greece’s 322bn euro debt. It demanded...
UK ‘control orders’ are illegal says EU rights body
EVEN the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Alvaro Gil-Robles has condemned the issuing of control orders by the British Home Secretary as...
Defend the Royal Mail – Form a public sector alliance – Bring down the...
FOLLOWING the publication of the coalition’s Postal Services Bill, Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, said: ‘The government has wasted no time in flogging...
Britain ‘drifting’ towards a police state–Manchester Chief Constable
SIR Peter Fahy, Greater Manchester Chief Constable and vice-chair of the National Counter-Terrorism Committee, has warned that the fight against ‘extremism’ is leading to...
Bush’s Wall Street Bail-Out Defeated
PRESIDENT George Bush’s Bill for a $700bn package of measures to bail out the Wall Street banks and large financial institutions in the United...
Libyan Land War Looms!
FIRST of all they embraced Gadaffi like a long lost brother in 2004, just one year after the mass slaughter in Iraq. The...
TUC pledges solidarity with workers in Middle East – time to force TUC to...
ON MONDAY, the General Council of the TUC issued a lengthy ‘interim statement on Iran’ which condemned ‘the dangerous escalation of military actions, precipitated...
TUC Must Take Industrial Action To Force The Tories To Oppose Trump’s Palestine Deal!
THOUSANDS OF ISRAELIS rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday night against the ‘deal of the century’, which they said was a plan for ‘transfer’...
Labour’s six months of work is no solution to the jobs crisis!
LABOUR has pledged a ‘jobs guarantee’ scheme for young unemployed people, that will last for the whole of next parliament, if it wins the...
Time to expropriate the banks and jail the bankers
THIS week has seen the essence of the banking fraternity emerge after HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, which was rescued by the UK taxpayers in...
Nationalise Bankrupt Companies – Under Workers’ Control And Management
THE Labour government, after handing tens of billions of pounds to the Northern Rock and the other major banks, in an attempt to save...
‘The war against terror’ – a war that cannot be won!
IT’S official. The western imperialist states are engaged in a ‘war against terror’, which they have been waging since the Bush-Blair axis was formed...
Breast cancer scandal inevitable outcome of Tory privatisation of NHS – time to...
LAST WEDNESDAY, Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt apologised ‘wholeheartedly and unreservedly for the suffering caused’ to the hundreds of thousands of women who were...
US-UK imperialism has come to grief in Iraq
IRAQ’S election commission has barred almost 500 candidates and many parties from running in the ‘national’ elections on 7 March. A parliamentary committee says that...
The Brown government is for the bankers and the bosses!
THOUSANDS of trade unionists will be marching in Manchester today to the Labour Party conference to protest at the ‘breadline wages’ that public sector...
Corbyn comes out for a second referendum to sell-out Brexit
YESTERDAY Jeremy Corbyn launched the Labour Party manifesto for the upcoming elections to the EU parliament: ‘Transforming Britain and Europe: for the many not...
Germany crashes into recession while EU banks face collapse – socialist revolution the only...
GERMANY, the EU’s biggest economy, has crashed into recession data revealed by the Federal Statistics Office last week showed. This was a blow to 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...
Spain follows Greece with mass strikes against austerity
SPANISH Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialist Party government scraped through Parliament its 15bn euro (£13bn) austerity package, by 169 votes to 168,...
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...
Defence Secretary Hagel cements US-Japan imperialist alliance
SPEAKING in Japan alongside Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera on Saturday, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel pledged the US’ ‘complete and absolute commitment to...
Unite leaders on their knees in front of Walsh!
BRENDAN Gold, Unite’s national secretary for civil air transport, said, after emerging from Monday’s BA Cabin crew rally in Kempton Park, that there would...
5.5 million households live in ‘fuel poverty’
THE number of UK households in fuel poverty rose by one million in 2009 to 5.5 million. The figures from the Department of Energy...
Furious Postal Workers Are Now Ready For Decisive Action!
THE CWU stands absolutely united in its anger at the Royal Mail bosses and the ruling class’ High Court following Wednesday’s ‘outrageous’ decision to...