Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Sri Lanka
AFTER an exhausting, genocidal war, hugely costly in lives and resources, and in the face of a working class movement that is now demanding...
Putin’s speech confirms the bankruptcy of the Stalinist bureaucracy
RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin opened his annual State of the Nation address on Wednesday by highlighting that Russia has been able for the first...
Poverty pay threatens workers as inflation rises and the crisis of capitalism deepens!
WORKERS’ wages will be slashed even more as inflation hits a peak of 3.4% this year, according to an analysis by the National Institute...
The IMF sees the writing on the wall with second warning in 24 hours...
THE International Monetary Fund’s Financial Stability Report has given its second warning in 24 hours about a new financial catastrophe that it sees coming...
The blind Chancellor who cannot see the crisis
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday could not see and would not even hear of a crisis in the British capitalist economy that he has presided...
Tory ‘Orwellian’ attempts to cover Grenfell Tower atrocities in secrecy
THE CAMPAIGN group ‘openDemocracy’ has revealed evidence of a concerted campaign by a secretive government Freedom of Information (FOI) screening unit to interfere with...
US bombings condemned as a War Crime
THE medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has rightly denounced the targeted bombing by US planes of its medical centre in the...
Reject Gate Gourmet mass sackings deal!
A MASS meeting of the 710 TGWU trade union members, sacked and locked-out at Gate Gourmet, will take place at the Monsoon Club in...
‘At war’ Obama speaks about taking difficult decisions
PRESIDENT Obama’s inaugural address was Churchillian in tone, but lacking in concrete content, limiting itself to spelling out that the US ruling class was...
Wall Street heading for a crash
THE US Wall Street is fast heading for a crash according to the Bank of America (BoA) as the huge speculative bubble on the...
Unite leader admits the union’s role is to prevent strikes – time to kick...
THE SUDDEN announcement on Monday that the boss of British Airways, Alex Cruz, was being sacked was greeted by the Unite union leaders as...
US, France & UK ready to strike Syria! Corbyn and the TUC must call...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has told Russia to ‘get ready’ for a missile strike on Syria in response to the completely fictitious ‘chemical attack’...
Johnson condemns Corbyn and beats the war drums against Syria!
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spoke up yesterday to attack Jeremy Corbyn and to announce that it will be very difficult for the UK...
Cowen making workers pay for capitalism’s crisis in Ireland
IN A third attempt within six months to save bankrupt Irish capitalism, Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s Fianna Fail government unveiled a draconian budget on Tuesday,...
Tories crushed in by-elections – TUC must take action now to bring them down!
THE TORIES have been smashed by two huge by-election defeats, in a couple of their ‘safe’ seats, Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, where their large...
Japan under US protection says Clinton
CHINA has condemned the latest comments made by the United States over the disputed Diaoyu Islands in which Hillary Clinton said that Japan is...
Support the postal workers – Bring down Brown government
GORDON Brown launched his government of national unity yesterday by giving ex-Tory Sean Woodward a job in the cabinet (he defected from the Tories...
Workers must fight for Palestine and bring down the Tory government that celebrates the...
THE NATIONAL march and rally demanding ‘Justice Now: Make it Right for Palestine’ is a massive demonstration of the support and solidarity that exists...
Forward To The British Socialist Revolution! And The World Socialist Republic!
HOME SECRETARY Shabana Mahmood has issued a ban on what she calls a ‘hate march’, that is the Al Quds Day Protest on Sunday...
Mandela mourners boo ANC President Zuma
THE presence of all of the capitalist world’s leaders could not keep the South African masses quiet about their real feelings for the ANC...
Debt crisis threatening students, home-buyers & public services
COMMENTING on a report from the Student Loan Company (SLC) on Monday, National Union of Students (NUS) President Gemma Tumelty said: ‘Fee loans, along...
US raises the stakes by signing missile deal with Poland
THE US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tbilisi yesterday for talks with the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. Her mission was to get...
Tories Splitting Over Eu Crisis!
WHETHER British capitalism should remain within the crisis-ridden, sinking ship of the EU, or strike out on its own has immediately split the Tory...
Oecd Warns That World Economy Faces Deeper Slump
GLOBAL growth for 2013 and 2014 has been downgraded ‘significantly’ by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), because of the crisis in...
Labour Set To Deport Thousands Of Asians And Africans
RETROSPECTIVE changes to the Highly Skilled Migration Programme (HSMP) which originally passed into law in 2006 will mean thousands of non-EU migrants being forced...
Ruling Class Targets The Political Levy
THERE has been a frenzied hue and cry raging for weeks now over the minor mistakes of Labour cabinet ministers over relatively minor...
Build the Fourth International! Victory to the World Socialist Revolution!
YESTERDAY, millions of Egyptian workers and youth, from Alexandria to Cairo’s Tahrir Square and the city of Luxor and Ports Said and Suez, marched...
Take action to stop the bosses closing factories and Tories privatising services!
WITH the crisis of capitalism deepening, the UK bosses and bankers are using the US trade war, the developing banking collapse and slump (on...
Lords defeat Tory police state bill – trade unions must now take action to...
THE TORY government’s plan for a police state dictatorship over the trade unions and all public protest movements took a big hit yesterday when...
Lebanese and Palestinian masses stand fast
THE bravery and determination of the Palestinian and Lebanese people in standing fast against the Israeli military murder machine has thrown not just the...
Sarkozy sentenced to three years for corruption – Cameron still evades justice!
FRENCH ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in jail, two of them suspended, for corruption. He was convicted of trying to...
British capitalism is in its death agony – time for the British Socialist revolution!
DISASTROUS financial data released yesterday showed UK public sector borrowing hitting £24.3bn in April, dealing another body-blow to the beleaguered and split Labour government. The...
Central Bankers warn of new financial crash
THE Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has broken ranks with the IMF and the World Bank and issued a grim warning to the ruling...
Police to be ‘reformed’ along RUC lines
SIR Ronald Flanagan, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary in England and Wales, and the senior police adviser to the Home Secretary, will publish a...
US Imperialism desperate to dominate its rivals
INTERNATIONAL ‘free trade’ agreements represent the attempt by the vast multi-national capitalist corporations to completely dominate the globe. The domination they seek is over...
TUC must back railworkers, and postal workers and call a general strike to bring...
THE EMERGENCY anti-union regulations, passed in the House of Commons by 289 votes to 202 on Monday night, are set to be used to...
Shutting down News of the World won’t end Murdoch-Cameron crisis
RUPERT Murdoch has moved with great ruthlessness to try to make sure that he takes over BSkyB by shutting down the News of the...
Sack the Blairs – disband shoot– to–kill police
YESTERDAY’s press conference heard how a 250 strong police raid, in the early hours of the morning, in Forest Gate led to a completely...
Crisis hit US tries WMD deception again!
THE depth of the capitalist world crisis has set the US juggernaut lurching forward once again. This time it is threatening Syria, and by...
Tories to make hundreds of thousands homeless – only socialism can solve housing crisis
THE policy of the Tory-led coalition to slash housing benefit for the unemployed and low income families will result in hundreds of thousands being...
Boycott the EU elections and force a break with the EU through a revolutionary...
BOTH the sheer bankruptcy of British capitalism and the impotence of Tory Prime Minister Theresa May were on public display on Wednesday night as...
Nationalise BAA – forward to a national transport system
THE call has gone up in the Competition Commission report that three of BAA’s seven airports – two of its three in London, out...
Police killers escape prosecution – and are exonerated by the CPS
YESTERDAY the capitalist state looked after its own, and decided that the two armed police officers who shot dead an unarmed man, Harry Stanley,...
Barbaric anti-homeless spikes scandal
THE picture showing one-inch-long metal spikes driven into the pavement in the doorway of a block of luxury flats in central London in order...
A bankrupt budget for a bankrupt economy
THE AIM of every government in 2008 is to ‘maintain stability through the world economic slowdown’, said Chancellor Darling yesterday in his budget...