Trade Unions Must Call General Strikes To Bring Down The Ruling Classes That Are...
SPEAKING at a press conference in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on Thursday, Abdallah al-Dardari, UN assistant secretary-general and director of the UN Development Programme...
Tories Accuse Striking Nurses Of Murder As They Move To Knife NHS With Privatisation!
YESTERDAY Tory Health Secretary Barclay, who is refusing to negotiate with the NHS trade unions over NHS pay, accused striking nurses of putting patients’...
Berezovskiy calls for the violent overthrow of Putin
FOR some time the Blair government has been bringing in draconian anti-terrorist legislation, such as the Terrorism Act 2000. It has been boldly ‘identifying’ terrorism...
Workers will demand Unite’s national action against fire and rehire be stepped up to...
YESTERDAY the Unite union announced it is launching a campaign to end fire and rehire with ‘coordinated strikes and actions across the country’. In a...
Trump sues BBC as he ramps up attempt to turn UK into a ‘puppet’...
On Monday, US president Donald Trump filed a $10 billion (£7.4bn) lawsuit against the BBC over the Panorama documentary programme broadcast a week before...
Eurozone Crisis Spirals Out Of Control
THE EUROZONE crisis was finally, officially recognised as the time bomb that will bring down the entire capitalist banking system at last weekend’s meeting...
Organising Socialist Revolution Is The Only Way Out Of The Capitalists Crisis!
THE decision by the Bank of England to keep interest rates at 5.25%, the highest level for 16 years, came as no surprise despite...
The ‘gig economy’ is spreading throughout bankrupt British capitalism – time to advance to...
4.7 MILLION workers are now employed in the gig economy, twice as many as in 2016 with nearly one in 10 working age adults...
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...
The Spectre Of Revolution Stalks Europe Says Farage
IT was Karl Marx who in 1848, two months before the February revolution erupted in France, began the Communist Manifesto with the words ‘A...
UK CPI rate increase only the start of inflation spiral
YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that the UK inflation rate had more than doubled in April this year as energy costs...
President Trump Panics – And Pledges To Send In The Nuclear Submarines!
TRUMP’S declaration that he is sending two nuclear submarines into ‘appropriate regions’ to threaten Russia, has made public that he is preparing for the...
No sackings, or wage ‘holidays’ for bankrupt banks and councils
YESTERDAY the Brown government was emphasising that it had no interest in running the three banks that it was ‘part-nationalising’ (rescuing) with £37bn of...
Defend the fire service with occupations, strike action and a general strike
FIREFIGHTERS at their conference yesterday decided to put a seven-point pensions plan to ministers and seek new talks to try to avoid strike action...
UK ports closed down by strikes – now force TUC to call a general...
IT didn’t take long for the working class to move into action following the funeral of Elizabeth II with hundreds of dock workers at...
UK Attorney General Lord Hermer raises spectre of the rise of fascism in UK!
AT a speech delivered to the Royal United Services Institute on Thursday evening, Sir Richard Hermer KC, the Attorney General, and the Labour government’s...
EU heads for economic collapse and revolution
ON Thursday the heads of the Eurozone met in emergency session in a desperate attempt to head off Greek state bankruptcy leading to the...
No education cuts Restore free state education
CHANCELLOR Darling has announced that £600m will be ‘saved’ by 2012/13 from across ‘higher education, science and research budgets, including student support’, meaning...
Israel warns 250,000 Gazans that they must leave Gaza City at once!
THE Israeli government has told ‘everyone’ in Gaza City, which has over 250,000 inhabitants, that they must leave the city at once so that...
Trade Unions Must Not Stand By And Watch NHS Being Closed!
ON Thursday evening hundreds of Enfield residents were led by the North East London Council of Action into Chase Farm hospital to protest at...
Putin defies Trump – Time to Build 4th International – Forward with World Socialist...
THE peace talks between Russia and the Western powers represented by Donald Trump have hit the buffers with an almighty bang after Russia refused...
Capitalist Crisis Is Driving Forward World Revolution
THIS Sunday’s 65th Anniversary rally of the assassination of Leon Trotsky by an agent of the Stalinist bureaucracy in 1940 is taking place at...
Israel declares UN agency UNRWA a terrorist organisation and bans it from providing any...
The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, on Monday passed a motion banning UNRWA (the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency) from operating inside Israel and occupied...
Hague Must Resign Over Libyan Debacle
THE latest NATO war crime, the bombing of the Libyan TV station, killing three technicians, was a repeat of a similar war crime,...
Tories plan to pauperise and then privatise the NHS – make the TUC...
IN ITS WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL the Daily Telegraph sought to shed crocodile tears for the striking health workers who are continuing to battle against the...
World capitalism breaking apart – time to end it with socialist revolution
THIS WEEK, the final nail was driven into the coffin of the political and economic consensus that has dominated world capitalism from the end...
Starmer out! General strike from Oct 7th to defend winter fuel payments!
FRESH from his defeat at the Labour Party Conference by the successful vote against his policy to scrap the winter fuel payment to pensioners,...
World Trembles At Prospect Of US Rate Rise!
JAMES Bullard, the head of the St Louis Fed, told a recent City Week Forum in London that investors are far too complacent and...
King Fiddling While Rome Burns!
THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of England, King, spoke to the gathered ranks of big business on Thursday evening at his Mansion House feast,...
Ireland heading for a general strike
THE Croke Park II proposals to cut the public sector pay bill, as part of an additional one billion euros of state cuts, have...
TUC to lobby Tory Party conference – to change Tory policy
THE TUC General Council statement issued on Saturday constitutes a betrayal of the working class and the trade unions. It seeks to divert...
Brown, Keynes and revolution
AFTER actively assisting in the creation of trillions of debt, and showing its contempt for the concept of value by selling almost half of...
Millions Of Youth Facing Employment Crisis As Capitalism Nose Dives!
ONE MILLION YOUTH aged 16-24 are no longer in employment, education or training, the latest figures show! The Centre for Social Justice said last week...
Trump And Blair Are Furious As The Taliban Heads For Government!
THE success of the Taliban movement and the mass of the Afghan people in securing a US and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the...
Trade unions must take action to stop A&E closures!
IN an attempt to shift the blame for the crisis in the NHS away from the massive cuts inflicted on it by the Tory-led...
UK continuing to stab the Chagossians in the back
THE WikiLeaks revelations prove once again that British imperialism, although greatly weakened, remains just as poisonous and rotten as ever. This comes out clearly in...
NHS more popular than ever despite Tory propaganda campaign
A SURVEY by the polling company Ipsos MORI has revealed that the NHS is more popular amongst workers and the middle classes than those...
US-UK Beat War Drums Over The Ukraine – Workers Must Get Ready For General...
THE United States, and its NATO allies, with the UK in the lead, and the right wing Ukrainian regime out in front are daily...
Sanctions war against Russia is driving forward revolution in the EU and UK!
THE CAPITALIST powers of the EU, US and UK are growing fearful that the prosecution of their war against Russia, is actually unleashing a...
UK And French Workers Are Taking Action Against The Bosses And The Bankers –...
THE head of the UK’s Unite trade union has accused the government of having a ‘sinister reason’ for ‘not doing a deal’ with nurses...
The TUC must call general strike to bring down the Tories – the only...
BRITAIN’S trade unions are calling on the Tories to set up a ‘national task force’ to protect UK firms and workers from the collapse...
Shares crashing as oil nears $100 a barrel
THE US dollar is reeling against the euro. The US sub-mortgage crisis is deepening, with housing starts down by 10 per cent in September, while...
Starmer promises the working class ‘pain’ – workers will respond with a socialist revolution!
PM STARMER told an invited audience yesterday morning in the Downing Street Rose Garden: ‘I promised this government would serve people like you.’ He told...
Abbas Meets With Trump Delegation In Ramallah!
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday met with a US delegation representing President Trump, headed by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner at his Ramallah headquarters, and...
Forward to an indefinite general strike to bring down the coalition
OVER two million public sector workers walked out yesterday. The message was that the coalition’s savage cuts programme, that was intensified in Osborne’s Autumn...