Brown orders troop retreat from Basra City
BRITISH troops retreated from Basra City, quitting their base in the Presidential Palace on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab waterway in the dead...
US workers deal Bush, Blair and Olmert a heavy blow
WHAT is being called in the US a ‘voter uprising’ has driven Bush’s Republicans out of their control of the House of Representatives, and...
Saab goes bust as GM’s Opel-Vauxhall crisis deepens
GM’S crisis has deepened with the collapse of its deal to sell Saab, and as the EU states do battle over whose plants are...
ICC prosecutor ‘equates the victim with the executioner’ in proposing arrest warrants for Israeli...
YESTERDAY, Karim Khan KC, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), issued a statement proposing that arrest warrants be issued for Israeli...
Egyptian Revolution Set To Leap Forward
THE Egyptian revolution moved into a decisive stage yesterday with the announcement by the election committee overseeing the recent final run-off for president that...
Bank calls for public spending to be slashed to protect profits!
THE capitalist class of Britain and Europe have been served with a warning that unless they act quickly to slash all public spending they...
UNISON must act to secure British withdrawal from Iraq
DELEGATES at the UNISON national delegate conference last Thursday passed a motion demanding the withdrawal of all British troops from Iraq by the end...
Tories increasingly looking to ditch Johnson while Starmer lines up for place in a...
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson jetted off to India yesterday in advance of the vote by MPs on a Labour motion to launch an investigation...
Banks are crashing while 140,000 repossessions loom at Northern Rock
THE HSBC bank has just declared a 28 per cent, $3.9bn fall in half year profits. It has written off another $3.7 billion...
Head teachers up in arms – schools being cut to the bone! All-out strike...
MORE than 7,000 heads have written a joint letter to 3.5 million families warning of the acute funding crisis in schools. The heads insist...
Pompeo Pledges To Prevent Anti-Tory Regime Change In The UK By Smashing Corbyn Labour...
WITH THE Tories in what is being called an ‘existential crisis’ over breaking with the European Union, the British ruling class and its allies...
Dump ‘Reform’ into the nearest dustbin – Forward to the British Socialist Revolution!
REFORM UK, a right-wing and ‘anti-working class’ party winning the Runcorn and Helsby parliamentary by-Election on Thursday, was only possible because of the treachery...
The TUC must support the Palestinian march on Gaza with a general strike in...
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of displaced Palestinian citizens resumed on Wednesday morning their march back to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip which Israel...
Cameron and Osborne’s Waterloo
AFTER the Tories’ defeat at the hands of a defector to UKIP in the recent Clacton by-election, David Cameron vowed that he would ‘throw...
The TUC must tell the Tories to condemn Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ or...
ON TUESDAY night, US President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side finally unveiled to the world his ‘Deal of...
Tories have driven NHS to breaking point! The trade unions must call a general...
THE NHS is at breaking point! This is the warning from doctors, nurses and NHS staff, furious that the Tories did absolutely nothing to...
Police want to use water cannon and rubber bullets
THE Metropolitan Police is considering its tactics after the failure of its containment and ‘kettling’ policies in Parliament square last Thursday, when...
One Year Of The Egyptian Revolution!
HUNDREDS of thousands of Egyptian workers and youth gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday to mark one year since the start of the revolution...
Trump is attacking the Chinese workers – US and UK workers must support the...
THE US bosses have ramped up their ongoing campaign of economic and political sanctions against China. The House of Representatives has passed a bill...
Ice – Immigration Customs Enforcement Officers – Murder Alex Jeffrey Pretti!
FOUR US immigration officers have shot and killed a 37-year-old man, Alex Jeffrey Pretti in front of screaming protesters in an anti-ICE protest in...
Putting The Trade Union Leaders To Shame
SEVEN people were arrested at Prestwick Airport yesterday, after appointing themselves as ‘citizen weapons inspectors’, and forcing themselves onto a US cargo flight to...
Cameron abuses Corbyn, pledges to end social housing and announces an end to ‘passive...
AFTER Theresa May’s vintage Tory beat-and-beat-again speech on Tuesday to the Tory Party conference, treating migrants as the enemy and rating their contribution...
Capitalism is facing its biggest ever collapse – time to replace it with the...
THE working class is now facing the fastest and biggest rise in the cost of living for four decades. At the same time, many...
Revolution is the only way out of capitalist debt crisis
THE COLLAPSE of the popular discount high street retailer Wilko, with 12,500 of its workers facing being thrown out of a job, has thrown...
Restore the free NHS! Halt privatisation & kick out the profiteers!
THE House of Commons Select Committee on Health published a report yesterday that set out to legitimise charging for healthcare within the National Health...
Farage calls for mass deportation and detention centres
AT A press conference yesterday Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, set out the programme of mass deportation and detention of migrants if Reform...
Dollar collapsing as gold reaches $1,000 an ounce
ON August 15 1971, the then president of the United States, Richard Nixon ended the gold backing for the US dollar, which up till...
TUC And Right Wing Labour Are Supporting Driving Workers Back To Work!
PM JOHNSON’S drive to return workers to work, despite the coronavirus epidemic, announced in Parliament on Monday at 3.00pm has met with a split...
Support the firefighters and the postal workers
FIRE chiefs in Warwickshire are planning to close seven fire stations and axe a third of fire appliances with the loss of one hundred...
Labour right-wing plot with Tories to close down Parliament to prevent Brexit
IT EMERGED at the weekend that the latest stage in a coup to overturn the Brexit referendum result by an alliance of right-wing Labour...
Occupy the steel works! Force TUC to call a general strike to bring down...
BRITISH capitalism is bankrupt. The ruling class, abetted by the trade union leaders, are letting the historic steel industry go to the wall. Five months...
Rich getting richer while the poor are getting poorer under Starmer’s capitalist Labour government
DESPITE all of the promises and the pledges made by Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer that he would improve living standards, the exact opposite is...
Tories offer GPs ‘cash for cuts’ to stop patients getting hospital treatment – unions...
THE GP website Pulse revealed this week that in four areas in England local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have set up a ‘profit-sharing’ scheme...
‘Thousands upon thousands of people are living in dangerous homes’ says FBU leader Wrack!
ON JUNE 14th 2017, almost three years ago, fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block in North Kensington. It caused the deaths...
Bring down Brown-Mandelson regime – forward to a workers’ government
YESTERDAY afternoon the PM’s office was leaking the speech that Brown is due to give to the TUC Congress on Tuesday. It stressed that if...
Stop NHS privatisation to end the bed cuts
HEALTH Secretary Hewitt warned over a month ago that if NHS trusts failed to resolve their growing debt crisis, hospital departments would be closed...
There will be no ‘Maidan-style counter-revolution’ in Belarus declares President Lukashenko
CONGRATULATIONS to President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus. He received over 80 per cent of the vote in the Belarus presidential election and saw off...
Coalition Bringing In The Men To Butcher The NHS!
THE House of Commons Health Committee on October 18th discussed who was to fill the post of being chair of the NHS Commissioning...
May urging unions and Labour to support her Brexit deal! Down with May’s deal!...
TORY PM May spoke to Unite’s Len McCluskey and the GMB’s Tim Roache by phone on Thursday for the first time since taking office,...
BA CRISIS – no to sackings and wage cuts – Renationalise!
BRITISH Airways has decided to cut 1,700 jobs and introduce a two-year pay freeze for cabin crew. It also intends to discuss wage cuts...
M&s And Taylor Wimpey Crash As Hauliers Descend On Parliament
HUNDREDS of hauliers picketed parliament in London yesterday to demonstrate against the rising cost of fuel, and the way that it is destroying their...
Cameron’s all-powerful police state is to fight the working class
THE beginning of PM Cameron’s speech to the recalled House of Commons was an attempt to divorce the youth uprising that is taking place...
Worldwide Capitalist Crisis Requires The Victory Of The World Socialist Revolution!
YESTERDAY saw a massive escalation in the world trade war when the US was given the green light by the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...
Right-wing Labour wants to force workers to remain in EU!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn finally bit the bullet yesterday afternoon when he announced he would issue a three-line whip to Labour MPs instructing them...
McCluskey denounces Labour’s right wing who worked for a Tory victory!
THE general secretary of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, has reacted with fury over the revelations contained in the leaked internal report by the...