Johnson reveals his feet of clay with his two-year transition plan to remain in...
AFTER ALL the bluster from Boris Johnson about delivering Brexit and that leaving the EU by October 31st was a ‘do or die’ issue,...
Labour victimises the unemployed!
INCAPACITY Benefit will be abolished under the Welfare Green Paper just published by Works and Pensions Minister, James Purnell. The 2.7 million people receiving Incapacity...
‘NHS Standing On A Burning Platform’ – Time To Deal With The Arsonists!
THE NHS is standing on a ‘burning platform’ is the stark assessment of Professor Sir Mike Richards, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of...
Recall the TUC Congress to organise a general strike for Palestine!
ON Thursday, the TUC’s non-existent Day of Action to support Palestine, 63 people were annihilated by Israel in northern Gaza and 22 in Central...
Capitalism has reached the end of the road – it’s time for a...
THE economic and political crisis gripping capitalism is causing despair and despondency amongst the bourgeoisie and its media representatives at the highest levels. This week,...
Forward to the State of Palestine! The UK trade unions must call a...
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday issued a statement on the occasion of the ‘International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People’, stressing that the...
French and UK workers must unite to smash capitalism and fight for socialism!
FRENCH workers and youth have risen up against the Macron-military police dictatorship and on Saturday launched massive attacks on the capitalist state’s police forces...
Answer Labour plans to drive youth off benefits with a general strike to kick...
UNEMPLOYED youth are once again the number-one target for a Labour government, determined to slash the UK’s benefit spending. A year ago, Labour unveiled its...
Tory war on refugees is a class issue for the working class
IN THEIR latest attack on refugees the Tories are preparing to use nets to disable boats and dinghies attempting the dangerous Channel crossing. This tactic...
The crisis is leaving the working class no alternative to revolution
A FURTHER nail was driven into the coffin of British capitalism this week with the release of figures showing that the income from overseas...
Defend the PCS and all trade unions with a general strike
THE PCS TRADE UNION last Saturday issued a statement to its members announcing that it was the victim of a government plot to destroy...
Obama set to expand the Afghan war
PRESIDENT Obama is set to throw tonnes of petrol onto the Afghan flames. After months of strategic and tactical discussions with his military and political...
Private hospital forced to close surgery unit!
A DAMNING report from the Care Quality Commission into the running of a private hospital has finally emerged in public some four months after...
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...
UK – At The Mercy Of The World Crisis Of Capitalism
BANK OF ENGLAND Governor King looked into his teacup yesterday morning at his press conference and all he could see was leaves, leaving him...
End The UK Support For Rajapakse
THE News Line hails the heroic resistance of the Tamil Tigers to the armed forces of the Rajapakse military dictatorship, which is seeking to...
Human Rights Watch Denounces Israeli Apartheid Crimes!
AN international leading human rights watchdog, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), has accused the Israeli authorities in a 213-page report titled ‘A Threshold Crossed:...
Unions must take action to defend jobs, wages and pensions from rampant inflation
THE rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation in the UK in September, rose to 5.2% from 4.5% the month before. A huge leap in...
Israel war cabinet agrees plan for indefinite military occupation of Gaza
ON SUNDAY Israel’s army chief, Eyal Zamir, announced that tens of thousands of Israeli reservists will be called up in a planned military occupation...
Scottish Labour strikes a blow at UK imperialism’s war plans
SCOTTISH Labour yesterday struck a blow at the war plans of British imperialism when its Perth conference decided to call for the Trident nuclear...
Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Coalition!
TRANSPORT UNION RMT has called on its members and the entire trade union movement to get out on the streets in full support of...
Bank of England boss says outlook for British capitalism ‘worst I’ve ever seen!’
ON Monday, the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee issued a report blaming the Bank of England (BoE) for ‘errors’ that had failed to...
US Spy Agencies Pull Rug From Beneath Bush And Cheney
THE Iranian government has welcomed the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report, to which all the US spying agencies contributed, which states that Iran...
US debt crisis will crash Wall Street and plunge the US and world capitalism...
THE US economy, the largest and most powerful capitalist economy in the world, is in the grip of a crisis that will plunge America...
Nationalise All The Banks And Abolish Mortgage Debt
UP to 1.5 million fixed rate mortgage holders are going to have to renegotiate their mortgages in the New Year. Many of them are already...
SOVIET WORKERS AND YOUTH WANT THE USSR RESTORED!
THE interviews given by Mikhail Gorbachev on the 25th anniversary of the Stalinist bureaucracy overthrowing the USSR show that the question of the restoration...
Renationalise gas and electricity to deal with massive price rises
YESTERDAY British Gas raised its gas and electricity prices by a massive 22 per cent, on top of a 14 per cent mark-up imposed...
Northern Ireland – Massive NHS Cuts On The Agenda
MORE THAN 700 nursing posts are under threat in Northern Ireland as part of wider plans to cut almost 2,500 health service jobs over...
Blair threatens to ‘close the book’ on the north
THE British and Irish premiers yesterday outlined their plan to restore direct rule from Westminster, via Dublin, if the Paisleyite DUP does not agree...
Third World Britain beaten only by the USA
WOMEN in the UK are more than twice as likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth as those in Poland, Austria or Belarus, according...
Only way to defend the NHS is to kick out the Tories and bring...
ON SUNDAY the 72nd anniversary of the NHS, created in 1948 by Clement Attlee’s post-war Labour government, was marked by handclapping, with Boris Johnson...
Nurses demand emergency conference to remove union leaders guilty of pay betrayal
NURSES reacted with fury last week when they received their July pay packets and realised that the 3% pay increase their union, the RCN,...
Support RMT Southern strikers, defend rail safety and jobs with them, and renationalise the...
EVERY worker in the country, not just every commuter, must support the five-day RMT strike action on Southern. It is a fight for jobs, and...
Confident Of US Support Israeli Terrorists Kill Three Palestinian Youths And Torture Five Others!
ISRAELI forces have shot and killed three young Palestinians during overnight raids on several areas of the occupied West Bank. Two of the victims lost...
US Mounts Drone Assault On The Yemen
AFTER withdrawing its embassy staff from 20 countries, the US ruling class has now launched a drone blitz on the Yemen, with three drone...
Trump pledges to make US capitalism great again by pauperising the US workers and...
ALARM is spreading among US imperialism’s imperialist rivals at incoming US president Donald Trump’s pledge to make ‘America Great Again’ by pauperising the whole...
‘Historic shock’ of inflation will drive workers and youth to socialist revolution
TODAY British workers and their families face the biggest attack on their living standards since records of cost of living increases were first recorded...
Nationalise The Banks To Resolve The Capitalist Crisis
MORE than $170 billion (£87 billion) has been wiped off the balance sheets of companies worldwide as a result of the collapse of the...
Arafat was poisoned but his struggle lives on!
THE results from the first forensic tests to be carried out on the remains of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have confirmed the universally held...
TERRORISM BILL: Defeat Blair’s police-state measures!
THE Labour government’s new Terrorism Bill, published yesterday, will be debated by MPs in the House of Commons today. For the past few days, Prime...
Migrants Not Wanted In The UK – Unless They Are ‘White Helmets’
THAT well known humanitarian organisation, the Israeli armed forces, that is killing Palestinians on a daily basis, has just conducted a ‘humanitarian’ raid into...
Universal Credit can’t be fixed: Abolish it along with the Tories!
THE TORY government suffered a defeat in the courts this week when the court of appeal dismissed a challenge by the Department for Work...
Defend Libyan revolution! Stop and bring down the oil thieves! Victory to Gadaffi!
THE French ruling class yesterday officially recognised the Libyan counter-revolutionary rebels of the Transitional National Council as the country's legitimate government, and is due...
Tories Plan Huge Increase In Military Spend While The Masses Go Hungry!
PROFESSOR Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general of the Royal United Services Institute, has authored an analysis of the plans necessary for a major war...
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...