Britain wants to occupy Afghanistan for ‘decades’
SIR SHERARD Cowper-Coles, the high-flying diplomat who is Ambassador in Afghanistan, told BBC Radio 4 yesterday that British forces would have to stay in...
With capitalism in crisis, and the NHS being knifed by Starmer – UK needs...
THE immediate ending of the pensioners’ Winter Fuel Allowance was necessary to prevent an economic collapse and a run on the banks, declared Lucy...
Iran condemns the mass bombing of Iranian cities
IRAN has fiercely condemned the massive Israeli aerial bombing of several cities and the targeted assassinations of military leaders and nuclear scientists on Thursday...
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...
Gold hits over $2,000 an ounce as the capitalist robbers seek value!
ON TUESDAY the price of gold hit a record high of $2,000 (£1,530) an ounce, an increase of more than 30% this year. According to...
UK gov is bullying councils to keep schools open – while TUC issues mass...
THE Johnson government’s Covid-19 crisis intensified as it ordered London and most of Essex and Hertfordshire to join Tier 3 at 00:01 GMT yesterday. This...
At least three provinces reject the US’ Iraq constitution
IT IS remarkable that in a ‘constitutional referendum’ organised by a puppet government, in a country under occupation by the US and the UK,...
TUC supports Heseltine – the Tory who closed down the mining industry
IT says something about the depth of the capitalist crisis, and the lack of ability in the Cameron government, that Lord Heseltine, who in...
Now Organise The General Strike!
SATURDAY’S mass marches in London, Glasgow and Belfast were marches to bring down the coalition, regardless of the intentions of their TUC organisers who...
Central banks cutting off ‘free money’ means a world economic crash for capitalism
NOT EVERY bourgeois economic commentator has swallowed the upbeat line peddled by central bankers that capitalism has weathered the storm of its economic crisis...
Health privateer takes NHS to court over right to profit from health – time...
PRIVATEER Circle Health is once again taking legal action to overturn the decision to cancel its contract to run the Nottingham NHS Treatment Centre. Rushcliffe...
Trade unions face fresh attacks
AN OPINION piece in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph pointed to yet further attacks on the trade unions’ rights to organise and represent their members. According to...
World capitalist crisis driving forward Arab socialist revolutions!
THE ARAB leaders meeting on Wednesday at an economic summit in Egypt’s resort of Sharm el-Sheikh expressed ‘fears’ that poverty, unemployment and recession, coupled...
Blair an imperialist from head to foot
YESTERDAY in Australia, Blair, for all he was worth, was pushing the George Bush imperialist line that ‘we’ have a duty to liberate the...
Mursi follows on from Mubarak as the US’ man in Cairo
PRESIDENT MURSI of Egypt has followed up his successful negotiation of the end of the current round of Israel’s war with Gaza – which...
Stop Hospital Closures – Halt NHS Privatisation
THAT the record £2.1 billion NHS surplus should coincide with press headlines that the NHS is at breaking point is no accident. The winter has...
The Crisis In The Ukraine!
THE OSCE has revealed the 12-point roadmap behind the September 5 truce signed in Minsk. The document, titled ‘Protocol on the results of consultations...
Rees-Mogg warns Tories that attempts to block Johnson will plunge Tory Party into civil...
FORMER Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned the Conservatives against any attempt to block Boris Johnson if he seeks to stand in another parliamentary...
TUC must stand up for the disabled against the Tory government!
THE UN has slammed the UK, which it says has violated the Convention on Disabled People’s Rights. A damning UN report released yesterday states that...
Smash the capitalist state, sack the chief constables, no to police commissioners!
THE Tory-LibDem coalition is set to introduce a ‘reform programme’ for the police that will establish regimes of elected police commissioners, who will have...
Labour crisis deepens in face of collapsing economy!
PM Keir Starmer’s Labour government, still reeling from its major retreats over the welfare cuts to incapacity PIP benefits and the winter fuel payments,...
Put Cameron, Hague and Obama on trial, and free Assange!
ACCORDING to William Hague, the Tory Foreign Minister and Acting Prime Minister, Britain has a ‘legal obligation’ to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to...
Atos & Capita to be paid £700m to throw disabled off benefits! Kick Atos,...
THE TORY government have turned their fire against one of the most vulnerable sections of society: disabled people. The government has launched a three-pronged attack:...
UNISON, TGWU, and GMB leaders all support Brown’s staged pay cuts!
ANYONE who was wondering why, at the TUC Congress, when union leaders were moving resolutions calling for coordinated industrial action against the Brown government’s...
Trade unions must unite to defend bursaries and stop hospital closures!
TWO very important NHS trade union conferences are currently taking place this week, the RCN, nurses union, and the BMA doctors. Already the RCN supported...
Palestinian PM calls on UN to act against Israeli apartheid, while Hamas insists that...
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on United Nations bodies, particularly the Children’s Fund (UNICEF), to follow up on the recent Human Rights...
Overthrowing capitalism only way to eradicate Covid variants
THE NEW variant strain of Covid-19, given the name Omicron by the World Health Organisation (WHO), burst onto the world scene last week although...
Merkel defeated in Thuringia
LEFT parties in Germany have agreed a historic coalition deal which will see the first left state government in Thuringia, East Germany, since the...
Call Strike Action Across Public Sector Against Brown’s Wage Cutting Policy
ON Tuesday the GMB annual conference decided that a sub-inflation cap on pay negotiations is completely unacceptable to GMB public service members. The...
European capitalism hits the rocks
THE capitalist EU is being battered senseless this week by an economic crisis that is relentless and a working class that is refusing to...
Furious Hague threatens to recognise the Syrian opposition as the government!
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Syria for talks with President Bashar al-Assad. He was cheered by tens of thousands of pro-Assad...
Labour blindfolds itself so as not to see the developing capitalist crisis!
THE Labour Party manifesto launched on Tuesday contained a number of slight but significant changes from the draft leaked to the press last week. On...
Bankers dump the dollar and shares and crave for gold!
THE current heir to the Rothschild banking dynasty, Lord Jacob Rothschild, has pronounced that the game is up, the world’s central banks have shot...
Cbi Tells Tories – Impose Two Year Wage Freeze And Privatise!
THE CBI BOSSES organisation yesterday called for an immediate freeze in the public sector pay bill for two years and a ‘re-engineering’ (destruction) ‘of...
General Sanders Says That The UK Army Must Be Ready For A War To...
THE new Chief of the General staff, Sir Patrick Sanders, yesterday urged that Britain must be ready to fight Putin, comparing the present situation...
Occupy Tata Steel NOW! Kick the Tories out! Tata must be nationalised...
THE decision by the bosses to sell off Tata Steel is one that will lead not just to poverty for 19,000 workers and...
Tory leader Badenoch wants to deport 150,000 workers a year using a Trump-style terrorist...
TORY Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged that she will deport 150,000 workers a year using Trump-style immigration squads in raids on working class...
NHS under siege – TUC must act
TORY Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced on June 2nd that the NHS must ‘stop making excuses’ and deliver ‘its side of the bargain’ going...
St Valentine’s Day Massacre of eurozone economy
OFFICIAL figures released yesterday show that the economy of the 17 nations that comprise the eurozone suffered an overall crash of 0.6% in the...
Israel invades Gaza hospital after Biden gives green light for attack!
Early yesterday Israel entered al-Shifa hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip, with troops, tanks and bulldozers invading the facility where around...
Russia must recognise the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics!
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ‘On recognition in the Russian Federation of the documents and licence plates of vehicles issued to...
Resistance has Obama on the run in the Middle East
UNITED States President Barack Obama made his first trip to Afghanistan on Sunday since he took office 14 months ago. The visit was aimed...
Chuck out the TUC leaders who are incapable of defending jobs and wages!
UNITE, the largest union in Britain and Ireland, reacted to the news that Sheffield University has decided to sack over 8,000 of its employees...
Smash imperialism to defeat terrorism
YESTERDAY Home Secretary Reid dismissed the many appeals for a change in British Foreign Policy from a multitude of community and political leaders, who...
UCU & NUS stop pleading with the Tories & call an all-out strike...
TODAY tens of thousands of lecturers and students will march through central London to demand free education for all. The Tory government has pushed plans...