Maude signals plan to ban strikes
The Tory cabinet office minister, Francis Maude, made a fantastical offer to the TUC and leaders of the public sector unions last Friday when...
Cameron Threatens Eu With Bringing Forward Referendum
THE German magazine Der Spiegel says British PM David Cameron warned EU leaders that the UK could leave the EU if Luxembourg’s ex-PM Jean-Claude...
Hands off Iran – NO British Troops in the Middle East and...
‘IT simply is not true that they went into Iranian territorial waters and I hope the Iranian government understands how fundamental an issue this...
One word ‘strike’ sends the TUC into a spin
EARLIER this week the News Line stated that it would not be enough to adopt a programme at the current TUC Congress, but that...
Imperialism responsible for Libyan detention centre bombing atrocity
THE BOMBING of a detention centre holding 600 refugees in the Libyan capital Tripoli last Wednesday killed at least 44 people and wounded over...
IRAQ – MILLI0NS AT RISK FROM foul WATER, FIVE YEARS AFTER THE 2003 INVASION
THE International Committee of the Red Cross has issued a damning report that millions of Iraqis’ lives are threatened by foul water and diseases...
US And UK Ruling Classes Have Been Undermined By Defeat In Afghanistan!
THE RULING US Democratic Party, led by President Biden, was yesterday being pressed by its NATO allies to delay the US rapid retreat (rout)...
UK capitalism running out of time as Cameron demands strong government
AS THE failure of the Tory attempt to become the government emerged on Thursday night and in the early hours of Friday, it combined...
House of Commons recognises Palestine!
‘THAT this House believes that the Government should recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel, as a contribution to securing a...
While FIFA looks the other way Palestinian children are being tortured
IT is a monstrous betrayal of the Palestinian people that the FIFA Congress immersed itself in the corrupt affairs of billionaire, big business soccer,...
Durham Miners’ Gala must demand a General Strike!
TENS OF thousands of workers and youth are taking part in today’s historic Durham Miners’ Gala at a time when the capitalist system is...
Public Debt doubles – overthrow bankrupt capitalism
The coalition government will be forced to accept this month that the bank bailout has more than doubled the size of the Public Debt...
Pupils subjected to physical and mental cruelty in school isolation units – unions...
School children in England are being put in ‘physically and mentally cruel’ isolation units for up to 7 hours a day at academy trust...
Down with the EU – Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe
A VERY senior US official, Michael Froman, has warned Britain against leaving the 28-nation European Union saying such a move would cost London economically. Froman...
Revolutionary crisis in France
The first round of voting in the French presidential election, held last Sunday, produced an unprecedented defeat for the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and his...
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...
Iranian retaliation strike on Israel a direct challenge to imperialist domination
IRAN’S retaliatory strike against Israel, launched on Saturday, has provoked an outpouring of hypocrisy from the imperialist nations and their tame media outlets. How dare...
Nationalise The Banking System To Put An End To Capitalism
THE credit ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded 15 global banks and financial institutions. The UK banks downgraded were Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, HSBC and...
EU on brink of economic collapse
THE CONTINUED economic collapse of the EU was highlighted yesterday when it was officially acknowledged that Italy, the third largest economy in Europe, has...
Tories routed in Clacton – Labour hangs on in Heywood
THURSDAY’S by-election in Clacton, caused by the defection to UKIP of the sitting Tory MP, Douglas Carswell, saw the Tory party completely routed. Carswell won...
News International, Parliament and the state
THE revelation yesterday that the News of the World (NoW) newspaper had quietly suspended its assistant editor (news), Ian Edmondson, just before Christmas, has...
UNIONS must purge Labour Party of Brown and the Blairites
AFTER the Labour party defeat at Glasgow East, one of the safest Labour seats in the country, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stated...
World crisis of capitalism dominates
The world crisis of capitalism is asserting itself with a vengeance, defying every attempt by governments and the world financial system to bring it...
Britain, Germany, Spain And The US Poised On The Brink Of Recession
THE European Commission stated yesterday that the UK, Germany and Spain, key members of the EU, with Germany being the world’s biggest exporter, are...
Pompeo admits US-organised uprising in Venezuela has ‘no popular support’
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo had a secret meeting last month with prominent American Jewish leaders in which he spilled the beans on...
Kick out the yellow trade union leaders
THE GATE GOURMET bosses were cock-a-hoop yesterday, and no wonder – after the leader of the TUC, Barber, and the leaders of the...
Build The Fourth Internati0Nal!
THE news last week that more than 100 cities in the United States are set to go bankrupt in the new year spells complete...
Bangladesh: a paradise for the bosses, and a hell for the workers
THE arrest of the owner of the collapsed building in Dakha is just a tiny sop to the massive anger felt by Bangladeshi workers...
A Palestinian state – Not in our lifetime say Zionist leaders
MORE than 15 Israeli air strikes on Thursday, Friday and early Saturday destroyed Gaza Strip water, power and roads and killed seven Palestinians. Yesterday,...
Israeli high school students refuse to serve and oppose the oppression of the Palestinians!
HUNDREDS of Israeli high school students in a ‘Youth Against Dictatorship’ statement have announced that they will refuse to serve in the Israeli military...
Hero Mandela dies – Forward to socialism in South Africa
NELSON Mandela, one of the great heroes of the anti-Apartheid struggle who was jailed for 27 years on Robben Island for his opposition to...
The Way Forward – Starve The Working Class Says King!
THE governor of the Bank of England, in his Tuesday night speech detailed the source of the gigantic inflationary rise in living costs that...
Brown supports lifting £3,000 cap off top-up fees
YESTERDAY Chancellor Gordon Brown joined hands with two of the leaders of the capitalist class to signal his willingness to raise the £3,000 cap...
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...
Unreal capitalism deserves to perish!
THE crash of the British banks continued yesterday after Royal Bank of Scotland declared a £27bn loss for 2008 on Monday and its share...
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...
Turn the imperialist war against Russia into a civil war to smash British Capitalism
THE BRITISH ruling class has now made it crystal clear that it favours a class war on two interconnected fronts. On the home front it...
Build the Fourth International all over the EU – Forward with the European Socialist...
THE Greek Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) has announced that unemployment reached 27% last February, while youth unemployment (15-24 years old) reached 64.2%, from 54.1% in...
Hamas Demands A Complete End To The Israeli Aggression Against The Gaza Strip!
SENIOR Hamas official Dr. Basem Naim stated Tuesday that Hamas cannot accept any agreement that does not clearly commit to halting the Israeli aggression...
Defend the NHS by expropriating the drug companies and banks under socialism
AUDIT Scotland, the public spending watchdog for Scotland, has issued a damning report on the NHS funding crisis, which it states is in a...
Gordon Brown wheeled out to save capitalism
Former Labour chancellor and prime minister Gordon Brown has stepped forward to offer himself up as the saviour of bankrupt British capitalism. Brown made his...
Nuclear India A Key Bush Ally
PRESIDENT Bush yesterday spent five hours in Afghanistan, most of it at the very heavily defended Bagram airport. He could not venture any further...
Right wing Labour puts Corbyn and McDonnell on a very short Leash!
SIR Keir Starmer, Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary speaking at a Chatham House conference, has said that Labour will not support any Brexit deal negotiated...
The UK workers movement and the TUC must give their immediate and decisive support...
YAHYA Sinwar, the political leader of the Hamas Movement, has written to Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, the head of the Ansar Allah Movement, conveying his profound...
Answer greedflation and profit gouging by the bosses with a general strike to kick...
Rishi Sunak held a ‘summit’ meeting yesterday with leaders of the country’s supermarkets and food industry to discuss the surging inflation of food prices...