Tag: europe
The EU Remains In Charge As All Parties Await Its Decision...
THE EU is definitely still in charge of Brexit and the ‘Brexit debate’. MPs await its decision today after Tory leader Johnson dumped the ‘no...
EU tightens the screw! – Johnson dumps ‘do or die’
EU ambassadors yesterday agreed to delay Brexit, but will not make a decision on a new deadline date until next Monday, just three days...
EU Extension Decision Due Today!
PM Boris Johnson pulled out of a scheduled appearance before a panel of senior MPs yesterday morning, saying he has to ‘focus on delivering...
World Crisis driving world revolution – Build the Fourth International!
LAST week it was the turn of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to issue its latest warning that world capitalism is on the point...
EUROPEAN CORPORATIONS ARE ‘TWO FACED’ ON WORKERS RIGHTS says AFL-CIO...
EUROPEAN corporations are two-faced when it comes to respecting working people’s freedom of association and workers’ rights, argues a new report by the AFL-CIO...
Workers must force the UK out of the EU on October...
ON TUESDAY night, MPs voted by 329 to 299 to pass a motion in principle to back Boris Johnson’s EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill. Almost immediately,...
Vote for the deal or we leave with no deal –...
THE DEBATE on the European Union Withdrawal Agreement Bill began yesterday with Tory PM Johnson confirming that if it is not voted through, the...
BREXIT ‘DO OR DIE’ ON OCTOBER 31st NEEDS A GENERAL STRIKE...
PM JOHNSON urged MPs last night to back his EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill and approve a three-day timetable to consider the legislation and adopt...
Speaker blocks vote on Brexit deal – Parliamentary Committee to investigate...
AS EXPECTED, the Speaker of the House John Bercow yesterday blocked Parliament from voting on the new Brexit deal with the EU. Announcing his judgement...
Chile erupts as youth and workers take on the military in...
CHILE erupted over the weekend, with mass demonstrations and riots spreading from the capital Santiago to other major cities, as workers and youth rose...
Labour Woos Democratic Unionists!
LABOUR’S Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer appeared on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday to urge the Democratic Unionist Party to join Labour in...
PM Johnson Set To Put Brexit Deal With The EU To...
ANYTHING and everything is being used to try and prevent the House of Commons voting to give its support to the government’s Brexit deal...
Bid To Prevent EU Withdrawal Voting Fails!
SCOTLAND’S highest civil court on Friday dismissed a legal bid to stop the UK government from seeking to pass its proposed EU withdrawal agreement...
Labour MPs must vote to break from the EU today, and...
ON THURSDAY morning, the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and Tory PM Johnson announced a Brexit deal. After three years, the EU...
Johnson and EU agree new Brexit deal!
YESTERDAY morning the President of the European Commission and Tory PM Johnson announced that they had agreed a Brexit deal. That deal now has...
‘The Syrian army has full control of the city of Manbij!’...
RUSSIA says its military police units are patrolling along contact line areas between Turkish and Syrian armies near Syria’s flashpoint northern city of Manbij...
Brexit: ‘There Is Pathway To Deal’
THERE are ‘many issues’ still to be resolved before a Brexit agreement can be reached, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said, as talks continued yesterday. He...
Call A National All-Out Postal Strike To Renationalise The...
ON MONDAY, it was announced that over 97% of Communication Workers Union (CWU) members working in Royal Mail had voted for national strike action...
CORBYN, McDONNELL SET TO BETRAY AS BREXIT ‘DAY OF DECISION’...
SENIOR Labour Party leaders are at war with each other over the best way to betray the 2016 referendum result, when PM Boris Johnson...
Victory to the Syrian people over Turkish invaders – end imperialist...
SYRIAN army troops yesterday moved swiftly to march into northern Syria to confront Turkish invasion forces just hours after the Syrian government reached an...
TURKISH INCURSION INTO SYRIA WILL LEAD TO THE REVIVAL OF DAESH...
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has warned that the Turkish military incursion into northeastern Syria could lead to the revival of the Daesh terrorist group...
Rees-Mogg prepares to eat his Brexit words for deal
LEADER of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg indicated yesterday that Tory PM Boris Johnson is preparing to bring back to Parliament this Saturday...
As Johnson gets May mark-2 ready – workers must take action...
AS THE date for leaving the EU, October 31st comes closer and closer, all of the vultures are desperately gathering over the corpse of...
Johnson starts to do a ‘May!’
EUROPEAN Council President Donald Tusk has said he has received ‘promising signals’ from Irish PM Leo Varadkar that a Brexit deal is still possible. His...
Lesbos: epicentre of refugee crisis!
WARS in Syria and Afghanistan are driving refugees through Turkey as they make their way to Greece. Many land on the Greek island of Lesbos,...
Turkish invasion escalates! – condemned by 13 UK unions
ON THE SECOND day of the Turkish invasion of Syria, after a massive bombing raid striking northern Syria over 180 times, killing at least...
New head of IMF warns $19 trillion debt time bomb will...
THE NEWLY-appointed head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week issued the starkest warning yet that world capitalism is on the point of...
Parliament – special Brexit sitting October 19th!
MPs have been called to Parliament for a special Saturday sitting on 19th October, following a meeting of the EU’s EC on Friday which...
Workers must lobby parliament on October 19th and call general strike...
THE Supreme Court in Scotland yesterday delayed its decision on whether it would be necessary for the courts to intervene and force PM Johnson...
EU deal ‘overwhelmingly unlikely’ – Merkel tells PM Johnson
GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel poured buckets of cold water over Tory PM Boris Johnson’s attempts to get a Brexit deal with the EU when,...
Brexit Moment Of Truth Fast Approaching! The Working Class Must Be...
YESTERDAY was the last working day before Parliament is due to be prorogued ahead of a new Queen’s Speech. The House of Commons is...
Court case against Johnson dismissed!
YESTERDAY the judge of the Court of Session, Scotland’s highest court, ruled that Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson had no case to answer and...
US abandons Kurds in northern Syria and gives green light ...
TURKEY has been given the green light to invade northern Syria by the US following the abrupt decision by the Trump administration on Sunday...
TORIES HAVE NO PLAN! – Marr asks if Labour would accept...
BREXIT Secretary Stephen Barclay made clear to the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday that the Johnson Tory government has no ‘cunning plan’ to avoid...
Johnson Now Speaking Out Of Both Sides Of His Mouth At...
LAST FRIDAY, evidence from Boris Johnson assured a Scottish court, in his own name, that he would send a letter to the EU, as...
Johnson surrenders – kneels before ‘Surrender Act’
A SCOTTISH judge was to be asked yesterday to consider whether Boris Johnson could be jailed if he takes the UK out of the...
Abbas announces general elections
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that the date for holding general elections had seen ‘significant delays – despite the multiple attempts to...
Corbyn Condemns Pm Johnson Over Customs Union
IN THE House of Commons yesterday morning PM Johnson sought to persuade MPs to support his Brexit plan. He said: ‘This government has moved. Our...
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)...
Johnson Hopes That ‘EU Friends Will Compromise’
A WEAKER than usual Boris Johnson broke with the pre-speech propaganda that he would take a very defiant ‘do or die’ stance on leaving...
Johnson Pleads For Compromise – The Working Class Must Finish The...
BORIS Johnson revealed his plans for a Brexit deal at the Tory Party conference yesterday before formally putting his proposals to the EU. Johnson’s deal...
Opposition leaders meeting to stop Brexit breaks up! – Javid...
LABOUR moved a step closer to forming a national government yesterday with the Scottish and Welsh nationalists, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens all...
Johnson using fear of revolution and civil war to drive through...
Opposition parties met yesterday in the offices of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to cobble together an agreement to replace Boris Johnson...
‘We will Brexit October 31 despite Benn Act’ – Johnson
TORY PM Johnson said yesterday that he believed there was ‘a good chance’ of a Brexit deal with the EU, while also insisting that...
SNP ready for Corbyn-led interim National Government
THE SCOTTISH Nationalists have reached out to Labour to form a National Government with the sole purpose of remaining in the European Union. Yesterday, chief...