UK capitalism is being torn apart politically and economically
THE CRISIS restrictions on Greater Manchester by the Tories reveal that the collapse of British capitalism has reached such a point that the unity...
US crisis intensifies!
THE US dollar, reflecting the crisis of the US capitalist economy, is now sinking fast against both the euro and the pound sterling. Rising...
Get ready for the crash – capitalism is ringing the alarm bells!
ALARMED by the impending crash of over-valued world stock markets, the deputy governor of the Bank of England (BoE) warned investors yesterday to prepare...
One Year Since The Marikana Massacre
THE MARIKANA massacre of mineworkers in South Africa one year ago, in which 34 miners were murdered by the police and hundreds injured, has...
Draghi proposes Central Bank dictatorship – while the German bankers warn of hyper-inflation
SPANISH 10-year bond yields fell yesterday to 5.77%, below 6% for the first time since May, while yields on the equivalent Italian bonds fell...
US sanctions UN human rights expert after her damning ‘economy of genocide’ report on...
FRANCESCA Albanese, the United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has been sanctioned by the US government after she...
Ireland heading for a general strike
THE Croke Park II proposals to cut the public sector pay bill, as part of an additional one billion euros of state cuts, have...
Public debt and pensions black hole
THE right-wing, free market think tank, the Adam Smith Institute, yesterday hit out at the Tories’ ‘deeply immoral’ failure to bring down the national...
Workers In The UK And The Middle East Must Unite To Smash Capitalism And...
THE JORDANIAN Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh has just warned against vicious attempts by the Israeli regime to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and...
Israeli-American war on Palestine and Iran paves the way for the victory of the...
THE current Israeli-American ruling class war on Iran and Palestine is continuing for the twentieth consecutive day, amid a marked escalation in the pace,...
Youth are being hit the hardest by bankrupt capitalism!
SKY-ROCKETING youth unemployment figures just released reveal that nearly one million young people in the UK are not in employment, up from 500,000 in...
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...
Arrogant Crisis-Ridden Imperialists Threaten Russia!
THE President of the crisis-ridden EU Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso yesterday told the BBC that the inclusion of Russia in any future...
‘Stand and Deliver’ – EU highwaymen demand 100bn euros!
THE attempt of the political representatives of the EU to make the UK working class stand and deliver up to, or even over, 100bn...
US attacks Iran, Russia and China
IRAN has responded with a heroic defiance to the new economic sanctions imposed by the US ruling class that target its military defence, the...
‘There is no fuel shortage,’ says Shapps as the bosses shut down petrol stations...
THERE is ‘no shortage of fuel’ and people should be ‘sensible’ and only fill up when they need to, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said...
UK-NATO attempt on Gadaffi’s life fails!
THE murderous attack on the home of Saif al Arab, the youngest son of Colonel Gadaffi, killed Saif and three grand children of the...
150 Plus Contributors To The New York Times Organise Boycott For Palestine!
MORE than 150 contributors to The New York Times have announced a boycott of the paper’s opinion section, protesting its ‘clear bias’ in its...
Defend car jobs! Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot!
VAUXHALL Chairman Jonathan Browning announced yesterday that the General Motors (GM) subsidiary is to cut about 900 jobs, by the end of August, at...
Only Socialist Revolution can resolve the political and economic crisis and force a break...
YESTERDAY, Scottish appeal court judges ruled that the decision by the Tory government to suspend parliament for five weeks in the run-up to the...
‘Systematic policy to destroy Gaza’s health system has reached the point of no return!’
DOCTOR Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, has said that the suffering of the wounded in the Strip is...
Tories plan to axe half a million hospital appointments each year in drive to...
HEALTH Secretary Steve Barclay did the rounds of the TV studios on Sunday to declare an all-out war on doctors, nurses and patients, as...
May staggers on with the help of Corbyn – time for working class to...
THERESA May’s leadership crashed and burned on Monday when she suddenly announced that there would be no vote on her deal with the EU....
Abolish student fees restore free state education
THE Labour-supporting leaders of the National Union of Students (NUS) have been forced into a position where they have had to call for ‘heads...
Assad warns of new war danger in the Middle East
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad warned yesterday that the Israeli attack on the Gaza humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters, in which nine Turkish citizens...
Imperialist ‘vulture funds’ plundering Africa
THE High Court in London was due to rule yesterday in the case of an American-owned investment fund suing the Zambian government to repay,...
Lagarde admits crisis as deep as five years ago!
IMF CHIEF Christine Lagarde opened her speech of last Monday in Washington with a dose of false optimism. She said: ‘Let me begin by saying...
Workers across the world rise up on May Day – Forward to world socialist...
May Day erupted across Europe and the entire world this year in an unprecedented and revolutionary uprising of workers and youth against an international...
Starmer pledges billions for military while doctors and nurses are hired to work in...
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Washington yesterday for a first meeting with President Trump since his inauguration last month. The situation in Ukraine...
Tory Big Brother will be spying on everybody!
THE News International empire’s phone hacking and spying, and the way that it sought to regulate the government and bend the police force to...
Bank of England is damned by House of Lords committee for not bringing down...
WHEN Tory Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Chancellor Jeremy Hunt boasted last week that they were responsible for bringing down the official inflation...
Nato Declines To Follow Bush’s Orders
THE outgoing US president, George W Bush, has spent the entire week pledging a Nato expansion eastwards, and that states such as Albania, Croatia,...
Mass strikes in US as workers rise up in ‘Striketober’
The US working class has mobilised in an unprecedented wave of mass strikes across the country this month in what is being designated as...
US Attacks Refugees With Its $65M Unrwa Cut!
EXECUTIVE Committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Zakaria al-Agha, said on Wednesday that the United States freeze of $65 million in its...
Indignation is not enough – working class needs socialist policies
IN HIS first election speech, Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, expressed his anger and indignation over the policies of austerity ruthlessly carried out by...
Economic crisis of capitalism can only be resolved with socialist revolution
THE PLUNGE of world capitalism over the precipice of an almighty crash has become so obvious that a sense of panic is gripping bourgeois...
World Crisis Blowing US Trade Union Leaders Apart
THE American workers are facing major problems, caused by the deepening crisis of the world capitalist system. Among these problems are the export of millions...
Kick May And The Tories Out Now With A General Strike! Forward To...
PM MAY yesterday morning announced she was resigning as Tory leader and Prime Minister in two weeks on June 7. May said that the...
Tory ‘war on terror’ used in war on Junior Doctors
EMAILS, made public this week, between the Tory government and the head of NHS England, Sir Bruce Keogh, reveal the way the Tories attempted...
British banks hit by Dubai collapse
AFTER the Abu Dhabi stockmarket experienced a record one-day fall of 8.3 per cent, and Dubai’s Financial Market Index fell 7.3 per cent yesterday,...
Truss demands war across Europe to crush Russia!
IN A KEYNOTE foreign policy speech at London’s Mansion House last night, Tory foreign secretary Liz Truss dispensed with the fiction of the imperialist...
Students Under Attack–Restore Free State Education!
THE NUS has just published its Poverty Commission Report which shows how education costs are rising, condemning students to live in poverty and blighting...
GMB, Unison and Unite refuse to call action to bring down coalition
‘WORKING people in the UK can help stop the Conservative-led coalition from taking a wrecking ball to the fabric of daily life.’ This is the...
Economic Crisis Set To Wreak Havoc To Jobs And Homes
THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday warned that thousands of manufacturing jobs are about to be slashed by employers seeking to reduce their costs,...
UK capitalism is in its death agony – Now is the time to organise...
THE UK economy is heading for a recession and a slump as the latest official figures show. It shrank between July and September by...