HSBC a repeat offender that will never change
IN September 2014 HSBC settled claims that it made false representations in selling mortgage bonds to the giant US mortgage companies Fannie Mae and...
Tories determined to impose even bigger pay cuts on NHS workers – time...
TORY ministers have instructed the supposedly independent NHS Pay Review Body to cap the wages of frontline health workers to just 2% in 2023-24. At...
British workers must make the TUC call a general strike to bring in the...
THE United Nations has confirmed that more than 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave Rafah, amid intensified Israeli strikes on the southern city...
Judges and lawyers demand end to UK arms to Israel. It’s time the TUC...
OVER 600 UK lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including three former supreme court justices, have written to Rishi Sunak warning that the UK...
Saudis oil war is deepening the world crisis
SAUDI Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, has said the oil producers’ cartel, Opec, will not cut production even if the price falls to $20...
TUC – Time To Stop Talking! Call General Strike Now To Kick Out The...
THE TUC last Friday ‘reaffirmed’ its calls on the government to take over the running of P&O Ferries passenger and freight services ‘as a...
Answer NHS crisis with general strike and occupations
THIS week saw the crisis in the NHS reach breaking point with at least 17 hospitals in England declaring they faced a ‘major incident’...
Jail the Bankers – Nationalise the Banks
WHEN it comes to fraud and stealing vast amounts of money the banks make your average burglar or spiv look like the rank amateurs...
Rescue us from Syrian quagmire! US–UK call out to Putin!
THE US and UK are stuck deep into the Syrian quagmire – a quagmire of their own making. They have achieved a situation where millions...
Blair backs Israel’s blitz on Lebanon
PRIME Minister Blair made clear yesterday that the Labour government is not calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war on the Lebanon. Instead, Blair...
UK, France and Canada threats of ‘concrete action’ over starvation in Gaza driven by...
YESTERDAY Labour prime minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and Canadian prime minister Mark Carney issued what was called a stark warning to...
Capitalism’s crisis– Socialist revolution, the only solution!
THE OFFICIAL annual rate of inflation leapt in February, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Figures published yesterday showed that the Consumer Prices...
Children Going To School Hungry!
THE survey by the ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) into child poverty has exposed what the reality of bankrupt capitalism means for millions...
Jail those responsible for Grenfell Tower inferno! Join the million march to kick the...
SEVENTY six people are still unaccounted for after the Grenfell Tower inferno, police confirmed yesterday and also that criminal proceedings have begun to investigate...
Stock markets crash under impact of Trump’s trade war – World Socialist Revolution is...
ON Thursday night, the giant TV screen that looks down on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange spelt out the message ‘Trump...
Tories Greet NHS 70Th Annniversary With More NHS Cuts!
WHILE 70,000 NHS workers were marching through London on Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Tory-appointed bosses of NHS England were...
Working class must call general strikes to force implementation of UN resolution on Gaza...
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members on Monday finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the genocidal war being waged...
Publish and be damned – not as far as the Chilcot report is concerned!
FAMILIES of British soldiers killed in the Anglo-American March 2003 invasion, and then occupation, of Iraq, were yesterday threatening legal action against the chairman...
Imperialist War abroad and class war at home – a general strike is the...
THE Trade Union Congress is meeting at a very crucial time for the working people of the UK and for the working people of...
Starmer promises the working class ‘pain’ – workers will respond with a socialist revolution!
PM STARMER told an invited audience yesterday morning in the Downing Street Rose Garden: ‘I promised this government would serve people like you.’ He told...
‘WE ARE AT WAR’ says Greek PM as workers prepare to storm parliament
THE Greek Socialist Party Prime Minister, Yiorghos Papandreou, told his party’s parliamentary deputies last Saturday that ‘no one likes emergency procedures but we are...
The TUC Must Call A General Strike To Stop The Israeli Massacres Of Palestinians!
ISRAELI occupation forces have committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of...
Capitalism Is In Its Greatest Ever Crisis – Forward To The General Strike And...
THE SAME British capitalism that has been egging on the Ukraine to start World War III by attacking Russia is now shivering with fear...
Refugees Must Be Welcomed – The Bosses Must Be Sent Packing!
FOLLOWING the successes of the Syrian army’s drive into Idlib province, President Erdogan of Turkey has begun to carry out his revenge policy. Since the...
Hunt steps up war on NHS
THE Tory drive against doctors and health workers throughout the NHS was reaffirmed last week when re-appointed health secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed that GPs...
Junior doctors’ strike piles pressure on Sunak and the Tories!
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is already reeling under the pressure from day one of the historic six-day strike by junior doctors. The Tories have...
The NHS must be free and available to all at the point of need!
RECENTLY there have been a few years of increased government spending on the NHS, after many years of chronic underspending. Most of the new...
TUC attempting to dump the fight against Tory anti-union laws!
IN advance of the national ‘protect the right to strike’ day of demonstrations on Wednesday 1st February the TUC has published a statement headed...
Johnson demands pensioners and workers must suffer poverty to keep inflation down
TORY prime minister Boris Johnson was interviewed yesterday on ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme and announced that there will be no attempt to increase...
An NHS For The Rich!
THE BMA and the main TUC trade unions are completely opposed to the Health and Social Care Bill and have given up all efforts...
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...
The working class will not accept permanent austerity! Call a general strike! Go forward...
IN THE wake of Tory Chancellor Hammond’s budget – a budget in which he declared war on the working class, war on pensioners, war...
Eurozone Crisis Spirals Out Of Control
THE EUROZONE crisis was finally, officially recognised as the time bomb that will bring down the entire capitalist banking system at last weekend’s meeting...
National Guard ‘armed, locked and loaded’ in New Orleans
LOUISIANA State Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin have deployed 300 heavily-armed National Guard troops and 60 state police on the streets of...
Balls reveals intense ruling class fear
ED BALLS, the Schools Minister, and the former economics advisor to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, over the weekend dropped his political master right...
Time to put an end to ‘zombie’ capitalism with socialist revolution
STEPHEN Welton, head of the small business investors group the Business Growth Fund (BFG), warned this weekend that the UK economy is in the...
Smash the Gate Gourmet ‘Gangster Capitalists’
THIS Sunday locked out Gate Gourmet workers will be marching through Southall determined to win their jobs back after a bosses’ coup last...
Junior doctors revolution forces BMA leader to resign
THE BMA chairman, James Johnson has quit, forced out of office by the uprising of the junior doctors, who were not prepared to see...
Free Bradley Manning – The Exposer Of Imperialist Secret Diplomacy!
A MILITARY judge is expected to rule shortly on a request to dismiss all charges against the US soldier Bradley Manning, accused of passing...
Grenfell survivors want jail sentences for those responsible for the fire!
LAWYERS for victims of the Grenfell fire have indicted the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea council, which owned the Grenfell tower block, and...
Work Till You Drop – the Tories’ plan for a ‘sustainable’ capitalism
THE DRIVE to raise the state pension age (SPA) even higher has stepped up with the issue of two separate reports which call for...
Palestinians Condemn Trump – Now The UK Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action...
PALESTINIAN factions have condemned US President Donald Trump’s statements, in which he discussed the possibility of displacing the residents of the Gaza Strip to...
NO benefits – and NO jobs either – the Duncan Smith plan
WORK and Pensions Secretary, ex-army officer Duncan Smith, yesterday addressed the world about ‘our broken benefits system’, when most people know what has broken,...
UN Special Rapporteur on Gaza says it is ‘first genocide to awaken the world’
THE UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, described the situation there as ‘apocalyptic’ saying it is the first genocide that...
Gm And Magna Reach Agreement In Principle
GENERAL Motors and Magna and its Russian partner Sberbank (which includes the Gaz carmaker) have reached an agreement in principle over the contract...