Financial Crisis Worsening, Says The Imf
IN its just-published Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF has found that ‘Confidence remains fragile despite recent policy actions’, and that the ‘Euro area...
Abbas to meet Kerry for decisive talks
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas is to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris today to discuss the peace talks with Israeli, US and...
Imperialism Risks Armageddon in Gulf
The news this week, that the army and security services have informed government ministers that there is a ‘25% to 50% chance’ that there...
False start for Psaki in sanctions assault race!
US President Obama has not yet signed a bill clearing the way for more economic sanctions against Russia. The US State Department confirmed ...
Palestinians throw shoes at UN chief Ban!
DOZENS of people threw shoes and stones at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s convoy as it entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Many of those...
EU car & steel industries in crisis – UK must leave EU NOW –...
SHARES in India’s Tata Motors collapsed by almost 30 per cent yesterday after the company reported gigantic losses at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). On Thursday,...
Coalition imposed pay freeze hits workers and middle class
A report issued on Monday by the independent Resolution Foundation spells out exactly the desperate situation being faced today by the so-called ‘squeezed middle’,...
Currency War Prelude To Shooting War!
LEADERS of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank came out yesterday with dire warnings about the emerging ‘currency war’. Speaking on the eve...
No Increase In Military Spending – The Enemy Is At Home!
AFTER over a decade of savage austerity measures, during which wages have been driven down and millions made dependent on food banks, the House...
Bankers failing to stem capitalism’s chronic crisis
THE Bank of Japan (BoJ) took emergency measures yesterday in a desperate attempt to rescue the country’s stagnant economy (growth rate 0.4%) and boost...
Egypt warns Israel while Palestinians urge global Intifada!
EGYPT has warned it’s ready to respond militarily after Israeli troops seized a sensitive corridor of land along its border with the Gaza Strip. According...
The Trade Unions Must Defend Every Job!
THE London and New York stock markets were in free fall yesterday, losing hundreds of points, with tens of billions of dollars and pounds...
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...
Coalition lies on NHS privatisation exposed – trade unions must act
THE oft repeated claim by Tory prime minister Cameron that the coalition will not privatise the National Health Service has finally been exposed for...
British capitalism is breaking apart
THE one clear message that emerged from Cameron’s speech yesterday was that the political representatives of the capitalist class in Britain have given up...
US and EU backed armed mobs run riot in the Ukraine!
THE imperialist backed Ukrainian right-wing, including self-declared fascist movements, have brazenly made a call to arms, and to prove the point on Tuesday shot...
To rid the world of coronavirus capitalism must be overthrown and replaced by socialism
AMERICA, the wealthiest capitalist country in the world, on Wednesday recorded its highest daily level of Covid deaths with 3,157 new deaths recorded. This exceeds...
Scottish Power – huge profits and huge price rises
SCOTTISH Power has just reported a 95 per cent leap in its profits. It also warned its 5.2 million customers to prepare for a...
French workers are battling a Macron dictatorship while workers are now taking strike action...
THOUSANDS of French workers have blocked a key highway around Paris and have stepped up strike action at oil refineries in a new massive...
All out behind the firefighters
Today, the London FBU are staging the first of two eight hour strikes against the plans to sack the entire workforce of over 5,000...
Prosecute bosses that do not pay the minimum wage! Overthrow capitalism!
‘NAMING and shaming’ bosses who refuse to pay workers even the minimum wage is not enough, trade union GMB correctly insisted yesterday, demanding...
The split in the British ruling class is clearing the way for the British...
THE POUND was sent crashing down yesterday against the US dollar and the euro prompting the bourgeois press to howl about ‘the end of...
One year since the Gate Gourmet lockout
ON August 10, 2005 Gate Gourmet, owned by Texas Pacific, locked out in a pre-planned operation over 800 workers, an assault that was calculated...
After the US-UK defeat in Afghanistan, al-Houthi calls on the US and Saudis to...
AT A press conference held on the Kabul airport tarmac, on Monday afternoon, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said the US had been defeated and...
Workers of the world unite – provided you speak English
LABOUR Party leader Miliband spoke yesterday on Labour’s ‘One Nation’ approach to cultural diversity and integration insisting that admission to this select body is...
CWU must spread the action to the entire public sector
THE reality of the situation facing postal workers is that after two series of mass strike actions during which they have shown they are...
Smash anti-strike bill by forcing TUC to call a general strike to kick the...
THE TUC yesterday published an analysis that showed that 5.5 million workers in England, Scotland and Wales would have their right to strike threatened...
Turkey And Libya Prepare For Med Oil War Against Greece, And Egypt!
AN EXPLOSIVE situation that threatens all-out war between the NATO powers is fast developing in the Mediterranean region in a struggle to seize the...
Yellen signs up to Gordon Brown’s ‘no more boom or bust’ on the brink...
IN A SPEECH in London last Tuesday, the chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Janet Yellen, announced to a disbelieving world that the...
TUC must call a general strike to expropriate the bosses and put an end...
MATT WRACK, the President of the TUC and the general secretary of the FBU, correctly said on election day, July 4th, that Labour’s post-election...
Victory to the insurgency – puppet regime splits into rival gangs
WHILE Blair continues to try and claim that there has been some partial victory for ‘democracy’ in Iraq, worth the ‘price’ of the many...
Car industry collapses in UK and Europe under impact of capitalist crisis
THE BRITISH car industry is steadily collapsing as a result of the world economic crisis, figures produced yesterday highlighted. According to the Society of Motor...
720,000 UK companies on verge of collapse putting 10 million jobs at risk!
AS THE DATE for the Tory government to end its financial support to British companies looms so the warnings about a cataclysmic crash of...
Defend Libyan revolution! Stop and bring down the oil thieves! Victory to Gadaffi!
THE French ruling class yesterday officially recognised the Libyan counter-revolutionary rebels of the Transitional National Council as the country's legitimate government, and is due...
Youth &workers need British socialist revolution as they bear the brunt of the UK...
YOUNG people are bearing the brunt of the jobs crisis. Under 35s accounted for 80% of the 811,000 payroll jobs lost in the UK...
Thousands of jobs threatened at Bridgend, Luton and Ellesmere Port!
YESTERDAY Unite leader McCluskey was at the Bridgend plant in south Wales to address the three shifts of workers at separate meetings on the...
More ‘breadline poor’ after 10 years of Labour governments
The gap between the rich and poor has widened in recent years and is greater than at any time in the past 40 years,...
TUC leader O’Grady makes PM May a unity offer!
IN a lecture to the London School of Economics (LSE) on Tuesday TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady made a ‘national government’ call to the...
Labour is driving youth out of universities!
THE education policies imposed by Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government are depriving many young people of the opportunity of going into Higher Education and...
One day general strike to defend the NHS
IN the last two months the trade union movement and NHS professional organisations have been forced to take serious notice of the deepening crisis...
Greece On The Brink!
THE Greek working class has been pushed right to the brink of revolution this week with the passage of a bill in the Vouli...
Bring down Blair; bring in a workers’ government
THE crisis of the Blair government has intensified to the point where the government is now more deeply split and divided than ever, while...
EU economy at the end of the road
THE economy of the Eurozone countries is sinking even deeper into crisis making a mockery of all the talk about an economic ‘recovery’. This was...
Sunak calls for ‘British homes for British workers’ in a backward attempt to save...
THE Guardian newspaper yesterday revealed that the Tory government is preparing to launch a consultation in the coming weeks on implementing a ‘British homes...
Expropriate the landlords, build millions of council homes
WHEN the Tory Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, starts accusing his coalition government of ‘Kosovo-style social cleansing’ in the capital over the plans to...