Tories breaking triple-lock will plunge millions of pensioners into poverty!
MILLIONS of pensioners will be plunged into poverty as the Tories press ahead with ending the triple-lock on state pensions. The triple-lock guarantees the basic...
Police Aim To Put The Nation Under Its Thumb
The Blair government is aiming to engineer a situation whereby the carrying of an identity card by every person is compulsory, and at the...
Royal Mail Organises The Strikebreakers
THE postal workers dispute intensified yesterday when, with Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool already out on unofficial strike, the action was spreading all over the...
Rising Fuel Bills Mean Many More Unnecessary Winter Deaths!
THOUSANDS of people die each year from illnesses linked to fuel poverty. Last year was a very cold winter, and this year’s winter is already...
The TUC Congress must vote for a general strike for UK to end trade...
THE scheduled visit to the UK next Tuesday and Wednesday of Israeli president Isaac Herzog has enraged Labour MPs. The visit will take place...
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 ...
PARIS ERUPTS AS POLICE ATTACK WORKERS ON MAY DAY and the CGT union urges...
THE major French trade union the CGT has protested at the massive attack on peaceful demonstrators by riot police and and vigilantes and has...
TUC appeal to Osborne – a conscious act of treachery
IN January the European Trades Union Confederation (ETUC) issued the call for trade unionists across the continent to rally on the eve of the...
It’s a Labour heaven for bankers but a hell for workers, youth and immigrants!
THE class message of the Labour government is clear. It is that if you’re a banker, you can do no wrong and are...
‘Recovery’ Rests On Bed Of Nitroglycerine
THE 0.1 per cent ‘recovery’, the ‘work’ of Gordon Brown and Chancellor Darling has caused laughter and incredulity throughout the planet. It is a...
Now sack the union leaders to bring down the Tories and bring in a...
THE ‘Leave’ victory in the just-held referendum constitutes a huge revolutionary victory for the working class and the poor of the UK who voted...
Worldwide strikes against Amazon’s brutal exploitation of workers – socialist revolution only answer
WORKERS at the online retail giant Amazon warehouse in Minnesota were out on a six hours-long strike yesterday called to coincide with the company’s...
Soviet Workers And Youth Want The Ussr Restored!
THE interviews given by Mikhail Gorbachev on the 25th anniversary of the Stalinist bureaucracy overthrowing the USSR show that the question of the restoration...
PM May hammers the poor as 7,585 families receive 50p housing benefit!
PM MAY makes a lot of noise about her concern for the ‘just about managing’, ie the middle classes in crisis-ridden Britain. In fact,...
Make Capitalism History! The Way To End Poverty
TODAY’S Edinburgh march to ‘Make Poverty History’ will be led by Bishops, Cardinals and boss class politicians, in other words, by the religious and...
Output Down As Banking Crisis Deepens
THE CBI bosses organisation said yesterday that UK manufacturers expect to reduce output over the next three months, driving another nail into the coffin...
Blair skating on the thinnest of thin ice
PRIME Minister Blair has been secretly questioned, for a second time, by police investigating allegations that honours were sold for cash by his government....
Call General Strike Over Pensions
UNISON leader Dave Prentis yesterday confessed that local government union leaders were unwilling combatants with the Blair government, over its plan to smash their...
Israel Shaken By Syrian Missile Defences Success!
THE ISRAELI ruling class has been shocked by Syrian missile defences being able to, and Syria having the audacity to, shoot down a US-supplied...
Tory Austerity forces parents to rely on baby banks for essentials – time to...
IN LAST year’s autumn budget Tory chancellor Philip Hammond claimed that ‘austerity is coming to an end’ in Britain. Hammond’s claim backed up Theresa May’s...
UK stuck in ‘debt doom loop’ – Socialist Revolution the only way to break...
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a dire warning to Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves that she must take ‘unpopular’ decisions to halt British...
Hunt throws down the gauntlet – the trade unions must pick it up!
THE Department of Health, headed by Health Secretary Hunt, has said that a proposed 1% increase in NHS staff pay was unaffordable, and is...
Poverty under capitalism is ‘killing people on a grand scale’
‘SOCIAL injustice is killing people on a grand scale.’ This is the conclusion of the World Health Organisation’s Commission on Social Determinants of...
Lessons of 1926 are vital for today!
THIS year there is great interest in the 80th anniversary of the general strike of 1926. It is not hard to work out why....
Call a national postal strike and bring out all the public sector
ROYAL Mail chairman Allan Leighton reiterated yesterday that the organisation cannot afford to improve its 2.5 per cent pay offer, despite staff voting 77...
Tory government ‘pathetic’ and ‘incapacitated’ – time to bring them down with a general...
WEDNESDAY’S debate and vote in parliament on the issue of the roll-out of Universal Credit has been hailed as a ‘symbolic defeat’ for the...
Youth forced to work for nothing as unemployment set to rocket!
The findings of a survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development confirm what every worker and young person in the country already...
World banking crisis driving world revolution!
LAST WEEK the Bank of England (BoE) finally confessed that it doesn’t understand its own quantitative easing programme (QE) – the central, in fact...
Coalition Policy Is To Financially Collapse Local Authorities
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that ‘multiple’ local authorities are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts. The...
The Tory Party is blowing apart! TUC must call a general strike to kick...
Liz Truss was only installed as Prime Minister little more than 4 weeks ago but yesterday a senior Tory minister, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly,...
Italy’s financial ‘doom loop’ will strangle the entire banking system warns Carney
THE FINANCIAL ‘doom loop’ that is tightening around the necks of the Italian banking system will send the Italian banks and the Italian...
Israel’s murderous attacks on Palestinian children
LAST Friday saw the opening moves by the Palestinian Authority to bring the state of Israel before the international courts to answer for its...
Nationalise the pharmaceutical corporations!
A REPORT into the expenditure of the National Health Service on drugs, published by the government’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) yesterday, reveals that...
Latest IMF warning that 2023 is year of world recession – world revolution the...
THE HEAD of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has delivered a stark New Year warning that a third of the world economy...
Working class erupts as inflation rips through Europe – build sections of the 4th...
EUROPE has erupted in strikes as workers rise up against raging inflation which is driving down living standards to poverty levels across the EU. Germany,...
Daily Telegraph warns capitalism has entered its ‘final act’ with UK the ‘tinderbox’ of...
Such is the depth of the crisis in British capitalism that even the ultra-loyal Tory press can no longer pretend that the working class...
Banks tremble at the thought of the end of Quantitative Easing
THE pound fell below $1.49 against the dollar on Friday, close to a three-year low. Sterling traded as low as $1.4858 at one point. The...
CBI calls for more anti-union laws!
YESTERDAY the employers’ organisation, the CBI, was joined by Tory London mayor, Boris Johnson, in demanding further laws to outlaw strike action against the...
Inflation Running Riot – Time To Put An End To Capitalism And Bring In...
THE TORY government is now presiding over huge increases in prices, the biggest increases in 40 years. A massive inflation is under way with...
Biden contemplates unilateral action against the US debt mountain and organising military action against...
PRESIDENT Biden on Sunday, speaking in Hiroshima, the scene of a US-UK atom bombing, was forced to address the US banking crisis and whether...
Oil Heading For $200 A Barrel
OIL reached a new record price above 120 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, with New York’s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for...
CAMERON ATTACKS THE SICK AND GPs OVER ‘SICK NOTE CULTURE’
AS FAR as this reactionary coalition government is concerned, anybody who is sick for more than four weeks in a year is probably engaging...
Bush dresses down ‘quitter’ Brown!
BUSH flew into London yesterday after sending a public order to Gordon Brown, via the Observer newspaper. This was that Brown must not announce...
‘Green Shoots’ – A Mirage Of Desperate Capitalists
THE European Central Bank is having nightmares about the state of the 25 banks that underpin the financial system of the Eurozone within the...
Gripped with crisis UK, US & French leaders abandon World Economic Forum
THE ANNUAL get-together of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos has been hit by a number of notable absences...