Eurozone meltdown!
THE European Central Bank (ECB) monthly policy meeting took place in Naples last Thursday under riot conditions. While Europe’s financial movers and shakers met in...
Italy, Spain and Greece erupting against EU austerity
ITALIAN car giant Fiat has shut down five of its plants as the Italian ruling class struggles against a transport workers strike directed against...
Japan Boosts Its Military Spending!
WHILE the US and the UK have reduced their military spending, under pressure from the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system, the new...
Trump and Musk tear up bourgeois democracy to wage war on workers in US
ELON Musk has launched a campaign of slashing jobs and closing federal departments with nothing but contempt for Congress. Musk, the world’s richest man, was...
General Sanders Says That The UK Army Must Be Ready For A War To...
THE new Chief of the General staff, Sir Patrick Sanders, yesterday urged that Britain must be ready to fight Putin, comparing the present situation...
Miliband appeals to Tory and UKIP voters!
FOR many years the Labour Party projected itself as the champion of the working class, hence its very close ties with the trade unions,...
Forward to the State of Palestine – from the river to the sea –...
IN a telephone conversation yesterday, President Mahmoud Abbas and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the latest developments in Palestine, especially in light of...
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...
Labour’s collapse in front of the Tories proves the need to build the new...
ON Thursday the Labour Party suffered its worst defeat in a general election since 1935 and handed Boris Johnson’s Tory party a majority in...
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...
Oil companies fight to carve up Libya
IT HAS not taken long for the hyenas of the giant oil companies to descend on Libya’s oil and gas resources intent on both...
Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill – sky high food prices here...
DURING a public on-line question and answer session on Monday, the Bank of England’s chief economist Huw Pill warned that higher food prices ‘may...
Bank of England under pressure as inflation runs riot – socialist revolution is the...
THE UK INFLATION rate hit a nine-year high in August with prices increasing by 3.2%, a sharp increase from the 2% recorded in July,...
UK bans Chinese ambassador to step foot in Parliament! The enemy is at home...
THE UK government stepped up its war with China this week when it took the decision to ban the Chinese ambassador to the UK...
A police-Fire Service merger is a Tory plan to destroy FBU and reorganise state...
THE news that has emerged that the Tory police and crime commissioner for Northamptonshire, Adam Simmonds, has been in secret talks for twelve weeks...
US vetoes Middle East ceasefire as Israel prepares to expel Palestinians from their land...
‘SPEAKING on Saturday, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, accused the United States of being complicit in war crimes, after it vetoed a UN Security...
Tories Plan To Bring In Legal Strikebreakers To Force Workers To Accept Wage Cuts!
DEPUTY Prime Minister Dominic Raab says the UK government cannot allow unions to win a battle for higher pay as it would supposedly fuel...
Yemen defiant in face of imperialist onslaught – Forward to victory of World Socialist...
ON SUNDAY, thousands of Yemenis marched through the streets of the capital Sana’a against the US/Saudi blockade of their country and holding American imperialism...
Global debt crisis threatens to bring down governments, the Bank for International Settlements warns....
THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this week issued a warning that governments across the world are at risk of imploding unless they deal...
Trump’s Economic Miracle Is A Bankrupt Mirage – US Workers Need Alternative To Trump...
THE US Federal Reserve Bank yesterday launched an unlimited money printing programme to try to halt the collapse of the US ‘economic miracle’, and...
Milburn makes his move for the Labour leadership
TWO former Cabinet ministers have e-mailed all Labour MPs, calling for an ‘open debate’ on the party’s future. The two are Charles Clarke, the ex-Home...
Bring down the Tories – the only way to defend and develop the NHS!
THE BMA’s just-published Survey of Doctors reveals the depth of the crisis that the Tory government has plunged the NHS into, as a result...
Ferguson battle anticipates US revolution
THE tactics weaponry and ammunition used in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, by the police and Missouri National Guard, have led to...
Prigozhin And Key Wagner Aides Killed In Embraer-135 Private Jet Explosion!
AN Embraer-135 private jet crashed in the Tver Region north of Moscow on Wednesday. All 10 people on board were killed, according to preliminary...
Massive Protests In Romania And Hungary
MASS protests are erupting in the eastern wing of the EU, in Romania and Hungary, against the austerity programmes of EU governments whose countries...
Disband the EU – forward to a Socialist United States of Europe
THE latest attempt to advance, by sleight of hand, to a united capitalist state of the European Union for the benefit of the...
Merkel-Sarkozy deal will fail to stem euro crisis
THE media were out in force at the end of last week to hear German Chancellor Angela Merkel reveal details of a bail-out package...
Grenfell Towers are everywhere! Capitalism cannot be regulated, it must be overthrown!
THE TORY government is pushing its Building Safety Bill that it says addresses the big issue of fire safety raised by the horrific Grenfell...
Labour votes against Manzoor motion to scrap tax credits bill!
THE government has been dealt a blow in the House of Lords after the Lords voted to delay tax credit cuts, until an independent...
Remainer MPs attempt to block no deal! Workers must take strike action to drive...
Commons on Thursday to try to ensure that Parliament is able to block any attempt by the expected Johnson-led Tory government to shut Parliament...
Postal workers want indefinite strike action NOW!
CWU members have voted, in a 67 per cent turnout, a much bigger turnout than in a British general election, for strike action, with...
UK capitalists on their knees with the deepest recession since records began!
OFFICIAL figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released yesterday show that gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 20.4% in the three months...
Tories increasingly looking to ditch Johnson while Starmer lines up for place in a...
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson jetted off to India yesterday in advance of the vote by MPs on a Labour motion to launch an investigation...
Inflation Letting Rip As Darling Fiddles
CONSUMER Prices Index (CPI) inflation has been driven up to 3.5 per cent in January by, amongst other factors, VAT returning to 17.5...
Leaving the European Union will require a workers socialist revolution!
PM MAY last Monday afternoon, in her first statement to MPs in parliament since her Florence speech last month and her debacle at the...
Take action to stop NHS cuts and closures
IT is now obvious that the Labour government is setting out, at breakneck speed, to privatise the NHS. It has set up private treatment centres...
Thames Water boss awarded £1 million salary sticking two fingers up to Labour government
BRITAIN'S biggest water firm, Thames Water, has just awarded its chief executive Chris Weston a pay rise that has pushed his salary to £1.16...
March this Saturday to free Palestine, and to end Israeli imposed apartheid. 11AM at...
WHILE the British government remains as silent as the grave over the continuing slaughter of Palestinians by the racist Israeli government, and while the...
One more turn of the police state screw!
YESTERDAY Home Secretary, Smith was having a go at presenting the introduction of biometric identity cards as a matter of personal convenience, and even...
Oligarchs Go Bust As World Crisis Hits Home
Russia’s super-rich oligarchs, who made their fortunes by stealing or purchasing for a pittance chunks of the Soviet nationalised and planned economy under the...
Tory Ambulance Privatisation Drive!
FIGURES extracted this week by Freedom of Information requests prove conclusively that the privatisation of the ambulance service is being pushed through by the...
Nationalise All The Banks And Abolish Mortgage Debt
UP to 1.5 million fixed rate mortgage holders are going to have to renegotiate their mortgages in the New Year. Many of them are already...
Demented capitalism is producing mass murderers
NORWAY is commemorating one year since 77 mainly young people who were members of the Young Socialists, and engaged in a summer school, were...
Blair stands by 90 days internment as Clarke negotiates its defeat
PRIME Minister Blair stands convinced that 90-days internment without charge is not just desirable but is absolutely indispensable for satisfying the Metropolitan Police’s minimum...
Crisis hit US tries WMD deception again!
THE depth of the capitalist world crisis has set the US juggernaut lurching forward once again. This time it is threatening Syria, and by...