British Capitalism Is Bankrupt – TUC Must Defend Wages And Jobs With A General...
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is expected to mount a billion pound rescue operation to postpone energy-intensive British basic industries from going under, as gas...
Call an all-out strike to defeat fire and rehire at Heathrow – build new...
TODAY, members of the Unite union at Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) are out on strike over the ‘fire and rehire’ of 4,000 workers on...
Obama attempts to con Irish workers
FOR the second time in two weeks Irish workers and youth have been subjected to a powerful imperialist propaganda assault designed to shore up...
Abuse of elderly inevitable outcome of privatisation
A major study by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the quality of home care for the elderly in England has thrown the...
Crisis of European capitalism deepens – Down with the EU! Forward to the Socialist...
THE Bank of England delivered its first announcement of 2017 on the economy yesterday, claiming that British capitalism had defied all expectations of a...
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...
Nationalise Land Rover and Jaguar to defend wages and jobs
THE Alchemy Partners gang of asset-strippers have got Land Rover and Jaguar in their sights, now that cash-strapped Ford is ready to sell off...
May Loses Support Of Both The Remainers And Leavers – Looks To Labour To...
THAT BANKRUPT British capitalism and imperialism is unable to stand on its own two feet anymore is obvious. It faces the prospect of the...
Arab League sells out the Palestinians yet again
THE Arab League, the organisation of the Arab bourgeoisie, last Saturday gave its backing to the indirect Palestinian-Israeli peace talks being pushed by President...
Putin wants a ‘game with rules’ with imperialism!
PUTIN posed the question at last week’s International Discussion Club in Sochi: ‘The World Order: New Rules or a Game without rules’. (see feature) He...
IMF: World faces £9.5tn Covid bill as capitalism crashes into bankruptcy
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned yesterday that the Covid-19 crisis could cost the global economy a staggering £9.5 trillion in the biggest hit...
PM Johnson Set To Put Brexit Deal With The EU To A Vote Today...
ANYTHING and everything is being used to try and prevent the House of Commons voting to give its support to the government’s Brexit deal...
Osborne to intensify Tory slave labour drive
LONG-TERM unemployed workers and youth will have to undertake work for no pay in return for their benefits, or else starve, with the government...
Unite leaders share out the pain among its GM members
THE Unite leaders’ policy that workers must share the pain of the capitalist crisis bore more rotten fruit on Tuesday. This was when Unite’s...
The Bank Prints More Money While M&s Insists That The UK Is Skint
THE Bank of England yesterday maintained its interest rate at 0.5 per cent and decided to step up its money printing programme to give...
The working people of the world must NOW take action to establish the...
THE Palestinian presidency on Wednesday expressed its great thanks and appreciation for the strong and clear Saudi position expressed in the Saudi statement issued...
Workers in UK and US must dismantle the imperialist war machine with a general...
AFTER Tuesday’s talks with the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella, President Putin spoke about the situation after the US’s 59 cruise missile...
Bosses & Tories In Crisis – Time To Bring Both Down!
THE TORY Party conference opened in Manchester on Sunday to scenes that reflected the terminal splits and divisions that dominate the minority government of...
The majority of Russians want the return of the USSR
THE LATEST poll of Russian people has revealed that the number who want a return of the USSR has set a new record. The Levada-Centre...
‘A DIFFICULT TIME AHEAD’ WARNS B of E CHIEF, KING
CPI inflation is expected to hit 5% later this year due to higher energy and other utility bills that will continue rising by up...
Democrats and Republicans sink their differences when it comes to imperialist war
WHILE US president Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night was met with impotent angry silence by Democrats, there...
Labour right wing gives Corbyn a lesson in ruthlessness!
MPs on Wednesday overwhelmingly backed UK air strikes against the Islamic State in Syria, by 397 votes to 223, with a total of 66...
Defend the NHS with a general strike! Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry!
ONE in five new drugs will be rationed on the NHS under new plans to ‘save the health service money.’ This is the latest...
British imperialism’s major ally, Saudi Arabia is up to its neck in promoting terrorism...
A REPORT by the Henry Jackson Society, published yesterday, named Saudi Arabia as the main foreign promoter of Islamic extremism in Britain, stating that...
Trump ‘begging for a deal’ at peace plan talks with Iran!
THE Iranian foreign ministry denounced the attack carried out by the US early on Tuesday morning as ‘an act of bad faith’ and a...
Mikhail Gorbachev – Stalinist hero of imperialism, loathed and reviled by working class!
Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the USSR, died in Moscow aged 91 on Tuesday. His death was greeted with an outpouring of fulsome tributes and...
A fighting Public Sector Alliance to defend wages and jobs
THE Communication Workers Union yesterday announced its latest plans for strike action after the first national strike for a decade last week, which was...
Final report into Boeing crash shows bosses ignored warnings! Nationalise Boeing – the US...
THE FINAL report into the Boeing 737 Max air crash in October last year, in which 189 people lost their lives, was published yesterday...
Victory To Hamas As Lieberman Quits!
THE United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met behind closed doors over the situation in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, but failed to reach an...
GERMAN ELECTIONS: Workers deliver a blow to free market ‘reforms’
AFTER Sunday’s General Election, Germany did not have a Chancellor, or a government yesterday. This plunged the country into a huge economic and political...
Nationalise the motor car industry to defend wages and jobs
THE international banking system has collapsed, the steel industries of the planet are in slump, and the US and Japanese motor car giants...
Hands off Palestine Action! Demand TUC call a general strike to bring down Starmer...
Over 300,000 marched in London on Saturday, in a powerful demonstration of support for a Palestinian state and against the genocidal war being waged...
US Seeking Long-Term Bases In Iraq
THE United States and its puppet Iraqi government are seeking to renew the UN mandate for Iraq for just one year, meaning that the...
Labour manifesto – a recipe for selling off the NHS and the Welfare State!
THEY say that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, and Gordon Brown proved the point yesterday when he began his forward to...
Trade unions must call a general strike to stop Tories ending all Covid restrictions
YESTERDAY, Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the ending of all remaining Covid restrictions in England this week. The Tories’ ‘Living with Covid’ plan means...
Greek Crisis To Explode All Over Europe!
AS 100,000 workers marched through Athens on May Day, and tens of thousands marched through large numbers of Greek towns and villages, it...
Hamas Responds To Israeli Massacres With Bold Strikes Against Israel!
THE movements of Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Sunday gave their full support to the Tel Aviv operation that targeted Israeli soldiers working for...
Defend jobs, wages and rights – bring down Brown government
PRIME Minister Brown’s alliance with the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party has paid off with the passage by nine votes of his amendment to the...
Labour plans ruthless cuts and mass privatisation of public sector to ‘save’ British capitalism
The Telegraph newspaper has revealed an internal letter from Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Treasury department ordering cabinet ministers to be ‘ruthless’ in identifying public...
Bankrupt Britain is heading for revolution!
THE OECD has warned that the British capitalist economy is the sick man of the capitalist world and is currently experiencing a record fall...
TUC right wing determined to stay in the EU whatever it costs the working...
AT this year’s annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) the right-wing of the trade union bureaucracy will attempt to commit the working...
Bankers gripped by fear are relying on ‘hope’!
THE new Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), Charles Bean said yesterday that when the so-called ‘credit crunch’ began last August central...
Programme of action needed to prevent capitalist catastrophe
YESTERDAY Adams Childrenswear announced that it had closed down 111 of its stores throughout the UK, and that its remaining 160 shops would stay...
INDICATIVE VOTES ARE REJECTED FOR A SECOND TIME – UK MUST LEAVE EU ON...
THE PLAN for a parliamentary coup against the 2016 Referendum result, that instructed the government to leave the EU, by forcing through the House...
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...