Panic And Alarm Over Housing Bubble
THE OECD has in effect, accused the Bank of England and the Coalition government of blindly organising another banking disaster, under the cover of...
Occupy Tata Steel plants – make TUC call a general strike to bring down...
COMMUNITY steel union representatives from all of the Tata Steel plants are meeting at the TUC today to discuss and plan the struggle to...
Stop Royal Mail being thrown to the private equity wolves!
POSTCOMM, the postal regulator has called for the part privatisation of the Royal Mail, supposedly to safeguard the quality of the UK’s mail delivery...
Police call for more repression
METROPOLITAN Police Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur has submitted a document to the Labour government’s Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, calling for new laws that would...
Obama brings in tough sanctions against Iran as he prepares to meet Netanyahu
PRESIDENT Barack Obama has signed into law the toughest ever US sanctions on Iran. The measures, on top of new UN Security Council and...
Blair convinces nobody with his education market
YESTERDAY saw the Prime Minister seeking to reinvent himself as the champion of the people and a supporter of ‘social justice’. Speaking in...
Tory energy bill freeze will cost workers £130 billion – get the Tories out...
AN article in Monday’s Daily Telegraph by Sherelle Jacobs bluntly states: ‘Liz Truss has just two months to save broken Britain from terminal decline.’ Jacobs...
‘Tanks not Welfare’ demands the capitalist class. Bring them down with a general strike...
HUNDREDS of thousands of Iranians marched defiantly in Tehran and other Iranian cites yesterday in solidarity with Palestine against Israeli genocide, for a Palestinian...
Murdoch Shops His Own Employees In Attempt To Save His Own Neck
FIVE journalists at the Sun newspaper have been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of corrupt payments to the police and other ‘public servants’. A Surrey...
UNISON leaders buy a little time for Brown
THE UNISON leaders who originally accepted the three year sub-inflation pay deal for NHS workers, along with the RCN, without going to ballot, yesterday...
Rowley reveals scale of police corruption – time to disband the police and go...
THE newly installed Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, yesterday stated that the Met faced its biggest corruption crisis since the 1970s. The crisis, that...
Revolution the only way out of capitalism’s debt crisis
NEXT week, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, will be announcing the results of his spending review to parliament, outlining £20 billion of austerity cuts...
Expropriate The Venture Capitalists
WE are living in the period of the death agony of the capitalist system. It is only natural then, that out of the shadows should...
Forward to the political revolution in the Ukraine
UKRAINIAN President Viktor Yushchenko has mounted a coup attempt in the Ukraine, dissolving parliament and calling a snap general election on May 27th. The parliament...
Answer Tory plans to use military as strike breakers with a general strike...
With nurses and thousands of NHS workers planning to take national strike action next month over their demands for pay increases to protect them...
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...
Iraq – the end of the imperialist adventure in sight
SENATOR Warner, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee concluded, after his recent visit to Iraq, that the US game was...
Blair’s not going anywhere – except over to the Tories
PRIME Minister Blair, speaking to one of his major supporters, Murdoch’s Sun newspaper yesterday, spelt out that he was not going into early retirement...
UK ‘control orders’ are illegal says EU rights body
EVEN the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Alvaro Gil-Robles has condemned the issuing of control orders by the British Home Secretary as...
Patients & staff paying price of £1bn NHS under-spend
LABOUR ministers are boasting that the projected £983m under-spend in the National Health Service are evidence that it has regained its ‘financial footing’. Health Secretary...
Politically bankrupt Starmer will seek to force the working class to pay for the...
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s speech at the TUC Congress yesterday spelt out precisely to delegates that this Labour government is determined to inflict all the pain...
Egypt bombs Derna and pledges Libyan intervention
EGYPT’S Air Force, on Monday morning bombed Islamic State positions in Derna, Libya, after IS beheaded 21 Coptic Christian Egyptians. The city was also bombed...
Iranian diplomat was tortured after kidnap by CIA agents
WHILE the 15 British sailors were being held in comfortable and well fed custody by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, there was another captive, just...
Gove And May Brazen It Out As Labour Refuses To Demand Resignations
WHAT stood out like a sore thumb when the emergency question was put to Home Secretary May in the House of Commons, on Monday...
Rate Rise Shock – Condemned As Panic By Tuc
BIG BUSINESS, the stockmarkets and the TUC were shaken yesterday midday when the Bank of England raised its interest rates by a quarter of...
Capitalism is crashing and must be replaced by a socialist revolution!
THE only way that bankrupt capitalism can survive is through making the working people of the world pay for its crisis with their jobs,...
Bond market rout deepens with financial markets demanding Burnham imposes savage austerity cuts
Yesterday, UK borrowing costs hit the highest level since the 2008 international banking crash as the bond market continued to sell off government bonds...
Time to put down the sick dog Tory minority government!
THE QUEEN dropped by Westminster on her way to Ascot races yesterday morning to spend 20 minutes outlining the Theresa May minority Tory government’s...
Clinton pledges continuing war to ‘get rid’ of Assad
DEMOCRATIC Party Presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, is to order a ‘full review’ of the United States’ strategy on Syria as a ‘first key task’...
BMA launch ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into Pandemic
DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has launched its own ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic. This is ahead of the Tory...
LGA Warns ‘Extreme Cost-Cutting’ Is Destroying All Services!
THE LOCAL Government Association’s (LGA) Richard Watts has written to Tory Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick (of the two houses) warning against ‘extreme cost-cutting’...
BA’s nail in the coffin of legal strike actions – by courtesy of Unite’s...
THE UNITE trade union leadership announced yesterday that after the cabin crew membership ‘voted last month overwhelmingly, and for the third time, to take...
Full Support For The Ukrainian Workers!
GUNFIRE erupted Sunday morning at a checkpoint, established by workers on the outskirts of the city of Slavyansk in Eastern Ukraine. In the skirmishing, one...
Austria mobilising troops and armour at the Brenner Pass against refugees from Italy!
AUSTRIA is ready to deploy troops and armour at the Brenner Pass – the border crossing with Italy – if the influx of refugees...
Starmer Wants To Impose EU Laws Onto The UK Working Class
PM SIR KEIR STARMER has just unveiled legislation that will give the power to the PM to adopt EU legislation without giving MPs a...
Trump Threatens To Hit 52 Chosen Sites If Iran Retaliates For Murder Of...
IRAN’S Army chief has defiantly dismissed US President Donald Trump’s threat to hit scores of Iranian sites, if Iran hits back after the US...
Big Lesson From Afghan War Is Never Ally Yourself With The Imperialists – To...
RAPHAEL Marshall, ex-Foreign Office desk official and now whistleblower, has exposed the way British and US imperialism dumped their Afghan allies and left them...
The issue is the shoot to kill policy says de Menezes campaign
THE family of Jean Charles de Menezes, murdered by police on the Tube on July 22, have called for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir...
US-UK Refuse To Demand Israeli Ceasefire!
YESTERDAY’S UN Security Council emergency meeting on Gaza ended without the issuing of a resolution after the US and the UK refused to vote...
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...
TUC remains silent on Truss’s class war preparations – Join the lobby of the...
TORY prime minister Liz Truss didn’t waste time. She fled the country immediately after the meltdown of her government at the Tory Party conference. Yesterday...
Satellite to celebrate 30th anniversary of Iranian Revolution
IRAN launched its first satellite into space powered by its own rocket system, Safir-2, on Monday night. The research and telecommunication satellite was put...
A&E closures cost lives
For the first time since the process of closing accident and emergency units in hospitals up and down the country was started by the...
Blair stays at number 10 to try help Israel out of the Lebanese mire
PRIME minister Blair, at the last minute, postponed his holiday to try to assist the UN Security Council efforts, headed by France, to fashion...
Japan under US protection says Clinton
CHINA has condemned the latest comments made by the United States over the disputed Diaoyu Islands in which Hillary Clinton said that Japan is...