The Eurozone Commits Collective Suicide!
THE Eurozone committed ‘collective suicide’ last week when EU finance ministers met and agreed a deal that they heralded as a historic breakthrough in...
Bank of England follows US Fed in driving up interest rates to ‘save’ capitalism!
YESTERDAY, the Bank of England (BofE) hiked up the interest rate by 0.25% to 1.25%, its highest level in 13 years – the first...
To deal with MRSA – end NHS privatisation!
MRSA is now linked to nearly 1,000 deaths each year in NHS hospitals. There is no doubt that it is a product of the...
Free Bradley Manning – The Exposer Of Imperialist Secret Diplomacy!
A MILITARY judge is expected to rule shortly on a request to dismiss all charges against the US soldier Bradley Manning, accused of passing...
Petrol price rises leading to new fuel blockade
UK petrol and diesel prices are still rising in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with the average cost of petrol now at 95.1 pence...
Maude signals plan to ban strikes
The Tory cabinet office minister, Francis Maude, made a fantastical offer to the TUC and leaders of the public sector unions last Friday when...
Brown pledges 150 private NHS hospitals and self treatment by 15 million ‘expert patients’
GORDON Brown made clear yesterday that his intention was to continue with the Blairite NHS counter-revolution. The message was that there were ‘no no-go...
PNA leaders bankrupt – unions must boycott Israel
The leak of confidential documents covering the ‘peace’ negotiations between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel reveals starkly the bankruptcy and futility of...
Forward With The Cuban Revolution!
THE death of Fidel Castro, the leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution sees millions of Cubans mourning their leader who secured the independence of...
Economy is busted – a deeper slump, rate rises, wage cuts and revolution...
IN his letter to Chancellor Osborne, the Bank of England governor Kings asks: ‘Why has inflation moved away from the target?’ His answer is: ‘three...
Homelessness rises by 134%! Socialist revolution needed to build millions of council homes!
HOMELESSNESS has risen by a startling 134% since the Tories came to power in 2010, with the amount of people sleeping on the...
A bankrupt budget for a bankrupt economy
THE AIM of every government in 2008 is to ‘maintain stability through the world economic slowdown’, said Chancellor Darling yesterday in his budget...
BJP defeated in regional election as India’s masses turn on Modi!
INDIA’S prime minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing BJP party suffered a massive political defeat at the hands of voters in West Bengal on...
Wilbur Ross Lays Down The Law To The UK Bosses And Government
PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s senior adviser Wilbur Ross has just addressed the CBI bosses and given that body its orders as to what it must...
Oecd Warns That World Economy Faces Deeper Slump
GLOBAL growth for 2013 and 2014 has been downgraded ‘significantly’ by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), because of the crisis in...
Businesses threaten to relocate before Brexit! Nationalise them and put them under workers’ management!
RESEARCH for the Institute of Directors showed yesterday that a third of UK businesses are considering moving abroad after Brexit. The IoD said that...
Obama’s Second Coming – Full Of Empty Words
OBAMA began his second term on Monday, after four years of office which saw GM and other motor car giants go bust, Lehman Brothers...
EU tearing itself apart while British capitalism collapses under a sovereign debt crisis
On Friday EU leaders gathered for a three-day summit to agree on a proposed £1.6 trillion financial plan to bail out the national states...
Karzai gets worried that MI6 is negotiating his removal!
THE NEWS that top-level British diplomatic efforts are continuing in Afghanistan to try to prevent the expulsion from the country of two senior foreign...
Railworkers Are Fighting For All Workers! TUC Must Be Made To Call General Strike
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has responded to the rocketing inflation rate. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: ‘Inflation reaching...
Putin Frantically Looking For Imperialist Partners
AT the St Petersburg Economic Forum, President Putin has revealed the basis for both his domestic and foreign policies. It is to seek to...
Now is the time to defend the Chinese revolution!
THE US House of Representatives has hit out at what the US ruling class considers to be its major enemy, the People’s Republic of...
The TUC must support the Palestinian revolution and ban all Israeli exports to the...
THE Arab League has called on the international community to end its silence on the continuing Israeli atrocities across Occupied Palestine, and to compel...
Trades unions must fight for jobs for youth!
NEARLY half of all employers (45 per cent) will not be offering jobs to 16-year-old school-leavers and graduates this year. The Chartered Institute of Personnel...
Northern Rock crisis coming to a head
THE collapse of the US sub-prime market has produced a major banking crisis in the UK, which has seen the Northern Rock bank being...
Answer Hunt’s ‘eye-watering’ austerity cuts to restore the confidence of the bankers with...
THE UNITE trade union kicked off a campaign yesterday morning to call on Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt to ‘use...
Corporatist union leaders are serving the bosses
WITH capitalism in its greatest crisis, and with tens of millions of jobs and tens of millions of people’s lives being destroyed after the...
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...
Throw out the deal – build a new leadership in the CWU
AFTER around eight or so weeks of secret negotiations – on-off-on talks – the CWU postal executive has capitulated to the Hayes Ward leadership,...
Savage cuts have just begun in debt-ridden capitalist Britain
SPENDING on Welfare over this Parliamentary term has fallen by just £2.5bn despite the Tory-led coalition aiming to slash spending by £19bn. The Institute for...
Labour is sharpening the knife to cut the throat of the NHS – what...
LABOUR’S HEALTH SECRETARY Wes Streeting has made public his vow to scrap more than a million ‘pointless’ NHS hospital appointments. The Health Secretary whined that...
Shut Down Young Offenders Institutions – The Only Future For Youth Is Through A...
THE DISGRACEFUL conditions imposed on ‘youth offenders’ have been revealed by another report from Peter Clarke the chief inspector of prisons in England and...
Trade unions must use their power to stop Assange’s extradition to the USA!
HOME SECRETARY Patel has not been humbled in the slightest by the decision of the European Human Rights Court to consider that her attempt...
Organise a general strike for the nationalisation of plants facing closure!
ECONOMIC activity declined by 0.8 per cent over the three months to the end of June, a fall of 5.6 per cent in Gross...
Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions
THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...
Pentagon rails against the ‘Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act!’
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has issued a warning that legislation allowing families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia...
Unite must stop Heathrow to win the BA struggle!
Striking British Airways cabin crew began another five days of strike action last night. On the eve of the action BA cabin crew told...
Capitalist governments crumble as crisis deepens!
ALL over the capitalist world, governments and administrations of all kinds are crumbling, as the deepening of the world crisis of capitalism sharpens the...
Defeat Cameron’s Savage Cuts With A General Strike
PRIME Minister David Cameron promised yesterday that there are ‘painful cuts ahead’ that will last for years, and that he would be carrying out...
This Is A War That Has To Be Won!
UNITE co-leader Tony Woodley stated yesterday that it was not possible to get an agreement with BA and cancel the BA cabin crew...
Tories plan to scrap hospitals and treat people at home
YESTERDAY, the Tories announced their latest ploy to try and convince the country that in the face of all the evidence they actually support...
Tories to slash benefits to unemployed & sick
TORY Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government unveiled its plans to target the unemployed and others on benefits, depriving them of their entitlements, or...
Imperialist Crisis Deepens In The Middle East!
PALESTINIANS are demanding that the US-sponsored ‘peace talks’ with Israel are called off after Israeli troops murdered three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank,...
Workers must force TUC to call a general strike to bring down the Labour government...
YESTERDAY, Israeli defence minister Israel Katz issued a statement that announced a massive capture of territory in the Gaza Strip that will be added...
US raises the stakes by signing missile deal with Poland
THE US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tbilisi yesterday for talks with the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. Her mission was to get...