The BoE and Brown gamble with workers wages jobs, homes and pensions
THE Bank of England yesterday launched its government-backed scheme to allow the major banks to swap their dodgy mortgages for UK Treasury Bonds, in...
DRIVE THE MAY GOVERNMENT OUT! MARCH ON PARLIAMENT ON JULY 1st!
THE May government has now entered the world of the surreal. It has just about been able to schedule a Queen’s Speech of sorts...
Coalition in crisis, bring it down
The disarray, confusion and splits within the Tory/LibDem coalition government were brought out sharply over Monday’s announcement by Tory chancellor, George Osborne, that he...
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 ...
Irish TUC mass demo puts Barber and Woodley to shame!
120,000 trade unionists and their supporters, including over a hundred workers who are part of the occupation of the Waterford Crystal plant, marched through...
Defeat the Education Bill – no to an education market
THE government has published its Education Bill, with up to 100 Labour MPs still opposed to it. The Education and Inspection Bill allows schools in...
Rudd refuses inquiry into state attack on miners at Orgreave!
HOME Secretary Amber Rudd told MPs on Monday in the House of Commons that a review into the police attack on pickets during the...
Geneva Conference Must Not Impose ‘Transitional Regime’ On Syria
THE Syrian people and their supporters worldwide must be on the alert to see that the victories the Syrian masses and their army have...
Dannatt would not use Lariam, but permitted it to be used on thousands...
FORMER Army chief of staff Lord Dannatt has apologised on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme for allowing British troops to take an anti-malaria drug...
Labour Pushes For Pensions War
MORE than half a million civil servants are to be told that they will have to pay a lot more towards their pensions. This is...
840,000 tenants are facing eviction over rent arrears – only socialist revolution can stop...
A REPORT by the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has warned of a ‘rent debt crisis’ as up to 840,000 people in England and...
Starmer is making the poor pay for the crisis. The TUC must strike to...
FOLLOWING the failure of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ panic visit to beg, or borrow, £600 million from China, the Labour government of Keir Starmer is...
Sunak kicks out Braverman – time to kick out the Tories by forcing the...
YESTERDAY, the Sunak government finally got round to sacking Suella Braverman as home secretary, immediately replacing her with James Cleverly. In a surprise move, kept...
Tuc Leaders Are Betraying The Working Class
THE 150,000 workers who turned out in London on Saturday, as well as the thousands in Glasgow and Belfast, represent a massive change...
Home Office is ‘institutionally racist’! The way to end the ‘hostile environment’ is to...
THE HOME Office is ‘institutionally racist’. This is the verdict of the first draft of the ‘lessons learned’ review by Wendy Williams, HM Inspector...
Zionist state disintegrating over failure to defeat Palestinian resistance
THE disintegration of the Zionist regime is becoming more and more public as reports emerge that over 100,000 Israelis have stopped showing up for...
Johnson Getting Ready To Follow Trump, End The Lockdown And Bring In Millions Of...
THE MASSIVE ‘Black Lives Matter’ marches this weekend saw millions of workers internationally and tens of thousands of youth and workers in the UK...
Education cuts and £9,000 fees destroying the future for youth
AFTER record A-Level results, hundreds of thousands of students will be refused university places this year because of the coalition’s savage cuts policy. After being...
No Sell-Out Deal With Eu! Forward To Socialism In The UK And To The...
THE government of Boris Johnson has reached decision point over the EU. It is to be made under conditions of a growing and terrible...
Toxic Tories lash out at immigrants and the poor
PEOPLE who do not speak fluent English will be barred from public sector jobs which involve working directly with the public, the government has...
US Class Struggle Sharpens
THE TWU Local 100, the New York transit union, is on strike and has picked up the gauntlet flung down by Mayor Bloomberg, the...
Forward To Jerusalem!
THE Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday that eight Security Council members are guaranteed to vote in favour of the Palestinian bid for full...
Pre-empt savage cuts with a general strike!
LIB DEM leader Nick Clegg has reiterated his original claim there will need to be ‘savage’ spending cuts. Clegg put forward the same...
General strike shakes the Rajapaksa regime! Forward to workers power!
LAST Thursday, the Sri Lankan capital Colombo was halted as hundreds of thousands of trade unionists and their supporters took to the streets in...
The only way to ‘fix’ the care system crisis is to ‘fix’ capitalism with...
TORY PM Boris Johnson yesterday unveiled his strategy for ‘fixing’ the country’s ‘broken social care system’. Central to his plan is to increase National Insurance...
Strike wave intensifies this week – now is the time to call a general...
Today, over 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies are continuing national strike action called by the RMT union over pay,...
Capitalist financial markets instruct Reeves to make billions of pounds cuts to welfare!
THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), an influential independent economic think-tank that dispenses ‘advice’ on financial matters to the government, has weighed in this...
Rates On Hold As Economy Folds!
UK interest rates were kept on hold at 0.5% yesterday, the 26th month in a row that the Bank of England has left interest...
BA CRISIS – no to sackings and wage cuts – Renationalise!
BRITISH Airways has decided to cut 1,700 jobs and introduce a two-year pay freeze for cabin crew. It also intends to discuss wage cuts...
Johnson’s answer to recession – sell off social housing!
TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared in Blackpool yesterday to deliver what was billed as his great ‘reset speech’, to shore up his leadership...
Afghan defeat for UK imperialism – now smash them at home
AN influential group of MPs have finally admitted publicly what everyone already knows – that the invasion of Afghanistan by NATO troops, led by...
EU in crisis – forward with the European socialist revolution
The crisis of European capitalism is so severe that it has driven the bourgeoisie to tear at each other’s throats in a frenzy of...
Greek crisis rages – forward with European socialist revolution
European finance ministers met in Brussels yesterday to rubber-stamp the deal agreed at the last minute last Thursday to bail-out the bankrupt Greek economy...
ICC prosecutor ‘equates the victim with the executioner’ in proposing arrest warrants for Israeli...
YESTERDAY, Karim Khan KC, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), issued a statement proposing that arrest warrants be issued for Israeli...
Good Riddance To Campbell – Now Chuck Out All The ‘Lib Dem Lovers’ Before...
THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Labour Party was absolutely correct to expel Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former ‘spin doctor’, for voting...
Pensioners and workers will unite to demand a general strike to end Tory attack...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak this week put every pensioner in the country on notice that along with workers they will be forced to pay...
Cut in interest rates by the Fed will accelerate capitalism’s world crash
THE US CENTRAL Federal Reserve Bank on Wednesday performed an abrupt U-turn on its policy of attempting to hold back the vast amount of...
Socialist revolution only answer to capitalist debt crisis
Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves was making her pitch yesterday to the bankers and business bosses that any future Labour government would be a...
Labour Must Expel The Splitters And Battle For A Corbyn-Led Government!
SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell has revealed he is ‘worried and saddened’ about the prospect of the Labour Party being split by the fake ‘Labour...
TUC must call a general strike to expropriate the bosses and put an end...
MATT WRACK, the President of the TUC and the general secretary of the FBU, correctly said on election day, July 4th, that Labour’s post-election...
ROYAL MAIL PRIVATISATION WILL BE RESISTED – says postal workers leader
A LONDON postal workers’ leader yesterday warned the government they will face massive opposition, if they go ahead and try to break Labour’s election...
Taleban at the gates of Islamabad, says Clinton
US IMPERIALISM is now beating the war drums as far as military intervention into Pakistan is concerned, with its leading officials ‘warning the world’...
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...
Swiss National Bank puts the skids under the euro
DEFLATION ran amok yesterday as Tullow Oil wrote off $2.2bn (£1.45bn), a direct result of the oil price collapse after the World Bank warned...
The US and UK are letting Israel do its worst! Now is the time...
THE US ruling class, Israel’s chief backer, supplying it with the most modern weaponry and a blank cheque to do its worse to the...