UK economy is crashing into bankruptcy under the impact of the world capitalist crisis!
ONLY two weeks into 2025 and the capitalist world is reeling from an economic crisis of historic proportions – a crisis that has completely...
Bma Must Throw Out Tory Health Plans!
GPs have already expressed their opposition to the Coalition plan to privatise the NHS being pushed into law by Health Secretary Lansley. They have...
War criminals meet in Brussels
THE imperialist criminal states – who supported the war on Iraq in 2003, the Security Council-backed NATO onslaught on Libya in 2011, and then...
Lecturers 76% ‘Yes’ for strike – 37 Universities to come out! All unions must...
UNIVERSITY lecturers and staff across the country have voted for strike action with an overwhelming 76% ‘YES’ vote. It means 37 universities will join...
Take action to defeat Labour’s plan to smash the NHS
THE leaking of Department of Health (DoH) documents, including ‘Pay and Workforce Strategy for 2008-11’, reveals the Labour government’s plan to slash NHS...
Tory government a ‘dying administration’ – put it out of its misery with a...
YESTERDAY, NHS England was due to publish the Tory blueprint for dealing with the huge NHS backlog and reducing the record six million patients...
Scrap the Public Private Partnership on the tube
METRONET, the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) within London Underground, has collapsed financially after years of failure to provide services required by the capital’s transport system. It...
Get ready for the crash – capitalism is ringing the alarm bells!
ALARMED by the impending crash of over-valued world stock markets, the deputy governor of the Bank of England (BoE) warned investors yesterday to prepare...
Heseltine Looks To Corbyn’s Labour To Stop Brexit!
MICHAEL HESELTINE, a Tory Deputy Prime Minister under John Major and a notorious enemy of the trade unions, has revealed that he prefers a...
Trump announces 5-day pause on military strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure
THE WORLD’S stock markets plunged upon opening yesterday morning following US president Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Iran that it had 48 hours to open...
US-UK Plays Sectarian Card In Iraq
YESTERDAY the role model for US-UK imperialism was Pontius Pilate, as the US military and Prime Minister Blair sought to wash their hands of...
Oil crisis plunging Capitalism into global recession
YESTERDAY the BBC published on its website an interview with Larry Fink, boss of the US financial giant BlackRock, in which he gave the...
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...
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...
May Government ‘Hanging By A Thread’ – Cme Rings The Alarm Bells For World...
THE WORLD’S capitalists are ringing the alarm bells at the prospect that the May government will fall. The US CME Group that owns and operates...
Students across the US rise up against genocidal war in Gaza showing the way...
STUDENTS across America have risen up against the barbaric genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza and in support of Palestine in a...
Class Relati0Ns Sharpen In The Usa!
POLICE in the US state of Missouri, in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, are continuing to clash with protesters nightly, amid growing anger...
Rajapakse And His Backers Will Not Defeat The Tamil People
YESTERDAY the imperialist-backed Rajapakse regime was claiming to have killed the LTTE leadership, including Velupillai Prabakaran, and that the struggle is now over. Its...
Tories Splitting Over Eu Crisis!
WHETHER British capitalism should remain within the crisis-ridden, sinking ship of the EU, or strike out on its own has immediately split the Tory...
Brown’s gold sales lost the Bank of England £3.8bn
A DECADE ago, on May 7, 1999, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced plans to sell off a large part of Britain’s gold reserves. This was...
Revolution Erupts In Syria As Fuel Prices Are Increased By 25% To 40% –...
LARGE scale protests have erupted in Syria after the ruling Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) regime raised fuel prices again.
The HTS oil ministry announced that...
The US And The Eu Are The Gangsters
WE are currently witnessing the greatest eruption of vilification against Russia and its leadership since the Fulton speech by Winston Churchill on March...
Iraq’s US dictated constitution – divisive, sectarian and no right to strike
THE attempt by the US to foist its version of a ‘constitution’ onto Iraq, in alliance with a section of the Shi’ite clergy and...
Workers must give full support to hospital doctors’ strikes and defend the NHS!
THE NHS’s three main groups of hospital doctors in England are set to coordinate their strike action in an escalation of their campaign for...
US facing complete humiliation in Afghanistan!
US Secretary of State John Kerry has had to make an emergency trip to Afghanistan where the much vaunted democratic...
597 homeless deaths, 130,000 homeless children! Slum landlords and capitalism must be got rid...
FIVE hundred and ninety-seven homeless people died on the streets of Britain last year, up from 482 the year before – in fact homeless...
Ending the capitalist crisis needs more than reformist policies
JOHN McDONNELL the newly appointed Labour shadow chancellor, made his first speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday outlining the ‘new economics’ that he...
US Ruling Class Offers Iran A Rotten Deal
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday said that the US would talk to Iran if it will suspend its nuclear programme. Rice made...
German and UK military chiefs say ‘we must rearm’ and prepare for war with...
BRITAIN and Germany’s highest ranking military chiefs have just made an unprecedented joint appeal to the workers of Europe to accept the ‘moral case’...
NHS cuts and closures hitting millions while NHS England hands out goodies to the...
PULSE, the GPs’ magazine, has done a great service for all NHS users by using the Freedom of Information Act to find out how...
UK continuing to stab the Chagossians in the back
THE WikiLeaks revelations prove once again that British imperialism, although greatly weakened, remains just as poisonous and rotten as ever. This comes out clearly in...
Balls promises more cuts under Labour
THE shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, made his keynote speech to the annual conference of the Labour Party yesterday setting out the economic policy of...
Obama Attempts To Ride The Revolutionary Tiger
IN his speech on Thursday, President Obama made it clear that the United States is currently attempting to ride the tiger of revolution. He said:...
Taxation Slump Hits Labour!
A WEEK ago the Chairman of the Bank of England, King, suggested that those who said they were seeing the ‘green shoots of recovery’...
Keep The Military Out Of Schools
THE BROWN government is now beating the big drum of patriotism, a quality that has often been termed as the ‘last refuge of a...
The bosses are dumping their crisis onto the backs of workers. It is time...
YESTERDAY nine members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase the interest rate from 1.25% to 1.75%. This is the sixth...
One country two social systems breeding counter-revolution in China
THE Hong Kong pro-democracy protests have now moved into their second week. The Hong Kong Federation of Students withdrew from planned negotiations on Friday, accusing...
Tories are bringing in savage anti-union laws to police the working class as they...
THE GOVERNMENT has announced what it says is one of the biggest bonfires of financial regulations to allow the City of London to rule...
Britain Heads For Revolutionary Situation
BRITAIN is now being run by a weakened and discredited Blair government, which is however determined to speed up its right wing course and...
Egypt must keep open Gaza’s Rafah crossing!
THE Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which has been closed for the past five months, was opened for two days at...
Labour Becomes The Anti-Immigrants Party
THE number of immigrants allowed into the UK under the current ‘points system’ will have to be reduced because of the economic crisis, and...
Bush and Congress head-to-head
THE House of Representatives in the United States voted by 218 votes to 208 on Wednesday for a Bill to end the US occupation...
10.3% For Everybody! – Ipsa Shows The Way
EMBARRASSED MPs are appealing to Downing Street to make a new appeal to the IPSA body that sets MPs’ pay to abandon plans for...
Banks learnt nothing from the 2008 crash as world debt and UK credit card...
RBS, still over 70% state-owned, is the worst prepared of the UK’s biggest banks to cope with the next financial crisis, a crisis which...
Close Down The US Base On Diego Garcia!
FOREIGN Secretary Miliband yesterday admitted in the House of Commons that previous government denials that the island of Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands...