Bankers fumble in the dark
‘THE recession has. . . certainly presented us with plenty of puzzles,’ says the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Charles Bean. Addressing the...
Tory war on two fronts against Russia and working class at home
THE RUSSIAN army on Saturday accused the UK of being involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and that the same...
Rashid Rauf Freed – ‘Bomb Plot’ Collapses
A PAKISTANI judge yesterday ruled that there was no evidence to try Rashid Rauf on terrorist charges, or that he was a member...
Inflation here to stay and global banking system faces collapse
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday produced its latest report on the state of the world capitalist financial system, in which it warned that...
Forward with the Iranian Workers Revolution!
SINCE the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran began, US President Donald Trump has claimed Iran’s military has been ‘degraded’ and that the war...
Slum landlords flourish under the Tory attack on council housing
A ‘ROGUE’ landlord has been threatened by a judge with nine years in jail if he doesn’t pay a record-breaking £1.5 million fine for...
Brown–Miliband Crocodile Tears For Gaza
ISRAELI air raids are pounding the Gaza Strip for a fourth day. At the same time Gaza is being shelled from the sea by...
Trump sends 15,000 troops to Mexican border – threatening to open fire on migrants!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump spat on the Statue of Liberty this week and the revolutionary history of the United States, especially its call from...
Tory donor to head Ofsted
WHEN the Tory education minister, Michael Gove, dumped the Labour peer Sally Morgan from her post as Chair of Ofsted, last January, his action...
Defend the right to strike with a general strike to bring down the Tory...
YESTERDAY the RMT rail workers trade union warned that an all-out assault on workers’ rights was taking place as BA used the Network Rail...
No Fees Or Loans And Restore Student Grants For All!
AFTER Blair and Brown abolished students’ grants and introduced a regime of fee paying for university education – putting an end to free university...
Tunisian Revolution Brings Down Interior Minister
TUNISIAN President Ben Ali has dismissed his interior minister and ordered the release of most of those detained during the current clashes over food...
Hague, Cameron will join Obama’s war on Syria
PRIME MINISTER Cameron and Foreign Secretary Hague, despite the fact that the Tory cabinet and party are split on the issue, yesterday gave their...
Capitalism plunging into catastrophic banking crash – time to put it out of its...
LAST Friday the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed and its assets seized by the American Federal Reserve in the biggest banking crash...
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...
100,000 Youth Lay Siege To Parliament!
YESTERDAY huge masses of youth marched on the House of Commons, which was deciding to bring in tuition fees of £9,000 a year, turning...
Bush In Middle East To Organise New War Against Hezbollah
US President George W Bush has arrived in the Middle East and has vowed to bolster up the Lebanese army and to tackle Hezbollah,...
Netanyahu turning the screws on Palestinians to the point of revolution!
THE Israeli Netanyahu regime is now working hard at its programme for the ‘final solution’ to the question of Palestine and the Palestinians. The Palestinian...
Thirteen insurgents hung – Rumsfeld looks forward to a civil war
THE Iraqi puppet authorities have hung 13 people accused of taking part in the insurgency, the first execution of militant nationalists since the US-led...
Magna to sack 10,000 – Woodley congratulates Mandelson and Brown
THE Unite trade union leadership has reacted to the news that GM has handed over GM Europe to Magna, in a deal bankrolled by...
Put up with the Tories for five years and don’t strike, says Miliband
THE new Labour Party leader Ed Miliband spelt out yesterday his intention to act as a tame and loyal leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition,...
Revolution Throughout Europe!
WITH the EU’s bankers and bosses spurring him on, Greece’s ‘socialist’ leader, Papandreou, has vowed to tackle the country’s economic crisis and impose the...
Liz Truss speech calls for ‘new’ party to wage class war against working class!
IT was almost exactly one year ago that the then Tory prime minister Liz Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered a mini-budget that...
Blair will ‘run criminals out of the country’
IT was Mussolini who said that he would drive the Mafia out of Italy and send it packing to the United States. Mussolini went...
28th anniversary of declaration of Palestinian independence!
SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saed Erekat said yesterday that the international community has failed in its responsibility to correct the...
Wall Street heading for a crash
THE US Wall Street is fast heading for a crash according to the Bank of America (BoA) as the huge speculative bubble on the...
British government inquiry into ‘complicity in torture’ is a fraud
ON Wednesday the government published the Evidence Protocol for the ‘inquiry’ into allegations of British complicity in torture – a year after the inquiry...
Cameron abuses Corbyn, pledges to end social housing and announces an end to ‘passive...
AFTER Theresa May’s vintage Tory beat-and-beat-again speech on Tuesday to the Tory Party conference, treating migrants as the enemy and rating their contribution...
Capitalist State Tooling Up F0R Civil War
A SCOTLAND YARD review into the 2010 summer riots ‘Four Days in August’ shows very clearly that the capitalist state in the UK...
Tories, stepping up their war on junior doctors, are putting patients and the NHS...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) on Tuesday wrote a letter to Health Secretary Hunt making a ‘clear offer’ to cancel the junior...
Greek Crisis Set To Explode Under Eu!
GREECE’S Syriza government has drawn up its plan to renegotiate with the EU. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won a confidence vote on Tuesday evening,...
Oil companies fight to carve up Libya
IT HAS not taken long for the hyenas of the giant oil companies to descend on Libya’s oil and gas resources intent on both...
Labour Defence Secretary sends a message to Moscow
THE defence review will send a ‘message to Moscow’ about Britain’s ‘readiness to fight if required’, Defence Secretary John Healey has told the BBC. Ripping...
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...
Tories and Labour get ready for more state repressions
HOME Secretary Theresa May said yesterday that thousands of people are potentially at risk of being radicalised in the UK. ...
Victory to the Palestinians; forward to the Palestinian state; drive imperialism out of the...
FIERCE clashes are continuing between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth organised in Popular Committees across all of the West Bank districts. The Palestinian Red Crescent...
People forced into debt to pay for private treatment as Tories slash the NHS!
69,000 PEOPLE were forced to pay for private medical treatment in the final three months of last year, according to figures from the Private...
Opportunist union leaders sell public sector workers’ future
OPPORTUNIST trade union leaders in the health, education and civil service sectors yesterday sold out the future of public sector workers by agreeing that...
Brown must stop supporting the Rajapaksa government that murders Tamils
THE Brown government rails on about ‘breaches of human rights’ allegedly taking place in Zimbabwe and Burma, and makes all kinds of allegations...
Trump’s war on Venezuela draws condemnation from China and Russia
Russia and China have both expressed their support for Venezuela as it confronts a US blockade of oil tankers entering or leaving the country...
Greek workers defy Troika
ON Sunday the Greek working class, youth and rural poor delivered a hammer blow to bankers and the capitalist system when it defied all...
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...
Class war sharpening – unions need new leaders
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister, Cameron, was warning the BAA Unite workers that they must not strike. This was at least six hours before the result...
Economic collapse driving US capitalism towards war with China
AT THE end of January, $1 trillion was wiped off the value of America’s leading high-tech companies – the so called ‘Magnificent Seven’ –...
Even Tory press admit British capitalism facing ruin – socialist revolution only answer for...
IF TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak harboured any hope that Wednesday’s spending review would reassure anyone that British capitalism could be rescued from complete ruin...