‘Currency wars’ will lead to imperialist war
THE meeting of the G20 group – the 20 leading countries in the world – concluded in Seoul yesterday with the usual empty claims of...
The capitalist state tools up for the struggle against the working class
YESTERDAY, Prime Minister Blair made a written statement to the House of Commons announcing that the Home Office is to be split in two. There...
Afghan crisis deepens as deadline nears
AFGHANISTAN’S finance minister has said deadlock over the disputed presidential election has cost the economy $5bn, so far. Omar Zakhilwal has said he will have...
Death while under ‘restraint’
THE death of a 46-year-old family man being deported from Heathrow has thrown the spotlight on the entire racist immigration policy and its private...
ICJ Genocide hearing told Israel turning Gaza into ‘mass grave’ for Palestinians and aid...
THE INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice (ICJ) started its hearings yesterday on the use of humanitarian aid as ‘weapons of war’ by the Israeli regime...
Trump escalates trade war with China and prepares for a shooting war – only...
THE TRUMP administration has ratcheted up the confrontation with China with an escalation of its economic trade war, coupled with a provocative military build-up...
Fight for jobs, and against evictions and benefit cuts!
THOUSANDS more working-class families are going to their local Citizen Advice Bureau because of the effects of unemployment, debts, threatened loss of homes and...
Tory government in massive crisis – make TUC call a general strike to kick...
AT THE weekend, the Tory-supporting Telegraph newspaper published an article by its economics expert Jeremy Warner which carried the dire headline: ‘Few have woken...
Prices and unemployment increase as bosses demand workers pay the price for capitalist crisis
OVER half of UK companies are planning to push up prices in the next three months according to the latest research by the British...
UK carriers are ready to be deployed against the Houthis. UK workers must kick...
THE UK’s aircraft carriers are ready to be deployed to fight the Houthis, and to threaten war with the Iranian revolution, was the message...
EU slumps while UK inflation rises!
THE eurozone economy shrank in the third quarter from April to June by 0.2%, with France having a third consecutive quarter of no growth...
Trade unions must take general strike action in support of Palestinian masses!
THE UN’s World Food Programme has warned that Palestinians in Gaza are facing starvation after Israel launched a brutal aggression on Gaza last month....
Tories Bringing In New Police State Powers For Use Against Workers And The Trade...
THE LAW Courts are to get new police state powers to be used against striking trade unionists and protesting workers. The powers will stop the...
Unemployment at 7.7 per cent – food banks facing huge demand
UK jobless officially fell to 2.49m in the latest government figures, for the three months to August, showing a slight fall of 18,000, not...
Socialist Revolution To Put Bankrupt Bankers Out Of Their Misery
IN its latest annual report, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the ‘central bank of central banks’, has warned that capitalism is ‘defenceless’ against...
SLUMP DEEPENS – only one way out – REVOLUTION!
THE bourgeois propaganda machine was all set yesterday to spin an expected 0.04 per cent increase in GDP into a ‘the slump is over’...
Smash the anti-union laws with a general strike
LAST Sunday fifty Tory MPs demanded the government bring in even more draconian laws aimed at breaking the growing strike movement that is gaining...
Ford and GM shutting down in Europe
THE US motorcar giants GM and Ford were rescued from bankruptcy by President Obama who ‘nationalised’ them, so that the US taxpayer could get...
Netanyahu Demands A Palestinian Bantustan
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday endorsed for the first time the creation of a Palestinian state, provided it had none of the...
Warning over High Street ‘recession’
SHOP sales in May were only 1.4 per cent up on the same month in 2005. Comparing the same products and shops, sales were...
Cameron-Osborne Are No Joke!
THE row over the Tories so-called ‘pasty tax’ has become a dangerous diversion in the hands of the Labour leadership who are intent on...
Obama Compares Bp With Osama Bin Laden
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama said yesterday that the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will have the same impact on the US...
Obama’s Amnesty For Torturers – ‘They Were Just Obeying Orders’
CENTRAL Intelligence Agency employees who tortured people in the Guantanamo Bay and Bagram Bay US concentration camps as terrorist suspects held without charge or...
Anger grows against Royal Mail’s pensions onslaught
ROYAL MAIL managers have overwhelmingly rejected changes to their pensions in a ballot. Their union, Unite, revealed yesterday that there was an 85-per-cent vote...
Suicide guidelines for Jobcentres
THE leaking of new guidelines to staff working with the unemployed exposes the barbarity of the coalition government’s onslaught on the sick, vulnerable and...
Tories guarantee working class will pay for the profits of the rail privateers
YESTERDAY the Tory government announced its plans to save the profits of the private rail companies by bankrolling them for another 18 months. In March,...
Staffing cuts causing ‘avoidable’ maternal deaths
AN independent inquiry into the unusually large number of maternal deaths in London over the past two years has confirmed that the government policy of...
Bankrupt airlines need to be nationalised!
YESTERDAY BALPA, the pilots’ union, sounded the alarm at the crisis of the major airlines. This has been immeasurably sharpened by the eruption and continuing...
Scottish Power – huge profits and huge price rises
SCOTTISH Power has just reported a 95 per cent leap in its profits. It also warned its 5.2 million customers to prepare for a...
Working class will smash Johnson’s fantasies with socialist revolution
TORY prime minster Boris Johnson yesterday delivered a speech composed entirely of wishful thinking from which reality was completely excluded. In Johnson’s fairy-tale world British...
Greek Workers Have No Alternative To Revolution!
A LEAKED email sent to the Greek Ministries of Finance and Labour from the Troika mafia in Brussels says Greek private sector workers must...
After Afghan Disaster, UK Ruling Class Is Determined That UK Workers Must Pay For...
THE HUMILIATING hiding that the UK ruling class has taken from the Taliban in Afghanistan, where the US and the UK have squandered tens...
Get British troops out of Afghanistan now!
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown and Defence Secretary Des Browne yesterday sent their condolences to the families of four more British troops killed in Afghanistan...
Wall Street Crashes And With It Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy!
JUST TEN YEARS after the 2008 great banking disaster began – with the working class still paying the price for it with massively...
Woodley And Barber Know No Shame!
Trade union leaders in Europe have warned that the present ‘spectacular growth’ of the private equity venture capitalist deals is ‘unsustainable’ and ‘stoking up...
Call Goes Up For An ‘Organisation For The Maintenance Of Supplies’ As Bosses Get...
THE DAILY Telegraph yesterday called to ‘Combat strikes with contingency plans’ after observing that ‘What has been billed as a Winter of Discontent in...
Hamas urges workers of the world to march on the first anniversary of the...
THE Hamas revolutionary leadership yesterday called for organising mass marches and broad solidarity events in all cities and capitals of the world on the...
General Strike Needed To Defend The NHS!
DR MARK Porter, Chair of the British Medical Association Council, opened their annual representatives meeting with a speech that tore into the policies of...
Yates Demands A Heavily Armed Paramilitary Police Force!
BRITAIN’S top counter-terrorism officer, Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner Yates, has demanded that paramilitary police forces be established in the UK, and insists that they...
General Council must be made to resign for refusing to fight anti-union Bill!
YESTERDAY morning, the TUC commented on the vote in the House of Commons on the third reading of the Trade Union Bill, which is...
Money No Object For Privatising Schools
A REPORT published yesterday by the public spending watchdog the National Audit Office reveals the massive amount of money the Tory-led coalition is prepared...
Millions Of Workers And Youth Join The Struggle To Liberate Palestine And Establish The...
SATURDAY saw a vast crowd of 250,000 workers, including very large numbers of enthusiastic and determined youth, take to the streets of London for...
TUC leaders collaborate with bosses to try and keep the working class from kicking...
YESTERDAY, the TUC joined forces with the leaders of top business groups to beg Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the furlough scheme for...
Capitalism diving into recession and hyperinflation – time to put it out of its...
YESTERDAY morning, Tory ministers had to submit to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) their plans to impose the cuts demanded by Chancellor Jeremy...
Lobby TUC Sept 7th to demand they call a general strike now for a...
THE September strikes by RMT union members on London’s underground system are just the latest challenge to the super-austerity policies of PM Keir Starmer’s...