Academy head earns £500,000 while over half of multi-academy chains are going bust
THE TORY policy of forcing every school in England to become academies and turn the entire education system into a profit-making business has created...
UN Security Council passes resolution to put Trump in supreme control of Gaza
ON MONDAY, the United Nations Security Council voted by 13 to 0 to pass a US-drafted resolution that effectively puts president Donald Trump in...
Millions face fuel poverty – Nationalise the energy industry
Yesterday’s report by the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group (FPAG) that 300,000 households will be plunged into fuel poverty by Christmas is not just a scandal...
IMF: World faces £9.5tn Covid bill as capitalism crashes into bankruptcy
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned yesterday that the Covid-19 crisis could cost the global economy a staggering £9.5 trillion in the biggest hit...
PM And Chancellor Sunak Forced To Self Isolate As Labour Continues Its Support For...
THE Prime Minister and Chancellor are to ‘now self-isolate as normal’ after both met with Health Secretary Sajid Javid who had tested positively for...
Obama Looking For ‘Partners’
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S annual State of the Union speech was dominated by the internal situation of US capitalism, and his search for Republican partners...
Johnson pledges to send British troops to fight Russia in Nordic countries!
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson fancies himself as the ‘great dictator’. On Wednesday, he pledged to send British troops to defend Sweden and Finland from...
Labour to ‘relax’ restrictions on banks risking massive increase in house repossessions!
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is committing the Labour government to follow in the footsteps of US president Donald Trump by enthusiastically embracing policies to...
Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova heading for huge upheavals!
THE Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, travelled to Brussels yesterday morning to sign, along with Georgia and Moldova, the ‘partnership’ agreement with the European Union. It...
Tories and military show contempt for Parliament
THE ‘sovereign will’ of parliament was shown to be a complete fiction with the exposure of the participation of British pilots in bombing raids...
World bankers meet in Washington as crisis erupts across the capitalist financial system
THE JOINT annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank is taking place in Washington this week under conditions of...
Putin draws a line and issues a warning over imperialist war preparations
RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin slammed the Western powers in his annual end-of-year press conference yesterday, telling the assembled journalists that Russia was cheated by...
Workers hit by inflation leap and huge jobs crisis
THE UK Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate rose sharply to 3.4% in March from 3% the month before, official figures show. The Retail...
War on homeless must be answered with a revolution against the ruling class!
A WAR on homeless people has begun, with moves to make begging illegal, effectively criminalising poverty, while using the police to drive homeless people...
NHS leaders in Scotland come out in the open with plans to destroy the...
THE BBC yesterday revealed that NHS leaders in Scotland have been discussing setting up a ‘two-tier’ health service. These discussions were recorded in draft minutes...
Tahrir Square demonstrators stand fast against army command and secret police attacks
AFTER the dictator Mubarak’s insistence, on Tuesday night, that he will remain president of Egypt until next September, the ‘managed change’ for Egypt, favoured...
Tesco & Next Make Bryant Run
THE shadow minister for immigration, Bryant, yesterday ran away from confronting Tesco and Next over employing migrant workers at reduced wages in place of...
Reject Tory fake pledges on NHS funding – Only Socialism will guarantee the NHS
THE SURPRISE announcement by Theresa May on Sunday that the Tories had plans to put £20 billion of extra funding into the NHS over...
Sustainability & Transformation Plans mean NHS cuts and privatisation! Kick the Tories out!
THE TORY government has launched its new offensive in the war against the NHS, and this time it is an attack by stealth. Sustainability and...
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...
Kerry Calls In Stalinist Bureaucracy To ‘Resolve’ Syrian Crisis
IN its hour of need – with Syria resisting massively the attempt at ‘regime change’ organised by the US-UK-Turkey axis, and carried out by...
Johnson and Sunak are criminals – kick them out along with the rest of...
PM JOHNSON made it clear on Tuesday night that he has no intention of resigning despite the fact that he has become the first...
Bush, Blair Admit Stupidity And Incompetence
PRESIDENT Bush and Premier Blair have admitted their chronic incompetence over the prosecution of the war in Iraq, and have appealed to the rest...
Smash Universal Credit by smashing the Tories
ON WEDNESDAY this week, the Tory government whipped its MPs to vote down a motion from the Labour Party calling for the release of...
Mervyn King The Bankrupt Representative 0F A Bankrupt Social System!
ON Wednesday night, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, delivered a speech that amounted to little more than an extensive...
World Trembles At Prospect Of US Rate Rise!
JAMES Bullard, the head of the St Louis Fed, told a recent City Week Forum in London that investors are far too complacent and...
Nationalise Land Rover and Jaguar to defend wages and jobs
THE Alchemy Partners gang of asset-strippers have got Land Rover and Jaguar in their sights, now that cash-strapped Ford is ready to sell off...
Greek Crisis To Explode All Over Europe!
AS 100,000 workers marched through Athens on May Day, and tens of thousands marched through large numbers of Greek towns and villages, it...
Putin Makes An Offer To Africa That The Capitalists Are Incapable Of Making!
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has told a summit of African leaders that Russia will give them tens of thousands of tonnes of grain within...
Cameron supervised the destruction of Guardian hard drives
THE picture painted by Home Secretary May of the police doing their duty in the Snowden affair, as they saw it, without any government...
Teachers Vote For General Strike
AT THEIR annual conference last Saturday the NUT (National Union of Teachers) passed a resolution committing the union to a strike ballot over attacks...
All out behind the firefighters
Today, the London FBU are staging the first of two eight hour strikes against the plans to sack the entire workforce of over 5,000...
Saddam Murder Within Days
THE decision to hang the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, and also the Iraqi Vice-President, Taha Yasin Ramadan – whose sentence was increased from life...
Workers must support Russia – the US-UK trade unions must stop war drive by...
FOR SOME weeks the UK and US ruling classes have been telling the world that Russia is just waiting to invade the Ukraine, that...
Tenants face mass evictions
TENANTS receiving housing benefit have been issued with eviction notices by the largest ‘buy-to-let’ private landlord in the country. Fergus Wilson, who owns 1,000 properties...
Tories In Biggest Ever Crisis! Force TUC To Call General Strike To Boot Them...
THE TORY Party is now in its biggest ever crisis, after the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Health Secretary both resigned on Tuesday...
Osborne’s capitulation to banks
Yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, introduced legislation on banking reforms – reforms which he is desperately trying to insist will prevent the continuing...
Second wave drives deaths up by 98%! Get rid of capitalism now … it’s...
THE SECOND wave of coronavirus has hit the UK with devastating consequences, and the Tory government’s efforts at bringing in measures to curb the...
The UK Army Drive To Recruit Youth Is Stepped Up As The Crisis Of...
THE BRITISH armed forces, especially the army, are making a big turn to recruit youth, with military colleges springing up everywhere. More than one-in-10 new...
Keep Tories Out – Forward To Socialism!
THE UK capitalist economy is staggering along the bottom with a three month ‘growth’ to show, from January to March, of 0.2 per cent. The...
Starmer Wants To Impose EU Laws Onto The UK Working Class
PM SIR KEIR STARMER has just unveiled legislation that will give the power to the PM to adopt EU legislation without giving MPs a...
Capitalist state kept quiet about illegal phone tapping
METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has ordered a senior officer to ‘establish the facts’ – concerning the knowledge that the police had –...
As Syria burns the Israeli regime intensifies its repressions of the Palestinians
THE Palestinian Minister of Finance, Shukri Bishara, has just addressed members of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) in New York, telling it that...
Carney and May fall out on the high wire with a huge gale...
BANK of England Governor Carney has fallen out with PM May telling her that he will not take orders from politicians on what the...
American Terrorists Launch Murderous Attack On Syria
SYRIA has protested angrily to both the US and Iraq after a terror raid by four US helicopters inside its territory killed eight Syrian...