Collapse of Greensill Capital – another Lehman Brothers crisis!
THE COLLAPSE of Greensill Capital, a finance company which acted as a massive lender to companies, has sent shock waves throughout the UK steel...
Bank Of England Dumps The Pound To Make The Working Class Pay For The...
THE Bank of England on Tuesday insisted that it was dumping the pound and would proceed with its decision to stop supporting the bond...
Stop The Bosses Plan To Smash Trade Unions – Recall The Tuc To...
PM Sunak yesterday accused RMT leader Mick Lynch of causing ‘misery for millions’ with the ‘cruelly timed’ pay rise walk-outs by rail workers. He...
Rate Rise Shock – Condemned As Panic By Tuc
BIG BUSINESS, the stockmarkets and the TUC were shaken yesterday midday when the Bank of England raised its interest rates by a quarter of...
Cameron At War At Home And Abroad
CAMERON’S Monday ‘European Council’ statement to parliament was all about the crisis of imperialism, its wars abroad, and dictatorship at home. He managed to discuss...
US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Agreed – Awaits Trump’s Signature!
LAST week the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said Washington is not seeking a permanent military presence in Afghanistan, after the Taliban said...
The NHS must be free and available to all at the point of need!
RECENTLY there have been a few years of increased government spending on the NHS, after many years of chronic underspending. Most of the new...
Pakistani workers & farmers pay for the imperialists’ crisis
EVERY day the number of people affected by the torrential rain and flooding in Pakistan is mounting. More than 20 million have been hit....
Capitalism Is On Its Knees – Time To Organise World Socialist Revolution!
SPEAKING at a poorly attended Scottish Labour Party conference yesterday Sir Keir Starmer said the United States ‘is right’ about the UK and Europe...
UNITE leader offers to assist Tory productivity drive
THE immediate response of the leaders of the trade unions representing public sector workers to the wage-cutting programme outlined by Osborne in this week’s...
Eu On The Brink!
THE entire capitalist economy of Europe took a decisive step towards total meltdown with the admission last Thursday that agreement on a Europeanwide bail-out...
The Iraq war, the world crisis and the socialist revolution
MARCH 2008 sees the US and UK armed forces and governments irreparably damaged as a result of their failure to subdue the Iraqi people...
Boots Joins The NHS Privatisation Drive
CHEMIST giant Boots wants to breach the NHS system by bringing GPs and consultants into its stores as part of an alleged drive to...
State Department rubbishes ‘ignorant’ Blair
A POLITICALLY ‘sick’ Prime Minister Blair was yesterday delivered another major blow, this time at the hands of the US State Department, when...
TUC warns interest rate increases driving unemployment but has no answer except to beg...
YESTERDAY the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 5.25%, the 14th time in a row that rates have been increased as the...
UK workers must support the Hamas call for action against genocide!
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in a statement on Wednesday, called on the ‘free people of the world to escalate popular protest’ against the...
Capitalist Debt Crisis Demands A Socialist Revolution!
THE deepening world capitalist crisis is poised to see entire nation states defaulting, plunging their banks into an even more desperate crisis, deepening the...
Expulsion of diplomats attempt to demonise Russia – workers know the enemy is at...
The Czech Republic on Saturday expelled 18 Russian diplomats after claiming that two alleged Russian spies were behind a deadly explosion at a Czech...
Mark Duggan was assassinated by the police says his mother
A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE was held yesterday to mark a year since the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by the...
A US Debt Default Is Behind Growing Demands To End Ukraine War!
THE White House National Security Council spokesman has sounded the alarm about the looming US debt default and the way that it is putting...
Nato Issues A Warning To Russia!
NATO’S military commander in Europe has issued a warning to Russia about the build-up of its forces on Ukraine’s border. Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Gen...
Defend All A&E’s – Stop The NHS Cuts And Closures!
THE message from Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of NHS England about the NHS crisis, is ‘what crisis?’ There are just too many...
IMF warns US banking crisis threatens stability of world capitalism!
THE IMF (International Monetary Fund) has issued another stark warning that world capitalism is at serious risk of an international financial crisis caused by...
Brown Warns Against Labour ‘Extremists’
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday did his best to hand back the political initiative to his politically battered and discredited Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...
British Imperialism Hits The Rocks! Time For Workers To Despatch It To The Dustbin...
CRISIS-RIDDEN British imperialism, split over whether to serve the European Union or the United States, is now like a ship without a rudder, and...
Replace Starmer’s anti-worker Labour regime with a workers government and socialism!
THE TUC yesterday published a poll of over 3,000 voters which showed conclusively overwhelming support for workers rights and pay increases to match the...
US Casualties Mount In Iraq
US forces in Iraq suffered 24 deaths in Iraq in May, more than any month since September 2008. The total number of US casualties since...
Trade unions must act over NHS crisis by organising a general strike
HOSPITALS across the country are already running close to 100% bed occupancy and the full effects of winter haven’t even started to impact on...
General strike to bring down Tories to end arming Israeli genocide
YESTERDAY, Israeli troops pulled out of Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, after two weeks of brutal attacks that left behind a...
Russia must intervene to drive Kiev junta out!
FOLLOWING the illegal Ukrainian presidential election – called to try and legitimise the imperialist-inspired coup – the billionaire, Petro Poroshenko, wasted no time in...
A bankrupt Tory budget for a bankrupt Britain!
CHANCELLOR Hammond outlined a bankrupt policy for a bankrupt Britain yesterday in the House of Commons. The paper-thin disguise for this bankruptcy was Hammond’s...
We are not re-running the 1970s – In the 2020s the working class will...
ONE Liam Halligan in The Sunday Telegraph has just announced: ‘Get ready for 1970s-style mass strikes.’ He writes: ‘So don’t be surprised if workers increasingly...
The Bank of England is set to embark on a series of interest rate...
THE UK has ‘no alternative’ but to hike interest rates in a bid to make borrowing much more expensive to try to slow down...
North Korea Has The Right To Self Defence
YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, condemned North Korea’s testing of an intercontinental missile that when developed will have the capacity to deliver...
THE TUC must take general strike action to support Palestine and bring in a...
‘THE report issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhry, on the Israeli-induced starvation in the Gaza Strip...
Tories retreat over junior doctors – now finish them off
THE eleventh hour climbdown by Tory health minister Jeremy Hunt over imposing new contracts on junior doctors has wounded him and exposed the weakness...
Answer Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill with a general strike to kick the...
THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets at the weekend in mass ‘kill the bill’ demonstrations across the country against the...
US pilots confronted Boeing over safety before Ethiopia crash and were ignored!
SECRET recordings have revealed that the American pilots union confronted US aircraft manufacturer Boeing about the safety of their bestselling 737 Max 8 plane...
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...
Bush Bail Out Plan Attacked By The Working Class And By The Republican Right
REPUBLICAN representatives walked out of the crisis talks with President Bush on Thursday night, denouncing him as a socialist for launching his $700 bn...
US Ruling Class Admit Strategic Defeat In Iraq
WITH 400 billion dollars already spent on digging US imperialism into a very deep hole in Iraq, the Baker committee of elder statesmen or...
Israel continues with its Gaza massacres
ISRAEL has rejected the UN security council resolution calling for a ceasefire and a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and is determined to carry...
Tories tell May she must bring in strike ban law!
SUNDAY saw the Tory Telegraph accuse PM May of ‘refusing to curb the power of striking trade unions despite a growing backlash from...
US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis and NATO to organise a war with...
PM Boris Johnson said yesterday that Ukrainians are ‘fighting heroically’ and with ‘great success’ in some places against Russian troops who have intervened to...
Labour guilty of surrender and betrayal of Brexit – build new leadership in the...
THE HOUSE of Commons erupted in an unprecedented exhibition of rage and fury by Labour MPs over Boris Johnson’s refusal to apologise for having...