HSBC new ‘dirty money’ laundering allegations
THE HSBC bank, the biggest bank in Europe, says it is looking into allegations that it has set up a large number of offshore...
McDonnell wants a corporatist deal with the capitalists!
SHADOW Chancellor McDonnel’s speech to the Labour Party conference was remarkable for its lack of treatment of the crisis of capitalism. He focused...
Time To Get The Tories Out!
CAMERON’S great achievement thus far has been to use the capitalist slump to push society backwards so that the rich are getting richer and...
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...
Unite must stop Heathrow to win the BA struggle!
Striking British Airways cabin crew began another five days of strike action last night. On the eve of the action BA cabin crew told...
Turkey And Libya Prepare For Med Oil War Against Greece, And Egypt!
AN EXPLOSIVE situation that threatens all-out war between the NATO powers is fast developing in the Mediterranean region in a struggle to seize the...
Labour To Slash The Benefits Of The Sick And The ‘Suspect’
The Labour government is absolutely determined to impress its big business backers and show them that it is ready to take action against ‘slackers’...
The US is being humiliated in Iraq – not Saddam
IT IS the United States of America that is being humiliated in Iraq and not Saddam Hussein. The idea that putting pictures – provided by...
US crisis intensifies!
THE US dollar, reflecting the crisis of the US capitalist economy, is now sinking fast against both the euro and the pound sterling. Rising...
Israeli-American war on Palestine and Iran paves the way for the victory of the...
THE current Israeli-American ruling class war on Iran and Palestine is continuing for the twentieth consecutive day, amid a marked escalation in the pace,...
Labour’s drive for Foundation Trusts and privatisation kills!
The Royal College of Nursing has described the Healthcare Commission’s investigation into emergency care at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust as ‘shocking’ and said that...
Student nurses to be forced to pay for training!
THE results of the ‘consultation’ launched by the Tories on the 7th April on the proposal to end NHS funded bursaries for student...
Mass Unemployment And Poverty Is All Capitalism Has To Offer Workers And Youth!
THE NUMBER of people claiming unemployment benefit in the UK soared to 2.1 million in April – the first full month of the coronavirus...
Benn Forecasts Coalition Government
LABOUR Party left winger Tony Benn yesterday raised that Tony Blair and David Cameron could serve in each other’s cabinets and the possibility of...
Chinese and Russian Stalinists are getting burnt by the crisis
THE Chinese Stalinists are now paying an enormous price for linking their fate with that of US capitalism. First of all they declared parts of...
NEC declares war on Labour Party members with the support of the Law Courts
THE Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Labour Party right wing and against Labour Party democracy last Friday afternoon, when it banned...
Lebanon and Iraq erupt as masses demand political overthrow of their governments
LEBANON erupted over the weekend with renewed clashes between thousands of demonstrators and security forces on Sunday following violent clashes in Beirut on Saturday...
Defend jobs, pay & services: Lobby the TUC! Build councils of action!
THE Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee decided yesterday to make no change in its base interest rate and to leave it at...
Tory GP funding formula robs the poor and gives to the rich
A STUDY published this week in the British Journal of General Practice shines a searchlight on one of the main causes of ‘health inequality’...
Grenfell Inquiry bans survivors and relatives while safety experts didn’t even bother to read...
GRENFELL survivors and relatives of the 72 people killed in the Grenfell Tower inferno are furious that they have been excluded from the inquiry...
Coalition Crushed In Barnsley!
THURSDAY’S by-election in Barnsley Central constituency didn’t just humiliate the LibDems, it drove a stake through the heart of the Tories’ coalition partner and...
Miliband quits and Balls is beaten as bankrupt reformism crumbles!
THE general election saw the Labour Party completely routed in Scotland and humiliated in parts of England – a result that spells the complete...
Red Cross confirms that the Afghan ‘Black Hole’ does exist
THE Red Cross has confirmed that the US airbase at Bagram does contain a prison within a prison, complete with a torture chamber, that...
The Real Tory Voice Speaks Out
THE declaration by Tory grandee, Lord Young – a key member of the Thatcher and Major governments that fought the NUM and supported Murdoch’s...
Localism Bill a cover for mass sackings and privatisation
YESTERDAY saw the Tory-led coalition finally unveil its so-called ‘Localism Bill’, which is central to its plans to make massive cuts in local government...
Blair backs Israel’s blitz on Lebanon
PRIME Minister Blair made clear yesterday that the Labour government is not calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war on the Lebanon. Instead, Blair...
The Tory recovery is a fraud! Time to bring them down!
UK registered unemployment from April to June 2015 was at 1.85 million, up 25,000 from the previous quarter while the ONS figures showed that...
Working class will refuse to pay the bill for the huge historic crisis of...
CHANCELLOR Hunt, and Prime Minister Sunak are set to dump the whole historic crisis of out-of-date and senile British capitalism onto the backs of...
TUC Leader O’Grady To Quit – TUC Must Organise General Strike For June 18th!
THE General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Frances O’Grady, is to step down after nine inglorious years at the helm of the...
Starmer crisis deepens – TUC must be forced to call a general strike to...
BELEAGUERED Labour prime minister Keir Starmer is chairing an emergency meeting of the COBRA committee today, where he will warn that the impact on...
TUC must take a stand against Israeli genocide and the anti-union laws by calling...
ON Tuesday night, the United Nations General Assembly vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza was passed overwhelmingly with 10 countries, led by the...
Imperialist aggression is the roots of terrorism
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that there is to be more new repressive legislation, on top of the huge powers that the government and...
TUC must be made to call mass demonstrations and a general strike to bring...
PM Johnson yesterday fled the country to go to the Ukraine, where he will be able to adopt what he hopes will be a...
New right-wing party to replace Tories being organised as spectre of revolution haunts British...
AS THE Tory Party continues to disintegrate by the hour, demands from the ruling class for a new right-wing party to emerge from the...
Murdoch Empire Still Remains To Be Broken
PRIME Minister Cameron used his usual tactic at prime minister’s questions yesterday, when asked why he brought a criminal into 10 Downing Street...
Corbyn is playing the May game!
MONDAY’s speech to the Charity Commission by the unelected Tory prime minister, Theresa May, revealed the weakness of the Tory government and its intense fear...
Finland joins NATO as imperialism ramps up war drive
YESTERDAY Finland formally joined NATO, becoming the 31st member of the US-led imperialist military bloc in what NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, described as ‘The...
Private hospital forced to close surgery unit!
A DAMNING report from the Care Quality Commission into the running of a private hospital has finally emerged in public some four months after...
UK, France and Canada threats of ‘concrete action’ over starvation in Gaza driven by...
YESTERDAY Labour prime minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and Canadian prime minister Mark Carney issued what was called a stark warning to...
Moroccan Lawyers Demand Cancellation Of Israel Normalisation Deal!
MOROCCAN lawyers have severely censured the Rabat government over its recent agreement to normalise relations with Israel, and are demanding an immediate reversal of...
Russia Pledges Its Support For Serbia
DEPUTY Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was in Belgrade yesterday for talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Medvedev is...
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...
The working class must force its leaders to call a general strike to bring...
PM Sunak’s new anti-trade union legislation will make the UK one of the most difficult countries in the world to go on strike, a...
Make It ‘Doomsday’ For The Coalition Not For Council Housing
THE ‘social housing’ budget in England is to be slashed by more than 50 per cent. Up to 90 per cent of the market rent...
Puppet master Obama gives puppet Cameron’s strings a tweak
THE White House on Thursday issued a ‘Readout of the President’s Call with Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom’. The record of the phone...