Inflation Letting Rip As Darling Fiddles
CONSUMER Prices Index (CPI) inflation has been driven up to 3.5 per cent in January by, amongst other factors, VAT returning to 17.5...
Banks learnt nothing from the 2008 crash as world debt and UK credit card...
RBS, still over 70% state-owned, is the worst prepared of the UK’s biggest banks to cope with the next financial crisis, a crisis which...
US raids Libyan stooges!
THE Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, put into power by a murderous NATO campaign that culminated in the murder of Colonel Gadaffi, has called...
Cameron shows his contempt for parliament
TORY leader Cameron was allowed to bluff his way through yesterday’s debate, on his special statement on the Murdoch-Coulson scandal, held after it caused...
Hague Beats The War Drums Against Syria
YESTERDAY saw the spectacle of Foreign Secretary Hague complaining that every Jihadist on the planet was heading for Syria, after both he and his...
Hundreds of Thousands Facing DLA Cuts
Yesterday saw the introduction of changes to the benefits available to the disabled that will leave hundreds of thousands facing cuts of between £20.55...
Greek workers must build their revolutionary leadership
THE fact that the Greek working class brought Syriza from nothing to power, in the course of one general election, has been correctly taken...
Commemorate the Marikana massacre by driving forward the South African socialist revolution!
THE FIFTH anniversary of the Marikana massacre, where 37 striking miners were gunned down by the police, was a turning point in the revolutionary...
Forward to the State of Palestine! Down with Zionism and Imperialist conspiracies to...
ARREST warrants for genocide for Israeli PM Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant were finally issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) this...
Chilcot won’t rule on Iraq war legality
CHILCOT opened his report of his inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war yesterday by stating that it was not the job of his very...
NO WAGE OR JOB CUTS! Unions must call a general strike for a sliding...
IN THE last 48-hours energy bills have risen by over 50%. The pensioners triple lock guarantee has been smashed. Students repayments on their loans...
Chaos reigns as Tory Chancellor gets instructions from IMF and advice from Strictly Come...
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has delivered a thinly veiled instruction to the Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, to scrap his autumn budget statement due...
Cameron Threatens Eu With Bringing Forward Referendum
THE German magazine Der Spiegel says British PM David Cameron warned EU leaders that the UK could leave the EU if Luxembourg’s ex-PM Jean-Claude...
The BBC supports starving the people of Gaza
THE BBC is part of the British capitalist state whose job it is to look after the interests of the ruling class. It has...
Nurses demand emergency conference to remove union leaders guilty of pay betrayal
NURSES reacted with fury last week when they received their July pay packets and realised that the 3% pay increase their union, the RCN,...
Inflation rising – slashing wages and threatening jobs! Trade unions must take action to...
INFLATION rose to 3.1% in November, the highest in nearly six years, as the squeeze on households continued and prices rose, slashing further into...
Rail fares and inflation are let rip – as wages and benefits are frozen...
RAIL commuters were protesting at Waterloo Station in London yesterday after they heard that ticket price rises of between 8% and 13% are to...
Tories have insulted NHS workers by ‘rewarding’ them with a 1% ‘pay rise’. ...
NURSES, midwives and NHS workers around the country are enraged by the Tory plan set out in the Chancellor’s budget to ‘reward’ them with...
Tory policies to defund and privatise the NHS responsible for Shrewsbury maternity disaster!
THE INDEPENDENT Ockenden inquiry into maternity provisions at the Shrewsbury NHS Trust has revealed a horrific catalogue of failures contributing to the deaths of...
New Palestinian Intifada emerging at a time when Israel is split and divided with...
THE Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has issued a warning that the Israeli military raids and Israeli...
Revolution is the only way forwards!
THE working class of Europe is rising up to fight the savage spending cuts now being imposed by governments across the Continent. When the UK...
Brown, Mitchell and Obama threaten Palestinians with a dirty deal
PALESTINIANS are once again being threatened with a dirty deal after the Netanyahu-Brown meeting in London. After a Brown declaration that Britain is Israel’s ‘true...
Hamas urges workers of the world to take action and salutes the growing mass...
IN A statement issued on Friday to mark International Jerusalem Day, Hamas declared that the occasion arrives this year as the Palestinian people steadfastly...
Hands off Palestine Action! Demand TUC call a general strike to bring down Starmer...
Over 300,000 marched in London on Saturday, in a powerful demonstration of support for a Palestinian state and against the genocidal war being waged...
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’...
Brown demands police-state detention law
AHEAD of MPs considering the Second Reading of the new Counter-Terrorism Bill in Parliament yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for extension of...
SHADOW OF 1930s HANGS OVER BROWN-MERKEL SPLIT
GERMANY’S Finance Minister Steinbruck yesterday attacked the Gordon Brown policy for saving the bankers and capitalists from the crisis, as recklessness itself. He described Labour’s...
Sunak admits ‘borrowing will have to end’ and prepares for war against the working...
IN THE Spectator magazine this week, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak broke ranks with the official Tory line that British capitalism could survive by indefinitely...
Osborne out to grind workers and youth into the ground
IN HIS speech to the Tory faithful yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made it absolutely clear that he is going to grind the...
Brown’s Policies Are Helping The Tories To Return
BROWN’S ‘bad night for Labour’ was the direct result of a self-inflicted wound – Brown’s Thatcherite policies – that cost Labour up to...
The US’ allies in Egypt are at each other’s throats!
THE bloodbath in Egypt last Wednesday, which saw hundreds of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood cut down in cold blood by the Egyptian army,...
UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to defend their wages...
AS WORKERS well know, the coming winter is going to be a desperate affair with sky-high inflation and food and energy rationing, leaving families...
Right wing Labour wants to make sure that the UK never leaves the European...
IN LAST Friday’s letter to EU President Donald Tusk the Prime Minister, Theresa May, made it very clear that she had surrendered to the...
Brown Hauls Down The Flag
LIKE a thief in the night Prime Minister Brown sneaked into Basra airport on Saturday night to tell British troops that their period of...
Hayes get 14 years – now for the rest of the banking fraternity!
CITY trader Tom Hayes has been found guilty of rigging global Libor interest rates. He has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. His...
Iraq – Time For Britain To Cut And Run
SATURDAY’S engagement in Basra was a serious one for British imperialism. One Lynx helicopter was lost, shot down by a Strella missile and five British...
Ukrainian Stalinists giving way to EU-backed regime-change attempt
THE Ukrainian Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov, of the Stalinist Party of the Regions resigned on Tuesday in an attempt to draw the EU-backed right-wing...
US and Saudi Arabia are slaughtering Yemenis while Israel is assassinating Palestinian journalists!
A LEADING member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi yesterday indicted US imperialism saying that it is killing thousands of Yemeni civilians...
Benefit Sanctions Are Starving Children!
100,000 children were left to starve last year as a direct result of the Tory-led coalition’s drive to cut benefit payments to the unemployed...
Occupations & a general strike needed to defend the NHS and bring the Tories...
‘SLASH, Trash and Privatise’ – this is how the purpose of the Tories’ 44 Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) is now correctly understood. Drawn up...
150,000 Deaths – Tories Put The Bosses First – They Refuse To Lock Down...
THE BMA yesterday condemned the 150,000 Covid deaths, so far, since the start of the pandemic. The reason for the mountain of corpses is...
Starmer’s bound to come a cropper trying to ride two horses at the same...
PRIME Minister Keir Starmer’s attempt to ride two horses at the same time, by forming trading relations or ‘partnerships’ with both the EU and...
Hands Off Syria – Smash The Gulf Feudal Regimes
THE Syrian government has informed the UN envoy, Kofi Annan, that it will respect the cease fire agreement that it is a party to,...
US-UK officially warn Iran about interfering in Iraq
BRITAIN and the United States had the gall to officially protest, last Wednesday, to the Iranian government about Iranian interference into the internal affairs...
Capitalism is dead in the water!
ON Thursday, a member of the powerful Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, in an unguarded moment, blurted out the truth that exports from...