NHS to pay for bank crisis – time to bury capitalism not the NHS
IN HIS first interview since becoming the coalition Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt spelt out bluntly that capitalism could no longer afford a national health...
Demoralised Davos surveys the debacle of the world capitalist crisis!
THE World Economic Forum meeting in Davos to celebrate capitalism finds the assembled chief executives, politicians and would-be prophets much more pessimistic and frightened...
Palestinian leadership says peace talks will fail!
THE Palestinian leadership in Ramallah is working on the basis that the peace talks with Israel will fail and that both sides know...
TUC conference swings to the right – a new leadership must be built!
THIS year’s annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference marked a historic lurch to the right by the leadership of the trade unions. At a time...
Record Breaking Inflation!
RECORD BREAKING UK inflation rate statistics were reported by the ONS (Office for National Statistics) yesterday. Inflation rose at its fastest annual pace for nine...
TUC must call indefinite general strike to bring down coalition now!
TODAY’S meeting of the TUC general council must get off the fence and call for an immediate all-out, indefinite general strike to bring down...
Don’t go to A&E, ‘walking wounded’ told!
CONFRONTED with the appalling crisis in NHS hospitals’ A&E emergency services, the Labour government plans to restrict access to emergency departments, to save money...
Refugees branded as ‘illegals’ by EU
THIS week, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, threatened that the EU would deport the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist...
Deepening world capitalist crisis is creating wars and revolutions
NATO and Russia held ‘frank and serious’ talks despite ‘profound disagreements’ as their ambassadors met on Wednesday for the first time since 2014, alliance...
TUC must call action now against the BoE and Tory theft of $1bn of...
ONE BILLION dollars (£800m) worth of Venezuelan gold in the vaults of the Bank of England has been successfully seized, in an act of...
Record numbers of people live in ‘very deep poverty’ in UK – Socialist Revolution...
ANALYSIS conducted by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), released on Monday, reveals that a record number of people in the UK live in ‘very...
Crisis-ridden US capitalism driven towards war
US capitalism really has got its back to the wall, and has somewhat lost its balance, when its Treasury Secretary, Geithner, says that he...
US Must Quit Iraq At Once! Says Ex-CIA Chief
THE US state is beginning to split over the war in Iraq, so severe is the pounding that US troops and the US leadership...
Windrush and Grenfell Tower prove one thing – this Tory government must...
PRESS reports this week revealed that vulnerable members of the Windrush generation are still being forced to live in conditions of complete destitution, forced...
G20 debt pile reaches $135 trillion – Capitalism is breaking apart – forward with...
THIS WEEK the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another warning that the world capitalist financial system is on the verge of a gigantic...
Nationalise BAE to defend jobs!
DEFENCE engineering giant BAE Systems confirmed yesterday that it is cutting a further 3,000 jobs at sites across the country, mainly in its military...
‘It’s A Social Revolution’ Says Archbishop Of Dublin
IRISH Congress of Trade Unions General Secretary Patricia King has warmly welcomed the overwhelming ‘yes’ vote in the marriage equality (gay marriage) referendum saying...
More Air Strikes As Israel Lashes Out At The West Bank And Gaza Strip!
ISRAELI warplanes continued with their airstrikes on Gaza on Sunday morning, hitting a factory in Rafah. On Friday, an Israeli missile strike on Gaza killed...
Crunch Time For The British Banks
BOTH the HSBC and Barclays banks along with the Royal Bank of Scotland have suffered major share losses in the past week, as investors...
As capitalist inflation lets rip, Sunak turns to the Ukraine’s war with Russia as...
INFLATION was at 8.7% in the year to May, the same rate as it was in April, creating hundreds of thousands of hungry families...
National action to defend JDE workers – force TUC to call a ...
LAST Wednesday the international coffee giant JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) issued dismissal notices to nearly 300 of its workers at the Banbury plant who...
Gaza has 45.2 % unemployment – Greek youth unemployment is 45%!
GAZA’S unemployment rate is among the world’s highest, at 45.2%, the UN has found. The territory continues to be blockaded by Israel, while the...
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...
War on welfare – revolution the only way forward
Yesterday, more than two million people on Incapacity Benefit found themselves officially labelled by the Tory-LibDem coalition as scroungers and parasites living off the...
Enough is Enough! – With no time to lose lobby the TUC and demand...
THE ACCUSATION that the Tory government is paralysed waiting on the outcome of the leadership battle between Truss and Sunak is very wide of...
Reject Eu Diktat Attempt – Leave The Eu At Once !
THE GIGANTIC farce of the Brexit negotiations hit a brick wall this week with EU officials accusing the British of failing to reveal its...
TOP SECRET – what the Prince of Wales thinks of his subjects
THE COALITION government has intervened to veto a decision by a three-judge tribunal, that 27 letters by the Prince of Wales advocating...
Only way to avoid an economic collapse is to cut government spending and slash...
JUST days before Andy Burnham is installed as PM on Monday, amid much speculation and lobbying about the future policies and the personnel of...
Pensioners being lined up for Tory austerity attack
A NEW report by The Resolution Foundation think-tank on pensions and pensioners is nothing more than a clarion call for pensions to be cut...
Ealing A&E saved! Now Maternity & Children’s wards must be re-opened!
THE PLANS to close Ealing and Charing Cross A&Es have been scrapped after a mass campaign by the West London Council of Action secured...
UK And French Workers Are Taking Action Against The Bosses And The Bankers –...
THE head of the UK’s Unite trade union has accused the government of having a ‘sinister reason’ for ‘not doing a deal’ with nurses...
US Worldwide Torture Network
THE Council of Europe has announced it is investigating 31 reports of unmarked executive aircraft being used by the CIA to transport ‘suspected terrorists’...
British workers face massive crisis as capitalism lurches into the abyss – time for...
THE wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth by the bourgeois media, and the way that the TUC has used this massive wave...
Greece Can’t Pay – Workers Won’t Pay!
ACCORDING to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, Greece has a much bigger budget deficit than that reported by the Greek government last year....
Parliament Is Being Broken Apart By Brexit Crisis!
PM MAY is facing a revolt from at least 15 Tory MPs who are threatening to vote with the majority of Labour MPs...
Action Needed Now Over Housing Crisis!
HOMELESSNESS among households in England has risen by 54 per cent since 2010 – rising annually every year – shows the latest report by...
Splits in the ruling classes are opening up the way for socialist revolutions!
MORE than 800 serving officials in the US and Europe have signed a statement warning that their own governments’ policies on the Israel-Gaza war...
Yellen signs up to Gordon Brown’s ‘no more boom or bust’ on the brink...
IN A SPEECH in London last Tuesday, the chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Janet Yellen, announced to a disbelieving world that the...
Bush wants to wreck the Palestinian Mecca agreement
AHEAD of next Monday’s summit in Jerusalem, President George Bush’s administration is setting out to wreck the agreement reached in Mecca on February 8...
One country two social systems breeding counter-revolution in China
THE Hong Kong pro-democracy protests have now moved into their second week. The Hong Kong Federation of Students withdrew from planned negotiations on Friday, accusing...
The working class is the hero of the hour – it smashed the Tory...
IT says something about the scale of the defeat that the Tories and the bosses have suffered over the Mayoral election in London...
Security Council extends Iraq occupation mandate
THE imperialists and their Chinese and Russian stooges on the UN Security Council have extended the mandate of the US-led occupation armies in Iraq,...
UK and US imperialism’s drive to war must be answered through the victory of...
IN his ‘Letter to American Workers’, published in Pravda on August 22 1918, after the victorious Russian revolution, Lenin wrote, ‘We are now, as...
Capitalism is a broken system – nationalise the banks and the car industry
British Banks have been recapitalised by the working class, who were not consulted by the government before the Prime Minister took the decision...
Oxfam’s Pleas To The Bankers Will Be Ignored – World Revolution Is The...
‘THE IMF must abandon demands for austerity as the cost-of-living crisis drives up hunger and poverty worldwide’ is the demand being made by Oxfam. Oxfam’s...