Labour brings 20% interest payments into its health market
NHS trust hospitals and Primary Care Trusts are to be charged 10 per cent interest on money they borrow from their strategic Health Authority...
First the UK, now Italy – Forward to the European Socialist Revolution!
THE RAPIDLY unfolding crash of the EU drove the ruling class to take unprecedented action on Sunday to overturn the Italian election result...
British capitalism not in ‘technical recession’. It is diving into a Great Depression!
YESTERDAY, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) produced figures on the state of the UK economy that showed it had fallen into a ‘technical...
After Brexit, Forward To The European Socialist Revolution!
PRIME Minister May in her letter to EU President Tusk has described the invoking of Article 50 to begin the UK’s withdrawal from the...
Karzai talks with the Taleban as US policy comes unstuck
THE situation in Afghanistan has gone from bad to worse as far as the imperialist powers and their plans for the region are concerned. Last...
Mass murder in the Med!
THIS week the UN announced that 300 migrants had drowned after being forced into unseaworthy boats in a desperate attempt to escape the wars...
US troops flee from Afghan fighters – time to quit Afghanistan
US and Afghan troops have quit the village where Taleban fighters fought their way into a US base and killed nine US soldiers wounding...
The TUC Must Make Its Stand! Now Is The Time To Call A General...
THE annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) that starts this Sunday in Brighton is taking place as British capitalism is crumbling under...
Imperialist Butcher Blair Wants To Slaughter More Arabs!
TONY BLAIR, who is understandably opposed to the full transcripts of all of his talks with President Bush being published in the Chilcot Inquiry...
Trump demands $1 billion to sit on ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza
US president Donald Trump has put the price of a permanent seat on his ‘Board of Peace’ at $1 billion in what is being...
Egyptian Revolution Set To Leap Forward
THE Egyptian revolution moved into a decisive stage yesterday with the announcement by the election committee overseeing the recent final run-off for president that...
Trade Unions Must Not Stand By And Watch NHS Being Closed!
ON Thursday evening hundreds of Enfield residents were led by the North East London Council of Action into Chase Farm hospital to protest at...
Brown To Support US Air Strikes On Iran
YESTERDAY the bourgeois media reported that Britain’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who came to office pledging that the UK would cease to be Bush’s...
Pensions crisis will revolutionise millions
‘THERE is no obligation on the part of employers to provide pensions’, said the National Association of Pension Funds yesterday. This was its response to...
The attack on legal aid is an attack on all Basic Rights
OVER 3,000 solicitors, barristers, probation staff and a number of the many people they represent rallied last Friday in a half-day strike opposite parliament,...
Trump declares trade war on world – only socialist revolution can resolve this crisis
DONALD Trump wasted no time after his victory in Tuesday’s presidential election to declare his intention to wage a new trade war on the...
Cabinet Office Leads Fight To Smash Royal Mail
FOLLOWING instructions from the government’s Cabinet Office to government departments to put their mail out to tender to get the best cutthroat deal, ...
Bankrupt UK economy plunges deeper into slump
There was no cheer for the British bourgeoisie on Monday when three separate reports from the Institute of Chartered accountants and the accountancy group...
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...
Horsemeat Scandal
What started off last month as news, that traces of horsemeat DNA had been discovered by the Irish Food Standards agency in some supermarket beefburgers,...
The time has come to organise the British Socialist Revolution!
PM Keir Starmer’s humiliating defeat and capitulation to the rebellion of 127 Labour MPs, over his proposed welfare cuts on Thursday night, has thrown...
Eurozone collapsing – forward to United Socialist States of Europe
This week sees yet another desperate round of talks between the two leaders of the eurozone, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas...
Blair Wants Government Control Of Judges
THE Blair government announced yesterday through its Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, that it was going to bring in legislation that will tell judges how...
Bank of England implicated in illegal Libor rigging
THE Bank of England, the UKs central bank and guardian of the country’s banking system, along with being responsible for the running of British...
Defend North Korea Against Imperialist Attack!
THE US and its South Korean puppets are set to begin their largest ever joint military exercises amid the high tensions that they have...
Economic crisis of capitalism can only be resolved with socialist revolution
THE PLUNGE of world capitalism over the precipice of an almighty crash has become so obvious that a sense of panic is gripping bourgeois...
More anti-union laws, no rights at work, the elderly being abused in their homes...
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has said the danger for the UK from the economic crisis, particularly the crisis in the...
Answer low pay with general strike
ON the day that up to 400,000 health workers in England came out on a second four-hour strike over the refusal of the government...
Take Action To Win The Winter War
ON FRIDAY, the Health Secretary Hewitt announced that the NHS is heading for a £623 million deficit by the end of March. This deficit is...
State Raising Terror Tensions
ON SATURDAY night, the city centre of Birmingham, the second largest city in the country, was emptied of more than 20,000 people by the...
Commissioners will slash and burn local services!
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Tory County Council has imposed emergency spending controls twice in the last six months and is now in a ‘truly perilous state’, having...
The US and NATO are behind Georgia’s ‘declaration of war’
AS the Russian government explained yesterday, the attack by Georgia on South Ossetia was expected, was well prepared and was a declaration of war,...
Sunak’s speech a declaration of war on workers to make them pay for the...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his speech to the Tory Party conference yesterday pledged to ‘double down’ on his plans to resuscitate drowning British...
Labour Champions The State Against Parliament
THE fact that the Home Secretary maintained in the House of Commons yesterday that she had not known Tory MP Damian Green was to...
The world crisis and the fascist slaughter in Norway
THE fascist, Breivik, who carried out the mass murder of up to 100, mainly youth in Oslo and attempted to murder the Labour Prime...
Tanker attack provocation in the Gulf – US looking to launch war on Iran...
TWO oil tankers were attacked on Thursday morning in the Gulf of Oman. The Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous and Norway’s Front Altair were abandoned after two...
Disband the police, bring in a workers’ government and a workers’ state!
An official report published on Wednesday presented in devastating detail the ‘prevalent’ culture of thousands of police officers in England and Wales who are...
Christoulas makes his call for REVOLUTION!
A 77-YEAR-old Greek pensioner penned his political testament on Wednesday, before he blew his brains out in front of the Greek parliament, a parliament...
French troops pay price for Sarkozy opportunism
TEN French soldiers were killed in an ambush by Taleban fighters east of the Afghan capital, Kabul, and 21 were wounded yesterday. This followed Sarkozy’s...
World capitalism hanging over the brink
WHAT bourgeois economists thought was unthinkable just a few days ago is now about to happen. In just four days time the United States is...
TUC must be made to call a general strike to put an end to...
THE International Monetary Fund has openly condemned the UK government over its tax cuts that handed billions to the rich, warning that the measures...
A milestone in the failure of the US-UK war against Iraq
THERE were no pictures beamed around the world yesterday of United States President Barack Obama at a passing out parade in Baghdad on the...
Only socialist revolutions can defeat missile threat
ROMANIAN President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that Romania will host US interceptor missiles along its border with the Russian Federation. This latest missile plan...
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...
Spanish youth shake Zapatero government
The Spanish municipal and regional elections that were held on Sunday took place under unprecedented conditions as thousands of youth and workers defied the...