Thames Water boss awarded £1 million salary sticking two fingers up to Labour government
BRITAIN'S biggest water firm, Thames Water, has just awarded its chief executive Chris Weston a pay rise that has pushed his salary to £1.16...
Youth are being hit the hardest by bankrupt capitalism!
SKY-ROCKETING youth unemployment figures just released reveal that nearly one million young people in the UK are not in employment, up from 500,000 in...
Victory to Syria – down with imperialism and Stalinism!
THE Syrian war has reached a ‘stalemate’ and President Bashar al-Assad’s government will call for a ceasefire at the Geneva conference on the state’s...
30,000 Businesses Will Go Bust In 2024!
ECONOMISTS at the multi-national financial advice service PwC have issued a stark warning that nearly 30,000 businesses in the UK will collapse under the...
Starving Yemenis Are Eating Leaves – While The UK Supplies Saudis With Bombs And...
YEMENI families are starving with nothing to eat but leaves as Saudi Arabia steps up its deadly bombing campaign using British bombs and missiles...
End imperialist war by bringing an end to imperialism through world socialist revolution!
A NEW report from the Costs of War Project at Brown University has exposed the death toll of imperialist wars across the globe. It...
Call a one day general strike to defend the NHS
YESTERDAY the leaders of the NHS trade unions were in their own words ‘raising the heat over the future of the NHS’. What resolute and...
Pompeo Seeks To Build Alliance Against The Palestinian And Iranian Revolutions!
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo is currently in the Middle East organising an Israeli-Arab coalition to fight Iran and prevent a Palestinian state. Pompeo...
Demand TUC call a General Strike!
The leaders of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have refused to condemn Labour right-winger Alan Milburn for accepting a position with the Tory-led coalition...
Ukraine faces more savage austerity and cuts to qualify for IMF ‘aid’!
UKRAINE’S central bank has sharply raised interest rates from 19.5% to 30% in an effort to curb inflation and prop up its beleaguered currency...
Israel Is Blocking Gaza Gas And Selling It To Egypt
ISRAEL IS currently preventing gas from entering the Gaza Strip and is selling it to Egypt – while Palestinians inside the Gaza Strip are...
Bank of England splits over rate cut – time to nationalise the banks!
THE Bank of England’s crisis came out in the open at yesterday’s meeting as the Bank’s governor Andrew Bailey was opposed by two of...
President Trump Panics – And Pledges To Send In The Nuclear Submarines!
TRUMP’S declaration that he is sending two nuclear submarines into ‘appropriate regions’ to threaten Russia, has made public that he is preparing for the...
Reply to the US-UK attacks on the Palestinians by making October 10th the first...
THE Hamas movement has condemned the Israeli occupation’s brutal aerial attacks on Hezbollah and the Lebanon as a ‘dangerous escalation’ and ‘part of the...
Starmer Recruiting Right Wing Tories To Run Any Labour Gov!
THE Labour Party is defending, welcoming right wing Tory defector Natalie Elphicke into the party despite anger from many backbench MPs and workers at...
General Council must support locked out Gate Gourmet workers
ON Monday September 12 the TUC Annual Congress was lobbied by 300 of the over 700 locked out Gate Gourmet workers. The Congress then passed...
UK banks fail stress test while manufacturing collapses
LAST Friday the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the results of its stress test on 51 of the biggest banks throughout Europe and Britain. Fearful...
The ‘hard truth’ is that the only way out of the capitalist crisis is...
VARIOUS Tory idealogues are in extreme disarray as the capitalist crisis develops rapidly, with the western imperialist powers willing to gamble on a nuclear...
Disband the police and go forward to a Workers State and Socialism!
TORY Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced another government ‘initiative’ this week, this time ordering the police to ‘crackdown on crime’. The very idea that the...
Trump hails his economic miracle – and reveals his fear of the US and...
ON TUESDAY, president Donald Trump delivered his much-delayed annual State of the Union speech to the US Congress, held up by the longest-ever shutdown...
The revolution in Nepal – part of the world revolution
LEON Trotsky’s theory of the Permanent Revolution shows how ‘the democratic tasks of the backward bourgeois nations lead directly, in our epoch, to the...
French workers move to bring down Sarkozy regime!
YESTERDAY, the French railworkers’ trade unions began their indefinite strike action, to defeat the attempts of the Sarkozy regime to destroy their pension agreements,...
Blair & Brown’s NHS cuts boost the Tories
ONLY those with short memories, or strong stomachs, did not have to stop themselves vomiting when hearing Tory leader David Cameron talk about his...
NHS England threatened hospital with legal action to force privatisation through
IT EMERGED this week that NHS England in August last year took the unprecedented step of threatening legal action against a hospital in order...
Boycott All Israeli Goods – Forward To The Palestinian State!
THE TUC CONGRESS yesterday managed to avoid an open split over the issue of Palestine, by allowing two motions to be debated, voted on,...
20 years since 9/11 and imperialism has been driven out of Afghanistan! Shut down...
TODAY is exactly two decades after the terror attacks on the United States on 11 September, 2001. That morning, Al-Qaeda-affiliated hijackers flew two Boeing...
Union leaders pledge total support – time for action has arrived!
YESTERDAY the trade union bureaucracy was skating on the thinnest of thin ice at the TUC Congress. With one hand, trade union leader after trade...
Bankers failing to stem capitalism’s chronic crisis
THE Bank of Japan (BoJ) took emergency measures yesterday in a desperate attempt to rescue the country’s stagnant economy (growth rate 0.4%) and boost...
Strike wave hits UK as workers rise up against bankrupt capitalism!
AS CHRISTMAS approaches, the strike wave sweeping Britain is far from abating, in fact it is growing in strength and determination by the day...
Bankers’ Man Brown Wants Three Years Of Wage Cuts
PREMIER Brown says he wants three-year pay deals for public sector workers, rather than the traditional annual deals, to help keep UK inflation low. ...
‘NHS Standing On A Burning Platform’ – Time To Deal With The Arsonists!
THE NHS is standing on a ‘burning platform’ is the stark assessment of Professor Sir Mike Richards, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of...
Workers Must Support Corbyn Against The Tory And Labour Witch-Hunters!
THE BOURGEOIS media and Labour’s right wing pro-Zionists have no shame, as their attempts to label Labour leader Corbyn an anti-Semite show – otherwise...
Defend Council Housing – Bring Down The Brown Government
FOR SOME time Labour has been promoting the theme that the very idea of a job for life is reactionary, and has been glorifying...
Iraq’s 50,000 ‘Ghost Soldiers’
THE new Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has announced that an investigation has uncovered that the Iraqi state was paying the wages of 50,000...
Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes UK into recession!
THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...
One Year Since The Marikana Massacre
THE MARIKANA massacre of mineworkers in South Africa one year ago, in which 34 miners were murdered by the police and hundreds injured, has...
Workers must lobby parliament on October 19th and call general strike to leave the...
THE Supreme Court in Scotland yesterday delayed its decision on whether it would be necessary for the courts to intervene and force PM Johnson...
Make Capitalism History! The Way To End Poverty
TODAY’S Edinburgh march to ‘Make Poverty History’ will be led by Bishops, Cardinals and boss class politicians, in other words, by the religious and...
UK politicians send letter urging Starmer to ‘act now’ over Gaza – time for...
A JOINT letter signed by leading politicians in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales was sent to Labour prime minister Keir Starmer yesterday calling for...
To Get Rid Of The Coronavirus – Get Rid Of The Capitalist Drive For...
YESTERDAY, Boris Johnson announced new emergency laws making social gatherings of more than six people illegal in England from next Monday. This law applies to...
Academy head earns £500,000 while over half of multi-academy chains are going bust
THE TORY policy of forcing every school in England to become academies and turn the entire education system into a profit-making business has created...
Forward to Colombian revolution!
COLOMBIA, the country that has been hailed by the US as the second most populous ‘democracy’ in South America and a key partner in...
‘Hammer of the poor’ quits Labour to join Tory leadership
EX-BANKER and City financier, Sir David Freud, is Labour’s ‘Workfare’ programme architect. He drew up the plans to force single parents and all but the...
Re-call TUC conference! Sack the traitors! – We need a leadership that will...
THE NHS crisis is ‘like being in a war,’ Patrick Carter, who advises Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, told the Royal College of Anaesthetists’...
There will be no ‘Maidan-style counter-revolution’ in Belarus declares President Lukashenko
CONGRATULATIONS to President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus. He received over 80 per cent of the vote in the Belarus presidential election and saw off...