King urinates on the green shoots of recovery
‘THE world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition,’ said Bank of England governor Mervyn...
Blair – Bush’s Servant To The Bitter End
THE knives were out for disgraced Deputy Prime Minister Prescott yesterday. He is the man who was important to the Prime Minister because he...
Intensifying crisis can only be resolved by world socialist revolution!
SO FAR twelve global banks have been publicly linked to the Libor rate-rigging scandal, and face as much as $22 billion in combined regulatory...
Arab League – accomplices of imperialism
The leaders of the 22 member Arab League meeting on Saturday came out decisively on the side of imperialism when they issued a call...
EU ripped apart by crisis – time to bring it down and advance to...
WITH the Labour right-wing openly organising at the party conference in Brighton this week to bind the party firmly to a campaign to remain in...
Simpson And Woodley Are Betraying The Working Class!
THE joint general secretaries of Unite, Britain’s biggest union, met with Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling at Number 11 on Thursday for crisis talks on...
To deal with MRSA – end NHS privatisation!
MRSA is now linked to nearly 1,000 deaths each year in NHS hospitals. There is no doubt that it is a product of the...
Answer Labour plans to drive youth off benefits with a general strike to kick...
UNEMPLOYED youth are once again the number-one target for a Labour government, determined to slash the UK’s benefit spending. A year ago, Labour unveiled its...
Brown Threatens Royal Mail Funding!
AT THE CWU rally at Central Hall yesterday afternoon, CWU leader Billy Hayes presented a successful outcome of the postal workers struggle as relying...
Teachers At War With The Government!
THE two biggest teachers unions have begun their annual conferences, where they will challenge the government over pay, Ofsted inspections and England’s Academies and...
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...
Tories planning to close hundreds of schools
HUNDREDS of state-run schools in England are facing closure as a direct result of the Tory-led coalition’s war against free state education, it emerged...
Imperialism In Crisis In Egypt, Syria And The Yemen
THE US State Department has told its citizens and all non-emergency government staff to leave the Yemen ‘immediately’ due to increased threats to their...
Vote ‘Leave’ – Bring Down Cameron – Forward To Socialist United States Of Europe!
THE mass of the working class and the majority of the middle class must vote to ‘Leave’ the EU today to strike a body...
American dream turns to nightmare!
HUNDREDS of US cities are going bust, either destroyed by the banking and property collapse or by the crisis of the major US industries. The...
Havoc In The Eurozone!
THE noose strangling the entire capitalist economy of Europe tightened round the neck of Germany yesterday with the news that the powerful Asian investment...
Disband The Met Police – Get Rid Of UK Capitalism – Forward With The...
THE latest available statistics give an indication of just how diseased the Metropolitan Police is, and just how great the need is for it...
Fatah calls for a general strike and ‘Day of Rage’ – UK workers must...
AT LEAST 40 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prison of ‘Megiddo’ have joined the prisoners’ open-ended mass hunger strike, said the strikers Media Committee...
All Trade Unions Must Support The Junior Doctors!
THE decision by the Junior Doctors Committee (JDC) of the BMA to ballot for industrial action is a courageous stand against the government’s imposition...
Get ready to defend the NHS with occupations and a general strike
LORD Crisp, who was NHS chief executive in England from 2000 to 2006, has said there is over-capacity in the ‘hospital sector’ and that...
Tories plan to govern without the support of the people or of parliament
IN RECENT days, especially after the Tories recognised that they would not have an overall parliamentary majority, we have heard many words about the...
No fighter planes for Ukraine – only a socialist revolution can stop imperialist war
UKRAINIAN president Volodymyr Zelensky turned up in Britain on Wednesday to address Parliament in a speech demanding that the UK supply fighter planes for...
Inflation up as Blair-Brown move to cut wages!
INFLATION in the UK is accelerating out of control. According to the latest Labour government figures which grossly underestimate the process the Consumer...
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...
Russia wins Round One in the struggle for Central Asia
THE Russian government and armed forces have turned the tables on the imperialist powers and their surrogates who launched the vicious surprise attack on...
Nationalise car industry and the banks to defend all jobs
GLOBAL action to save the motor industry from crisis, and above all to stave off bankruptcy at General Motors, has been urged by Unite...
No to a return of the Tories. Bring down Brown from the left
BROWN has survived the resignations of Hutton, Purnell, Smith, Flint, Blears, Hoon and others, and remains Prime Minister for the moment. The next test comes...
Unemployment is soaring! Defending the ‘right to work’ means getting rid of capitalism!
UNEMPLOYMENT is set to soar to levels not seen since The Great Depression, the ‘Hungry 1930s’, when workers starved. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)...
Shares Crash As Debt Crisis Explodes
IN London yesterday, the FTSE 100 rebounded momentarily, but then fell back into the red, down by 48.5 points by 1pm after a...
Iraqi puppet government splits after Maliki refuses to order US withdrawal
THE political bloc of anti-occupation Shia cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, yesterday quit the Iraqi puppet government with its six ministers quitting the cabinet. They walked out...
No amount of pressure will force the Tories to even talk about pay –...
TENS of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers across England walked out yesterday at the start of two days of strike action. Members of the...
Children Going To School Hungry!
THE survey by the ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) into child poverty has exposed what the reality of bankrupt capitalism means for millions...
China is defeating US imperialism! Forward to nationalised economies worldwide and an end to...
THE TRADE war against the Chinese workers’ state has been the cornerstone of Trump’s second presidential tenure. However, it has completely failed to bring...
Keep out the Tories – bring down the Blair-Brown government! Forward to socialism!
LABOUR was routed in Thursday’s regional and council elections losing by late yesterday afternoon 454 councillors and eight councils in England, while it lost...
Disarm Imperialism To Stop New Korean War!
A REPORT issued yesterday by the highly respected and influential Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has bluntly warned that the drive to war by...
Dannatt would not use Lariam, but permitted it to be used on thousands...
FORMER Army chief of staff Lord Dannatt has apologised on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme for allowing British troops to take an anti-malaria drug...
Tory ‘Orwellian’ attempts to cover Grenfell Tower atrocities in secrecy
THE CAMPAIGN group ‘openDemocracy’ has revealed evidence of a concerted campaign by a secretive government Freedom of Information (FOI) screening unit to interfere with...
Pupils subjected to physical and mental cruelty in school isolation units – unions...
School children in England are being put in ‘physically and mentally cruel’ isolation units for up to 7 hours a day at academy trust...
EU slumps while UK inflation rises!
THE eurozone economy shrank in the third quarter from April to June by 0.2%, with France having a third consecutive quarter of no growth...
Renegade Field joins Cameron – while Milibands search for a ‘new opportunism’
FRANK Field, the notorious Labour party right winger has joined the Tory coalition and is to be its ‘Poverty Tsar’, no doubt bringing back...
US-UK Forces Must Quit Afghanistan Now!
THE position of the imperialist powers in Afghanistan has become completely untenable. Their forces are not wanted either by the Taleban or the mass...
US Mounts Drone Assault On The Yemen
AFTER withdrawing its embassy staff from 20 countries, the US ruling class has now launched a drone blitz on the Yemen, with three drone...
Rice Raised The Issue Of Saddam Immediately After The Twin Towers Were Attacked
SUCH WAS the fawning support, given by Tony Blair to President George Bush, that Christopher Meyer, the ex-UK ambassador to the United States, was...
Johnson Government Must Be Brought Down – TUC Must Call General Strike!
THE capitalist system is now poised to go into its greatest ever crisis and crash because of its mountains of debt. Workers face massive...
The BofE didn’t recognise the crisis of capitalism even when it stared it in...
SIR John Gieve, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, yesterday admitted that he was a victim of the historical blindness of the...