Bankrupt capitalism aims to balance the books through foreign aid cuts and vicious austerity...
ON TUESDAY, Tory PM Boris Johnson narrowly avoided defeat on a motion to cut UK foreign aid after a rebellion by Tory MPs. In the...
Wal-Mart Asda Blinks First To Avoid Costly Five Day Strike Action
‘GMB members win the right to collective bargaining in the UK, Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots’, is what the GMB trade union optimistically labelled the...
‘Indirect incitement’ to be a terror offence
BUSH and Blair say that they are ‘fighting for democracy and freedom’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the more they step up this fight,...
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...
Capitalism Gripped By Historic Crisis
THE world crisis of capitalism is being hit by a convergence of the crisis to which all the central banks, economists and politicians have...
The Palestinian leadership calls for international intervention. The workers of the world must respond!
THE PALESTINIAN Presidential spokesman Abu Rudeineh yesterday morning called for urgent international intervention after Israeli police broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the...
Decisive Action Needed To Defend Welfare State!
THE working class is rising up to defend the Welfare State. On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of workers and members of the public took...
Capitalist Debt Crisis Demands A Socialist Revolution!
THE deepening world capitalist crisis is poised to see entire nation states defaulting, plunging their banks into an even more desperate crisis, deepening the...
Sack Woodley and Simpson over Royal Mail strikebreaking
TODAY the Communication Workers Union (CWU) London Divisional Committee has called a demonstration at the Unite union’s head office in Holborn, central London. ...
Trump OKs tactical nuclear weapons for use against Russia, China and N Korea!
PRESIDENT Trump and his military chiefs believe the US’ nuclear weapons are seen as too big to be used, and that this means that...
The UN must accept Palestinian statehood – Defeat the US-UK governments’ opposition!
MEMBERS of the UN Security Council have failed to reach a consensus on the Palestinian bid to become a full member state of the...
New right-wing party to replace Tories being organised as spectre of revolution haunts British...
AS THE Tory Party continues to disintegrate by the hour, demands from the ruling class for a new right-wing party to emerge from the...
US workers and youth begin mobilising for revolution!
THE Communications Workers of America Executive Board has endorsed the youth-led Occupy Wall Street Movement. Occupy Wall Street youth campaigners have joined...
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...
US debt crisis will crash Wall Street and plunge the US and world capitalism...
THE US economy, the largest and most powerful capitalist economy in the world, is in the grip of a crisis that will plunge America...
Force trade union leaders to call a general strike – this is the only...
YESTERDAY saw major unions taking national strike action across the country in one of the biggest walkouts of workers on the same day. Three main...
TUC leaders back Remainers to keep the working class tied to the EU bosses...
WITH THE annual conference of the TUC opening on Monday the leadership of the trade unions have produced a report detailing the catastrophic effects...
Biden’s ‘ironclad’ support for Israel as imperialism prepares for all-out war in Middle East
AT a press conference on Wednesday evening, US president Joe Biden announced that American imperialism was prepared for an all-out war in the Middle...
No Compromise in the US – Workers must break with Democrats and establish...
US President Barack Obama has signed in a wave of steep spending cuts that will take $85bn (£56bn) from the US federal budget this...
US Federal Reserve is too scared to raise interest rates!
ON Thursday evening, the US Federal Reserve policy committee decided yet again that it did not dare to raise interest rates by a fraction...
Brown Speeding Up The Privatisation Programme
THE reaction of the Brown government to the eruption of the capitalist crisis has been to champion the interests of the banks, pledging to...
UK & US whipping up anti-Russia and anti-China hysteria – It won’t work –...
A ‘RED SCARE’ is well under way, with the US and UK governments launching hourly attacks on both Russia and China in a frenzy...
Organise general strike to defend CWU
ROYAL Mail, backed by Brown and Mandelson, are making no secret of the fact that they intend to stamp on the CWU, in order...
Unite leaders beg the Tories for permanent furlough! New leadership required in trade...
UNITE, with a membership of 1.4 million, wielding the power to strike and shut down vast proportions of industry, has reduced itself to begging...
Scottish Labour strikes a blow at UK imperialism’s war plans
SCOTTISH Labour yesterday struck a blow at the war plans of British imperialism when its Perth conference decided to call for the Trident nuclear...
US Imperialism desperate to dominate its rivals
INTERNATIONAL ‘free trade’ agreements represent the attempt by the vast multi-national capitalist corporations to completely dominate the globe. The domination they seek is over...
King George’s Ilford cancer unit to close for lack of nurses – Get the...
THE CEDAR CENTRE, the chemotherapy unit at the King George Hospital in Ilford is to shut down on November 12th, because it cannot find...
Output Down As Banking Crisis Deepens
THE CBI bosses organisation said yesterday that UK manufacturers expect to reduce output over the next three months, driving another nail into the coffin...
All Out Strike To Defend NHS! Nurses Must Get 15%!
NURSES, midwives and NHS workers around the country take to the streets again today to demand a 15% pay rise and they are extremely...
Trade Unions must stop the New Year mass sackings with a general strike
UNEMPLOYMENT is set to rocket, over and just after Christmas, when up to 100,000 public sector workers are to get their redundancy notices so...
CWU leaders organise a consultative ballot !over pensions
TRUE to form the CWU leadership is declining to give any kind of leadership to its massive membership on the vital issue of the...
Israel is in its death agony – the US, UK and EU trade unions...
THE ISRAELI war cabinet minister Gantz has threatened to resign and completely split the ruling Israeli group unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets out...
Only answer to capitalist crisis – build WRP and sections of 4th International to...
THE CRISIS in the Tory party sharpened over the weekend, as the requirement to dump the economic collapse of British capitalism onto the backs...
Imperialist War abroad and class war at home – a general strike is the...
THE Trade Union Congress is meeting at a very crucial time for the working people of the UK and for the working people of...
Answer jobs massacre at Vauxhall with occupations and a general strike
AFTER weeks of speculation it was finally confirmed yesterday that the giant but bankrupt General Motors was pulling out of Europe, selling off its...
24.4% (5.64m) of Spanish workers are unemployed!
THE number of unemployed people in Spain reached 5,639,500 at the end of March, with the unemployment rate hitting 24.4%, with youth unemployment at...
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...
Banks Crashing – Time To Get Rid Of Capitalism And To Go Forward To...
SHARES in banks around the world have crashed after a crisis at one US bank triggered fears of a wider crisis and the collapse...
Jordan On The Brink Of Revolution
JORDAN has announced huge 76 per cent fuel price increases. In a statement the Jordanian government said that domestic fuel and kerosene prices had...
Victory for Uber workers – now end the gig economy for good with socialist...
THE LARGE taxi app company Uber announced yesterday it would start treating over 70,000 of its drivers in the UK as employed workers entitled...
Police chiefs demand ‘summary powers’
THE Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) is demanding that their forces be given powers to dispense ‘instant police justice’. This is revealed in...
UK War Crimes
LAST night’s BBC Panorama programme revealed yet more evidence of unlawful killings of Afghans by members of the Special Air Service (SAS) during the...
New York Times Urges Biden To Quit At Once As US ‘Democracy’ Crashes
THE New York Times is just the first US newspaper to urge the incumbent Democratic Party president Joe Biden to quit the 2024 presidential...
Cabin crew angry at Woodley sell-out
LAST Monday’s branch meeting of BASSA T&G cabin crew, to gain their approval for the deal agreed by TGWU leader Woodley and BA boss...
Eu Meltdown
CREDIT ratings agency Moody’s yesterday reflected the rapidly developing EU meltdown by doing the unthinkable – warning the EU’s strongman, Germany, that...