British capitalism can afford wars but not benefits!
BOTH Prime Minister Blair and Chancellor Brown insisted yesterday, in support of Works and Pensions minister Hutton, that single parents must look for work...
STPs are an agency of international capitalism, a Trojan Horse for the privatisation...
THE TORY Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) have been shrouded in secrecy right from the start as the Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, did...
Bourgeois democracy conceals cabinet diktat
THE Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor Straw, on Tuesday, told the House of Commons that he had, as Minister, taken the...
Visteon Workers Show The Way – Occupy To Defend Jobs!
THE Visteon plants in Belfast, Enfield, and Basildon, formerly owned by the Ford Motor Company, but now supplying parts to the motor car industry,...
Sack The Leaders Who Are Selling Out Pensions
YESTERDAY the TUC leader Brendan Barber, who organised the betrayal of the 760 locked-out Gate Gourmet workers, and before that organised the betrayal of...
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...
US Working Class At The Crossroads – Break With The Democrats Now!
EVERYWHERE, from the motor car industry to the mines of Appalacia, the US working class is struggling for its jobs and its trade union...
MPs condemn Labour’s ‘surveillance society’
THE House of Commons votes on Wednesday on extending the amount of time that the police can hold a ‘terrorist suspect’ without charging them...
Reeves’ pre-budget speech a message that the Labour government is ready to carry out...
YESTERDAY morning Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves gave an unprecedented pre-budget speech designed, she said, to address ‘speculation’ about what she would be announcing in...
Call National Postal Strike! Form A Public Sector Trade Union Alliance!
THIS WEEK hundreds of London delivery offices, and a number of mail centres and other offices and hubs have been taking strike action, after...
BA seeks to put the boot into Heathrow workers
BA is seeking to put the boot into its workforce at Heathrow to create a climate of intimidation and fear. It has announced in its...
War Fever Against Russia
THE US and the EU are set to stiffen and widen their sanctions against Russia. Their intention is to target its finances, energy...
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...
Housing costs soar!
SINCE Labour took office in 1997, house prices have gone up four times more quickly than workers’ pay, according to figures published by the...
No more cuts! Defend the public services!
THE Newquay disaster proves what most people knew to be the case – that cuts in the fire service inevitably cost lives. Newquay is...
The NHS must be free and available to all at the point of need!
RECENTLY there have been a few years of increased government spending on the NHS, after many years of chronic underspending. Most of the new...
With the Anti-Union Laws waiting on Royal Assent, the TUC must be made to...
LAST THURSDAY the government made a ‘final offer’ to the NHS consultants, a petty offer that they rejected out of hand. BMA Consultants Committee...
Daily Telegraph warns capitalism has entered its ‘final act’ with UK the ‘tinderbox’ of...
Such is the depth of the crisis in British capitalism that even the ultra-loyal Tory press can no longer pretend that the working class...
EU set to EXPLODE
THE developing world-wide economic crisis is now bringing the contradictions inside the EU together and sharpening them to the point of a massive transformation...
Steel workers must reject the Tata steel deal – vote ‘NO!’
AT the end of this month, steel workers at Port Talbot are to vote on a deal struck between their unions and Tata Steel...
Mass Hospital Closures On The Way
HEALTH Minister Mike O’Brien has responded to the findings of the government-established Care Quality Commission (CQC). This has just claimed that one in eight of...
Tory-Lib Dem Butchers Outline The Task Ahead
TORY CHANCELLOR Osborne provided an outline of his £6.2bn of spending cuts for 2010-11 yesterday, with Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laws...
Israel tears up Gaza truce agreement and resumes genocidal war in the Strip
ON TUESDAY, the Israeli Zionist state resumed its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip with the deadliest aerial bombings of the besieged territory since...
Banks declare record indebtedness as gold and Wall Street shares reach record highs
THE US banks are now having to declare their indebtedness. Citigroup has lost $6 billion in a third quarter of this year write down, as...
Students and UCU to ‘take to the streets!’
SHOWING contempt for parliament, the watchdog for university access (Offa) yesterday gave the green light to all universities to increase tuition fees in England...
70 children blown to pieces by terror gangs in Syria and not a word...
IN SYRIA a massive car bomb deliberately targeting people awaiting evacuation from Syrian towns being besieged by the so-called ‘rebel’ forces, in reality a...
Trump escalates trade war with China – Only Socialist Revolution can end crisis of...
THE WORLD’S stock markets fell dramatically on Tuesday following US president Donald Trump’s latest move to ratchet up US capitalism’s trade war with China...
By 278 votes to 0 MPs vote for extending the Universal Credit top-up beyond...
THE TORY government was delivered a massive blow on Monday evening when it was defeated by 278 votes to 0 when MPs voted for...
Police spies inquiry reveals the capitalist state conspiracy against the working class and its...
IN HIS opening statements to the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the lawyer acting for the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence condemned the inquiry for...
US and Israel step up the war against the Palestinian masses!
PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi, on Monday, condemned the decision of the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation to strip the High Court of...
Confident Of US Support Israeli Terrorists Kill Three Palestinian Youths And Torture Five Others!
ISRAELI forces have shot and killed three young Palestinians during overnight raids on several areas of the occupied West Bank. Two of the victims lost...
Reject May’s deal! No capitulation! BREAK WITH THE EU NOW! Forward to Socialism!
TORY PM May’s crisis over her Brexit deal, which is a complete capitulation to the EU, is reaching explosion point. She was the...
Capitalist financial markets instruct Reeves to make billions of pounds cuts to welfare!
THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), an influential independent economic think-tank that dispenses ‘advice’ on financial matters to the government, has weighed in this...
Greek austerity is set to continue! Only way out is through the European...
GREECE has completed a three-year eurozone emergency loan programme worth 61.9bn euros (£55bn; $70.8bn). This was part of the biggest bailout in global financial...
The US Army Returing To The Scene Of The 2003 Crime!
PRESIDENT Obama is to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq to boost the Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State (IS) militants, nearly doubling the...
Giant investment companies dump shares as world banking crash looms
Testifying to MPs at the Treasury Committee yesterday, Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, issued a sharp rebuke to Labour chancellor Rachel...
Palestinian Prisoners Go 0N Hunger Strike For Unity
PALESTINIANS are commemorating Land Day, the 35th anniversary of the uprising against Israel’s land theft, in which six young protesters were killed by...
‘Bully’ Hunt thinks that he can dictate to the doctors
FIRST they came for the working poor and the youth with their massive and continuing austerity cuts; then they came for the trade unions...
US-UK-EU are fighting a war on two fronts – against Russia and against their...
SWEDEN AND FINLAND are expected to apply for NATO membership on May 17th, and no doubt they will be welcomed with ‘open arms’ since...
Workers and middle class being pauperised – unions must remove Tories and bring in...
BRITISH Gas is to increase electricity prices by 12.5% from 15 September, Centrica has revealed, in a move that will drastically slash the living...
Witch-Hunter Healey Hits Out At Russia As British Capitalism Struggles To Survive!
DEFENCE SECRETARY John Healey has said that three Russian submarines have carried out a ‘covert’ operation in the Atlantic, north of the UK, lasting...
Stock market crash – Only socialist revolution can end the carnage!
ON MONDAY the Wall Street stock market crashed with the Dow Jones Index, which follows the fortunes of 30 large US companies on a...
Shut down the House of Lords and purge the House of Commons! Leave the...
THE MAY government avoided a House of Commons defeat for the Brexit Withdrawal Bill last Tuesday by making promises to the leading Tory Remainer,...
Unite gives its full backing to Labour
LEN McCluskey, addressing the Unite policy conference in Liverpool yesterday, stated that the unions and the NHS face ‘the fight of our lives’ to see...
Bush talks peace as Israeli tanks kill eleven in Gaza
THE content of the Bush ‘peace offensive’ was yesterday revealed for the whole world to see when Israeli tanks, supported by artillery fire ...