Labour Pledges More Austerity!
POLITICAL ‘role reversal’ is the phrase being bandied about by bourgeois political commentators as they scratch their heads trying to make comparisons between the...
Final report into Boeing crash shows bosses ignored warnings! Nationalise Boeing – the US...
THE FINAL report into the Boeing 737 Max air crash in October last year, in which 189 people lost their lives, was published yesterday...
US Fed emergency rate cut fails to halt crash – only socialist revolution can...
FOR THE second time in less than two weeks the US Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to near zero on Sunday, a desperate last...
NOVEMBER 30TH STRIKE ACTION THE BEGINNING OF A CLASS SHOWDOWN in UK!
ON the very day that the public sector union Unison announced a massive vote in favour of strike action to defend pensions, the leadership...
US And UK Ruling Class Are Humbled In Afghanistan – Forward To The Victory...
THE US ruling class, and its UK and German allies have suffered a historic defeat in Afghanistan. This is the verdict of the former UK...
The meeting where the ‘N’ word could not be mentioned!
THERE were no questions allowed at the Unite TUC fringe meeting in Liverpool on Tuesday evening evening, so determined was the Woodley-Simpson leadership that...
Lord Jones and Sir Richard Branson turn on Brown
TWO of the Brown government’s big business backers Lord Digby Jones, the ex-CBI boss and Richard Branson, the Thatcherite businessman have unsurprisingly turned-coat. No doubt...
Johnson’s ‘Defiance’ Of The EU Will Not Fool Workers – He Voted For May’s...
THE NEW Tory PM, Boris Johnson, now has a cabinet dominated by ‘Leavers’ after his massive clear-out of ‘Remainer’ ministers, following his victory in...
Omicron strain batters USA as President Biden seeks to divert US workers’ anger with...
THE Omicron strain of the Coronavirus now accounts for more than 73% of new US cases of Covid-19, up from 13% just a week...
Democrats and Republicans sink their differences when it comes to imperialist war
WHILE US president Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night was met with impotent angry silence by Democrats, there...
Vote WRP, restore free state education, and abolish student fees
AN official review into government funding of universities led by Lord Browne, the former chief executive of BP, will not be published until after...
World bankers are in charge as the IMF justifies turning the money tap on...
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) made a wildly optimistic prediction yesterday that soaring UK inflation would become nothing more than a historical blip in...
French crisis directly poses issue of the working class taking power!
On Sunday, France went to the polls in the first round of parliamentary elections, with the far-right, neo-fascist National Rally (RN) of Marine Le...
Unemployment Crisis Deepening
TOTAL unemployment stood at 2.46 million for the three months to December, down 3,000 on the figure for the previous three months. However, long-term...
NHS is faced with ‘mission impossible’ because of a Tory imposed ‘unbridgeable’ financial...
NHS services in England are now, facing head on, a ‘mission impossible’ to meet the standards required by the government, the NHS ‘Providers’ health...
Russia resisting regime change in Syria!
RUSSIA said yesterday that it strongly disagreed with changes to its draft UN Security Council resolution on Syria made by the western imperialist powers. ‘Unfortunately,...
Banking crash spreads like wildfire through capitalist financial world
LAST Friday, the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was forced to close down and had its assets seized by the US Federal Reserve following...
Brown’s compromise encourages Catholic reaction
GORDON Brown says Labour MPs will have a free vote on three ‘controversial parts’ of his embryo research Bill, thus giving way to the...
Hamas salutes the victory of the Syrian people which points the way forward for...
THE head of Hamas’ foreign political bureau Khaled Mishaal, said yesterday that the victory of the Syrian people heralds the victory for the Islamic...
Coalition plans to punish and freeze the elderly
IT was the German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemöller, who said: ‘In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up...
US imperialism is determined to step up its intervention into Syria
PLANNING for military intervention by the imperialist powers into Syria, to overthrow the regime of president Assad, was stepped up this week with growing...
Organise a general strike! Bring down Brown government! Go forward to socialism
THE leaders of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), the University and College Union (UCU) and the...
‘We are going to create the largest social enterprise sector in the world’ says...
PRIMARY CARE Trusts are to be abolished and replaced by Federations of GPs who will purchase healthcare for their patients from both the public...
Crisis-ridden US capitalism driven towards war
US capitalism really has got its back to the wall, and has somewhat lost its balance, when its Treasury Secretary, Geithner, says that he...
A mass demonstration against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has been called for October...
A just-issued Coalition statement from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament states that: ‘In October, we will mark a year since the start of Israel’s...
After China sneezes Wall Street drops like a stone
A NINE per cent fall on the small Chinese stock market, after rumours that the Stalinist bureaucracy was about to tax shares, and slightly...
Production down, inflation up, pensioners savings destroyed – the ‘recovery’ so far!
INFLATION may stay above 3% during the rest of this year, according to Paul Tucker, a deputy governor of the Bank of England. He...
Unite leaders betray airport workers – for an emergency conference to elect a...
THE BETRAYAL by the leadership of the Unite union plunged to new depths last week in the negotiations between the union and the management...
US ‘Defence Cutbacks’ are a cynical fraud!
WHEN the gullible read the headline paragraph, that US Defence Secretary, Chuck Hagel, has unveiled plans to ‘shrink’ the US Army to its smallest...
UK rulers return to war East of Suez will create conditions for their overthrow!
PM MAY has just visited Jordan and is visiting Saudi Arabia to emphasise that the UK is, once again, trying to restore past...
World crisis spurring on world revolution
THE Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King has forecast that there is a bumpy road ahead for both the national and the...
Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tory-Led Coalition
THE TUC met yesterday afternoon to discuss pay and pensions and the planned mass demonstration and day of action on March 26 against the...
The Death Agony Of Capitalism Requires A Socialist Revolution!
THE crisis of the capitalist system erupted on Saturday with an opening salvo of explosive tariffs imposed by the US President Trump on his...
Hamas Condemns The Blocking Of All Humanitarian Aid To The Gaza Strip By Israel!
THE Israeli occupation government blocked on Sunday the entry of all humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and reneged on the truce after the...
Financial Services Authority Warns Of Inevitable Collapse
WITH business sure that the Bank of England is due to raise interest rates to at least five per cent, warnings are being made...
End free movement in EU urges May as Tory crisis deepens!
THE deepening worldwide capitalist crisis is driving forward revolution with seven-league boots. The crisis is threatening a new banking and industrial crash at any moment...
Brown planned troops on the streets after Lehman collapse
IN 2008, the then-Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, actively considered ordering armed troops onto the streets of Britain as his response to the collapse...
Crisis hit Osborne pledges ruthless class war on workers, pensioners and youth
CHANCELLOR Osborne began his Autumn Statement yesterday ‘We will do whatever it takes to protect Britain from this debt storm . ....
Strike to support nurses and defend the NHS!
THE anger of nurses working in the National Health Service (NHS) at having a pay cut imposed upon them this year, by the government...
Economic and political collapse of British capitalism – socialist revolution the only answer
THE KNIVES are out for Tory prime minister Boris Johnson after his disastrous performance over sleaze, U-turns over social care and now his bizarre...
Boom-time for bailiffs
APART from the bankers and speculators, there is another group looking to make huge profits at the expense of the human misery being created...
Scrap Academies – restore free state education
THE Academy school project – to replace state owned schools, with ‘independent’, millionaire sponsored, and privately run schools, who hire the staff that...
Israeli Army Rehearsing The Taking Of Gaza City!
BESIEGED GAZA is under a heavy non-stop Israeli siege and onslaught. The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has warned Israel of ‘dangerous consequences’ as the...
May threatens internment, more secret police powers, plus Syrian intervention to fight terror!
ON SUNDAY morning, not long after the latest terrorist attack, PM May, in her statement following the Cobra Security Committee meeting, expressed her indignation...
Afghan crisis – the Dutch won’t go so the Brits must take the strain!
YESTERDAY the Dutch parliament delayed its decision to send more than 1,000 Dutch troops to Afghanistan, as part of a NATO force, under British...