Darling’s forecasts ‘too optimistic’, says Treasury Committee
THE British capitalist economy and government finances are in a worse state than Chancellor Alistair Darling led everyone to believe when he delivered his...
Ed Balls ending Universal Benefit
YESTERDAY the Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, announced that the Labour Party has officially abandoned the principle of universal benefits in the interests of...
Pro-Palestinian hunger strikers in immediate danger of dying as Lammy refuses to meet with...
On Saturday, two of the prisoners on hunger strike were taken to hospital, the latest of eight prisoners admitted to hospital since they began...
‘The Final Demise Of The Two State Solution’ Says Ashrawi!
THE Palestinian National Council (PNC), the Palestinian parliament in exile, said on Monday that the decision of the Israeli ruling Likud party to impose...
Refugees from imperialist wars are welcome – the enemy of the working class is...
ON WEDNESDAY it was revealed that the Tory government is considering building an ‘asylum processing centre’ in the South Atlantic on Ascension Island. The Foreign...
Maude and Cameron seek the support of parliament for law-breaking
THE Tory-led coalition is rushing through parliamentary legislation to impose on the Civil Service trade unions savage changes to their redundancy agreement (Civil Service...
Stock markets are crashing – workers must take action to get rid of bankrupt...
STOCK markets in Europe fell in early trading yesterday morning, following on from an overnight collapse in Asian markets just ahead of the Trump...
Capitalism is dead in the water!
ON Thursday, a member of the powerful Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, in an unguarded moment, blurted out the truth that exports from...
Greece must be sacrificed – Osborne dons his butcher’s apron!
CHANCELLOR Osborne was in the mood for sacrifices on Tuesday and as is his way, the way of the British bourgeoisie, these sacrifices were...
Occupy to fight mass sackings! Nationalise the motor car industry!
GENERAL Motors yesterday presented the United States Department of Treasury with its restructuring plan to re-establish the bankrupt company through massive sackings of over...
Desperate Osborne swings the axe as the capitalist crisis deepens
IN HIS Spending Review of yesterday, drawn up at a time when the capitalist crisis is deepening, with inflation rising and the banks warning...
Answer Tories’ ‘perversion of democracy’ with a general strike to kick them out
YESTERDAY’S meeting of the Tory ‘Brexit War Cabinet’ at Chequers was convened under conditions where the entire Tory leadership was openly at war with...
Turn The November 30Th Strike Into An Indefinite General Strike
THERE can be only one demand for next week’s one-day strike by public sector workers and that must be for the TUC to call...
US prepares no-fly zone over Syria
THE news that the US secretary of state, John Kerry, was forced to scrap a planned visit to Israel in order to attend an...
Desperate UK Tories seeking to curry favour with President Biden by imposing sanctions on...
CHINA has imposed sanctions on nine UK citizens – including five MPs for spreading ‘lies and disinformation’ about the country. This is China’s very minor...
Britannia sinking beneath the waves of the capitalist crisis!
THE bourgeois media is currently working overtime publicising the ‘bad news’ about the British capitalist economy. Everybody now knows that youth unemployment (the 16-24 age...
Forward to an indefinite general strike to bring down the coalition
OVER two million public sector workers walked out yesterday. The message was that the coalition’s savage cuts programme, that was intensified in Osborne’s Autumn...
Afghan defeat for UK imperialism – now smash them at home
AN influential group of MPs have finally admitted publicly what everyone already knows – that the invasion of Afghanistan by NATO troops, led by...
You Can’t Reform The Capitalist State – It Must Be Overthrown!
NEVILLE LAWRENCE, the father of Stephen Lawrence, the teenager who was murdered by a racist gang in 1993, said yesterday that he was very...
Blair jeered, and Gordon Brown condemns walk-out delegates
YESTERDAY Premier Blair could not raise a single clap for his answers to questions about his privatisation drive in the public sector, in the...
UK Must Not Appoint New EU Commissioner – Time To Quit The EU Without...
THE EU HAS begun its legal action against the UK to attempt to force it to either appoint a new UK EU Commissioner, or...
Workers targeted by loan companies to pay for private medical treatment
‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) deals, along with other personal loan arrangements, are being aggressively pushed out for NHS patients as part of the...
Stop BA & Stop Baa Airports, To Win Cabin Crew Struggle!
BA cabin crew yesterday rejected the latest offer from BA with a massive 67 per cent voting to throw out by 3,419 votes to...
Brown Speaks To His Cbi Constituency
YESTERDAY Gordon Brown attempted to revive his political credibility, severely damaged after the Northern Rock and Child Benefit details crises by delivering a speech...
The issue is the shoot to kill policy says de Menezes campaign
THE family of Jean Charles de Menezes, murdered by police on the Tube on July 22, have called for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir...
Orange Counter-Revolution Defeated!
THE OPPOSITION leader Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Party of the Regions, has won the Ukrainian presidential election, and has defeated Prime Minister...
Syria goes to the polls – a great victory for the Syrian people and...
YESTERDAY, millions of Syrians were casting their votes in record numbers in parliamentary elections against the backdrop of a ceasefire that is generally holding,...
China responds to Obama!
CHINA’S state media have responded to Barak Obama’s Pentagon announcement that the US is turning its back on the North Atlantic, and therefore...
Bank of England to unleash hyperinflation in a desperate attempt to save capitalism
REPORTS emerged over the weekend that the Bank of England is on the verge of announcing another massive round of money printing to pay...
General strike shakes the Rajapaksa regime! Forward to workers power!
LAST Thursday, the Sri Lankan capital Colombo was halted as hundreds of thousands of trade unionists and their supporters took to the streets in...
Netanyahu’s ‘Pyrrhic Victory’ – He Still Faces Criminal Charges And The Palestinian Revolution
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has claimed a ‘huge win’ in a vote that challenged his leadership of the Likud party. Netanyahu secured 72.5%...
Jobs For Youth – Smash The Cheap Labour Economy
Youth unemployment is now higher than it was in 1997, with 702,000 young people aged 16-24 jobless, according to official figures released just before...
The great betrayal – NHS union leaders call off strike action!
NHS trade unions have called off (‘suspended’) today’s strike and betrayed their members by accepting the government’s decision not to pay the...
TUC MUST CALL GENERAL STRIKE FROM SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15th IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINIAN REVOLUTION...
THE Hamas Movement has reiterated its rejection of US president Donald Trump’s renewed remarks about his intent to relocate the citizens of Gaza to...
Israel withdraws its 98th Commando division from Gaza as Cairo talks are due...
SIX months into Israel’s criminal war on Gaza, Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters have been engaged in intense combat around the city of Khan...
Labour plans ruthless cuts and mass privatisation of public sector to ‘save’ British capitalism
The Telegraph newspaper has revealed an internal letter from Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Treasury department ordering cabinet ministers to be ‘ruthless’ in identifying public...
Saudis resume Yemen bombing raids!
THE reactionary Saudi regime – the pride and joy of the United States and UK ruling classes that have armed it to the teeth...
Chilcot won’t rule on Iraq war legality
CHILCOT opened his report of his inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war yesterday by stating that it was not the job of his very...
Kick out TUC leaders who refuse to fight and are begging Tories to extend...
FROM TODAY the Tory furlough scheme starts to unwind with businesses forced to contribute 10% of furloughed workers’ wages, rising to 20% in August...
Throw the paltry Tory NHS pay cut ‘offer’ out! Nothing less than 3.9%+£800 will...
NHS staff who have suffered a 15% pay cut since 2010 have been offered a ‘new deal’ from the government. A leaked document shows...
Tories boost their navy in the Gulf, part of a ‘Maritime Coalition’ against Iran!...
TORY foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to ‘reverse cuts to the size of the Royal Navy’ if he becomes prime minister. Hunt has...
Put Blair On Trial!
THE Fern Britton interview with Tony Blair on the BBC yesterday, squashed all of the notions that are being peddled that Blair was just...
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...
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...
Tory austerity hits poorest the hardest, time to kick them out!
A STUDY produced yesterday by the Centre for Cities think tank highlights the reality of Tory austerity cuts that have fallen on the backs...