Labour Taking Action To Make The Workers And The Poor Pay For The Crisis...
THERE is no doubt that Labour’s proposed benefit cuts are a ‘violation of workers rights’ which will harm ill, disabled and poorer workers in...
Mursi supports imperialist drive to overthrow Assad!
PRESIDENT MURSI caused a Syrian walk-out at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Tehran yesterday when he attacked the Syrian government and supported the...
Saudis hit again! Victory to the Houthis! End war on Yemen!
THE SAUDI regime has been hit again! The Yemeni Army yesterday released footage of a large-scale military offensive in which three Saudi brigades were...
Swiss National Bank puts the skids under the euro
DEFLATION ran amok yesterday as Tullow Oil wrote off $2.2bn (£1.45bn), a direct result of the oil price collapse after the World Bank warned...
NO WAGE OR JOB CUTS! Unions must call a general strike for a sliding...
IN THE last 48-hours energy bills have risen by over 50%. The pensioners triple lock guarantee has been smashed. Students repayments on their loans...
UNISON condemns Blair for breaking NHS promise
UNISON Head of Health, Karen Jennings, has condemned Labour government plans to allow private treatment centres to poach NHS staff, breaking a Labour government...
US workers deal Bush, Blair and Olmert a heavy blow
WHAT is being called in the US a ‘voter uprising’ has driven Bush’s Republicans out of their control of the House of Representatives, and...
GPs denounce Tory plans to roll out vaccine for putting patient lives at risk
VER 1,000 GPs have written to Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock demanding that the government produces a ‘full plan’ for the roll out of...
Tories declare war on trade unions – defend the right to strike with a...
TODAY’S Queen’s speech includes plans by the Tories to make all-out strikes by rail unions and other transport workers illegal. Tory transport secretary Grant Shapps...
Israel Poised For Gaza Attack!
ISRAEL is gearing up for another major attack on the Gaza Strip to try and drive back the revolutionary forces in the area. At the...
Tories’ attempt to recreate the British Empire demands a revolutionary response
TORY Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s speech yesterday called for the UK to be ‘realistic about our global position’, insisting that this means recognising that...
Labour Becomes The Anti-Immigrants Party
THE number of immigrants allowed into the UK under the current ‘points system’ will have to be reduced because of the economic crisis, and...
Bank of England boss says outlook for British capitalism ‘worst I’ve ever seen!’
ON Monday, the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee issued a report blaming the Bank of England (BoE) for ‘errors’ that had failed to...
Starmer’s ‘national mission’ is to save capitalism and to make workers pay for it!
YESTERDAY, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer delivered what was billed as a keynote speech that would outline once and for all the policies Labour...
Labour demands students foot the bill to bail out bankrupt universities
ON Monday, Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced that university tuition fees will be increased for the first time in eight years. Phillipson’s increase means...
Corbyn stabs Brexit in the back for the benefit of the bosses and...
LABOUR leader Corbyn, in his response to PM May’s Monday update to the House of Commons ahead of this week’s European Council, made it...
US imperialism ramps up attacks on Venezuela in order to effect regime change and...
Last Saturday morning, US president Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he was closing down the airspace ‘above and surrounding Venezuela’...
Defend Iran Againstfrench And US Threats
THE French government is threatening Iran with retribution if it does not give up its nuclear energy programme. The French Prime Minister, De Villepin, one...
EU and US fall out over oil, gas and Russian sanctions!
THE INCREASINGLY fractious relationship between the US and its rival capitalist bloc the European Union, is on the point of erupting into a full...
May wants to rip up the basic rights of the working class! Put her...
IN the seven short weeks since Tory Prime Minister Theresa May announced out of the blue that she was calling a snap general election,...
Hamas condemns the ‘massacre of the century’ in Palestine by Israel and its allies!
HAMAS has said that the Israeli regime is engaged in committing a ‘massacre of the century’ in the Gaza Strip, with Tel Aviv carrying...
TUC must take the lead in the establishment of the state of Palestine by...
MASSIVE Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah ‘are not the end of the story’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared – after Israeli jets bombed...
BIS Report – Global ‘Debt Trap’ set to crash world capitalism
THE SWISS based Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the ‘central bank for central banks’, has issued a new warning about the global ‘debt trap’...
Japanese Imperialists Flex Their Muscles
JAPANESE Nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has just been re-elected and has immediately begun a drive to prepare for war against China and North...
Foxconn to replace its Chinese workers with a million robots
TAIWANESE electronics manufacturer Foxconn, which assembles products for Apple, plans to have a million robots, by the next three years, in operation in its...
Tory policies to defund and privatise the NHS responsible for Shrewsbury maternity disaster!
THE INDEPENDENT Ockenden inquiry into maternity provisions at the Shrewsbury NHS Trust has revealed a horrific catalogue of failures contributing to the deaths of...
Blair Launches ‘Irreversible’ NHS-Education Market!
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that he was poised to make irreversible changes to primary and secondary education by bringing in an education market...
Speaker determined to stop Brexit! Organise the General Strike to shut Parliament down and...
TORY leadership candidate Dominic Raab has threatened to prorogue Parliament, shutting it down at the end of October to ensure that the UK leaves...
Labour’s collapse in front of the Tories proves the need to build the new...
ON Thursday the Labour Party suffered its worst defeat in a general election since 1935 and handed Boris Johnson’s Tory party a majority in...
Carney’s ‘forward guidance’ comes a huge cropper!
BANK of England governor Carney has dumped his forward guidance policy under which interest rates would rise once the UK unemployment rate had been...
No Respite From The Capitalist Crisis!
IT is one of the features of the capitalist crisis that it proceeds not in a straight line but through a downward spiral movement...
Morgan Stanley having sleepless nights over the UK
THE Morgan Stanley bank is worried that the world crisis is going to shatter the already bankrupt UK economy, causing a flight of capital...
Kick The Profiteers Out Of The NHS!
THE report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the running of Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire gives official and damming evidence of the plundering...
Well Done The Sri Lankan Workers! Now Establish A Workers Government!
THE Sri Lankan workers and youth have shown the way forward to the workers of the world, and to the workers of the UK...
Take action to defend jobs. Occupy and organise a general strike!
FACED with the crash of the pound and the enormous 182,000 leap in the number of unemployed in the three months to October, the...
The Bully State and forced labour is to replace the Welfare State
TWO hundred thousand young people aged between 16 and 18, 11 per cent of that total age group, who are unemployed with no...
Build councils of action to support the postal workers
‘THIS has been the best-supported strike I’ve ever seen,’ CWU General Secretary, Billy Hayes told striking postal workers in Peckham yesterday. This was after the...
Only Socialist Revolution can stop imperialist war
ON SUNDAY, newly appointed Tory Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, writing in the Telegraph, announced that the UK would be sending troops to Ukraine ‘to...
Arab bourgeoisie – an agency of imperialism
THE Viva Palestina convoy has found out that, when it comes to preventing aid reaching the much-battered and besieged Gaza Strip, the Mubarak...
Strike wave through Europe poses issue of working class taking power
THIS week a headline in one of the bourgeois papers declared ‘Europe Grinds to a Halt’ and for once the hyperbole was justified as...
Defend Every Job In Gm Europe – Occupy And Nationalise
THE Detroit board of US carmaker General Motors last Friday postponed making a decision on who should acquire its Opel division, including the two...
Business rates hike is to bankrupt the NHS – Time to bring the ...
NHS hospitals and GP surgeries in England and Wales face a massive £635 million hike in their business rates by the May government over...
Reformists and Stalinists seek to break Greek teachers’ struggle
THE confrontation between Greek teachers and the Greek state and its EU masters has erupted this week after all teachers were served at the...
Capitalism Plunging Downwards – Socialist Revolutions Required
ON Monday, President Obama addressed the prospect of the USA going bust saying: ‘So to even entertain the idea of this happening – of...
No to paying the EU £50 billion – Kick out the Tories and forward...
THE TORY government has caved in to EU demands and agreed to pay a whopping ‘divorce’ bill that is estimated to be £50 billion. EU...