Blairites back-off and concede to Brown
OH how the mighty have fallen. It was not so long ago that Blairites were queuing up to challenge Gordon Brown for the premiership....
The Way Forward – Starve The Working Class Says King!
THE governor of the Bank of England, in his Tuesday night speech detailed the source of the gigantic inflationary rise in living costs that...
Manchester Arena bombing was the product of a British capitalist state provocation!
THE judge-led inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing at an Ariana Grand concert in May 2017 finally published its finding yesterday after a two-and-a-half-year...
Trump caves in over Ukraine – now is the time to get rid of...
AMERICA’S junior imperialist allies in the UK and Europe were in a state of shock as details of US president Donald Trump’s climbdown over...
British capitalism faces a financial disaster and economic collapse
INTERNATIONAL financiers, hedge-funds and speculators took just one day to savage Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first budget on Wednesday with interest rates on UK...
Capitalism can’t afford common retirement age or decent pensions
CAPITALIST Britain is being driven backwards, not forwards by the deepening crisis of capitalism and the policies of the Blair-Brown Labour government, dedicated to...
Nationalise The Motor Car Industry
US and European car employers yesterday warned that ‘their’ industry faced wipeout, ‘victims’ of the slump in the motor car industry and the financial...
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...
Short-term contracts driving teachers out of the profession
THE EIS (Educational Institute of Scotland) has warned that the increasing use of short-term contracts in Scottish schools is driving many newly qualified teachers...
Netanyahu marches against terrorism in Paris!
WHEN the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine lampooned the prophet, it knew that it was trampling over the religious susceptibilities of millions of Muslims, and...
Syrian Workers Must Take The Power And Bring In A Workers Government And Socialism!
LARGE NUMBERS of workers and youth have occupied the Damascus residence of the just-deposed President Assad, with Damascus placed under a curfew. After the collapse,...
Brown must stop supporting the Rajapaksa government that murders Tamils
THE Brown government rails on about ‘breaches of human rights’ allegedly taking place in Zimbabwe and Burma, and makes all kinds of allegations...
The Spark That Started A Revolution!
OVER a million Greeks stopped work yesterday in a general strike while tens of thousands of Greek workers, unemployed and youth rallied in front...
Tories Vote To Keep Blair In Office!
IN Tuesday night’s vote in the House of Commons on the Blair government’s Education Bill, 67 Labour MPs voted against, wiping out the government’s...
Sack TUC traitors who collaborate with Tories and bosses – Build a new leadership...
CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak opened his Budget speech on Wednesday with an appeal to ‘put aside party politics, and act in the national interest’ in...
Britain’s economy broken says Archbishop – as he worries about the British revolution!
THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has blurted out the truth that has been more than obvious for a number of years to millions...
Occupy And Nationalise Vauxhall Plants
THREE companies have bid to take over GM Europe from the crisis-stricken US giant. They are Italian carmaker Fiat, Canadian parts maker Magna and...
US Forming New Military Alliance
US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice arrived in the Ukraine yesterday, and immediately interfered in Russia’s internal affairs, condemning Russian legislation that will restrict...
Labour terrorism against the unemployed
UNEMPLOYED council and housing association tenants must be made to sign a new tenancy agreement under which they will agree to have their skill...
McCluskey must meet with Gate Gourmet sacked workers!
LEN McCluskey, winner of the election for the post of Unite general secretary, said on Wednesday that ‘I have a huge agenda in front...
Israel closes Irish embassy in fury over Ireland’s recognition of Palestine and its support...
THE DECISION by the Israeli regime on Sunday to close its embassy in Dublin brought a swift response from Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister) Simon...
Millions of children face hunger under Tory austerity – TUC must act!
A SHOCKING study carried out by the GMB union released yesterday showed that almost one in ten school staff bring in their own food...
Bankers’ bonuses are a diversion
The headline news throughout the bourgeois media yesterday was that Stephen Hester, Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, had magnanimously bowed to...
Cuts will push councils to breaking point!
THE cuts to local government funding will ‘push councils to breaking point’ according to council leaders. On Thursday the Tory Communities and Local Government minister, Kris Hopkins,...
Bank of England – workers must pay for capitalist inflation – Only socialist revolution...
NOT TO WORRY about spiralling inflation, MPs were told on Monday by senior members of the Bank of England, as the soaring cost of...
Putin’s withdrawal from Syria sends message to Assad and Obama!
THE decision of President Putin to begin withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria, after giving President Assad just a few hours notice, constitutes a...
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...
Inflation rages, the trade deficit widens and the bosses demand even tougher anti-union laws
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday kept rates at 0.5%. Inflation however is continuing to rise as world oil, wheat, meat, cotton and...
Nut Warns Over Free Schools And Academies
COMMENTING on the latest Education at a Glance report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Christine Blower, General Secretary of the...
TUC – defend the junior doctors, call a general strike now!
THE war against junior doctors and their fight to defend the NHS has been ramped up by the Tory government acting through the General...
As Capitalism Shuts Down Workers Must Be Mobilised To Fight For Socialism!
THE SCENE has been set for today’s budget by the crash of the stockmarkets on Monday March 9th when trillions of pounds were wiped...
Henley New Labour Disaster – Less Votes Than The Bnp!
LABOUR’s fifth place at Henley, shamefully behind the fascist BNP, will go down in history as an example of a party being thrust into...
Smash the capitalist state, sack the chief constables, no to police commissioners!
THE Tory-LibDem coalition is set to introduce a ‘reform programme’ for the police that will establish regimes of elected police commissioners, who will have...
Corbyn must demand a general election at once!
AS THE Tory and Labour Party crises deepen, the Bank of England yesterday announced that the outlook for UK financial stability is ‘challenging’. Bank of...
Whither the NHS is still to be decided!
THE fury of the Blairite Milburn over the changes to the Health Bill that have been forced on the Tory-led coalition by the massive...
Trade unions must call a general strike to stop Tories ending all Covid restrictions
YESTERDAY, Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the ending of all remaining Covid restrictions in England this week. The Tories’ ‘Living with Covid’ plan means...
Judiciary Now Leading The Charge Against 2016 Referendum!
WE ARE now reaching the moment of truth in the struggle to carry out the result of the 2016 referendum which instructed Parliament that...
Defend university education! Forward to the British socialist revolution!
‘LET THEM FAIL!’ declared yesterday’s Daily Telegraph in response to repeated calls for emergency government funding to rescue endangered English universities as the economic...
British War Crimes In Iraq Will Just Not Go Away – Even The UK...
AS IS WELL KNOWN the moment that US President Bush heard about the criminal terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in NewYork on Tuesday...
Britain to be one big prison!
THE coalition government has published its plans to turn Britain into one big prison with its own version of the US’ two strikes and...
Follow Holby City Equity Take Strike Action With Junior Doctors
THE Equity trade union members who play the doctors and medical staff in the BBC medical drama Holby City have offered their full support...
Close the Israeli embassy and boycott all Israeli goods
ISRAEL, on Saturday evening, committed over 200 tanks and 20,000 troops to an invasion of Gaza, covered by artillery fire and fire from warships...
Rate Rises Will Lead To Banking Collapse
ON Thursday night, the captains of British capitalism assembled for a sumptuous banquet at London’s Mansion House to listen to the latest economic plans...
Blair, Thatcher lavish praise on fellow Tory Heath
IN THESE days, when capitalist Britain is being rocked by the world economic crisis and the disaster of its imperialist policies in Iraq and...
Starmer Recruiting Right Wing Tories To Run Any Labour Gov!
THE Labour Party is defending, welcoming right wing Tory defector Natalie Elphicke into the party despite anger from many backbench MPs and workers at...