Capitalism kills
Thousands of Bangladeshi workers erupted onto the streets of the capital Dhaka yesterday in fury at the fire on Saturday at a garment factory...
BIS Report – global ‘debt trap’ risk higher than ever and set to crash...
THE SWISS-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in its annual ‘health check’ on the world’s financial system has once again warned about the huge...
Home Office is ‘institutionally racist’! The way to end the ‘hostile environment’ is to...
THE HOME Office is ‘institutionally racist’. This is the verdict of the first draft of the ‘lessons learned’ review by Wendy Williams, HM Inspector...
Ukrainian Stalinists giving way to EU-backed regime-change attempt
THE Ukrainian Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov, of the Stalinist Party of the Regions resigned on Tuesday in an attempt to draw the EU-backed right-wing...
UK Economy Gripped By Slump And Inflation
UK economic growth ground to a halt between April and June, according to the latest official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
Price Explosion threat to working class
ENERGY bills will rise by more than 60% within the next few years, a report for the UK’s biggest domestic energy supplier Centrica said...
Iraqi puppets feel the noose tightening
IN the last few days the Iraqi puppet National Assembly, whose authority does not run outside of the Green Zone US fortress in central...
The TUC must tell the Tories to condemn Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ or...
ON TUESDAY night, US President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side finally unveiled to the world his ‘Deal of...
Pentagon rails against the ‘Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act!’
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has issued a warning that legislation allowing families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia...
Labour government splits over ‘class war plan’ to raise income tax rates
MAJOR splits have emerged in the Labour government Cabinet over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s class-war plans to raise income tax rates...
Latest inflation figures spur Tories and Bank of England to ramp up attack on...
INFLATION figures yesterday, that recorded a drop in the inflation rate to 6.8% in July, have been greeted by the Tories and the Bank...
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...
80 MPs and members of the House of Lords urge Foreign Secretary Raab to...
OVER 80 British parliamentarians representing all parties, in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, on February 8th wrote in a...
Shares Crash As Debt Crisis Explodes
IN London yesterday, the FTSE 100 rebounded momentarily, but then fell back into the red, down by 48.5 points by 1pm after a...
Stock markets crash as capitalism drives into recession – Socialist revolution only way forward
THE CRASH on the global stock markets carried on yesterday as the world financial markets reeled from the shock realisation that the once mighty...
Deepening capitalist crisis is driving the US-UK axis to war with Russia!
US DEFENCE Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the US fleet of warships to remain in the Mediterranean Sea, driving up the tensions between the...
Macron convenes crisis meeting after rushing back to France from EU summit!
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron convened a crisis meeting yesterday amid a wave of working class uprisings that engulfed France after a 17-year-old driver was...
Brown in partnership with McDonalds is going to bring in forced labour
TRUE to form, Brown the bankers’ prime minister, opened his speech on apprentices yesterday by hailing the employers saying: ‘I am delighted to join...
Tories lay groundwork for police military dictatorship to force a return to work
THE INSTITUTE of Directors (IoD) has warned that 250,000 businesses could sack workers as the Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak runs down the furlough scheme. Sunak...
Public debt and pensions black hole
THE right-wing, free market think tank, the Adam Smith Institute, yesterday hit out at the Tories’ ‘deeply immoral’ failure to bring down the national...
Tories to slash public services by £17bn
UK PUBLIC services will be slashed by up to £17 billion, the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned, as Tory chancellor Rishi...
TUC corporatists must be kicked out! Come to the ATUA conference to build a...
THE TRADE Union Congress (TUC) organised the knifing in the back of the Southern guards’ and drivers’ struggle on Thursday, brokering a ‘deal’...
Trade Union Leaders Are Pulling Their Punches!
IT is a disgrace that the trade union leaders who led the May 10th pensions strike, when 400,000 trade union members stopped work, refused...
Unemployment at 7.7 per cent – food banks facing huge demand
UK jobless officially fell to 2.49m in the latest government figures, for the three months to August, showing a slight fall of 18,000, not...
Stop Tory drive to war in Libya with a general strike
THE imperialist war drums are beating with a vengeance as advanced preparations for a direct military intervention into Libya by Britain, Italy, France and...
Hunt throws down the gauntlet – the trade unions must pick it up!
THE Department of Health, headed by Health Secretary Hunt, has said that a proposed 1% increase in NHS staff pay was unaffordable, and is...
Halt the NHS race to the bottom
AT a time when the privately owned treatment centres are being handed billions of pounds of the NHS Budget, without any investigation of just...
While the homeless sleep on the streets and workers battle to survive the rich...
UK WORKERS have suffered privation and poverty ever since the 2008 financial crash, when the banks were bailed out by a Labour government at...
EU split and breaking up – Forward to the United Socialist States of Europe
LAST THURSDAY, the 27 heads of the European Union held a video conference call to decide the EU’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic. The...
RBS scandal demands workers expropriate the banks
THIS week yet another scandal has broken out concerning the practices of the banking system. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is once again in...
Syria wins the war! Foreign Sec Hunt admits Assad is here to stay! Workers...
TORY Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has admitted for the first time that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will remain in office. Hunt made the remark...
The working people of the world must NOW take action to establish the...
THE Palestinian presidency on Wednesday expressed its great thanks and appreciation for the strong and clear Saudi position expressed in the Saudi statement issued...
Victory to Assad! Stop bombing Libya – withdraw UK special forces!
ON Monday the US launched air strikes on the Libyan city of Sirte against ISIL, at the request of one of the current Libyan...
Blair Fears Facing War Crimes Tribunal
YESTERDAY it was alleged that ex-Prime Minister Blair made representations to the Prime Minister concerning the ‘independent inquiry’ into the war in Iraq, which...
Sunak prepares for war on working class to pay off capitalism’s massive debt
OVER 250,000 small firms and companies are destined to collapse this year according to research carried out by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Nearly...
Bank Of England Issues Warning – The UK Is Heading For A...
THE Bank of England has issued a warning that Britain faces a financial crisis that would see households battling against much higher borrowing costs...
Oil crisis plunging Capitalism into global recession
YESTERDAY the BBC published on its website an interview with Larry Fink, boss of the US financial giant BlackRock, in which he gave the...
PCS strike – No compromise with Tories possible. A general strike to kick them...
OVER 500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) came out on strike this...
TUC Must Take General Strike Action To Stop The Mass Murder Of Palestinians
WEDNESDAY’S Guardian newspaper admitted that Israel faced intensifying international condemnation for its killing of starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza’ quoting UN Secretary General Antonio...
Hedge fund speculators make super-profits out of starving millions across the world
A REPORT compiled by Unearthed, the investigative unit of the Greenpeace environmentalist organisation, and the independent journalist organisation Lighthouse Reports has thrown a light...
No Ifs, No Buts – TUC must call an immediate general strike to support...
Over 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street last Saturday in a massive demonstration of support for Palestine and demanding an end...
BMA & RCEM demand urgent action to end NHS winter crisis! TUC must call...
DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has demanded ‘urgent action this winter to stop the National Health Service derailing entirely’. This stark warning came in a new report...
No Pensions sell-out! Sack Prentis and Barber! Forward to the General Strike! Build new...
THE reformist trade union leaders are once again, on the pensions issue, showing that they are organically incapable of defending the basic gains of...
Drive Out Zero-Hours Contracts
FIGURES released last Wednesday purport to show the UK unemployment rate for the three months to September fell to 7.4% from 7.6% – a...
The markets panic and crash as capitalism heads for a major catastrophe!
THE stock markets are crashing as the Tory government’s borrowing costs went soaring yesterday to a 15-year high, amid a global shares sell off...