A new war on Gaza is ‘not far away’ and will be ‘the bloodiest...
A NEW war between Israel and Palestinian factions in the occupied Gaza Strip ‘is not far away’, and ‘will be deadlier and more destructive...
IMF-US and Global Debt ‘unsustainable’ – socialist revolution only answer to capitalist crisis!
THIS week the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the world organisation charged with protecting the international capitalist financial system, held its weekly annual meeting in...
US-UK imperialist forces must be driven out of Syria and the Middle East!
THE United States might have lost control over the situation in Syria and cannot fulfill their pledge to separate the opposition from the terrorists,...
TUC on its knees – time for a revolutionary leadership!
THE TUC New Year’s message (see page 3) has been delivered with TUC general secretary O’Grady on her knees appealing to the bosses and...
Blair, Brown Step Up War On The Public Sector
BLAIR and Brown stepped up the new Labour assault on the public sector yesterday. Brown even had the cheek to blame service sector workers’...
Demoralised Labour has shot its bolt!
TWO ex-Labour government leaders Clarke and Blunkett have now spoken up, true to form, to stab Prime Minister Brown in the back, just as...
Capitalism plunging into catastrophic banking crash – time to put it out of its...
LAST Friday the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed and its assets seized by the American Federal Reserve in the biggest banking crash...
Strikebreaker Hunt demands ‘call off NHS strike!’
‘BRITAIN needs a pay rise!’ These were the cynical words of PM Cameron last Friday in Washington, after five years of remorseless wage-cutting in...
US Trade Unions Ready To Take Action To Bring Down Trump!
IN AN unprecedented move, the American trade union AFL-CIO federation (the US equivalent of the TUC) issued a statement last Friday warning that the...
Right wing resorts to discredited Blair!
THE anti-Corbyn candidates must be pretty desperate if they are prepared to allow ex-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to appear and give a speech...
May defends capitalism, Corbyn wants it ‘restructured’. It must be overthrown through the socialist...
‘THE FREE market economy,’ in other words capitalism, ‘is unquestionably the best, and indeed the only sustainable, means of increasing the living standards of...
Backward Britain – Reading shuts Physics Department
THE backwardness of British capitalism was revealed yesterday for all to see when Reading University shut down its Physics Department. As usual, the reality is...
The Bank of E grapples with the contradictions of the capitalist economy
IN its latest report the Bank of England monetary committee has rejected the line put forward in the budget by the Chancellor of the...
McDonnell: Those who died in Grenfell were ‘murdered by political decisions!’
LABOUR shadow chancellor John McDonnell has come out and said openly what the vast majority of people in the country believe – that those...
No to school reopening and a forced return to work – for a general...
WHILE the Tories were hailing the relaxation of the lockdown rules that came into effect yesterday in England as a giant step forward, senior...
Comet collapse and private equity
Last Friday the administrator brought in to wind down the collapsed electrical retailer chain Comet announced that 330 staff would be made redundant with...
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...
State Repression Of Youth Being Intensified
THE CRISIS of the capitalist system has led to huge attacks on working class and middle class youth who are daily being told in...
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...
Ending the capitalist crisis needs more than reformist policies
JOHN McDONNELL the newly appointed Labour shadow chancellor, made his first speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday outlining the ‘new economics’ that he...
Capitalism’s crisis– Socialist revolution, the only solution!
THE OFFICIAL annual rate of inflation leapt in February, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Figures published yesterday showed that the Consumer Prices...
Pantomime In Parliament – Corbyn Refuses To Move No Confidence In May Government!
IT IS NOW crystal clear that PM May continues to rule the UK because the Labour opposition, led by Jeremy Corbyn, refuses to put...
Abbas forced to break all contacts with Israel. Now restore national unity government with...
PALESTINIAN President, Mahmud Abbas yesterday belatedly suspended the ‘peace negotiations’ and other contacts with Israel until the Israeli ‘criminal aggression on Gaza stops’. With 95...
Homeless deaths are rapidly increasing! Capitalism is rotten! Only socialism can take society...
THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has produced a new report which says that the true number of people sleeping on the streets ‘far exceeds’...
ICC prosecutor ‘equates the victim with the executioner’ in proposing arrest warrants for Israeli...
YESTERDAY, Karim Khan KC, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), issued a statement proposing that arrest warrants be issued for Israeli...
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...
Ruling class full of fear as UK workers demand a break with the EU...
DESPITE the Queen’s plea for ‘reasonableness’ the knives are out for tomorrow’s House of Commons debate on the EU with rival amendments tabled to...
‘Strongman’ Sunak tells unions there will be no talks and that they must accept...
THE British capitalist class and their government are now up to their necks in a massive crisis, that no attempts at fake bravado, or...
Palestinian leadership says peace talks will fail!
THE Palestinian leadership in Ramallah is working on the basis that the peace talks with Israel will fail and that both sides know...
Obama Dumps Two-State Solution!
PROPONENTS of the two-state solution to Palestine, that is the creation of two separate states, Israel and Palestine through peaceful negotiations, with East Jerusalem...
The Imf Issues Warning To The UK And Europe
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its growth forecast for Britain for the third time in nine months and warned George Osborne that...
Union leaders are refusing to defend jobs in the face of the most vicious...
LAST week it was announced by BAE systems, the private defence company, that the shipbuilding industry was to be closed down in Portsmouth and...
Labour Puts Migrants In Chains
YESTERDAY THE BBC repeated throughout the day film of a police and immigration officials raid on a chicken factory in Derbyshire, to which the...
Remainer MPs attempt to block no deal! Workers must take strike action to drive...
Commons on Thursday to try to ensure that Parliament is able to block any attempt by the expected Johnson-led Tory government to shut Parliament...
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...
Labour manifesto – a recipe for selling off the NHS and the Welfare State!
THEY say that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, and Gordon Brown proved the point yesterday when he began his forward to...
Unemployment is soaring! Defending the ‘right to work’ means getting rid of capitalism!
UNEMPLOYMENT is set to soar to levels not seen since The Great Depression, the ‘Hungry 1930s’, when workers starved. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)...
The US raises its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling as capitalism races towards the precipice!
THE US House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill to raise the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, while also attaching sweeping, massive...
Motor industry crisis deepens – nationalisation the only way
THE US administration has let it be known that it intends to force GM, formerly the world’s number one motor car manufacturer, into bankruptcy...
Households face catastrophe as debt crisis sets to explode
IT IS becoming clear that the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, is very scared about the effects of the expected rise...
Bankers Are Caught Like Rats In A Trap
FACED with loud and strident demands to slash its lending rate, to try and avoid a housing crash and a depression by crashing the...
Break with the EU Now! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
THE publication of the EU’s draft separation treaty with the UK has intensified the conflict between the UK and the EU ruling classes and...
Stock markets crash in US and across the world – socialist revolution is only...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s tariff increases imposed on China, Mexico and Canada come into effect today but already this has set off a massive...
Judges and lawyers demand end to UK arms to Israel. It’s time the TUC...
OVER 600 UK lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including three former supreme court justices, have written to Rishi Sunak warning that the UK...
PM And Chancellor Sunak Forced To Self Isolate As Labour Continues Its Support For...
THE Prime Minister and Chancellor are to ‘now self-isolate as normal’ after both met with Health Secretary Sajid Javid who had tested positively for...