Labour stands by crumbling capitalism to the end
ON Monday Chancellor Darling opened his pre-budget report with a piece of cheerful idiocy, saying that he was ‘confident that the UK, as an...
Decade of Tory NHS cuts has disabled the NHS! 4.6m now wait for operations....
THE SURGE in coronavirus cases in January hit key services including cancer and even routine surgery, NHS England figures released on Thursday exposed. Over the...
Support North Korea Against US Aggression!
WITH the crisis of capitalism deepening and the US economy showing not the slightest signs of recovery, it is only natural that the US...
Imperialism plotting bigger war! The TUC must call a general strike and kick out...
US president Joe Biden on his whistlestop visit to Israel on Wednesday, gave the green light to plans for a full-scale ground invasion of...
Bosses & Tories In Crisis – Time To Bring Both Down!
THE TORY Party conference opened in Manchester on Sunday to scenes that reflected the terminal splits and divisions that dominate the minority government of...
UK steel industry collapses!
YESTERDAY the Tory business secretary, Sajid Javid, convened an emergency summit meeting in Rotherham on the dramatic collapse of the UK steel industry. From the...
US Troops Return To Syria To Grab Its Oil Resources – While The Iraqi...
US TROOPS are back in military bases in north eastern Syria which they had previously evacuated ahead of Turkey’s military action against Kurdish forces...
Afghan crisis deepens as deadline nears
AFGHANISTAN’S finance minister has said deadlock over the disputed presidential election has cost the economy $5bn, so far. Omar Zakhilwal has said he will have...
Axe the privateers – Defend NHS beds
THE BMA yesterday condemned the Reform report, ‘Fewer Hospitals, more competition’, stating in response to the Reform privatisation manifesto that ‘bed...
Leaked documents reveal a failed mass-murder machine
THE leaked 90,000 US Afghan war documents once again show – as did the My Lai mass killings of the Vietnamese people – the...
IMF warns US banking crisis threatens stability of world capitalism!
THE IMF (International Monetary Fund) has issued another stark warning that world capitalism is at serious risk of an international financial crisis caused by...
Millions of low paid US workers are on the march!
FOLLOWING the Black Friday strike action at 1,500 WalMart stores throughout the US, fast-food workers in over 100 cities will walk off the job...
Union leaders in Brown’s top pocket
The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure leapt from 4.7% in August to 5.2% in December, with the Retail Prices Index (RPI), which includes the...
Call A General Strike Now!
THE demand for a general strike to bring down the government has been driven by the working class onto the immediate agenda of the...
EU heads for economic collapse and revolution
ON Thursday the heads of the Eurozone met in emergency session in a desperate attempt to head off Greek state bankruptcy leading to the...
Leave The EU Now! Call A General Strike To Defend Jobs! Stop Pleading...
THE UK’s negotiator with the EU, Lord Frost, has said that there is still time for the UK and the EU to agree a...
Forward To Jerusalem!
THE Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday that eight Security Council members are guaranteed to vote in favour of the Palestinian bid for full...
Cameron’s Magna Carta hypocrisy
THIS week the Tory-led coalition is set to announce yet more changes to the education syllabus, changes designed to further Cameron’s pledge to drive...
Answer the Lindsey provocation with a general strike!
THE provocative sacking of over 650 workers at the Lindsey Oil Refinery – who walked out to demand that a recently negotiated trade union...
Irish Union Votes To Repudiate Bank Debt!
The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union is to contact ‘like-minded unions’ to seek ‘international legal opinion regarding the possibility of mounting a successful legal...
Make the TUC take action to defend the NHS
YESTERDAY both Blair and Hewitt mocked NHS workers insulting their intelligence with the Hewitt line that this year was the best ever year for...
Hands Off Syria – Forward to World Revolution
THE imperialist military alliance, NATO, meets today at the request of Turkey which will be invoking Article 4 of its treaty which covers threats...
Trump Denounces The ‘Marxists’ As The Crisis Of US Capitalism Reaches Explosion Point!
IN HIS FOURTH of July speech on Saturday US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claimed were...
Labour Slashes Welfare Benefits To Make The Poorest Pay For The Capitalist Crisis!
LABOUR CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves made further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments in her Spring Statement yesterday. The government announced big welfare spending reductions...
World Trembles At Prospect Of US Rate Rise!
JAMES Bullard, the head of the St Louis Fed, told a recent City Week Forum in London that investors are far too complacent and...
UK economy collapses 20.4% in a month! Time to expropriate the bosses and get...
A SHATTERING collapse of the British economy has taken place. It has fallen 20.4% in a single month, in April, and it is still...
BMA demands STPs be ‘abandoned’! Now all trade unions must follow their lead and...
ON MONDAY, the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting took a giant step forward when, after a struggle over the issue of STPs, it passed a...
War crimes are OK, as long as they are British!
CORPORAL Donald Payne has just got a minor one year sentence for a war crime after pleading guilty to inhumane treatment of civilian detainees...
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...
Tories target workers, disabled and children to pay the bankers’ debts!
OSBORNE said of his emergency Budget yesterday; ‘Yes it is tough; but it is also fair.’ Further on in his speech he allowed just...
Struggle against Assad and Iran more important to US-UK gangsters than defeating ISIS
UK Prime Minister Cameron said yesterday that the UK supports US airstrikes against the IS not with boots on the ground, but by other...
British economy skating on thin ice
BA is currently approaching a number of private equity companies about forming a consortium to bid for Iberia airlines. Iberia said last month...
Middle East On The Brink As Mad Dog Israel Attacks Beirut, Baghdad & Damascus!
LEBANON’s president, Michel Aoun, on Monday condemned an Israeli drone attack on Beirut at the weekend as a ‘declaration of war’ that justifies a...
Karzai dashes to bring Taleban into the government
WHILE hundreds of Afghan civilians are being killed in General Petraeus’ Afghan surge, and British and US casualties escalate upwards despite the ‘victories’ being...
Starmer prepares for reactionary coalition to impose capitalist crisis on workers – Socialist revolution...
THE MELTDOWN in the Tory vote in last Thursday’s local elections has sent a massive wave of despair throughout Tory MPs and the Tory-supporting...
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...
Good Riddance To Campbell – Now Chuck Out All The ‘Lib Dem Lovers’ Before...
THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Labour Party was absolutely correct to expel Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former ‘spin doctor’, for voting...
The Death Agony Of Capitalism Requires A Socialist Revolution!
THE crisis of the capitalist system erupted on Saturday with an opening salvo of explosive tariffs imposed by the US President Trump on his...
The IMF sees the writing on the wall with second warning in 24 hours...
THE International Monetary Fund’s Financial Stability Report has given its second warning in 24 hours about a new financial catastrophe that it sees coming...
Time To Put Demoralised Capitalism Out Of Its Misery With A Socialist Revolution!
‘THOSE of us in the economic realm must navigate blindly through the fog. We face a plausible spectrum ranging from V-shaped relief to L-shaped...
Trade unions must fight zero hours contracts
THE news that over one million workers now have ‘zero hours contracts’ and work only when their employer wants them, have no holidays or...
‘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...
EU was ready to risk scrapping Good Friday Agreement to get ahead in the...
THAT the Covid-19 pandemic world crisis has sharpened the contradictions of the capitalist system to the point of vaccine wars and revolutionary explosions is...
‘Moderate anti-extremist’ seeks talks with US
HASSAN Rouhani has hailed his election as Iran’s president as a ‘victory of moderation over extremism’. The cleric won just over 50 per cent of...
Victory to Assad – Forward to the Palestinian state!
MAKING use of Russian air power, the Syrian army is now pressing forward on all fronts, driving back the Islamists who are now negotiating...