Darling’s forecasts ‘too optimistic’, says Treasury Committee
THE British capitalist economy and government finances are in a worse state than Chancellor Alistair Darling led everyone to believe when he delivered his...
Bank of England – people will just have to accept poverty as the price...
HUW PILL, the chief economist at the Bank of England, has made the official position of the bankers crystal clear when he insisted that...
Israel Remains Putin’s ‘Partner!’
THE RESPONSE of Russia’s political leadership, led by Vladimir Putin, to the Israeli raid on Syria that led to the death of 15 Russian...
Capitalism has failed – time to end it with socialist revolution
THE DEEP political and economic crisis engulfing British capitalism and the ruling class was forcibly expressed when yesterday’s Daily Telegraph published a comment article...
Banking crash spreads like wildfire through capitalist financial world
LAST Friday, the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was forced to close down and had its assets seized by the US Federal Reserve following...
Palestinians Condemn Trump – Now The UK Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action...
PALESTINIAN factions have condemned US President Donald Trump’s statements, in which he discussed the possibility of displacing the residents of the Gaza Strip to...
Imperialist powers are preparing Middle East war – disarm them with socialist revolutions!
AT a time when US President Trump and France’s Macron are plotting a permanent US presence in northern Syria, to be supported no...
The currency crash and the socialist revolution
THE decision by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to abandon its three-year cap on the franc last Thursday has had an immediate and catastrophic...
This is how NATO is defending civilians in Libya
ON Saturday, the Red Cross visited Sirte, which has been under intense bombardment and shelling from NATO planes and ships, and by NATO’s ground...
No To Imperialist War In West Africa!
SUFFERING a decisive and humiliating defeat at the hands of the Afghan people has in no way diminished British imperialism’s appetite for military adventures...
New Syria War Planned Using Old ‘Wmd’ Lies!
THE war drums are beating with increasing intensity for armed intervention by imperialism into Syria to effect the smashing up of the Assad regime, the...
On The Eve Of The Budget, Workers Are Demanding Action To Bring Down...
THE TUC General Council has met and issued a statement on the crisis. In it, it disgracefully treats the Tory government as a potential...
Demand the TUC bring down the Tories
ON Thursday Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, delivered a speech proclaiming that as far as the government is concerned ‘the matter is closed’: he...
GMB condemns Sedgefield council house privatisation
THE GMB Annual Congress has condemned the decision of the Labour government to privatise the council house stock in Prime Minister Blair’s own constituency,...
Capitalism offering only poverty and war to working class and middle class
FALLING incomes will mean the biggest drop in living standards for middle-income families since the 1970s, when the Yom Kippur war resulted in the...
Forward with the Greek socialist revolution
THE Greek working class remains undefeated as the clashes between teachers and students with the riot police in Salonica on Thursday have proven. The source...
NATO’s arms being exported from Libya to terrorists everywhere
THE NATO armed intervention that supported the Islamist revolt in Libya succeeded in murdering Colonel Gadaffi and smashed up the most advanced and prosperous...
Pakistan – US threatens military intervention
Al-QAEDA founder Osama bin Laden is alive and sheltering in ‘lawless parts of Pakistan’ on the border with Afghanistan, according to US Director of...
Trump Threatens To Hit 52 Chosen Sites If Iran Retaliates For Murder Of...
IRAN’S Army chief has defiantly dismissed US President Donald Trump’s threat to hit scores of Iranian sites, if Iran hits back after the US...
British workers must make the TUC call a general strike to bring in the...
THE United Nations has confirmed that more than 100,000 Palestinians have been forced to leave Rafah, amid intensified Israeli strikes on the southern city...
Labour plans to keep one million patients out of hospital
LABOUR’S policy of privatising the NHS by diverting huge chunks of the NHS budget to the private sector is preparing the bankruptcy of many...
Hague refuses to halt assault on Sirte
ON Tuesday Foreign Minister Hague told Sky TV that he would not tell the counter-revolutionaries to cancel their planned assault on the city of...
Britain Heads For Revolutionary Situation
BRITAIN is now being run by a weakened and discredited Blair government, which is however determined to speed up its right wing course and...
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,...
Bin Laden killing opens Obama election campaign
When US President, Barack Obama, announced on Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a dawn raid by US special forces...
Tories Are Split And Divided – Now Is The Time To Bring Them Down...
IT WAS ‘sackcloth and ashes day’ at The Sunday Telegraph yesterday as it surveyed the collapse of the Truss regime. It wrote that: ‘Jeremy Hunt,...
Workers and youth forward to the Socialist revolution!
LAST Sunday the president of the National Union of Students (NUS), Aaron Porter, made a surprise visit to a meeting of students occupying University...
King Fiddling While Rome Burns!
THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of England, King, spoke to the gathered ranks of big business on Thursday evening at his Mansion House feast,...
Social care starved of funds – one million without support
A new report, Care in Crisis, issued by Age UK spells out exactly what the Tory-led coalition’s destruction of the welfare state means for...
Brown to rescue banks by slashing wages and jobs!
CHANCELLOR Darling has followed up his appearance before the bankers at the Mansion House on Wednesday night, where he pledged that wage rises would...
Labour Paying Price For Its Betrayal! Time To Join And Build The WRP!
REBECCA Long-Bailey is the latest candidate to join the squad of failures seeking to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, after the party’s rout...
The GMB understands the need for redundancies
JCB has announced 400 more redundancies, blaming a ‘significant’ reduction in incoming orders. The redundancies are made up of 297 shop floor jobs and 101...
Nationalise BAE to defend jobs!
DEFENCE engineering giant BAE Systems confirmed yesterday that it is cutting a further 3,000 jobs at sites across the country, mainly in its military...
Health privateer takes NHS to court over right to profit from health – time...
PRIVATEER Circle Health is once again taking legal action to overturn the decision to cancel its contract to run the Nottingham NHS Treatment Centre. Rushcliffe...
Tory Nationality & Borders Bill will make rescuing refugees from drowning illegal!
ON MONDAY night, the Tory Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (the Policing Bill) passed its third reading in Parliament on its way to...
State Defends Its Right To Execute Innocents!
YESTERDAY, Lord Stevens, the ex-Metropolitan Police commissioner, urged that there should be no change in the policy of the state, after a completely innocent...
Adams bends the knee
ON Tuesday, during a 4-day visit to Ireland, Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, had a private meeting lasting 20 minutes...
France will be ‘brought to a standstill’ as workers and youth take on the...
FRANCE was in flames on Saturday as hundreds of thousands of workers and youth took to the streets in mass demonstrations across the country...
Final report into Boeing crash shows bosses ignored warnings! Nationalise Boeing – the US...
THE FINAL report into the Boeing 737 Max air crash in October last year, in which 189 people lost their lives, was published yesterday...
Cameron and May want to squash basic rights and freedom of speech!
TORY PM CAMERON has just reprimanded the people of the UK for being ‘over tolerant’ of extremism, signalling that his regime is so unstable...
Bush threatens war with Iran and demands the support of his reluctant feudal allies
US PRESIDENT George W Bush yesterday warned of the ‘Iranian threat’ during his speech in Abu Dhabi. While speaking about the role of the United...
NEC declares war on Labour Party members with the support of the Law Courts
THE Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Labour Party right wing and against Labour Party democracy last Friday afternoon, when it banned...
T&G & TUC must call strike action to reinstate Gate Gourmet workers!
THE 670 Gate Gourmet workers, members of the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G), sacked over a month ago for taking strike action, know...
ANC in crisis as workers and poor demand their liberation from capitalism
YESTERDAY the South African president Thabo Mbeki said that the acrimony in the African National Congress, the mainly black ruling party in South Africa,...
Mervyn King The Bankrupt Representative 0F A Bankrupt Social System!
ON Wednesday night, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, delivered a speech that amounted to little more than an extensive...