Hammond and Carney in ‘war games’
THE Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, and the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, were forced to sit a test...
Nato Shall Not Pass Vow Soviet Workers
THERE could not be a greater contrast between the policies of the Ukrainian governing parties to join the EU and NATO as rapidly as...
UK-France defeated by the Libyan masses!
AFTER months of bombing and killing civilians, the Libyan imperialist adventure is nearing its end after both the UK and French governments have...
UCU Warns Against Student Poll Tax
1381 was the historic year when the peasantry rose up against the imposition of the Poll Tax in a revolt that speeded up the...
Libyan Counter- Revolutionaries Being Showered With Cash!
WESTERN and Arab countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia have pledged $1bn for the right-wing stooges of imperialism in Benghazi, at the latest...
THE HOUSING CRISIS: Nationalise construction companies and banks!
AVERAGE house prices in Britain are now 10.5 per cent lower than they were a year ago, according to figures published yesterday by Nationwide,...
Kick out privatising hospital managers – place NHS under the management of medics and...
THE aftermath of the sentencing on Monday of Lucy Letby for the murder of seven babies and the attempted murder of six others at...
The PM’s wife can speak out on rights – but the TUC cannot!
THE scale of the crisis that has hit capitalist Britain is now so great that it has forced the Prime Minister’s wife, Cherie...
Answer Cameron’s war on two fronts with a General Strike
DAVID Cameron’s speech outlining his ‘five-year plan to fight extremism’ was in reality an outline of the Tory government’s war plans for both the...
54% increase in energy bills means destitution for millions! Nationalise entire industry! General strike...
YESTERDAY, the energy regulator Ofgem announced the amount by which charges for gas and electricity will shoot up in April as it raised the...
US at centre of world capitalist collapses
‘THERE is a real sense in markets today of the economy falling off a cliff.’ That was the verdict of Michael Saunders, the chief...
Time To Destroy The Anti-Union Laws With A General Strike And A Socialist Revolution!
THE FBU has made a decisive intervention, demanding that the trade unions build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament...
Workers must call general strikes to defeat plans by US imperialism and Israel to...
WHILE Israeli Zionist occupation forces expand their genocidal assault on Gaza, reports have emerged in the Israeli media and Financial Times (FT) that Israeli...
St Valentine’s Day Massacre of eurozone economy
OFFICIAL figures released yesterday show that the economy of the 17 nations that comprise the eurozone suffered an overall crash of 0.6% in the...
Housing crash on the way!
THE latest Bank of England figures show that the number of new mortgages being given to house buyers has fallen by 20 per cent...
Anger over Saddam’s death silences Blair
AT last President Bush has stammered out a few words about the lynching of President Saddam Hussein, saying that he would have preferred to...
Revealed – plan for US imperialism to take complete control of Gaza after Palestinians...
ON Sunday, the Washington Post paper reported details of a 38-page ‘prospectus’ that is circulating ‘within the Trump administration’ laying out plans to ‘take...
UNISON, TGWU, and GMB leaders all support Brown’s staged pay cuts!
ANYONE who was wondering why, at the TUC Congress, when union leaders were moving resolutions calling for coordinated industrial action against the Brown government’s...
UK heading for ‘no deal crisis’ – Only answer is a socialist revolution!
THE MAY government on Tuesday defeated an attempt by 12 pro-EU Conservative MPs, supported by Labour EU Remainers, to destroy its revised post-Brexit trade...
Syria goes to the polls – a great victory for the Syrian people and...
YESTERDAY, millions of Syrians were casting their votes in record numbers in parliamentary elections against the backdrop of a ceasefire that is generally holding,...
Answer capitalist crisis with a socialist revolution
ON Wednesday the world capitalist crisis deepened after the US Federal Reserve cut its interest rate from 4.75 per cent to 4.50...
Cutting wages is the key says BofE boss
BANK of England chairman Mervyn King’s speech in Winchester on Tuesday night was governed by a central axiom for the survival of British capitalism. He...
Cameron wants to create an army of the homeless
TORY LEADER Cameron yesterday unveiled the spectre of workers sleeping on the streets with his new diktat that council housing should no longer be...
McDonnell rejects socialist policies of mass nationalisation of industry in favour of a deal...
LAST Thursday, Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell outlined Labour’s economic policy for the general election which amounted to piling even more debt on the...
Israel is in its death agony – the US, UK and EU trade unions...
THE ISRAELI war cabinet minister Gantz has threatened to resign and completely split the ruling Israeli group unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets out...
Workers must bring down May government, break with the EU NOW and go forward...
THE Tory government and party is now split into warring groups, one of which is pursuing a leadership election to knife their leader May...
Organise general strike to defend CWU
ROYAL Mail, backed by Brown and Mandelson, are making no secret of the fact that they intend to stamp on the CWU, in order...
Torturers must pay for their crimes!
YESTERDAY’S announcement by the coalition government that it has agreed to make huge payments to former detainees at the notorious Guantanamo Bay concentration camp...
Tory war on refugees is a class issue for the working class
IN THEIR latest attack on refugees the Tories are preparing to use nets to disable boats and dinghies attempting the dangerous Channel crossing. This tactic...
Junior doctors and student nurses lead the way Now call a general strike!
THE decision by the BMA on Monday to walk away from the negotiations over the imposition of new contracts for junior doctors and to...
Police officer who attacked Tomlinson will not even be charged with assault!
HARRY STANLEY was shot dead by armed police in Hackney in September 1999. They said that they thought that he was carrying a shotgun...
BA is intent on union-busting and wage-cutting! Balpa must stand fast and demand it...
THE HIGH Court on Tuesday dismissed an attempt by British Airways to secure an interim judgement that would make planned strike action by pilots...
Fed raises rates, as US bankers resolve to make the world pay for their...
THE US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 0.25 of a percentage point – its first increase since 2006. This is after years of...
NO benefits – and NO jobs either – the Duncan Smith plan
WORK and Pensions Secretary, ex-army officer Duncan Smith, yesterday addressed the world about ‘our broken benefits system’, when most people know what has broken,...
Irish workers reject the Catholic Church’s State and demand abortion rights!
THE Catholic Church-dominated state of the Irish Republic was rocked to its foundations on Saturday when the results came through after the referendum on...
Coalition imposed pay freeze hits workers and middle class
A report issued on Monday by the independent Resolution Foundation spells out exactly the desperate situation being faced today by the so-called ‘squeezed middle’,...
Kick out the yellow trade union leaders
THE GATE GOURMET bosses were cock-a-hoop yesterday, and no wonder – after the leader of the TUC, Barber, and the leaders of the...
Western-Backed Syrian Opposition Committing War Crimes!
THE US, UK, French, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari-backed ‘Syrian rebels’, who have been armed, equipped, financed and recognised as the representatives of the Syrian...
Tories engineer NHS ‘humanitarian crisis!’
OVER the weekend the British Red Cross made a call on the May government to allocate the necessary funds for health and social care,...
Cameron and Osborne’s Waterloo
AFTER the Tories’ defeat at the hands of a defector to UKIP in the recent Clacton by-election, David Cameron vowed that he would ‘throw...
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...
CETA collapse – now workers must end all capitalist trade agreements through a general...
LAST Friday the much delayed CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) between the EU and Canada hit a brick wall when the Belgium region...
Business rates hike is to bankrupt the NHS – Time to bring the ...
NHS hospitals and GP surgeries in England and Wales face a massive £635 million hike in their business rates by the May government over...
Syrian Army Advances Are Dealing A Massive Blow At Trump’s Deal Of The Century!
THE ISRAELI DAILY newspaper Hayom has reported that the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is to lead the joint committee that the US...
Labour crisis deepens in face of collapsing economy!
PM Keir Starmer’s Labour government, still reeling from its major retreats over the welfare cuts to incapacity PIP benefits and the winter fuel payments,...