pass Bill or face financial panic, bank closures and ruin – Bush tells Senate...
THE US president George Bush has been so frightened at the prospect of a 1929 collapse and a 1930s depression gripping the US that...
As Capitalism reels Corbyn ‘suggests’ a very minimal Fabian programme
LAST week saw the ruling classes of the capitalist world reeling at the prospect of another huge banking crash, with its high priests, the...
Work till you drop! – Capitalism’s programme for the elderly
CAPITALISM is truly on the rocks! Unemployment is already heading for three million, of which the majority of the unemployed will be aged between 16...
US-UK bullies threaten war with Iran!
THE Tory Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, declared the UK’s readiness to go to war with Iran last Thursday when he threatened that UK and...
Brown–Miliband Crocodile Tears For Gaza
ISRAELI air raids are pounding the Gaza Strip for a fourth day. At the same time Gaza is being shelled from the sea by...
With Hamas’ victory over Israel UK police stage crackdown on support for Palestine!
APPROXIMATELY 77 arrests were made by the police in a concerted attack by the British state and the Labour government on the 100,000-strong rally...
Another US blow for Pakistan!
THE US Congress yesterday froze $700 million of aid to its ally Pakistan until it gets assurances that Pakistan will combat the spread of...
Time to take action against the venture capitalists
A BIDDING war between warring groups of venture capitalist locusts has broken out over who is to asset strip Boots. Yesterday morning, the...
MODERNITY = mass murder, executions and ID cards
BLAIR yesterday announced the latest line of government spin – that compulsory ID cards, state-run mass fingerprinting and DNA bases, along with no-jury trials...
TUC must carry out decision for £10 Minimum Wage
THE revelation from the accountancy firm KPMG that their research has shown that one in six people, over 5 million, in work earn less...
Tories savage poor but grovel to Clinton and US
THE bankers coalition has set the scene for next Wednesday’s cuts announcements in true Bullingham Club style, by declaring that ‘welfare cheats’ equal muggers,...
Free Julian Assange – Jail The Imperialist Butchers
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange was arrested in London yesterday and is now in jail, awaiting hearings to extradite him to Sweden where he will...
£1.6 billion stock market sell off as capitalism crashes. Forward to world socialism!
THE amount withdrawn from equity funds last month was £1.6bn as the bosses panicked that PM Burnham will be forced to put up taxes....
US-UK Troops Will Intervene Into Pakistan In Obamas’ War!
JUST a week ago General Petraeus, the US commander, declared that ‘We have two weeks to save Pakistan!’ We are now witnessing just how the...
Carney plans for state robbery of bank depositors’ cash!
ON Tuesday, amidst all the turmoil of the US presidential election, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, announced a financial bombshell...
Labour’s crisis deepens the more it embraces Tory austerity!
THE bourgeois press is awash with the news that Labour leader, Ed Miliband, is facing calls from within his own shadow cabinet for him...
No Unity with the Tories – build the WRP to lead the socialist revolution
THERESA May’s virtual declaration of war against Russia last Wednesday received its most enthusiastic support from right-wing Labour MPs who rushed forward to...
Tories secret plan for fire sale of NHS land and a mass closure of...
DETAILS of the secret Tory plan for a ‘fire sale’ of NHS land and buildings emerged yesterday following an analysis carried out for the...
Trade Union Renegade Doing Blair’s Dirty Work
THE former CWU postal workers trade union leader, Alan Johnson, yesterday moved into action at the behest of the Prime Minister to urge that...
Lesson of the Shrewsbury Appeal victory and Mittings inquiry – capitalist state must...
ON WEDNESDAY the leaders of 12 of the largest and most prominent trade unions issued a letter demanding immediate action to ensure transparency in...
Brown Hauls Down The Flag
LIKE a thief in the night Prime Minister Brown sneaked into Basra airport on Saturday night to tell British troops that their period of...
Field cuddles up to Cameron while Tories plan to end free NHS care
JUST days after the failure of the Hoon-Hewitt attempt to remove Gordon Brown as premier, one of Labour’s leading right-wingers, Frank Field, yesterday...
MPs must vote to quit the EU – forward to the Socialist United States...
THE Brexit Secretary Davis yesterday urged MPs not to ‘tie the prime minister’s hands’ and to defeat the two House of Lords amendments to...
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,...
Shut Kensington council down! Form a Council of Action to run the Borough!
'THE COUNCIL needs to be shut down … Workers should take over and workers' unions should defend them,' Zoe Bernard from Ladbroke Grove, said...
Tories split over Brexit! Both May and her Brexit sell-out deal are dead in...
EVEN before Theresa May stood up to deliver her statement yesterday on the Brexit deal, she had agreed with the EU her government was...
Trade union leaders must be forced to act in support of Palestine and for...
YESTERDAY, US president Donald Trump kept the world waiting for him while he made up his mind about intervening on the side of Israel...
Smash Universal Credit by smashing the Tories
ON WEDNESDAY this week, the Tory government whipped its MPs to vote down a motion from the Labour Party calling for the release of...
Answer the capitalist crisis with a socialist programme
THE deepening capitalist crisis has seen the breakdown of the decisive Doha Round of World Trade Organisation talks, with the United States refusing and...
Pentagon launches Africa command centre
AS PAY negotiations between the American car giants General Motors (GM) and Ford, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) have reached a critical point,...
The Banks Are All Northern Rocks!
TEXAS PACIFIC GROUP’S decision to cut and run, taking with it the £179 million that was to be used to buy 23 per cent...
Leaving the European Union will require a workers socialist revolution!
PM MAY last Monday afternoon, in her first statement to MPs in parliament since her Florence speech last month and her debacle at the...
Hamas agrees to form a Palestinian national unity government!
MEMBER of Hamas political bureau Osama Hamdan said on Sunday that his movement wants ‘joint Palestinian rule’ if the war comes to a halt...
Bring Down The May Government, Quit Eu And Bring In Socialism!
GENERAL LORD Dannatt, the chief of the General Staff from 2006-2009, writing in The Daily Telegraph, has bemoaned the ‘national embarrassment of almost...
4.5m on the housing waiting list!
THE National Housing Federation (NHF) complains that the government has missed its home-building target for the last seven years and that the housing crisis...
US trade unions must evict Trump and break with Democrats to found a Labour...
PRESIDENT TRUMP has stated that he has no intention of leaving the White House and the presidency voluntarily. He said on Saturday: ‘We all know...
UNIONS must purge Labour Party of Brown and the Blairites
AFTER the Labour party defeat at Glasgow East, one of the safest Labour seats in the country, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stated...
Withdraw British Troops From The Gulf And Iraq
THE whole world can now contrast, at its leisure, the treatment of Iraqi prisoners held by the US at Abu Ghraib with that of...
Labour plan to drive sick back to work or off benefits with weight-loss injections
PRESENT at Labour’s International Investment Summit on Monday were representatives from Lilly – the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. This coincided with an announcement from the...
US death toll rockets in Iraq
FIVE more American troops were killed and three were captured near Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, in a pre-dawn attack on Saturday. The...
Leaving university £70,000 in debt!
MEDICAL students will be left almost £70,000 in debt under Government plans to allow universities to charge up to £9,000 in tuition fees, the...
US privateers are already taking over NHS services!
THE ENDLESSLY repeated slogan that ‘The NHS is Not for Sale’ is completely empty in the face of the fact that US companies and...
TIME TO FIGHT FOR THE NHS – the Junior Doctors have shown the way!
THE official figures for NHS trusts in England for the first three months of the financial year (April to June) have just been released...
Fed policy of ‘draining liquidity’ will trigger new crash! End bankrupt capitalism with socialist...
WORLD capitalism is on the verge of an even bigger, catastrophic economic collapse and there is absolutely nothing the central banks or governments can...
Baghdad bombings blow to Bush!
MORE than 200 people were killed in Baghdad on Wednesday in five bombings. This is the highest number of deaths in a single day...