US government shuts down as ruling class split widens
THE US government has begun to shut itself down after the two houses of Congress failed to agree a budget by midnight Monday. The Republican-led...
Oil crisis plunging Capitalism into global recession
YESTERDAY the BBC published on its website an interview with Larry Fink, boss of the US financial giant BlackRock, in which he gave 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...
Russia Gives Nuclear Warning
RUSSIA’S military chief of staff General Baluyevsky has said Russia is ready to use force, pre-emptively if necessary and with nuclear weapons, to defend...
Tories Splitting Over Eu Crisis!
WHETHER British capitalism should remain within the crisis-ridden, sinking ship of the EU, or strike out on its own has immediately split the Tory...
Romney condemned by Solidarity and the Palestinians!
REPUBLICAN presidential nominee Romney won endorsement from former Polish president and former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, only to see the Solidarity...
Defend the NHS – Kick the Tories Out!
BARTS Health NHS Trust, the biggest hospital trust in the country, will go £134.9 million in the red by the end of March according...
Labour blindfolds itself so as not to see the developing capitalist crisis!
THE Labour Party manifesto launched on Tuesday contained a number of slight but significant changes from the draft leaked to the press last week. On...
Palestinian PM calls on UN to act against Israeli apartheid, while Hamas insists that...
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on United Nations bodies, particularly the Children’s Fund (UNICEF), to follow up on the recent Human Rights...
Heathrow Battlefield
TONY Woodley, the TGWU general secretary, commenting on the sacking of one of the leading members of the TGWU by BA yesterday, and the...
Palestinian liberation fighters condemn the White House’s continuing support for Israeli barbarism!
THE Palestinian resistance groups have condemned the recent statements made by the White House spokesman regarding the Rafah carnage, saying the remarks are just...
Greek Workers And Youth Are On The Road To Revolution!
MASSES of workers and youth clashed with the state forces in the Greek capital Athens yesterday, on the first day of a 48-hour general...
Occupy Vauxhall/Opel plants – nationalise GM Europe to defend jobs!
General Motors plans to close the Opel plant in Antwerp, Belgium this winter, with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs. Workers in Antwerp...
Tories Split Over The Johnson–Sunak Decision To Raise National Insurance Contributions In April!
PM JOHNSON’S decision to bloc with Chancellor Sunak to see that National Insurance Contributions are raised in April by £12.9 billion has widened the...
Federal Reserve opts for debt mountain and to crash the $
FOLLOWING the decision of the US federal Reserve Bank to reduce its interest rate by 0.5 per cent, double the expected 0.25 per cent...
Labour adopts coalition cuts
THE three-day meeting of Labour’s ‘policy forum’ ended on Sunday with a massive vote to commit the Labour Party to carrying on with the...
NHS cuts and closures hitting millions while NHS England hands out goodies to the...
PULSE, the GPs’ magazine, has done a great service for all NHS users by using the Freedom of Information Act to find out how...
Ukraine dumped by an imperialism too weak to defeat Russia
IT HAS become clear over the past days that Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky have been unceremoniously dumped by the imperialist powers and...
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...
Bosses and bankers agree capitalism is ‘broken’ – time to put an end...
ANY LINGERING doubts about the morbid terror that is gripping the capitalist class were dispelled this weekend when 50 of the leading bosses from...
Tories Bringing In New Police State Powers For Use Against Workers And The Trade...
THE LAW Courts are to get new police state powers to be used against striking trade unionists and protesting workers. The powers will stop the...
Governor of BoE blames workers for inflation – Only a sliding scale of wages...
WITH INFLATION in the UK running at over 7% and gas and electricity bills shooting up by 54%, millions of workers face being driven...
End TUC collaboration with Tories
The news this week that Unison, the largest public sector union, has launched a legal challenge to the coalition government’s white paper on the...
Human rights groups quit UK’s fake torture inquiry!
TEN leading human rights organisations, along with victims of torture and their lawyers, have withdrawn from the British government’s Detainee Inquiry because they believe...
Labour’s knives are out for use against the UK’s working class and its youth...
THE future of the youth minimum wage is now under review by the former Health Secretary Alan Milburn. The alleged ‘social mobility’ expert has told...
One year after the massive Beirut port explosion the families of the victims are...
A YEAR after the massive explosion at Beirut Port devastated the Lebanese capital, the victims’ grieving families are still waiting for answers, accountability and...
IMF out to bankrupt Greece, leak reveals
THE Wikileaks organisation dropped a bombshell on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last Saturday when it published the transcript of a private conversation between...
TGWU relies on the Sainsbury family to defend its members’ jobs and wages
YESTERDAY the TGWU leaders produced their statement of full support for the Sainsbury family in the battle to keep out the Texas Pacific-backed raiding...
ICJ Hearing on Israeli occupation of Palestine opens – working class must demand general...
Yesterday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened its historic hearings into the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967. The ICJ, the United Nation’s...
‘Big Society’ a cover for destroying jobs and life-saving services!
TORY leader Cameron yesterday delivered his speech on the ‘Big Society’ but had a problem defining what he meant. He said: ‘You can call it...
Britain Leading The Way To Slump Says The Imf
LAST October the IMF predicted world output would increase by 2.2 per cent in 2009. Yesterday it changed its tune saying that world output...
World Bank Report – capitalism stands on brink of financial crash
THE WORLD stands on the brink of a financial crash according to the latest biannual Global Economic Prospects report from the World Bank. This warns...
TUC must call a general strike to defend the NHS
WITH the latest five days of strike action by junior doctors due to end tomorrow, the British Medical Association (BMA) has already set in...
Crown won’t prosecute police killers
AT a briefing on their investigation into the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station on July 22, the Independent Police...
Assange extradition decision Monday! Unions must call industrial action to prevent any attempt...
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange is facing a sentence of up to 175 years in a high-security ‘Supermax’ prison if he is extradited from the...
Palestinian Premier Condemns Israel’s Killing Of Four Young Palestinians!
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has condemned the Israeli army killing of four young Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Jenin and...
Starmer Recruiting Right Wing Tories To Run Any Labour Gov!
THE Labour Party is defending, welcoming right wing Tory defector Natalie Elphicke into the party despite anger from many backbench MPs and workers at...
France on the brink as government imposes anti-union laws!
THE French Socialist government’s cabinet has opted for a dictatorship over the working class by agreeing to force through its anti-trade union legislation, invoking...
Rejected Sunak brought back as Tory leader – unions must call a general strike...
Rishi Sunak was appointed Tory Prime Minister yesterday after his opponent Penny Mordaunt withdrew from the race at the last minute. Sunak was overwhelmingly rejected...
Trump ‘begging for a deal’ at peace plan talks with Iran!
THE Iranian foreign ministry denounced the attack carried out by the US early on Tuesday morning as ‘an act of bad faith’ and a...
Strike action to defend sacked BA shop stewards
BRITISH Airways (BA) has sacked a second shop steward who had been charged with organising unofficial secondary strike action at Heathrow on August 11th-12th...
Migrants Not Wanted In The UK – Unless They Are ‘White Helmets’
THAT well known humanitarian organisation, the Israeli armed forces, that is killing Palestinians on a daily basis, has just conducted a ‘humanitarian’ raid into...
US Secretary of State Blinken rushes to Kiev as Ukraine faces defeat by Russia
US secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise unannounced visit to Ukraine yesterday morning, as the war to weaken Russia suffers yet another...
Trade Unions must stop the New Year mass sackings with a general strike
UNEMPLOYMENT is set to rocket, over and just after Christmas, when up to 100,000 public sector workers are to get their redundancy notices so...
Blair Fears Facing War Crimes Tribunal
YESTERDAY it was alleged that ex-Prime Minister Blair made representations to the Prime Minister concerning the ‘independent inquiry’ into the war in Iraq, which...