The crisis is leaving the working class no alternative to revolution
A FURTHER nail was driven into the coffin of British capitalism this week with the release of figures showing that the income from overseas...
May’s university review ‘Dead on arrival’! Students, lecturers & staff must unite and strike...
‘DEAD on arrival,’ is how Vanessa Wilson, chief executive of the University Alliance Group described outgoing PM May’s new report on university education. The Augar...
Re-nationalise the water companies
The Guardian paper has published an exclusive report that revealed that Thames Water, the UK’s biggest water company, diverted cash meant to clean up...
Welsh government plans to implement Tory drive to close hospitals and destroy the NHS
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the Welsh government yesterday that it was embarking on a strategy to ensure patients only go to hospital when it is...
NATO chief tells Starmer spend more on weapons or ‘learn to speak Russian’
THE Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, was in Britain this week meeting with Labour Prime minister Keir Starmer to hammer home the demand...
The last-ditch attempt to save the euro and head off revolution
ON Thursday the European Central Bank (ECB), after months of prevarication and splits within its ranks, finally took the decision to launch the eurozone’s...
Consultants, Junior Doctors and rail workers are in struggle. TUC must call a general...
THE Junior Doctors and Consultants in England, faced with a ruling class that is determined to destroy the NHS, have joined forces and will...
Pensioners and workers will unite to demand a general strike to end Tory attack...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak this week put every pensioner in the country on notice that along with workers they will be forced to pay...
EU preparing Greek ‘regime change’!
THE debt talks between Greece and its international creditors collapsed on Thursday night with German Chancellor Merkel telling the Greek PM Tsipras to shut...
Socialist revolution the only way to resolve the crisis
THE head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Legarde, spelt out the task confronting the capitalist class of Europe last Thursday when she...
Oil War Looms In The Caucasus!
RUSSIA is recalling its ambassador to Tbilisi after Wednesday’s provocative arrests of four Russian officers on spying charges, and is beginning a partial evacuation...
TUC Special Congress must call a general strike to smash the Tories and support...
IN A dramatic move the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter to urge the UN Security...
There Must Be Trade Union Acti0N To Stop NHS Privatisation!
THE Health and Social Care Bill is set to become law within weeks. This is after the LibDem ‘revolt’, which the Labour bureaucracy was telling...
AMCU rejects corporatist agreement with SA bosses
THE decision by the South African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) not to sign the Framework Agreement for a Sustainable Mining Industry...
50 years since Chile coup – vital lessons for the working class today
MONDAY 11th September will be the 50th anniversary of the seizure of power by the Chilean military, led by general Augusto Pinochet, backed by...
Police Have No Regrets And No Remorse Say de Menezes Family
THE Metropolitan Police chief, Blair, has already gone, his going made inevitable by the disgraceful attitude that he took to the police murder of...
US budget deal threatens working class
ON Tuesday night, the chairs of the US House and Senate budget committee, Paul Ryan (Republican) and Patty Murray (Democrat), held a joint press...
British capitalism is on its knees – put an end to it with a...
WITH British capitalism on its knees and the Tory Party and the ruling class split from stem to stern over the European Union, Tory...
New Orleans and Baghdad, twin cities destroyed by US capitalism
NEW ORLEANS was allowed to be destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. US capitalism and its Bush administration had on the top of their agendas massive tax...
Trump is set to impose the death agony of the US capitalist system onto...
THREATS, demands and bullying aimed at the whole world from US President Donald Trump, dominated the Davos Economic Forum in a video call on...
Scandal-hit government steps up attack on unions
IN her speech to the annual Tolpuddle Martyr’s rally held last Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady lambasted the coalition government over the Transparency...
A Palestinian state – Not in our lifetime say Zionist leaders
MORE than 15 Israeli air strikes on Thursday, Friday and early Saturday destroyed Gaza Strip water, power and roads and killed seven Palestinians. Yesterday,...
Barclays Vice Chair On NHS Commissioning Board
YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Health told the House of Commons that the government will be taking a step back from the...
Capitalism is overwhelmed by global crisis – the working class must take the power!
CENTRAL bankers and leading finance leaders from across the world gathered in Bangkok this week for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund...
EU and the US ruling classes are the enemy of the world’s poor and...
A CHARITY rescue vessel, the Alex, on Saturday brought 41 shipwrecked migrants into port in Lampedusa. This is the second boat to defy Italy’s...
Ferguson battle anticipates US revolution
THE tactics weaponry and ammunition used in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, by the police and Missouri National Guard, have led to...
Dollar fall heralds a deepening capitalist crisis and world revolution
ON FRIDAY, the exchange rate of the dollar plunged down against other major world currencies and gold rose by 1.2 per cent to $638.5...
Rice supervises raising Middle East tensions
THE US through its secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, who has been in the Middle East for a week, is working hard to raise...
Hospitals and schools are being hit by uncapped energy bills
THE SKYROCKETING increase in energy bills is driving the health and education services to the wall, with leaders in both these vital services warning...
Myanmar working class intervene with powerful general strike to bring down Military Junta!
MYANMAR (formerly called Burma) was brought to a halt yesterday as hundreds of thousands of workers and youth answered the call for a general...
Defend the NHS! Stop the wholly-owned subsidiaries in their tracks!
THERE are Unite and Unison trade union protests in York and Chesterfield today against moves by two NHS trusts to set up wholly-owned subsidiaries...
Bankrupt Brown speaks to the City of London
GORDON Brown began his Mansion House speech to the City of London on Monday night with a ringing but empty declaration. He said: ‘I want...
The TUC must now call mass general strike action in support of Palestine and...
THE Hamas movement said on Saturday that the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the northern Gaza Strip and the Israeli occupation army’s attacks on...
Ten-hour day for schoolkids!
AT ONE time it used to be said that British workers were working such long hours that they did not have an opportunity to...
Save the NHS by bringing down the Tories and expropriating the bosses and the...
THE NHS is the greatest of the gains that the working class made in the period immediately after the Second World War. It was brought...
Patients assessed, treated & sent home on same day! The Tories ‘Long Term ...
THE TORY government, using their NHS Long Term Plan have stepped up their war against the health service, attempting to drive through measures that...
Imperialist drive to war with Russia takes leap forward
THE war preparations by the imperialist nations against Russia took a giant leap forward this week with NATO and non-NATO troops massed in north-western...
Innocent Until Proven Guilty To Be Binned!
DRACONIAN repressive measures are now being proposed, off the cuff, thick and fast, as the Blair government races to put an end to the...
Rich getting richer while the poor are getting poorer under Starmer’s capitalist Labour government
DESPITE all of the promises and the pledges made by Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer that he would improve living standards, the exact opposite is...
BRITAIN FACES A FASTER AND STEEPER DOWNTURN SAYS BofE CHAIR ANDREW BAILEY
ON WEDNESDAY, the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, speaking at the European Central Bank’s annual policy forum, warned that soaring inflation...
Oecd Warns That World Economy Faces Deeper Slump
GLOBAL growth for 2013 and 2014 has been downgraded ‘significantly’ by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), because of the crisis in...
Trump turning US into a ‘banana republic’ after threats of criminal charges against boss...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump was accused of turning the US into a banana republic over the threat of legal charges being brought against the...
Private equity group to ‘cut and slash’ Chrysler
DAIMLERCHRYSLER is selling a 80.1 per cent share in its crisis-hit American Chrysler division to the private equity group Cerberus for $7.4bn. President George...
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...
Time To Go Forward To The Victory Of The World Socialist Revolution!
RUSSIA has threatened to strike British military targets both inside and outside the Ukraine after British missiles were used to attack Russian territory. Maria Zakharova,...