King warns the ruling class to tackle the causes of the crisis
ADDRESSING a press conference yesterday afternoon, the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, said that ‘Tackling the symptoms of the crisis without...
Now send Brown packing – forward to a workers government!
Blair stood down yesterday, driven out of power by the Iraqi insurgency and the British workers’ determination to defend their welfare state. The disorientated...
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH – TUC MUST ORGANISE GENERAL STRIKE for FEBRUARY 1!
YESTERDAY’S mass picket lines outside NHS hospitals are a direct result of the fact that the Tory government is insulting workers and will not...
On May Day, on the TUC march on May 12, & on Nakba Day...
THE ‘GREAT March of Return’ has become the beacon for all Palestinians and the workers of the world to unite in the struggle...
Erdogan urges Israel to end occupation while the UK celebrates Balfour Declaration!
THE Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Israel must stop its occupation of the Palestinian territories, which he says undermines any two-state...
US–UK organising a long and bloody war in Afghanistan/Pakistan
THERE are currently more than 70,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan under Nato command. The Obama administration plans to send in an additional 21,000 troops. 12,000...
Unite cuts funding to Labour. All unions must break with Labour and call an...
YESTERDAY Unite, the trade union with 1.4 million members, announced it will cut political donations to the Labour party and divert the money to...
TUC urges Tories to ‘withdraw from the brink’. Stop pleading and call a general...
THE TORY government is refusing to hold any serious negotiations with the rail trade unions for the simple reason that it is introducing anti-strike...
Hunt’s Autumn budget – brings in the open dictatorship of the bankers!
YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Autumn budget – the second budget from the government in under two months. The first was the disastrous...
The Occupation Is Responsible For All Of The Killings In Palestine
A PALESTINIAN teenager from occupied East Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early on Wednesday in revenge for the killing of three Israeli settler youth...
Forward With The Zimbabwean Socialist Revolution!
THE PRESIDENT of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was forced to abandon his planned visit to the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos this week and...
British MPs reduced to whinging while Taliban take control!
WHILE the Taliban’s top political leaders arrived in Afghanistan to take control of the country, British MPs held an emergency debate in Parliament yesterday...
Bush’s and Bernanke’s policies cannot stop the debt debacle
IN A WEEK when billions were wiped off share prices in New York, Tokyo and London, on Friday both United States President George Bush...
The knife without a blade as Hunt defies May!
MAY’S ‘reshuffle’ that never was continues her recent career in which everything that could go wrong has, but such is the feebleness of...
Defending the NHS means sacking the BMA leadership
THE BMA leadership yesterday came out in favour of NHS rationing. It also supported the NHS having a written constitution, and being run by...
100 Million Nigerians live on less than $1 a day – despite Nigeria’s vast...
THE numbers of Nigerians living in poverty, in the midst of vast oil riches, has risen to nearly 61 per cent. Poverty has risen sharply...
End all complicity with Zionist genocide and war – Demand TUC’s October 10th ‘day...
ON THURSDAY, the Israeli Defence Ministry in a statement revealed that the US had given $8.7 billion of military aid to the Zionist state...
‘NHS Standing On A Burning Platform’ – Time To Deal With The Arsonists!
THE NHS is standing on a ‘burning platform’ is the stark assessment of Professor Sir Mike Richards, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of...
The trade unions must follow the example of the ruling class and deal with...
THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...
952,000 16-24 year olds out of work!
COMMENTING on the rise in unemployment figures, Dave Prentis, General Secretary of Unison said: ‘Being out of work at Christmas is particularly tough, especially...
The TUC supports the UK and US war plan for the Ukraine, and demands...
THE TUC has stabbed all Ukrainian anti-fascists in the back, and its own members along with them, with its letter to the UK Chancellor...
Shut Down Young Offenders Institutions – The Only Future For Youth Is Through A...
THE DISGRACEFUL conditions imposed on ‘youth offenders’ have been revealed by another report from Peter Clarke the chief inspector of prisons in England and...
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...
Corbyn stabs Brexit in the back for the benefit of the bosses and...
LABOUR leader Corbyn, in his response to PM May’s Monday update to the House of Commons ahead of this week’s European Council, made it...
Unite Leaders, As In The BA Dispute, Postpone Action Yet Again!
LAST Wednesday afternoon, the Unite trade union reps for its tanker driver membership rejected the employers’ offer, and the union was due to present...
British capitalism is on its knees – forward to the socialist revolution!
CHANCELLOR Osborne made it clear in his Budget statement yesterday that he is not the master of the situation, and is completely dominated by...
Trump threatens to destroy North Korea and warns Iran, Cuba and Venezuela!
PRESIDENT TRUMP began his speech at the UN by immediately patting himself on the back, stating that ‘Fortunately, the United States has done...
Mikhail Gorbachev – Stalinist hero of imperialism, loathed and reviled by working class!
Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the USSR, died in Moscow aged 91 on Tuesday. His death was greeted with an outpouring of fulsome tributes and...
Throw out Tory NHS pay offer – Bring down the Tories to secure decent...
THE DEAL reached last week between the majority of health unions and the Tories must be thrown out by NHS workers. The deal, which...
Moment of truth for Greece!
GREECE’S Syriza government delayed yesterday’s 300m euros (£216m) debt repayment to the IMF, saying that it will pay over to the Troika (the...
‘Relentless’ rise in public debt unsustainable world bankers warn as capitalism dives into the...
THE head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) issued the gravest warning yet to the governments and central banks of the capitalist world...
Britain’s household debt time-bomb
DESPITE all the propaganda pumped out by Osborne in his budget speech last week, about UK capitalism ‘walking tall’ and well on the way...
Defend Iran Againstfrench And US Threats
THE French government is threatening Iran with retribution if it does not give up its nuclear energy programme. The French Prime Minister, De Villepin, one...
Reject BA Sell-Out!
THERE can be only one response by BA cabin crew to the latest attempt by the national leadership of Unite to impose a ‘settlement’...
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...
NHS is faced with ‘mission impossible’ because of a Tory imposed ‘unbridgeable’ financial...
NHS services in England are now, facing head on, a ‘mission impossible’ to meet the standards required by the government, the NHS ‘Providers’ health...
Imperialists Getting Ready To Attack Iran – It Is Time For Workers To Carry...
A WHITE HOUSE official warned yesterday that the US military is 99 per cent certain to launch a massive military attack on Iran ‘to...
Greek debt is on an ‘explosive path’ says the IMF
THE International Monetary Fund has warned that Greece’s debts are on an ‘explosive path’ in its first annual review of the country’s economy since...
Peugeot, the NHS and pensions
THE crisis of capitalism is now erupting in Britain with massive force. The government has declared that the bankrupt capitalist system cannot afford final salary...
The working class is the hero of the hour – it smashed the Tory...
IT says something about the scale of the defeat that the Tories and the bosses have suffered over the Mayoral election in London...
‘Our greatest allies are our patients’ – GP conference told
OPENING the BMA GPs Conference in York, Doctor Nagpaul correctly pointed out that ‘Today, nearly a million patients will visit their GP surgery, that’s...
The Stalinist theory of one country with two social systems has encouraged the...
THE EVENTS in Hong Kong over the past month have seen thousands of people storming the Hong Kong parliament and raising the Union Jack...
Three party leaders make a ‘Vow’ that they cannot carry out!
YESTERDAY saw a LibDem, Tory and Labour Party coalition scrambling to promise anything and everything in a desperate effort to save the UK...
Macron Beats The War Drums As Capitalist Crisis Deepens!
A FINANCIAL TIMES report says a senior European defence official has acknowledged that ‘Western special forces’ are unofficially present in Ukraine, despite US-led NATO’s...
No justice under capitalism for De Menezes family
THE decision of the Crown Prosecution Service that no individual will be charged over the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes, but that the...