‘A positive response’ says Bush on Iran
US President George W Bush has welcomed Iran’s initial reaction to a proposal from the EU states designed to achieve a deal with...
Smash Universal Credit by kicking out the Tories
SINCE Universal Credit was devised over seven years ago, the Tories have gone to great lengths to keep from the public exactly how it...
Israel steps up its war to drive Palestinians from their homes!
SCORES of armed Israeli settlers attacked the homes of Palestinians in the village of Sebastia in the occupied West Bank province of Nablus on...
Taleban in control in Pakistan border regions as US moves to step up war
THE accession of President Obama has not in the slightest held up, or held back, the massive air attacks that are being made by...
To defend jobs and pensions bring down the coalition!
UNIVERSITY STAFF and students are under massive attacks from the Tory-led coalition. Coalition ministers are pressing ahead with 25% funding cuts, and the UCU trade...
EU car & steel industries in crisis – UK must leave EU NOW –...
SHARES in India’s Tata Motors collapsed by almost 30 per cent yesterday after the company reported gigantic losses at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). On Thursday,...
Revolution is the only way out of capitalist debt crisis
THE COLLAPSE of the popular discount high street retailer Wilko, with 12,500 of its workers facing being thrown out of a job, has thrown...
Miliband Praises Attlee But Plans To Bury The Welfare State
MlLIBAND, Balls and co are like circus performers on the highest of high wires, being buffeted by a huge economic gale that is pauperising...
Trump’s trade war with EU & UK accelerates as US seeks to bankrupt its...
THIS WEEK at the World Economic Forum in Davos, US president Donald Trump reignited his trade war with Britain and Europe. On Wednesday Trump vowed...
Trump’s Gaza ‘peace plan’ is an ultimatum to Palestinians to surrender after the Israeli...
ON Monday, US president Donald Trump delivered his ‘peace deal’ which is an ultimatum to the Palestinian resistance groups to either accept his 20-point...
Capitalism cannot be reformed – forward to socialist revolution
THIS week sees the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in the Swiss town of Davos, perched high in the Alps, ideally situated for...
Sinn Féin Dumps Socialism
IRISH capitalism, its banks and industries have been entirely bankrupted, and what national sovereignty the country had has also been destroyed, after the...
The Jubilee turns sour as capitalism crashes
THE Jubilee ‘celebrations’ have turned out to be a petty, momentary diversion for sections of the middle class, away from the real drama...
Saudis oil war is deepening the world crisis
SAUDI Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, has said the oil producers’ cartel, Opec, will not cut production even if the price falls to $20...
Labour and Tories ‘virtually indistinguishable!’ says the press!
IN A DAMNING assessment of the Tory government, The Daily Telegraph yesterday declared that: ‘The Tories under Rishi Sunak have shifted further left, and...
War on the unemployed – bring down the coalition
THE news this weekend that the private companies are bidding for 40 new welfare contracts represents another stage in the Tory-LibDem coalition’s relentless drive...
NHS to become part of leisure industry!
It’s now official – NHS hospitals under the Tory-dominated coalition government are set to become little more than a franchise of the leisure and...
British capitalism so bankrupt it can’t provide for energy demands
THE ANNOUNCEMENT yesterday that the Japanese company Hitachi is pulling the plug on plans to build a nuclear power station in Wales has blown...
UAW reformists propose to surrender gains of US workers
THE UAW leaders are prepared to ‘suspend’ all of the gains of US autoworkers to try and assist the big bosses of GM, Chrysler,...
Palestinian government rejects Blair’s plotting
THE leaders of the Palestine National Authority (PNA) government yesterday rejected the interference of British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Palestinian internal affairs. Dr Mousa...
‘History at a turning point’ – forward to victory of world socialist revolution
THE ANNUAL meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos started yesterday on the theme of ‘history at a...
Capitalism has no ‘safety net’ to save it from economic crash
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) can no longer act as the world’s ‘lender of last resort’ according to a task force of currency experts...
British Imperialism In The Dock!
RETIRED General Frank Kitson is being sued over the Loyalist murder of a Roman Catholic, Eugene Heenan in Northern Ireland in February 1973 and...
Bank of England to ‘crucify the consumer’
NOT ONLY has the world crisis of capitalism now been accepted as the reality by even the most sceptical of the bourgeoisie, its different...
The Bank is preparing a housing catastrophe
HOMEOWNERS should prepare for interest rates of five per cent, a 1000 per cent leap from the current 0.5 per cent Bank of England...
Labour MPs shudder at the thought of a UK ‘Mamdani’ mass revolutionary eruption...
‘THE security of Britain is a ‘national endeavour that cannot be the responsibility of the military alone’, Air Chief Marshall Sir Richard Knighton, the...
Pakistani workers & farmers pay for the imperialists’ crisis
EVERY day the number of people affected by the torrential rain and flooding in Pakistan is mounting. More than 20 million have been hit....
Council election results weaken Labour in a self-inflicted wound and strengthen May!
LABOUR’S hopes crashed to earth in the just-concluded council elections. The eve of poll predictions of the Tories losing Wandsworth, Westminster and then Kensington...
TUC must call a general strike to bring in a workers government!
LABOUR leader Burnham said yesterday that he had still not decided who will be in his Cabinet, ahead of him taking over from Sir...
Ten trade union leaders write to Burnham demanding he ends UK support for US...
At the weekend, Labour’s new prime minister Andy Burnham announced he would be undertaking a ‘national tour’ of the country to improve the government’s...
Bring the airports out in support of Ryanair and BA strikers! Nationalise the...
THE BRITISH AIRWAYS pilots strike is on for both Monday and Tuesday in an escalating battle over pay. British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) BA...
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...
Video intercept proves UK troops are operating in Ukraine as NATO risks nuclear war...
THE RELEASE last Friday of a video call between senior German military leaders has caused a massive row within the NATO countries with its...
Cameron poised to send UK troops into Iraq!
PM Cameron is poised to send British troops into Iraq. This is why he is unwilling to recall Parliament after it rejected his...
Tories rip up workers health and safety as their bankrupt economy disintegrates!
TORY CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak did the rounds of press interviews yesterday preparing the way for today’s reopening of non-essential shops and businesses and he...
TUC must call action now against the BoE and Tory theft of $1bn of...
ONE BILLION dollars (£800m) worth of Venezuelan gold in the vaults of the Bank of England has been successfully seized, in an act of...
Defeat BA’s union busting! All out in support of the cabin crew!
ON THE eve of the four-day strike by British Airways cabin crew, which begins today, the company’s Chief Executive Willie Walsh stepped up his...
Horsemeat Scandal
What started off last month as news, that traces of horsemeat DNA had been discovered by the Irish Food Standards agency in some supermarket beefburgers,...
Sunak prepares for war on working class to pay off capitalism’s massive debt
OVER 250,000 small firms and companies are destined to collapse this year according to research carried out by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Nearly...
Russian oligarchs gave millions in donations to the Tory Party!
THE FINAL release by the House of Commons intelligence and security committee of the report into allegations of Russian interference in British politics is...
Chancellor Brown To Scrap Pensions Deal
EX-CBI bosses leader Lord Turner’s report into the future of pensions – commissioned by the Blair government – is due to be published on...
There Will Be No Labour Leadership Election Says Tony Woodley
TONY Woodley, the Unite joint general secretary, has stepped into the row over the demand for a Labour Party leadership debate and a leadership...
Unite Helps Bosses Cut Workers’ Wages
THE UNITE trade union leaders yesterday were in full flight praising Toyota workers for taking their advice and assisting the bosses by accepting a...
Only nationalisation under socialism can provide a solution to energy crisis!
IN THEIR desperation to prevent a complete meltdown of Britain’s food industry the Tories have agreed to pump tens of millions of pounds into...
TUC must immediately act to stop Clarence House staff sackings by the monarchy and...
THE PCS trade union has called for the proposed staff redundancies at Clarence House to be halted and pledged to support every member of...