The lessons of Katrina and Buncefield
A VIDEO showing President George W Bush being warned on the eve of Hurricane Katrina that the storm could breach New Orleans’ flood defences...
US, UK, Karzai Drive To Bribe The Taleban
ON the eve of the Afghan conference in London this week, UK and other Nato troops are to launch an offensive to take control...
Disband The Police Death Squads!
THE fact that armed police used internationally banned dum dum bullets, seven of which splintered, expanded and exploded inside the head of Jean Charles...
US raid on the Yemen kills 57 as Trump prepares for war with Iran
US FORCES at dawn yesterday carried out a series of ground and air raids against a village in the Yemeni province of Bayda, killing...
Unions must take strike action over wages & jobs!
YESTERDAY’S inflation rate figures for January are not a shock, in fact, they are an understatement of what the real inflation rate is, as...
Trade unions must bring down crisis-ridden Tories, break with the EU and bring in...
THE TORY leadership is now in complete disarray, with PM May repeatedly refusing on Tuesday to say how she would vote if there was...
Free The Prisoners Says Hamas And Stop Zionist Gaza Aggression!
‘LET Christmas celebrations be a global occasion to intensify all forms of global solidarity, to stop the Zionist aggression on Gaza,’ the Hamas Movement...
Stalinist bureaucracy Shanghaied by working class
THE Chinese working class is definitely on the march. It has already compelled the Stalinist bureaucracy to start bringing in legislation forcing the western capitalist...
US ‘Defence Cutbacks’ are a cynical fraud!
WHEN the gullible read the headline paragraph, that US Defence Secretary, Chuck Hagel, has unveiled plans to ‘shrink’ the US Army to its smallest...
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...
Palestinian Consensus Government meets – Forward to the sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as...
THE Palestinian National Consensus Government held its first meeting in three years in Gaza yesterday, a day after arriving in the besieged Gaza Strip...
TUC goes from lobbying the Tories to open support for the right-wing Ukrainian regime!
ON TUESDAY, the TUC abruptly announced that it was cancelling a planned cost of living demonstration and march due to take place in Blackpool...
Trump caves in over Ukraine – now is the time to get rid of...
AMERICA’S junior imperialist allies in the UK and Europe were in a state of shock as details of US president Donald Trump’s climbdown over...
G20 bankrupts meet protected by 10,000 riot police batons
LEADERS of the major capitalist states, and the leaders of Russia and China, who have linked their fate to the future of the crisis...
Defend the NHS! Come to NE London Council of Action Conference!
EARLIER this week Chancellor Alistair Darling promised the most draconian cuts in public spending for 20 years as a result of the Labour government’s...
Obama Sends In Medvedev As Stalinists Betray Libyan Masses Again
AT the Group of 8 meeting (G8) of the largest industrialised nations, the Russian Stalinist bureaucracy voted for regime change in Libya and then...
Crisis of European capitalism deepens – Down with the EU! Forward to the Socialist...
THE Bank of England delivered its first announcement of 2017 on the economy yesterday, claiming that British capitalism had defied all expectations of a...
Latest inflation figures spur Tories and Bank of England to ramp up attack on...
INFLATION figures yesterday, that recorded a drop in the inflation rate to 6.8% in July, have been greeted by the Tories and the Bank...
While FIFA looks the other way Palestinian children are being tortured
IT is a monstrous betrayal of the Palestinian people that the FIFA Congress immersed itself in the corrupt affairs of billionaire, big business soccer,...
Call A General Strike Now!
THE demand for a general strike to bring down the government has been driven by the working class onto the immediate agenda of the...
The UK Army Drive To Recruit Youth Is Stepped Up As The Crisis Of...
THE BRITISH armed forces, especially the army, are making a big turn to recruit youth, with military colleges springing up everywhere. More than one-in-10 new...
Call a national postal strike and bring out all the public sector
ROYAL Mail chairman Allan Leighton reiterated yesterday that the organisation cannot afford to improve its 2.5 per cent pay offer, despite staff voting 77...
No economic solution to capitalist crisis as BIS warns financial markets at risk
THE BANK for International Settlements (BIS) – dubbed the bank for central banks – issued a dire warning in its latest quarterly review that...
OECD says UK rates must rise to 3.5 per cent in 2011
THE OECD said yesterday that state indebtedness, and rapidly growing inflation is threatening to bring down the entire banking system. Its secretary general, Angel Gurria,...
EU crisis sharpening to breaking point!
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is attending the meeting of the EU Finance Ministers in Poland to convey the alarm of the...
Leave the EU with no deal! Forward with the socialist revolution!
THE VOTES in Parliament on amendments to Theresa May’s Brexit deal saw the counter-revolutionary plots by MPs from all parties to smash the 2016...
EU & British capitalism collapsing under debt – Forward to the United Socialist States...
THE CRISIS gripping the German economy threatens not just to bring the country down but will complete the crash of the entire eurozone, a...
Tories refuse to negotiate – opt for a fight to the finish. Junior doctors...
YESTERDAY the BMA junior doctors’ leader Dr Johann Malawana said, referring to the forthcoming strike actions: ‘No junior doctor wants to take this action,...
Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Sri Lanka
SRI LANKA is facing a revolutionary upheaval as workers and young people took to the streets over the weekend demanding the immediate resignation of...
Nurses determined to fight the Tories – all trade unions must strike with them...
The annual conference of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Brighton this week is taking place at a time when the entire NHS...
Coalition Policy Is To Financially Collapse Local Authorities
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that ‘multiple’ local authorities are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts. The...
US and Saudi Arabia are slaughtering Yemenis while Israel is assassinating Palestinian journalists!
A LEADING member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi yesterday indicted US imperialism saying that it is killing thousands of Yemeni civilians...
Greek crisis sharpens – the working class must take the power!
AHEAD of today’s summit of the European Union the Greek transport minister issued an open threat that unless striking transport workers returned to work...
American forces quit Iraq in defeat after 21 years of sanctions and slaughter
EIGHT and a half years after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, 21 years after the deadly UN sanctions were imposed on Iraq...
UK death squads in the north – a warning for today
LAST night’s Panorama programme, entitled ‘Britain’s Secret Terror Force’, threw yet more light on the murderous activities of the British state in its war...
Cruddas scandal – ruling class split over Cameron leadership
The resignation by the chief Tory fundraiser and party co-treasurer, Peter Cruddas, late on Saturday gave one more glimpse into the corruption that lies...
Civil war declared as Tories are torn apart by the capitalist crisis – Kick...
CIVIL WAR in the Tory Party has erupted as Boris Johnson and his allies launch a coordinated attack on PM Rishi Sunak, with the...
Giant investment companies dump shares as world banking crash looms
Testifying to MPs at the Treasury Committee yesterday, Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, issued a sharp rebuke to Labour chancellor Rachel...
McCluskey promises illegal action!
IN a full-page article in Thursday’s Guardian newspaper, the leader of the country’s biggest union, Len McCluskey, announced that the Unite executive had unanimously...
Trump Denounces The ‘Marxists’ As The Crisis Of US Capitalism Reaches Explosion Point!
IN HIS FOURTH of July speech on Saturday US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claimed were...
Italy, Spain and Greece erupting against EU austerity
ITALIAN car giant Fiat has shut down five of its plants as the Italian ruling class struggles against a transport workers strike directed against...
Police Aim To Put The Nation Under Its Thumb
The Blair government is aiming to engineer a situation whereby the carrying of an identity card by every person is compulsory, and at the...
‘Do Or Die’ Johnson Has Already Faced An Attempt To Remove Him!
THE JUST-elected Tory leader Boris Johnson has already faced an attempt to remove him by Tory Minister of State for Europe Sir Alan Duncan,...
Nationalise the PFI parasites!
EVERY year the Labour government is handing over £40bn to the consortia of financiers, property developers and construction giants in payments for Private Finance...
British capitalism hit by unending crisis – put it out of its misery with...
WITH the petrol stations closing, British capitalism suffered another shock yesterday when it was announced that the UK’s second biggest oil refinery is on...