King sees nothing but the ‘black cloud of uncertainty’
THE Governor of the Bank of England yesterday poured gallons of ice cold water over the prospects of British and world capitalism. King cut the...
Inflation Persists As Mpc Rate Rise Faction Grows
WITH CPI inflation reaching 3.2 per cent (0.2 per cent down), inflation for June remained 1.2 per cent above the Bank of England target....
Watch out! The bank robbers are still at large!
‘MORE and more leverage in the system. The whole building is about to collapse anytime now. . . Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab....
After China sneezes Wall Street drops like a stone
A NINE per cent fall on the small Chinese stock market, after rumours that the Stalinist bureaucracy was about to tax shares, and slightly...
While NHS workers demand action, Prentis and Barber stay on their knees
YESTERDAY thousands of NHS workers took part in the ‘NHS Together’ Lobby of Parliament to demand an end to NHS privatisation. The lobbying...
Collapse of Greensill Capital – another Lehman Brothers crisis!
THE COLLAPSE of Greensill Capital, a finance company which acted as a massive lender to companies, has sent shock waves throughout the UK steel...
Sunak ‘deal’ dumps Brexit – now is time for working class to dump the...
ON MONDAY night, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen announced that, after a high level meeting, Britain...
All out this Saturday to kick the Tories out! Forward to a workers...
EVERY WORKER AND YOUTH must take to the streets for this Saturday’s million strong: ‘Kick the Tories out march. Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell...
Workers across the UK erupt against cuts to wages, pensions and conditions – demand...
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at 58 universities across the UK have come out on a three day strike, starting today,...
UK workers are weighed down by debt while landlords are fattened on £21bn of...
LENIN, in his work ‘Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism’, wrote about one of the most important connections between the imperialist drive for colonies...
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...
Nurses demand emergency conference to remove union leaders guilty of pay betrayal
NURSES reacted with fury last week when they received their July pay packets and realised that the 3% pay increase their union, the RCN,...
UK and US workers must unite to smash capitalism and imperialism! Forward to Socialism!
ELON Musk’s chainsaw wielding stunt with Argentine President Javier Milei before a conservative convention in the US on Thursday was a call to war...
General Strike Needed To Defend The NHS!
DR MARK Porter, Chair of the British Medical Association Council, opened their annual representatives meeting with a speech that tore into the policies of...
Capitalism can’t afford common retirement age or decent pensions
CAPITALIST Britain is being driven backwards, not forwards by the deepening crisis of capitalism and the policies of the Blair-Brown Labour government, dedicated to...
Following renationalisation of Southeastern, the trade unions must call a general strike to bring...
SOUTHEASTERN rail collapsed into public ownership yesterday with the RMT revealing the true cost of the government’s slavish devotion to subsidising private profit capitalism. In...
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...
Kenyan explosion rooted in land theft and the capitalist crisis
KENYA has been convulsed for nearly a week by an uprising of the poor and the landless who have been absolutely pauperised by the...
Sharon’s deception at the United Nations
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tried to cut a figure as the liberator of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip at the United...
UK economy speeds into bankruptcy – demand TUC call a general strike to kick...
THE SPEED of the UK economy crashing into complete bankruptcy is breathtaking, as it leaves the Tory government along with the Bank of England...
Starmer defends Reeves in an attempt to save both their jobs and UK capitalism!
KEIR STARMER, at a press conference yesterday, defended last week’s budget and crucially made a last ditch attempt to save his job and that...
BMA leaders run away after Cameron waves big stick
THE BMA and its Junior Doctors Committee yesterday ‘made the decision to suspend the 48-hour industrial action planned for 26-28 January. We are announcing...
Forward to the political revolution in the Ukraine
UKRAINIAN President Viktor Yushchenko has mounted a coup attempt in the Ukraine, dissolving parliament and calling a snap general election on May 27th. The parliament...
Tories defy court ruling and keep asylum seekers detained at Napier Barracks
IT HAS been confirmed that the Home Office is determined to keep the dilapidated and dangerous Napier Barracks open for a further four years. The...
War on Iran expands threatening to crash stock markets and drive inflation
THE US and the Israeli regime ramped up their war against Iran and the people of the Middle East yesterday with an increased bombardment...
Labour to match the Tories cut for cut!
‘BUT my argument starts by recognising that tough times will continue,’ said Labour leader Miliband yesterday on his policy for dealing with the crisis. He...
Tory government in massive crisis – make TUC call a general strike to kick...
AT THE weekend, the Tory-supporting Telegraph newspaper published an article by its economics expert Jeremy Warner which carried the dire headline: ‘Few have woken...
Occupy The Steel Industry – Organise General Strike To Defend Jobs
THE world capitalist crisis as well as shattering the energy industries – oil, coal and gas – is also decimating world steel production and...
McDonnell wants a corporatist deal with the capitalists!
SHADOW Chancellor McDonnel’s speech to the Labour Party conference was remarkable for its lack of treatment of the crisis of capitalism. He focused...
Stop all evictions – socialist revolution the answer to mass homelessness
YESTERDAY the temporary ban on evictions in England ended, leaving hundreds of thousands of people facing being thrown out of their homes for rent...
CRISIS-RIDDEN UK CAPITALISM MUST BE OVERTHROWN – NO RETURN TO THE HUNGRY 1930s!
THE TORY Chancellor has had to borrow another £13bn to unveil a series of desperate measures in order to attempt to keep UK capitalism...
CANADIAN WORKERS PREVENT ISRAELI CONTAINER SHIP DOCKING – AS NEW ISRAELI REGIME OK’S ‘FLAG...
CANADIAN workers on June 14th prevented an Israeli container ship from unloading by forming a picket line at the entrance to the Fairview container...
Defend state education, stop privatisation!
TODAY'S joint strike by two unions at Middlesex University must be the start of action to defend jobs and the very existence of a...
Bring Down The Tories To Stop The Drive To A New Imperialist World War!...
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned of the ‘real’ danger of World War III breaking out, as 40 capitalist states met in Germany...
British imperialism filmed at work
A COURT martial in Wiltshire yesterday heard that Corporal Donald Payne was filmed as he abused and swore at hooded Iraqi detainees, in September...
TUC leaders can’t get enough of the EU’s corrupt corporatism and its anti-working class...
TUC GENERAL secretary Frances O’Grady this week re-hashed all the arguments used by the TUC before the 2016 referendum that only by remaining captive...
Nationalise the energy companies to end fuel poverty
PM Brown has rejected out of hand the trade union demand for a Windfall Tax on the oil, gas and energy companies, that are...
Cbi Tells Tories – Impose Two Year Wage Freeze And Privatise!
THE CBI BOSSES organisation yesterday called for an immediate freeze in the public sector pay bill for two years and a ‘re-engineering’ (destruction) ‘of...
The Police Spy In Your Pocket
THE millions of people throughout the world who rushed out last June to buy the latest must-have piece of technology from the Apple company...
Sunak not ‘daunted’ by job of driving through super austerity to rescue British capitalism!
Rishi Sunak delivered his first address to the nation as prime minister yesterday morning. He started by praising Liz Truss and Boris Johnson in a...
Tories getting ready for class war! Time for the trade unions to put them...
EVERYBODY knows that the Tory government was completely unprepared for the Covid-19 crisis that erupted in the UK in December 2020. The Operation Cygnus exercise...
Sinn Fein joins the UK capitalist state
‘THE time is now right to support the PSNI’ (Police Service of Northern Ireland), Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams told delegates at the Sinn...
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...
Blair Witch-Hunts The Unborn
‘WE can clamp down on anti-social children before birth’, said Prime Minister Blair on Thursday. That anti-social behaviour is in the genes, is the...
Savage cuts have just begun in debt-ridden capitalist Britain
SPENDING on Welfare over this Parliamentary term has fallen by just £2.5bn despite the Tory-led coalition aiming to slash spending by £19bn. The Institute for...