Ex Bank of England boss demands let ‘zombie’ companies crash to save capitalism
FORMER Bank of England governor Mervyn King this week called for heavily indebted ‘zombie’ companies to be allowed to ‘disappear’ taking with them, although...
This is how NATO is defending civilians in Libya
ON Saturday, the Red Cross visited Sirte, which has been under intense bombardment and shelling from NATO planes and ships, and by NATO’s ground...
Irish banks ‘death spiral’ – forward to socialist revolution
THE latest stage in the complete disintegration of the Irish banking system was described by one analyst of the capitalist market as a ‘death...
Care Home Big Five Demand A State Subsidy!
THE National Living Wage could result in a ‘catastrophic collapse’ in the number of care homes, according to the five biggest private providers, Four...
Israel is being held responsible for the lives and safety of six recaptured...
NEARLY 200 human rights organisations are holding Israel fully responsible for the lives and safety of six Palestinian prisoners who tunnelled their way out...
The world’s capitalists quake in their boots as coronavirus shuts down Chinese factories halting...
‘THE WORKSHOP of the world is closed,’ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote in the Telegraph on Thursday predicting a colossal disaster for capitalism if the massive...
Moroccan Lawyers Demand Cancellation Of Israel Normalisation Deal!
MOROCCAN lawyers have severely censured the Rabat government over its recent agreement to normalise relations with Israel, and are demanding an immediate reversal of...
Kick Out The Spineless Trade Union Leaders Who Refuse To Call A General Strike...
THE SENSE of alarm and downright terror mixed with a sense of helplessness amongst the British ruling class saturates the bourgeois press today as...
Trump dumps Ukraine as US capitalism gears up for war on the working class...
Last Friday, US president Donald Trump met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in a ‘summit’ that Trump boasted would finally end the imperialist ‘proxy’...
US in political crisis as Biden faces growing calls to quit!
A ‘PERVASIVE sense of fear and uncertainty’ hangs over the US Democratic party as 81-year-old president Joe Biden faces increasingly strident calls for him...
Workers must support Russia and China as Biden threatens new war!
AS THE world crisis of the capitalist system deepens, the US under President Joe Biden is preparing for a new world war. Biden is...
Puppet court ‘convicts’ defiant Saddam
THE court that convicted President Saddam Hussein of Iraq to be hung for crimes against humanity was a creation of imperialism, made up of...
Disorientated Johnson quotes Lenin to CBI while Starmer tells bosses we will do what...
BOTH Tory prime minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer spoke at the annual conference of the leading bosses’ organisation, the Confederation of...
BMA Is Hoping For NHS Deal While The Labour Government Is Getting Ready For...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) is calling on the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, to focus his time and attention on offering a deal that...
World Crisis Blowing US Trade Union Leaders Apart
THE American workers are facing major problems, caused by the deepening crisis of the world capitalist system. Among these problems are the export of millions...
Truss demands war across Europe to crush Russia!
IN A KEYNOTE foreign policy speech at London’s Mansion House last night, Tory foreign secretary Liz Truss dispensed with the fiction of the imperialist...
Tottenham Uprising – The First Of Many
THE uprising that took place in Tottenham on Saturday night came 48 hours after the police shooting of a local man, Mark Duggan, and...
Norfolk & Norwich NHS Trust – screwed by the PFI bandits
THE Octagon private sector consortium has been branded the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’ by a House of Commons committee. MPs on the public accounts...
Miliband will do everything that is necessary to defend capitalism
YESTERDAY the main trade union leaders were full of praise for Miliband’s conference speech. This was no doubt an expression of relief that he...
Labour leaders split over increasing income tax and abolishing welfare state!
YESTERDAY’S ‘bombshell U-turn’ over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget plans not to increase income tax has exposed the civil war in...
Labour is moving to sack a quarter of its staff! A GMB & Unite...
THE LABOUR Party is facing strike action by staff who work at the party offices who are members of the GMB and Unite trade...
Bank rate rigging ‘Everyone was at it’
The crisis resulting from the bank rate rigging scandal that has engulfed Barclays took a dramatic turn over the weekend with the revelation that...
Spectre of revolution haunting TUC leaders!
THE real essence of the capitalist crisis penetrated into the heart of the Trades Union Congress yesterday, as delegates assembled for their annual conference...
Students & lecturers set to erupt over fees & cuts!
THIS September, students in universities across the country are set to erupt in anger when they return after the £9,000 cap on university tuition...
Corbyn’s Balancing Act Faces Its Moment Of Truth!
THE ABRUPT decision by Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage not to contest the 317 seats held by the Tories in the general election means...
Europe Is Rising Up!
YESTERDAY millions of workers across Europe took strike action against the austerity programmes of ‘their’ bosses, bankers and governments. These programmes are creating millions...
House of Commons recognises Palestine!
‘THAT this House believes that the Government should recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel, as a contribution to securing a...
Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the fire
YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...
Police want to use water cannon and rubber bullets
THE Metropolitan Police is considering its tactics after the failure of its containment and ‘kettling’ policies in Parliament square last Thursday, when...
Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions
THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...
Israeli high school students refuse to serve and oppose the oppression of the Palestinians!
HUNDREDS of Israeli high school students in a ‘Youth Against Dictatorship’ statement have announced that they will refuse to serve in the Israeli military...
Starmer pledges billions for military while doctors and nurses are hired to work in...
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Washington yesterday for a first meeting with President Trump since his inauguration last month. The situation in Ukraine...
The Oxford Blood Money Must Be Returned To Sender At Once!
IN ITS LATEST ATROCITY, the University of Oxford has grabbed with both hands more than £12m in dirty money from the Alexander Mosley Trust. This...
Banks declare record indebtedness as gold and Wall Street shares reach record highs
THE US banks are now having to declare their indebtedness. Citigroup has lost $6 billion in a third quarter of this year write down, as...
The great Labour democrats launch a purge so that they can support the Tories
THE leader of one of the UK’s biggest trade unions has had his vote in the Labour leadership election rejected. His voting paper has...
Khaddam Calls For Syrian Uprising
THE former Syrian Vice-President, Abdul Halim Khaddam, set himself up as a would-be Quisling for President Bush yesterday, after he called for a...
From Low Wage To No Wage Economy – Tories Plan Chain Gangs For Youth
CRISPIN Blunt, the justice minister, announced yesterday that instructions were being issued to the courts to the effect that unemployed offenders sentenced to the...
Abbas Meets With Trump Delegation In Ramallah!
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday met with a US delegation representing President Trump, headed by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner at his Ramallah headquarters, and...
The working class is on the march – it is refusing to pay the...
AN ‘ever-increasing’ number of households in the UK, including teachers, pensioners, and employees of the NHS, are turning to food banks for assistance as...
British Ruling Class Preparing For A Nuclear War To Defend Capitalism
THE bankrupt British ruling class is preparing to expand its ‘nuclear deterrent’ by buying a squadron of American jet fighters that have the capacity...
Sri Lanka Tea Workers Battle For £2 A Day
SRI LANKAN tea workers, some 400,000 strong, are mainly Tamil women workers, who work for around £1 a day and live, along with their...
Obama Warning For Russia And China
PRESIDENT Obama’s State of the Union message saw the ‘lame-duck’ president, into the last period of his rule, seeking to convince US workers that...
Bush, Blair Admit Stupidity And Incompetence
PRESIDENT Bush and Premier Blair have admitted their chronic incompetence over the prosecution of the war in Iraq, and have appealed to the rest...
Unemployment set ‘to surge by 400,000’ under the Labour government, with young people most...
‘CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves’ tax raids destroy jobs’, warned a report by The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) yesterday. Unemployment will jump by 400,000 under Labour,...
UK cannot fight the IS movement that it helped to create!
THE UK’s role in fighting the Islamic State is ‘strikingly modest’ and should be stepped up, the House of Commons Defence Select Committee has...