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...
End CWU paralysis – reinstate strike actions!
KARL MARX wrote in his masterpiece ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’ that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur,...
Victory to the Syrian people over Turkish invaders – end imperialist wars through socialist...
SYRIAN army troops yesterday moved swiftly to march into northern Syria to confront Turkish invasion forces just hours after the Syrian government reached an...
Bankers’ Man Brown Wants Three Years Of Wage Cuts
PREMIER Brown says he wants three-year pay deals for public sector workers, rather than the traditional annual deals, to help keep UK inflation low. ...
US Attention Focuses On China
AT THIS moment all eyes are turned to China. The US government, and worried US trade union leaders are currently talking to the Chinese...
Capitalism on the brink of destroying humanity – World Socialist Revolution is the only...
CAPITALISM has dived into the abyss of a world crisis that threatens not simply trade wars but world wars on a scale never seen...
1.72 million jobless! End of furloughing on April 21 will see millions more...
1.72 MILLION are now jobless! The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said yesterday it is the highest level in five years. Workers aged between 25...
‘Hostile environment’ alive & kicking! Tories deport another 13 to the Caribbean. Stop all...
A LAST-DITCH legal attempt by two children to stop their father being forced onto a plane and deported to the Caribbean failed on Tuesday,...
North Korea Does Not Want To Go The Way Of Libya!
NORTH Korea has said it may pull out of a summit with US President Donald Trump that was due to take place on June...
Tories Want To Go From Starving Children To Pauperising Pensioners!
THIS week Tory prime minister Boris Johnson was forced to make a humiliating retreat over free school meals following a campaign led by the...
No Pensions sell-out! Sack Prentis and Barber! Forward to the General Strike! Build new...
THE reformist trade union leaders are once again, on the pensions issue, showing that they are organically incapable of defending the basic gains of...
Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ is a national government
GORDON Brown yesterday launched his campaign to take over the job of Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. He spoke about his ‘new ideas and...
With stockmarkets crashing it is time to smash capitalism and go forward to world...
AMID world stock markets crashing, and the head of the IMF revealing she has ‘sleepless nights’ over the dangerous risks of collapses in the...
Blair launches anti-Brexit plot as Starmer raises remaining in Single Market and Customs...
THE wiping out of the Socialist Party and the Republican Party in France, the ruination of the Fifth Republic and the elevation of the...
Capitalist State Tooling Up F0R Civil War
A SCOTLAND YARD review into the 2010 summer riots ‘Four Days in August’ shows very clearly that the capitalist state in the UK...
Brown Trying To Buy Time For Capitalism
LAST week a Tory MP had to apologise to the House of Commons because he had said that the government should ‘let the recession...
TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and nationalise Thames...
FACED with an £18 billion debt mountain, the privatised Thames Water company yesterday set out its survival plans that involve increasing bills to £627...
G20 talks dominated by world crisis, and the fear of world revolution!
THE initial stages of the G20 talks in China were yesterday dominated by the world crisis of capitalism, the sharpening antagonisms that this crisis...
Abbas ready to break with US imperialism! UK workers must support the Palestinian...
IN A huge development in the fight of the Palestinian people to establish their own independent state, the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on...
Clinton threatens ‘catastrophic assault’ on the Syrian state!
THE ‘Friends of Syria’ meeting in Paris on Friday saw the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, frantically beating the war drums against Syria,...
Kick out the Tories, abolish academies and free schools to defend free state education
TEACHING unions yesterday published a report detailing the effects of the Tory policy of slashing public spending on schools – increased class sizes across...
Junior Doctors Are Defending The NHS – They Must Not Fight Alone!
AS the April 26th-27th strike action of the junior doctors approaches, the chorus of reproaches from the likes of Dame Sally Davies, Sir Bruce...
Nationalise the pharmaceutical corporations!
A REPORT into the expenditure of the National Health Service on drugs, published by the government’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) yesterday, reveals that...
Inflation Letting Rip As Darling Fiddles
CONSUMER Prices Index (CPI) inflation has been driven up to 3.5 per cent in January by, amongst other factors, VAT returning to 17.5...
Industry collapses in UK under impact of capitalist crisis
THE UK economy stagnated with no growth in the last quarter of 2019, according to official figures from the ONS (Office for National Statistics). Gross...
Soros backed ‘Fifth Column’ calls for second EU referendum – Workers must force the...
THE EU Brexit chief negotiator has declared that he is not prepared to compromise with the UK government over the decision of the British...
All Out On May 1!
PRIME Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown have declared war on the public services and their staff, with closures, cuts, redundancies and pay...
Socialist Revolution To Put Bankrupt Bankers Out Of Their Misery
IN its latest annual report, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the ‘central bank of central banks’, has warned that capitalism is ‘defenceless’ against...
Ukrainian Stalinists giving way to EU-backed regime-change attempt
THE Ukrainian Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov, of the Stalinist Party of the Regions resigned on Tuesday in an attempt to draw the EU-backed right-wing...
UK Must Stop Arming Saudi Arabia And Must Rush Food Aid To The Yemen
THE TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that all those behind the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi should be brought to justice,...
Capitalist governments crumble as crisis deepens!
ALL over the capitalist world, governments and administrations of all kinds are crumbling, as the deepening of the world crisis of capitalism sharpens the...
Latest IMF report – Corporations in US, Britain and Europe facing bankruptcy
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) this week produced its latest Global Financial Stability Report, its half-yearly analysis of the state of the world’s banks...
The Palestinian revolution is driving Israel back! End the occupation of Palestine! Forward to...
HAMAS declared a ‘historic victory’ of Palestinians in their struggle against the occupying regime of Israel yesterday, after the Israeli regime conceded an unconditional...
Chancellor Reeves slashes regulations that inhibit banks from taking the ‘risks’ that crashed the economy...
Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves revealed her plans to slash the rules and regulations that have inhibited the banks and financial speculators from taking risks,...
Capitalist recovery fraud is stoking working class fury
WORKERS and young people will be forgiven if they believe that they are living in some parallel universe that has absolutely no connection with...
There was no fire safety report before refurbishing Grenfell – Build Council of Action...
GRENFELL Tower was safe until the refurbishment took place, when it was wrapped in highly flammable insulation and cladding, described by fire safety experts...
Zero-hours contracts and below legal minimum wages dominate in private care agencies
ANALYSIS by the GMB union of figures in the national Skills for Care database reveals that care workers employed in the private sector are...
Starmer’s latest U-turn as Labour government reels from another crisis – time to bring...
Labour prime minister Keir Starmer performed yet another abrupt U-turn yesterday when he was forced to abandon plans to cancel 30 local government elections in...
Disabled to be impoverished by Welfare Bill
As the Welfare Reform Bill progresses through the committee stage of the House of Lords so more evidence is emerging about the catastrophic effect it...
World Bank chief fears youth and world revolution!
When the President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, concluded a summit of the bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the statement...
A Case Of Strange Bedfellows
THE Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has come back from the US convinced that the Labour government must change its position against the use...
As Putin, Merkel, Macron And Erdogan Talk Peace In Istanbul, Israel And The...
As Putin, Merkel, Macron and Erdogan were meeting in Istanbul on Saturday evening to discuss the future of Syria, Israeli planes were bombing Gaza...
Tories Will Have The Power ‘To Censor The Internet’ To Silence Opposition To Imperialist...
THE TORY government is attempting to assume the absolute power to censor the internet as part of its new Online Safety Bill – a...
Low Interest Rates And Quantitative Easing Forever Pledges Carney
THE new Bank of England governor Carney yesterday in his ‘Inflation Report’ gave big business a sample of his ‘forward guidance’. This amounted to inflation,...
British Army Handed 300 Over To Afghan Torturers
AFTER the killing and torture of Baha Mousa in Iraq was supplemented by a court martial that refused to convict those responsible for his...