The Bank of England is set to embark on a series of interest rate...
THE UK has ‘no alternative’ but to hike interest rates in a bid to make borrowing much more expensive to try to slow down...
Only the banks matter for Mandelson
MANDELSON began his speech to the City of London magnates at the Mansion House last Wednesday night by declaring his continuing support for the...
Labour plans war to privatise Royal Mail
THE Brown government is organising a £3bn sell-off of up to one third of the Royal Mail, a privatisation that will cost up to...
Brown to rescue banks by slashing wages and jobs!
CHANCELLOR Darling has followed up his appearance before the bankers at the Mansion House on Wednesday night, where he pledged that wage rises would...
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...
Fighting Words Must Be Matched By Fighting Deeds!
LAST Wednesday, Dave Prentis, general secretary of the country’s second largest union, Unison, made a speech urging a ‘popular uprising in defence of the...
Royal Mail is preparing mass sackings!
POSTAL workers throughout the country face crunch time in defence of their jobs and the very existence of their union, the CWU. This was spelt...
Gaza a disaster area! Take action to force Israel to lift its blockade!
UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness said yesterday that large regions of the Gaza Strip are a ‘disaster area’. Furthermore he called on the world community to...
Tories split over massive debt crisis! Make the bosses pay for their crisis through...
THE TORY Party split over how to pay off the massive debt run up bailing out the bosses during the coronavirus pandemic is now...
The answer to ‘Fat Cat Thursday’ – Socialist Revolution
THE MASSIVE gap in wealth between workers and the bosses has once again been highlighted in a new report which shows that the chief...
Don’t let Cameron bomb Syria – Forward to the victory of Syria and the...
THE capitalist media and its Tory masters are working around the clock to drum up a majority for Cameron, made up of Tories and...
Hands off Iran – Forward to the state of Palestine
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has voiced his ‘dismay’ over remarks by Iran’s president calling for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. Annan...
Cape Town – first major metropolitan city to run out of water!
THE water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa’s second largest city, has become explosive as experts now estimate that ‘Day Zero’, the day when...
Israel continues its all-out assault on the rights of the Palestinian people and all...
A PALESTINIAN-FRENCH human rights lawyer whom Israel has stripped of his Jerusalem residency is at imminent risk of deportation, an Israeli group says. The HaMoked...
Trade unions must call massive strike actions in support of Palestine and Iran!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has threatened to invade Kharg Island in order to take control of Iran’s oil exports. In an interview with the Financial...
‘This is 1914 all over again’
THE architects of the Common Market, the forerunner of the European Union, freely admitted that they were seeking to carry out peacefully what Adolf...
Tories, stepping up their war on junior doctors, are putting patients and the NHS...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) on Tuesday wrote a letter to Health Secretary Hunt making a ‘clear offer’ to cancel the junior...
Clinton pledges continuing war to ‘get rid’ of Assad
DEMOCRATIC Party Presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, is to order a ‘full review’ of the United States’ strategy on Syria as a ‘first key task’...
EU crisis bringing the union to the brink of the socialist revolution!
THE EU is still reeling from Friday’s decision by Standard and Poor’s rating agency to downgrade France’s triple-A status, at the same time as...
Visteon Workers Show The Way – Occupy To Defend Jobs!
THE Visteon plants in Belfast, Enfield, and Basildon, formerly owned by the Ford Motor Company, but now supplying parts to the motor car industry,...
Putin’s speech confirms the bankruptcy of the Stalinist bureaucracy
RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin opened his annual State of the Nation address on Wednesday by highlighting that Russia has been able for the first...
US, UK and EU trade unions must take general strike action to defeat Israel’s...
THE Israeli regime started its threatened ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah with an intense bombardment of the city on Sunday...
NHS privatisation can seriously damage your health!
NOBODY knows the number of botched or mismanaged operations being carried out by the private Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) businesses, funded by the...
May Hits Out At Liberties And Rights While Meyer Calls For An Alliance With...
BRITISH Home Secretary May, driven by the desperate home and foreign policy crisis of British imperialism, is lashing out at basic rights in the...
Syria refuses to give way to imperialism
THE news that the Obama regime is demanding the complete withdrawal of Hezbollah fighters from Syria marks a decisive development in the increasingly desperate...
No to a Barber sell-out – It’s trade union action that’s required!
THE TUC announced on Saturday that ‘Royal Mail and the CWU have in recent days been in contact with the TUC over the current...
Capitalism is dead in the water!
ON Thursday, a member of the powerful Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, in an unguarded moment, blurted out the truth that exports from...
Britain Heads For Revolutionary Situation
BRITAIN is now being run by a weakened and discredited Blair government, which is however determined to speed up its right wing course and...
PFI, Foundation Trusts and £20bn of Tory cuts are preparing NHS closures & privatisation
FIGURES publicised by Labour’s shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, have shown that one third of England’s hospitals have been completely full at some time...
NHS Staffing Crisis As Wages Are Forced Down And Conditions Worsened
THE shortage of NHS staff in England is worsening official figures show. One in 11 posts is vacant, with the situation particularly bad...
Starmer embraces ‘harsh light of fiscal reality’ as he demands working class pays for...
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to ‘embrace the harsh light of fiscal reality’ in a speech delivered in Birmingham yesterday, in what was...
EU torn apart by Covid pandemic – forward to Socialist United States of...
THE DEADLY third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is ripping the EU apart over vaccinations and lockdowns. In Germany, with 9,549 new cases and 180...
Only way to smash anti-strike law is by forcing TUC to call a general...
THE ILO (International Labour Organisation), the official body of the United Nations responsible for upholding workers’ rights, has slammed the Tory anti-strike laws and...
Scourge of privatisation opens the NHS up to fraud!
ACCORDING to the BBC Panorama programme, broadcast last night, the NHS is being defrauded of £5 billion a year, a massive loss to a...
No Unity with the Tories – build the WRP to lead the socialist revolution
THERESA May’s virtual declaration of war against Russia last Wednesday received its most enthusiastic support from right-wing Labour MPs who rushed forward to...
Don’t let BA’s cabin crew fight alone – call a general strike
British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March. The Unite union confirmed...
General Strike On May 1 ‘Public Service Day’
THE PCS civil servants trade union has confirmed that up to 270,000 civil servants will be stopping work on May 1 against the Blair-Brown...
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,...
Deepening capitalist crisis is driving the US-UK axis to war with Russia!
US DEFENCE Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the US fleet of warships to remain in the Mediterranean Sea, driving up the tensions between the...
Cameron Proposes Britain’s Own Version Of G-Bay
DAVID Cameron chose the G20 meeting in Australia to unveil the latest coalition plans to strip British passport holders of their citizenship if they...
Israel is preparing new Lebanese war
ISRAEL’S armed forces commander, Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, speaking to Israeli High School pupils last week, asked and answered a question rooted in the current...
Workers Of The World Unite! UK Workers Must Welcome All Refugees And Bring...
THE Fire Brigades Union is justly proud to have coordinated the following statement, which was passed as a resolution at its Executive Council last...
UK flees Afghanistan – and sacks 4,500 troops
NATO has handed over security for the whole of Afghanistan to the Afghan puppet government for the first time since the Taliban were ousted...
Howard condemns ‘judicial activists’ as security risks
Tory leader Michael Howard was yesterday bending over backwards to give every support to the Labour Prime Minister Blair and his war against democratic...
Boots Joins The NHS Privatisation Drive
CHEMIST giant Boots wants to breach the NHS system by bringing GPs and consultants into its stores as part of an alleged drive to...