Capitalism plunging into catastrophic banking crash – time to put it out of its...
LAST Friday the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed and its assets seized by the American Federal Reserve in the biggest banking crash...
The Not So Great Recovery!
THE UK economy grew by 0.8% in the second quarter of 2014, official figures are said to show. The figures, from the Office for National...
Workers And Students Must Organise General Strikes To Smash Tories & Support Gaza!
NEARLY three dozen Palestinian civilians, including women and children, have already been murdered by Israeli military forces bombing various neighbourhoods in Rafah in the...
Cameron Get Out – follow Harper’s lead!
HARD-LINE Tory immigration minister Mark Harper has just resigned after he admitted that he was employing a cleaner who was not legally entitled to...
Only socialist revolution can stop imperialist war
LAST Friday’s attack by US planes on the Syrian airfield of al-Shayrat was not a one-off military exercise to teach the Syrians a lesson,...
Central Banks to increase global debt timebomb with QE
CENTRAL banks in America, Europe and Japan are on the verge of printing and handing out to their banks hundreds of billions of pounds...
US-Israel Sign Joint Security Declaration, As US Stabs Palestinians In The Back Again!
THE United States and Israel have signed a joint strategic declaration, repeating accusations against Iran and promising to confront that country’s nuclear programme, a...
TUC leaders condemn Autumn Statement but refuse to take any action!
THE TUC leaders are unanimous in their condemnation of the latest Tory autumn statement, but yet again refuse to call any action to bring...
Answer Cameron’s war on two fronts with a General Strike
DAVID Cameron’s speech outlining his ‘five-year plan to fight extremism’ was in reality an outline of the Tory government’s war plans for both the...
Nationalise oil and energy industries under workers management and without compensation now!
Yesterday, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) published its plan to cut energy bills by re-nationalising energy retail companies. The plan, issued in advance of next...
Former BoE Governor calls on China to abandon ‘zero-Covid’ strategy to save global capitalism!
THE FORMER Bank of England Governor Mark Carney yesterday warned that China’s ‘zero-Covid’ strategy is ‘at risk of derailing the global economy and driving...
Build Fourth International Throughout Africa
THE victory of the strike of the Lonmim miners will inspire not just the workers of South Africa and Africa as a whole, but...
Unelected Lords Lay The Basis For An Anti-Brexit Coup!
THE House of Lords on Monday night passed amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill that provide a basis for a parliamentary coup to bin...
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...
Socialist revolution is the only answer to the ‘economic tsunami’ swamping capitalism!
THIS week, forecasts for the increase in household energy bills were dramatically increased to over £4,200 for an average UK household in January next...
KICK OUT THE TORIES ON JUNE 8th AND KICK OUT THEIR TUC COLLABORATORS...
THE leadership of the TUC yesterday stuck the knife into the backs of the working class when it called for workers to look more...
Hamas’ statement on the ceasefire. Millions of British workers support Hamas – so must...
HAMAS and Israel have expressed in statements their readiness to resume hostilities after they agreed to a Qatar-mediated pause in fighting. The deal includes the...
Revolution is the only way forwards!
THE working class of Europe is rising up to fight the savage spending cuts now being imposed by governments across the Continent. When the UK...
The Rapid Rise Of Joblessness Proves The Need For A UK Workers Revolution!
THE rapid rise in joblessness amongst the UK’s youth has pushed Britain to an unwanted milestone. For the first time in a quarter of...
Mandelson plan for uni cuts must be defeated
MANDELSON’S decision to lop £398m from the higher education budget, and to bring in third class tuition, will see thousands of workers in...
Reeves’ pre-budget speech a message that the Labour government is ready to carry out...
YESTERDAY morning Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves gave an unprecedented pre-budget speech designed, she said, to address ‘speculation’ about what she would be announcing in...
As Syria burns the Israeli regime intensifies its repressions of the Palestinians
THE Palestinian Minister of Finance, Shukri Bishara, has just addressed members of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) in New York, telling it that...
Crisis Deepening Rapidly – Socialism The Only Answer
IN ‘going-broke Britain’ the number of people becoming insolvent in England and Wales in 2009 was 134,142, according to official data from the Insolvency...
Ukrainian coup under way!
UKRAINE’S President Viktor Yanukovych announced early yesterday the terms of the agreement that he had made with the Ukrainian pro-EU, pro-US opposition during talks...
TUC shocked that Tories break their promises!
THE TUC leadership reacted with shock when Theresa May made it quite clear that she had absolutely no intention of fulfilling her pledge to...
MI5 deceived parliament – the judges decide
‘ONLY a full public inquiry will answer the public’s concerns about what has been done in our name,’ said the Reprieve organisation yesterday, following...
Defend the Welfare State! Keep the Tories out! Forward to a workers government!
THOUSANDS of workers, students and youth will be marching today to defend the ‘Welfare State’ from the attacks of the current Labour government, and...
US political crisis over the failure to defeat Hamas will bring down President Biden!
THE abject failure of the imperialist-backed Israeli regime to smash Hamas and crush the resistance of the Palestinian people to the brutal occupation is...
Unison Leaders Vote For Another Blairite Government
FOR the whole period that Labour Left MP John McDonnell was seeking to get the backing of the 40 plus MPs that would have...
Starmer Wants To Impose EU Laws Onto The UK Working Class
PM SIR KEIR STARMER has just unveiled legislation that will give the power to the PM to adopt EU legislation without giving MPs a...
Children starve in Britain while bankers reap billions
IN the same week that the capitalist banking system was exposed as a centre of criminal venality, lying and cheating in order to secure...
PM Johnson wants a nuclear rearmament drive to confront China!
WITH Britain in a major economic and political crisis the Johnson government is not only preparing for a war with the UK working class,...
Greek vote provokes revolutionary crisis
YESTERDAY''S Greek presidential vote heralds the start of a fresh eurozone crisis that threatens to bring down the Eurozone and with it the whole...
Suicide guidelines for Jobcentres
THE leaking of new guidelines to staff working with the unemployed exposes the barbarity of the coalition government’s onslaught on the sick, vulnerable and...
Israelis mass tanks on Gaza border
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister has promised prolonged and extensive military action to free an Israeli soldier missing and presumed held captive in southern Gaza. Mouthing...
Heroic Iran Breaks US Blockade Of Venezuela As Its Oil Tankers Enter Venezuelan Waters!
ON SUNDAY, the Iranian embassy in Caracas posted a video of the first Iranian oil tanker arriving in Venezuelan waters. ‘The first Iranian tanker...
Petrol price rises leading to new fuel blockade
UK petrol and diesel prices are still rising in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with the average cost of petrol now at 95.1 pence...
PFI privateers having looted the NHS and the public sector are now pushing for...
THE EXTENT of the full-scale looting of the country’s public buildings by giant offshore private companies has been highlighted in a report by a...
Britain Leading The Way To Slump Says The Imf
LAST October the IMF predicted world output would increase by 2.2 per cent in 2009. Yesterday it changed its tune saying that world output...
Kerry Warns Russia Over Eastern Ukraine
THE US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Russia that it must not recognise the elections that are due to take place this...
US And UK Ruling Class Are Humbled In Afghanistan – Forward To The Victory...
THE US ruling class, and its UK and German allies have suffered a historic defeat in Afghanistan. This is the verdict of the former UK...
Big business to take over NHS funds
THE Labour government is speeding up the break-up, privatisation and destruction of the National Health Service, despite the vote at the Labour Party Conference...
Labour brings 20% interest payments into its health market
NHS trust hospitals and Primary Care Trusts are to be charged 10 per cent interest on money they borrow from their strategic Health Authority...
Time For Action To Defend The NHS!
YESTERDAY both the RCN nurses and the Royal College of Physicians made it perfectly clear that the time has arrived when action to defend...
General Motors & Ford threaten to stop production in US
AS PAY negotiations between the American car giants General Motors (GM) and Ford, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) have reached a critical point,...

