Postal workers preparing to ballot for national strike action
POSTAL workers are preparing for a second ballot for national strike action between 3rd and 17th March over management moves to steamroller through plans...
‘Remainers’ Take The Struggle Onto The Streets – An Example That Workers Must Follow...
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of ‘Remainers’ marshalled by the likes of billionaire George Soros and other speculators set out on Saturday to try to create...
BIS predicts deflation and depression
LAST year the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was alone amongst banks in warning that the situation had similarities to that at the time...
No State Control Of The Media!
THE OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), the political cloak for NATO, has issued a warning about the agreement to establish an...
Tory Class War Budget!
CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday moved his ‘emergency budget’. He outlined the gravity of the situation by saying that ‘Questions that were asked about...
Break The Blockade Of Gaza!
GAZA is being reduced from a massive prison for the Palestinian people to one in which they are homeless, jobless, and beginning to go...
The trade unions must follow the example of the ruling class and deal with...
THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...
Police ‘Yobs’ Bait Home Secretary
THE very well paid police force – loaded up with housing and other benefits, on Wednesday bit the hand that has been feeding...
Brown’s Working Together means everybody paying the bill for the bankers
GORDON BROWN’S speech yesterday, at the TUC, was a very poor effort from a politician and a party that have no intention of defending...
With Labour government in crisis bankers and bosses step up calls for a National...
THE DEMAND for a National Government to rescue the British economy from bankruptcy is rapidly emerging in the bourgeois press, as the only way...
US Attacks Refugees With Its $65M Unrwa Cut!
EXECUTIVE Committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Zakaria al-Agha, said on Wednesday that the United States freeze of $65 million in its...
Labour MPs condemn gov. for planning ‘shameful trade deal’ with Israel!
THE Labour government has outraged a large number of Labour MPs and very many Labour Party members and supporters by proceeding with its plan...
UK capitalists on their knees with the deepest recession since records began!
OFFICIAL figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released yesterday show that gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 20.4% in the three months...
Macron Urges Trump To Establish Permanent Bases In Syria!
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday April 15 told the assembled media that it was he who had convinced US President Donald Trump to...
TUC must carry out decision for £10 Minimum Wage
THE revelation from the accountancy firm KPMG that their research has shown that one in six people, over 5 million, in work earn less...
Hamas urges workers of the world to take action and salutes the growing mass...
IN A statement issued on Friday to mark International Jerusalem Day, Hamas declared that the occasion arrives this year as the Palestinian people steadfastly...
The Capitalist Crisis Is Driving Forward Economic Collapse, Wars And Revolutions At Record...
FOOD prices in the UK continued to surge at the fastest rate in nearly 45 years in April, as inflation fell at a slower...
Defence Secretary Hagel cements US-Japan imperialist alliance
SPEAKING in Japan alongside Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera on Saturday, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel pledged the US’ ‘complete and absolute commitment to...
Throw out Tory NHS pay offer – Bring down the Tories to secure decent...
THE DEAL reached last week between the majority of health unions and the Tories must be thrown out by NHS workers. The deal, which...
Starmer’s ‘No’ to ban on arms to Israel must be met with a general...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer, in the House of Commons on Monday, defended Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’ while lamenting ‘the region cannot endure...
Trade unions face fresh attacks
AN OPINION piece in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph pointed to yet further attacks on the trade unions’ rights to organise and represent their members. According to...
Hands Off Syria – To ‘End The Cruelty And Carnage’
THE heads of five major UN agencies have issued a joint appeal to the international community, a code phrase for the imperialist...
Trade unions must reject Coalition attack on the unemployed and the poor
EX-ARMY officer Duncan Smith, the Coalition’s Work and Pensions Secretary, yesterday announced a Universal Credit to replace all benefits, and also ...
Desperate Situation In Gaza!
THE situation in Gaza has deteriorated to its worst ever level, just one year after a truce that ended fighting between Israel and Hamas...
Assad warns of new war danger in the Middle East
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad warned yesterday that the Israeli attack on the Gaza humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters, in which nine Turkish citizens...
Fatah junta seizes control of the West Bank
YESTERDAY President Abbas decreed the ending of parliamentary rule in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as he appointed an illegal government headed...
Support Catalonia! Forward With The Spanish Socialist Revolution!
CATALONIA will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region said yesterday following the referendum, which savage...
No Return To Private Healthcare – It’s Capitalism That Is Broken Not The NHS!
THE NEW Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s first recorded words in office as Labour’s Health Secretary were to condemn the National Health Service, telling the...
‘Terror attacks’ strengthen the capitalist state
THE failed terror attacks on Park Lane and Glasgow Airport far from being a huge blow against British imperialism will in fact be welcomed...
Imperialist wars create millions of refugees
David Cameron, was at his most nauseating, hypocritical best yesterday when he delivered a speech marking the 800-year anniversary of the signing of the...
Tories prepare for perfect storm of anger from workers – General strike now to...
AS THE annual conference of the TUC, this year conducted on-line, opens, the GMB union released analysis of official data showing that 100,000 care...
Traitor Tsipras is handing over power to the right wing!
WITH his resignation as Greek prime minister on Thursday night, the leader of the ‘left’ Syriza government, Alexis Tsipras, has signalled that he and...
Israel receives a warning from Hezbollah!
PALESTINIAN children in Israeli jails are being subjected to torture, and physical and psychological abuse by Israeli officials, says the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’...
Britain, Germany, Spain And The US Poised On The Brink Of Recession
THE European Commission stated yesterday that the UK, Germany and Spain, key members of the EU, with Germany being the world’s biggest exporter, are...
Brown In Blinkers Ignores The Economic Crisis
BROWN’S ‘big’ budget speech yesterday was an anti-climax, since it was an obvious attempt to ignore the worldwide capitalist economic crisis, and the completely...
Kiss of death for Deutsche Bank and the world banking system
THE writing is most definitely on the wall for Europe’s largest bank, with the kiss of death being delivered over the weekend when German...
Stock markets around the world crash as the US plunges into recession
STOCK markets in Europe and Asia crashed yesterday morning as the international financial world suddenly woke up to the grim reality that US capitalism...
Berezovskiy goes bust as capitalist crisis deepens!
POLICE were yesterday searching the home of Boris Berezovskiy. They were desperately looking for chemical, biological or nuclear material, so that they could...
Re-nationalise the Railways
Yesterday’s announcement that the Tory-led coalition government’s much heralded investment in the railways is to be financed solely through fare increases is a catastrophe...
Gaza Will Be Rebuilt! Israeli Occupation Has Failed! – Says Hamas!
WHEN silence falls after the storm, the real story begins. In Gaza, the bombs have gone quiet, but the sound of the rubble is...
Capitalist crash drives HBOS into the arms of Lloyds TSB
THE Federal Reserve Bank’s $85bn ‘rescue’ of AIG was carried out to stave off an immediate international financial and business collapse. It has turned...
Nationalise All The Banks And Abolish Mortgage Debt
UP to 1.5 million fixed rate mortgage holders are going to have to renegotiate their mortgages in the New Year. Many of them are already...
Capitalism Facing ‘Debt Annihilation’ While Its Supporters Panic And Prepare A New World...
OPTIMISM is in very short supply in the UK ruling class when it examines the state of British capitalism. The Business Comment in The Sunday...
UK Workers Must Continue To Welcome Refugees And Organise To Smash Bankrupt Capitalism!
SINCE September, homeless people, including homeless asylum seekers and refugees, have been unceremoniously dumped back onto the streets of the UK. A study published in...
Out With Prescott And Blair – Forward To A Workers’ Government
LAST month, Prime Minister Blair announced that John Prescott would not be resigning as Deputy Prime Minister, and that, in fact, he would go...