Chile erupts as youth and workers take on the military in fight against austerity
CHILE erupted over the weekend, with mass demonstrations and riots spreading from the capital Santiago to other major cities, as workers and youth rose...
Action needed to stop them smashing the NHS
NHS England warned yesterday that by 2020-21 the gap between the NHS budget and rising costs could reach £30bn, meaning that when the current...
Afghanistan A Graveyard For The British Army
BRITISH forces in Afghanistan have, just this month, suffered their highest injury rate since they invaded in 2001, new Ministry of Defence figures show. A...
Defend NHS health care – stop the NHS becoming a business
‘ONE million NHS patients have been the victims of appalling care in hospitals across Britain, according to a major report,’ screamed the capitalist press...
King sees nothing but the ‘black cloud of uncertainty’
THE Governor of the Bank of England yesterday poured gallons of ice cold water over the prospects of British and world capitalism. King cut the...
‘Recovery’ Rests On Bed Of Nitroglycerine
THE 0.1 per cent ‘recovery’, the ‘work’ of Gordon Brown and Chancellor Darling has caused laughter and incredulity throughout the planet. It is a...
Call national strike action! Form a public sector alliance!
OVER 12,000 postal workers are taking strike action today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and the executive dictatorship by Royal Mail, while...
Labour plans to keep one million patients out of hospital
LABOUR’S policy of privatising the NHS by diverting huge chunks of the NHS budget to the private sector is preparing the bankruptcy of many...
Latest UN report finds Israel guilty of deliberately killing Palestinian children and Burnham won’t...
ON TUESDAY the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, issued a damning report that...
Counter-revolution in the classroom
A report issued yesterday outlining proposals to establish in Manchester an army-run ‘free school’, has given yet another sinister twist to the campaign by...
Unlimited Bonuses For The Bankers As Workers Face Runaway Inflation And Poverty!
THE new Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is reported to be preparing to scrap the cap on the multi-million pound bonuses bankers award themselves. Originally the...
Tories intend to put an end to the NATIONAL Health Service
IT IS crystal clear with the Tories seeking to impose even bigger cuts if they are re-elected in May, that under their rule the...
Central banks cutting off ‘free money’ means a world economic crash for capitalism
NOT EVERY bourgeois economic commentator has swallowed the upbeat line peddled by central bankers that capitalism has weathered the storm of its economic crisis...
Net Closing In On Iraq War Criminals
THE Brown government has been told by the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, to release the minutes of two cabinet meetings, from March 7th and...
US fears its forces can’t fight war on two fronts
THE scale of the insurgency in both Iraq and Afghanistan has got the Pentagon rattled. It fears that the US strategic requirement, to be...
US-UK Forces Must Quit Afghanistan Now!
THE position of the imperialist powers in Afghanistan has become completely untenable. Their forces are not wanted either by the Taleban or the mass...
Trump declares economic war on Canada and Iran as US capitalism crashes into...
ON Friday, the US and Canada were plunged into a trade war following the abrupt breakdown of negotiations around trade between the two countries. At...
Unemployment rises to 5.1% as the Tories and bosses move to fire millions...
THE UK’s unemployment figure rose to 5.1% in the three months to December, a five-year high, official figures from the Office for National Statistics...
Time For A Ceasefire In Palestine And For Socialist Revolutions In The UK, US...
CONDEMNATIONS have poured in from countries world-wide after the United States once again vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that demanded an immediate...
President Trump Is Close To Ordering Massive Attack On Iran – Workers Must...
PRESIDENT TRUMP on Saturday stated that he is close to deciding whether to launch ‘a massive attack’ against Iran. Speaking to the Axios news site,...
Mikhail Gorbachev – Stalinist hero of imperialism, loathed and reviled by working class!
Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the USSR, died in Moscow aged 91 on Tuesday. His death was greeted with an outpouring of fulsome tributes and...
Savage Israeli occupation lashes out at Palestinians!
THE Fatah movement in southern Hebron declared a day of mourning on Wednesday after a 17-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces who had...
A desperate ruling class forced to wheel out Gordon Brown to ‘save the day’...
WITH THE Tory government of Theresa May staggering from one crisis to another this week over the issue of Brexit, the desperation of the...
Boeing shares crash – company stands accused of cost cutting that risked air safety
THE US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has been brought to its knees following two catastrophic crashes of its bestselling aircraft, the short haul 737 Max...
Tory-led coalition singles out young families for special treatment
THE Tory-led coalition has got working class and middle class families with young children in its sights for savage cuts as it seeks to...
Nuclear India A Key Bush Ally
PRESIDENT Bush yesterday spent five hours in Afghanistan, most of it at the very heavily defended Bagram airport. He could not venture any further...
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...
Action needed to defeat Royal Mail privatisation
NOTHING demonstrates the complete bankruptcy and downright treachery of the reformist trade union leadership more clearly than the gyrations being performed by the leadership...
Thirteen insurgents hung – Rumsfeld looks forward to a civil war
THE Iraqi puppet authorities have hung 13 people accused of taking part in the insurgency, the first execution of militant nationalists since the US-led...
Capitalism in deflationary crisis
THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday unveiled a report entitled ‘Better Off Britain’ which it claimed offered a radical blueprint to raise living standards...
Greek workers on the march to socialist revolution
THE Greek working class, Greek youth and the majority of the middle class and the small farmers have battled the EU imposed austerity programmes...
Bush Desperate ‘To Aid Burma’ But Watches Palestinians Starve!
THERE is an obvious contradiction in the fact that while the US and the UK are considering fighting their way into Burma to ‘bring...
Grenfell crisis – many millions are living in unsafe buildings eight years after the...
NEW research has found that 136 firefighters who were exposed to toxic smoke at Grenfell are now suffering from occupational diseases. 1 in 4...
Italy’s financial ‘doom loop’ will strangle the entire banking system warns Carney
THE FINANCIAL ‘doom loop’ that is tightening around the necks of the Italian banking system will send the Italian banks and the Italian...
Major tax rises are on the way. Bring down the Labour government and bring...
‘TAX rises are inevitable’ warned economists yesterday, barely 12 months after Labour’s election pledge of ‘No tax rises’. This is after PM Keir Starmer’s...
ChIna condemns $6.4bn US arms sales to Taiwan
THE Chinese government has condemned the US and President Obama for agreeing to a $6.4bn US arms sale package to Taiwan. The island of Taiwan...
US–UK demands war while Karzai calls for peace with Taleban
US Defence Secretary Gates, and the new US military commander in Afghanistan, General Petraeus have recently been canvassing in London for a doubling of...
Brown and Blair’s grab for Africa
BEFORE our eyes, the Live Aid movement has been transformed into a Live 8 movement, whose purpose has become to support the British Prime...
Parliament turns a blind eye to the mass slaughter and starvation of tens of...
THE reconstituted House of Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls (CAEC), made up of members of four select committees – Business, Innovation and Skills,...
Bring down Blair regime from the left
THE Blair government suffered two body-blows yesterday. Blair’s main cabinet ally, Blunkett, was forced to resign, and the government’s 66 majority was reduced to...
ROLLS–ROYCE ISSUES £3bn ULTIMATUM TO THE BURNHAM LABOUR GOVERNMENT
ROLLS-ROYCE has issued an ultimatum to the just formed Burnham Labour government that it must back a £3bn plan for new short-haul jet engines...
Iran Has Total Control Over The Strait Of Hormuz!
IRAN’S Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that American intelligence failures have led Washington to repeat its mistakes with the Islamic Republic, warning that...
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...
Public services face privatisation catastrophe! Renationalise the lot under workers’ control!
THE COLLAPSES of Carillion, of East Coast Rail, of academy chain after academy chain, and now with the NAO report that private outsourcing giant...
AA sold to Saga, Permira and CVC bosses pocket £300m
TRUE to form the private equity capitalist groups Permira and CVC having acquired the prestigious AA motoring group with the help of huge borrowings...