US on brink of bankruptcy – forward to socialist revolution
The once mighty US economy is set to take another irrevocable step to bankruptcy tomorrow with the news that the ‘super’ congressional committee charged...
GM’s Reilly insists no decision made on which plants are to close
GENERAL Motors’ head of operations in Europe, Nick Reilly, has a history – he was in charge of the operation that shut down Vauxhall...
Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson quits – Now drive the rest of the right...
YESTERDAY morning, Labour’s deputy leader and leading right winger Tom Watson announced that he was quitting his post and would be standing down as...
Windrush just ‘tip of the iceberg’ – time to kick out the Tories and...
IN A MONUMENTAL act of cynicism, the Tory government on Monday announced that this Friday will be designated ‘Windrush Day’ and that henceforth 22nd...
Cluster bombs still killing Lebanese children
The UN’s humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, yesterday described Israel’s use of cluster bombs in south Lebanon during the final three days of the conflict...
Only socialist revolutions can bring the ruling classes of the world to trial for...
THE International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must halt its military offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza. This ruling came after South Africa...
Trump forced to retreat as Iran deals crushing blow to US imperialism
JUST 90 minutes before Trump’s self-imposed deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or he would destroy Iran’s ‘whole civilisation’, the US...
Brown insists on wage cuts for workers & billions for bankers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown justified pay cuts for workers in the public services and the billions handed over by the Treasury to the bankrupt...
Cornwall Marches To Save Fire Service
TWO hundred firefighters and control room staff were joined by thousands of angry local residents in a 13-mile march from Camborne to Falmouth on...
Bank of England – workers must pay for capitalist inflation – Only socialist revolution...
NOT TO WORRY about spiralling inflation, MPs were told on Monday by senior members of the Bank of England, as the soaring cost of...
Carpetbagger Cable Incites Youth Against The Elderly!
LIBERAL leader Cable yesterday launched a vicious attack on the elderly stating that by voting Brexit they had ‘comprehensively shafted the young’. Writing in...
Tory-Led Coalition Breaking Apart – Bring It Down!
WHILE the Prime Minister is being hailed by the anti-EU section of the Tory Party as standing up for the UK like a...
Build revolutionary leadership in South African strike struggle!
THE South African 300,000-strong National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has called a one-day solidarity strike with the 1.3m public sector trade unionists who have...
Iraqi puppets feel the noose tightening
IN the last few days the Iraqi puppet National Assembly, whose authority does not run outside of the Green Zone US fortress in central...
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...
EU & British capitalism collapsing under debt – Forward to the United Socialist States...
THE CRISIS gripping the German economy threatens not just to bring the country down but will complete the crash of the entire eurozone, a...
Chaos reigns as Tory Chancellor gets instructions from IMF and advice from Strictly Come...
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has delivered a thinly veiled instruction to the Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, to scrap his autumn budget statement due...
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,...
Rumsfeld Raves About Nuclear ‘Bunker Bombs’
THE US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has defended, at an Asia-Pacific conference of regional defence ministers and military chiefs, the US drive to develop...
Universities in crisis – courses slashed, thousands to be sacked and fees to soar!
UNIVERSITIES are being hit hard by the capitalist crisis with thousands of jobs and courses going, and with students facing a lifting of the...
World banking system faces melt-down
THE world crisis of capitalism has sharpened to the extent that even the staid Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has been forced to express...
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...
Answer Labour plans to drive youth off benefits with a general strike to kick...
UNEMPLOYED youth are once again the number-one target for a Labour government, determined to slash the UK’s benefit spending. A year ago, Labour unveiled its...
Defend Iran Againstfrench And US Threats
THE French government is threatening Iran with retribution if it does not give up its nuclear energy programme. The French Prime Minister, De Villepin, one...
Stop the Saudi–imperialist war on Yemen! Defend the Iranian and Palestinian revolutions!
HUMAN Rights Watch has indicted a so-called investigatory body, overseen by Saudi Arabia, which has for more than two years been covering up war...
Labour plans to use the state’s OBR to hold down workers’ wages and benefits!
LABOUR has promised to hand more powers to Britain’s capitalist state, and to the OBR, the Office for Budget Responsibility, to hold down wages...
UK-France Moving To Partition Libya
FOREIGN Secretary William Hague yesterday ordered the Libyan charge d‘affaires out of the UK along with all Libyan diplomats. Hague said: ‘We’re inviting the...
‘Indirect incitement’ to be a terror offence
BUSH and Blair say that they are ‘fighting for democracy and freedom’ in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the more they step up this fight,...
IRAQ – MILLI0NS AT RISK FROM foul WATER, FIVE YEARS AFTER THE 2003 INVASION
THE International Committee of the Red Cross has issued a damning report that millions of Iraqis’ lives are threatened by foul water and diseases...
Imperialist war against Syria escalated – answer with socialist revolution
THE past few days have seen an escalation of the imperialist war against Syria and the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today the Turkish government is...
Welsh government plans to implement Tory drive to close hospitals and destroy the NHS
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the Welsh government yesterday that it was embarking on a strategy to ensure patients only go to hospital when it is...
Bank of America: Pound faces ‘existential crisis’ with outlook for British capitalism ‘grim’....
THE BRITISH pound is facing an ‘existential crisis’ that is only going to get worse according to the Bank of America and the outlook...
Irish government disintegrates – forward to a workers and small farmers government
AFTER the resignation of the Foreign Minister and four other members of the Irish cabinet, the Prime Minister, Cowen has resigned as the...
PNA leaders bankrupt – unions must boycott Israel
The leak of confidential documents covering the ‘peace’ negotiations between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel reveals starkly the bankruptcy and futility of...
Smash the STPs! Trade unions must occupy hospitals threatened with savage cuts and closures!
THERE is no doubt that the 44 STPs (Sustainability and Transformation Plans) that were prepared in secret are in fact part of one Tory...
Cameron’s Magna Carta hypocrisy
THIS week the Tory-led coalition is set to announce yet more changes to the education syllabus, changes designed to further Cameron’s pledge to drive...
Trade unions must act over NHS crisis by organising a general strike
HOSPITALS across the country are already running close to 100% bed occupancy and the full effects of winter haven’t even started to impact on...
Detroit gets its dictator over workers’ jobs, unions and wages
AN emergency manager, in fact a financial dictator with powers over jobs, wages and conditions, has been appointed for the bankrupt US city of...
Migrants contribute zero says May and adds ‘Send them back!’
THERESA May, at the Tory Party conference yesterday, knocked any notion that there could be a caring Tory Britain on the head as she...
Israel Must Quit The Lebanon Now
THE Israeli military have never been prepared to allow their activities in southern Lebanon to be observed, monitored, and charted by UN observers. That is...
The Bank of E grapples with the contradictions of the capitalist economy
IN its latest report the Bank of England monetary committee has rejected the line put forward in the budget by the Chancellor of the...
‘Blair and Straw have a great deal to answer for,’ says Alex Salmond
SNP foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond spoke up for millions of British people yesterday when he highlighted the role that one-time Labour PM Blair...
Deal Aimed At Strangling Cwu Branches
THE CWU trade union has agreed a ‘landmark’ agreement with Royal Mail. CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward said: ‘The agreement breaks new ground in...
Geneva Conference Must Not Impose ‘Transitional Regime’ On Syria
THE Syrian people and their supporters worldwide must be on the alert to see that the victories the Syrian masses and their army have...
Israeli pogromists launch Gaza ground attack!
IT didn’t take long for the Israeli government to carry out its plan to invade Gaza and carry out a pogrom against the Palestinian...