Unemployment and slave labour – the bourgeois future for youth
‘UK unemployment falls to 2.56 million’, is the fraudulent headline, with Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith declaring: ‘It’s the private sector...
Saudis resume Yemen bombing raids!
THE reactionary Saudi regime – the pride and joy of the United States and UK ruling classes that have armed it to the teeth...
Rescue us from Syrian quagmire! US–UK call out to Putin!
THE US and UK are stuck deep into the Syrian quagmire – a quagmire of their own making. They have achieved a situation where millions...
Capitalism living on ‘borrowed time and borrowed money’ – put an end to it...
OFFICIAL figures released today by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show what every working person in the country knows, that prices in all...
The Tory ‘NHS Road to Recovery’ is their plan to privatise the NHS!
ON TUESDAY, Tory health secretary Savid Javid outlined his ‘new vision for NHS reform’ which turned out to be just a repetition of the...
Israel Accepts Gaza Ceasefire Out Of Fear Of The Arab Revolution
THE Egyptian military have brokered a truce between the militant Palestinian factions in Gaza and the Israeli military, which had been bombing Gaza for...
Trump dumps Ukraine as US capitalism gears up for war on the working class...
Last Friday, US president Donald Trump met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in a ‘summit’ that Trump boasted would finally end the imperialist ‘proxy’...
Nato Declines To Follow Bush’s Orders
THE outgoing US president, George W Bush, has spent the entire week pledging a Nato expansion eastwards, and that states such as Albania, Croatia,...
Tories split and turn on each other while TUC Congress refuses to take general...
THE Tory Party is now split and divided as the world- wide capitalist crisis deepens and the weakness of the imperialist powers becomes more...
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...
Germany dives into deflationary spiral
THE crisis of world capitalism continues to batter the economies of the eurozone into the ground with virtually every day bringing forth yet more...
Egypt – Revolution In Permanence!
MUBARAK has gone, while the revolution that removed him, at the cost of hundreds of dead, is continuing to develop. Workers and the middle...
As crisis engulfs Starmer – time for a general strike in the UK
THE political crisis engulfed Labour PM Keir Starmer yesterday over ‘being incompetent, gullible or a liar’, and misleading parliament over the appointment of Peter...
The only way to solve the housing crisis!
WRITING in the ‘Housing Question’ in 1872, Frederick Engels declared that the bourgeoisie was incapable of solving the housing question. He wrote: ‘As long as...
Thousands of jobs threatened at Bridgend, Luton and Ellesmere Port!
YESTERDAY Unite leader McCluskey was at the Bridgend plant in south Wales to address the three shifts of workers at separate meetings on the...
Time For The Tuc To Call General Strike
THE Fire Brigades Union has organised a national demonstration in London on Wednesday 16 October. The FBU is under an all-out attack on the...
US prepares no-fly zone over Syria
THE news that the US secretary of state, John Kerry, was forced to scrap a planned visit to Israel in order to attend an...
Bush’s Wall Street Bail-Out Defeated
PRESIDENT George Bush’s Bill for a $700bn package of measures to bail out the Wall Street banks and large financial institutions in the United...
TUC leader is silent on PM Starmer ending Winter Fuel Allowance
UNITE general secretary Sharon Graham has accused Labour of ‘pickpocketing pensioners’ telling Labour leader Keir Starmer to ‘accept it’s an error’ to push ahead...
Opus Dei Speaks Out From The Cabinet
ONE of Opus Dei’s members in the Labour Cabinet, Ruth Kelly, yesterday made a call to close down Muslim schools that promote ‘isolationism’. Opus Dei...
Sudanese workers must form a workers’ government to rule Sudan!
SUDAN’S military leaders have scrapped all existing agreements with the main opposition coalition, and have cynically declared they will hold elections within nine months. The...
‘Demilitarisation’ in the north and Shoot to Kill in Britain!
JUST minutes after the IRA issued a statement that it was giving up its historic armed struggle, the British army began demolishing a watch...
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...
Only a sliding scale of wages can defend workers from inflation
OFFICIAL figures have confirmed that consumer price inflation surged to 5.4% in 12 months to December – up from 5.1% month before – the...
British Military Opposes Any Petraeus Surge In Afghanistan
GENERAL Petraeus is now the commander of all NATO forces in Afghanistan, and has declared that he intends to organise a NATO ‘surge’ in...
Unions must take strike action over wages & jobs!
YESTERDAY’S inflation rate figures for January are not a shock, in fact, they are an understatement of what the real inflation rate is, as...
Obama Pledges To ‘Eliminate’ Threat Posed By Iran
YESTERDAY Hillary Clinton revealed that she will formally end her campaign for the White House on Saturday, and throw her full support behind her...
Forward to a public sector general strike to smash Brown’s wage cutting policies
GMB members working in the NHS yesterday voted by over 96% to reject the 2008 pay offer in a consultative ballot on the government’s...
Bedroom Taxes Leading To Mass Evictions!
THE full effects of the coalition’s bedroom tax, which was introduced last April, have been highlighted in two reports published on Wednesday and revealed...
Trump Seeks To Impose A Worldwide Capitalist Dictatorship – Workers Must Mobilise To...
CHINA yesterday accused the White House of ‘bullying practices’ after Donald Trump imposed 104 per cent duties on Chinese goods into the US in...
New Labour Is Proposing 24-Hour Courts And Fast-Track Sentencing Of Workers And Youth!
COURTS ARE now to sit for 24 hours in order to impose fast-track sentencing under New Labour Emergency Government plans to crack down on...
Tesco & Next Make Bryant Run
THE shadow minister for immigration, Bryant, yesterday ran away from confronting Tesco and Next over employing migrant workers at reduced wages in place of...
Myanmar – working class intervene with national strikes to bring down military dictatorship
WORKERS across Myanmar (formally Burma) came out on a nationwide general strike yesterday demanding the overthrow of the military dictatorship which was imposed last...
The needs of profit making are a higher morality than bourgeois law
THE High Court yesterday ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted unlawfully by dropping a corruption inquiry into a £43bn Saudi arms deal....
Ukrainian workers are fighting the US-UK backed gangsters
THE rapidly developing crisis in the Ukraine, has placed the issue of the defence of the Ukraine from this imperialist-backed assault, and the brigands...
‘Let them go bust’ says Bank of England chief
THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, in a letter to the House of Commons Treasury select committee has warned that efforts...
Defend the NHS – make the TUC call a general strike
WITH 23,000 beds being cut from hospital wards over the last four years alone, the entire trade union movement must immediately move into action...
Production down, inflation up, pensioners savings destroyed – the ‘recovery’ so far!
INFLATION may stay above 3% during the rest of this year, according to Paul Tucker, a deputy governor of the Bank of England. He...
Tunisian Revolution Brings Down Interior Minister
TUNISIAN President Ben Ali has dismissed his interior minister and ordered the release of most of those detained during the current clashes over food...
Amnesty Calls Assad War Criminal For Bombing Isis!
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has accused the Syrian government of war crimes after it bombed the city of Raqqa, in northern Syria, which ISIS is seeking...
Youth in Europe erupt against more austerity
ON Sunday a mass movement of workers led by young people took to the streets of cities across Europe in a powerful demonstration of...
US Transferring The War Into Pakistan
THE Chief of the Taleban movement in Pakistan Hakimullah Mehsud yesterday blamed the US firm Blackwater, that had an army of mercenaries operating in...
Disorientated Johnson quotes Lenin to CBI while Starmer tells bosses we will do what...
BOTH Tory prime minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer spoke at the annual conference of the leading bosses’ organisation, the Confederation of...
Government determined to destroy District General Hospitals
THE HSJ (Health Service Journal) has done a service to the NHS, and its tens of millions of users. It has revealed just how...
Europe Is Rising Up!
YESTERDAY millions of workers across Europe took strike action against the austerity programmes of ‘their’ bosses, bankers and governments. These programmes are creating millions...