Tories lay groundwork for police military dictatorship to force a return to work
THE INSTITUTE of Directors (IoD) has warned that 250,000 businesses could sack workers as the Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak runs down the furlough scheme. Sunak...
Myanmar working class intervene with powerful general strike to bring down Military Junta!
MYANMAR (formerly called Burma) was brought to a halt yesterday as hundreds of thousands of workers and youth answered the call for a general...
The world’s capitalists quake in their boots as coronavirus shuts down Chinese factories halting...
‘THE WORKSHOP of the world is closed,’ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote in the Telegraph on Thursday predicting a colossal disaster for capitalism if the massive...
Crisis deepens as shares crash worldwide!
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its concerns about Spain’s economy, saying ‘far-reaching’ reforms are needed to ensure its recovery. It said the country...
SA hunger can only be ended by a socialist revolution
ONE in four South Africans are unemployed, and poverty is rife eighteen years after the release of Nelson Mandela and 14 years after he...
The markets panic and crash as capitalism heads for a major catastrophe!
THE stock markets are crashing as the Tory government’s borrowing costs went soaring yesterday to a 15-year high, amid a global shares sell off...
Starving Yemenis Are Eating Leaves – While The UK Supplies Saudis With Bombs And...
YEMENI families are starving with nothing to eat but leaves as Saudi Arabia steps up its deadly bombing campaign using British bombs and missiles...
Sinn Féin Dumps Socialism
IRISH capitalism, its banks and industries have been entirely bankrupted, and what national sovereignty the country had has also been destroyed, after the...
UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to defend their wages,...
WITH food banks running out of food, the poor are being condemned, not just to poverty but to a starvation existence, of begging on...
Hospitals and schools are being hit by uncapped energy bills
THE SKYROCKETING increase in energy bills is driving the health and education services to the wall, with leaders in both these vital services warning...
Pick Up The Tory Libdem Gauntlet And Call A General Strike
THE RMT’s Bob Crow yesterday issued a ‘call to arms’ to the entire Labour and Trade Union movement and to all the communities under...
Dannatt declares war on the UK!
GENERAL Sir Richard Dannatt, in his last speech before retiring as Chief of Staff, did his best to open up a second front at...
World Dollar Debt Crisis!
YET another authoritative report detailing the developing world banking crisis has surfaced – a report which if shorn of its dry academic language paints...
THE TUC must take general strike action to support Palestine and bring in a...
‘THE report issued by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Michael Fakhry, on the Israeli-induced starvation in the Gaza Strip...
BA struggle coming to a head
EXTENSIVE talks have been taking place over the last seven weeks under the Chairmanship of TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber between Unite and BA,...
Capitalism’s world crisis can only be resolved through socialist revolution
THE LATEST latest annual report from the BIS (Bank for International Settlements) on the economic crises gripping world capitalism couldn’t have been clearer –...
Demand the TUC call a general strike to defend NHS workers from Tory pay...
IF THE Tories hoped that the last minute scramble to head off the anger of NHS workers by increasing the derisory and insulting 1%...
Force trade union leaders to call a general strike – this is the only...
YESTERDAY saw major unions taking national strike action across the country in one of the biggest walkouts of workers on the same day. Three main...
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...
US crisis pauses before another leap forward!
THE deal pushed through Washington late Wednesday night to raise the US debt ceiling – at present standing at a massive $16.7 trillion –...
Discontented generals enter into politics
THE formation of the United Kingdom National Defence Association (UKNDA) led by ex-chiefs of the general staff and politicians such as David Owen is...
HSBC a repeat offender that will never change
IN September 2014 HSBC settled claims that it made false representations in selling mortgage bonds to the giant US mortgage companies Fannie Mae and...
Italian banks are bust, as is the Italian government – the working class must...
A COLLISION between Italy and the European Union over a bailout of Italy’s collapsed banking system is getting closer by the day. It is...
The Chagos Islanders Must Be Returned To Their Homes
YESTERDAY the Court of Appeal ruled that the Blair government had carried out an Abuse of Power when it overruled the assurance given by...
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...
Davis resignation shatters Tories as May goes looking for Labour votes
TORY Brexit Secretary David Davis exploded a bomb under the leadership of PM Theresa May on Sunday with his resignation from the cabinet. May had...
Bankrupt Democrats unable to smash Trump – US trade unions must break with them...
THE US presidential election is on a knife edge as Donald Trump confounded all the polls that predicted a landslide for his Democratic Party...
Restore Student Grants – Smash All Fees
Students’ expenditure has gone up 44 per cent in real terms under the three Labour governments, an official Student Income and Expenditure survey has...
Wage freezing, wage cutting, redundancies and revolution ahead for workers!
THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says that if there is a capitalist government in office in 2016 it will have to find an...
Southern Cross collapse– true face of privatisation
On Monday Tory prime minister, David Cameron, unveiled the long awaited White Paper that will enshrine in law the ‘presumption’ that public services should...
Education Bombshell – The University Cuts Begin!
THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday condemned the decision by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to reduce funding for university...
Starmer’s Labour regime must be replaced by a workers’ government
Sir Keir Starmer is set to become the UK’s first Labour prime minister since 2010 after his party’s landslide general election victory. Labour is...
Make Capitalism History! The Way To End Poverty
TODAY’S Edinburgh march to ‘Make Poverty History’ will be led by Bishops, Cardinals and boss class politicians, in other words, by the religious and...
Starmer’s ‘reshuffle’ sidelines Reeves and provokes a financial meltdown of British capitalism
THE UK parliament returned from the summer holidays on Monday and Labour prime minister Keir Starmer immediately caused a meltdown in the economy. The immediate...
TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defeat anti-union laws!
Following the passing of the Strikes (Minimum Service Level) Act in July, the Tories on Friday launched a six week ‘consultation on the reasonable...
Blair Fears Facing War Crimes Tribunal
YESTERDAY it was alleged that ex-Prime Minister Blair made representations to the Prime Minister concerning the ‘independent inquiry’ into the war in Iraq, which...
Benefits slashed while bankers prosper
Today Parliament votes on the Tory coalition bill to place a 1% cap on all benefits and tax credits for the next three years...
Bosses demand a prison workforce to keep wages below poverty level
IT EMERGED yesterday that desperate UK food companies are begging Tory ministers to let them use prisoners to work in meat processing plants as...
Smash the zero-hours, agency worker ‘gig economy’ with a general strike to kick the...
ZERO-hours contracts, zero rights, zero future: this is the vision the Tories have for a ‘modern’ hire and fire workforce, where the Uber model...
Iran nuclear talks at crucial stage as Saudis bomb Yemen
AT THE same time as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf state planes, with US support, are bombing the Yemen and its Houthi Shia rebels,...
US sanctions UN human rights expert after her damning ‘economy of genocide’ report on...
FRANCESCA Albanese, the United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has been sanctioned by the US government after she...
Trump sends 15,000 troops to Mexican border – threatening to open fire on migrants!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump spat on the Statue of Liberty this week and the revolutionary history of the United States, especially its call from...
Right wing threaten to split Labour Party to try to halt Brexit!
RIGHT-WING Labour MPs, with the enthusiastic support of the Tory press, are manoeuvring once again to split the Labour Party so that they can...
Socialist revolution is only way to resolve the ‘epic clash’ between bankrupt capitalism and...
It is not just British capitalism that is facing a financial crisis; the entire world capitalist system is being strangled by debt, and with...
Russia must recognise the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics!
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ‘On recognition in the Russian Federation of the documents and licence plates of vehicles issued to...