Central Banks in disarray as capitalism poised for a crash
THE disarray and panic that is a permanent state for the central banks of Europe and America was on open display yesterday. In the US,...
Anglo-French summit plans new imperialist wars in Africa!
YESTERDAY, PM Theresa May met with French President Macron in a UK-France Summit that was, however, no ordinary summit. Firstly, it took place at the...
Occupy to stop car plant closures – nationalise the motor industry to defend...
YESTERDAY, US carmaker Ford announced it will close the car engine plant in Bridgend, South Wales, throwing all 1,700 workers out of a job...
US vetoes UN resolution on Gaza as it openly ‘stands with Israel’ in imperialism’s...
ON WEDNESDAY, the US vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution demanding ‘an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’ in Gaza. The draft resolution also...
Tory Government Is Making War On The Rail Trade Unions – TUC Must Be...
THE RMT has revealed that the private rail companies war on the rail trade unions is being financed by the UK government, who are...
PM Johnson Set To Put Brexit Deal With The EU To A Vote Today...
ANYTHING and everything is being used to try and prevent the House of Commons voting to give its support to the government’s Brexit deal...
Publish and be damned – not as far as the Chilcot report is concerned!
FAMILIES of British soldiers killed in the Anglo-American March 2003 invasion, and then occupation, of Iraq, were yesterday threatening legal action against the chairman...
Trade Union Renegade Doing Blair’s Dirty Work
THE former CWU postal workers trade union leader, Alan Johnson, yesterday moved into action at the behest of the Prime Minister to urge that...
Sa Police Massacre Platinum Miners
SOUTH AFRICAN workers have been shocked by the ANC government’s police force shooting dead over 30 miners at the Lonmin UK-owned platinum mine. Fifty...
Nagasaki anti-militarism!
LAST week saw the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest war crimes in human history, the dropping of the two Atomic bombs onto...
‘State suicide’ of Italian pensioner
CAPITALISM’S latest scheme to save failed banks claimed the life of an Italian pensioner who lost his £72,000 life savings following the collapse of...
Renationalise the electricity and gas monopolies!
POWERGEN, the energy monopoly, is putting up the prices of its gas and electricity services by 18.4 per cent and 9.7 per cent, next...
The UN Committee Against Torture Condemns Israeli Regime!
THE United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has condemned the Israeli regime for enforcing a policy of ‘organised torture’ against Palestinians. In a report published...
Labour and Tory splitters unite to stab Brexit in the back! Now is the...
THREE Tory MPs – amongst the most ardent opponents of Brexit – Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen, announced yesterday they were deserting...
Russia resisting regime change in Syria!
RUSSIA said yesterday that it strongly disagreed with changes to its draft UN Security Council resolution on Syria made by the western imperialist powers. ‘Unfortunately,...
Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot to defend jobs
LAST May, MG Rover was closed without a struggle. Last month the closure of Peugeot was announced and this week we have been told...
Horizon scandal piles more pressure on Tories as they face accusations of demanding compensation...
The Horizon IT scandal of the hounding of over 900 completely innocent Post Office managers by the Post Office leading to multiple prosecutions for...
Smash the plan for war against Russia! End threat of imperialist war by ...
WITH capitalism gripped by a deepening worldwide crisis the British ruling class have pushed themselves forward as the most zealous warmongers doing the bidding...
Blair’s ‘summary power’ for war on the working class
PRIME Minister Tony Blair launched the Labour government’s new ‘Respect Action Plan’ yesterday, declaring that he was setting out to overthrow basic democratic rights...
TUC must call a general strike in support of junior doctors and the NHS
TODAY Emergency Motion E5 is to be heard and voted on at the TUC Congress in Brighton. Despite being called ‘Support for the BMA and...
Bury bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism
SUNDAY marked the fifth anniversary of the biggest banking collapse in the history of capitalism to date. On 15 September 2008 Lehman Brothers, a massive...
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...
Johnson launches a class war against UK workers and youth – Forward to Socialist...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for a speedy end to ‘dependence’ on Russian oil and gas, comparing it to ‘addiction,’ in his...
British imperialism stretched to breaking point – forward to the socialist revolution
JUST a week after Prime Minister Gordon Brown assured President George W Bush, that he had fallen into line with the requirements of the...
Capitalism’s crisis– Socialist revolution, the only solution!
THE OFFICIAL annual rate of inflation leapt in February, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Figures published yesterday showed that the Consumer Prices...
Russia tells Ukraine – pay the market rate
THE Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that ‘Russia has begun implementing a scenario intended to destabilise the Ukrainian economy’, adding that this was ‘despite...
‘Strongman’ Sunak tells unions there will be no talks and that they must accept...
THE British capitalist class and their government are now up to their necks in a massive crisis, that no attempts at fake bravado, or...
TUC delegates vote unanimously to fight Tory anti-union laws while TUC general secretary insists...
DELEGATES to the TUC Congress unanimously passed Composite Motion 1 – the Campaign against the Minimum Service Levels (MSL) legislation – which instructs the...
The Tories are split to the hilt! The trade unions must bring them down...
THE SPLIT in the Tory Party over the planned hike in National Insurance (NI) has got wider and deeper! Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s proposed 1.25...
Stop The Airports, Call Out The Tgwu And The Tuc!
It has just been confirmed what we already knew – that the Gate Gourmet bosses, in a well planned action, provoked a walk-out by...
Israeli regime is on the path to collapse says Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah!
THE Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement stated yesterday that the Israeli far-right cabinet’s insistence on pushing ahead with its controversial judicial overhaul...
30% rise in the numbers ‘sleeping rough’!
THE number of people forced to live and sleep on the streets has more than doubled since 2010, the year the Tory-led coalition came...
Imperialists Getting Their Fingers Badly Burned In Ukraine As Bread Prices Rise Worldwide
THE front page of yesterday’s Daily Telegraph carried an article headlined ‘Vladimir Putin “weaponising” world’s food supplies.’ This story of the dastardly Putin being responsible...
Tories are being whipped into line by the international banks!
‘A SPEECH to calm the party and the country’ was how the Tory-supporting Daily Mail greeted the speech by newly installed prime minister Rishi...
Brown Speeding Up The Privatisation Programme
THE reaction of the Brown government to the eruption of the capitalist crisis has been to champion the interests of the banks, pledging to...
Corbyn On The Ballot Paper – Another Defeat For Labour Right Wing!
THE decision of the Labour Party NEC in a secret vote, by 18-14, for Labour leader Corbyn to go forward onto the leadership ballot...
The working class is the hero of the hour – it smashed the Tory...
IT says something about the scale of the defeat that the Tories and the bosses have suffered over the Mayoral election in London...
Tories are the party of the bankers, the bosses and the landlords! Tenants beware!
THE south-east London borough of Newham achieved the dubious record of having the biggest rise in house prices in the whole of the UK...
Answer Osborne with Councils of Action and a General Strike
In an interview on Sunday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made it absolutely clear that as far as the coalition government is concerned there...
Reopen Mining Industry – No To Nuclear Power
British capitalism is today facing a massive energy crisis, largely of its own making. It was after all, Thatcher and Heseltine who shut down...
Defend all GM jobs! Occupy and Nationalise UK’s Vauxhall plants!
ON Thursday May 21, GM announced that ‘Representatives of Unite, the union, signed the UK Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and European framework agreement in...
Tories Challenge The Unions With Plan To Impose Low Pay
UNIONS have reacted angrily to plans to scrap national pay rates for public sector workers. Chancellor George Osborne is expected to say civil...
Trade unions must take action to defend the NHS
AS far as the NHS is concerned the vultures are now gathering for the kill. On Monday, News Line publicised a leaked e-mail ...
The Egyptian Revolution Pushes Forward!
THE leading group representing the Egyptian bourgeoisie, around President Mursi, who is known as Mubarak with a beard, has just been massively shocked by...
High Court rules in favour of extradition of Assange to the US – trade...
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange’s threat of extradition to the US became even more imminent yesterday as the High Court ruled in favour of the...