Carney’s ‘forward guidance’ comes a huge cropper!
BANK of England governor Carney has dumped his forward guidance policy under which interest rates would rise once the UK unemployment rate had been...
No evidence for ‘street cleaners’ plot’ against Pope
TO ADD to the drama surrounding the visit of the Pope – who set the scene with his, and his associates’ attacks on...
Labour’s new leaders tell right wing that they can vote to bomb Syria along...
LABOUR MPs should be given a free vote on military action in Syria, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said on Tuesday night, at a Guardian-sponsored...
Britain’s ‘Black Hundreds’ Seeking State Support
UP to 1,500 English Defence League racists, plus foreign supporters, marched through Luton on Saturday, escorted by police from 27 forces as well as...
Northern Gaza subjected to ‘heinous massacres’ for 20 days
YESTERDAY, the Palestinian news agency WAFA detailed that Northern Gaza is being subjected to ‘the most heinous massacres’ by Israeli forces for 20 days...
There Must Be Action To Halt Royal Mail And NHS Privatisation
THE Royal Mail faces privatisation this summer after the passage of the Postal Services Bill through parliament yesterday after its third reading. The legislation will...
No to a return of the Tories. Bring down Brown from the left
BROWN has survived the resignations of Hutton, Purnell, Smith, Flint, Blears, Hoon and others, and remains Prime Minister for the moment. The next test comes...
Blair Launches ‘Irreversible’ NHS-Education Market!
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that he was poised to make irreversible changes to primary and secondary education by bringing in an education market...
Time For The TUC To Call A General Strike – ‘Losing The Right...
THE TUC, the Equality Trust, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and Runnymede Trust on Tuesday warned that the Strikes Bill,...
UK Trade Unions Must Give Full Support To Palestinians!
ONE more Palestinian journalist, along with several members of her family, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s...
Workers will demand Unite’s national action against fire and rehire be stepped up to...
YESTERDAY the Unite union announced it is launching a campaign to end fire and rehire with ‘coordinated strikes and actions across the country’. In a...
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...
Hewitt, Hoon and Cameron fail to shift Brown
ON Wednesday mid-day, ex-ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon sent a text to all Labour MPs asking them to support a call for a...
Now send Brown packing – forward to a workers government!
Blair stood down yesterday, driven out of power by the Iraqi insurgency and the British workers’ determination to defend their welfare state. The disorientated...
The US, UK and Israel are ready to try to re-impose imperialism in the...
YESTERDAY, the USA backed Israel unconditionally and along with the UK pushed through its plan for taking over the Gaza Strip, smashing Hamas and...
Mass murder in the Med!
THIS week the UN announced that 300 migrants had drowned after being forced into unseaworthy boats in a desperate attempt to escape the wars...
US inspired attack on South Ossetia backfires
THE correct intervention of the Russian army to defend the people of South Ossetia against the onslaught of the Georgian army has initially been...
Answer Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill with a general strike to kick the...
THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets at the weekend in mass ‘kill the bill’ demonstrations across the country against the...
Hands Off Syria – Down With Obama & Cameron’s War Drive!
THE Syrian government has said over a long time that it would never use chemical weapons against its own people. Yesterday, the General Command of...
Hamas celebrates Israeli defeat while Trump calls for Middle East countries to provide the...
ON SUNDAY Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the Netzarim Corridor, the military zone they controlled that cut the north of the Gaza Strip from...
Tories to opt out of human rights
AT THE Tory Party conference yesterday, Theresa May and her defence secretary Michael Fallon jointly announced that in any future war British troops would...
UK troops to Russia’s borders while Tories threaten more bombings of Yemen
ON the day that Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak addressed parliament – to justify bombing Yemen last Friday without bothering to consult MPs –...
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...
Coaliton Policies Put The Elderly On The Breadline
RISING costs and rampant price inflation are leaving half of older people living on the breadline. According to the AGE UK charity nearly half are...
Iranians celebrate 47th anniversary of the revolution that ended imperialist rule of Iran
YESTERDAY, millions of Iranians took to the streets across the country to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the revolution that overthrow the hated Pahlavi...
Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
ON TUESDAY over three million French workers took to the streets with massive demonstrations in Paris and Marseilles to make sure that Sarkozy got...
Standard and Poor puts a pistol to the head of the eurozone
GERMAN Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble has said Standard & Poor’s (S&P) threat to downgrade all eurozone countries, and saddle them with ruinous interest charges...
Coalition Plans To Smash Workers’ Rights
THE REPORT outlining government proposals to smash up any rights workers have to secure employment and legal protection from unfair dismissal finally saw the...
Nationalise oil and energy industries under workers management and without compensation now!
Yesterday, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) published its plan to cut energy bills by re-nationalising energy retail companies. The plan, issued in advance of next...
Workers of the world unite in the struggle for socialism
OVER 600,000 workers have come to work in the UK from the eight nations which joined the European Union in 2004, said Home Office...
Russia Under Attack!
RUSSIA IS UNDER FULL SCALE ATTACK with oil prices now down to $60 a barrel and the Saudis and the Gulf states saying that...
Smash Universal Credit by kicking out the Tories
SINCE Universal Credit was devised over seven years ago, the Tories have gone to great lengths to keep from the public exactly how it...
Coalition Policy Is To Financially Collapse Local Authorities
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that ‘multiple’ local authorities are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts. The...
Imperialism Is On The Point Of Defeat As The World’s Financial Institutions Panic
THE IRANIAN ambassador in London, Seyed Ali Mousavi, has spoken to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg in a pre-recorded interview in which he correctly warned...
Defend living standards! Nationalise the oil and gas companies!
JUST a few months ago the UNISON leadership accepted the government’s below inflation wage cutting deal over three years. Now the union has had...
Eu Meltdown
CREDIT ratings agency Moody’s yesterday reflected the rapidly developing EU meltdown by doing the unthinkable – warning the EU’s strongman, Germany, that...
BIS warning of global financial crash!
GLOBAL financial markets are dangerously stretched and may unwind with shock force as liquidity dries up, the Bank of International Settlements has warned. BIS boss...
All councils, student unions and trade unions must boycott Israel – Edelstein visit must...
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation has condemned the new Tory ‘guidance’ banning councils, NHS trusts and all publicly funded organisations from boycotting goods and services...
Queen’s Speech Sees Her Government Dodging Big Issues!
WEDNESDAY’S Queen’s Speech began with an evasion that her government would continue to seek a ‘high-wage low-welfare economy’. This was said at a time when...
Japan Boosts Its Military Spending!
WHILE the US and the UK have reduced their military spending, under pressure from the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system, the new...
Brown to rescue banks by slashing wages and jobs!
CHANCELLOR Darling has followed up his appearance before the bankers at the Mansion House on Wednesday night, where he pledged that wage rises would...
Answer Osborne’s £25bn cuts with general strike
IN A speech last November, Cameron declared a permanent ‘austerity war’ against the working class, singling out the unemployed and young people as the...
TUC must heed the call from Palestinian trade unions and call a general strike...
THE UN agency for Palestinian refugees yesterday issued the latest dire warning that time is running out for any chance of averting a catastrophic...
British capitalism, backward, parasitic, and ripe for revolution
A REPORT by business research firm Datamonitor says that people in the UK are borrowing on average almost twice that of citizens in other...
Stop The Airport To Win The BA Cabin Crew Struggle!
BA has moved closer to a merger with Spanish national carrier Iberia after striking a deal with its pension trustees to ‘neutralise’ its pensions...