US economy slumps as Obama proposes huge budget debts
THE American economy contracted by 6.2 per cent in the last three months of last year, as consumer spending dropped by 4.3 per cent...
To deal with MRSA – end NHS privatisation!
MRSA is now linked to nearly 1,000 deaths each year in NHS hospitals. There is no doubt that it is a product of the...
16,000 Police Enforcers Hit London’s Streets
A VAST force of police was mobilised for last night’s action against the masses of youth who have been showing just how much they...
RENATIONALISE NORTH SEA OIL AND GAS FIELDS! Bring down the Brown government!
YESTERDAY road hauliers made it crystal clear that the Labour government had seven days to make a big cut in fuel duty, to save...
Gold Shooting Upwards As The Dollar Plunges!
THE price of gold hit a record of 1,111.20 dollars an ounce in trading in London on Monday, as the dollar weakened after a...
Charlotte becomes a class war zone! The US socialist revolution is emerging
THE US National Guard have arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina, with armed-to-the-teeth state troopers lining the streets and turning the city into a war...
Opportunist Burnham launches drive to replace opportunist Miliband!
BURNHAM, who served as Labour’s health secretary under Gordon Brown and enthusiastically pursued polices to privatise the NHS, cut its budget and bankrupt it...
UK and US complicit in Saudi Arabian war crimes
LAST Saturday saw what was one of the worst atrocities committed in the Yemen since Saudi Arabia, along with its Gulf allies, launched an...
Get British troops out of Afghanistan now!
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown and Defence Secretary Des Browne yesterday sent their condolences to the families of four more British troops killed in Afghanistan...
Take action to defend jobs. Occupy and organise a general strike!
FACED with the crash of the pound and the enormous 182,000 leap in the number of unemployed in the three months to October, the...
Spies Who Fooled the World
ON the eve of the tenth anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq by British and US forces the BBC’s Panorama programme last night...
Action not words required to win Gate Gourmet struggle
LAST Thursday afternoon, at a meeting attended by TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, TGWU leader Tony Woodley told the Gate Gourmet shop stewards that...
Iraqi masses to march today to end the US-UK occupation
ON THE eve of today’s expected one million strong march in Baghdad, called by Moqtada al-Sadr, against the US-UK occupation of Iraq, US tanks...
RCN to ballot for strike action
THE announcement that the ruling body of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will meet on Friday to decide on balloting their members on...
Backward British capitalism lets hundreds of homes flood
HUNDREDS of houses have been flooded across the country over these last months, and angry residents are demanding to know why nothing has been...
‘Terror attacks’ strengthen the capitalist state
THE failed terror attacks on Park Lane and Glasgow Airport far from being a huge blow against British imperialism will in fact be welcomed...
Huge food inflation as bosses and unions agree on wage cuts and job cuts
WORKERS in Britain are now feeling the ‘benefits’ of the British government’s policy of printing money to rescue the banks while allowing the pound...
Blair the man who helped create IS warns of the dangers of a ...
IT would be a ‘very dangerous experiment’ for the UK to give Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn power, Tony Blair has told the BBC’s This...
Bank of England warns over £1 trillion of domestic debt
WITH Coral Eurobet the bookmakers now the most successful British company, with a turnover of £5.4 billion, and with manufacturing industry being slaughtered, no...
Euro Crisis Intensifies!
GERMANY’S Chancellor, Angela Merkel, says she is satisfied with the EU deal to help finance the debt-laden eurozone banks without the sovereign state, in...
Chagossians must have the right to return – the US base on Diego Garcia...
A BIG delegation of the 2,000 Chagossians who are living in Crawley, plus delegations from the FBU, GMB and POA trade unions will be...
Reject Gate Gourmet mass sackings deal!
A MASS meeting of the 710 TGWU trade union members, sacked and locked-out at Gate Gourmet, will take place at the Monsoon Club in...
Abolish The House Of Lords – And The Commons As Well
WEDNESDAY’S vote in the House of Commons when there was a 113 majority for the replacement of the House of Lords by an elected...
The Bank is preparing a housing catastrophe
HOMEOWNERS should prepare for interest rates of five per cent, a 1000 per cent leap from the current 0.5 per cent Bank of England...
Peace Prize for the ‘Fourth Reich’
The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ‘six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe’, according to Thorbjoern Jagland...
South African masses taking action against the ANC government
THE ANC government of South Africa has said that it intends to crack down on the township riots and strikes that are sweeping...
Hayes & Ward must go! Build a new leadership in the CWU!
AS 2,000 postal workers were gearing up for a 24-hour strike on Friday against Royal Mail’s plans to close mail centres, Dave Ward, the...
Call National Postal Strike! Form A Public Sector Trade Union Alliance!
THIS WEEK hundreds of London delivery offices, and a number of mail centres and other offices and hubs have been taking strike action, after...
Bring Down The UK-French-US War Lords
BRITISH IMPERIALISM was run out of Basra and Iraq, and is about to be run out of Afghanistan. However, it is still organising new...
Soros financing Pro-EU campaign in UK – Workers must demand that the UK quits...
US-HUNGARIAN billionaire George Soros has denounced Brexit as an ‘immensely damaging process’ for both the United Kingdom and the European Union, and has arrived...
Blunkett quits against Blair’s wishes
YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair made it clear to the House of Commons during Question Time, that he had urged his Cabinet colleague, Blunkett,...
Taleban inflict serious reverse on US–UK forces in Camp Bastion!
IT HAS emerged that the US-UK forces lost six Harrier jump jets – completely destroyed with two more badly damaged – in the highly...
Obama’s Amnesty For Torturers – ‘They Were Just Obeying Orders’
CENTRAL Intelligence Agency employees who tortured people in the Guantanamo Bay and Bagram Bay US concentration camps as terrorist suspects held without charge or...
Coalition ready for Mumbai-style heavy weapons battles in cities
UK security chiefs have ordered an acceleration in police heavy weapons training so that they can hold the line against Mumbai-style attacks in UK...
TGWU leaders and TUC committed to 675 Gate Gourmet redundancies
YESTERDAY morning Gate Gourmet strikers were dismissing and rubbishing the letters that they have been receiving from the company. These offered them a minimum pittance...
Police prepare for ‘summer of rage!’
YESTERDAY the bourgeois media was full of the thoughts of police chiefs who are preparing for a ‘summer of rage’, and pointing to the...
Pakistan’s creeping coup being organised by the US
A FEW weeks ago President Obama announced 30,000 extra US troops for Afghanistan. Now the US has given its full support to President Karzai of...
Big business to take over NHS funds
THE Labour government is speeding up the break-up, privatisation and destruction of the National Health Service, despite the vote at the Labour Party Conference...
March ban aimed at trade unions, youth and students
THE news that the Tory Home Secretary, Theresa May, has issued a blanket ban on all marches and rallies in five London boroughs represents...
Overthrow the rule of the bankers – forward to socialism
THE horrific future under capitalism for workers and youth is being revealed on a daily basis, as the price of the government’s £1.3 trillion...
Forward with the European socialist revolution
YESTERDAY Europe shook as millions of Spanish workers took to the streets in a general strike, while over 100,000 workers from all over Europe...
General Rose supports the Iraqis right to fight occupiers
GENERAL Rose, who was the commander of the UN forces in Bosnia, has just publicly supported the right of the Iraqi insurgents to fight...
Free social care and care homes for the elderly
THE just-published ‘State of Social Care’ report from the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) was greeted as ‘a damning indictment of a...
Labour Struggles – T0Ries Collapse!
ALL talk of a Brown ‘electoral bounce’ is sheer drivel or plain self deception after Labour got the votes of just 45 per cent...
Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tory-Led Coalition
THE TUC met yesterday afternoon to discuss pay and pensions and the planned mass demonstration and day of action on March 26 against the...