Clarke staggers on as Tories hold back from resignation call
The ex-Home Secretary Blunkett was forced to resign after interfering to get his lover’s nanny special treatment from the passport office, and then seeking...
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...
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...
British Capitalism At The Centre Of The Capitalist Crisis
THE worldwide capitalist crisis drove the pound down on Friday into an unprecedented collapse. The pound slumped 9.6 US cents to $1.52 at...
Sarkozy flops – gets less votes than Chirac
THE landslide vote for Sarkozy that was to get him off on a flying start as the ‘Saviour of France’ for his war against...
Darling ignored over short selling
BRITISH capitalism is staring disaster straight in the face. Motor car sales in December 2008 were 47.5 per cent lower than in December 2007. Yesterday,...
Tory Davies wants to lock up anti-imperialists
TORY MP David Davies has called on ‘abusive protests’ against serving military personnel to be outlawed and intends to amend a parliamentary bill to...
Free Julian Assange – Jail The Imperialist Butchers
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange was arrested in London yesterday and is now in jail, awaiting hearings to extradite him to Sweden where he will...
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...
Universities are for students, not big business!
ALMOST a third of young people (31 per cent) starting at university this autumn are being forced to live with their parents, because they...
Norfolk & Norwich NHS Trust – screwed by the PFI bandits
THE Octagon private sector consortium has been branded the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’ by a House of Commons committee. MPs on the public accounts...
Shares crashing as oil nears $100 a barrel
THE US dollar is reeling against the euro. The US sub-mortgage crisis is deepening, with housing starts down by 10 per cent in September, while...
McCluskey and the ideologically-driven Tory cuts
WRITING in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper the general secretary elect of Unite, Len McClusky, was forced to use the dread words ‘general strike’ in the...
Lift the siege on the Palestinians!
PRIME Minister Ismail Haniya’s Palestinian Authority (PA) national unity government, sworn in on Saturday, is being recognised and supported by more and more...
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...
Terminal 5 – BA gets ready for its ‘Wapping’
THE buzz word in the financial media yesterday was ‘Wapping’. The media was referring to the union busting operation carried through by Rupert Murdoch in...
Middle East gripped by revolutionary crisis
THE crisis in Palestine and the crisis in the Middle East is deepening rapidly to the point where its contradictions are sharpening to the...
Hague refuses to halt assault on Sirte
ON Tuesday Foreign Minister Hague told Sky TV that he would not tell the counter-revolutionaries to cancel their planned assault on the city of...
A bankers budget from a bankers government
DESPITE all the government statements against leaking government information before it is to go before the House of Commons, the Treasury was at it...
Unison Leaders Betray Their Members!
AT the September Labour Party and TUC conferences the trade union leaders, amongst them the leaders of the UNISON trade union, made out that...
Johnson condemns Corbyn and beats the war drums against Syria!
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spoke up yesterday to attack Jeremy Corbyn and to announce that it will be very difficult for the UK...
The Bank Of England Drops Its Debt Bombshell
THE world’s banks have now lost £1.8 trillion the Bank of England has reported in its Financial Stability Report. This is as a result of...
MI5 and labour witch-hunters attack torture exposers
HOME Secretary Johnson and MI5 director general, Evans, yesterday launched a hysterical witch-hunt against the exposers of the fact that both MI5 and the...
Army publicly breaks with the Blair government
YESTERDAY’S statement by the army commander in chief, Dannatt, represented a major intervention into politics by a bourgeois officer corps that is supposed to...
Mass arrests in Pakistan – general elections ‘postponed’
GENERAL Pervez Musharraf has carried out his second military coup. The first made him president, and last weekend’s, in his own words, ‘prevented the...
Clinton Beats The War Drums
SPEAKING to students at a Qatar university during a tour of the Gulf region designed to whip up anti-Iran feeling, US Secretary of State...
General strike now to stop destruction of the NHS!
NHS HOSPITALS are facing an immediate cut of £1.6 billion, with the government ordering NHS Trusts to ‘balance their books’ by making cutbacks and...
It’s much later than Brown or Blair think
THE working class electors in the safe Labour seat of Dunfermline and Fyfe ignored the crisis at the top of the Liberal Democrats, so...
French And British Workers Take Action Against The Bosses
IT was Karl Marx who said that the French would start the revolution, that the British would be inspired to take it further and...
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...
Palestinian revolution on the march to Jerusalem!
THE Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said that the Palestinians are determined to seek recognition of a Palestinian state from the United Nations...
Eurozone crisis reaches crunch
MONDAY’S’ summit meeting of the European Union leaders took place under siege conditions in Brussels as the city was paralysed by a general strike...
Corbyn’s ‘reshuffle’ exposes weakness of left reformism
LABOUR leader, Jeremy Corbyn, completed his first reshuffle of the shadow cabinet after a tortuous round of negotiations designed to keep the right-wing of...
Obama attempts to con Irish workers
FOR the second time in two weeks Irish workers and youth have been subjected to a powerful imperialist propaganda assault designed to shore up...
Brazil erupts as social revolution hits South America
THE Brazilian government is deploying heavily armed troops to five main urban centres that are the driving force of the present uprising by the...
Occupy And Nationalise Vauxhall Plants
THREE companies have bid to take over GM Europe from the crisis-stricken US giant. They are Italian carmaker Fiat, Canadian parts maker Magna and...
Banking Crisis Heading For The Precipice!
THE INABILITY of the US economy to recover from its jobs slump, alongside the colossal indebtedness of the EU banks – German, Italian, French...
No Plan B – kick the coalition out!
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has gone through its ritual presentation of an ‘alternative’ budget in advance of the coalition government’s budget to be...
Brown pledges all to the CBI
‘Let me start by thanking you – directors, executives, managers representing companies from all over the UK – for the contribution you are making...
US plans to use nuclear bunker busters against Iran
THE New Yorker has published an article by award winning journalist Seymour Hersh, that claims that the US administration of President G W Bush...
Bank Of Cyprus Occupied By Angry Workers
FURIOUS CYPRIOT workers took over the streets of Nicosia on Tuesday and occupied the Bank of Cyprus. The occupation took place on the...
‘Clear-cut robbery in Cyprus’ – the penalty for the crime is revolution!
THE Cypriot parliament yesterday postponed an emergency session on the 7-10% banking tax imposed by the EU on every depositor in the country’s...
NHS under attack – DEFEND IT NOW!
THE capitalist crisis and the massive indebtedness of British capitalism, with its national debt closing fast on its GDP of £1.4...
Bring Down Blair Over Pensions
THE big pensions clash between the trade unions and the government is underway after nine unions representing 1.5 million council workers agreed to ballot...
Brown, Mitchell and Obama threaten Palestinians with a dirty deal
PALESTINIANS are once again being threatened with a dirty deal after the Netanyahu-Brown meeting in London. After a Brown declaration that Britain is Israel’s ‘true...