GM quits South Africa as car giants go from a credit fuelled boom to...
THE shock decision announced last week that General Motors (GM), the world’s largest car manufacturer, is ending production of vehicles in South Africa is...
One word ‘strike’ sends the TUC into a spin
EARLIER this week the News Line stated that it would not be enough to adopt a programme at the current TUC Congress, but that...
Tories breaking triple-lock will plunge millions of pensioners into poverty!
MILLIONS of pensioners will be plunged into poverty as the Tories press ahead with ending the triple-lock on state pensions. The triple-lock guarantees the basic...
World capitalism at the ‘tipping point’ of collapse – time to put an end...
A RELIABLE gauge of the panic gripping the capitalist class over the fast developing world crisis of capitalism and its crushing effect on the...
No ‘bounce back’ as UK economy shrinks by further 1.5% in three months
IT SPEAKS volumes for the disastrous state of British capitalism that news that the UK economy has collapsed by a further 1.5% in the...
Charge Harry Stanley’s Killers!
THE uncovering of ‘new’ forensic evidence by the Surrey constabulary has led to the arrest of the two police officers who shot dead Harry...
Call strike action to defeat Tory plans to destroy university system
YESTERDAY, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published a detailed report into the effects of the Tory higher education bill due to return to...
German bourgeoisie demands bigger Greek cuts
THE crisis of the European Union sharpened yesterday when the German Finance Minister warned the Greek bourgeoisie that it would not get access to...
EU leaders installing a Greek puppet government
A SUMMIT of all European Union members planned yesterday was cancelled to allow the Eurozone Finance Ministers to resume their talks held to ...
Another Warning Issued About The Criminal Nature Of The New Anti-Union Laws
LEADING employment lawyers are to issue yet another warning that the Tory government’s new Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill will give ministers ‘unfettered power’...
Spooks fear revolution
THE Tory foreign secretary, William Hague, appeared on television yesterday morning to give a less than convincing pledge that ‘law abiding citizens’ have ‘nothing...
Starmer’s speech – an application to join a national coalition with the Tories!
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s first speech to a Labour Party conference yesterday was acclaimed by his supporters as heralding a ‘new dawn’ for the...
Libya faces a bloodbath as imperialist stooges fight for control
A BLOODBATH is being predicted in Libya after the leader of the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), General Khalifa Haftar, launched a military offensive...
Hunt vows to slash benefits to drive sick back to work and pledges UK...
THIS week, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt jetted off to Washington to attend the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the stated...
War crimes are OK, as long as they are British!
CORPORAL Donald Payne has just got a minor one year sentence for a war crime after pleading guilty to inhumane treatment of civilian detainees...
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...
Israel is a terrorist state – while anti-Zionism is not a form of racism!
YOU can tell that the split and divided Tory party and capitalist class in the UK are in very serious trouble when they have...
Right wing coupists routed in Labour NEC elections!
SUPPORTERS of Labour leader Corbyn have swept the board in elections to Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee, routing the right wing and giving it...
University lecturers start fresh mass strike action
THE THIRD wave of a countrywide strike by members of the University and College Union (UCU) began yesterday with a five-day walkout at 38...
Israel closes Irish embassy in fury over Ireland’s recognition of Palestine and its support...
THE DECISION by the Israeli regime on Sunday to close its embassy in Dublin brought a swift response from Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister) Simon...
Withdraw all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan
THE fact that six RAF Harrier GR7 jets are to remain in Afghanistan to support the 4,000 British troops who are being assembled in...
Make Turkey general strike indefinite to kick Erdogan out
THE Turkish trade unions called a two-day general strike for yesterday and today to express their outrage at the bombing on Saturday of the...
British government inquiry into ‘complicity in torture’ is a fraud
ON Wednesday the government published the Evidence Protocol for the ‘inquiry’ into allegations of British complicity in torture – a year after the inquiry...
There must be sprinklers in schools! No more fire deaths! Kick the Tories out!
AFTER the horror of Grenfell Tower fire, where so many men, women and children burned to death, the big issue is ‘is anyone safe...
Cameron crushed and out – now kick out the rest!
THE working class has delivered a crushing blow not just to Tory leaders Cameron and his chancellor Osborne but to the bankers and capitalists...
Scrap Universal Credit and the Tory government with it!
‘THIS IS a time for revolution not patching,’ said Anthony Painter, Director of Action & Research at the Royal Society of Arts, calling for...
Abbas-Obama Talks Fail To Reach Agreement!
JUST BEFORE his talks with President Abbas on Monday, President Obama said: ‘I think everybody understands the outlines of what a peace deal would...
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...
Stop the UK plot to launch a missile attack on Russia by bringing down...
US PRESIDENT Biden is now poised to lift the ban on the UK’s Storm Shadow missiles being fired into Russia by the US-UK’s fascist...
Brown’s foreign policy shaped by defeats in Iraq & Afghanistan
FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband, the ‘rising star’ in the government, was given the task of presenting Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s foreign policy strategy at...
10,000 Jobs Threatened As Starmer Spends Billions On The UK Military!
CUTS to infrastructure projects like roads and school repairs threaten 10,000 UK jobs following outgoing PM Keir Starmer’s decision to cut billions of pounds...
Don’t let P&O get away with murder – Make the TUC and labour leaders...
YESTERDAY, Chancellor Sunak pledged to help the masses ‘where we can make a difference’, as households face soaring living costs, to the extent that...
Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Egypt
THE US-backed and financed Egyptian army has given a 48-hour ultimatum to the US-backed and financed Muslim Brotherhood government (which supports the imperialist powers...
Cosatu, the CP, the NUM and the police attack the Lonmin miners
ON 27th October the Minister of Education and South African Communist Party General Secretary, Blade Nzimande, along with Cosatu and National Union of Mineworkers...
New universities going bust as education becomes a commodity
FORTY-SIX universities, mainly but not entirely made up of ex-Polytechnics, were put on a list by the Labour government, after the introduction of tuition...
As The Crisis Deepens The Time Has Come To Organise The British Socialist Revolution
LENIN in his book Left Wing Communism an Infantile Disorder writes about the ‘fundamental law of revolution.’ He states: ‘For a revolution to take...
UK has not offered to take in a single Syrian refugee!
THE fact that the UK ruling coalition is involved up to its neck in organising the war in Syria, and is also keeping it...
China’s Historic Space Achievement demonstrates the strength of a planned economy
YESTERDAY, a Chinese spacecraft made a giant leap forward in human exploration of space when it became the first ever to land on the...
Growing fears over another bank crash
THERE were renewed calls yesterday by Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and other political leaders of major capitalist countries for international cooperation to tackle the...
International Criminal Court Has Jurisdiction Over Israeli War Crimes In Palestine!
THE International Criminal Court ruled on Friday that it has jurisdiction over war crimes and atrocities committed in the Palestinian territories and can thus...
Only answer to banking crisis is expropriation!
THE COALITION government’s policy to ‘ring-fence’ the banks is at best a cosmetic attempt to appear to be trying to protect retail banking, and...
Starmer urges send British jets to the Ukraine to combat Russia!
Dispatching British fighter jets to Ukraine ‘to police the skies against Russia above the Ukraine’, emerged as a planning proposal at Sir Keir Starmer’s...
Occupy Tata Steel plants – make TUC call a general strike to bring down...
COMMUNITY steel union representatives from all of the Tata Steel plants are meeting at the TUC today to discuss and plan the struggle to...
Poroshenko crushed in elections – forward to Ukrainian workers taking back power and returning...
THE WORKERS and small farmers of Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to the right-wing oligarchs and to the EU and US imperialism when they...
Make the TUC call a general strike now to boot out the Tories and...
RAIL, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) members will be joined by many other trade unionists today at 7.00am and on Saturday 26th March at...