EU tearing itself apart while British capitalism collapses under a sovereign debt crisis
On Friday EU leaders gathered for a three-day summit to agree on a proposed £1.6 trillion financial plan to bail out the national states...
Demand that the UK recognises the state of Palestine – Attend our centenary rally...
IN A virtually unprecedented break with the normal language of international diplomacy, the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad Malki, has deservedly torn into British Prime...
Trump’s war on Venezuela draws condemnation from China and Russia
Russia and China have both expressed their support for Venezuela as it confronts a US blockade of oil tankers entering or leaving the country...
CWU leaders capitulate to Royal Mail bosses – Time to build a new leadership...
LAST Friday, the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) finally revealed to their members in Royal Mail (RM), details of the treacherous sell-out...
Right wing Labour puts Corbyn and McDonnell on a very short Leash!
SIR Keir Starmer, Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary speaking at a Chatham House conference, has said that Labour will not support any Brexit deal negotiated...
Watch out! The bank robbers are still at large!
‘MORE and more leverage in the system. The whole building is about to collapse anytime now. . . Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab....
Federal Reserve opts for debt mountain and to crash the $
FOLLOWING the decision of the US federal Reserve Bank to reduce its interest rate by 0.5 per cent, double the expected 0.25 per cent...
Down with the EU – Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe
A VERY senior US official, Michael Froman, has warned Britain against leaving the 28-nation European Union saying such a move would cost London economically. Froman...
Labour plans to keep one million patients out of hospital
LABOUR’S policy of privatising the NHS by diverting huge chunks of the NHS budget to the private sector is preparing the bankruptcy of many...
Bank of England to unleash hyperinflation in a desperate attempt to save capitalism
REPORTS emerged over the weekend that the Bank of England is on the verge of announcing another massive round of money printing to pay...
Corbyn comes good for the bosses’ and bankers’ EU
CORBYN has been transformed into his opposite as far as the ruling class and Labour’s rabid Blairite right wing is concerned. He has gone...
Bomb Gadaffi Out Of Power Urges General Richards
THE NATO war that was supposedly being waged to defend Libyan civilians must be stepped up and Libya’s infrastructure destroyed if Colonel Gadaffi is...
Carney warning over banks ‘too big to fail’
UK economic output rose by 0.8% between July and September, official GDP figures show. The data adds to a 0.7% GDP rise in the...
Barber’s two ‘big worries’, the crisis of capitalism and workers’ anger!
BRENDAN Barber the TUC general secretary in his New Year message confesses that he has two ‘big worries’ for the year 2008. He...
Dollar collapse puts bankers into a spin
THE dollar has continued to collapse against the other major capitalist currencies leaving the pound at its highest price against the dollar since Britain...
Labour Mayor Andy Burnham reveals Labour MPs want him to oust Starmer
THE Labour Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph newspaper yesterday said that many Labour MPs have been privately...
American revolution will replace the failed American dream
UAW car workers President Ron Gettelfinger last Thursday lifted the lid just a little on the lives of tens of millions of US workers,...
All out action needed to defend pensions and jobs
THE CWU is warning that 40,000 jobs will go as a result of increased mechanisation of the Royal Mail system. It is also objecting...
CHILDREN ARE DYING EVERY DAY! Hospitals have been bombed! Doctors say that they have...
THE UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has warned that already low levels of aid trickling into Gaza have dwindled further, with the situation...
Working Class In Ukraine Winning Over The Army
ON SATURDAY a National Assembly was held in the Black Sea city of Odessa, and other assemblies were held in all of the...
Call Day Of Action To Defend The NHS
A BLOC of twelve trade unions have joined together to campaign against the Labour government’s health service ‘reforms’, that is the Brown-Blair programme for...
Latvia Urges UK To Introduce Conscription To Fight Russian Workers!
A SPLIT and divided Tory Party is facing electoral wipeout as the number of infighting Tory factions grow and lash out at each other,...
Defy Tory anti-union laws – TUC must call a general strike in support of...
MEMBERS of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will be angry that the historic vote by the overwhelming majority of nurses throughout the UK...
Capitalism can’t afford common retirement age or decent pensions
CAPITALIST Britain is being driven backwards, not forwards by the deepening crisis of capitalism and the policies of the Blair-Brown Labour government, dedicated to...
Forward to a national strike and a national demonstration on July 17
DAY one of the London CWU’s three-day strike action was a massive success, after the move by the Royal Mail and the government...
Obama Dumps Two-State Solution!
PROPONENTS of the two-state solution to Palestine, that is the creation of two separate states, Israel and Palestine through peaceful negotiations, with East Jerusalem...
Lecturers 76% ‘Yes’ for strike – 37 Universities to come out! All unions must...
UNIVERSITY lecturers and staff across the country have voted for strike action with an overwhelming 76% ‘YES’ vote. It means 37 universities will join...
Capitalism has no ‘safety net’ to save it from economic crash
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) can no longer act as the world’s ‘lender of last resort’ according to a task force of currency experts...
Troika poised to show Greece the door
GREEK PM Antonis Samaras is meeting the organisation of Greece’s international creditors, the Troika (IMF, EU, ECB), to try to persuade it to give...
Call national strike action! Form a public sector alliance!
OVER 12,000 postal workers are taking strike action today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and the executive dictatorship by Royal Mail, while...
Government responsible for seriously damaging the quality of mental health care!
CUTS to adult mental health services in England are damaging the quality of care given to patients, a report by the King’s Fund...
Mikhail Gorbachev – Stalinist hero of imperialism, loathed and reviled by working class!
Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the USSR, died in Moscow aged 91 on Tuesday. His death was greeted with an outpouring of fulsome tributes and...
By 278 votes to 0 MPs vote for extending the Universal Credit top-up beyond...
THE TORY government was delivered a massive blow on Monday evening when it was defeated by 278 votes to 0 when MPs voted for...
End The UK Support For Rajapakse
THE News Line hails the heroic resistance of the Tamil Tigers to the armed forces of the Rajapakse military dictatorship, which is seeking to...
Demoralised Tories face an economic crash – put them out of their misery with...
THE COMPLETE demoralisation of the Tories has dominated the front pages of the bourgeois press, with reports that PM Boris Johnson is facing a...
Another British Retreat From Kabul
PM Cameron has told MPs that 3,800 British troops – almost half of the current force serving in Helmand province – are to be...
MPs’ Committee blames councils over homeless and dodges government!
THE MPs’ Communities and Local Government Select Committee has said that homelessness is ‘undoubtedly increasing’ and that the scale is greater than statistics suggest. The...
Putin Warns Usa Of Dangers In Attacking Iran
IN his ‘Address to the Nation’ last Wednesday, the Russian leader, President Vladimir Putin, was forced to deal with the fact that Nato is...
Recall The Tuc Congress To Call General Strike To Support The Junior Doctors
THE latest two-day strike action of the junior doctors has been a resounding success with massive picket lines, and huge public support, while the...
The ‘gig economy’ is spreading throughout bankrupt British capitalism – time to advance to...
4.7 MILLION workers are now employed in the gig economy, twice as many as in 2016 with nearly one in 10 working age adults...
Brown must end UK support for Rajapakse – Victory to the Tamil Tigers
THE government of Sri Lanka led by President Rajapakse is currently fighting a war on two fronts, on behalf of US and UK imperialism. On...
British MPs reduced to whinging while Taliban take control!
WHILE the Taliban’s top political leaders arrived in Afghanistan to take control of the country, British MPs held an emergency debate in Parliament yesterday...
Cornwall Marches To Save Fire Service
TWO hundred firefighters and control room staff were joined by thousands of angry local residents in a 13-mile march from Camborne to Falmouth on...
Bring the airports out in support of Ryanair and BA strikers! Nationalise the...
THE BRITISH AIRWAYS pilots strike is on for both Monday and Tuesday in an escalating battle over pay. British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) BA...
Blair ‘comfortable’ with five shots to the head, shoot to kill policy
ON Sunday, Police Commissioner Blair told the world that the policy of shooting to kill ‘terrorist suspects’ was national policy, not just a Metropolitan...