Car industry collapses in UK and Europe under impact of capitalist crisis
THE BRITISH car industry is steadily collapsing as a result of the world economic crisis, figures produced yesterday highlighted. According to the Society of Motor...
World crisis driving forward the European socialist revolution!
THE BOURGEOIS financial markets opened yesterday to the unprecedented news that Germany has sold 3.9 billion euros of debt at a negative rate of...
Savage cuts have just begun in debt-ridden capitalist Britain
SPENDING on Welfare over this Parliamentary term has fallen by just £2.5bn despite the Tory-led coalition aiming to slash spending by £19bn. The Institute for...
US Class Struggle Sharpens
THE TWU Local 100, the New York transit union, is on strike and has picked up the gauntlet flung down by Mayor Bloomberg, the...
Irish banks ‘death spiral’ – forward to socialist revolution
THE latest stage in the complete disintegration of the Irish banking system was described by one analyst of the capitalist market as a ‘death...
TUC prepares for treacherous deal with Labour’s coup leaders
YESTERDAY morning Angela Eagle, one of the main conspirators behind the right-wing plot to oust Jeremy Corbyn from the leadership, announced publicly for the...
Organise a general strike for the nationalisation of plants facing closure!
ECONOMIC activity declined by 0.8 per cent over the three months to the end of June, a fall of 5.6 per cent in Gross...
Fortress Israel, armed by the USA, brings in new anti-Palestinian laws and cuts West...
THE US and Israel have been engaged in intense negotiations for many months to outline America’s military aid to Israel for the next decade. Washington...
Defending the NHS means sacking the BMA leadership
THE BMA leadership yesterday came out in favour of NHS rationing. It also supported the NHS having a written constitution, and being run by...
Hunt urges NHS to ‘Sign up for Safety’ while he cuts the service to...
HEALTH Secretary Hunt is urging the NHS in England to reduce the number of serious mistakes being made and save 6,000 lives over the...
National strike action for jobs and union agreements!
LEADERS of the Unite and GMB trade unions are recommending a new jobs offer to a mass meeting at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, Lincolnshire,...
It’s Bercow v Trump as the British ruling class splits between Washington and Brussels!
SPEAKER Bercow, with his condemnation of any invitation to US President Trump to address both Houses of Parliament, has shown just how split and...
Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any attack on the country
THE commander of Iran’s armed forces Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard said on Tuesday that Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any...
US workers must form a Labour Party
THE Republican Party has won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, and now controls both Houses of Congress, turning the final...
MPs condemn Labour’s ‘surveillance society’
THE House of Commons votes on Wednesday on extending the amount of time that the police can hold a ‘terrorist suspect’ without charging them...
TUC Must Take General Strike Action To Stop The Mass Murder Of Palestinians
WEDNESDAY’S Guardian newspaper admitted that Israel faced intensifying international condemnation for its killing of starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza’ quoting UN Secretary General Antonio...
Sharon unleashes bombing raids and assassinations on the Palestinians
THE Israeli government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has launched a new war on Palestinians living in territories under Zionist occupation less than three...
Unions Must Take Action Now To Defend The NHS!
FOLLOWING similar warnings by the King’s Fund and other bodies, the BBC has announced that the NHS in England faces a...
Corbyn must start fighting for Brexit or the right wing will bin him, and...
IN their latest manoeuvre to dump the 2016 referendum result to leave the EU, the right-wing of the Labour Party are now manoeuvring to...
Brown justifies anti-union action and pay cuts
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown insisted yesterday that meagre pay rises, that are phased in and amount to a pay cut, will be imposed by...
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,...
Bush loses US Congress votes
THE Senate of the United States Congress, which has a Republican majority, fired a shot across the bows of President George Bush’s administration over...
Build the WRP to deal with the TUC right wing
AT the Trades Union Congress in Brighton this week, delegates have given a relatively timid expression of the determination of millions of workers to...
Unions to call for London-wide strike action to defeat Tory attack on TfL workers
RAIL unions have pledged mass industrial action in response to the Tory attacks on the jobs, pay and pensions of workers at TfL (Transport...
Merkel-Sarkozy deal will fail to stem euro crisis
THE media were out in force at the end of last week to hear German Chancellor Angela Merkel reveal details of a bail-out package...
Tories rip up workers health and safety as their bankrupt economy disintegrates!
TORY CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak did the rounds of press interviews yesterday preparing the way for today’s reopening of non-essential shops and businesses and he...
Kelly forges ahead with schools’ privatisation
AMID media speculation that Blair’s government is willing to compromise on plans for independent ‘trust schools’, contained in next month’s Education Bill, the reality...
The trade unions must defend Lineker and take action to sack the Tories and...
AN unrepentant Gary Lineker insisted yesterday that he stood fully with his tweets condemning the Tory ‘Illegal Migrants Bill’ and that he has no...
Scrap the Public Private Partnership on the tube
METRONET, the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) within London Underground, has collapsed financially after years of failure to provide services required by the capital’s transport system. It...
Get Rid Of Crisis-Ridden Capitalism With A Worldwide Socialist Revolution!
GLOBAL financial markets fell like crazy on Monday after a rise in coronavirus cases renewed fears and panic that the entire system is heading...
Victory to Assad! Stop bombing Libya – withdraw UK special forces!
ON Monday the US launched air strikes on the Libyan city of Sirte against ISIL, at the request of one of the current Libyan...
Teachers, parents and students taking action to defend education
OVER the past week, lecturers have been on strike against sackings, parents are occupying schools to stop their closure, and students, angry at high...
Occupy Grangemouth to defend the union, jobs, wages and pensions
UNITE has urged Grangemouth workers not to give in to Ineos’ ‘menacing’ tactics to sign away their rights, saying it was looking to take...
Forward to an indefinite general strike to bring down the coalition
OVER two million public sector workers walked out yesterday. The message was that the coalition’s savage cuts programme, that was intensified in Osborne’s Autumn...
End all complicity with Zionist genocide – demand TUC call a general strike to...
ON THURSDAY, Palestinians commemorated the 77th anniversary of Nakba, the Catastrophe, when the unarmed population of Palestine was forcibly driven from their land by...
US shale oil bites the dust – Forward to the US socialist revolution!
THE PRICE of US oil has turned negative for the first time in history, destroying the shale gas ‘miracle’ that was going to liberate...
Brexit crisis coming to a head – Quit the EU Now – Forward to...
TOMORROW will see the moment of truth for both the Tory and Labour Parties when May’s programme for a Brexit that will leave the...
More anti-union laws, no rights at work, the elderly being abused in their homes...
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has said the danger for the UK from the economic crisis, particularly the crisis in the...
BA, car output and production crashes!
BRITISH Airways has just announced a loss before tax of £401m for the year to 31 March, a collapse from a profit of £922m...
Labour’s six months of work is no solution to the jobs crisis!
LABOUR has pledged a ‘jobs guarantee’ scheme for young unemployed people, that will last for the whole of next parliament, if it wins the...
BA Cabin Crew strikers need a strategy to win – demand Unite bring out...
TODAY BA mixed fleet cabin crew start another round of four days of strike action against poverty level wages that has meant them relying...
A general strike to bring down the Tories is the only programme for victory...
MICK LYNCH, general secretary of the RMT rail workers union, has denounced Labour leader Keir Starmer for being ‘not on the side of workers’...
Taliban Wins The War!
THE news that the United States and Britain are going to the United Nations security council to push for UN sanctions against 18 top...
Putin’s withdrawal from Syria sends message to Assad and Obama!
THE decision of President Putin to begin withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria, after giving President Assad just a few hours notice, constitutes a...
US privateers are already taking over NHS services!
THE ENDLESSLY repeated slogan that ‘The NHS is Not for Sale’ is completely empty in the face of the fact that US companies and...