May is broken, as is the Tory party and the capitalist system – It...
WHEN the Tory Daily Telegraph runs on its front page a headline that Theresa May is ‘limping into oblivion’ it couldn’t be a clearer...
World Economic Forum declares capitalist ‘global order’ destabilised by imperialist war and political crisis
THE WORLD Economic Forum (WEF) opened its meeting at the Swiss resort of Davos this week under the storm clouds of an economic and...
We Must Welcome All Asylum Seekers And Expropriate The UK’s Boss Class!
IN RECENT days, the Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman had come under fire for comparing immigrants and asylum seekers to ‘invaders’. Liberal Tories tut-tutted that...
Labour’s knives are out for use against the UK’s working class and its youth...
THE future of the youth minimum wage is now under review by the former Health Secretary Alan Milburn. The alleged ‘social mobility’ expert has told...
Demoralised Tory leaders are demanding a national government
THE prospects for the 2015 May 7 general election – taking place after more than five years of savage austerity measures that have...
Trump escalates trade war with China and prepares for a shooting war – only...
THE TRUMP administration has ratcheted up the confrontation with China with an escalation of its economic trade war, coupled with a provocative military build-up...
Blair Conversion Seals His Counter-Revolutionary Role
TONY BLAIR, his hands still dripping with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and with financial scandals swirling all round...
Stop The Bosses Plan To Smash Trade Unions – Recall The Tuc To...
PM Sunak yesterday accused RMT leader Mick Lynch of causing ‘misery for millions’ with the ‘cruelly timed’ pay rise walk-outs by rail workers. He...
Free the Chagos Islands – Britain’s own Guantánamo Bay!
ON WEDNESDAY the General Assembly of the United Nations delivered a stunning vote which overwhelmingly condemned the continuing occupation of the Chagos Islands. By 116...
Obama Heading For The Fiscal Cliff – US Workers Beware!
OBAMA’S re-election is a product of the refusal of US workers to allow an all-out robber baron of capitalism, Romney, to have control over...
The Trade Unions Must Defend Every Job!
THE London and New York stock markets were in free fall yesterday, losing hundreds of points, with tens of billions of dollars and pounds...
Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!
INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...
Mass strikes required to fight sackings and wage cuts
THE jobs crisis in the UK is sharpening to boiling point in the motor car industry and in the power construction industry, affecting...
Children Going To School Hungry!
THE survey by the ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) into child poverty has exposed what the reality of bankrupt capitalism means for millions...
US Secretary of State Blinken rushes to Kiev as Ukraine faces defeat by Russia
US secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise unannounced visit to Ukraine yesterday morning, as the war to weaken Russia suffers yet another...
The GMB understands the need for redundancies
JCB has announced 400 more redundancies, blaming a ‘significant’ reduction in incoming orders. The redundancies are made up of 297 shop floor jobs and 101...
Osborne seeking showdown with unions
ON Thursday the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, made an emergency statement to parliament on the international economic crisis that is engulfing British capitalism to...
Tories Consciously Undermining The Union!
THE Tories this week pushed through parliament their plans for ‘English votes for English laws’ under which only English MPs would have the right...
Wild optimism at Davos
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, ended last Saturday. The four days of the forum...
Eight Out Of Ten Academy Schools Are In Deficit!
ACADEMY school budgets are in a desperate state with eight out of 10 in deficit, say their accountants. ‘Two more years like this and...
After China sneezes Wall Street drops like a stone
A NINE per cent fall on the small Chinese stock market, after rumours that the Stalinist bureaucracy was about to tax shares, and slightly...
Arab League sells out the Palestinians yet again
THE Arab League, the organisation of the Arab bourgeoisie, last Saturday gave its backing to the indirect Palestinian-Israeli peace talks being pushed by President...
World debt crisis can only be resolved through world socialist revolution
JEROME Powell the new chairman of the US central Bank, the Fed, will be pushing for an increase in interest rates this week with...
LibDems shattered while Labour gets Scottish shock!
THE coalition with the Tories is proving to be the kiss of death for the LibDems. They are hated, and paying the price for...
Labour Is The Rajapaksa Regime’s Sponsor
ON Tuesday evening President Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, was due to address the prestigious Oxford Union in front of an invited audience. He...
US Trade Gap Widens As Banks Get Ready For Economic Storm
THE US trade gap widened in January to $44.45bn (£29.53bn) from December’s figure of $38.14bn, the US Commerce Department has reported. Much of the rise...
Blair wants toothless trade unions; Barber agrees
PRIME Minister Blair on Saturday, at a Unions 21 conference, urged unions to modernise to ‘seize the opportunities of globalisation and the changing nature...
Pakistani military is beseiged – but nuclear weapons are safe says Clinton
AT her press conference in London yesterday the US Secretary of State, Clinton, volunteered that the Taleban attack on the headquarters of the Pakistani...
Cameron At War At Home And Abroad
CAMERON’S Monday ‘European Council’ statement to parliament was all about the crisis of imperialism, its wars abroad, and dictatorship at home. He managed to discuss...
Israel is preparing new Lebanese war
ISRAEL’S armed forces commander, Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, speaking to Israeli High School pupils last week, asked and answered a question rooted in the current...
US and South Korea ‘pour gasoline onto the fire’ says North Korea
THE US and South Korea have begun conducting annual military drills, ignoring North Korean appeals to halt the exercises. Last week North Korea appeared to...
While FIFA looks the other way Palestinian children are being tortured
IT is a monstrous betrayal of the Palestinian people that the FIFA Congress immersed itself in the corrupt affairs of billionaire, big business soccer,...
Desperate capitalism moves towards hyperinflation
LAST week the Republican presidential candidate and multi-billionaire property speculator, Donald Trump, unveiled his plan for saving US capitalism from economic catastrophe. During a lengthy...
Bell Tolls For UK Capitalism On June 23 Referendum Day!
THE Tory government is now split over its EU referendum, with six cabinet ministers, and over 100 MPs advocating a vote to leave the...
Mark Duggan was assassinated by the police says his mother
A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE was held yesterday to mark a year since the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by the...
Bedroom Tax – a savage assault on the poor and vulnerable
Nothing typifies the vicious war against the poorest and most vulnerable sections of the working class more than the introduction next month of...
Tory-type austerity is now Ball’s centre ground
WRITING in the Guardian this week, Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, made it clear that the Labour leadership’s economic policy consisted solely of moving...
Braverman’s instruction to police to ‘ramp up’ stop-and-search inspired by fear of youth as...
ON MONDAY, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced that she is instructing all 43 police forces in England and Wales to ‘ramp up’ the...
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....
The TUC must give its full support to the State of Palestine at once!
THE International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to unveil an online electronic platform to allow the Palestinians to sue Israelis who commit war crimes. A...
Berezovskiy calls for the violent overthrow of Putin
FOR some time the Blair government has been bringing in draconian anti-terrorist legislation, such as the Terrorism Act 2000. It has been boldly ‘identifying’ terrorism...
British workers require socialism not circuses!
FOR the second day running the bourgeois media have been dominated by the Olympic opening extravaganza organised brilliantly by Danny Boyle, who used and...
Bank of England suspected of serious fraud!
THE Bank of England this week was revealed to be under investigation by no less than the Serious Fraud Office. Founded in 1694, the Bank...
Jamaican High Commissioner demands halt deportations! End May’s hostile environment by kicking the Tories...
‘WE MAY very well be deporting people who are entitled to be here,’ the Jamaican High Commissioner said, calling on the UK government to...
Sunak calls for ‘British homes for British workers’ in a backward attempt to save...
THE Guardian newspaper yesterday revealed that the Tory government is preparing to launch a consultation in the coming weeks on implementing a ‘British homes...