Brown pledges 150 private NHS hospitals and self treatment by 15 million ‘expert patients’
GORDON Brown made clear yesterday that his intention was to continue with the Blairite NHS counter-revolution. The message was that there were ‘no no-go...
Inflation Letting Rip As Darling Fiddles
CONSUMER Prices Index (CPI) inflation has been driven up to 3.5 per cent in January by, amongst other factors, VAT returning to 17.5...
Brown in partnership with McDonalds is going to bring in forced labour
TRUE to form, Brown the bankers’ prime minister, opened his speech on apprentices yesterday by hailing the employers saying: ‘I am delighted to join...
NHS not living with Covid but dying from it
‘THE GOVERNMENT must be honest about the threat the pandemic still poses,’ the editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and Health Service Journal...
TGWU relies on the Sainsbury family to defend its members’ jobs and wages
YESTERDAY the TGWU leaders produced their statement of full support for the Sainsbury family in the battle to keep out the Texas Pacific-backed raiding...
Horsemeat Scandal
What started off last month as news, that traces of horsemeat DNA had been discovered by the Irish Food Standards agency in some supermarket beefburgers,...
UK Ruling Class On Its Knees Before Brussels – Time For The UK Socialist...
EUROPEAN Union leaders have said the Brexit withdrawal agreement with the UK is ‘not open for renegotiation’, after appeals from PM Theresa May. She...
Johnson Now Speaking Out Of Both Sides Of His Mouth At The Same Time!
LAST FRIDAY, evidence from Boris Johnson assured a Scottish court, in his own name, that he would send a letter to the EU, as...
Corbyn is just another Remainer – Build the new leadership in the Labour movement...
IN HIS address last week at the TUC annual congress, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn informed delegates that Labour’s priority was to stop a No-Deal...
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...
US-UK rescues ISIS fighters from Raqqa – no doubt they will now be sent...
PM MAY made crystal clear yesterday that Russia is the main enemy of crisis-wracked UK imperialism. In fact, Tory newspapers have been making it...
General strike to bring down Tories to end arming Israeli genocide
YESTERDAY, Israeli troops pulled out of Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, after two weeks of brutal attacks that left behind a...
Greece headed for revolution!
THE situation for Greek capitalism has become so serious that Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos has demanded that Germany returns the Greek gold that...
UK-US Gives Israel Mandate For Mass Bombing Of Lebanon
A SHOCKED Zionist government was yesterday seeking to regroup after the military reverses that it has suffered on the ground at the hands of...
Pm May’s Education Review Is A Fraud – Unions Must Take Action To Abolish...
THE National Union of Students’ verdict on PM May’s review into post-18 education and funding is that ‘she is choosing to move the deckchairs...
Labour to let multi-nationals take over NHS Primary Care Trusts
THE government is set to turn the screws of further NHS privatisation on the NHS with its plans to invite private health insurance...
‘Medieval’ levels of health inequality have devastating effects on NHS
On Sunday, the Guardian newspaper published part of the results from its months-long investigation into the effects of poverty on the NHS. Included in the...
Brown to rescue banks by slashing wages and jobs!
CHANCELLOR Darling has followed up his appearance before the bankers at the Mansion House on Wednesday night, where he pledged that wage rises would...
EU rights court sends UK citizens to US ‘supermax’ prisons!
THE European Court of Human Rights has backed the extradition of five men from the UK to the US which intends to put them...
Benefits War Against Sick
THE Tory work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith yesterday launched yet another vitriolic attack on the unemployed, the sick and disabled. On Sunday he...
Coaliton Policies Put The Elderly On The Breadline
RISING costs and rampant price inflation are leaving half of older people living on the breadline. According to the AGE UK charity nearly half are...
RAF planes bomb Iraq/Syria border areas
ROYAL Air Force Tornado fighter bombers have joined the US air force in bombing raids in Iraq’s western Al Anbar province, particularly in the...
Sack the government not doctors and nurses
A REPORT leaked this weekend spells out exactly how the Tory-led coalition means to destroy completely the National Health Service and is preparing to...
End Tory racist deportation by demanding a general strike to kick them out
YET ANOTHER attempt by the Tory government to deport over 50 people to Jamaica on Wednesday came unstuck with the Home Office forced to...
Only Socialist Revolution can stop imperialist war
ON SUNDAY, newly appointed Tory Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, writing in the Telegraph, announced that the UK would be sending troops to Ukraine ‘to...
Workers will not get any ‘new deal’ from the Tories! Make the TUC call...
THE WINDRUSH scandal, missiles launched at Syria without even seeking permission from Parliament, the Grenfell fire disaster, the winter NHS meltdown, homelessness and rough...
US raises the stakes by signing missile deal with Poland
THE US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tbilisi yesterday for talks with the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. Her mission was to get...
Grenfell fire and corona pandemic underline that under capitalism life is cheap! Overthrow...
THE GRENFELL inquiry has heard from the bosses of both the insulation and the cladding companies that produced the flammable material installed on the...
Tories tearing each other apart over net zero emissions – prepare for revolution there...
GRANT Shapps, the Tory secretary of state for energy security and net zero, yesterday unveiled the government’s latest strategy to achieve net zero emissions...
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...
Stop the war against Syria – smash austerity at home
THE humiliating climb-down by David Cameron over Syria on Wednesday night exposes for all to see the weakness of British imperialism, the coalition government...
After one year of the Libyan slaughter – Forward to Damascus urge Cameron, Sarkozy...
THE Libyan people are being told that they must celebrate the first anniversary of the ‘revolution’ (in fact, counter-revolution) that has destroyed their country,...
Brown’s empty words cannot hide he is the bankers’ man
‘I want to talk to you about a new settlement for new times. A fair Britain for the new age. . . my unwavering...
Trade unions must take action to defend state pension!
ON WEDNESDAY the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, David Gauke, cynically used the fact that parliament was closing down for the holidays to announce...
China shows the way to defeat the coronavirus plague – while the British ruling...
THE creator of the Universal Credit onslaught against the working class and the poor, Iain Duncan Smith has launched an attack on China in...
Coalition imposed pay freeze hits workers and middle class
A report issued on Monday by the independent Resolution Foundation spells out exactly the desperate situation being faced today by the so-called ‘squeezed middle’,...
Johnson launches a class war against UK workers and youth – Forward to Socialist...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for a speedy end to ‘dependence’ on Russian oil and gas, comparing it to ‘addiction,’ in his...
McDonnell wants a corporatist deal with the capitalists!
SHADOW Chancellor McDonnel’s speech to the Labour Party conference was remarkable for its lack of treatment of the crisis of capitalism. He focused...
France And Germany On The Brink Of Explosion
THE German and French ruling classes are aghast that the worldwide financial collapse and deepening slump has resulted in an eruption of the class...
China has beaten coronavirus while Tories will allow 60% of the population to be...
CHINA’S Wuhan province reported a zero increase in new coronavirus infections last week. China has beaten the virus and with no new cases, their...
Joint Russian & UK Salisbury investigation: The only way to uncover the truth!
RUSSIA says the UK shows no interest in conducting a joint investigation into the alleged assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia,...
Tories and LibDems routed – now bring down the coalition
THE result of the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election points to one thing, that the working class and large sections of the middle class...
Only Gold Is Money, The Rest Is Paper Masquerading As Money
WEDNESDAY’S announcement by the German central bank (Bundesbank) that it was going to physically repatriate its vast gold holdings from New York and Paris...
Thousands of car jobs under threat – Expropriate the bosses and bankers
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday stated that if Theresa May’s ‘Brexit Deal’ with the EU is defeated in parliament next week, then Labour will...
The trade unions must follow the example of the ruling class and deal with...
THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...