Labour plans to use the state’s OBR to hold down workers’ wages and benefits!
LABOUR has promised to hand more powers to Britain’s capitalist state, and to the OBR, the Office for Budget Responsibility, to hold down wages...
End misery of bankrupt capitalism with socialist revolution
LAST Friday the European Banking Authority released the findings of this year’s Stress Test for European banks. These stress tests, introduced one year ago, are...
Carnage and bloodbath on world stock markets deepens – socialist revolution is the only...
LAST Monday, the American Dow Jones Index, which records the share prices of the top US companies and banks, recorded the biggest drop in...
Labour Party Conference Opens With ‘God Save The King’ Instead Of A Minute’s Silence...
THE opening of the Labour Party conference took a new turn yesterday when the Labour Party leader Starmer, who has played a key part...
GMB, Unison and Unite refuse to call action to bring down coalition
‘WORKING people in the UK can help stop the Conservative-led coalition from taking a wrecking ball to the fabric of daily life.’ This is the...
Not just European banks but world capitalism is a ‘lost cause’
THE panic gripping the world capitalist class over the impending crash of the banking system reached another new level on Monday with the publication...
BHS workers’ jobs and pensions destroyed as firm is looted!
THE decision on Thursday by the administrators to close all 163 BHS stores and throw 11,000 workers out of a job with immediate effect...
Renationalise the Royal Mail – new leadership required for CWU
THE full price for the capitulation of the CWU leadership over the privatisation of Royal Mail is now rapidly emerging. The union, which halted...
Sack The Leaders Who Are Selling Out Pensions
YESTERDAY the TUC leader Brendan Barber, who organised the betrayal of the 760 locked-out Gate Gourmet workers, and before that organised the betrayal of...
McCluskey denounces Labour’s right wing who worked for a Tory victory!
THE general secretary of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, has reacted with fury over the revelations contained in the leaked internal report by the...
Benefits slashed while bankers prosper
Today Parliament votes on the Tory coalition bill to place a 1% cap on all benefits and tax credits for the next three years...
Abbas to meet Kerry for decisive talks
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas is to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris today to discuss the peace talks with Israeli, US and...
Turkey and Israel are set to announce ‘normalisation’
TURKEY and Israel are to announce an agreement on the normalisation of bilateral ties, ending six years of a freeze in relations, after a...
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...
Socialist revolution the only road for youth!
The Centre for Cities has predicted that the number of long-term unemployed young people, between 16 and 24 years of age in Britain, will...
No economic solution to capitalist crisis as BIS warns financial markets at risk
THE BANK for International Settlements (BIS) – dubbed the bank for central banks – issued a dire warning in its latest quarterly review that...
Obama hosts Afghanistan and Pakistan war summit
ON THE eve of a meeting between US President Barack Obama, the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari in...
TUC must call a general strike to ensure all ‘independent contractors’ have workers’...
THE TORY plan to reduce Britain to a slave labour, hire-and-fire, zero-hours economy is now being challenged powerfully by groups of young workers. With the...
Smash the EU – forward to the United Socialist States of Europe
THIS week sees the return to Athens of the Troika’s ‘bail-out monitors’ to oversee yet another round of austerity cuts designed to crucify the...
Trump takes US to brink of war with Iran! Workers must rise up to...
US PRESIDENT Trump took America to the brink of war with Iran ... and then pulled back at the very last minute on Thursday...
Student uprising spreads from US to UK and Europe – It is the spark...
THE explosive eruption of students in America against the genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza, with the full support of the capitalist...
‘Currency wars’ will lead to imperialist war
THE meeting of the G20 group – the 20 leading countries in the world – concluded in Seoul yesterday with the usual empty claims of...
TUC must call a general strike to defend national agreements and stop NHS...
THE NHS trade unions have split with Unison and the RCN voting at the national NHS Staff Council on Tuesday, to support changes that...
The Bank Prints More Money While M&s Insists That The UK Is Skint
THE Bank of England yesterday maintained its interest rate at 0.5 per cent and decided to step up its money printing programme to give...
Jordan On The Brink Of Revolution
JORDAN has announced huge 76 per cent fuel price increases. In a statement the Jordanian government said that domestic fuel and kerosene prices had...
NGOs defy Israeli regime’s demands to provide information that will put the lives of...
EIGHT international aid groups working in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories said yesterday that they would defy an order to provide information about...
Answer The ‘Shock And Awe’ Budget With A General Strike
THE Tory-Lib Dem shock and awe budget is due next Tuesday. Already workers, pensioners and youth are calling for action against this savage attack that...
Chilcot won’t rule on Iraq war legality
CHILCOT opened his report of his inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war yesterday by stating that it was not the job of his very...
World banking crisis driving world revolution!
LAST WEEK the Bank of England (BoE) finally confessed that it doesn’t understand its own quantitative easing programme (QE) – the central, in fact...
UN poverty expert slams Tory ‘hypocrisy’ over austerity – end poverty with socialist revolution
THE UNITED Nations rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston, has issued a damning attack on the Tory government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic describing...
US, UK, Turkey Make Sure Syrian Truce Collapses
A POWERFUL car bomb exploded in Damascus on Friday, on the first day of the Syrian cease-fire, killing five people and injuring 32. Thus was...
TUC must take the lead in the establishment of the state of Palestine by...
MASSIVE Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah ‘are not the end of the story’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared – after Israeli jets bombed...
Stalinist Putin condemns Lenin, but has kept his party card!
LENIN wrote ‘The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self Determination’ in July 1916, just months after the Easter Rising in Dublin...
Met ‘rotten from top to bottom’ – disband it now!
THE CONVICTION and life sentence of Metropolitan police officer Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard was most certainly not the case of...
Eurozone crisis creating revolution – build the Fourth International
THE barrage of propaganda from every mouthpiece of the capitalist class that the economic crisis of capitalism is over, suffered a blow last week with...
Stop The Afghan War – The Enemy Is At Home
DEMOCRATIC presidents and prime ministers such as Obama and Brown have rushed into the Afghan breach to rubber-stamp their stooge Karzai as the president...
Defend university education! Forward to the British socialist revolution!
‘LET THEM FAIL!’ declared yesterday’s Daily Telegraph in response to repeated calls for emergency government funding to rescue endangered English universities as the economic...
Bosses Demand That Sunak Brings In Laws To Chain Up The Trade Unions!
THE British working class is showing a real class determination and ability to defend its jobs, its wages, its basic rights and its families,...
Build the revolutionary party in Greece
THE daily demonstrations of youth and workers are continuing in Greece, over a week after the assassination of the 15-year-old school boy Alexis Grigoropoulos...
Blair on holiday – Commissioner Blair is in charge
HOME Secretary Clarke is currently on holiday, after the Prime Minister insisted that he should not bow to public pressure and cancel it, as...
Tories promise money for schools in the Tory shires, and ‘reasonable force’ for working...
YESTERDAY the Department for Education announced that it will be pushing for higher pay for newly qualified teachers as part of the Tory government’s...
Working class must respond to Zionist regime’s plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza by calling general...
WHILE US president Donald Trump was meeting with Israeli leader Benjamín Netanyahu on Monday, ostensibly to discuss a ‘peace plan’ for Gaza, the Israeli...
The developing capitalist crisis demands the organisation of the socialist revolution
SHRINKING UK trade figures released yesterday of a decline of 0.1 per cent of GDP in May, following a 0.3 per cent fall in...
Government plans to smash up health and safety laws
THE Tory-led coalition is pushing full steam ahead with its plans to completely smash up the health and safety legislation and leave hundreds of...
Labour rats flee their sinking ship
COMMUNITIES Secretary Hazel Blears has resigned from the cabinet, on the eve of the local government and EU elections, delivering a major blow to...