Southern Cross collapse– true face of privatisation
On Monday Tory prime minister, David Cameron, unveiled the long awaited White Paper that will enshrine in law the ‘presumption’ that public services should...
The Palestinian leadership calls for international intervention. The workers of the world must respond!
THE PALESTINIAN Presidential spokesman Abu Rudeineh yesterday morning called for urgent international intervention after Israeli police broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the...
US imperialism is determined to step up its intervention into Syria
PLANNING for military intervention by the imperialist powers into Syria, to overthrow the regime of president Assad, was stepped up this week with growing...
French elections open up struggle for socialist revolution
THE RESULT of the French Presidential election on Sunday saw the right-wing centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron, winning with 65.5% of the vote beating the...
Greek workers must build their revolutionary leadership
THE fact that the Greek working class brought Syriza from nothing to power, in the course of one general election, has been correctly taken...
Anglo-French summit plans new imperialist wars in Africa!
YESTERDAY, PM Theresa May met with French President Macron in a UK-France Summit that was, however, no ordinary summit. Firstly, it took place at the...
Labour ready for an emergency coalition
ON the eve of the Labour Party conference, Ed Miliband has sought to win the support of the middle classes, and also drive a...
Nationalise the energy companies to end fuel poverty
PM Brown has rejected out of hand the trade union demand for a Windfall Tax on the oil, gas and energy companies, that are...
Bring Blair before a tribunal says General Rose
THE call by retired General, Sir Michael Rose, for the Prime Minister to be impeached by the Privy Council over the invasion of Iraq...
Recall the TUC Congress to organise a general strike for Palestine!
ON Thursday, the TUC’s non-existent Day of Action to support Palestine, 63 people were annihilated by Israel in northern Gaza and 22 in Central...
The working class has the power – now is the time to use it!
BRITISH Airways’ chief executive Walsh and Unite union joint leader Tony Woodley yesterday met at the TUC headquarters. The talks are now back on and...
Essential relationship = master and servant
US President Barak Obama, in his speech to both houses of parliament last Wednesday, did little more than restate the old George Bush doctrine...
Israeli Police Attack Anti-Netanyahu Demonstrators As Israel Explodes!
ISRAELI police arrested 12 people and used water cannons before dawn on Sunday to disperse furious protesters against the policies of PM Netanyahu. Tens of...
Oecd Calls For A Giant Firewall!
UK economic growth for the last quarter of 2011 has been revised downwards to a 0.3% contraction, another body blow to those who had...
Splits in the ruling classes are opening up the way for socialist revolutions!
MORE than 800 serving officials in the US and Europe have signed a statement warning that their own governments’ policies on the Israel-Gaza war...
Capitalism On The Rocks – Forward To Socialism
THE number out of work in the UK rose by 137,000 to 1.86 million in the three months to October – the highest level...
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...
Multinational companies who supplied cladding and insulation on Grenfell Tower making super-profits!
Yesterday’s Observer newspaper revealed that manufacturers of the insulation installed on Grenfell Tower – cladding that led to the inferno that killed 72 people...
Call a general strike – build Councils of Action – forward to Socialism
THE Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said yesterday that the government should ban strikes by workers in essential services, adding that this...
Sunak extends furlough as Bank of England prints another £50 billion to try and...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the furlough scheme will be extended until the end of March next year, with the government continuing...
No Parliamentary Road to Socialism – General Strike now!
VOTERS in Thursday’s Makerfield by-election elected Labour’s Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, with a majority of 9,231 (55 per cent), doubling Labour’s previous...
Treat the Council Tax as you did the Poll Tax!
THE Council Tax is set to rise by four per cent on average this year, more than double the government’s current rate of inflation...
FBU anger mounting – strike action on the way!
FIREFIGHTERS risk their lives every time they are called out. They never know what they are going to have to tackle, and often do...
10 million workers will be hit by tax increases as Labour ‘picks the side’...
LOWEST paid workers will be hit the hardest by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves budget’s ‘stealth tax’ unveiled on Wednesday. Reeves desperate to avoid accusations of...
Please help us – Hague appeals to Russia & China!
SPEAKING at the Royal United Services Institute on Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Hague reported that: ‘On January 16th, a terrorist group linked to Al...
Bank of England pushes up interest rates as inflation spirals out of control!
THE BANK of England Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and decided to increase the interest rate by 0.25% to 0.75% in a futile attempt...
Israeli Fury At Palestinian Unity!
PALESTINIAN president, Mahmud Abbas, and Hamas leader, Khaled Mishaal, yesterday signed the Palestinian Unity Agreement in Cairo, putting an end to the split in...
Iraq’s 50,000 ‘Ghost Soldiers’
THE new Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has announced that an investigation has uncovered that the Iraqi state was paying the wages of 50,000...
British capitalism is stuck in the mire of slump!
THE UK’s public sector net borrowing hit a record high of £20.3 billion in November, official figures show. The figure was the highest for any...
A slap on the wrist for bankers, but it’s to be war on the...
PREMIER Brown’s speech at the Labour Party conference reeked with bourgeois morality and hypocrisy. There is to be a slap on the...
Nut Warns Over Free Schools And Academies
COMMENTING on the latest Education at a Glance report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Christine Blower, General Secretary of the...
Trump To Invite Netanyahu To His Inauguration!
PRESIDENT-ELECT Trump’s advisers are planning to invite Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the president-elect’s inauguration ceremony, so as to publicly stress just...
BIS predicts deflation and depression
LAST year the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was alone amongst banks in warning that the situation had similarities to that at the time...
Obama Sends In Medvedev As Stalinists Betray Libyan Masses Again
AT the Group of 8 meeting (G8) of the largest industrialised nations, the Russian Stalinist bureaucracy voted for regime change in Libya and then...
Motor City Goes Bankrupt – Unions Denounce Orr Power Grab!
DETROIT, once the motor car capital of the USA where hundreds of thousands of workers used to flock looking for good jobs in the...
Cameron lays out mass privatisation programme
IN A speech yesterday, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, promised to privatise every public service in the country, to ‘open up’ public services...
War from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa
THE whole of the area from Afghanistan to the Horn of Africa is now one great killing zone where US-UK imperialism either kills at...
Bosses seek abolition of trade unions – answer attack with general strike
The Institute of Directors (IoD) has proposed a 24-point plan to the Tory-led coalition government to save British capitalism. Central to their ‘blueprint for growth’ is...
Biden administration in crisis over Israeli failure to defeat Hamas
CHUCK SCHUMER, the Democratic Senate majority leader, described as the highest ranking Jewish official in the United States and top ally of president Joe...
The Egyptian Revolution Pushes Forward!
THE leading group representing the Egyptian bourgeoisie, around President Mursi, who is known as Mubarak with a beard, has just been massively shocked by...
Humanitarian imperialists get ready for a bloodbath
DESPITE all of the hurrahs coming from the manic bourgeois media, the imperialist powers have a very big problem with Libya, and the Libyan...
Union leaders are refusing to defend jobs in the face of the most vicious...
LAST week it was announced by BAE systems, the private defence company, that the shipbuilding industry was to be closed down in Portsmouth and...
Labour leadership contenders back Tory cuts
ALL four of the declared candidates for Labour Party leader, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Mary Creagh, have been busy over...
Tories moving to bring in Martial Law and a licence to kill for spies
PM JOHNSON announced the latest draconian lockdown rules in the House of Commons last Tuesday, with the threat that, if not obeyed to the...
Starmer’s ‘reshuffle’ sidelines Reeves and provokes a financial meltdown of British capitalism
THE UK parliament returned from the summer holidays on Monday and Labour prime minister Keir Starmer immediately caused a meltdown in the economy. The immediate...