Trade union leaders abandon members – build a revolutionary leadership in the unions
A STUDY published yesterday revealed that as many as six million workers in Britain live in fear of losing their jobs in the next...
New Orleans and Baghdad, twin cities destroyed by US capitalism
NEW ORLEANS was allowed to be destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. US capitalism and its Bush administration had on the top of their agendas massive tax...
Labour reach new depths of treachery over NHS
AT the weekend the new Labour shadow health secretary, Andrew Burnham, delivered a treacherous stab in the back to the NHS with the announcement...
OECD says UK rates must rise to 3.5 per cent in 2011
THE OECD said yesterday that state indebtedness, and rapidly growing inflation is threatening to bring down the entire banking system. Its secretary general, Angel Gurria,...
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...
Stand up to the bullying bosses with a general strike
THE ‘New Local Government Network’ was warning yesterday of a ‘tsunami of a public sector recession’ after the next general election when the just...
UK economy to be hit hardest by the imperialist war on Iran!
THE Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in the first major assessment by a leading international economic think tank of the economic impact...
Trump sends troops to steal Syrian oil! Kurds and Syrian army unite to drive...
WHEN US President Donald Trump abruptly announced on October 9 that all US troops would be pulled out of northern Syria, his administration indicated...
US imperialism ramps up attacks on Venezuela in order to effect regime change and...
Last Saturday morning, US president Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social platform that he was closing down the airspace ‘above and surrounding Venezuela’...
Trade unions must take action to support the Tamil people
THOUSANDS of Tamils demonstrated on Westminster Bridge on Monday evening against the failure of the Brown government to lift a finger to save the...
Tory coalition aims to smash council housing and housing benefit!
IN his Emergency Budget, the Tory Chancellor Osborne said his government’s intention was to eliminate the ‘structural current deficit’ of the government by cutting...
Leaked documents reveal a failed mass-murder machine
THE leaked 90,000 US Afghan war documents once again show – as did the My Lai mass killings of the Vietnamese people – the...
Governor of BoE blames workers for inflation – Only a sliding scale of wages...
WITH INFLATION in the UK running at over 7% and gas and electricity bills shooting up by 54%, millions of workers face being driven...
Afghan war lost – withdraw British troops now!
THE imperialist invasion of Afghanistan is coming apart at the seams. In fact, the UK troops themselves are now rejecting it, as a legitimate operation,...
Abbas backs Hamas – no ceasefire till blockade ended
PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas has backed calls by Hamas for an end to the economic blockade of the Gaza Strip by Israel as one...
Clinton pledges continuing war to ‘get rid’ of Assad
DEMOCRATIC Party Presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton, is to order a ‘full review’ of the United States’ strategy on Syria as a ‘first key task’...
Expropriate out of control banks!
THE giant international bank HSBC is ‘cast-iron certain’ to break the regulatory rules, the laws which are supposed to govern banking practices, again. These were...
London’s Met police to be split with directly recruited detectives!
THE news yesterday that, for the first time, London’s Metropolitan police will be directly recruiting plainclothed detectives with no previous experience of policing is...
Victory to the Palestinians; forward to the Palestinian state; drive imperialism out of the...
FIERCE clashes are continuing between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth organised in Popular Committees across all of the West Bank districts. The Palestinian Red Crescent...
The English Revolution of 1640s becomes burning issue today
THE FRONT page of The Daily Telegraph yesterday led with an article headed: ‘John McDonnell threatens to march on the palace and tell the...
‘We are going to create the largest social enterprise sector in the world’ says...
PRIMARY CARE Trusts are to be abolished and replaced by Federations of GPs who will purchase healthcare for their patients from both the public...
Economic Crisis Is Smashing Up Europe!
YESTERDAY official statistics for France show that core inflation had actually fallen into negative figures, - 0.2%, for the first time in recorded history...
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,...
FBI warns of revolution! Now is the time to build 4th International in the...
THE DIRECTOR of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray, told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the US ruling class has lost...
Occupy the steel works! Force TUC to call a general strike to bring down...
BRITISH capitalism is bankrupt. The ruling class, abetted by the trade union leaders, are letting the historic steel industry go to the wall. Five months...
TIME TO FIGHT FOR THE NHS – the Junior Doctors have shown the way!
THE official figures for NHS trusts in England for the first three months of the financial year (April to June) have just been released...
Nagasaki anti-militarism!
LAST week saw the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest war crimes in human history, the dropping of the two Atomic bombs onto...
Western Bosses Alliance Breaks Apart At Quebec G7 Summit!
THE G7 summit has ended in tantrums, with US President Donald Trump lashing out at Canada’s Trudeau, who was hosting the gathering. Trump from...
Tories fund campaign of on-line attacks on Corbyn by ‘shadowy’ charity run by ex-military
AT THE WEEKEND the Scottish newspaper the Daily Record published leaked documents that claims to reveal that a small ‘charity’, based in Fife and...
NHS privateers off-shore tax haven bonanza exposed
WHILE the NHS is being brought to its knees financially through austerity cuts, with hospitals and entire health authorities facing bankruptcy, NHS privateers are...
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...
Bring Down The May Government, Quit Eu And Bring In Socialism!
GENERAL LORD Dannatt, the chief of the General Staff from 2006-2009, writing in The Daily Telegraph, has bemoaned the ‘national embarrassment of almost...
Derisory increase in minimum wage wiped out by inflation!
APPROXIMATELY 2 million low paid workers will be covered by the increase in the national minimum wage that came into effect yesterday. Under this increase...
Call for Labour to ‘shake off the unions’
THE election of a Tory government has seen the class war sharpened to explosion point. Already new anti-union laws have been announced that will...
Mandela mourners boo ANC President Zuma
THE presence of all of the capitalist world’s leaders could not keep the South African masses quiet about their real feelings for the ANC...
Balls and Miliband argue for a permanent cuts regime
LABOUR leader Miliband’s speech of yesterday was a pre-election attempt to bolster up support from workers by arguing that Labour will be...
Labour to ‘relax’ restrictions on banks risking massive increase in house repossessions!
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is committing the Labour government to follow in the footsteps of US president Donald Trump by enthusiastically embracing policies to...
Tories want to criminalise anyone ‘undermining’ capitalism
ON SATURDAY, the Guardian reported that the Tories are working towards a new definition of ‘extremism’ that includes anyone who ‘undermines British institutions or...
State Of Palestine Now Within Reach!
ISRAEL, after 50 days of slaughter in which over 2,000 Palestinians were killed, many of them children, tens of thousands wounded and hundreds of...
It’s still austerity, more austerity and yet more austerity from Osborne and the Tories
The UK economy grew by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2014, compared to 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the...
Cameron abuses Corbyn, pledges to end social housing and announces an end to ‘passive...
AFTER Theresa May’s vintage Tory beat-and-beat-again speech on Tuesday to the Tory Party conference, treating migrants as the enemy and rating their contribution...
Get Ready For War says NATO, as capitalist crisis reaches its explosion point!
‘CIVILIANS IN THE WEST must prepare for all-out war with Russia within the next 20 years’, a NATO Admiral, Rob Bauer warned in the...
Trump Wants The Whole World To Pay For The Crisis And Death Agony Of...
DEEP splits among the imperialist powers emerged this week over the rapidly growing support for a Palestinian state, at the same time as Trump...
Ed Balls ending Universal Benefit
YESTERDAY the Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, announced that the Labour Party has officially abandoned the principle of universal benefits in the interests of...
Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism
EVERYWHERE capitalism is crashing! Yesterday the FTSE 100 index fell to 3472.68 points making a 50 per cent crash from the FTSE’s...