Corporatist union leaders are serving the bosses
WITH capitalism in its greatest crisis, and with tens of millions of jobs and tens of millions of people’s lives being destroyed after the...
Hodge, Blears and Blair say foreigners to the back of the queue
LABOUR Industry Minister Margaret Hodge has won the support of Hazel Blears (Chairman of the Labour Party and a candidate for the deputy leadership...
Iran Has The Right To Nuclear Power
THE Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, made it very clear last Wednesday what Iran’s position is on its right to develop...
Brown’s Britain = super-exploitation and death for workers
GORDON Brown is now infamous as the friend of the equity capitalists who, thanks to him, pay no taxes, while he insists that the...
Bin Laden killing opens Obama election campaign
When US President, Barack Obama, announced on Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a dawn raid by US special forces...
SLUMP SET TO DEEPEN WARNS BofE GOVERNOR
The Bank of England governor Mervyn King yesterday admitted that the UK entered a recession in the middle of 2008. Stunned by the...
Police death squads are ok says ACPO
THERE is no need to change the strategy police use to deal with suicide bombers – to put as many bullets into their brain...
Ferguson Masses Begin To Disband The Police!
AFTER the announcement of the resignation of the chief of police in Ferguson, St Louis, an evening and midnight demonstration and celebration outside the...
Labour’s Stirrup to be sacked early, as Tory MP appeals to Mullah Omar!
THE Tory Defence Secretary Fox yesterday revealed that Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, chief of the defence staff, is to be sacked early,...
Parliament can’t be reformed, sweep it away!
CORRUPTION and parliaments are inseparable. Oliver Cromwell made this clear when he shutdown the Rump Parliament, reciting as he did the vices of the...
Abuse of elderly inevitable outcome of privatisation
A major study by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the quality of home care for the elderly in England has thrown the...
Unions must take action! Occupy Bombardier! Bring down the coalition! Nationalise to...
THE proposed sacking of 1,500 Bombardier workers in Derby is the beginning of the end for the train construction industry in the UK, and...
US Ruling Class Forced To Nationalise Bankrupt Mortgage Giants
THE nationalisation of the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac mortgage finance companies by the ultra right wing Bush administration is a forced admission of...
Eurozone on top of revolutionary volcano
JUST when the eurozone bankers and capitalist class were congratulating themselves on beating the reformist Syriza government of Greece into submission, an even bigger...
Saudis oil war is deepening the world crisis
SAUDI Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, has said the oil producers’ cartel, Opec, will not cut production even if the price falls to $20...
Kiss of death for Deutsche Bank and the world banking system
THE writing is most definitely on the wall for Europe’s largest bank, with the kiss of death being delivered over the weekend when German...
Demoralised Simpson says Cameron rather than Miliband!
ON the eve of the TUC Congress, the TUC leader, Brendan Barber, has issued a call to the Brown government to tax the rich. There...
Record Breaking Inflation!
RECORD BREAKING UK inflation rate statistics were reported by the ONS (Office for National Statistics) yesterday. Inflation rose at its fastest annual pace for nine...
Obama Puts British Imperialism In Its Place
WITH more than 100 million gallons of oil already freed to spew all over the US Gulf coast, the ‘special relationship’ between the US...
Go forward to socialism – only way to avoid threatening catastrophe!
JAPAN is the second biggest power in the capitalist industrial world, behind the United States. It has just announced that its industrial output dropped...
‘Fools Gold’ Sends Stock Markets Rocketing Upwards
BOTH Wall Street and the London stock markets made record advances yesterday. The FTSE 100 index rocketed upwards on Friday morning adding £80billion to share...
US Military Chief Undermines The President Over US Troops In Iraq
THE US’ top military commander General Dempsey has broken ranks with President Obama by telling the Senate Armed Services Committee that US...
Netanyahu Demands A Palestinian Bantustan
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday endorsed for the first time the creation of a Palestinian state, provided it had none of the...
Labour Plans New Pensions Robbery
EX-CBI boss, Lord Turner’s plans for pensions are just the means chosen by the Blair government to make the working class pay for the...
Greek workers and Palestinian masses are allies
THE Greek Pasok capitalist government, that is using its state forces to bludgeon and gas tens of thousands of workers protesting against its sell-off...
Tories plan to govern without the support of the people or of parliament
IN RECENT days, especially after the Tories recognised that they would not have an overall parliamentary majority, we have heard many words about the...
‘Extraordinary Rendition’ – Blair and Straw hear and see no evil
“WE conclude that the government has a duty to enquire into the allegations of extraordinary rendition and black sites under the Convention against Torture,...
Brown pledges to bring morality to the bankers!
AT yesterday’s Labour Party conference Premier Brown focused on the ‘wrong choices’ that the Tories had made over policies to deal with the...
Israeli Dress Rehearsal For Attack On Iran!
US officials yesterday admitted that a major military exercise, which saw more than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighter jets taking part in...
EU set to EXPLODE
THE developing world-wide economic crisis is now bringing the contradictions inside the EU together and sharpening them to the point of a massive transformation...
Arab bourgeoisie – an agency of imperialism
THE Viva Palestina convoy has found out that, when it comes to preventing aid reaching the much-battered and besieged Gaza Strip, the Mubarak...
Cameron orders SAS killers onto British streets
NEARLY 2,000 new spies are to be immediately recruited by the British state, prime minister David Cameron announced yesterday. Speaking from the G20 summit being...
Blair convinces nobody with his education market
YESTERDAY saw the Prime Minister seeking to reinvent himself as the champion of the people and a supporter of ‘social justice’. Speaking in...
Organise general strike to defend CWU
ROYAL Mail, backed by Brown and Mandelson, are making no secret of the fact that they intend to stamp on the CWU, in order...
Iraqi Masses To March Against Deal To Extend US Mandate
US defence chief Robert Gates has been briefing US politicians on the proposal to extend the US mandate in Iraq. This expires this December...
Stop BA & Stop Baa Airports, To Win Cabin Crew Struggle!
BA cabin crew yesterday rejected the latest offer from BA with a massive 67 per cent voting to throw out by 3,419 votes to...
Blair threatens to ‘close the book’ on the north
THE British and Irish premiers yesterday outlined their plan to restore direct rule from Westminster, via Dublin, if the Paisleyite DUP does not agree...
Abolish Fees, Restore Grants And Free State Education For All
A REVIEW of university student fees in England has been launched by Business Secretary Mandelson. The object of the review is to increase, perhaps...
Organise a general strike over pensions!
ABOUT 1.5 million local council workers are to strike on March 28 to defend their local government pension scheme. It is being described as...
Over 100,000 could die because of fuel poverty in capitalist Britain
OVER 100,000 people in Britain could literally freeze to death over the next 25 years because they are too poor to afford to adequately...
Smash Brown’s budget cuts, and wage freeze policy
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told the House of Commons last Thursday that he will reduce the Whitehall budget by up to 20 per cent in...
Smash the surveillance society – smash the capitalist state!
HARD on the heels of the revelations last June from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden that American and British spy agencies can access all...
Labour To Slash The Benefits Of The Sick And The ‘Suspect’
The Labour government is absolutely determined to impress its big business backers and show them that it is ready to take action against ‘slackers’...
Imperialist ‘surge’ in Iraq and Afghanistan = mass slaughter
SIX Iraqi primary schoolchildren have been slaughtered by a US helicopter spraying al-Nedawat village with machine gun fire and hitting a primary school, in...
Stop Royal Mail privatisation – No to mass sackings!
THE CWU leaders Dave Ward and Billy Hayes yesterday warned that the Brown government and the Royal Mail top management are planning to sack...