The Eurozone Commits Collective Suicide!
THE Eurozone committed ‘collective suicide’ last week when EU finance ministers met and agreed a deal that they heralded as a historic breakthrough in...
Poverty under capitalism is ‘killing people on a grand scale’
‘SOCIAL injustice is killing people on a grand scale.’ This is the conclusion of the World Health Organisation’s Commission on Social Determinants of...
Blair demands end of EU farm subsidies
THE knives are out between the British ruling class and its Franco-German opposite numbers. The press conference at the end of Blair’s visit to Moscow,...
Dictatorship in Greece – socialist revolution the only way forward
THE unelected and EU-imposed Greek ‘interim’ PM, Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank who played a major part in getting Greece...
Ireland heading for a general strike
THE Croke Park II proposals to cut the public sector pay bill, as part of an additional one billion euros of state cuts, have...
Biden adds $4tn to the US’ already unsustainable debt!
YESTERDAY, US president Joe Biden announced to a joint session of Congress his plans to unleash a massive round of government spending amounting to...
Forward to the August 20th Gate Gourmet workers march
TUC General Council members gave a good welcome to lobbying locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday morning. A number promised to attend the anniversary...
Bring down the Cameron-Murdoch police state
YESTERDAY’S parliamentary committee sessions saw News International stand brazenly in denial of any knowledge of the phone hacking that took place at the News...
Blair and Brown are responsible for Basra soldiers deaths
THE death of ten US and UK soldiers in 24 hours in Iraq speaks for itself. The occupation is now even more unpopular than...
ALL trade unions must strike with the nurses to bring down the Tories and...
NURSES are to strike on Thursday 15th and Tuesday 20th December. At the same time CWU postal and RMT and ASLEF rail workers are...
Forward With The Cuban Revolution!
THE death of Fidel Castro, the leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution sees millions of Cubans mourning their leader who secured the independence of...
France erupts as youth rise up against capitalist state brutality!
FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron was forced to convene a government emergency crisis meeting on Wednesday morning following two nights of protests and rioting across...
Japan under US protection says Clinton
CHINA has condemned the latest comments made by the United States over the disputed Diaoyu Islands in which Hillary Clinton said that Japan is...
Labour blindfolds itself so as not to see the developing capitalist crisis!
THE Labour Party manifesto launched on Tuesday contained a number of slight but significant changes from the draft leaked to the press last week. On...
The madness of NHS and Fire Service privatisation!
STEWART Jackson MP, a senior Member of the Committee of Public Accounts and the Tory MP for Peterborough, yesterday indicted his own government stating:...
Wage freezing, wage cutting, redundancies and revolution ahead for workers!
THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says that if there is a capitalist government in office in 2016 it will have to find an...
Trade unions must act to defend workers’ standard of living
THE Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King has proclaimed that the crisis of capitalism means huge ongoing cuts in the standard of...
Netanyahu bans Al Jazeera operations in Israel and the occupied territories on the eve...
THE Netanyahu government has decided to close Al Jazeera’s channel in Israel and to ban it from the occupied Palestinian territories. The Cabinet vote yesterday...
One day general strike to defend the NHS
IN the last two months the trade union movement and NHS professional organisations have been forced to take serious notice of the deepening crisis...
50% rise in SA farmworkers’ wages is just the start!
THE Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) has welcomed, as a ‘short term victory’, an increase in the minimum wage for farmworkers from R69...
Hague Beats The War Drums Against Syria
YESTERDAY saw the spectacle of Foreign Secretary Hague complaining that every Jihadist on the planet was heading for Syria, after both he and his...
Zionist troops leave bombs disguised as toys to kill children in Gaza
THE DIRECTOR General of Health Affairs in the Gaza Strip, Munir Al-Bursh, on Sunday revealed that Israeli Occupation Forces had left behind amongst the...
GM BOMBSHELL – Magna out & GM Europe heads for ‘restructuring in earnest’
GM, now owned by the US government, has dropped a bombshell by turning down its deal with Magna and the Russian state-owned Sberbank, at...
Palestine Faces Starvation! Now Is The Time For The Workers Of The World To...
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued their assault on the city of Jenin and its refugee camp for the 97th consecutive day on Sunday, carrying...
Tory ‘power grab’ to save capitalism by bringing in a police state
THE TORY rush towards creating a police state controlled directly by the government has even got the chief constables and Police and Crime Commissioners...
Right wing resorts to discredited Blair!
THE anti-Corbyn candidates must be pretty desperate if they are prepared to allow ex-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to appear and give a speech...
Imperialist war against Syria escalated – answer with socialist revolution
THE past few days have seen an escalation of the imperialist war against Syria and the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today the Turkish government is...
Tory war on unemployed must be answered with a general strike to kick them...
THE LATEST Tory onslaught on the unemployed was revealed by Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday when he praised the ‘Way...
EU crisis sharpening to breaking point!
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is attending the meeting of the EU Finance Ministers in Poland to convey the alarm of the...
No State Control Of The Media!
THE OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), the political cloak for NATO, has issued a warning about the agreement to establish an...
War crimes are OK, as long as they are British!
CORPORAL Donald Payne has just got a minor one year sentence for a war crime after pleading guilty to inhumane treatment of civilian detainees...
Tory new definition of terrorism in a crackdown on all opposition to Zionist...
MICHAEL Gove, the Tory Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, is due this week to unveil plans to ban individuals and...
Israel imitates the Nazis with its murderous attacks on Palestinians!
ISRAELI forces on Thursday evening sealed off the main entrance to Duma village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to...
MPs’ Committee blames councils over homeless and dodges government!
THE MPs’ Communities and Local Government Select Committee has said that homelessness is ‘undoubtedly increasing’ and that the scale is greater than statistics suggest. The...
The Palestinians will not be beaten as the Israeli extremist state’s crisis deepens and...
AMERICAN lawmakers have introduced a bill to prohibit the United States from normalising diplomatic relations with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, and to levy...
French crisis directly poses issue of the working class taking power!
On Sunday, France went to the polls in the first round of parliamentary elections, with the far-right, neo-fascist National Rally (RN) of Marine Le...
Railworkers Are Fighting For All Workers! TUC Must Be Made To Call General Strike
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) has responded to the rocketing inflation rate. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: ‘Inflation reaching...
The Crisis Of Capitalism Is Making It Clear That The Working Class Must Take...
BRITAIN is in the grip of the deepest recession since records began putting the country on course for the biggest economic collapse since 1709...
Desperate Osborne swings the axe as the capitalist crisis deepens
IN HIS Spending Review of yesterday, drawn up at a time when the capitalist crisis is deepening, with inflation rising and the banks warning...
Bankers’ bonuses are a diversion
The headline news throughout the bourgeois media yesterday was that Stephen Hester, Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, had magnanimously bowed to...
Arm The Palestinian Masses Now!
ISRAEL has set Palestine ablaze yet again with the death in an Israeli prison of Maysarah Abu Hamdiyeh, a 64-year-old prisoner, who had been...
Benn Forecasts Coalition Government
LABOUR Party left winger Tony Benn yesterday raised that Tony Blair and David Cameron could serve in each other’s cabinets and the possibility of...
Spain follows Greece with mass strikes against austerity
SPANISH Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialist Party government scraped through Parliament its 15bn euro (£13bn) austerity package, by 169 votes to 168,...
‘WE ARE AT WAR’ says Greek PM as workers prepare to storm parliament
THE Greek Socialist Party Prime Minister, Yiorghos Papandreou, told his party’s parliamentary deputies last Saturday that ‘no one likes emergency procedures but we are...
Government determined to destroy District General Hospitals
THE HSJ (Health Service Journal) has done a service to the NHS, and its tens of millions of users. It has revealed just how...