Murdoch withdraws BskyB bid – Now bring down coalition!
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister announced that a judge-led phone hacking inquiry will have powers to call media proprietors, editors and politicians to give evidence,...
Central Banks to increase global debt timebomb with QE
CENTRAL banks in America, Europe and Japan are on the verge of printing and handing out to their banks hundreds of billions of pounds...
Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Sri Lanka
SRI LANKA is facing a revolutionary upheaval as workers and young people took to the streets over the weekend demanding the immediate resignation of...
Mursi supports imperialist drive to overthrow Assad!
PRESIDENT MURSI caused a Syrian walk-out at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Tehran yesterday when he attacked the Syrian government and supported the...
Scrap the Public Private Partnership on the tube
METRONET, the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) within London Underground, has collapsed financially after years of failure to provide services required by the capital’s transport system. It...
Revolution On The March In The Eu!
THE working class pushing forward against the EU’s austerity programmes has thrust the Eurozone into crisis, and created the conditions for the collapse of...
‘The world is witnessing the false calm before the Middle East Energy Storm’ says...
‘OIL currency and equity markets are treating the all out war between Israel and the revolutionary Iranian regime almost as if it were a...
Water companies to be allowed to charge more for water during droughts
DAYS after three-quarters of Britain was officially declared to be suffering from drought, plans have emerged that will allow the privatised water companies to...
Down with all zero-hours contracts!
‘JOBSEEKERS’ will lose their benefits, or their Universal Credit when it is introduced, if they turn down zero-hours contracts, the government has said. This new...
Cowardly Corbyn desperately walks the tightrope over the EU and the single market!
LABOUR’S right wing were furious on Friday after the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party conference blocked a vote on single market membership. Instead,...
Israel Accepts Gaza Ceasefire Out Of Fear Of The Arab Revolution
THE Egyptian military have brokered a truce between the militant Palestinian factions in Gaza and the Israeli military, which had been bombing Gaza for...
‘At war’ Obama speaks about taking difficult decisions
PRESIDENT Obama’s inaugural address was Churchillian in tone, but lacking in concrete content, limiting itself to spelling out that the US ruling class was...
Developing Oil Crisis Makes It All The More Vital That The Working Class Takes...
THE SAUDI REGIME, backed to the hilt by the US and the UK, yesterday admitted that the Houthi movement’s drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s...
Iran offers talks on the US created nuclear crisis
THE imperialist powers are studying Iran’s offer of more talks to resolve the crisis that the US has created over Iran’s right to develop nuclear...
Revolution coming to North America!
THE continuing Egyptian revolution – in particular the determined occupations of Tahrir Square and the fearless struggle of Egypt’s workers for their rights...
Bush & Brown move in to exploit protests in Myanmar
UNITED States President George Bush declared at the end of last week: ‘I call on all nations that have influence with the (Myanmar) regime...
Bank of England implicated in illegal Libor rigging
THE Bank of England, the UKs central bank and guardian of the country’s banking system, along with being responsible for the running of British...
Labour to match the Tories cut for cut!
‘BUT my argument starts by recognising that tough times will continue,’ said Labour leader Miliband yesterday on his policy for dealing with the crisis. He...
Gordon Brown wheeled out to save capitalism
Former Labour chancellor and prime minister Gordon Brown has stepped forward to offer himself up as the saviour of bankrupt British capitalism. Brown made his...
US vetoes UN resolution on Gaza as it openly ‘stands with Israel’ in imperialism’s...
ON WEDNESDAY, the US vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution demanding ‘an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’ in Gaza. The draft resolution also...
Palestinians force Israel to agree ceasefire in Gaza
LAST Friday Israel launched a murderous bombardment on the Gaza Strip killing at least 27 Palestinians, including two pregnant women and at least two infants,...
Disabled to be impoverished by Welfare Bill
As the Welfare Reform Bill progresses through the committee stage of the House of Lords so more evidence is emerging about the catastrophic effect it...
Hundreds More Deaths In Palestine As Israeli Murder Machine Claims More Victims
THE Israeli murder machine is being allowed to do its worst in the Gaza Strip, with the US and the UK ruling classes standing...
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...
Carney tells banks to find £11.4 billion to save them going bust
DESPITE all the recent words from Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, about the underlying health of British capitalism, his actions yesterday...
Ukraine On The Brink Of Civil War
THE sacking of the Ukrainian prosecutor-general, Svyatoslav Piskun by President Yushchenko has brought the Ukraine to the brink of a civil war...
Police call for more repression
METROPOLITAN Police Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur has submitted a document to the Labour government’s Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, calling for new laws that would...
Coalition Crisis Deepening By The Hour
WHATEVER the outcome of yesterday’s by-election in Eastleigh, it spells disaster for the Tory-led coalition government. Should the LibDems scrape a win over the Tories...
Reject Gate Gourmet mass sackings deal!
A MASS meeting of the 710 TGWU trade union members, sacked and locked-out at Gate Gourmet, will take place at the Monsoon Club in...
Reject the SNP attempt to split the working class! Forward to Socialist United States...
THE LEADER of the Scottish Nationalist Party, Nicola Sturgeon, dropped a bombshell yesterday with her announcement that she intends to push through a vote...
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...
Disarm imperialism through the victory of the world socialist revolution!
LAST week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a whole series of blogs on its website warning that the entire US banking...
Make May Day the start of a general strike to smash the capitalist state...
YESTERDAY, the High Court in London ruled that the strike action by nurses on May 2nd was unlawful under existing Tory anti-union laws. Pat Cullen,...
Only nationalisation under socialism can provide a solution to energy crisis!
IN THEIR desperation to prevent a complete meltdown of Britain’s food industry the Tories have agreed to pump tens of millions of pounds into...
Bankrupt UK economy plunges deeper into slump
There was no cheer for the British bourgeoisie on Monday when three separate reports from the Institute of Chartered accountants and the accountancy group...
Trade Union Renegade Doing Blair’s Dirty Work
THE former CWU postal workers trade union leader, Alan Johnson, yesterday moved into action at the behest of the Prime Minister to urge that...
Overthrowing capitalism only way to eradicate Covid variants
THE NEW variant strain of Covid-19, given the name Omicron by the World Health Organisation (WHO), burst onto the world scene last week although...
Firefighters, postal workers, teachers must unite to smash privatisation!
THE TORY-led coalition is working overtime to privatise the public sector and turn it into a bonanza, a big killing for the big business...
Corbyn comes out for a second referendum to sell-out Brexit
YESTERDAY Jeremy Corbyn launched the Labour Party manifesto for the upcoming elections to the EU parliament: ‘Transforming Britain and Europe: for the many not...
Crisis-Ridden Bosses And Tories Fear The Election
THE Tory Party, its media wing and the boss class as a whole are getting very worried about the election, and what is to...
Kick May And The Tories Out Now With A General Strike! Forward To...
PM MAY yesterday morning announced she was resigning as Tory leader and Prime Minister in two weeks on June 7. May said that the...
The world must act to defend Palestinians
YESTERDAY morning Israel announced that all the crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel were closed. Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak...
Blair puts ‘the country’ before the Labour Party
BLAIR came clean on at least one issue at his monthly press conference and that was where his loyalties lie. They definitely do not lie...
Parliament Votes Lords Resolution Banning Any UK ‘No Deal’ Into Law!
THE HOUSE of Commons on Monday night voted by 390 votes to 81 to turn a House of Lords resolution into legislation that bans...
Police ‘execution’ sparks Minneapolis uprising – It will be supported by workers...
‘THEY EXECUTED my brother in broad daylight. People had to film that. People had to see that,’ Philonise Floyd the brother of George Floyd, killed...