Bankers promote permanent austerity! Nationalise the banks through a socialist revolution – the only...
RICHARD SHARP, a member of the Bank of England’s Financial Stability Committee has warned that the UK is heading for a Venezuelan-style economic crash...
Health unions in head-on collision with the government over pay! Entire working...
UNIONS representing NHS workers have written directly to the Tory government over their pay. The fourteen unions represent over a million NHS workers. The...
Blair hits out at ‘black crime’ – calls to ‘take out’ black youth
BLAIR in his Callaghan Memorial lecture in Cardiff came out as an admirer of the right wing Labour premier, who he says ‘had neither...
Crisis Deepening Rapidly – Socialism The Only Answer
IN ‘going-broke Britain’ the number of people becoming insolvent in England and Wales in 2009 was 134,142, according to official data from the Insolvency...
Close down Campsfield and repeal all racist immigration laws
POLICE are looking for 14 asylum seekers who escaped from the Campsfield Detention Centre, run by the US Company GEO and secured by Group...
Trade union bureaucrats put two fingers up to May Day
TRUE to form, the voice of the trade union bureaucracy, the Stalinist Morning Star counted tens of thousands of marchers on the TUC’s May...
Coalition plans to punish and freeze the elderly
IT was the German anti-Nazi activist, Pastor Martin Niemöller, who said: ‘In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up...
Labour will let bankers’ bonuses soar and make the working class pay for capitalist...
LABOUR’S shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves yesterday pledged any future Labour government to be the bankers’ best friend, ready and willing to facilitate awarding massive...
Cameron’s Magna Carta hypocrisy
THIS week the Tory-led coalition is set to announce yet more changes to the education syllabus, changes designed to further Cameron’s pledge to drive...
Occupy UK Car Plants! Call General Strike To Bring In Workers Government To Nationalise...
THE UNITE union, representing car workers, said yesterday that its members will fight ‘tooth and nail’ to safeguard Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant, and urged...
Nationalise the major industries to defend jobs
GERMANY, the world’s biggest exporter of commodities, and the strong man of the EU, has begun to slump with government figures showing that its...
After April 24: Defeat pay cuts with an extended general strike!
TENS of thousands of teachers, college lecturers and civil servants are striking today against government-imposed pay cuts. As a result of the action by the...
French working class must take power to begin the European Socialist revolution!
NEARLY a quarter of a million French workers have taken part in mass rallies across the country against the French fascists, calling on the...
Tory donor scandal reveals not just the racism but the massive profits leeched from...
When The Guardian newspaper on Monday reported the racist comments made by Frank Hester, the owner and sole shareholder of the Pheonix Partnership (TPP),...
Trump And The US Ruling Class Up To Their Necks In The Afghan Quagmire!
THE US ruling class and its leader President Trump (allegedly much versed in the ‘art of the deal’) are now up to their necks...
Smash capitalism to end hire and fire at will and poverty pay
WHAT kind of future capitalism has in store for the entire working class was forcibly brought home this week – a future where workers...
The currency crash and the socialist revolution
THE decision by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to abandon its three-year cap on the franc last Thursday has had an immediate and catastrophic...
Neither savage deflation or massive inflation but socialism!
LABOUR’S last Chancellor, Alistair Darling, has urged the Tories to set about printing or borrowing even more money to finance growth. It must be remembered...
US ‘Defence Cutbacks’ are a cynical fraud!
WHEN the gullible read the headline paragraph, that US Defence Secretary, Chuck Hagel, has unveiled plans to ‘shrink’ the US Army to its smallest...
Blair Gang In Disarray After Pm Fails To Vote
YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair was insisting that he can push through his right wing capitalist ‘reform programme’ despite suffering a double defeat at the...
Endless propaganda barrage and historical falsification used as a cover for imperialist war...
Ben Wallace, Tory defence secretary, in a speech yesterday accused Russian president Vladimir Putin of ‘hijacking history’. Wallace spoke while Russia celebrated Victory Day...
Brown pledges all to the CBI
‘Let me start by thanking you – directors, executives, managers representing companies from all over the UK – for the contribution you are making...
Hamas Ready To Form A National Unity Government!
ADDRESSING a national meeting of the leaders of Palestinian political factions in Gaza City on Saturday, Ismail Haniyah, the head of the Hamas political...
Abolish the monarchy – forward to a workers’ republic and socialism!
DETAILS of the settlement between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre to end her claim that she was forced to have sex with the Duke...
Down With The US ‘Proximity Talks’
US VICE-PRESIDENT Joe Biden is in Israel where he has declared that the just agreed ‘proximity talks’, which will see US envoy George Mitchell...
Bankrupt British capitalism must be removed by organising a Workers and Young Socialists revolution
FOLLOWING the failure of the US-Israeli illegal and unprovoked ‘shock and awe’ aerial blitzkrieg on Iran launched on 28 February, Iran’s fierce defence of...
Trump’s war on Venezuela draws condemnation from China and Russia
Russia and China have both expressed their support for Venezuela as it confronts a US blockade of oil tankers entering or leaving the country...
Rice supervises raising Middle East tensions
THE US through its secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, who has been in the Middle East for a week, is working hard to raise...
The attack on legal aid is an attack on all Basic Rights
OVER 3,000 solicitors, barristers, probation staff and a number of the many people they represent rallied last Friday in a half-day strike opposite parliament,...
Post Office scandal piles pressure on all main political parties
On Monday, the House of Commons was treated to the sight of MPs from all the political parties united in an orchestrated show of...
GPs denounce Tory plans to roll out vaccine for putting patient lives at risk
VER 1,000 GPs have written to Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock demanding that the government produces a ‘full plan’ for the roll out of...
Dannatt would not use Lariam, but permitted it to be used on thousands...
FORMER Army chief of staff Lord Dannatt has apologised on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme for allowing British troops to take an anti-malaria drug...
CORBYN, McDONNELL SET TO BETRAY AS BREXIT ‘DAY OF DECISION’ APPROACHES!
SENIOR Labour Party leaders are at war with each other over the best way to betray the 2016 referendum result, when PM Boris Johnson...
Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU
THE ALLEGED ‘poisoning’ of Russia’s unsuccessful opposition leader Alexei Navalny by a ‘Novichok-like nerve agent’ has been trumpeted by the capitalist press as if...
World bankers are in charge as the IMF justifies turning the money tap on...
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) made a wildly optimistic prediction yesterday that soaring UK inflation would become nothing more than a historical blip in...
US Falls Out With Iraqi Puppets
PRESIDENT Bush has fallen out with the major section of his puppet regime in Iraq, that is the Dawa Party and the United Iraq...
As capitalist inflation lets rip, Sunak turns to the Ukraine’s war with Russia as...
INFLATION was at 8.7% in the year to May, the same rate as it was in April, creating hundreds of thousands of hungry families...
Nationalise LDV and GM Vauxhall – no Royal Mail privatisation!
WITH even more right-wing forces seeking to bring down the Brown government from the right, trade unions now have an opportunity to show their...
BA CRISIS – no to sackings and wage cuts – Renationalise!
BRITISH Airways has decided to cut 1,700 jobs and introduce a two-year pay freeze for cabin crew. It also intends to discuss wage cuts...
Unite gives its full backing to Labour
LEN McCluskey, addressing the Unite policy conference in Liverpool yesterday, stated that the unions and the NHS face ‘the fight of our lives’ to see...
Capitalist State In A Crisis
THE capitalist state establishment was yesterday rushing into the breach to prop up the ailing head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Ian Blair, Britain’s...
Bp Hitting Russian Rocks
MANY senior foreign executives at oil giant BP’s Russian partnership TNK-BP are to be forced to leave Russia after their requests for work permits...
Bolivia nationalises oil and gas resources
BOLIVIA’S President Morales has gone from having a conference last week in Havana with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, which established a...
Corbyn has no answer for the Tory onslaught on workers and trade unions!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday at the TUC conference had no answer to the Tory onslaught on the trade unions. In particular, he ignored the...
UK workers must support the struggle for Palestinian state!
EARLY on Wednesday morning Israeli occupation forces shot and killed two Palestinian youth, a 17-year-old and a 20-year-old, and injured at least two others...