Capitalism about to bounce over the edge of the precipice!
IN THE week that Boris Johnson boasted that the lifting of coronavirus lockdown measures heralded the start of the economic ‘bounce back’, it became...
Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ is a national government
GORDON Brown yesterday launched his campaign to take over the job of Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. He spoke about his ‘new ideas and...
Putin tells the bosses how to run capitalism
RUSSIA’S Stalinist leader, President Putin, addressing a business forum in Leningrad on Sunday, told the assembled capitalist leaders that the IMF and the World...
Greek crisis sharpens – the working class must take the power!
AHEAD of today’s summit of the European Union the Greek transport minister issued an open threat that unless striking transport workers returned to work...
It’s a Labour heaven for bankers but a hell for workers, youth and immigrants!
THE class message of the Labour government is clear. It is that if you’re a banker, you can do no wrong and are...
Time to put down the sick dog Tory minority government!
THE QUEEN dropped by Westminster on her way to Ascot races yesterday morning to spend 20 minutes outlining the Theresa May minority Tory government’s...
No to paying the EU £50 billion – Kick out the Tories and forward...
THE TORY government has caved in to EU demands and agreed to pay a whopping ‘divorce’ bill that is estimated to be £50 billion. EU...
More ‘breadline poor’ after 10 years of Labour governments
The gap between the rich and poor has widened in recent years and is greater than at any time in the past 40 years,...
PM Johnson In ‘Intensive Care’ And Labour Is Ready For A National Government
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is now in intensive care at St Thomas’ hospital, laid low by the coronovirus, perfectly reflecting the state of British...
Sunak Seeks To Militarise Working Class Youth As Well As Banning All Strikes!
TORY PM Sunak yesterday sought to win back big business by stating that after the forthcoming general election has been won on July 4th,...
Tories to bail capitalism out, while leaving workers and their families to die of...
GLOBAL stock markets crashed on Thursday, the biggest single day fall in history. This is the historic crisis of capitalism, its death agony. The...
TUC Congress must call a general strike to support the State of Palestine
WHILE welcoming the limited ‘humanitarian pause’ in the Gaza war to allow the polio vaccination of young Gazan children by the World Health Organisation...
Labour pledges limitless billions to arm Ukraine while refusing to support workers’ pay demands
IN A speech yesterday at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Labour’s shadow defence secretary, John Healey, pledged that any future Labour government would...
Labour cutting thousands of jobs! Trade unions must bring Labour down with general strike!...
THE PCS trade union has responded to Labour’s huge civil service cuts pronouncements. A shocked and shaken PCS said: ‘The impact of making cuts will...
Working Class In Ukraine Winning Over The Army
ON SATURDAY a National Assembly was held in the Black Sea city of Odessa, and other assemblies were held in all of the...
General Sanders Says That The UK Army Must Be Ready For A War To...
THE new Chief of the General staff, Sir Patrick Sanders, yesterday urged that Britain must be ready to fight Putin, comparing the present situation...
Sanctions on Russia rebound on US as countries dump the dollar as dominant world...
ONE OF the main consequences of the US-led sanctions designed to strangle the Russian economy and lead to regime change has been to hasten...
The youth of Europe are rising up against their governments and the EU! Forward...
YOUTH across Europe are a revolutionary force that are ready to rise up against the ‘generation in power’ in their countries and in the...
Occupy Grangemouth to defend the union, jobs, wages and pensions
UNITE has urged Grangemouth workers not to give in to Ineos’ ‘menacing’ tactics to sign away their rights, saying it was looking to take...
Live8 won’t comment on ‘don’t attack Bush’ line
YESTERDAY the PR company representing Live8, LD Publicity, refused to deny media allegations that Bob Geldof, the Live8 movement’s leader, had a soft spot...
Opportunist Burnham launches drive to replace opportunist Miliband!
BURNHAM, who served as Labour’s health secretary under Gordon Brown and enthusiastically pursued polices to privatise the NHS, cut its budget and bankrupt it...
Hewitt, Hoon and Cameron fail to shift Brown
ON Wednesday mid-day, ex-ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon sent a text to all Labour MPs asking them to support a call for a...
London Is Now A No-Go Area According To The Met Police!
IN advance of today’s mass demonstrations in support of Palestine, the Tories have launched a campaign to crack down on all opposition to the...
Manchester students tear down the fences. UK workers and youth are building up for...
STUDENTS have torn down prison-like fencing erected around their campus on the first day of the new nationwide lockdown. As the Tories allowed the second...
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...
Recall The Tuc Congress To Call General Strike To Support The Junior Doctors
THE latest two-day strike action of the junior doctors has been a resounding success with massive picket lines, and huge public support, while the...
Eu Meltdown
CREDIT ratings agency Moody’s yesterday reflected the rapidly developing EU meltdown by doing the unthinkable – warning the EU’s strongman, Germany, that...
Crisis-ridden capitalism has had its day. Forward to the World Socialist revolution!
AMID all the furious propaganda about an imminent Russian invasion of the EU and the drive to rearm NATO for war, the defence policy...
US trade unions must evict Trump and break with Democrats to found a Labour...
PRESIDENT TRUMP has stated that he has no intention of leaving the White House and the presidency voluntarily. He said on Saturday: ‘We all know...
Poroshenko’s anti-Russian provocations are a sign that his end is near and that ...
ALL RUSSIAN men aged between 16-60 have been banned from entering the Ukraine in a further ratcheting up of tensions by the Poroshenko dictatorship,...
Brown Threatens Royal Mail Funding!
AT THE CWU rally at Central Hall yesterday afternoon, CWU leader Billy Hayes presented a successful outcome of the postal workers struggle as relying...
Nationalise The Banks Jail The Bankers
THE capitalist media has been forced, in recent days, to reveal some of the misdoings of the great banks that stand astride the...
SALUTE ABDUL HAROUN – The man that the tunnel could not stop!
ABDUL Rahman Haroun is a hero. The Sudanese national walked the full length of the Channel Tunnel (31 miles), dicing with death all of...
Blair seeking legislation to overrule the courts
THE Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has had his plans for a government veto over the law courts made public after a leak of his...
‘Our greatest allies are our patients’ – GP conference told
OPENING the BMA GPs Conference in York, Doctor Nagpaul correctly pointed out that ‘Today, nearly a million patients will visit their GP surgery, that’s...
Employment figures mask the real crisis of British capitalism
THE BIG lie of this minority Tory government is that British capitalism is thriving, its economy is in vigorous good health and that workers...
Brown to give power over NHS away to independent committee
CHANCELLOR Brown yesterday, on the BBC Politics Show, sought to trump his rival, the outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair, in the competition between them...
Hamas Insists That Israel Must Agree To A Permanent Ceasefire!
Hamas says it has submitted its response to a US-backed plan for a ceasefire in Gaza, with a senior official telling the BBC that...
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...
Tory government acted illegally! It has no right to rule and must be...
THE Supreme Court yesterday dealt a death blow to the Tory strategy to make it financially impossible for workers to take their employers...
The Freedom Flotilla is approaching the shores of Gaza – Trade unions must take...
THE Madleen ship, part of the Freedom Flotilla launched from Italy, is approaching the shores of Gaza amid concerns that the Israeli occupation army...
Backward Britain – Reading shuts Physics Department
THE backwardness of British capitalism was revealed yesterday for all to see when Reading University shut down its Physics Department. As usual, the reality is...
Unions must strike for a 10% wage rise!
The results of a consultative ballot of 600,000 local government and school members of the Unison union recorded a massive 70% rejection of the...
US Threatens Syria With War
THE US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, who was recently transferred from Afghanistan, last Monday threatened the Syrian government with war. He accused Syria of...
Sack Gove not teachers, stop privatisation of schools
TEACHERS in England returned to work this week facing an all-out assault on their jobs, their pay and the very existence of free state...