As workers boil with anger Obama and Republicans vow ‘no deal’
THE USA is set to hit its debt ceiling by 17 October, if the Houses of Congress are unable to agree a massive cuts...
Rejected Sunak brought back as Tory leader – unions must call a general strike...
Rishi Sunak was appointed Tory Prime Minister yesterday after his opponent Penny Mordaunt withdrew from the race at the last minute. Sunak was overwhelmingly rejected...
PM Sunak Ditches HS2 And Launches Savage Cuts To Smash The Trade Unions!
THE GMB trade union yesterday slammed the scrapping of the HS2 Northern route, the biggest cut in the rail network since the days of...
Bring Down The May Government – Forward To A Socialist UK And A...
ONE HUNDRED years after the Balfour Declaration, the PLO and the Palestinian masses are demanding that the UK government apologise for it and its...
UN poverty expert slams Tory ‘hypocrisy’ over austerity – end poverty with socialist revolution
THE UNITED Nations rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston, has issued a damning attack on the Tory government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic describing...
UK and US workers must unite to smash capitalism and imperialism! Forward to Socialism!
ELON Musk’s chainsaw wielding stunt with Argentine President Javier Milei before a conservative convention in the US on Thursday was a call to war...
The British government is the real criminal
DEFENCE Secretary John Reid yesterday appealed to people to be very slow to condemn British troops for the atrocities being committed in...
Tories intend to put an end to the NATIONAL Health Service
IT IS crystal clear with the Tories seeking to impose even bigger cuts if they are re-elected in May, that under their rule the...
Sunak promises bankers unlimited profits while Haldane warns of economic collapse!
ON WEDNESDAY Andy Haldane, outgoing chief economist at the Bank of England (BoE), delivered a message of doom for the British economy in a...
‘It’s the concern, the fear, the sheer uncertainty’ says BoE’s King
THE chief of the Federal Reserve Bank, Bernanke, has hinted heavily that the developing slow down of the US economy will be met with...
Time to drive the Tories out! TUC must call a general strike to give...
AFTER the Tory insult of a 1% pay offer to the heroic health workers, the working class and youth are boiling with anger and...
Occupy And Nationalise Ellesmere Port And Luton Stellantis Car Plants
ONE of the world’s biggest carmakers, Stellantis, has called on the Tory government to renegotiate part of the Brexit deal or risk losing parts...
Hunt and Bailey will ‘do whatever is necessary’ to save bankrupt capitalism. Time to...
ON MONDAY night, 400 leading figures from the world of high finance and corporate business gathered at the Mansion House in London to hear...
Osborne’s ‘city states’ are part of the break-up of British capitalism
OSBORNE’S plans for English cities to have mayors and combined authorities with powers over housing, health care, transport, planning and policing mean that London,...
3,000 new settler homes planned! Trade unions must take action to end Israeli...
ISRAEL has approved more than 3,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank. Settlers have spent the last weeks engaging in a reign of...
Bank shares fall while AIG and HBOS live on borrowed time!
SHARE price collapses continued yesterday after the bankrupting of the fourth largest US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, and the ‘rescue’ of Merrill Lynch by...
Russia Gives Nuclear Warning
RUSSIA’S military chief of staff General Baluyevsky has said Russia is ready to use force, pre-emptively if necessary and with nuclear weapons, to defend...
Nationalise Honda, Nissan, Vauxhalls and the steel industry to defeat trade war closures!
HONDA yesterday issued a closure statement in which Katsushi Inoue, Chief Officer for European Regional Operations, Honda Motor Co. Ltd., and President of Honda...
One more turn of the police state screw!
YESTERDAY Home Secretary, Smith was having a go at presenting the introduction of biometric identity cards as a matter of personal convenience, and even...
Israeli Police Attack Anti-Netanyahu Demonstrators As Israel Explodes!
ISRAELI police arrested 12 people and used water cannons before dawn on Sunday to disperse furious protesters against the policies of PM Netanyahu. Tens of...
UK Opts For Syria Regime Change
WITH its recognition of the Syrian ‘opposition’ as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, the UK has joined France, Saudi Arabia and...
McDONNELL SPLITS LABOUR OVER SCOTTISH NATIONALISTS – HE IS GETTING READY FOR A...
IN AN interview in Edinburgh on Tuesday Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell brazenly broke with the official Labour Party policy of opposition to a...
Forward to Palestine
HAMAS on Sunday, along with the other Palestinian factions in Gaza, agreed to another 24-hour truce. Hamas’ statement read: ‘In response to the UN’s...
Political crisis in Europe
The political crisis for the European bourgeoisie deepened yesterday following the results of exit polls at the end of the first round of voting...
Public Debt doubles – overthrow bankrupt capitalism
The coalition government will be forced to accept this month that the bank bailout has more than doubled the size of the Public Debt...
LOW PAY – TUC Commission shows the problem, but runs away from a solution
YESTERDAY the TUC revealed in its ‘Commission on Vulnerable Employment’ report what everybody already knows. This is that low pay and slave labour...
Eurozone crisis creating revolution – build the Fourth International
THE barrage of propaganda from every mouthpiece of the capitalist class that the economic crisis of capitalism is over, suffered a blow last week with...
Defend The Post Office! Stop Royal Mail Privatisation!
THE CWU revealed yesterday that 9,360 post offices will close once Royal Mail is privatised and the inter-business agreement with the Post Office is...
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...
Assad warns of new war danger in the Middle East
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad warned yesterday that the Israeli attack on the Gaza humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters, in which nine Turkish citizens...
Tories trying to stampede MPs into supporting war in Syria!
THE tragic loss of the Russian airliner flying out of the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh killing 224 people, is being used by the...
CBI bosses demand NHS privatisation
THE CBI boss Richard Lambert spoke up yesterday at the CBI Public Service Summit to insist that the financial belt-tightening that the Brown government...
Unions at court to fight pensions rip-off
Yesterday six trade unions appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice to appeal against a High Court decision that the coalition government will slash...
Trade Union Bureaucracy Resumes Its Full Support For Pension Busting!
ON December 20th the major local government trade unions, after coming under massive attack from their local government members, suspended their support, agreed on...
4.5m on the housing waiting list!
THE National Housing Federation (NHF) complains that the government has missed its home-building target for the last seven years and that the housing crisis...
EU raises the need for a European army, navy and airforce
THE super-imperialist ambitions of the European Union (EU) have begun to emerge in the wake of its Brexit defeat in the UK. So far, its...
Occupy and demand nationalisation at Grangemouth
THE people of Scotland will be watching tomorrow and expecting you to ‘fire up Grangemouth’ was the message from Unite to Jim Ratcliffe and...
Panic reigns supreme under bankrupt capitalism
THE sense of panic and of impending doom is running wild amongst the international banks and the world bourgeoisie as they are forced to...
A Royal Commission to privatise the NHS!
THE right-wing think tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), which promotes free-market capitalism, has just produced a report entitled ‘An NHS Royal...
Follow Holby City Equity Take Strike Action With Junior Doctors
THE Equity trade union members who play the doctors and medical staff in the BBC medical drama Holby City have offered their full support...
Politically bankrupt Starmer will seek to force the working class to pay for the...
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s speech at the TUC Congress yesterday spelt out precisely to delegates that this Labour government is determined to inflict all the pain...
‘We are not asking the west to choose our leaders’
THIS was the defiant and revolutionary message that came out of Egypt from demonstrators, and was shown in the western media, in response to...
Gate Gourmet Workers Lead The Way!
ON SUNDAY, hundreds of workers from Gate Gourmet, who were locked out and sacked by the company on August 10, 2005, are marching with...
Unsafe schools set to collapse! Pupils and teachers are in danger as Tories smash...
YESTERDAY’S Observer newspaper a champion of the rule of the British bosses and bankers, was forced to admit that it had been told by...
The US kettle calls the Pakistani pot black
THE US military’s top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, has accused Pakistan’s spy agency of having links with Taleban fighters who are targeting US forces....