Comet collapse and private equity
Last Friday the administrator brought in to wind down the collapsed electrical retailer chain Comet announced that 330 staff would be made redundant with...
Trump gambles on his inflationary boom lasting till presidential election day!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump delivered his formal State of the Union address on Tuesday night with the usual boast that under the three years...
Millions of Palestinians facing death by starvation – unions must call general strikes in...
UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, has accused Israel of ‘starving civilians’ including a million children in Gaza by deliberately blocking food...
Net Closing In On Iraq War Criminals
THE Brown government has been told by the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, to release the minutes of two cabinet meetings, from March 7th and...
Israel To Cut Off Gaza Power
ISRAEL’S defence minister is once again preparing to approve cuts in the supply of electricity and fuel to Gaza, to try once again to...
The TUC Congress must vote for a general strike for UK to end trade...
THE scheduled visit to the UK next Tuesday and Wednesday of Israeli president Isaac Herzog has enraged Labour MPs. The visit will take place...
US Trade Gap Widens As Banks Get Ready For Economic Storm
THE US trade gap widened in January to $44.45bn (£29.53bn) from December’s figure of $38.14bn, the US Commerce Department has reported. Much of the rise...
Recall TUC Congress to elect a new leadership prepared to defeat Starmer & Co
PM Starmer’s latest policy U-turn, of abandoning the protection against unfair dismissal from day-one for new employees in the Employment Rights Bill, created a...
Forward With The European Socialist Revolution!
ON MONDAY in the House of Commons, ex-Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw rounded on the government stating: ‘Instead of sheltering behind complacent language and...
RBS scandal demands workers expropriate the banks
THIS week yet another scandal has broken out concerning the practices of the banking system. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is once again in...
Don’t let P&O get away with murder – Make the TUC and labour leaders...
YESTERDAY, Chancellor Sunak pledged to help the masses ‘where we can make a difference’, as households face soaring living costs, to the extent that...
Imperialism Risks Armageddon in Gulf
The news this week, that the army and security services have informed government ministers that there is a ‘25% to 50% chance’ that there...
Food Price Inflation Soars As The Capitalist Crisis Deepens. Demand The Tuc Call A...
SOARING prices for bread, cereal and chocolate meant the cost of living rose more than expected last month – these are the fruits of...
Pompeo Reveals That Soleimani’s Murder Was Part Of A ‘Bigger Strategy Of Deterrence!’
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo has spilled the beans about the murder of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. He has revealed that it...
Forest Gate report justifies police-state tactics
THE official Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) published its report yesterday into complaints against the Metropolitan Police over its huge police raid in Forest...
US imperialism is planning to split Gaza!
ON Friday, the Guardian newspaper revealed the latest plan from the US military to entrench the division of Gaza by creating a fortified ‘green...
May wants to rip up the basic rights of the working class! Put her...
IN the seven short weeks since Tory Prime Minister Theresa May announced out of the blue that she was calling a snap general election,...
Bush talks peace as Israeli tanks kill eleven in Gaza
THE content of the Bush ‘peace offensive’ was yesterday revealed for the whole world to see when Israeli tanks, supported by artillery fire ...
Coalition building a landlords’ paradise – bring back Council Housing! Now!
THE Coalition government is busily building a paradise for the landlords, the latest Shelter Rent Report shows. In this paradise, private tenants, who can no...
NHS crisis can only be resolved by kicking out the Tories and going forward...
THE Commons Health and Social Care Committee of MPs yesterday published a report calling on the Tory government to come up with a ‘long...
Unite betrays Ealing strikers – Time to build a revolutionary leadership in the unions
THE ANGER expressed by Ealing Parking Service workers at the way in which the Unite leadership has sold their strike down the river reflects...
Bank of England splits over rate cut – time to nationalise the banks!
THE Bank of England’s crisis came out in the open at yesterday’s meeting as the Bank’s governor Andrew Bailey was opposed by two of...
US bosses handed $1.5 trillion by Trump – Forward to the US socialist revolution!
THE US Senate has approved by 51 votes to 48 a measure slashing the taxes of the rich and the major banks and companies...
Israel continues its all-out assault on the rights of the Palestinian people and all...
A PALESTINIAN-FRENCH human rights lawyer whom Israel has stripped of his Jerusalem residency is at imminent risk of deportation, an Israeli group says. The HaMoked...
EU banker Draghi imposed as Italian Prime Minister in desperate attempt to prevent a...
BANKRUPT Italian capitalism moved on Tuesday night to cement the dictatorship of the bankers over the country when the president Sergio Mattarela unilaterally appointed...
Homelessness in rural England rises by a third in a year! Socialist revolution to...
HOMELESSNESS in rural England has soared by as much as a third between 2012 and 2018, new figures released yesterday have shown. As rich...
Israel commits mass murder with impunity as the West steps up its campaign for...
THE WEST’S ‘bastion of freedom and democracy’ in the Middle East, Zionist Israel, yesterday launched deadly attacks on a UN school housing hundreds of...
Tories rejected scientific advice in order to keep capitalism open at all costs
TORY science minister George Freeman admitted yesterday that the government had rejected the advice of its own experts at SAGE over restrictions designed to...
We Are Approachng A Moment Of Truth Says Osborne
KARL MARX was able to show that one of the fundamental contradictions of the capitalist system was the conflict between the need of the...
Britain’s housing bubble threatens capitalism’s global economy
BRITAIN’S housing bubble is a threat to the global stability of capitalism – this is the assessment of Crispin Odey, the country’s leading hedge...
Corbyn sets out to unrig and transform the ‘rigged’ capitalist system
LABOUR Leader Corbyn opened the Labour Party general election campaign yesterday by stating: ‘We have four weeks. Four weeks to take our message to...
US Pledges To Rearm Israel For ‘Agree Or Else’ Direct Talks
OBAMA’S talks with Netanyahu were to prepare the way for direct talks between Netanyahu and the Abbas Palestinian leadership, on a ‘final solution to...
Don’t raise rates Chambers of Commerce warns B of E
ON the eve of the Bank of England’s monthly Monetary Policy Committee meeting over the Bank’s interest rate, the British Chambers of Commerce has...
THE HOUSING CRISIS: Nationalise construction companies and banks!
AVERAGE house prices in Britain are now 10.5 per cent lower than they were a year ago, according to figures published yesterday by Nationwide,...
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,...
Make May apologise for 100 years of the Balfour Declaration!
PM May has gone out of her way to insult the Palestinian people by declaring her pride in the 100th anniversary of the Balfour...
Biden has China and Russia in his sights! End imperialist wars by putting an...
THROWING TRUMP’S ‘America First’ economic policy out the window, the new US administration under President Biden is reinstating the interventionist policies which dominated during...
Obama revamps US imperialism’s war cabinet
BARACK OBAMA, United States President-elect, announced the latest appointments to his White House cabinet on Monday. He made Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, confirmed that...
Workers Must Force The Recall Of The Tuc To Call A General Strike To...
THE Metropolitan Police arrested two pro-Palestine protesters for shouting ‘Globalise the Intifada’ at a peaceful demonstration outside the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday night,...
Cameron’s all-powerful police state is to fight the working class
THE beginning of PM Cameron’s speech to the recalled House of Commons was an attempt to divorce the youth uprising that is taking place...
Brazil erupts as social revolution hits South America
THE Brazilian government is deploying heavily armed troops to five main urban centres that are the driving force of the present uprising by the...
‘Blue Wave’ fails to remove Trump – the Democrats are part of the problem...
THE DEMOCRATS have taken control of the US House of Representatives in the mid-term elections, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump. However, the Republicans...
Reeves’ pre-budget speech a message that the Labour government is ready to carry out...
YESTERDAY morning Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves gave an unprecedented pre-budget speech designed, she said, to address ‘speculation’ about what she would be announcing in...
Cameron and Osborne on the way out as Tory Party tears apart – now...
LAST Wednesday Chancellor Osborne, with all the arrogance of a Tory millionaire born to rule, stood up in parliament and announced that he was...
Diane Abbott ‘culled’ by Starmer and the Labour Party right wing!
LONG-standing Labour MP Diane Abbott accused the right wing Labour leadership, led by Keir Starmer, of carrying out a ‘cull of left wingers’ in...