Banking disaster overshadows Brown-Darling budget
BLACKSTONE, the world’s biggest private equity capitalist raider, has reported a collapse in its profits in the last three months...
Unions Must Take Strike Action To Stop ‘Son Of Star Wars’
THE real content of the ‘war against terror’ (a tool for promoting imperialist interests and for grabbing the world’s resources) has been proven with...
End misery of bankrupt capitalism with socialist revolution
LAST Friday the European Banking Authority released the findings of this year’s Stress Test for European banks. These stress tests, introduced one year ago, are...
US ‘putting a knife to China’s neck’
ON MONDAY the Chinese government issued a document accusing US president Donald Trump’s administration of ‘trade bullyism practices’ that represent the ‘greatest source of...
Don’t be foolhardy – Bush urges Chinese Stalinists
PRESIDENT George W Bush on Wednesday said China would be ‘foolhardy’ to push down the dollar in retaliation for the massive US pressure...
Growing fears over another bank crash
THERE were renewed calls yesterday by Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and other political leaders of major capitalist countries for international cooperation to tackle the...
Build the 4th International in the US
THE decision of the United Steelworkers of America trade union to follow the lead of the just-failed Democratic contender, John Edwards, whom the steelworkers...
The ruling class are above the law – decides Law Lords
THE House of Lords Court of Appeal has ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted lawfully when it rolled over in front of...
NATO warmongers meet in Brussels
NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the ‘long-term security implications’ of Russia’s response to the US-UK-EU inspired coup in Kiev, and...
Cameron, Sarkozy poised to send ground troops into Libya!
SARKOZY and Cameron visited Tripoli yesterday, not to celebrate any illusory ‘victory’, but to shore up the NTC counter-revolutionaries, who are already fighting amongst...
Inflation Persists As Mpc Rate Rise Faction Grows
WITH CPI inflation reaching 3.2 per cent (0.2 per cent down), inflation for June remained 1.2 per cent above the Bank of England target....
Trump fears spectre of socialist revolution
ON TUESDAY, US President Donald Trump delivered his second address to the UN General Council but instead of the normal Trump arm-waving threats to...
Darling can’t explain the crisis and he cannot resolve it
YESTERDAY at the Labour Party conference the leaders who not so long ago announced to the world that they had conquered the essential tendency...
Cameron Favours New Anti-Union Laws
LAST Saturday, the Tory leader, Cameron, told the Daily Telegraph that if he should win the General Election he is ready to toughen the...
Tuc Must Reply To Tory Threats And Call A General Strike To Begin On...
THE TUC leaders will be meeting in Blackpool on Wednesday evening June 15th just three days before their huge 100,000 plus ‘March for Change’...
Starmer Betrays The Working Class By Planning A Massive Rise In Military Spending!
LABOUR PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer has almost immediately betrayed the massive working class electorate that voted him into office as Prime Minister. His first action...
Thieves fall out in the European Union!
YESTERDAY the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, wielded the British veto over the Franco-German proposals to try and prop up the collapsing euro through...
British capitalism can afford wars but not benefits!
BOTH Prime Minister Blair and Chancellor Brown insisted yesterday, in support of Works and Pensions minister Hutton, that single parents must look for work...
Rumsfeld Raves About Nuclear ‘Bunker Bombs’
THE US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has defended, at an Asia-Pacific conference of regional defence ministers and military chiefs, the US drive to develop...
Tories ‘sidelining NHS’ is the cause of testing crisis – time to bring them...
WITH coronavirus cases continuing to rapidly increase day on day as a result of the Tories’ campaign to drive the reopening of workplaces, schools...
No ‘bounce back’ as UK economy shrinks by further 1.5% in three months
IT SPEAKS volumes for the disastrous state of British capitalism that news that the UK economy has collapsed by a further 1.5% in the...
US Attention Focuses On China
AT THIS moment all eyes are turned to China. The US government, and worried US trade union leaders are currently talking to the Chinese...
GM strikers are fighting for all US workers
ABOUT 73,000 carworkers, members of the 600,000-strong United Automobile Workers (UAW) trade union, went on indefinite strike at 11am on Monday at General Motors’...
Police to be ‘reformed’ along RUC lines
SIR Ronald Flanagan, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary in England and Wales, and the senior police adviser to the Home Secretary, will publish a...
British Capitalism Gets The Shakes Over Eu Crisis!
UK Chancellor George Osborne lashed out at Germany’s ‘Iron Chancellor’ Merkel before the meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels yesterday. He attacked Merkel...
The Capitalist Crisis Is Driving Forward Economic Collapse, Wars And Revolutions At Record...
FOOD prices in the UK continued to surge at the fastest rate in nearly 45 years in April, as inflation fell at a slower...
Parliament Is Up To Its Neck In Sleaze – It Must Be Closed Down...
EX-TORY MP Owen Paterson has been a paid consultant for clinical diagnostics company Randox since 2015, and for meat distributor Lynn’s Country Foods since...
‘Wrong body’ insult confirms racist state
Just one week after a demonstration in London by the United Families and Friends Campaign against deaths in police custody has come the shocking...
Miliband quits and Balls is beaten as bankrupt reformism crumbles!
THE general election saw the Labour Party completely routed in Scotland and humiliated in parts of England – a result that spells the complete...
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...
Johnson condemns Corbyn and beats the war drums against Syria!
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spoke up yesterday to attack Jeremy Corbyn and to announce that it will be very difficult for the UK...
The Workers Of The World do Support Palestine – Now Is The Time...
TENS of thousands marched through central London on Saturday reiterating their calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, for the UK to stop arming...
Imperialism threatens Iran but is fearful of the working class at home!
Donald Trump’s belligerent ‘last-chance’ threat to Iran to resume diplomatic talks about abandoning its nuclear programme or face US military attacks in two weeks,...
US piracy forces down Bolivian plane in search for Snowden
THERE is not the slightest doubt that Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have done a huge service to the whole of...
Demand The TUC Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tories And Nationalise...
UNITE has revealed that Harrods is the ‘first employer’ to threaten staff with the new law allowing agency workers to break strikes and engage...
Workers will ignore Tory attempts to make Russia their enemy – the enemy is...
YESTERDAY’S statement by Theresa May to parliament on the range of ‘reprisals’ against Russia for the alleged involvement of the Russian state in the...
All out for the News Line–Gate Gourmet sacked workers conference
THE sacked Gate Gourmet workers were locked out almost six months ago on August 10th-11th 2005 by a management and an owner that was...
Thousands Of NHS Redundancies Are To Go Ahead – Trade Unions Must Take Action...
THOUSANDS of NHS staff redundancies in England are now to be forced through after a deal was reached with the Treasury to allow the...
Merkel’s Short-Lived Victory
ON Thursday, the German Parliament (Bundestag) voted by 523 to 85 to increase the funds available to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) from...
Capitalism Gripped By Historic Crisis
THE world crisis of capitalism is being hit by a convergence of the crisis to which all the central banks, economists and politicians have...
Iran warns the imperialist powers!
IRAN on Tuesday fired a shot across the bows of the imperialist powers when it threatened to halt the vital oil transport route from...
Capitalism Is Heading For The Rocks! The TUC On October 18th Must Call A...
RUSSIA’S Energy Minister has announced that the Nord Stream 2 will be ‘replaced’ by an alternative gas pipeline to China, as a consequence of...
SOUTH AFRICA: Legacy of the revolution betrayed
THE fighting in Johannesburg and its surrounding black townships, over the past week – with more than 23 people being killed, pitched battles with...
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...
For-profit university bust! End all fees, restore grants, drive private business out of education!...
AN EXTREMELY controversial for-profit college has gone bust leaving staff and students stranded, prompting unions to demand that the privatisation of education be stopped...