The bosses are dumping their crisis onto the backs of workers. It is time...
YESTERDAY nine members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase the interest rate from 1.25% to 1.75%. This is the sixth...
Abolish The House Of Lords – And The Commons As Well
WEDNESDAY’S vote in the House of Commons when there was a 113 majority for the replacement of the House of Lords by an elected...
US crisis pauses before another leap forward!
THE deal pushed through Washington late Wednesday night to raise the US debt ceiling – at present standing at a massive $16.7 trillion –...
Youth and workers in global strike against climate change – Time to end the...
TODAY, a week of action across the world starts with a Global Climate Strike in at least 137 countries. This follows mass action in every...
Stop the war with a general strike to bring down coalition
ANGLO-US-FRENCH forces have killed over 100 Libyans and wounded hundreds more in their opening onslaught of cruise missiles, launched from the sea, and bombs...
Make Turkey general strike indefinite to kick Erdogan out
THE Turkish trade unions called a two-day general strike for yesterday and today to express their outrage at the bombing on Saturday of the...
French unions answer Macron’s declaration of war by calling for ‘all French people’ to...
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron used his annual New Year’s address to the nation to rule out any compromise with the working class over his...
Trump’s economic miracle is in fact a mountain of debt that US workers will...
IN HIS State of the Union address last week, US president Donald Trump boasted that under his leadership the American economy had undergone a...
Capitalist world order torn apart by Trump’s trade war – forward to world socialist...
STOCK MARKETS across the world crashed following US president Donald Trump finally revealing the details of his trade war against the world. The speculators and...
Capitalism offering only poverty and war to working class and middle class
FALLING incomes will mean the biggest drop in living standards for middle-income families since the 1970s, when the Yom Kippur war resulted in the...
Bring down the Tories to stop the destruction of the NHS!
ON FRIDAY the GMB trade union declared that ‘Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt must resign,’ and warned that that the ‘NHS is tailspinning into...
Eurasian Economic Union, and the China-Russia gas plan, a double blow against imperialism!
RUSSIA, Belarus and Kazakhstan have just signed the historic Eurasian Economic Union. It comes into effect in January 2015, and will get rid of...
Second Xmas on the dole for 700,000!
ACCORDING to research published by the TUC on Monday, over 250,000 people will be spending their second successive Christmas on the dole. Even this figure...
Disarm imperialism through the victory of the world socialist revolution!
LAST week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a whole series of blogs on its website warning that the entire US banking...
Crisis splitting Tories, police chiefs, and military
THE Tory leadership publicly lambasted what it termed the police chiefs’ ‘wrong tactics’ for dealing with the youth uprising, during the special sitting of...
Nationalise car industry and the banks to defend all jobs
GLOBAL action to save the motor industry from crisis, and above all to stave off bankruptcy at General Motors, has been urged by Unite...
Bulgarians Hit Out At Cameron
THE President of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev, has correctly rebuked Tory leader Cameron for peddling nationalism and isolationism. It is ironic that the UK – which...
Unemployment is soaring! Defending the ‘right to work’ means getting rid of capitalism!
UNEMPLOYMENT is set to soar to levels not seen since The Great Depression, the ‘Hungry 1930s’, when workers starved. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)...
Reject Labour’s racist points system!
A NEW points-based immigration system for workers who want to come to the UK from outside the EU was unveiled by Home Secretary Charles...
Smash anti-strike bill by forcing TUC to call a general strike to kick the...
THE TUC yesterday published an analysis that showed that 5.5 million workers in England, Scotland and Wales would have their right to strike threatened...
Trump is attacking the Chinese workers – US and UK workers must support the...
THE US bosses have ramped up their ongoing campaign of economic and political sanctions against China. The House of Representatives has passed a bill...
May reveals Tories fear of revolution
YESTERDAY’S speech to the Charity Commission by Tory prime minister, Theresa May, attracted much comment on her proposals on raising the profile of mental health...
Arrogant Osborne rewards the rich and savages the workers and the poor
CHANCELLOR Osborne’s second budget this year will be his first for a Tory government with an overall majority and he intends to use it...
Down With US Plan For Middle East Nato – Forward With Struggle For...
JORDAN’S King Abdullah II told CNBC television news network last week that he supports the formation of a NATO-style military alliance in the Middle...
New York Times Urges Biden To Quit At Once As US ‘Democracy’ Crashes
THE New York Times is just the first US newspaper to urge the incumbent Democratic Party president Joe Biden to quit the 2024 presidential...
May Appeals To The People As The Eu Insists There Can Be No...
A DESPERATE Prime Minister May has written a letter to the nation asking the people of the UK for their support to pressurise a...
Forward With The World Socialist Revolution!
ON every front – the economic, the political and the ideological – the capitalist ruling classes and their system are reeling and in desperate...
Political Revolution In Kyrgyzstan
THE Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, spoke by phone Thursday with the new interim leader in Kyrgyzstan whose ‘peoples government’ has been placed in...
Supreme Court votes for EU again, as Labour demands a ‘meaningful vote’ to frustrate...
AS EXPECTED, the Supreme Court has ruled against the government’s appeal, challenging its previous verdict that Parliament must vote on whether the government can...
Putin’s cuts decree will drive forward political revolution!
THE Putin regime has been hit hard by the world capitalist crisis, especially by the fall in oil prices, and the effect that the...
Labour seeking state control of inquests
THE parliamentary Human Rights Committee report on the government’s latest Counter-Terrorism Bill, before its second reading in the House of Commons, records just...
US imperialism preparing war on Iran – workers must stop this war by overthrowing...
THIS week US imperialism ratcheted up its preparations for an all-out military war against Iran. On Monday, Donald Trump’s national security advisor and warmonger-in-chief John...
UK And French Workers Are Taking Action Against The Bosses And The Bankers –...
THE head of the UK’s Unite trade union has accused the government of having a ‘sinister reason’ for ‘not doing a deal’ with nurses...
Defend living standards! Nationalise the oil and gas companies!
JUST a few months ago the UNISON leadership accepted the government’s below inflation wage cutting deal over three years. Now the union has had...
Work till you drop for the working class
LORD Turner, the ex-CBI boss, is proposing that workers work a number of extra years before they take the state pension. Turner says that...
Bankers gripped by fear are relying on ‘hope’!
THE new Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), Charles Bean said yesterday that when the so-called ‘credit crunch’ began last August central...
Uneasy Israel threatens Iran, as Egypt and Jordan erupt with food riots
THE Zionist leadership has begun to beat the war drums against Iran, louder than ever, in reaction to the continuing crisis that the US...
Ukrainian Workers Reject Putin Plea To Accept Kiev Coup Regime
PRESIDENT Putin on Wednesday urged Ukrainian workers to postpone their referenda on self-determination. He said: ‘We are calling on representatives of regions in southeastern...
RMT ready to stop Network Rail
THE RMT railworkers trade union has confirmed that members on Network Rail maintenance have voted by 77% for strike action in response...
Words Are Not Enough! The TUC Must Take Action To Prevent Workers Being Driven...
WITH 21 TORY MPS having the whip removed from them, now being joined by more Tory defectors like Amber Rudd, and while Labour makes...
Coalition Government announces plan to end council housing
Earlier this week the Coalition government’s Housing Minister, Grant Shapps, unveiled the government’s plans to destroy the last vestige of affordable social housing. In what...
Supporting Iraq or Palestine is to be a crime!
RESPONDING immediately to Tory pressure, Prime Minister Blair yesterday launched his programme of draconian attacks on basic rights and liberties, for a reign of...
There must be ‘non-negotiable rules’ Kelly tells minorities
COMMUNITIES Secretary Ruth Kelly, launching a Commission on Integration and Cohesion yesterday, declared: ‘I believe that we should celebrate and clearly articulate the benefits...
Junior doctors fighting! TUC leaders crawling!
YESTERDAY the junior doctors took the first day of their three days of strike action, and shook the Tory regime to its core with...
General Strike Needed To Defend The NHS!
DR MARK Porter, Chair of the British Medical Association Council, opened their annual representatives meeting with a speech that tore into the policies of...