Bank of England follows US Fed in driving up interest rates to ‘save’ capitalism!
YESTERDAY, the Bank of England (BofE) hiked up the interest rate by 0.25% to 1.25%, its highest level in 13 years – the first...
Time for the trade unions to take action to remove broken coalition
The Sunday Mirror/ComRes survey of 2,002 voters has rattled the cages of the major political parties. It shows that Labour is leading with the support...
Tory Govt used millions of taxpayers’ money to fund terrorist groups in Syria
LAST night’s BBC Panorama programme entitled ‘Jihadists You Pay For’ has blown the lid off one of the ways in which British imperialism has...
Putin Warns Usa Of Dangers In Attacking Iran
IN his ‘Address to the Nation’ last Wednesday, the Russian leader, President Vladimir Putin, was forced to deal with the fact that Nato is...
Israel continues with building settlements and preparations to invade Gaza once again
Israeli authorities on Wednesday approved 130 new settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem. Jerusalem municipality gave the go-ahead to build three 12-storey tower blocks in...
Student nurses join GPs and junior doctors in demanding action to defend the NHS
THE determined drive by the Tory government to cut the pay and conditions of every NHS worker, as a prelude to the ultimate aim...
Stop Royal Mail being thrown to the private equity wolves!
POSTCOMM, the postal regulator has called for the part privatisation of the Royal Mail, supposedly to safeguard the quality of the UK’s mail delivery...
Lammy Wants To Undermine The Right To Trial By Jury!
JUSTICE SECRETARY David Lammy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing rape,...
Adams bends the knee
ON Tuesday, during a 4-day visit to Ireland, Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, had a private meeting lasting 20 minutes...
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...
Tory split emerges with demands on Johnson for a budget that makes war on...
IN ADVANCE of the budget next week, former Tory chancellor Philip Hammond delivered a shot across the bows of the Tory government with a...
EU 750 billion euros ‘Recovery Fund’ nothing more than a Trojan Horse for...
LAST Tuesday the emergency summit of leaders of the EU 27 member states finally agreed to a 750 billion euros pandemic recovery fund after...
Labour Reshuffles Amidst The Resignations
JOHN Hutton, the fourth Labour Cabinet minister to quit in the past week, has left his post and will also quit as an MP,...
British capitalism is preparing for war with Russia – its war drive must be...
AS IS now well known, the British ruling class is forever beating the war drums against Russia, and is desperately encouraging the Ukrainian regime...
Burnham appoints former Defence Secretary John Healey as Chancellor
On Monday morning, Keir Starmer left 10 Downing Street to make way for his appointed successor as Labour Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, who immediately...
PARIS ERUPTS AS POLICE ATTACK WORKERS ON MAY DAY and the CGT union urges...
THE major French trade union the CGT has protested at the massive attack on peaceful demonstrators by riot police and and vigilantes and has...
Sunak wants to abolish university degrees that don’t churn out ‘high earners’
YESTERDAY, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak announced the latest attack on higher education with proposals to ‘limit the access’ to university degrees in England...
Grenfell survivors want jail sentences for those responsible for the fire!
LAWYERS for victims of the Grenfell fire have indicted the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea council, which owned the Grenfell tower block, and...
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...
Labour has no answer to the problems that the working class and middle class...
MILIBAND’S Labour Party yesterday said that if it was the government it would offer the long-term unemployed a guarantee of a six-month job. This...
Labour MPs rebel and threaten to bring down Starmer
WHAT was described as a ‘fiery’ meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, addressed by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, took place on Monday...
Victory to the Palestinians; forward to the Palestinian state; drive imperialism out of the...
FIERCE clashes are continuing between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth organised in Popular Committees across all of the West Bank districts. The Palestinian Red Crescent...
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...
Defend the NHS with trade union led occupations and a general strike!
THE creation of new nursing assistant posts should be scrapped and money invested in ‘real nurses’, experts said yesterday ahead of the rollout of...
TUC must call a general strike to halt Tory drive to runaway inflation and...
US stocks have made huge losses after a major sell-off last Friday on Wall Street. By Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly...
UK capitalists on their knees with the deepest recession since records began!
OFFICIAL figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released yesterday show that gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 20.4% in the three months...
Put up with the Tories for five years and don’t strike, says Miliband
THE new Labour Party leader Ed Miliband spelt out yesterday his intention to act as a tame and loyal leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition,...
Call an all-out strike to defeat fire and rehire at Heathrow – build new...
TODAY, members of the Unite union at Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) are out on strike over the ‘fire and rehire’ of 4,000 workers on...
Get British troops out of Iraq now!
PRIME Minister Tony Blair told troops in Basra on Thursday: ‘We want to draw down our forces. We don’t want to keep people here...
UK’s economic, political and health crisis is reaching breaking point! Only a socialist revolution...
THE EDITORIALS in Friday’s and Saturday’s Daily Telegraph scream out for action to be taken by Labour leader Starmer to throw Corbyn and his...
McCluskey and TUC determined to rescue Cameron from EU crisis
WITH the Tory party split and divided, the ruling class in the UK – Cameron, big business and the bankers – are relying on...
Award-winning photo of 9-year-old Palestinian amputee symbolises Gaza
A HEARTBREAKING picture of a 9-year-old Palestinian boy who lost both his arms in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City has won the prestigious...
‘Israel’s war of annihilation won’t break our will!’
THE President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, has said that the Palestinian people will remain steadfast and adhere to their legitimate rights,...
Trump escalates trade war with China – Only Socialist Revolution can end crisis of...
THE WORLD’S stock markets fell dramatically on Tuesday following US president Donald Trump’s latest move to ratchet up US capitalism’s trade war with China...
Tory leader Badenoch wants to deport 150,000 workers a year using a Trump-style terrorist...
TORY Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged that she will deport 150,000 workers a year using Trump-style immigration squads in raids on working class...
Don’t vote to bomb Syria! Victory to Assad – forward to Palestine!
IN August 2013, MPs rejected by 285-272 votes UK military intervention by the Cameron government to bomb President Bashar al-Assad’s government out of power,...
Lobby the TUC on September 7th! Demand it calls a general strike to bring...
INDIVIDUAL US military personnel assisting the war crimes of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza and the Palestinian West Bank territory could be prosecuted...
AA sold to Saga, Permira and CVC bosses pocket £300m
TRUE to form the private equity capitalist groups Permira and CVC having acquired the prestigious AA motoring group with the help of huge borrowings...
597 homeless deaths, 130,000 homeless children! Slum landlords and capitalism must be got rid...
FIVE hundred and ninety-seven homeless people died on the streets of Britain last year, up from 482 the year before – in fact homeless...
Tories Are Split, Divided And Fighting Each Other – Time To Force The...
THE TORY PARTY and its leadership are thrashing around in their death agony. The Tory crisis has reached the stage where Tory ministers have been...
US assembles imperialist navy in Red Sea to attack Yemen
ON MONDAY, the US Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin, announced the creation of a ‘multinational security initiative’ – including the UK and major imperialist...
Scandalous Academies!
AN academy chain in London set up by the Tory schools minister Lord Nash is having its education curriculum drawn up by his daughter. The...
Cowen making workers pay for capitalism’s crisis in Ireland
IN A third attempt within six months to save bankrupt Irish capitalism, Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s Fianna Fail government unveiled a draconian budget on Tuesday,...
Smash The Zionist Entity! Forward To The State Of Palestine!
THE decision of an Israeli court to reject that the Israeli army and state were in any way responsible for the 2003 Israeli...
Smash Universal Credit! It is the tool for ruling through fear and mass evictions!
THOUSANDS of families in England will be spending Christmas in fear that the New Year will bring eviction from their homes. This was the message...