Horsemeat Scandal
What started off last month as news, that traces of horsemeat DNA had been discovered by the Irish Food Standards agency in some supermarket beefburgers,...
Tories protect the rich from floods while the rest left to drown
TORY austerity cuts have meant that poorer areas of the country have been left completely at the mercy of floods, to the extent that...
Benefits cuts frenzy grips coalition
THE New Year has kicked off with a frenzied attack by both Tory and their LibDem coalition partners on the low paid, unemployed, the...
May threatens internment, more secret police powers, plus Syrian intervention to fight terror!
ON SUNDAY morning, not long after the latest terrorist attack, PM May, in her statement following the Cobra Security Committee meeting, expressed her indignation...
At least three provinces reject the US’ Iraq constitution
IT IS remarkable that in a ‘constitutional referendum’ organised by a puppet government, in a country under occupation by the US and the UK,...
Bp Leads Shares Crash As Banking Crisis Grows!
OIL giant BP’s share price has fallen nearly 17 per cent to £4.12, its lowest level since March 2009. The sharp sell-off came as it...
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...
Tory war on two fronts against Russia and working class at home
THE RUSSIAN army on Saturday accused the UK of being involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, and that the same...
The Spectre Of Revolution Stalks Europe Says Farage
IT was Karl Marx who in 1848, two months before the February revolution erupted in France, began the Communist Manifesto with the words ‘A...
The Palestinian people have been robbed of $50bn by Israel since 2020 – TUC...
THE PALESTINIAN people paid a heavy cumulative cost, estimated at $50 billion, between 2000 and 2020 due to the additional restrictions imposed by Israel...
May urging unions and Labour to support her Brexit deal! Down with May’s deal!...
TORY PM May spoke to Unite’s Len McCluskey and the GMB’s Tim Roache by phone on Thursday for the first time since taking office,...
Brown pledges to bring morality to the bankers!
AT yesterday’s Labour Party conference Premier Brown focused on the ‘wrong choices’ that the Tories had made over policies to deal with the...
To rid the world of coronavirus capitalism must be overthrown and replaced by socialism
AMERICA, the wealthiest capitalist country in the world, on Wednesday recorded its highest daily level of Covid deaths with 3,157 new deaths recorded. This exceeds...
News International bought policemen and state officials, and dictated to political parties
THE Leveson Inquiry has exposed the diseased nature of British capitalism, its ruling class and its state apparatus. The state, during the period of...
Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!
INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...
NHS bed & staffing crisis is a ‘Grenfell Tower waiting to happen’ – Call...
THE NUMBER of NHS beds has halved in the last 30 years and proposals to slash bed numbers even further will make the ‘NHS a...
Mv Rachel Corrie Nears Gaza!
NOT content with destroying its ‘alliance’ with Turkey by murdering nine of its citizens and wounding many more, the Israeli government has let it...
Saturday’s Palestine march must be the start of a general strike to establish the...
THE march in London this Saturday in support of Palestine and to end the complicity of the Labour government in Zionist genocide must be...
Brown Trying To Buy Time For Capitalism
LAST week a Tory MP had to apologise to the House of Commons because he had said that the government should ‘let the recession...
Afghan Airport blasts kill 90 including 13 US troops! Imperialism’s historic defeat must spur...
THE US and UK’s military and political defeat in Afghanistan has laid bare the crisis of imperialism for the workers of the world to...
Trump ‘begging for a deal’ at peace plan talks with Iran!
THE Iranian foreign ministry denounced the attack carried out by the US early on Tuesday morning as ‘an act of bad faith’ and a...
South African socialist revolution underway!
THOUSANDS of mine workers have downed tools at South Africa’s Marikana Lonmin mine after an AMCU union leader, Mawethu Steven, was shot dead at...
Obama-Erdogan To Meet Over Syria At G20
THE Turkish government warned on Monday that it would carry out more strikes on the previously US-backed Kurdish militia in Syria if it fails...
Right-wing Labour wants to force workers to remain in EU!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn finally bit the bullet yesterday afternoon when he announced he would issue a three-line whip to Labour MPs instructing them...
Labour turns on Asian NHS doctors
ANOTHER shameful page of British imperialist history has been turned. This time tens of thousands of Asian and African doctors, recruited to come to...
As the capitalist system rushes towards the precipice – the great gains of the...
PANIC gripped the UK ruling class yesterday as the bond markets ‘were thrown into chaos and a crisis’ that is bringing new cost of...
Bank and government split as crisis deepens
THE decision of the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King to name and shame the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Darling, as...
Imperialism is on its last legs – Time for the world socialist revolution!
ON Monday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was freed from the high-security Belmarsh jail after a deal was agreed for him to plead guilty to...
US bars Palestinian president from attending UN General Assembly!
For the second year running, the US has banned Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas from attending the UN General Assembly meeting due to be held...
Capitalism’s world crisis can only be resolved through socialist revolution
THE LATEST latest annual report from the BIS (Bank for International Settlements) on the economic crises gripping world capitalism couldn’t have been clearer –...
No secret talks! Reinstate the strikes! Sack Hayes and Ward!
THE CWU postal workers top leadership, Hayes and Ward, on Thursday called off the rolling strikes and suspended all strike action, except in the...
Bank of England – people will just have to accept poverty as the price...
HUW PILL, the chief economist at the Bank of England, has made the official position of the bankers crystal clear when he insisted that...
Mandelson plan for uni cuts must be defeated
MANDELSON’S decision to lop £398m from the higher education budget, and to bring in third class tuition, will see thousands of workers in...
NHS Care Cancelled Until Further Notice! Time To Get The Tories Out!
DR RICHARD Fawcett, a Royal Stoke Hospital consultant, has apologised for ‘third world’ conditions in the hospital’s A&E, saying that he was ‘heartbroken’ to...
University Fees £9,500 and rising! Socialist revolution will end all fees!
NOT one, but two tuition fee hikes have been announced by the Tory government in the last two weeks: first to £9,250 and then...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Save Lebanon From Destruction By The Imperialist Powers!
ONE year after the explosion that rocked Beirut on August 4, 2020, killing 218 people, injuring more than 7,000 and devastating much of the...
Privatisation and health care are opposites!
YESTERDAY Southern Cross announced 3,000 redundancies. Its crash is underway with the lives of thousands of elderly residents at stake as well as the...
The Tory Party to evict pensioners and criminalise the disabled!
THE Tory crusade has begun to resolve the capitalist crisis by heaping the cost of it onto the poor, the disabled, the elderly, the...
King rocks MPs with £61.6bn secret emergency loan revelation
THE Bank of England governor, Mervyn King, has dropped a bombshell in a letter to the House of Commons Treasury Committee. He revealed...
Corbyn’s speech is a cowardly surrender to the bosses and bankers
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn’s speech yesterday defining Labour’s position on Brexit negotiations was nothing more than an abject and cowardly surrender to the bosses...
EU Makes A Fool Of Johnson – Time For The UK Working Class To...
THE BRITISH Prime Minister was given the ‘Greek plus’ treatment by the EU leadership on Monday when the EU assembled British ‘Remainers’ to boo...
Burnham tears up Labour manifesto – time for a general strike to bring down...
In his speech to the Labour Party conference on Tuesday Prime Minister Andy Burnham issued a ‘rallying call to the country,’ insisting that we...
Pound falls after Rachel Reeves reduced to tears in Parliament
DURING PM’s Question Time in Parliament on Wednesday Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves broke down in tears as Prime Minster Keir Starmer dodged a question...
Tory Class War Budget!
CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday moved his ‘emergency budget’. He outlined the gravity of the situation by saying that ‘Questions that were asked about...
Nationalise the energy companies to end fuel poverty
PM Brown has rejected out of hand the trade union demand for a Windfall Tax on the oil, gas and energy companies, that are...