Bank of England is clueless as financial crisis drives socialist revolution
IN what must be the most blinding statement of the obvious, senior members of the Bank of England admitted yesterday that they did not...
Labour Must Pledge To Recognise Palestine And To Stop Arming Israel
700 BRITISH artists have signed a pledge to boycott Israel as long as it ‘continues to deny basic Palestinian rights’. The group, Artists for Palestine...
Starmer Wants To Impose EU Laws Onto The UK Working Class
PM SIR KEIR STARMER has just unveiled legislation that will give the power to the PM to adopt EU legislation without giving MPs a...
Osborne launches permanent austerity war against workers
CHANCELLOR OSBORNE underlined the precarious nature of his ‘recovery’ when he told the House of Commons yesterday ‘the job is not done…we don’t squander...
US Fed Reserve threatens 2014 end for QE cash supply
THE US Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, gave the clearest indication this week that the Fed is intent on pursuing a policy of ‘tapering...
Occupy Grangemouth to defend the union, jobs, wages and pensions
UNITE has urged Grangemouth workers not to give in to Ineos’ ‘menacing’ tactics to sign away their rights, saying it was looking to take...
UK will be hit by the biggest economic blow of all advanced capitalist nations,...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that the weak British economy faces the biggest economic shock in the G7, the most advanced industrialised nations...
US-UK imperialist forces must be driven out of Syria and the Middle East!
THE United States might have lost control over the situation in Syria and cannot fulfill their pledge to separate the opposition from the terrorists,...
Labour Party leaders knife Corbyn to prepare way for National Government with...
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party over his remarks on Thursday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn’s...
Palestinian masses break the blockade and start tearing down the walls
THE Palestinian revolution has shown the way forward by blowing a massive hole in the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, so that hundreds of...
Blair Fended Off Caution With Resignation Threat
LABOUR MP Jack Straw yesterday announced that he is to run Gordon Brown’s campaign for the Labour leadership. Straw’s declaration was answered in...
UNISON condemns Blair for breaking NHS promise
UNISON Head of Health, Karen Jennings, has condemned Labour government plans to allow private treatment centres to poach NHS staff, breaking a Labour government...
Labour prepares for war – time to kick them out!
IT was revealed this week that the Labour government is set to introduce changes to a new armed forces bill, due to come before...
Support Catalan independence! Down with the Spanish and EU ruling classes! Forward to a...
CATALAN leader Carles Puigdemont has called for a ‘democratic opposition’ to the imposition of direct rule from Madrid after the Spanish government terminated his...
Welsh government plans to implement Tory drive to close hospitals and destroy the NHS
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the Welsh government yesterday that it was embarking on a strategy to ensure patients only go to hospital when it is...
Desperate capitalism moves towards hyperinflation
LAST week the Republican presidential candidate and multi-billionaire property speculator, Donald Trump, unveiled his plan for saving US capitalism from economic catastrophe. During a lengthy...
Obama allies with Clinton and McCain, and ignores the unions
US WORKERS will be asking themselves what the recent presidential election campaign was all about when Obama was fighting for change and saying that...
TUC must recall Congress to call a general strike to bring in a workers...
LABOUR Party leader and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has given the BMA doctors a 48-hour ultimatum that they must call off their ‘reckless’...
Blair wants toothless trade unions; Barber agrees
PRIME Minister Blair on Saturday, at a Unions 21 conference, urged unions to modernise to ‘seize the opportunities of globalisation and the changing nature...
Pharmaceutical companies exploit the sick for profit – expropriate them now!
THE LATEST scandal over the obscene profits of giant pharmaceutical companies emerged this week with the news that campaigners are demanding that the Tory...
First the UK, now Italy – Forward to the European Socialist Revolution!
THE RAPIDLY unfolding crash of the EU drove the ruling class to take unprecedented action on Sunday to overturn the Italian election result...
Workers must respond to developing trade war by getting rid of capitalism!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump launched a world-wide trade war last Friday with his declaration that he will impose a 25 per cent tariff on...
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,...
After Iraq Debacle – Bush Plans To Attack Iran
THE US President, George W Bush said on Friday: ‘All options are on the table,’ adding that he had not ruled out the option...
Working class must demand the TUC act and not sit back while Gaza is...
Yesterday Israel announced a ‘total’ blockade of Gaza, including a ban on food, electricity, water, and fuel. Announcing this move to strangle Gaza, Israeli defence...
TUC pledges solidarity with workers in Middle East – time to force TUC to...
ON MONDAY, the General Council of the TUC issued a lengthy ‘interim statement on Iran’ which condemned ‘the dangerous escalation of military actions, precipitated...
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...
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...
Forward to Colombian revolution!
COLOMBIA, the country that has been hailed by the US as the second most populous ‘democracy’ in South America and a key partner in...
Iran offers talks on the US created nuclear crisis
THE imperialist powers are studying Iran’s offer of more talks to resolve the crisis that the US has created over Iran’s right to develop nuclear...
Bosses share bonanza
THE ages old reformist illusion that the worst excesses of capitalism can be curbed through a mixture of indignation and moral outrage received yet...
Nationalise The Motor Car Industry
US and European car employers yesterday warned that ‘their’ industry faced wipeout, ‘victims’ of the slump in the motor car industry and the financial...
The great betrayal – NHS union leaders call off strike action!
NHS trade unions have called off (‘suspended’) today’s strike and betrayed their members by accepting the government’s decision not to pay the...
Brown–Miliband Crocodile Tears For Gaza
ISRAELI air raids are pounding the Gaza Strip for a fourth day. At the same time Gaza is being shelled from the sea by...
‘Green Shoots’ – A Mirage Of Desperate Capitalists
THE European Central Bank is having nightmares about the state of the 25 banks that underpin the financial system of the Eurozone within the...
Raising the white flag over Basra airfield
THE rotting reality behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spin concerning the ‘reconfiguration’ of British troops in southern Iraq is the complete demoralisation of the...
May Attacks The Pensioners And Pursues Them Into The Grave!
PM MAY unveiled the Tory election manifesto yesterday in Halifax as she dumped Cameron’s policy towards the elderly and instead gave them a good...
Take action to stop NHS cuts and closures
IT is now obvious that the Labour government is setting out, at breakneck speed, to privatise the NHS. It has set up private treatment centres...
World Socialist Revolution only answer to capitalist war at home and abroad!
The political crisis of the Stalinist bureaucracy in Russia, that emerged dramatically on Friday with the march on Moscow by the mercenary Wagner group,...
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...
Rail fares and inflation are let rip – as wages and benefits are frozen...
RAIL commuters were protesting at Waterloo Station in London yesterday after they heard that ticket price rises of between 8% and 13% are to...
Imperialism Drives For A War With Russia And Continues Mass Murder In Gaza!
YESTERDAY’S Daily Telegraph Editorial has called for ‘Supporting the Ukraine whatever it takes’ backing the Ukrainian attack on Russia to the hilt. It observed: ‘Faced...
Banks teeter on edge of collapse – Official
THE European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of its latest stress tests carried out on 123 European banks on Sunday, results which showed...
Build the Fourth International! Victory to the World Socialist Revolution!
YESTERDAY, millions of Egyptian workers and youth, from Alexandria to Cairo’s Tahrir Square and the city of Luxor and Ports Said and Suez, marched...
PLO Executive Committee says the Palestinian leadership will take key political and legal steps...
THE Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has said that, in light of Israel’s continued aggressive policies, the Palestinian leadership will take...