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...
End imperialist war by bringing an end to imperialism through world socialist revolution!
A NEW report from the Costs of War Project at Brown University has exposed the death toll of imperialist wars across the globe. It...
The Lebanese cease-fire is a truce
DESPITE the recent heavy losses suffered by the Israeli army in trying to penetrate southern Lebanon, the objective of the US administration, its Israeli...
Beginning of the end for Johnson – finish Tories off with a general strike
WHEN The Daily Telegraph carries as its banner headline ‘Beginning of the end for Boris?’ then it is certain that plots to dump him...
UK Trade Unions And Unions Worldwide Must Take Action Against Israel!
229 Arab and international human rights organisations and networks have strongly condemned the assassination of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, after she...
Sa Police Massacre Platinum Miners
SOUTH AFRICAN workers have been shocked by the ANC government’s police force shooting dead over 30 miners at the Lonmin UK-owned platinum mine. Fifty...
US to arm Ukrainian coupists
US imperialism has reacted to the breakdown of talks at the weekend of the Contact Group on Ukrainian reconciliation with threats to massively intervene...
Backward British capitalism lets hundreds of homes flood
HUNDREDS of houses have been flooded across the country over these last months, and angry residents are demanding to know why nothing has been...
Time to make war on Brown and Mandelson
BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson, in the words of the bourgeois media ‘came out fighting’ over the weekend to ‘make war’ on the CWU leaders...
UK, US and EU workers must organise the World Socialist Revolution!
HIGHWAYMAN Trump has spelt it out that a 10% tariff is to be imposed on all UK goods sent to the USA from Britain...
UK capitalism crashes under impact of energy crisis – put it out of its...
TORY ministers were locked in crisis talks with energy suppliers yesterday as the threat of gas shortages in Britain are so huge that they...
Millions of UK households and children driven into poverty by bankrupt capitalism – socialist...
THE NUMBER of people living in poverty in the UK has shot up to 16 million – the highest level since records began in...
Howard condemns ‘judicial activists’ as security risks
Tory leader Michael Howard was yesterday bending over backwards to give every support to the Labour Prime Minister Blair and his war against democratic...
Trade union leaders abandon members – build a revolutionary leadership in the unions
A STUDY published yesterday revealed that as many as six million workers in Britain live in fear of losing their jobs in the next...
Hamas defiant over Trump’s threat to unleash hell on Gaza
HAMAS was defiant in its response yesterday to the threats by US president Donald Trump that he would cancel the ceasefire agreement in Gaza...
PFI debts are strangling NHS
LAST Friday, the ‘independent’ health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), finally issued its report on healthcare provision at the Barts Healthcare Trust,...
All Out Strike To Defend NHS! Nurses Must Get 15%!
NURSES, midwives and NHS workers around the country take to the streets again today to demand a 15% pay rise and they are extremely...
Corbyn appeases Labour’s right wing – the UK must leave the EU, as decided...
THE UK was changed forever when the over-confident Tory leadership of Cameron and Osborne got the House of Commons to agree a resolution...
No amount of pressure will force the Tories to even talk about pay –...
TENS of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers across England walked out yesterday at the start of two days of strike action. Members of the...
French government collapses – forward to the European socialist revolution!
FRENCH bourgeois rule was plunged into a massive crisis on Wednesday when MPs voted to kick out prime minister Michel Barnier’s administration after just...
Right wing resorts to discredited Blair!
THE anti-Corbyn candidates must be pretty desperate if they are prepared to allow ex-Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to appear and give a speech...
Workers must support Russia – the US-UK trade unions must stop war drive by...
FOR SOME weeks the UK and US ruling classes have been telling the world that Russia is just waiting to invade the Ukraine, that...
Hunt shreds Truss and Kwarteng budget and prepares for massive austerity war on working...
NEWLY-INSTALLED Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt yesterday completely shredded the mini-budget announced just a few weeks ago by Kwasi Kwarteng. Kwarteng was unceremoniously sacked on Friday...
The Tories are split to the hilt! The trade unions must bring them down...
THE SPLIT in the Tory Party over the planned hike in National Insurance (NI) has got wider and deeper! Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s proposed 1.25...
Hands Off Syria – To ‘End The Cruelty And Carnage’
THE heads of five major UN agencies have issued a joint appeal to the international community, a code phrase for the imperialist...
The Not So Great Recovery!
THE UK economy grew by 0.8% in the second quarter of 2014, official figures are said to show. The figures, from the Office for National...
Hunt Planning New Blitz On NHS And NHS Workers!
BOTH the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) trade unions yesterday warned that Health Secretary Hunt is planning...
Steel workers must reject the Tata steel deal – vote ‘NO!’
AT the end of this month, steel workers at Port Talbot are to vote on a deal struck between their unions and Tata Steel...
Unions Must Take Action To Defend The NHS
THE TUC and all trade unions must be made to take action to defend the NHS before it is butchered by Blair and completely...
As Coalition stumbles – bring it down!
THE Coalition regime is in big trouble after it faced defeat in the House of Commons last night over its measure to reorganise the...
War on the unemployed – bring down the coalition
THE news this weekend that the private companies are bidding for 40 new welfare contracts represents another stage in the Tory-LibDem coalition’s relentless drive...
Drive the privateers out of the care system
IN ENGLAND last year 928 adult social care workers a day quit their jobs, according to an analysis of data from the charity ‘Skills...
Biden In London To Tell UK Government That It Must Support Use Of...
A GROWING number of Washington’s NATO allies – including Britain, Spain, Canada and Germany – have already declared their refusal to follow the US...
No more cuts! Defend the public services!
THE Newquay disaster proves what most people knew to be the case – that cuts in the fire service inevitably cost lives. Newquay is...
Brown Threatens Royal Mail Funding!
AT THE CWU rally at Central Hall yesterday afternoon, CWU leader Billy Hayes presented a successful outcome of the postal workers struggle as relying...
While FIFA looks the other way Palestinian children are being tortured
IT is a monstrous betrayal of the Palestinian people that the FIFA Congress immersed itself in the corrupt affairs of billionaire, big business soccer,...
British imperialism’s major ally, Saudi Arabia is up to its neck in promoting terrorism...
A REPORT by the Henry Jackson Society, published yesterday, named Saudi Arabia as the main foreign promoter of Islamic extremism in Britain, stating that...
Social care starved of funds – one million without support
A new report, Care in Crisis, issued by Age UK spells out exactly what the Tory-led coalition’s destruction of the welfare state means for...
Brown insists on wage cuts for workers & billions for bankers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown justified pay cuts for workers in the public services and the billions handed over by the Treasury to the bankrupt...
British capitalism is breaking apart
THE one clear message that emerged from Cameron’s speech yesterday was that the political representatives of the capitalist class in Britain have given up...
Speak English Or Else – Minister Tells The Poor!
UNEMPLOYED people who cannot speak English will have to show they are learning the language or lose benefits, the government has announced. This is...
Trades unions must take action to end NHS privatisation
‘END this ludicrous, divisive and expensive experiment of the market in healthcare in England.’ This was the call from Dr Hamish Meldrum, the Chairman of...
Furious Hague threatens to recognise the Syrian opposition as the government!
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Syria for talks with President Bashar al-Assad. He was cheered by tens of thousands of pro-Assad...
The Tories new proposed anti-union laws must be smashed – Defend the right to...
FBU general secretary Matt Wrack has hit out at the government announcement that it will introduce new anti-union laws which will include the following...
Bring Down The Tories – Forward To A Workers Government!
THE general election campaign by both Tories and Labour kicked off on Thursday night with separate television interviews of Cameron and Miliband. While Miliband was...