Youth unemployment hits record levels – socialist revolution the only answer
YOUTH unemployment in the UK has shot up over the past year according to the latest research carried out by the Resolution Foundation think...
End imperialist war through world socialist revolution
EIGHT hundred British troops, with tanks, armoured vehicles and drones are to be sent to Estonia in the Spring, on the border with Russia. The...
Latest IMF warning that 2023 is year of world recession – world revolution the...
THE HEAD of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has delivered a stark New Year warning that a third of the world economy...
Support the junior doctors with a general strike!
THE Cameron government is being driven forward by the intensifying crisis of the capitalist system to have it out with the working class and...
Defeat US-Saudi war provocations in the Gulf – Victory to Iran!
A SPOKESMAN from Iran’s Foreign Ministry yesterday warned of a ‘conspiracy by ill-wishers’ to blame Iran for an imperialist provocation, the ‘sabotage’ of four...
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...
Student numbers to be slashed, schools to be merged – as Labour plans cuts
BRITISH capitalism is desperately cutting its coat according to its cloth as far as education is concerned. Deep in debt and risking state bankruptcy, the...
TUC attempting to dump the fight against Tory anti-union laws!
IN advance of the national ‘protect the right to strike’ day of demonstrations on Wednesday 1st February the TUC has published a statement headed...
Warning – Police Are Armed And Dangerous!
THAT the times are really changing was rammed home once again yesterday. People are angrily reacting to the news that 4,000 highly trained police officers...
Tories to slash benefits to unemployed & sick
TORY Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government unveiled its plans to target the unemployed and others on benefits, depriving them of their entitlements, or...
The working class is the hero of the hour – it smashed the Tory...
IT says something about the scale of the defeat that the Tories and the bosses have suffered over the Mayoral election in London...
Public Sector Alliance needed to defend the Welfare State and all jobs and services!
AS the capitalist crisis deepens, the Brown government’s attacks on the public sector become more frenzied. It is to be privatised or part-privatised. Hundreds...
A UK G-Bay & more armed police as Tories seek big majority to force...
NEW Guantanamo Bay-style jails-within-jails are being opened for the first time in the UK to incarcerate ‘extremists of all kinds’, while police are being...
Reformists and Stalinists seek to break Greek teachers’ struggle
THE confrontation between Greek teachers and the Greek state and its EU masters has erupted this week after all teachers were served at the...
Panicky Putin seeks to ward off workers uprising
PRIME Minister Vladimir Putin is currently acting like a frantic one man fire brigade seeking to hose down the growing anger of the Russian...
Re-nationalise the energy suppliers – the only way to end preventable deaths
FIGURES released this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a dramatic increase in the number of preventable deaths among the elderly...
The trade unions must follow the example of the ruling class and deal with...
THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...
Time to nationalise the banks – the only way to prevent another crash and...
THE BANK of America’s March survey has openly warned that another 2008-type worldwide crash is on the way. Its March survey polled 200 investors...
US government will shut down tomorrow as the political and economic crisis in America...
THE FEDERAL government will shut down tomorrow as Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress are in a bitter dispute over budget cuts to...
Stop Hospital Closures – Halt NHS Privatisation
THAT the record £2.1 billion NHS surplus should coincide with press headlines that the NHS is at breaking point is no accident. The winter has...
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...
Cameron shows his contempt for parliament
TORY leader Cameron was allowed to bluff his way through yesterday’s debate, on his special statement on the Murdoch-Coulson scandal, held after it caused...
Re-nationalise the water companies
The Guardian paper has published an exclusive report that revealed that Thames Water, the UK’s biggest water company, diverted cash meant to clean up...
BMA launch ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into Pandemic
DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has launched its own ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic. This is ahead of the Tory...
Qe Tapering Leading To A Crash
WHAT started last week as a crisis in the international capitalist stock markets is turning into a full-scale crash with Wednesday’s decision by the...
Doctor Reid seizes the helm!
YESTERDAY the 24 suspects accused by the state of ‘a plot to commit murder on an unimaginable scale’ by blowing up 10 airliners with...
PATIENTS MUST NOT BE BARRED FROM HOSPITAL CARE BY ‘INCENTIVISED’ GPs!
THE FACT that the Tories are cutting closing and privatising the NHS is no secret. Neither is the fact that those who are engaged...
All unions must take action to support the postal workers!
POSTAL workers, members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are on strike today in north-east and south-east London against Royal Mail’s plans to axe...
Starmer’s latest U-turn as Labour government reels from another crisis – time to bring...
Labour prime minister Keir Starmer performed yet another abrupt U-turn yesterday when he was forced to abandon plans to cancel 30 local government elections in...
US seizure of Press TV a declaration of war against Iran!
THE WEBSITE of Press TV, the official Iranian English language news site, was seized by the US government on Tuesday, in what amounts to...
Rate Rise Shock – Condemned As Panic By Tuc
BIG BUSINESS, the stockmarkets and the TUC were shaken yesterday midday when the Bank of England raised its interest rates by a quarter of...
US imperialism is determined to step up its intervention into Syria
PLANNING for military intervention by the imperialist powers into Syria, to overthrow the regime of president Assad, was stepped up this week with growing...
Obama’s New Crusade To ‘Save The Christians Of Iraq’
THE USA and the UK have launched their new crusade on the pretext of saving the Christians and the Yazidis of Iraq from the...
US Opening Up Second Front In Africa
MILLIONS of Africans will understandably be fearful at the latest strategic initiative that US President George Bush has just announced. The president has instructed his...
Truss And Co Are Planning To Attack The Rail Unions! Bring Tories Down With...
TORY PM Truss told MPs yesterday, during her parliamentary questions crisis statement, of the way that she intends to get out of the crisis...
Illegal and deadly restraints still in use, smash the racist capitalist state
Just 16 months after a man died whilst being restrained by private security guards on board an aircraft, the House of Commons home office...
Labour under Starmer, and UK capitalism are heading for state bankruptcy!
THE capitalist press is currently trumpeting the latest news from Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves, that she is set to unveil a £19bn black hole...
Death rate running a third higher as NHS cuts take their toll!
THE current death rate in England and Wales is running about one-third higher than its normal rate for this time of year, official statistics...
Labour to ‘relax’ restrictions on banks risking massive increase in house repossessions!
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is committing the Labour government to follow in the footsteps of US president Donald Trump by enthusiastically embracing policies to...
Bush Visit To Form Alliance With ‘Axis Of Evil’
THERE has been a spate of hectic diplomatic activity in the Middle East, since the Israeli defeat in the Lebanon and the Congressional mid-term...
67 Labour peers begin their coup attempt to drive Corbyn out of the Labour...
FOLLOWING hard on the heels of last week’s hatchet job carried out by the BBC Panorama programme, the Labour Party right wing have launched...
TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers
THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...
Blair stays at number 10 to try help Israel out of the Lebanese mire
PRIME minister Blair, at the last minute, postponed his holiday to try to assist the UN Security Council efforts, headed by France, to fashion...
UN Security Council is to vote today on the State of Palestine’s admission...
THE UN Security Council is to vote on Palestine’s UN membership application draft today, prepared by Algeria, recommending the state of Palestine’s admission as...
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...