Lagarde issues world crisis warning
CHRISTINE Lagarde, the chief of the IMF, warned the bosses and the bankers yesterday, in a speech in Japan, that the crisis is a...
Wild optimism at Davos
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, ended last Saturday. The four days of the forum...
Shell bites the dust – forward to the political revolution
THE massive Royal Shell energy giant, which purchased the Sakhalin-2 concession for a song from Boris Yeltsin, was yesterday brought down to earth with...
TUC right wing determined to stay in the EU whatever it costs the working...
AT this year’s annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) the right-wing of the trade union bureaucracy will attempt to commit the working...
Cameron the assassin
WITH his announcement on Monday that he had personally authorised the killing by drone of two young British citizens in Syria, Cameron revealed himself...
Forest Gate report justifies police-state tactics
THE official Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) published its report yesterday into complaints against the Metropolitan Police over its huge police raid in Forest...
‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher’ the Daily Telegraph advises Tory...
SATURDAY’S Daily Telegraph gave the Tory leadership candidates some advice. This was: ‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher – and the...
Labour to hand police the power to ban demonstrations in move to establish a police state...
KEIR STARMER’S Labour government’s plans to ‘tighten’ protest laws were confirmed by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Sunday. The new powers handed to the police...
Eu Leaders Make War Against Greek Workers
‘Down with the junta of the bankers! Kick out the swindlers of Brussels.’ These were the slogans being shouted by Greek workers and youth...
Households face catastrophe as debt crisis sets to explode
IT IS becoming clear that the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, is very scared about the effects of the expected rise...
Get out of Iraq – British troops get a last warning
THE raid on Iraq’s Finance Ministry compound on Tuesday, by a column of up to 50 heavily armed police officers, in pick-up vehicles, which...
ICJ Hearing on Israeli occupation of Palestine opens – working class must demand general...
Yesterday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened its historic hearings into the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967. The ICJ, the United Nation’s...
Greek workers must build their revolutionary leadership
THE fact that the Greek working class brought Syriza from nothing to power, in the course of one general election, has been correctly taken...
Answer Osborne’s £25bn cuts with general strike
IN A speech last November, Cameron declared a permanent ‘austerity war’ against the working class, singling out the unemployed and young people as the...
The TUC Must Call A General Strike To Stop The Israeli Massacres Of Palestinians!
ISRAELI occupation forces have committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of...
FBU must fight against a Police Commissioner controlled ‘Fire Service’
THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...
Hamas Insists On The Right Of Self Defence Against Israeli Zionist Gangsters!
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has categorically rejected UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who labelled and condemned the revolutionary resistance of the Palestinian people against...
We should have been the Thatcherites, Blair tells LP
IN his parting speech as Prime Minister to the Labour Party conference, Blair administered his kiss of death to Gordon Brown, telling his Chancellor...
Call national strike action to defeat Royal Mail and Brown
AFTER weeks of secret talks, which were extended by a further week and were conducted behind the backs of the CWU membership, the Royal...
There can be no return to Bretton Woods – world socialist revolution is the...
AN ARTICLE in the Business section of the Daily Telegraph yesterday laid bare the historic depth of the crisis of world capitalism today. The article,...
Smash Royal Mail privatisation!
THE arrogant Tories have announced that the sell-off of Royal Mail is to begin in just weeks. The announcement comes days after the ending of...
Turning A New Page In The NHS!
THE leaders of 10 NHS organisations have called in an open letter for a ‘new page to be turned’ in 2014. Powerful organisations including...
Flood Disaster = Britain’s New Orleans
WE all saw the Katrina disaster, and what it did to New Orleans, destroying whole areas of the city and making them uninhabitable to...
No deal with Cameron to accept Anti-Union Act – Make TUC call general strike!
UNITE leader McCluskey has made Tory PM Cameron an offer by letter to accept the thresholds necessary for legal strike action, as proposed in...
Tory government imploding – time for unions to call a general strike to kick...
THE ECONOMIC crisis engulfing British capitalism is causing a seismic split in the Tory government, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a rebellion from...
Iran has inflicted a major defeat on imperialism causing huge crisis for Zionist state
THE HUMILIATING peace deal that US president Donald Trump was forced to accept following the abject failure of the US-Israeli war on Iran has...
UK economy collapses 20.4% in a month! Time to expropriate the bosses and get...
A SHATTERING collapse of the British economy has taken place. It has fallen 20.4% in a single month, in April, and it is still...
IMF Declares UK Economy going bust
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, issued the gravest warning yet on the state of the UK economy on Tuesday,...
Complete the mass uprising in Ecuador with a socialist revolution to establish workers power!
EIGHT police officers have been taken hostage in Ecuador during an escalating revolutionary uprising that has forced the government to flee from the capital,...
Drive Out Zero-Hours Contracts
FIGURES released last Wednesday purport to show the UK unemployment rate for the three months to September fell to 7.4% from 7.6% – a...
NHS staffing crisis – only solution kick out the Tories!
THE shortage of NHS staff in England has reached the point where patients are being warned that they will have to get used to...
Inflation Surges As Bosses Slash Wages And Jobs
THE government revealed yesterday that inflation shot up in December with CPI inflation reaching 3.7% (up from 3.3%), and the RPI rate, which...
Socialist revolution is the only answer to unemployment of ‘biblical proportions’
AS THE END of the Tory furlough scheme looms, the reality of millions of workers being thrown on the scrapheap in the coming months...
Unite leaders beg the Tories for permanent furlough! New leadership required in trade...
UNITE, with a membership of 1.4 million, wielding the power to strike and shut down vast proportions of industry, has reduced itself to begging...
UK Police State Must Be Smashed!
THE detention of a Guardian employee at Heathrow airport for nine hours was unwarranted and unlawful said Amnesty international yesterday. David Michael Miranda – the...
The Eagle cannot fly so Smith is to challenge Corbyn
NOW that the ‘Eagle’ has refused to fly as pledged, she has handed the baton, although just 25 votes behind and with votes still...
What A Difference The War Drive Against Russia Makes For Ukrainian Refugees!
THE Tory government is offering all households in the UK £350 a month to take in people fleeing the war in the Ukraine. Housing...
No support for imperialist war in Syria – forward with world socialist revolution
TODAY, the House of Commons is to engage in an emergency debate on Britain joining the US bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria. In this...
Big business to take over NHS funds
THE Labour government is speeding up the break-up, privatisation and destruction of the National Health Service, despite the vote at the Labour Party Conference...
US Class Struggle Sharpens
THE TWU Local 100, the New York transit union, is on strike and has picked up the gauntlet flung down by Mayor Bloomberg, the...
Bush fails to get Iraqi puppets to agree ‘constitution’
OVER the weekend, President Bush made personal phone calls to both the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in...
Tuc Must Act Over Cameron’s War!
ON MONDAY the bourgeois press proclaimed the rag-bag of mercenaries and brigands who make up the so-called ‘rebels’ had crushed the forces loyal to...
Financial Crisis Worsening, Says The Imf
IN its just-published Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF has found that ‘Confidence remains fragile despite recent policy actions’, and that the ‘Euro area...
Bosses demand Labour government wages all-out austerity war on workers as UK capitalism collapses...
THE UK’s main bosses’ organisation, the CBI, has turned on the Labour government with a vengeance over the increase in employers’ National Insurance Contribution...
Blair’s ‘summary power’ for war on the working class
PRIME Minister Tony Blair launched the Labour government’s new ‘Respect Action Plan’ yesterday, declaring that he was setting out to overthrow basic democratic rights...