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...
RBS bankers joked about destroying the US housing market
THIS week, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a load of emails and transcripts of phone conversations between senior executives of RBS, the...
Greece Can’t Pay – Workers Won’t Pay!
ACCORDING to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, Greece has a much bigger budget deficit than that reported by the Greek government last year....
Crisis Deepening – Revolution Not Recovery Is On The Agenda
THE CBI bosses organisation yesterday foresaw a ‘recovery’ from the capitalist crisis, but was forced by circumstances beyond its control to admit that, at...
EU economy at the end of the road
THE economy of the Eurozone countries is sinking even deeper into crisis making a mockery of all the talk about an economic ‘recovery’. This was...
Recall the TUC Congress now to sack the TUC leaders for their refusal to...
LAST month, the TUC unanimously passed an emergency motion headed: ‘Stop the escalation of war in the Middle East’ and committed the TUC ‘to...
Capitalism’s Historical Crisis Demands Socialist Revolution
THE historic crisis of world capitalism has come to a head with a vengeance, with both the once mighty US economy and the European...
Renationalise Now!
A SURVEY conducted this week by BBC Radio 5 Live has revealed that more than one third of people in Britain live in fear...
Hands off Iran – NO British Troops in the Middle East and...
‘IT simply is not true that they went into Iranian territorial waters and I hope the Iranian government understands how fundamental an issue this...
Defend Russia against the imperialist US-EU war ‘coalition’!
ON THE eve of his visit to Ukraine, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband declared that the purpose of talks with ‘international partners’ was to...
Global youth are striking against climate change! To save the planet capitalism must be...
YOUTH in their hundreds of thousands rose up all over the world yesterday in a global strike against climate change. In every continent, and in...
Trump hails his economic miracle – and reveals his fear of the US and...
ON TUESDAY, president Donald Trump delivered his much-delayed annual State of the Union speech to the US Congress, held up by the longest-ever shutdown...
Shares crashing as oil nears $100 a barrel
THE US dollar is reeling against the euro. The US sub-mortgage crisis is deepening, with housing starts down by 10 per cent in September, while...
The lesson of Orgreave is smash the capitalist state!
THE Independent Police Complaints Commission issued a report on Friday detailing the findings of its two and a half year long inquiry into...
The Eu Crisis Is Exploding!
THE 61 per cent ‘no’ vote in Holland, on a 62 per cent electoral turnout, against the EU constitution was no surprise after the...
Obama Declares War On The Pakistani People!
PRESIDENT OBAMA yesterday announced a ‘comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan Pakistan’. He deliberately linked the two countries together, to try to show that there could...
A Record £65.5 Billion Trade Deficit For 2005
THE UK trade deficit with the rest of the world for 2005 was a catastrophic £65.5 billion. The deficit on goods and services...
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...
Clinton declares war on Putin and on Russia
THE Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US Secretary of State, Clinton, of giving the Russian right wing – many of them...
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...
Gate Gourmet workers defend the right to picket – now TGWU must make strike...
YESTERDAY, the determination and militancy of the 670 Gate Gourmet locked-out workers forced the High Court judiciary to acknowledge that they did indeed have...
UK dives further into bankruptcy as Labour promises ‘tough decisions’ to impose capitalist crisis...
Labour chancellor John Healey will face ‘tough decisions’ in his first budget due next month, according to Emma Reynolds, the Chief Secretary to the...
Cameron to ‘Keep capitalism safe’ with more savage attacks on workers!
ON Wednesday, King, the governor of the Bank of England, said of the developing crisis in the eurozone that his Monetary Policy Committee believes...
Sinn Fein Wins The Election But Drops All References To United Ireland!
AS SOON as the Northern Ireland Assembly election results were announced on Saturday confirming that Sinn Fein was now the biggest party, the US,...
Crisis of European capitalism deepens – Down with the EU! Forward to the Socialist...
THE Bank of England delivered its first announcement of 2017 on the economy yesterday, claiming that British capitalism had defied all expectations of a...
Defence Secretary Hagel cements US-Japan imperialist alliance
SPEAKING in Japan alongside Japanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera on Saturday, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel pledged the US’ ‘complete and absolute commitment to...
Eu Meltdown
CREDIT ratings agency Moody’s yesterday reflected the rapidly developing EU meltdown by doing the unthinkable – warning the EU’s strongman, Germany, that...
British shoot to kill forces return to the North
THEY were withdrawn from the north of Ireland because there could not be a ‘peace process’ and a power-sharing regime while they were there,...
Overthrowing capitalism only way to eradicate Covid variants
THE NEW variant strain of Covid-19, given the name Omicron by the World Health Organisation (WHO), burst onto the world scene last week although...
Unite leader admits the union’s role is to prevent strikes – time to kick...
THE SUDDEN announcement on Monday that the boss of British Airways, Alex Cruz, was being sacked was greeted by the Unite union leaders as...
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...
Smash British-Pakistani torture chain
AMNESTY International yesterday called for the new government of Pakistan to provide information about the hundreds of people held in the country’s ‘war on...
Sunak speech at Lord Mayor’s Banquet pledges UK support to imperialist war across the...
FRESH from sacking Suella Braverman as Home Secretary in the morning, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak turned up on Monday evening to deliver a speech...
Brown promises to ‘renew new Labour’
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown, the pretender to the Labour leadership and 10 Downing Street, told the Labour Party conference in Brighton yesterday: ‘Our mission is...
There was no fire safety report before refurbishing Grenfell – Build Council of Action...
GRENFELL Tower was safe until the refurbishment took place, when it was wrapped in highly flammable insulation and cladding, described by fire safety experts...
Consultants, Junior Doctors and rail workers are in struggle. TUC must call a general...
THE Junior Doctors and Consultants in England, faced with a ruling class that is determined to destroy the NHS, have joined forces and will...
Support the postal workers – Bring down Brown government
GORDON Brown launched his government of national unity yesterday by giving ex-Tory Sean Woodward a job in the cabinet (he defected from the Tories...
Zionist regime bans 37 aid agencies from Gaza and West Bank as it intensifies...
YESTERDAY, Israeli authorities announced that the Zionist regime had banned 37 international aid agencies operating in Gaza and the West Bank, with Hamas saying it...
UK troops to Russia’s borders while Tories threaten more bombings of Yemen
ON the day that Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak addressed parliament – to justify bombing Yemen last Friday without bothering to consult MPs –...
Trade Unions Must Dump Starmer And Labour’s Right Wing And Call A General Strike...
THE general secretary of the Unite union Len McCluskey has responded to Labour’s massive council election defeats and its disastrous loss in the Hartlepool...
Obama, Cameron Sign Up For War In Syria
US President Barack Obama has signed a covert, secret order authorising the CIA and other US state agencies to support the Syrian counter-revolutionaries, the...
Cameron wants the army and police to be above the law!
THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...
Darling’s plan to make workers pay for crisis
CHANCELLOR Darling made his pre-budget speech to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon in the form of a Labour general election manifesto. His line was...
Johnson Calls A National Lockdown ‘The Nuclear Option’ As Far As Capitalism Is...
PM BORIS JOHNSON in an interview in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph stated that the Tories were determined that there would be no further national lockdown...
Dannatt would not use Lariam, but permitted it to be used on thousands...
FORMER Army chief of staff Lord Dannatt has apologised on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme for allowing British troops to take an anti-malaria drug...