Carter condemns Gaza blockade and urges talks with Hamas
EX-US president Jimmy Carter, who negotiated the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, yesterday called the Israeli blockade of Gaza ‘a crime’...
The ‘bank of central bankers’ warns new banking collapse imminent
THE Swiss based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has just issued its starkest warning yet that the entire debt fuelled international banking system is...
The ruling class are above the law – decides Law Lords
THE House of Lords Court of Appeal has ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted lawfully when it rolled over in front of...
Trump sends in National Guard to take over America’s capital city
On Monday, US president Donald Trump declared a ‘crime emergency’ in Washington DC, the capital city of America, using this as a pretext to...
Chelsea Tories just could not wait to start evicting
JUST hours after Tory leader Cameron announced that council houses were no longer going to be ‘homes for life’ – but were to be...
British capitalism is in its death agony – time for the British Socialist revolution!
DISASTROUS financial data released yesterday showed UK public sector borrowing hitting £24.3bn in April, dealing another body-blow to the beleaguered and split Labour government. The...
Make It ‘Doomsday’ For The Coalition Not For Council Housing
THE ‘social housing’ budget in England is to be slashed by more than 50 per cent. Up to 90 per cent of the market rent...
Economic Crisis Deepening! More Austerity And A Banking Crash On The Way!
A LEAKED document obtained by the Labour Party has revealed that the Treasury faces a black hole of up to £16bn in its finances...
British Commander Demands Tro0P Numbers In Helmand Be Doubled
A FEW WEEKS ago the US Secretary of Defence, Gates, was accused of trying to corral the British government into sending more troops...
General Strike from October 10th to support Palestine and go forward to a UK...
THIS year’s British TUC Congress in Brighton from 8-11 September took key decisions to align trade unions with the pro-Palestine, pro-peace and anti-war movements,...
The Workers Of The World do Support Palestine – Now Is The Time...
TENS of thousands marched through central London on Saturday reiterating their calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, for the UK to stop arming...
Left Fabianism cannot beat the bosses! Forward to the British socialist revolution!
LABOUR Leader Corbyn, launching Labour’s manifesto at Bradford University yesterday, sought to launch a gradual Fabian ‘revolution’, at a snail’s pace, to begin to...
Pope Arrives To Organise Counter-Revolutionaries
THE visit to Britain by Pope Benedict XVI has only one aim, to make a pact with the British ruling class, to help strengthen...
Netanyahu Demands A Palestinian Bantustan
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday endorsed for the first time the creation of a Palestinian state, provided it had none of the...
World Crisis driving world revolution – Build the Fourth International!
LAST week it was the turn of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to issue its latest warning that world capitalism is on the point...
Israel bombs ‘safe’ Rafah camp with Palestinians ‘burnt alive’ in melting tents
ON SUNDAY night, Israeli planes launched a devastating attack on a tent camp in the Tel Al Sultan neighbourhood in western Rafah which is...
Revolutionary crisis in France
The first round of voting in the French presidential election, held last Sunday, produced an unprecedented defeat for the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and his...
Tory Britain Reveals Its ‘Third World’ Essence With Friday’s National Grid Catastrophe!
TORY Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom has said that a special committee will look at what happened last Friday, when a huge power cut affected...
McDonnell wants a corporatist deal with the capitalists!
SHADOW Chancellor McDonnel’s speech to the Labour Party conference was remarkable for its lack of treatment of the crisis of capitalism. He focused...
Stock markets around the world crash as the US plunges into recession
STOCK markets in Europe and Asia crashed yesterday morning as the international financial world suddenly woke up to the grim reality that US capitalism...
British capitalism is bust, time to put it out of its misery
FOR THE first time a comprehensive analysis of the economic and social impact of the war waged by the Tory government under Margaret Thatcher...
Bankers’ forecasts wrong again! New banking crash will ignite revolution!
THE BANK of England has admitted what it calls a ‘Michael Fish’ moment over its failure to predict the 2007-8 banking crash and its...
The judiciary seeks to bar the way! Open it up with a socialist revolution!
YESTERDAY’S ruling by three High Court judges that the Tory government does not have the right to trigger Article 50 is the latest and...
Turkish Workers Rise Against Erdogan!
RELATIVES of around 150 miners, missing after the deadly mine explosion at the privatised Soma mine in western Turkey, are maintaining a permanent vigil...
‘Currency wars’ will lead to imperialist war
THE meeting of the G20 group – the 20 leading countries in the world – concluded in Seoul yesterday with the usual empty claims of...
Ex–Blairite Short Reveals Blair Coup Against Cabinet
CLARE SHORT, one-time International Development Minister, revealed to the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday just how Blair, with the aid of Goldsmith, deceived the Cabinet and...
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...
One year since the first Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March 2020!
ON 23 March 2020, Boris Johnson outlined measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, with a series of stop-go lockdowns. Since then, of the major...
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...
Revolution and counter-revolution in Bahrain and Libya
THE US State Department urged US citizens on Tuesday not to travel to Bahrain and suggested Americans there should leave at once due ...
Commissioners will slash and burn local services!
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Tory County Council has imposed emergency spending controls twice in the last six months and is now in a ‘truly perilous state’, having...
IMF predicts ‘worst economic fallout since the Great Depression’ – Only way out of...
INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund’s (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday: ‘We anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.’ ‘Just three months ago, we...
Make the TUC take action to defend the NHS
YESTERDAY both Blair and Hewitt mocked NHS workers insulting their intelligence with the Hewitt line that this year was the best ever year for...
Unions Must Be Made To Take Action To Defend Steel Industry Jobs And Pensions!
THE TORY government is on the brink of a savage attack on Tata Steel workers’ pensions, and after four weeks of consultation will be...
Middle Class Faces Mass Unemployment. It Must Unite With The The Working Class To...
THE CRISIS engulfing British capitalism has drawn the organised working class, along with youth and entire sections of the middle class, into the struggle...
Tories-Lib Dems declare war on the working class
The unemployment rate for the three months to March 2010 was 8.0 per cent, up 0.2 per cent on the quarter, the Office for...
US–UK demands war while Karzai calls for peace with Taleban
US Defence Secretary Gates, and the new US military commander in Afghanistan, General Petraeus have recently been canvassing in London for a doubling of...
Judges attack ‘unlawful’ terror laws – police demand more repression
YESTERDAY the capitalist state was split over the Blair government’s police state attacks on democratic rights. Two Law Lords attacked Home Office plans,...
NHS under attack – DEFEND IT NOW!
THE capitalist crisis and the massive indebtedness of British capitalism, with its national debt closing fast on its GDP of £1.4...
Shares Crash As Debt Crisis Explodes
IN London yesterday, the FTSE 100 rebounded momentarily, but then fell back into the red, down by 48.5 points by 1pm after a...
Shut Kensington council down! Form a Council of Action to run the Borough!
'THE COUNCIL needs to be shut down … Workers should take over and workers' unions should defend them,' Zoe Bernard from Ladbroke Grove, said...
Call a general strike – build Councils of Action – forward to Socialism
THE Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said yesterday that the government should ban strikes by workers in essential services, adding that this...
Lessons of 1926 are vital for today!
THIS year there is great interest in the 80th anniversary of the general strike of 1926. It is not hard to work out why....
UK readying for war in the Gulf
THE West’s escalation of its onslaught on Iran could see Britain sending military reinforcements to the Gulf shortly, following the passage of HMS Argyll...
How to win the firefighters struggle!
THE six-hour strike by firefighters on New Year’s Eve was a demonstration of the solidarity and determination of FBU members across the country to...