Germany dives into deflationary spiral
THE crisis of world capitalism continues to batter the economies of the eurozone into the ground with virtually every day bringing forth yet more...
Police ‘execution’ sparks Minneapolis uprising – It will be supported by workers...
‘THEY EXECUTED my brother in broad daylight. People had to film that. People had to see that,’ Philonise Floyd the brother of George Floyd, killed...
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....
Union leaders in Brown’s top pocket
The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure leapt from 4.7% in August to 5.2% in December, with the Retail Prices Index (RPI), which includes the...
Cable threatens unions – answer with Indefinite general strike
VINCE CABLE, the coalition Business Secretary, used his speech to the GMB union’s annual conference yesterday to deliver a stark warning to the unions...
Karzai To Release Prisoners From Bagram’s G-Bay Jail
WASHINGTON has expressed concern about a plan by the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai to release scores of prisoners considered by the US...
Unite must stop Heathrow to win the BA struggle!
Striking British Airways cabin crew began another five days of strike action last night. On the eve of the action BA cabin crew told...
Labour reach new depths of treachery over NHS
AT the weekend the new Labour shadow health secretary, Andrew Burnham, delivered a treacherous stab in the back to the NHS with the announcement...
Afghan civilians being slaughtered while poppy production is booming
MASSIVE NATO firepower is killing hundreds of Afghan civilians, as British forces in Helmand province battle with Taleban fighters seeking to bring back to...
Blair’s ‘legacy’– Student debts set to soar!
THIS week, as college and school students receive their A level examination results and consider going to university, the latest survey by the NatWest...
Hewitt Demands An NHS £250 Million Surplus!
HEALTH Secretary Hewitt, who not so long ago said that there would be no limits to privatisation in the NHS, yesterday revealed that she...
Having removed Mursi, the Egyptian masses will march forward to socialism
THE move by the Egyptian military leadership to overthrow the Muslim Brotherhood government of President Mursi represents a decisive development in the Egyptian revolution...
Kiev, EU and US facing defeat in East Ukraine!
UKRAINIAN President Petro Poroshenko has cancelled a visit to Turkey, citing ‘Russian troop deployments’ in the east of the country. His announcement came as...
Spectre of Revolution hangs over World Economic Forum
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, held at Davos in Switzerland, started this week with the spectre of the world socialist revolution...
NHS under siege – TUC must act
TORY Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced on June 2nd that the NHS must ‘stop making excuses’ and deliver ‘its side of the bargain’ going...
Capitalism being torn to shreds by coronavirus – forward to world socialist revolution
CORONAVIRUS sent the world’s stock markets crashing when they opened yesterday morning, with £100 billion wiped off the value of London’s top listed companies. Leading...
US opens missile base in Romania and plans for bases in Poland and Hungary
AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...
Rates On Hold As Economy Folds!
UK interest rates were kept on hold at 0.5% yesterday, the 26th month in a row that the Bank of England has left interest...
Trump Leaps Into War With Syria – Where He Leads, The UK Ruling Class...
PRESIDENT Trump in his televised statement on Thursday night insisted that launching a 59-strong cruise missile attack on Syria was ‘in the national security...
Bush dresses down ‘quitter’ Brown!
BUSH flew into London yesterday after sending a public order to Gordon Brown, via the Observer newspaper. This was that Brown must not announce...
Cameron’s goose is well and truly cooked!
THE Liberal Democrats have won the Eastleigh by-election, with the UK Independence Party pushing the Conservatives into third place, with Labour as also-rans. Mike Thornton...
Defending US ‘strategic interests’ leads directly to imperialist war
IT WAS CLAUSEWITZ who said that war is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means. In unveiling a large number of...
Unite workers to go forward to socialism
THE two wings of the bourgeoisie are now going at it hammer and tongs to both exploit and abuse workers from the new EU...
Palestinians throw shoes at UN chief Ban!
DOZENS of people threw shoes and stones at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s convoy as it entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Many of those...
Build Fourth International Throughout Africa
THE victory of the strike of the Lonmim miners will inspire not just the workers of South Africa and Africa as a whole, but...
It’s a crisis of capitalism not a crisis of food production
ON SUNDAY we were told that in the future we will not be able to get the state pension until the age of 70,...
UK Economy Gripped By Slump And Inflation
UK economic growth ground to a halt between April and June, according to the latest official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
Socialist revolution the only way to resolve the crisis
THE head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Legarde, spelt out the task confronting the capitalist class of Europe last Thursday when she...
BA senses weakness of Woodley leadership
BA yesterday threw the TGWU’s attempt at a compromise out of the window when it announced that all of its planes will be grounded...
Britain Must Stop Arming Saudi Feudalists!
MPs on the House of Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls have urged in a draft report that the UK government stop selling arms...
Working Class In Ukraine Winning Over The Army
ON SATURDAY a National Assembly was held in the Black Sea city of Odessa, and other assemblies were held in all of the...
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...
Israel is a terrorist state – while anti-Zionism is not a form of racism!
YOU can tell that the split and divided Tory party and capitalist class in the UK are in very serious trouble when they have...
Gate Gourmet Locked Out Workers Refused Entry To Tuc Congress
YESTERDAY the leadership of the TGWU refused entry, as visitors, to the TUC Congress to some 20 locked out Gate Gourmet workers who have...
Defeat BA’s union busting! All out in support of the cabin crew!
ON THE eve of the four-day strike by British Airways cabin crew, which begins today, the company’s Chief Executive Willie Walsh stepped up his...
No Performance-Related Pay In The Classroom!
THE House of Commons Education Select Committee yesterday tried to deliver a blow against the national pay agreements established by the teaching trade unions....
An NHS For The Rich!
THE BMA and the main TUC trade unions are completely opposed to the Health and Social Care Bill and have given up all efforts...
Right Sector Leader Advising The Military
THIS week all pretence that the illegal regime, that took power in an imperialist-inspired and financed coup last year, rests on ‘popular democratic’ support,...
Crisis hit US tries WMD deception again!
THE depth of the capitalist world crisis has set the US juggernaut lurching forward once again. This time it is threatening Syria, and by...
Pakistani workers & farmers pay for the imperialists’ crisis
EVERY day the number of people affected by the torrential rain and flooding in Pakistan is mounting. More than 20 million have been hit....
Merkel-Sarkozy deal will fail to stem euro crisis
THE media were out in force at the end of last week to hear German Chancellor Angela Merkel reveal details of a bail-out package...
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...
US-UK Refuse To Demand Israeli Ceasefire!
YESTERDAY’S UN Security Council emergency meeting on Gaza ended without the issuing of a resolution after the US and the UK refused to vote...
US workers reject Obama’s rescue of bankers and bosses
SCOTT Brown’s victory for the Republican Party, in the Massachusetts election for the US Senate, does not mean that US workers can’t wait to...
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...