Tories lay groundwork for police military dictatorship to force a return to work
THE INSTITUTE of Directors (IoD) has warned that 250,000 businesses could sack workers as the Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak runs down the furlough scheme. Sunak...
Russia’s response to the EU’s Georgia threats
THE Russian government said yesterday there had been a ‘responsible’ outcome to Monday’s European Union summit called to discuss the recent fighting between Russia...
No confidence in Gove by heads
At their annual conference the largest head teachers union, NAHT, passed a motion of no-confidence in the Tory education minister Michael Gove and the whole...
Cameron and NATO mobilise to send refugees back!
BRITAIN is sending ‘vital military assets’ (in Cameron’s words) to be part of the NATO force that will be intercepting refugee boats seeking to...
Nationalise car industry and the banks to defend all jobs
GLOBAL action to save the motor industry from crisis, and above all to stave off bankruptcy at General Motors, has been urged by Unite...
Socialist Revolution To Put Bankrupt Bankers Out Of Their Misery
IN its latest annual report, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the ‘central bank of central banks’, has warned that capitalism is ‘defenceless’ against...
Abandon The ‘Fantasy Of The Right To Return’ Demands Netanyahu
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu put the final nails into the coffin of the two state solution when he urged, on Monday, that...
Unemployment and inflation rising, as British capitalism crumbles!
THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 43,000 to 2.5 million during the three months to February, the highest figure since...
Adams bends the knee
ON Tuesday, during a 4-day visit to Ireland, Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, had a private meeting lasting 20 minutes...
Scandalous Academies!
AN academy chain in London set up by the Tory schools minister Lord Nash is having its education curriculum drawn up by his daughter. The...
Drive to bring local performance-related pay into the NHS must be defeated
THE chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) Chris Hopson, representing more than 200 NHS trusts across England, has called for the ripping...
New Axis Of Evil Threatens War With Syria!
THE new axis of evil, the leaders of the US, France and the UK, have come together to threaten Syria with war, with US...
Make Turkey general strike indefinite to kick Erdogan out
THE Turkish trade unions called a two-day general strike for yesterday and today to express their outrage at the bombing on Saturday of the...
Starving Yemenis Are Eating Leaves – While The UK Supplies Saudis With Bombs And...
YEMENI families are starving with nothing to eat but leaves as Saudi Arabia steps up its deadly bombing campaign using British bombs and missiles...
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...
BIS Report – global ‘debt trap’ risk higher than ever and set to crash...
THE SWISS-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in its annual ‘health check’ on the world’s financial system has once again warned about the huge...
While NHS workers demand action, Prentis and Barber stay on their knees
YESTERDAY thousands of NHS workers took part in the ‘NHS Together’ Lobby of Parliament to demand an end to NHS privatisation. The lobbying...
Abbas Meets With Trump Delegation In Ramallah!
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday met with a US delegation representing President Trump, headed by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner at his Ramallah headquarters, and...
China, Japan Warn Usa About World Default Crisis
BOTH the capitalist class of the world and the Stalinist bureaucracy, which has been expending trillions of dollars buying US debt, are now issuing...
Obama-Erdogan To Meet Over Syria At G20
THE Turkish government warned on Monday that it would carry out more strikes on the previously US-backed Kurdish militia in Syria if it fails...
Greek Debt Crisis Set To Explode Under The Eu!
TALKS on a Greek debt deal, it was reported yesterday, have ‘hit a snag’. The Institute of International Finance (IIF), and their creditors group...
US Federal Reserve is too scared to raise interest rates!
ON Thursday evening, the US Federal Reserve policy committee decided yet again that it did not dare to raise interest rates by a fraction...
Cutting wages is the key says BofE boss
BANK of England chairman Mervyn King’s speech in Winchester on Tuesday night was governed by a central axiom for the survival of British capitalism. He...
US troops to fight in Iraq and Syria!
THE US has changed policy on Iraq and Syria overnight, and will now allow US ground troops to assault targets in both countries and...
LOW PAY – TUC Commission shows the problem, but runs away from a solution
YESTERDAY the TUC revealed in its ‘Commission on Vulnerable Employment’ report what everybody already knows. This is that low pay and slave labour...
No Respite From The Capitalist Crisis!
IT is one of the features of the capitalist crisis that it proceeds not in a straight line but through a downward spiral movement...
More Air Strikes As Israel Lashes Out At The West Bank And Gaza Strip!
ISRAELI warplanes continued with their airstrikes on Gaza on Sunday morning, hitting a factory in Rafah. On Friday, an Israeli missile strike on Gaza killed...
The US with 5,113 deployed nuclear bombs, and Israel with 200, is ‘threatened by...
THE US told the world on Monday that it has 5,113 nuclear war heads operationally deployed. This arsenal is supplemented by the warheads...
Eurozone collapsing – forward to United Socialist States of Europe
This week sees yet another desperate round of talks between the two leaders of the eurozone, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas...
Nationalise the Banks!
As the scandal engulfing the banks accelerates daily, so the attempts by both Labour and coalition party leaders to pretend they can stop future crises...
Barber’s secret meetings with Tories
BRENDAN BARBER, general secretary of the TUC, who doubles as a director of the Bank of England, has been at it once again, doing...
Cameron and Osborne’s Waterloo
AFTER the Tories’ defeat at the hands of a defector to UKIP in the recent Clacton by-election, David Cameron vowed that he would ‘throw...
Brown warns ‘bumps in the road ahead’
THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has presided over a capitalist state rescue of the bankrupt banking system, which has seen the deployment of up...
Whither the NHS is still to be decided!
THE fury of the Blairite Milburn over the changes to the Health Bill that have been forced on the Tory-led coalition by the massive...
Financial Services Authority Warns Of Inevitable Collapse
WITH business sure that the Bank of England is due to raise interest rates to at least five per cent, warnings are being made...
Tory-Lib Dem Butchers Outline The Task Ahead
TORY CHANCELLOR Osborne provided an outline of his £6.2bn of spending cuts for 2010-11 yesterday, with Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laws...
Tories aim to drive NHS back to 1930s – bring the coalition down with...
Dr Mark Porter, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) Hospital Consultants Committee, in an interview with the Guardian newspaper, has spelt out clearly...
Murdoch Shops His Own Employees In Attempt To Save His Own Neck
FIVE journalists at the Sun newspaper have been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of corrupt payments to the police and other ‘public servants’. A Surrey...
Obama Looking For ‘Partners’
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S annual State of the Union speech was dominated by the internal situation of US capitalism, and his search for Republican partners...
Arab League sells out the Palestinians yet again
THE Arab League, the organisation of the Arab bourgeoisie, last Saturday gave its backing to the indirect Palestinian-Israeli peace talks being pushed by President...
Putin Moves To Reassure Western ‘Partners!’
WITH the shelling and bombing of eastern Ukraine still taking place, and with tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in southern Russia, President Vladimir...
US Ends Quantitative Easing!
THE US Federal Reserve has announced it is ending its quantitative easing (QE) stimulus programme begun in 2008. The six years since the banking collapse...
Obama opens up class war front against US workers!
LAST WEEK President Obama, speaking at the Pentagon, told the American people that he was going to open up a new front for the...
The biggest fall in living standards since 1931!
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that living costs have risen 25% in the past five years and placed an ‘unprecedented’ financial burden on...
Tories fund campaign of on-line attacks on Corbyn by ‘shadowy’ charity run by ex-military
AT THE WEEKEND the Scottish newspaper the Daily Record published leaked documents that claims to reveal that a small ‘charity’, based in Fife and...