UK banks fail stress test while manufacturing collapses
LAST Friday the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the results of its stress test on 51 of the biggest banks throughout Europe and Britain. Fearful...
Reformists and Stalinists seek to break Greek teachers’ struggle
THE confrontation between Greek teachers and the Greek state and its EU masters has erupted this week after all teachers were served at the...
MPs defend council housing – report condemns government plans
The House of Commons Council Housing Group of MPs from all parties yesterday launched its report Support for the Fourth Option for Council Housing. This...
Labour’s first 100 days will see the working class using its power to drive...
LABOUR’S shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, delivered a speech yesterday laying out the priorities for the first 100 days of a Labour government. Within 100 days...
Boris Johnson being dumped – time for a general strike to dump the entire...
BORIS JOHNSON is being dumped as prime minister, as Tory MPs held a vote of no-confidence in his leadership last night. Yesterday morning, the chairman...
US Fed’s third emergency programme in 2 days fails to stop capitalist crash
THE US Federal Reserve announced late on Wednesday the third emergency programme in two days in an increasingly desperate and futile attempt to avoid...
US-Egyptian Coup Under Way In Libya!
THE drive by General Khalifa Haftat to overthrow the remnants of the Libyan government, and take on and defeat the Al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood...
Victory to Libya Bring down the coalition!
AFTER initial hesitation, and no doubt after a talking to by President Obama, and after President Sarkozy jumped the gun with his announcement, the...
840,000 tenants are facing eviction over rent arrears – only socialist revolution can stop...
A REPORT by the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has warned of a ‘rent debt crisis’ as up to 840,000 people in England and...
Murdoch’s Poodle Hunt Gets Health Privatisation Job
HEALTH Secretary Andrew Lansley has been demoted to the role of Leader of the House of Commons. This is after his health goose was cooked...
Brics Challenge To Almighty Dollar!
MOSCOW believes that the US capitalists are targeting it with sanctions ‘because the events in Ukraine have not developed the way Washington scripted them,’...
The British Government An Accomplice Of The ‘Enemy Of Mankind’
THE BOURGEOIS law courts damned the Brown government yesterday for its role as an accessory to the US and its torturers. The government was told...
Labour prepares for war – time to kick them out!
IT was revealed this week that the Labour government is set to introduce changes to a new armed forces bill, due to come before...
Second wave drives deaths up by 98%! Get rid of capitalism now … it’s...
THE SECOND wave of coronavirus has hit the UK with devastating consequences, and the Tory government’s efforts at bringing in measures to curb the...
Cotton Goes, But Savage Fire Cuts Continue – Workers Councils Of Action Must Impose...
YESTERDAY, the London Fire Brigade’s (LFB) commissioner, Dany Cotton, announced that she was resigning from her post four months early. Cotton came under sustained criticism...
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...
Trump escalates trade war with China and prepares for a shooting war – only...
THE TRUMP administration has ratcheted up the confrontation with China with an escalation of its economic trade war, coupled with a provocative military build-up...
Make sure you attend the ‘Save Ealing Hospital, Save the NHS Conference!’
THE conference called tomorrow by the West London Council of Action and the All Trades Unions Alliance has come at a critical time. This week...
GM strikers are fighting for all US workers
ABOUT 73,000 carworkers, members of the 600,000-strong United Automobile Workers (UAW) trade union, went on indefinite strike at 11am on Monday at General Motors’...
Occupy NHS Logistics on October 1 – trade unions must take strike action!
WEDNESDAY’S twin votes at the Labour Party conference against NHS privatisation emphasised for all to see just how great is the isolation of the...
Tory counter-revolution must be defeated!
THE Tories yesterday announced that as part of the autumn anti-trade union legislation they will be stopping public sector workers automatically paying subscriptions to...
US imperialism plans oil and gas war!
THE news that America intends to ‘flood the world’ with cheap liquefied natural gas (LNG) reveals just how far advanced US imperialism is along...
MASS MURDER CONTINUES IN PALESTINE WHILE THE UK’s TRADE UNION LEADERS DO NOTHING!
THE HAMAS Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Sunday that 47 Palestinians were martyred and 139 injured in six Israeli massacres in the...
Desperate Osborne swings the axe as the capitalist crisis deepens
IN HIS Spending Review of yesterday, drawn up at a time when the capitalist crisis is deepening, with inflation rising and the banks warning...
Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Usa
THE New Orleans disaster stands as a testament – with its over 10,000 dead and over 200,000 refugees – to the bankruptcy of the...
Universal Credit can’t be fixed: Abolish it along with the Tories!
THE TORY government suffered a defeat in the courts this week when the court of appeal dismissed a challenge by the Department for Work...
Balls and the ‘Little Englanders’ adopt racism as their policy
‘WE were wrong to allow so many eastern Europeans into Britain,’ says Ed Balls, referring to the large number of migrants from Poland and...
Bank of England increases interest rates as capitalism dives into financial crash and recession
THE BANK of England’s Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and voted to increase interest rates by 0.25%, pushing the rate up to 4.25% –...
Political Revolution In Kyrgyzstan
THE Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, spoke by phone Thursday with the new interim leader in Kyrgyzstan whose ‘peoples government’ has been placed in...
Met chief’s agenda – police ‘justice’ and troops on the streets!
Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, presented his ‘wish list’ of latest demands to the Labour government, when speaking to the Police Superintendents’ Conference...
Occupy Vauxhall plants – the only way to save jobs!
TORY business secretary Greg Clark emerged from talks in France with General Motors and PSA, the owners of Peugeot, announcing that the talks had...
Starmer splits Labour Party as he prepares for national government to ‘save’ bankrupt capitalism...
LABOUR Party leader Sir Keir Starmer caused a public split in the Labour Party when, on Sunday, he committed any future Labour government to...
Universities in crisis – courses slashed, thousands to be sacked and fees to soar!
UNIVERSITIES are being hit hard by the capitalist crisis with thousands of jobs and courses going, and with students facing a lifting of the...
McCluskey denounces Labour’s right wing who worked for a Tory victory!
THE general secretary of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, has reacted with fury over the revelations contained in the leaked internal report by the...
Trump sends 15,000 troops to Mexican border – threatening to open fire on migrants!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump spat on the Statue of Liberty this week and the revolutionary history of the United States, especially its call from...
Scrap Academies – restore free state education
THE Academy school project – to replace state owned schools, with ‘independent’, millionaire sponsored, and privately run schools, who hire the staff that...
Labour slashing 100,000 NHS jobs as recession drives war to make working class pay...
YESTERDAY, the Guardian newspaper revealed that 100,000 jobs in the NHS could be wiped out because of the brutal cost-cutting regime imposed by Labour...
GM quits South Africa as car giants go from a credit fuelled boom to...
THE shock decision announced last week that General Motors (GM), the world’s largest car manufacturer, is ending production of vehicles in South Africa is...
Blair sets out the plans to privatise the NHS for his stooge Starmer to...
AS the NHS celebrated its 75th anniversary yesterday former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair launched his latest campaign for complete privatisation of the health...
Make May apologise for 100 years of the Balfour Declaration!
PM May has gone out of her way to insult the Palestinian people by declaring her pride in the 100th anniversary of the Balfour...
‘Tanks not Welfare’ demands the capitalist class. Bring them down with a general strike...
HUNDREDS of thousands of Iranians marched defiantly in Tehran and other Iranian cites yesterday in solidarity with Palestine against Israeli genocide, for a Palestinian...
Hunt blames the working class for capitalist crisis as Tories prepare a class war...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been in Washington this week attending the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF, the main economic...
Hague Beats The War Drums Against Syria
YESTERDAY saw the spectacle of Foreign Secretary Hague complaining that every Jihadist on the planet was heading for Syria, after both he and his...
Starmer announces creation of a ‘standing army’ as the Labour government moves to impose...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer emerged from an emergency COBRA meeting of ministers on Monday to announce the formation of a new ‘standing army’...
On The Eve Of The Budget, Workers Are Demanding Action To Bring Down...
THE TUC General Council has met and issued a statement on the crisis. In it, it disgracefully treats the Tory government as a potential...