Inflation rages, the trade deficit widens and the bosses demand even tougher anti-union laws
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday kept rates at 0.5%. Inflation however is continuing to rise as world oil, wheat, meat, cotton and...
With capitalism in crisis, and the NHS being knifed by Starmer – UK needs...
THE immediate ending of the pensioners’ Winter Fuel Allowance was necessary to prevent an economic collapse and a run on the banks, declared Lucy...
Counter-revolution prepares behind cloak of Olympic Games
THE news that the coalition government is preparing to deploy ground-to-air missiles at next year’s London Olympic games has been greeted with amused bafflement...
Blair using EU to attack workers’ wages and conditions
THE Blair government has only one real use for the EU, and that is as a tool for cutting the wages and increasing the...
Cameron, Farage and Iwaszkiewicz forming a common front
NEO-fascist movements in Ukraine are operating with the connivance of the Kiev authorities, which is absolutely unacceptable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on...
Jobs For Youth – Smash The Cheap Labour Economy
Youth unemployment is now higher than it was in 1997, with 702,000 young people aged 16-24 jobless, according to official figures released just before...
42,000 BA Workers Are Being Threatened With New Contracts Today!
THE LEADER of the Unite trade union, Len McCluskey, said on Monday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to...
Tories wage starvation war against children of immigrant families and the entire working...
THE children of immigrant families are being deliberately starved by the Tories as part of their ‘hostile environment’ policy towards immigrant workers. Headteachers and...
Victory to the Syrian army in Idlib! Forward with the Turkish workers revolution...
THE TURKISH government has said it will not hesitate to invade Syria to prevent the Syrian army pressing ahead with its counter-terrorism offensive to...
New Labour full of sleaze, hatred for claimants and arrogance
THE real anti-working class face of the Blair, Labour government is becoming clearer and clearer every day, as the crisis of capitalism deepens. ...
Palestine suspends recognition of the state of Israel!
THE PALESTINIAN Central Council met in Ramallah on Sunday and Monday and, after deliberations on important matters for the Palestinian people, it made a...
Abolish student loans and debt, and restore grants!
LAST Monday the coalition government’s drive to privatise every single public service and completely smash up the welfare state took yet another grotesque turn...
Take action to defend jobs. Occupy and organise a general strike!
FACED with the crash of the pound and the enormous 182,000 leap in the number of unemployed in the three months to October, the...
Capitalism has no ‘safety net’ to save it from economic crash
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) can no longer act as the world’s ‘lender of last resort’ according to a task force of currency experts...
Tories are readying to impose new taxes, and engage in massive wage cutting! Remove...
EARLIER this week, Apple was priced on the US stock market at $2.3tn (£1.7tn), more than the combined ‘value’ of the entire FTSE 100. The...
Jordan On The Brink Of Revolution
JORDAN has announced huge 76 per cent fuel price increases. In a statement the Jordanian government said that domestic fuel and kerosene prices had...
Bosses are taking the axe to the Welfare State, pensions and the NHS! Forward...
IN MONDAY’S Daily Telegraph, Roger Bootle spells out the ‘fallacy’ in its business section that economic growth is the key to Britain’s survival as...
Tory Ambulance Privatisation Drive!
FIGURES extracted this week by Freedom of Information requests prove conclusively that the privatisation of the ambulance service is being pushed through by the...
Cornwall Marches To Save Fire Service
TWO hundred firefighters and control room staff were joined by thousands of angry local residents in a 13-mile march from Camborne to Falmouth on...
Judge Dismisses CWU Appeal In A Few Minutes – Time For A General Strike...
IT TOOK just minutes yesterday for three High Court judges to hear and dismiss an appeal by the postal workers union (CWU) against an...
Tories attacking youth again – answer them with socialist revolution
THE Tory-led coalition have launched an unprecedented attack on youth after endorsing a Transport Research paper that proposes that young drivers under the age...
Build The Fourth Internati0Nal!
THE news last week that more than 100 cities in the United States are set to go bankrupt in the new year spells complete...
Trump’s Economic Miracle Is A Bankrupt Mirage – US Workers Need Alternative To Trump...
THE US Federal Reserve Bank yesterday launched an unlimited money printing programme to try to halt the collapse of the US ‘economic miracle’, and...
Tories ramp up war on unions
LESS than a week before the start of the TUC’s annual conference, the Tory government has unveiled a whole raft of new proposals to...
G20 debt pile reaches $135 trillion – Capitalism is breaking apart – forward with...
THIS WEEK the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another warning that the world capitalist financial system is on the verge of a gigantic...
Care Homes Crisis
FOUR Seasons Health Care, the largest provider of care homers for the elderly in Britain, has announced that it is going bust, losing £26...
Another British Retreat From Kabul
PM Cameron has told MPs that 3,800 British troops – almost half of the current force serving in Helmand province – are to be...
Blairites back-off and concede to Brown
OH how the mighty have fallen. It was not so long ago that Blairites were queuing up to challenge Gordon Brown for the premiership....
One third of all people in UK have lived in poverty in the past...
ONE in three people in the country have ‘experienced poverty’ in the past four years. According to figures produced by the Office for National Statistics,...
Imperialism is on its last legs – Time for the world socialist revolution!
ON Monday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was freed from the high-security Belmarsh jail after a deal was agreed for him to plead guilty to...
Sunak Budget to prepare for mass unemployment and austerity war on workers
MANY of the measures announced in yesterday’s Budget by Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak had been widely publicised in the run up to his appearance...
Defend the Royal Mail – Form a public sector alliance – Bring down the...
FOLLOWING the publication of the coalition’s Postal Services Bill, Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, said: ‘The government has wasted no time in flogging...
Israel calls for Iran to be expelled from the United Nations
THE Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. He also said that ‘a world without the...
Trump’s ‘war on two fronts’ against ‘millions of illegal immigrants’ at home...
THE US military is sending an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East as it builds up war tensions to try to intimidate Iran...
Putin Makes An Offer To Africa That The Capitalists Are Incapable Of Making!
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has told a summit of African leaders that Russia will give them tens of thousands of tonnes of grain within...
Saudi backers of ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Al Nusra Front accuse Qatar of...
LAST month US president, Donald Trump, turned up in Saudi Arabia to give his unqualified support to the ruling Saudi monarchy and their fellow...
Trade unions in the US and UK must support Palestinian hunger strikers
SEVENTY-FIVE Palestinian inmates have gone on hunger strike in support of two of their fellow prisoners, who have been on hunger strike for several...
French working class must take power to begin the European Socialist revolution!
NEARLY a quarter of a million French workers have taken part in mass rallies across the country against the French fascists, calling on the...
Pound falls after Rachel Reeves reduced to tears in Parliament
DURING PM’s Question Time in Parliament on Wednesday Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves broke down in tears as Prime Minster Keir Starmer dodged a question...
There must be general strikes in the UK, the EU and the USA to...
ISRAELI military forces invaded the al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday morning in a continuation of the violent attacks on Palestinian worshippers gathered for dawn prayers...
Truss Must Go And The Tory Government And Her Cronies With Her!
Monday’s Daily Telegraph had in its editorial an early celebration of a PM Truss ‘victory’ in getting her Tory party to accept the abolition...
AA sold to Saga, Permira and CVC bosses pocket £300m
TRUE to form the private equity capitalist groups Permira and CVC having acquired the prestigious AA motoring group with the help of huge borrowings...
Obama orders review over Syria
PRESIDENT Barack Obama has stepped up the number of US troops in Iraq to over 3,000 and has also admitted that there may be...
Tory austerity hits poorest the hardest, time to kick them out!
A STUDY produced yesterday by the Centre for Cities think tank highlights the reality of Tory austerity cuts that have fallen on the backs...
To disband the police force and defend the NHS from privateers the TUC...
ON Thursday, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced new government reforms of the police disciplinary system which means that in future any police officer...