Blair – Bush’s Servant To The Bitter End
THE knives were out for disgraced Deputy Prime Minister Prescott yesterday. He is the man who was important to the Prime Minister because he...
The lesson from the tower block fire disaster is stop the fire service cuts!
SIX people have been confirmed dead and many are missing after a huge fire engulfed a 24-storey North Kensington tower block, Grenfell Tower, after...
Reject ‘unlimited fees’, restore free state education
LORD BROWNE’S Review was published yesterday, recommending unlimited tuition fees for university, with ‘the market’ setting the level. The coalition’s Business, Innovation and Skills Secretary,...
Starmer’s ‘national mission’ is to save capitalism and to make workers pay for it!
YESTERDAY, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer delivered what was billed as a keynote speech that would outline once and for all the policies Labour...
EU leaders took one minute to agree measures to discipline British workers!
THE leaders of the EU took just one minute of discussion last Saturday to agree on imposing measures designed to beat the Tory government...
Dollar collapse puts bankers into a spin
THE dollar has continued to collapse against the other major capitalist currencies leaving the pound at its highest price against the dollar since Britain...
30,000 Businesses Will Go Bust In 2024!
ECONOMISTS at the multi-national financial advice service PwC have issued a stark warning that nearly 30,000 businesses in the UK will collapse under the...
Obama To The Right Of Bush Over Palestine
THE US democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama, during his visit to Palestine, refused to go back on his earlier statement, made at a Zionist...
Labour Intends To Prop Up Capitalism And Continue From Where The Tories Left Off!
KING Charles yesterday outlined his new Labour government’s law-making plans in his speech to Parliament. The Labour Party now has an overall majority over all...
3.1 million children living below poverty line – the TUC advocates doing absolutely nothing!
This is a treacherous abdication of all responsibility by the trade union leaders for this crisis of poverty. They have not lifted a single...
British Chambers of Commerce looks to class war in New Year
FOR some days now, Minister Jowell has been campaigning in the cabinet to stop Gordon Brown being verbally beastly to the Tories, by bringing...
Tories refuse any measures to limit Covid deaths – Kick them out, and bring...
COVID restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid ‘stumbling into a winter crisis’ Matthew Taylor, head of the NHS Confederation, has...
Only a sliding scale of wages can defend workers from inflation
OFFICIAL figures have confirmed that consumer price inflation surged to 5.4% in 12 months to December – up from 5.1% month before – the...
The Not So Great Recovery!
THE UK economy grew by 0.8% in the second quarter of 2014, official figures are said to show. The figures, from the Office for National...
Cameron the assassin
WITH his announcement on Monday that he had personally authorised the killing by drone of two young British citizens in Syria, Cameron revealed himself...
Spanish workers on the road to revolution
SPANISH PM Mariano Rajoy has just announced a 3% VAT rise from 18%-21%, and a series of austerity measures that will cut the Spanish...
Labour supports Tory law to give police ‘near total discretion’ to outlaw protests
Police will have ‘near total discretion’ to ban protests, according to leading human rights lawyer Adam Wagner. ‘Secondary legislation’ introduced by the Tories in parliament...
US Imperialism organised botched plot to overthrow Venezuela’s President!
ON WEDNESDAY, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo emphatically denied to reporters that the US had any involvement in the failed attempt by...
World Socialist Revolution is only way to end imperialist slaughter
THE TORIES have damned the Starmer government for a foreign policy ‘shambles’ as political parties throughout the western imperialist nations grapple with coming to...
Israeli minister Ben-Gvir calls for collective punishment against Palestinians!
THE fascist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has renewed his calls for collective punishment against all Palestinians in the occupied West Bank yesterday...
Israel to build rail link into West Bank
IT IS well known that the desire of the Zionist ruling class in Israel to expand the area under its rule is unquenchable, and...
The Bank of E grapples with the contradictions of the capitalist economy
IN its latest report the Bank of England monetary committee has rejected the line put forward in the budget by the Chancellor of the...
After 10 years of austerity, and a boom in billionaires and paupers, workers will...
A REPORT this week from the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the effects of Tory austerity cuts has brought home the fact that...
Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Sri Lanka
AFTER an exhausting, genocidal war, hugely costly in lives and resources, and in the face of a working class movement that is now demanding...
Israel slaughters Gaza Strip Palestinians
AT the same time as the Fatah leader, President Abbas is meeting the Israeli Premier Olmert for the continuing ‘peace talks’, that were launched...
50% rise in SA farmworkers’ wages is just the start!
THE Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) has welcomed, as a ‘short term victory’, an increase in the minimum wage for farmworkers from R69...
Bank of England implicated in illegal Libor rigging
THE Bank of England, the UKs central bank and guardian of the country’s banking system, along with being responsible for the running of British...
Brown Favours Bush’s ‘New World Order’
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has spoken of the need for a ‘new world order’. He is not embarrassed that this is what President Clinton and...
270,000 civil servants to strike!
UP to 270,000 civil and public servants from across the UK are set to launch a month of industrial action, with a 48 hour...
No more cuts! Defend the public services!
THE Newquay disaster proves what most people knew to be the case – that cuts in the fire service inevitably cost lives. Newquay is...
Europe’s energy bill hit $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the start...
THE SOARING price of energy has cost Europe $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the beginning of the biggest, deepest economic crisis...
Labour set to cave in to the bosses and ditch minimum wage rise for...
YOUTH are bearing the brunt of unemployment according to new Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures released this week. According to the ONS figures, unemployment...
Housing crisis: socialism the only solution
THE proposal to blow up five blocks of flats in Glasgow’s Red Road, as part of the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games, has...
Smash the Bedroom Tax with a general strike!
A GRANDMOTHER, who because of the Bedroom Tax, had to pay an extra £20 a week, has thrown herself in front of a...
Tory arrogance only possible because of TUC servility
THE past week has been dominated by the sheer arrogance of the Tory-led coalition as it prepares to implement its plans for the wholesale...
British Government Must Recognise Hamas
IT IS AN indisputable fact that Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist, was freed by the Hamas movement just two weeks after Hamas took control...
Social care starved of funds – one million without support
A new report, Care in Crisis, issued by Age UK spells out exactly what the Tory-led coalition’s destruction of the welfare state means for...
World debt is leading to hyper-inflation and a socialist revolution!
AN ARTICLE in Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph by its chief economics commentator, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, highlighted the inevitable consequences following the massive amount of borrowing carried...
‘Big Society’ a cover for destroying jobs and life-saving services!
TORY leader Cameron yesterday delivered his speech on the ‘Big Society’ but had a problem defining what he meant. He said: ‘You can call it...
Balls Stands Up For Rescuing Capitalism
GMB leader Paul Kenny has told delegates to the GMB conference that the GMB wants a greater say in Labour’s policy making process. The truth,...
Tory MPs demand May resigns while Labour refuses to call for her removal
THERESA May returned from her Easter break to face Tory MPs united in demanding her resignation. Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, met...
Strike wave hits UK as workers rise up against bankrupt capitalism!
AS CHRISTMAS approaches, the strike wave sweeping Britain is far from abating, in fact it is growing in strength and determination by the day...
‘Vile police’ and Tory grandees battle it out!
A PETTY incident – the refusal of Downing Street police officers to allow the Tory chief whip to ride his bicycle through the gates...
Egyptian Military Shut Down Gaza Power Supply
ALI AL-HAYIK, the head of Gaza’s Federation of Industries and the Palestinian Businessmen Association on the Gaza Strip, warned yesterday that dozens of factories...
World crisis deepening to explosion point!
JAPANESE stocks led big falls across Asia on Tuesday, posting their biggest drop in nearly 10 months, as investors became hysterical about falling oil...