No recovery in the US, EU or UK – socialism the only way forward
THE UK’S Bank of England yesterday followed the lead of the US Federal Reserve Bank whose Chairman Bernanke had on Tuesday said that...
30th anniversary of Malvinas war – reject imperialist war hysteria
Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas (Falklands) war, a war involving a tiny island with a population in 1982 of less than...
Household Debt Now At £1.47 Trillion!
HOUSEHOLD debt has grown for the 26th consecutive month, reaching £1.47 trillion according to the Radical Centre for Social Justice (RCSJ). Household debt has soared...
Bosses and bankers agree capitalism is ‘broken’ – time to put an end...
ANY LINGERING doubts about the morbid terror that is gripping the capitalist class were dispelled this weekend when 50 of the leading bosses from...
No hardship payments says Woodley
TGWU leader Tony Woodley confirmed yesterday that the hardship payments to the locked out Gate Gourmet workers have been stopped. He informed a delegation of...
French And British Workers Take Action Against The Bosses
IT was Karl Marx who said that the French would start the revolution, that the British would be inspired to take it further and...
Unions Must Take Strike Action To Stop ‘Son Of Star Wars’
THE real content of the ‘war against terror’ (a tool for promoting imperialist interests and for grabbing the world’s resources) has been proven with...
TUC Must Take General Strike Action To Stop The Mass Murder Of Palestinians
WEDNESDAY’S Guardian newspaper admitted that Israel faced intensifying international condemnation for its killing of starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza’ quoting UN Secretary General Antonio...
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...
Kenyan explosion rooted in land theft and the capitalist crisis
KENYA has been convulsed for nearly a week by an uprising of the poor and the landless who have been absolutely pauperised by the...
Britain’s economy broken says Archbishop – as he worries about the British revolution!
THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has blurted out the truth that has been more than obvious for a number of years to millions...
Tories to slash benefits to unemployed & sick
TORY Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government unveiled its plans to target the unemployed and others on benefits, depriving them of their entitlements, or...
French unions must call general strike to smash Macron’s murderous police forces!
FRANCE’S President Emmanuel Macron, after his panicky early return to France from an EU summit, has now been forced to postpone a planned state...
NO reconstruction, only destruction in Afghanistan
THE top NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Jones, has just apologised for the death of up to 80 Afghan civilians in a series...
Browne echoes Bush on need for bigger army
PRESIDENT Bush, on Wednesday, called for a major expansion of the US army, and yesterday, the British Defence Minister, Browne, slavishly echoed his master’s...
Imperialism responsible for Libyan detention centre bombing atrocity
THE BOMBING of a detention centre holding 600 refugees in the Libyan capital Tripoli last Wednesday killed at least 44 people and wounded over...
UK cannot fight the IS movement that it helped to create!
THE UK’s role in fighting the Islamic State is ‘strikingly modest’ and should be stepped up, the House of Commons Defence Select Committee has...
Crisis Forces Osborne To Re-Write His Budget!
LAST November 25th in his Autumn Statement Chancellor Osborne was full of praise for the way that allegedly the UK was now full set...
US debt crisis forces Biden to abandon trip to ramp up support for war...
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden turned up in the Japanese city of Hiroshima yesterday for a meeting of the G7 leaders over the weekend designed...
The Lebanese cease-fire is a truce
DESPITE the recent heavy losses suffered by the Israeli army in trying to penetrate southern Lebanon, the objective of the US administration, its Israeli...
Imperialists Drive To Break Up Iraq
THERE can be only one gainer from a civil war in Iraq, that will lead to the breaking up of the country into three...
McCluskey must meet with Gate Gourmet sacked workers!
LEN McCluskey, winner of the election for the post of Unite general secretary, said on Wednesday that ‘I have a huge agenda in front...
£65bn PFI Nightmare for the NHS!
THE PFI Private Finance Initiative was brought in by the Major Tory government, and while it was opposed by Labour in opposition, it was...
UK bans Chinese ambassador to step foot in Parliament! The enemy is at home...
THE UK government stepped up its war with China this week when it took the decision to ban the Chinese ambassador to the UK...
May reveals Tories fear of revolution
YESTERDAY’S speech to the Charity Commission by Tory prime minister, Theresa May, attracted much comment on her proposals on raising the profile of mental health...
Greek vote provokes revolutionary crisis
YESTERDAY''S Greek presidential vote heralds the start of a fresh eurozone crisis that threatens to bring down the Eurozone and with it the whole...
US Imperialism desperate to dominate its rivals
INTERNATIONAL ‘free trade’ agreements represent the attempt by the vast multi-national capitalist corporations to completely dominate the globe. The domination they seek is over...
The last-ditch attempt to save the euro and head off revolution
ON Thursday the European Central Bank (ECB), after months of prevarication and splits within its ranks, finally took the decision to launch the eurozone’s...
Abolish PFI and contract cleaners to stop NHS bugs deaths
THE number of deaths linked to the hospital bug Clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA. Deaths involving Clostridium difficile rose by 69 per...
Tunisian Revolution Brings Down Interior Minister
TUNISIAN President Ben Ali has dismissed his interior minister and ordered the release of most of those detained during the current clashes over food...
The West must stand with Israel and Ukraine, trumpets the about-to-be sold off Telegraph!
IT is only natural that The Daily Telegraph stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the Zionist military child-killers who have drowned the Gaza Strip with blood and...
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...
Greek workers and youth erupt in fury over deadly rail crash
THOUSANDS of Greek workers, students and youth took to the streets at the weekend in a further extension of the anger that has erupted...
Police Have No Regrets And No Remorse Say de Menezes Family
THE Metropolitan Police chief, Blair, has already gone, his going made inevitable by the disgraceful attitude that he took to the police murder of...
UK living standards ‘to fall behind Malta’ as UK capitalism crashes under debt
ON Monday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its latest updated figures which showed that the average person now has £38 less to...
CRISIS-RIDDEN UK CAPITALISM MUST BE OVERTHROWN – NO RETURN TO THE HUNGRY 1930s!
THE TORY Chancellor has had to borrow another £13bn to unveil a series of desperate measures in order to attempt to keep UK capitalism...
Hunt throws down the gauntlet – the trade unions must pick it up!
THE Department of Health, headed by Health Secretary Hunt, has said that a proposed 1% increase in NHS staff pay was unaffordable, and is...
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...
Eurozone on top of revolutionary volcano
JUST when the eurozone bankers and capitalist class were congratulating themselves on beating the reformist Syriza government of Greece into submission, an even bigger...
End futile talks with Israel! Forward to Palestinian state!
AHMAD Sa''adat, secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and Marwan al-Barghouthi, member of the Fatah Central Committee, have...
Ukrainian workers refuse to end occupations!
THE agreement, styled as a ‘de-escalation roadmap’, reached at Geneva last Thursday by representatives from Russia, US, EU and the Ukraine coupist government, represents...
Answer the capitalist crisis with a socialist programme
THE deepening capitalist crisis has seen the breakdown of the decisive Doha Round of World Trade Organisation talks, with the United States refusing and...
US credit experts warn a crash is coming
NEWS IS quietly emerging from the top of the US banking fraternity that, despite the wild euphoria that has gripped the world financial centres...
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...
Pharmaceutical companies exploit the sick for profit – expropriate them now!
THE LATEST scandal over the obscene profits of giant pharmaceutical companies emerged this week with the news that campaigners are demanding that the Tory...