Capitalism in its greatest financial crisis, says Brown
THE Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who once boasted that he had resolved the crisis of capitalism and its tendency to go from boom to...
Take Action With The Postal Workers
THE CWU postal workers trade union has been forced to take strike action, very much against the wishes of the CWU leadership, by a...
Stock markets around the world crash as the US plunges into recession
STOCK markets in Europe and Asia crashed yesterday morning as the international financial world suddenly woke up to the grim reality that US capitalism...
The Bank is preparing a housing catastrophe
HOMEOWNERS should prepare for interest rates of five per cent, a 1000 per cent leap from the current 0.5 per cent Bank of England...
US insists on direct talks as Israel refuses to halt settlement building
PRESIDENT Obama has summoned the Palestinian Authority leader, Abbas, and Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu to Washington for talks beginning on September 2, to resolve...
‘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...
NHS England boss openly calls for the privateers to wind up the NHS!
AN analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) on the funding crisis that is driving the NHS to the brink of collapse revealed...
Palestinian Prisoners Win A Victory Over Israeli Jailers As The Tuc Keeps Quiet Over...
TENS of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated across the occupied territories for the 33rd straight week against the policies of Israel’s right wing extremist...
Middle Class Faces Mass Unemployment. It Must Unite With The The Working Class To...
THE CRISIS engulfing British capitalism has drawn the organised working class, along with youth and entire sections of the middle class, into the struggle...
The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Bring Down Tories!
THE UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories says the Israeli military has ‘intentionally killed’ the aid...
P&O sackings expose the ‘sham’ of consultation with the unions – only a general...
THE CHIEF executive of P&O Ferries, Peter Hebblethwaite, appeared before a joint hearing of the transport and business committee of MPs yesterday to answer...
Return The Malvinas To Argentina!
PERU has cancelled a visit by a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Montrose, that had been due this week. Peruvian Foreign Minister Rafael Roncagliolo said: ‘This...
Brown supports lifting £3,000 cap off top-up fees
YESTERDAY Chancellor Gordon Brown joined hands with two of the leaders of the capitalist class to signal his willingness to raise the £3,000 cap...
TUC Congress must call a general strike to support the State of Palestine
WHILE welcoming the limited ‘humanitarian pause’ in the Gaza war to allow the polio vaccination of young Gazan children by the World Health Organisation...
German Ruling Class Gets Ready For Another War With Russia!
‘WE are witnessing a turning point … the world is not the same anymore,’ said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech last Sunday,...
‘Green Shoots’ – A Mirage Of Desperate Capitalists
THE European Central Bank is having nightmares about the state of the 25 banks that underpin the financial system of the Eurozone within the...
Obama’s Second Coming – Full Of Empty Words
OBAMA began his second term on Monday, after four years of office which saw GM and other motor car giants go bust, Lehman Brothers...
RCN to ballot for strike action
THE announcement that the ruling body of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will meet on Friday to decide on balloting their members on...
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...
On tenth anniversary of world banking collapse – Forward to Socialism!
ON THE eve of the tenth anniversary of collapse into bankruptcy of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, which brought the world’s capitalist banking...
Down with barbaric vaccine wars! Put an end to backward capitalism with socialist revolutions!
A VACCINE war broke out between the European Union and the UK last week over the supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus. The...
OECD says UK rates must rise to 3.5 per cent in 2011
THE OECD said yesterday that state indebtedness, and rapidly growing inflation is threatening to bring down the entire banking system. Its secretary general, Angel Gurria,...
British banks hit by Dubai collapse
AFTER the Abu Dhabi stockmarket experienced a record one-day fall of 8.3 per cent, and Dubai’s Financial Market Index fell 7.3 per cent yesterday,...
Luxury liners are going in – but the aid is nowhere to be seen...
THE fact that Luxury cruise liners are still docking in Haitian ports, not very far from the epicentre of the earthquake, which has killed...
All councils, student unions and trade unions must boycott Israel – Edelstein visit must...
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation has condemned the new Tory ‘guidance’ banning councils, NHS trusts and all publicly funded organisations from boycotting goods and services...
Billions for the bankers – wage cuts and sackings for the workers
THE Royal Bank of Scotland was rescued with billions of taxpayers’ money after it made the biggest losses in the history of British banking,...
Turn war against Russia into war at home to smash capitalism
Russian president Vladimir Putin, in his address to the Russian parliament yesterday, lay the responsibility for the Russian military action in the Ukraine entirely...
Johnson Prepared To Starve UK Workers To Aid Ukraine’s War To Weaken Russia!
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have both warned that the war in Ukraine could last years, as Russian...
Geithner-Obama Warn Republicans ‘Don’t Hold Usa To Ransom!’
BOTH US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and President Obama issued warnings to the Republican Party on Monday that, so dire is the world crisis,...
Victory to the workers of Gaza and Palestine! Forward to the world socialist revolution
ISRAELI Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has launched his ground offensive in Gaza! A well-known Israeli journalist and security analyst, Avi Issacharoff said yesterday: ‘This...
Blair and Brown threaten the trade unions
THE message from the Blair-Brown leadership to the trade unions and their leaders is ‘face up to globalisation or cease to exist’. Even the two’s...
Tories pushing health insurance to smash NHS! Organise general strike NOW!
THE SPECTRE of health insurance to ‘top-up’ the NHS has raised its ugly head. It is part of the arsenal of weapons turned on...
The future of bankrupt British capitalism is tied to a collapsing US economy –...
THE INAUGURATION of Joe Biden as president of the United States on Wednesday was enthusiastically greeted by prime minister Boris Johnson saying: ‘When you...
Don’t let BA’s cabin crew fight alone – call a general strike
British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March. The Unite union confirmed...
Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes UK into recession!
THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...
Labour Slashes Welfare Benefits To Make The Poorest Pay For The Capitalist Crisis!
LABOUR CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves made further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments in her Spring Statement yesterday. The government announced big welfare spending reductions...
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...
Jail the Bankers – Nationalise the Banks
WHEN it comes to fraud and stealing vast amounts of money the banks make your average burglar or spiv look like the rank amateurs...
Raising the white flag over Basra airfield
THE rotting reality behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spin concerning the ‘reconfiguration’ of British troops in southern Iraq is the complete demoralisation of the...
Trump’s economic miracle is in fact a mountain of debt that US workers will...
IN HIS State of the Union address last week, US president Donald Trump boasted that under his leadership the American economy had undergone a...
Orgreave and Hillsborough cover-ups! Smash the capitalist state!
The call by the general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, Chris Kitchen, for the investigation into the police cover-up over the Hillsborough...
There must be sprinklers in schools! No more fire deaths! Kick the Tories out!
AFTER the horror of Grenfell Tower fire, where so many men, women and children burned to death, the big issue is ‘is anyone safe...
CWU must organise national industrial action ballot!
BEING able to force the Brown-Mandelson government to ‘shelve’ the bill for the part-privatisation of the Royal Mail proves that the working class is...
Tory split looms as King warns on new housing disaster
LORD Howe, who is credited with bringing Thatcher down, now seems to be about to perform the same service for PM David Cameron, with...
Labour pledges limitless billions to arm Ukraine while refusing to support workers’ pay demands
IN A speech yesterday at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Labour’s shadow defence secretary, John Healey, pledged that any future Labour government would...