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...
It’s a Labour heaven for bankers but a hell for workers, youth and immigrants!
THE class message of the Labour government is clear. It is that if you’re a banker, you can do no wrong and are...
Bank of England appoint Bernanke, the architect of QE, to rescue British capitalism from...
At the weekend, bosses at the Bank of England announced that they had drafted in the ex-chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank (Fed),...
Labour MPs rebel and threaten to bring down Starmer
WHAT was described as a ‘fiery’ meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, addressed by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, took place on Monday...
US ruling class fears an uprising by workers following Wisconsin shooting
PROTESTS in the US state of Wisconsin erupted on Sunday evening following another shooting by police of a reportedly unarmed black man. According to reports,...
Build the 4th International in the US
THE decision of the United Steelworkers of America trade union to follow the lead of the just-failed Democratic contender, John Edwards, whom the steelworkers...
Brown Loves Bankers But Attacks Single Parents
AT the same time as the Brown government continues to spend hundreds of billions to ‘preserve’ the bankers and the capitalist system, his government...
Bp Hitting Russian Rocks
MANY senior foreign executives at oil giant BP’s Russian partnership TNK-BP are to be forced to leave Russia after their requests for work permits...
Netanyahu’s ‘Pyrrhic Victory’ – He Still Faces Criminal Charges And The Palestinian Revolution
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has claimed a ‘huge win’ in a vote that challenged his leadership of the Likud party. Netanyahu secured 72.5%...
Israel Threatens Palestine With The ‘Iron Fist’
ISRAEL has greeted the exercise by the Palestinians of their democratic right to elect Hamas as their governing party, with the most concentrated attacks...
MPs condemn Labour’s ‘surveillance society’
THE House of Commons votes on Wednesday on extending the amount of time that the police can hold a ‘terrorist suspect’ without charging them...
Obama asks Congress to decide on war or peace
IN A MAJOR abdication of Presidential power, Obama has given the US Congress the task of deciding whether there should be a strike on...
US ‘job creation’ will come from Medicaid and Medicare cuts
LAST Thursday night US President Barak Obama addressed a joint session of the US Congress where he outlined his new initiative that would, he...
Morales pledges to rule for the oppressed
EVO MORALES is the first Indian to become the President of Bolivia ending decades of rule by a white ruling class elite which presided...
Wall Street crashes. Capitalism goes over the brink!
LEHMAN Brothers and Merrill Lynch, two pillars of the capitalist world’s banking system, have gone. The first declared bankruptcy, after the US Federal Reserve...
Revolution and counter-revolution in Bahrain and Libya
THE US State Department urged US citizens on Tuesday not to travel to Bahrain and suggested Americans there should leave at once due ...
Cameron At War At Home And Abroad
CAMERON’S Monday ‘European Council’ statement to parliament was all about the crisis of imperialism, its wars abroad, and dictatorship at home. He managed to discuss...
Labour splits emerging as Starmer faces ‘mother of all rebellions’
FOLLOWING Prime Minister’s Questions session in Parliament on Wednesday left wing Labour MP Richard Burgon went on social media warning that Keir Starmer will...
Tories guarantee working class will pay for the profits of the rail privateers
YESTERDAY the Tory government announced its plans to save the profits of the private rail companies by bankrolling them for another 18 months. In March,...
Palestinian civil war aids Israel
THE Palestinian masses and their organisations must unite to fight their enemy which is the Zionist state of Israel, backed up and supported by...
US fears its forces can’t fight war on two fronts
THE scale of the insurgency in both Iraq and Afghanistan has got the Pentagon rattled. It fears that the US strategic requirement, to be...
Government determined to destroy District General Hospitals
THE HSJ (Health Service Journal) has done a service to the NHS, and its tens of millions of users. It has revealed just how...
Hamas denounces the Israeli Military hijacking of the Handala aid ship
THE Hamas movement has strongly denounced the Israeli military hijacking of the Handala aid ship in international waters and the abduction of its passengers,...
Post Office scandal piles pressure on all main political parties
On Monday, the House of Commons was treated to the sight of MPs from all the political parties united in an orchestrated show of...
The judiciary seeks to bar the way! Open it up with a socialist revolution!
YESTERDAY’S ruling by three High Court judges that the Tory government does not have the right to trigger Article 50 is the latest and...
The Palestinians will respond to savage Israeli attacks with a massive Intifada to establish...
ISRAEL’S navy yesterday targeted Palestinian fishermen sailing offshore Rafah city in the southern besieged Gaza Strip and confiscated two boats, according to a WAFA...
Accessories To Murder!
THE Israeli Cabinet, after its weekly meeting on Sunday, issued a statement that it was greatly encouraged by the ‘low-key’ international response to its...
FBU must fight against a Police Commissioner controlled ‘Fire Service’
THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...
May’s speech exposes the weakness at the heart of the Tory Party
THERESA May’s speech closing the Tory conference on Wednesday revealed all the weakness of the Tory Party – a party reeling from the mass...
Firefighters, postal workers, teachers must unite to smash privatisation!
THE TORY-led coalition is working overtime to privatise the public sector and turn it into a bonanza, a big killing for the big business...
Obama’s Amnesty For Torturers – ‘They Were Just Obeying Orders’
CENTRAL Intelligence Agency employees who tortured people in the Guantanamo Bay and Bagram Bay US concentration camps as terrorist suspects held without charge or...
Hundreds Of Thousands Being Referred To Foodbanks
HUNDREDS of thousands of welfare claimants are being denied support by the social services, and are being referred to foodbanks by Job Centre staff...
Union leaders offer to save capitalism
BORIS JOHNSON’S address to the nation on Sunday night about ‘relaxing’ the lockdown rules has been widely criticised by the leaders of the Labour...
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...
PM Johnson wants a nuclear rearmament drive to confront China!
WITH Britain in a major economic and political crisis the Johnson government is not only preparing for a war with the UK working class,...
Students Will Fight For A Future
UP to 100,000 students marched through London yesterday to protest against £9,000-a-year tuition fees, and the way that the Tory-LibDem coalition is turning back...
American dream turns to nightmare!
HUNDREDS of US cities are going bust, either destroyed by the banking and property collapse or by the crisis of the major US industries. The...
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...
More fare rises! Re-nationalise the railways!
YESTERDAY the main rail unions held a series of protests at rail stations which involved the handing out of postcards to commuters detailing the...
Cut in interest rates by the Fed will accelerate capitalism’s world crash
THE US CENTRAL Federal Reserve Bank on Wednesday performed an abrupt U-turn on its policy of attempting to hold back the vast amount of...
SLUMP DEEPENS – only one way out – REVOLUTION!
THE bourgeois propaganda machine was all set yesterday to spin an expected 0.04 per cent increase in GDP into a ‘the slump is over’...
Tory war on refugees is a class issue for the working class
IN THEIR latest attack on refugees the Tories are preparing to use nets to disable boats and dinghies attempting the dangerous Channel crossing. This tactic...
IMF warns of impending capitalist crash – world revolution the only answer
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday warned that the massive surge in US inflation driving the Central Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) to push up...
Abbas calls for a Government of the State of Palestine!
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas told the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday that, ‘We are here today for all of us...
Coalition To Take The Axe To Council Spending And End ‘Ring-Fencing’
COUNCILS in England face a 10% cut in funding from central government as part of the coalition’s spending plans for 2015/16. As well, there...