Germany’s two largest banks in merger talks, creating Europe’s biggest ‘zombie bank’
LAST weekend the two largest German banks, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, entered merger talks in a last desperate measure to delay a banking collapse...
‘Bleak Houses’ and desperate living conditions for workers and youth in the UK –...
THE REPORT by Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, ‘Bleak houses: Tackling the crisis of family homelessness in England’, reveals the ‘terrible reality’...
Trump seeks to blame China as he orders US workers back to work
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is seeking a scapegoat for the inevitable deaths of millions of people following a forced return to work while the...
The Egyptian Revolution Pushes Forward!
THE leading group representing the Egyptian bourgeoisie, around President Mursi, who is known as Mubarak with a beard, has just been massively shocked by...
State Repression Of Youth Being Intensified
THE CRISIS of the capitalist system has led to huge attacks on working class and middle class youth who are daily being told in...
Chancellor’s Budget for starving the working class
OSBORNE’S BUDGET speech was devoid of any attempt to analyse the world crisis that is gripping capitalism and which is deepening by the hour,...
Junior doctors must call new strike and the BMA and TUC must stop with...
THE BMA warned yesterday that ‘Politically driven mismanagement is undermining patient care in England. It was responding to a report from the King’s Fund...
Trump threatens to destroy North Korea and warns Iran, Cuba and Venezuela!
PRESIDENT TRUMP began his speech at the UN by immediately patting himself on the back, stating that ‘Fortunately, the United States has done...
US and Israel – Get out of Syria! Aid the Syrian people by ...
SYRIAN air defences shot down one of four Israeli warplanes targeting a military site near Palmyra on Friday, the General Command of the Syrian...
DRIVE THE MAY GOVERNMENT OUT! MARCH ON PARLIAMENT ON JULY 1st!
THE May government has now entered the world of the surreal. It has just about been able to schedule a Queen’s Speech of sorts...
After Corbyn’s victory TUC delegates must call a general strike
THE left wing backbench MP, Jeremy Corbyn, won a stunning victory in the Labour Party leadership contest on Saturday, as the working class gave...
Austria mobilising troops and armour at the Brenner Pass against refugees from Italy!
AUSTRIA is ready to deploy troops and armour at the Brenner Pass – the border crossing with Italy – if the influx of refugees...
Chuck out the TUC leaders who are incapable of defending jobs and wages!
UNITE, the largest union in Britain and Ireland, reacted to the news that Sheffield University has decided to sack over 8,000 of its employees...
Hodge tries to stop any condemnation of Israel as a racist, apartheid state
THE ORCHESTRATED witch-hunt against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over scurrilous accusations that he and indeed vast numbers of Labour Party members are in fact...
The UK banks were rescued – Now the Tories are throwing the steel industry...
LABOUR PM Gordon Brown, after the financial collapse in 2008 and with the full support of the Tories, rescued the UK banks from their...
UK steel industry collapses!
YESTERDAY the Tory business secretary, Sajid Javid, convened an emergency summit meeting in Rotherham on the dramatic collapse of the UK steel industry. From the...
Google, Apple and Facebook facilitate international internet slave trade says UN!
HE INTERNET is being used to promote a modern day online slave market, where women and children are being sold into domestic servitude. This...
Tories engineer NHS ‘humanitarian crisis!’
OVER the weekend the British Red Cross made a call on the May government to allocate the necessary funds for health and social care,...
Now is the time to defend the Chinese revolution!
THE US House of Representatives has hit out at what the US ruling class considers to be its major enemy, the People’s Republic of...
Governor King Breaks Ranks With Osborne
UK PUBLIC sector borrowing has hit a record high of £14.4bn. After more than two years of Tory austerity measures, the deficit for August...
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...
World Economic Crisis is driving the political crisis tearing US capitalism apart!
THE political administration of the United States, the most powerful capitalist nation in the world, is publicly tearing itself apart in an open war...
Tory-led coalition singles out young families for special treatment
THE Tory-led coalition has got working class and middle class families with young children in its sights for savage cuts as it seeks to...
Labour right wing gives Corbyn a lesson in ruthlessness!
MPs on Wednesday overwhelmingly backed UK air strikes against the Islamic State in Syria, by 397 votes to 223, with a total of 66...
Anti-Russian Pogrom At The G20!
PRESIDENT PUTIN has left the G20 summit in Australia early after a relentless attack on Russia was mounted by the USA-UK axis and its...
IMF: World faces £9.5tn Covid bill as capitalism crashes into bankruptcy
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned yesterday that the Covid-19 crisis could cost the global economy a staggering £9.5 trillion in the biggest hit...
Trump champions the police and launches his war against communism and socialism!
US PRESIDENT Trump, in his desperate attempt to win the November presidential election, has stepped up his war against the working class, branding all...
UK manufacturing wiped out admits EEF while BIS warns of debt time bomb
THE Engineering Employers Federation (EEF), the body that represents the manufacturing industry in Britain, has produced its latest forecast which spells out how the...
Hundreds of Thousands Facing DLA Cuts
Yesterday saw the introduction of changes to the benefits available to the disabled that will leave hundreds of thousands facing cuts of between £20.55...
There Is No Christmas Truce For Palestinians As Israel Attacks Both Gaza And The...
ISRAELI warplanes at dawn yesterday launched a series of airstrikes against several posts across the besieged Gaza Strip, causing extensive material damage. WAFA’s correspondent reported...
Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe
THE EU IS IN DESPERATE CRISIS with the established political order breaking apart in country after country, from Ireland and the UK to Austria, Greece...
US prepares no-fly zone over Syria
THE news that the US secretary of state, John Kerry, was forced to scrap a planned visit to Israel in order to attend an...
Indignation is not enough – working class needs socialist policies
IN HIS first election speech, Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, expressed his anger and indignation over the policies of austerity ruthlessly carried out by...
Arrogant Osborne rewards the rich and savages the workers and the poor
CHANCELLOR Osborne’s second budget this year will be his first for a Tory government with an overall majority and he intends to use it...
In US elections Sanders must defy Democrat campaign to stop him and stand for...
THE RACE to become the Democratic Party candidate to face Trump in November’s presidential election has come down to a fight between the democratic...
No war with Syria – answer the £20bn of cuts by kicking out the...
PM Cameron is due to drive forward Tory war plans both at home and abroad this week. Today, he is meeting President Hollande to prepare...
Cameron lays out mass privatisation programme
IN A speech yesterday, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, promised to privatise every public service in the country, to ‘open up’ public services...
‘Cameron ‘wouldn’t last 30 seconds’ if voters back leaving EU
PM Cameron earlier last week insisted he would remain Prime Minister even if he lost the June 23 referendum. This position has been challenged in...
Universal Credit can’t be fixed: Abolish it along with the Tories!
THE TORY government suffered a defeat in the courts this week when the court of appeal dismissed a challenge by the Department for Work...
Sustainability & Transformation Plans mean NHS cuts and privatisation! Kick the Tories out!
THE TORY government has launched its new offensive in the war against the NHS, and this time it is an attack by stealth. Sustainability and...
‘Snooper’s charter’ must be smashed through socialist revolution
YESTERDAY the Tory home secretary, Theresa May, unveiled in parliament her latest ‘revised’ snooper’s charter that she intends to rush into law by the...
Deepening world capitalist crisis is creating wars and revolutions
NATO and Russia held ‘frank and serious’ talks despite ‘profound disagreements’ as their ambassadors met on Wednesday for the first time since 2014, alliance...
UK cluster bombs used by Saudi Arabia in Yemen war crimes
THE NEWS yesterday that analysis by UK government officials that British-made cluster bombs are being used by the Saudi-led coalition in its war against...
Abbas to meet Kerry for decisive talks
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas is to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris today to discuss the peace talks with Israeli, US and...
Time to put down the sick dog Tory minority government!
THE QUEEN dropped by Westminster on her way to Ascot races yesterday morning to spend 20 minutes outlining the Theresa May minority Tory government’s...