UK heading for ‘no deal crisis’ – Only answer is a socialist revolution!
THE MAY government on Tuesday defeated an attempt by 12 pro-EU Conservative MPs, supported by Labour EU Remainers, to destroy its revised post-Brexit trade...
Labour refuses to demand the resignation of Health Secretary Hunt!
ON MONDAY, in the House of Commons, Health Secretary Hunt was asked an urgent question as to why he had covered up for, and...
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...
Government plans to smash up health and safety laws
THE Tory-led coalition is pushing full steam ahead with its plans to completely smash up the health and safety legislation and leave hundreds of...
The world’s capitalists quake in their boots as coronavirus shuts down Chinese factories halting...
‘THE WORKSHOP of the world is closed,’ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote in the Telegraph on Thursday predicting a colossal disaster for capitalism if the massive...
Capitalism is dead in the water!
ON Thursday, a member of the powerful Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, in an unguarded moment, blurted out the truth that exports from...
Ford and GM shutting down in Europe
THE US motorcar giants GM and Ford were rescued from bankruptcy by President Obama who ‘nationalised’ them, so that the US taxpayer could get...
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...
Labour blindfolds itself so as not to see the developing capitalist crisis!
THE Labour Party manifesto launched on Tuesday contained a number of slight but significant changes from the draft leaked to the press last week. On...
Savage cuts have just begun in debt-ridden capitalist Britain
SPENDING on Welfare over this Parliamentary term has fallen by just £2.5bn despite the Tory-led coalition aiming to slash spending by £19bn. The Institute for...
Pompeo Seeks To Build Alliance Against The Palestinian And Iranian Revolutions!
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo is currently in the Middle East organising an Israeli-Arab coalition to fight Iran and prevent a Palestinian state. Pompeo...
Labour will not reverse hospital closures!
THE Health Services Journal (HSJ) has just revealed that the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA) officials are keeping confidential (that is well hidden) until...
All out this Saturday to kick the Tories out! Forward to a workers...
EVERY WORKER AND YOUTH must take to the streets for this Saturday’s million strong: ‘Kick the Tories out march. Labour Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell...
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...
Free the Chagos Islands – Britain’s own Guantánamo Bay!
ON WEDNESDAY the General Assembly of the United Nations delivered a stunning vote which overwhelmingly condemned the continuing occupation of the Chagos Islands. By 116...
Crisis-Ridden Bosses And Tories Fear The Election
THE Tory Party, its media wing and the boss class as a whole are getting very worried about the election, and what is to...
Tory enforcers paid £1,500 a day to push through savage Northants cuts! TUC must...
TWENTY-one libraries closing, rubbish collections and road maintenance stripped to the bone, hundreds of council workers sacked, children’s services axed – these were...
Two Years Since ‘Operation Protective Edge’
TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack...
Home Office is ‘institutionally racist’! The way to end the ‘hostile environment’ is to...
THE HOME Office is ‘institutionally racist’. This is the verdict of the first draft of the ‘lessons learned’ review by Wendy Williams, HM Inspector...
EU split and breaking up – Forward to the United Socialist States of Europe
LAST THURSDAY, the 27 heads of the European Union held a video conference call to decide the EU’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic. The...
Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!
INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...
British Ruling Class Is Split – Forward With The British Socialist Revolution!
THE FACT that a section of the capitalist state leaked the UK ambassador Darroch’s damning estimation of the abilities of President Trump and his...
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...
Arrogant Carney Rubbishes Miliband!
THIS week, in an attempt to cash in on the universal hatred felt by the working class and middle classes towards banks and bankers,...
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...
Tory government ‘pathetic’ and ‘incapacitated’ – time to bring them down with a general...
WEDNESDAY’S debate and vote in parliament on the issue of the roll-out of Universal Credit has been hailed as a ‘symbolic defeat’ for the...
Corbyn’s speech is a cowardly surrender to the bosses and bankers
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn’s speech yesterday defining Labour’s position on Brexit negotiations was nothing more than an abject and cowardly surrender to the bosses...
‘Bully’ Hunt thinks that he can dictate to the doctors
FIRST they came for the working poor and the youth with their massive and continuing austerity cuts; then they came for the trade unions...
Production and wages falling while ‘pay-day’ loan sharks boom as Christmas nears
THE UK’s industrial output fell 0.7% in October, its fastest fall for six months. It is now 1.7% lower than the same month in...
The Crisis In The Ukraine!
THE OSCE has revealed the 12-point roadmap behind the September 5 truce signed in Minsk. The document, titled ‘Protocol on the results of consultations...
US warns Pakistan over gas pipeline link with Iran
THE Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on Monday officially inaugurated the final construction phase of the Iran-Pakistan gas...
MPs’ Committee fears new mortgage bubble!
A VERY nervous House of Commons Treasury Select Committee has just asked the Bank of England to clarify its role in ensuring that the...
Shut Down Young Offenders Institutions – The Only Future For Youth Is Through A...
THE DISGRACEFUL conditions imposed on ‘youth offenders’ have been revealed by another report from Peter Clarke the chief inspector of prisons in England and...
Tories declare war on the teachers! The TUC must join with the BMA to...
THE HEADLINE of The Sunday Telegraph’s editorial yesterday is very much to the point. It insists: ‘The teaching unions must be defeated,’ and continues,...
WTO warns that a bigger crash than 2008 is on the way! Forward with...
THE WORLD Trade Organisation chief Roberto Azevedo said on Wednesday that the economic collapse and job losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic would be...
Wages rising fast – a sick Tory joke!
THE food bank charity, the Trussell Trust says it has handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the...
There Must Be Trade Union Acti0N To Stop NHS Privatisation!
THE Health and Social Care Bill is set to become law within weeks. This is after the LibDem ‘revolt’, which the Labour bureaucracy was telling...
End low pay through a general strike!
TODAY, hundreds of thousands of workers and young people will take to the streets of London, Glasgow and Belfast in mass demonstrations called by...
France on the brink as government imposes anti-union laws!
THE French Socialist government’s cabinet has opted for a dictatorship over the working class by agreeing to force through its anti-trade union legislation, invoking...
Tory counter-revolution must be defeated!
THE Tories yesterday announced that as part of the autumn anti-trade union legislation they will be stopping public sector workers automatically paying subscriptions to...
Obama tries to put a sticking plaster over the gaping wounds of US capitalism
US President Barack Obama has hailed the deal reached with the Republican Party to avert a ‘fiscal cliff’ of huge tax rises and spending...
Record Breaking Slump Will Lead To Socialist Revolution In The UK!
BRITISH capitalism is officially in recession as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday. In just three months, the UK economy shrank at a...
Occupy To Stop Steel Sackings – Bring Down The Tories To Nationalise Steel
THE shutdown of the steel industry continued yesterday without a single call from the trade unions for action to stop the closures and defend...
The final solution – Cameron to hand NHS patients’ details to the private sector
WE have already had the Hinchingbrooke NHS hospital scandal, where it was put under private management by Circle, with a brief to cut all...
Imperialist Crisis Deepens In The Middle East!
PALESTINIANS are demanding that the US-sponsored ‘peace talks’ with Israel are called off after Israeli troops murdered three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank,...