BIS warning of global financial crash!
GLOBAL financial markets are dangerously stretched and may unwind with shock force as liquidity dries up, the Bank of International Settlements has warned. BIS boss...
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...
1 million forced onto Universal Credit while another 2 million get nothing – Tories...
THE NUMBER of people forced to claim Universal Credit soared by nearly a million in the past two weeks. According to the Department for Work...
Junior Doctors Conference Gagged
THE decision last week by Tory Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and agreed by the BMA to extend the ‘talks’ over imposing new contracts on...
NHS bed & staffing crisis is a ‘Grenfell Tower waiting to happen’ – Call...
THE NUMBER of NHS beds has halved in the last 30 years and proposals to slash bed numbers even further will make the ‘NHS a...
Unite’s ‘line in the sand’ must be enforced with strike action and occupations
ONE of the leaders of Unite, the country’s largest union, yesterday stated that: ‘A line in the sand over further privatisation of the NHS...
National Audit Office Says Families Will Live In Fire Deathtraps Until Mid-2022!
IT HAS been three years since the horrific Grenfell fire which killed 72 men, women and children. Three years and there are still seven...
BA is intent on union-busting and wage-cutting! Balpa must stand fast and demand it...
THE HIGH Court on Tuesday dismissed an attempt by British Airways to secure an interim judgement that would make planned strike action by pilots...
How to win the firefighters struggle!
THE six-hour strike by firefighters on New Year’s Eve was a demonstration of the solidarity and determination of FBU members across the country to...
Bring Down The May Government – Forward To A Socialist UK And A...
ONE HUNDRED years after the Balfour Declaration, the PLO and the Palestinian masses are demanding that the UK government apologise for it and its...
Privatising the Law
The disclosure over the weekend that two police authorities, West Midlands and Surrey, have started the process of privatising the police service in their...
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...
Geneva Report Issues Dire Warning!
JUST six years after the beginning of the 2008 financial collapse – at a time when Cameron and Co. are talking about a recovery,...
Baby deaths & 4-hour trolley waits! Closures of maternity and A&Es are a...
AN INQUIRY into baby deaths at East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust has been broadened into an investigation of hundreds of deaths nationally, Tory...
EU slumps while UK inflation rises!
THE eurozone economy shrank in the third quarter from April to June by 0.2%, with France having a third consecutive quarter of no growth...
Trump victory shatters the Democratic Party and shows the US working class is...
THE Democrats lost the presidential election some time ago, when the party nominated Hillary Clinton for the presidency and pushed Bernie Sanders aside using...
BMA demands STPs be ‘abandoned’! Now all trade unions must follow their lead and...
ON MONDAY, the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting took a giant step forward when, after a struggle over the issue of STPs, it passed a...
Permanent wage-cutting and zero-hour contracts are all that capitalism has to offer
THE Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate has fallen to 6.4%, down from 6.5% in May, with the number of people unemployed...
No gagging of Pitchford Inquiry into police spies and police provocateurs!
THE Pitchford Inquiry into police undercover operations directed against various protest movements – trades unions, political movements and MPs – is to be gagged...
Windrush and Grenfell Tower prove one thing – this Tory government must...
PRESS reports this week revealed that vulnerable members of the Windrush generation are still being forced to live in conditions of complete destitution, forced...
‘Freedom’ for Local Government means only the rich will prosper!
THE Independent Commission on Local Government Finance has said England’s local authorities need ‘urgent devolution of powers, funding and taxes’, and that Public Services...
No Unity with the Tories – build the WRP to lead the socialist revolution
THERESA May’s virtual declaration of war against Russia last Wednesday received its most enthusiastic support from right-wing Labour MPs who rushed forward 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...
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...
Truss insists workers must pay for war sanctions on Russia
TORY Foreign Secretary Liz Truss bluntly told British workers and their families that they will be made to pay the price for the imperialist...
Disgusting Libdems Squeal Betrayal!
THE LibDems, who sealed the coalition by stabbing millions of youth in the back by agreeing to tuition fees of up to £9,000 a...
Bosses share bonanza
THE ages old reformist illusion that the worst excesses of capitalism can be curbed through a mixture of indignation and moral outrage received yet...
Tory Govt used millions of taxpayers’ money to fund terrorist groups in Syria
LAST night’s BBC Panorama programme entitled ‘Jihadists You Pay For’ has blown the lid off one of the ways in which British imperialism has...
Tories Consciously Undermining The Union!
THE Tories this week pushed through parliament their plans for ‘English votes for English laws’ under which only English MPs would have the right...
Trump fears spectre of socialist revolution
ON TUESDAY, US President Donald Trump delivered his second address to the UN General Council but instead of the normal Trump arm-waving threats to...
No immunity over Grenfell Tower atrocity – arrest the real criminals and charge them...
WITNESSES from the firms responsible for creating a death trap at Grenfell Tower are to be granted immunity from prosecution arising out of any...
Obama Ready To Step Up Intervention Into Syria
THE just re-elected US President, Barack Obama, yesterday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to use chemical weapons against the NATO-supported opposition forces, saying...
Labour Pledges More Austerity!
POLITICAL ‘role reversal’ is the phrase being bandied about by bourgeois political commentators as they scratch their heads trying to make comparisons between the...
Palestinians warn Israel over Jabal al-Baba ethnic cleansing!
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Monday warned Israel that the Jabal al-Baba community to the east of Jerusalem is a red line, warning...
London Bus Workers To Strike – Fighting Against Massive Wage Cuts And Zero Hours...
LONDON bus passengers should give their full support to London bus workers as they prepare for massive strike actions in the capital called by...
Defend the NHS – kick the government out!
THE coalition’s much-vaunted consultation period over its proposals to smash up the NHS and privatise it out of existence finally came to an end...
Youth in Europe erupt against more austerity
ON Sunday a mass movement of workers led by young people took to the streets of cities across Europe in a powerful demonstration of...
Gripped with crisis UK, US & French leaders abandon World Economic Forum
THE ANNUAL get-together of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos has been hit by a number of notable absences...
US-UK rescues ISIS fighters from Raqqa – no doubt they will now be sent...
PM MAY made crystal clear yesterday that Russia is the main enemy of crisis-wracked UK imperialism. In fact, Tory newspapers have been making it...
Good Riddance To Campbell – Now Chuck Out All The ‘Lib Dem Lovers’ Before...
THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Labour Party was absolutely correct to expel Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former ‘spin doctor’, for voting...
Tories, stepping up their war on junior doctors, are putting patients and the NHS...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) on Tuesday wrote a letter to Health Secretary Hunt making a ‘clear offer’ to cancel the junior...
Bring down the Tories – the only way to defend and develop the NHS!
THE BMA’s just-published Survey of Doctors reveals the depth of the crisis that the Tory government has plunged the NHS into, as a result...
Overthrow the ‘Big Brother’ bosses & surveillance society with socialist revolution!
THE TRADE Union Congress has conducted a survey which indicates that more than half of workers in the UK, some 56%, are being monitored...
10.3% For Everybody! – Ipsa Shows The Way
EMBARRASSED MPs are appealing to Downing Street to make a new appeal to the IPSA body that sets MPs’ pay to abandon plans for...
Defend Belarus and Russia from the attacks of the USA, UK and the EU
THE ALLEGED ‘poisoning’ of Russia’s unsuccessful opposition leader Alexei Navalny by a ‘Novichok-like nerve agent’ has been trumpeted by the capitalist press as if...