Desperate capitalism moves towards hyperinflation
LAST week the Republican presidential candidate and multi-billionaire property speculator, Donald Trump, unveiled his plan for saving US capitalism from economic catastrophe. During a lengthy...
Workers will not get any ‘new deal’ from the Tories! Make the TUC call...
THE WINDRUSH scandal, missiles launched at Syria without even seeking permission from Parliament, the Grenfell fire disaster, the winter NHS meltdown, homelessness and rough...
Flybe collapse just the start! Coronavirus has brought the crisis of capitalism to a...
LOW-COST British airline Flybe has collapsed with the loss of 2,000 jobs. The pilots union BALPA has put the blame squarely on the Tory...
EU announces further below-zero rate cuts and 2.6tn euro QE as new banking collapse...
THE EUROPEAN Central Bank (ECB) has announced its biggest package of rate cuts and economic stimulus in three years as EU President Mario Draghi...
World crisis deepening to explosion point!
JAPANESE stocks led big falls across Asia on Tuesday, posting their biggest drop in nearly 10 months, as investors became hysterical about falling oil...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Households face catastrophe as debt crisis sets to explode
IT IS becoming clear that the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, is very scared about the effects of the expected rise...
‘NHS Standing On A Burning Platform’ – Time To Deal With The Arsonists!
THE NHS is standing on a ‘burning platform’ is the stark assessment of Professor Sir Mike Richards, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of...
PM Johnson signs up for US President Biden’s anti-China crusade!
DURING a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday, US President Biden proposed that Johnson adopt and join his anti-China crusade, to...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Miliband pledges to save bankrupt capitalism, the issue is to overthow it
TUESDAY'S speech to the Labour Party conference has been greeted with an outpouring of joy from the leadership of the trade unions and 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...
NO Apology to UNITE – Miliband to continue with anti-union campaign!
UNITE’S general secretary Len McCluskey has said he is delighted the union has been ‘vindicated’ over the Falkirk ‘vote-rigging’ allegations Labour has decided no individual...
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...
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...
11.7 million unemployed as British capitalism collapses – socialist revolution the only answer
AS MANY as 11.7 million people will be thrown out of work – either through being furloughed or simply being sacked – in the...
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...
Victory To Hamas As Lieberman Quits!
THE United Nations Security Council (UNSC) met behind closed doors over the situation in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, but failed to reach an...
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...
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...
Bank of England suspected of serious fraud!
THE Bank of England this week was revealed to be under investigation by no less than the Serious Fraud Office. Founded in 1694, the Bank...
Get Rid Of Crisis-Ridden Capitalism With A Worldwide Socialist Revolution!
GLOBAL financial markets fell like crazy on Monday after a rise in coronavirus cases renewed fears and panic that the entire system is heading...
Renationalise the steel industry – the only way forward for steel workers
ON Wednesday, it was announced that the lengthy negotiations between Tata Steel and the German steel conglomerate, Thyssen-Krupp, have been concluded and that a...
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...
Financial Crisis Worsening, Says The Imf
IN its just-published Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF has found that ‘Confidence remains fragile despite recent policy actions’, and that the ‘Euro area...
False start for Psaki in sanctions assault race!
US President Obama has not yet signed a bill clearing the way for more economic sanctions against Russia. The US State Department confirmed ...
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...
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...
Housing crisis can only be solved through socialist revolution!
TWO reports this week have driven home the message that in the 21st century a bankrupt British capitalist system can no longer provide even...
Moment of truth for Greece!
GREECE’S Syriza government delayed yesterday’s 300m euros (£216m) debt repayment to the IMF, saying that it will pay over to the Troika (the...
Brexit Is Blowing Up The Two-Party System Of Rule – The Working Class Must...
PM MAY yesterday made an appeal for MPs to ‘stand together as democrats and patriots’, to support her withdrawal deal. This is after her resolution...
Junior Doctors Are Defending The NHS – They Must Not Fight Alone!
AS the April 26th-27th strike action of the junior doctors approaches, the chorus of reproaches from the likes of Dame Sally Davies, Sir Bruce...
Chancellor’s ‘Spring Statement’ to continue austerity – It’s time to bring Tories down!
CHANCELLOR Hammond has rejected calls by Labour and some Conservatives to announce the end of austerity in his ‘Spring Statement’ on Tuesday. Despite unveiling...
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...