Hold Criminal Governments To Account, Says Cameron
UK Prime Minister David Cameron called for the ‘criminal’ Syrian government to be held to account, and threatened Syria’s people that there would be...
The Chief Banker Condemns The Banks
THE governor of the bank of England, Mervyn King, has launched a scathing attack on the major UK banks, accusing them of trying to...
Eu Abyss Opens As Irish Decide On Referendum
THE Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos was in Brussels yesterday seeking final approval from Germany and France for Greece’s second bailout deal. Greece is continuing...
News International bought policemen and state officials, and dictated to political parties
THE Leveson Inquiry has exposed the diseased nature of British capitalism, its ruling class and its state apparatus. The state, during the period of...
Forced Labour schemes in crisis – bring down the coalition
A concerted public relations exercise has been launched to vilify the unemployed and attack critics of its flagship policy of forcing those on Jobseekers...
Hague recognises Syrian opposition while Qatar and Saudis supply the guns and cash!
The ‘Friends of Syria Conference’ in Tunis has seen the representatives of the United States and the UK, Clinton and Hague, laying into Russia...
US-UK Being Driven Out Of Afghanistan!
CURRENTLY, the ‘Friends of Syria’ conference in Tunis is considering the best way for the imperialist powers to intervene in Syria to overthrow president...
UK Pirates Plan Somalia Onslaught!
YESTERDAY, a conference was convened in London to organise the intervention into Somalia by imperialist forces, led by the UK, acting under the cover of...
Ex-Defence Minister Fox Demands A Class War Against Workers And Their Trade Unions!
THE coalition’s ex-Defence Secretary, Fox, put forward his demands for the Tory-led coalition’s March 21 crisis budget yesterday in the Financial Times. It was a...
Full speed ahead for a slave labour UK economy
COALITION leader Cameron is considering calls to freeze the minimum wage, with the British Chambers of Commerce advising that ‘Britain cannot afford to price...
Unions at court to fight pensions rip-off
Yesterday six trade unions appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice to appeal against a High Court decision that the coalition government will slash...
Government war on health unions
David Cameron has convened a summit at Downing Street this afternoon to discuss the ‘implementation of NHS reforms’ with a ‘range of national healthcare...
After one year of the Libyan slaughter – Forward to Damascus urge Cameron, Sarkozy...
THE Libyan people are being told that they must celebrate the first anniversary of the ‘revolution’ (in fact, counter-revolution) that has destroyed their country,...
Official Reports Damn Lansley’s Bill
RISK assessments about the impact of Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley’s health and social care bill on the NHS throw light on the devastation...
Unemployment, Slump, And Savage Cuts Driving Revolution Throughout Europe!
THE Office for National Statistics said yesterday that UK unemployment rose by 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December,...
100 Million Nigerians live on less than $1 a day – despite Nigeria’s vast...
THE numbers of Nigerians living in poverty, in the midst of vast oil riches, has risen to nearly 61 per cent. Poverty has risen sharply...
Youth forced to work for nothing as unemployment set to rocket!
The findings of a survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development confirm what every worker and young person in the country already...
Murdoch Shops His Own Employees In Attempt To Save His Own Neck
FIVE journalists at the Sun newspaper have been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of corrupt payments to the police and other ‘public servants’. A Surrey...
Greek Workers And Youth Are On The Road To Revolution!
MASSES of workers and youth clashed with the state forces in the Greek capital Athens yesterday, on the first day of a 48-hour general...
US imperialism is determined to step up its intervention into Syria
PLANNING for military intervention by the imperialist powers into Syria, to overthrow the regime of president Assad, was stepped up this week with growing...
Argentina Warns UK Against Militarising The South Atlantic
ARGENTINA is to raise the UK militarisation of the Malvinas Islands (Falklands) at the United Nations. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner...
Furious Hague threatens to recognise the Syrian opposition as the government!
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Syria for talks with President Bashar al-Assad. He was cheered by tens of thousands of pro-Assad...
Bankrupt UK economy plunges deeper into slump
There was no cheer for the British bourgeoisie on Monday when three separate reports from the Institute of Chartered accountants and the accountancy group...
Three months to save the NHS! Trade unions must call industrial action now!
YESTERDAY, the Labour Party leader Miliband wrote in the Observer that ‘Everyone who loves the NHS must fight to defeat this health bill. This...
The absurdity of Miliband’s ‘one nation banking’ under capitalism
LABOUR leader Miliband has once again revealed the absolute bankruptcy of reformism. In a speech made yesterday he denied that there were laws governing...
Palestinians throw shoes at UN chief Ban!
DOZENS of people threw shoes and stones at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s convoy as it entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Many of those...
Imperialists step up war preparations against Iran
A report from the director of US national intelligence, James Clapper, issued last Tuesday signalled that imperialism’s war preparations against Iran have reached the...
Eurozone crisis reaches crunch
MONDAY’S’ summit meeting of the European Union leaders took place under siege conditions in Brussels as the city was paralysed by a general strike...
Bankers’ bonuses are a diversion
The headline news throughout the bourgeois media yesterday was that Stephen Hester, Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, had magnanimously bowed to...
Youth unemployment driving world socialist revolution
This weekend, the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos debated the issue of youth unemployment worldwide, a debate that exposed the mortal terror being...
Illegal and deadly restraints still in use, smash the racist capitalist state
Just 16 months after a man died whilst being restrained by private security guards on board an aircraft, the House of Commons home office...
Spectre of Revolution hangs over World Economic Forum
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, held at Davos in Switzerland, started this week with the spectre of the world socialist revolution...
One Year Of The Egyptian Revolution!
HUNDREDS of thousands of Egyptian workers and youth gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday to mark one year since the start of the revolution...
UK readying for war in the Gulf
THE West’s escalation of its onslaught on Iran could see Britain sending military reinforcements to the Gulf shortly, following the passage of HMS Argyll...
Coalition imposed pay freeze hits workers and middle class
A report issued on Monday by the independent Resolution Foundation spells out exactly the desperate situation being faced today by the so-called ‘squeezed middle’,...
Greek Debt Crisis Set To Explode Under The Eu!
TALKS on a Greek debt deal, it was reported yesterday, have ‘hit a snag’. The Institute of International Finance (IIF), and their creditors group...
Massive Protests In Romania And Hungary
MASS protests are erupting in the eastern wing of the EU, in Romania and Hungary, against the austerity programmes of EU governments whose countries...
Time For Action To Smash The Health Bill!
DOCTOR Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), has admitted that despite every attempt to co-operate with the coalition government,...
You must accept capitalism and its cuts orders Johnson
YESTERDAY, Alan Johnson, the ex-CWU postal workers leader, warned the trade unions that they must accept the capitalist crisis, and as slaves of capital...
Socialist Revolution Is The Only Alternative Now
UNITE leader Len McCluskey has pointed out correctly some of the immediate implications of the Miliband-Balls line that Labour will honour and continue with...
Fake war on Crony Capitalism
On Monday the LibDem leader, Nick Clegg, added his views to the emerging consensus between Labour and the Tories that the problem with British...
EU crisis bringing the union to the brink of the socialist revolution!
THE EU is still reeling from Friday’s decision by Standard and Poor’s rating agency to downgrade France’s triple-A status, at the same time as...
Russia resisting regime change in Syria!
RUSSIA said yesterday that it strongly disagreed with changes to its draft UN Security Council resolution on Syria made by the western imperialist powers. ‘Unfortunately,...
Three Defeats For Tory Welfare Bill
THE Tory/LibDem coalition suffered three defeats on Wednesday; in the House of Lords over their plans to slash £1.6 billion from the benefits of...
Obama opens up class war front against US workers!
LAST WEEK President Obama, speaking at the Pentagon, told the American people that he was going to open up a new front for the...