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...
Carney fears wages and job losses driving workers to Marxism
THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of England Mark Carney is a very worried man. Giving him sleepless nights is the spectre of a working...
42,000 BA Workers Are Being Threatened With New Contracts Today!
THE LEADER of the Unite trade union, Len McCluskey, said on Monday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to...
World crisis driving forward the European socialist revolution!
THE BOURGEOIS financial markets opened yesterday to the unprecedented news that Germany has sold 3.9 billion euros of debt at a negative rate of...
Balls Stands Up For Rescuing Capitalism
GMB leader Paul Kenny has told delegates to the GMB conference that the GMB wants a greater say in Labour’s policy making process. The truth,...
US pilots confronted Boeing over safety before Ethiopia crash and were ignored!
SECRET recordings have revealed that the American pilots union confronted US aircraft manufacturer Boeing about the safety of their bestselling 737 Max 8 plane...
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 ...
Bankers promote permanent austerity! Nationalise the banks through a socialist revolution – the only...
RICHARD SHARP, a member of the Bank of England’s Financial Stability Committee has warned that the UK is heading for a Venezuelan-style economic crash...
Javid Warns Against Any Attempt To Return To Austerity!
FORMER TORY Chancellor Sajid Javid has warned against a return to austerity as the bankrupt UK economy plunges into a historic disaster with its...
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...
Workers must force through the break with the EU with a socialist revolution
THE Brexit negotiations have just begun and already it is being spelt out to the UK ruling class that the ‘divorce settlement’ that...
Workers being forced into 19th century ‘housing’ conditions!
LAST Tuesday, the Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden, Siobhan McDonagh used a debate in parliament to highlight the barbaric and dangerous conditions homeless...
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...
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...
Rejoice – Syrian forces on the outskirts of Palmyra!
THE Fars news agency has reported that ‘At approximately 11:45pm (Damascus Time) on Tuesday night, the Syrian Army’s “Tiger Forces”, backed by Hezbollah, the...
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...
The fate of UK banks linked to the fate of South Africa’s Zuma –...
‘THIS is the third high-profile money-laundering scandal to involve major British banks this year,’ John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, said yesterday, responding to reports...
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...
US ruling class fears an uprising by workers following Wisconsin shooting
PROTESTS in the US state of Wisconsin erupted on Sunday evening following another shooting by police of a reportedly unarmed black man. According to reports,...
60,000 families face eviction under Tory Housing Bill
60,000 HOUSEHOLDS in England face being thrown out of their council houses next year as a result of the Tories ‘pay to stay’ policy. Under...
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...
Forward to the Greek Socialist revolution
SUNDAY’S general election in Greece saw the working class voting for Syriza, because of the lack of any revolutionary alternative, to keep the New...
French workers and youth out to bring down Macron through a general strike!
YESTERDAY, French workers and youth took to the streets in a massive confrontation with the government of Emmanuel Macron and his plans to privatise...
‘No strategy to deal with crisis’ – ruling class
‘WE HAVE no ability to turn the economy around. When the next recession comes it is going to be deeper and last longer than...
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...
Syria goes to the polls – a great victory for the Syrian people and...
YESTERDAY, millions of Syrians were casting their votes in record numbers in parliamentary elections against the backdrop of a ceasefire that is generally holding,...
Tories intend to put an end to the NATIONAL Health Service
IT IS crystal clear with the Tories seeking to impose even bigger cuts if they are re-elected in May, that under their rule the...
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...
Millions of children face hunger under Tory austerity – TUC must act!
A SHOCKING study carried out by the GMB union released yesterday showed that almost one in ten school staff bring in their own food...
Italy on the edge of the abyss – the UK is next
THE European Union is being broken on the rocks of the deepening crisis of the world capitalist order. The leaders of France and Germany are...
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...
Central Bankers Are Condemned As ‘Useful Idiots’! Bosses Propagandist Borrows Lenin’s Phrase
PRESIDENT Trump has described the new ‘utopia’ that the UK faces once it breaks with the EU, and the UK ruling class switches its...
Sanders concedes – Forward to the American socialist revolution
LAST WEDNESDAY, the US ‘democratic socialist’ Senator Bernie Sanders announced to his supporters that he was quitting the race to become the Democratic candidate...
Israel Remains Putin’s ‘Partner!’
THE RESPONSE of Russia’s political leadership, led by Vladimir Putin, to the Israeli raid on Syria that led to the death of 15 Russian...
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...
Doctors, NHS staff & nurses are gearing up for pay strike action! All trade...
MONDAY is the anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service (July 5th 1948) and Johnson’s Tories have marked the event by refusing...
Poroshenko’s anti-Russian provocations are a sign that his end is near and that ...
ALL RUSSIAN men aged between 16-60 have been banned from entering the Ukraine in a further ratcheting up of tensions by the Poroshenko dictatorship,...
NHS England threatened hospital with legal action to force privatisation through
IT EMERGED this week that NHS England in August last year took the unprecedented step of threatening legal action against a hospital in order...
No let-up in NHS crisis – trade unions must act
WITH the dust barely settled on both the Labour and Tory Party conferences, the brutal reality of the economic crisis gripping British capitalism is...
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...
Bosses Want The NHS To Bail Out The Energy Companies!!!
THE Tory drive to impose capitalist ‘business models’ on the NHS with the constant demand for cuts and financial stability at the cost of...
PM Johnson wants a nuclear rearmament drive to confront China!
WITH Britain in a major economic and political crisis the Johnson government is not only preparing for a war with the UK working class,...
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...
Right wing Labour puts Corbyn and McDonnell on a very short Leash!
SIR Keir Starmer, Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary speaking at a Chatham House conference, has said that Labour will not support any Brexit deal negotiated...
Sudanese workers must form a workers’ government to rule Sudan!
SUDAN’S military leaders have scrapped all existing agreements with the main opposition coalition, and have cynically declared they will hold elections within nine months. The...