Manufacturing contracts in October for sixth successive month
AFTER all of the Tory propaganda chatter about the ‘recovery has begun’ the reality is that the slump is deepening. The UK’s manufacturing sector,...
TUC supports Heseltine – the Tory who closed down the mining industry
IT says something about the depth of the capitalist crisis, and the lack of ability in the Cameron government, that Lord Heseltine, who in...
Cosatu, the CP, the NUM and the police attack the Lonmin miners
ON 27th October the Minister of Education and South African Communist Party General Secretary, Blade Nzimande, along with Cosatu and National Union of Mineworkers...
An all-out assault on the working class and the poor
TORY attempts to convince the working class, the middle class and the poor that the ‘recovery’ has begun and things are looking better, are...
US, UK, Turkey Make Sure Syrian Truce Collapses
A POWERFUL car bomb exploded in Damascus on Friday, on the first day of the Syrian cease-fire, killing five people and injuring 32. Thus was...
Defeat imperialist intervention into Syria – NO to war with Iran! Bring down...
THE Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that, ‘Britain has rebuffed US pleas to use military bases in the UK to support the build-up of forces...
Afghan defeat for UK imperialism – now smash them at home
AN influential group of MPs have finally admitted publicly what everyone already knows – that the invasion of Afghanistan by NATO troops, led by...
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...
Workers and youth vote for left parties in West Bank elections
PALESTINIAN voters in the West Bank have delivered a blow to the Fatah movement in local elections which saw Fatah winning two-fifths of...
Orgreave and Hillsborough cover-ups! Smash the capitalist state!
The call by the general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, Chris Kitchen, for the investigation into the police cover-up over the Hillsborough...
Now Organise The General Strike!
SATURDAY’S mass marches in London, Glasgow and Belfast were marches to bring down the coalition, regardless of the intentions of their TUC organisers who...
World Crisis Of Capitalism Requires World Revolution
CAPITALISM is a worldwide system dominating the whole planet, in which there is no national solution to the problems brought about by the latest...
After the Peace Prize – let battle commence!
AT the same moment as France and Germany were being given a Nobel prize for keeping the peace in Europe, ie not going to...
TOP SECRET – what the Prince of Wales thinks of his subjects
THE COALITION government has intervened to veto a decision by a three-judge tribunal, that 27 letters by the Prince of Wales advocating...
FOOD BANKS becoming the rule in poverty-stricken UK
THERE are currently 270 food banks across the UK where poverty-stricken workers and youth are directed to get subsistence amounts of food. As the capitalist...
Government Plans Secret Courts!
A REPORT issued yesterday by the civil rights group Amnesty describes the proposed Justice and Security Bill as being straight out of a Franz...
Israel Poised For Gaza Attack!
ISRAEL is gearing up for another major attack on the Gaza Strip to try and drive back the revolutionary forces in the area. At the...
Peace Prize for the ‘Fourth Reich’
The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ‘six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe’, according to Thorbjoern Jagland...
Tory War On Teachers
THE Tory conference this week stepped up its vicious attack on teachers and their unions with education secretary Michael Gove treating them, as befits...
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...
Osborne pledges to hammer the poor and the unions
IN an attempt to show some class war steel, Chancellor Osborne began his speech at the Tory Party conference with an assault on a...
Osborne out to grind workers and youth into the ground
IN HIS speech to the Tory faithful yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made it absolutely clear that he is going to grind the...
Troika Forcing Greek Revolution
THE Troika of the IMF, the ECB and the EU have imposed such a massive austerity programme onto the backs of the Greek working...
NHS to pay for bank crisis – time to bury capitalism not the NHS
IN HIS first interview since becoming the coalition Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt spelt out bluntly that capitalism could no longer afford a national health...
European workers moving inexorably to revolution
THE CALL for European-wide, co-ordinated strike action to defeat the EU ‘austerity’ measures made by the leader of the Greek TUC is a sure...
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...
Reformists Miliband and Balls sink to new depths of treachery – build the revolutionary...
YESTERDAY Labour leader Ed Miliband delivered his keynote speech to the party conference in which he firmly aligned himself with every reactionary anti-working class...
Defend the NHS – bring down the government!
Yesterday the NHS was officially opened up by the coalition government to the vultures of the private healthcare industry, whose only aim is to...
A&E closures cost lives! Build Councils of Action – Occupy!
INTERNAL documents secured by the Mail on Sunday under the Freedom of Information Act, along with a report due to be issued later this...
Balls Is The Bankers Man!
BEFORE the 1997 election, the Blair-Brown gang proved to big business that they were the right men to run capitalism by conducting a war...
Eurozone Crisis Is Hitting Every Country
IN a week when Greece and Spain witnessed massive strikes and demonstrations against austerity measures – designed to drive the working class and youth...
Build the Fourth International throughout Europe
YESTERDAY Greece was hit by a massive general strike with tens of thousands of workers marching in Athens demanding that there be an...
Lagarde admits crisis as deep as five years ago!
IMF CHIEF Christine Lagarde opened her speech of last Monday in Washington with a dose of false optimism. She said: ‘Let me begin by saying...
GM jobs crisis hits UK-EU!
THE week long closure of the two remaining GM owned Vauxhall plants in the UK at Luton and Ellesmere Port which started yesterday marks...
Revolution Emerging All Over Europe
THE Portuguese government has agreed to look for alternatives to th social security tax rise, just one week after huge anti-austerity street protests shook...
Governor King Breaks Ranks With Osborne
UK PUBLIC sector borrowing has hit a record high of £14.4bn. After more than two years of Tory austerity measures, the deficit for August...
Greece For Sale – Lock Stock And Barrel!
AT the end of August the EU-imposed Greek prime minister, Antonis Sameras, announced to a disbelieving populace that the £9.3 billion cuts imposed on...
Build Fourth International Throughout Africa
THE victory of the strike of the Lonmim miners will inspire not just the workers of South Africa and Africa as a whole, but...
Coalition plan to beat the poorest to aid the richest
SO FAR trillions of pounds have been spent by the state, using taxpayers’ money, to rescue, prop up and save bankrupt banks and...
‘Welfare reforms’ a declaration of war against workers and youth
THE Tory pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, is a man on a mission – a mission to drive the unemployed, low paid and youth...
Taleban inflict serious reverse on US–UK forces in Camp Bastion!
IT HAS emerged that the US-UK forces lost six Harrier jump jets – completely destroyed with two more badly damaged – in the highly...
Federal Reserve Opens The Inflationary Floodgates!
BANK SHARES rose rapidly yesterday with the news that the Federal Reserve Bank is to open up the inflationary floodgates and re-prop up the...
Defend NHS hospital care with occupations and a general strike!
A REPORT issued by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) this week exposes the appalling state of hospitals in England as the NHS is...
Examine practicalities of a general strike by organising it now!
THE TUC Congress was dominated by the growing mass anger of the working class at the Tory-led coalition policy of wage freezing and massive...
Nut Warns Over Free Schools And Academies
COMMENTING on the latest Education at a Glance report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Christine Blower, General Secretary of the...