Shares Crash As Debt Crisis Explodes
IN London yesterday, the FTSE 100 rebounded momentarily, but then fell back into the red, down by 48.5 points by 1pm after a...
Pakistani military is beseiged – but nuclear weapons are safe says Clinton
AT her press conference in London yesterday the US Secretary of State, Clinton, volunteered that the Taleban attack on the headquarters of the Pakistani...
Israel deliberately targeting reporters in a desperate attempt to silence the exposure of its...
THE TARGETED killing of journalists in Gaza by the Israeli regime claimed the lives of two Al Jazeera journalists on Sunday when the car...
Nationalise Lonmin – forward with South African socialist revolution
The massacre of 34 striking miners at the hands of the ANC government’s police last Thursday marked a decisive point in the development of...
Paper tiger union leaders ‘pause for peace’ at Grangemouth
THE just concluded 48-hour strike by the Grangemouth oil refinery workers was a magnificent success and showed to the entire world the power that...
Ukrainian corruption erupts into the open
ON SUNDAY, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky sacked his defence minister Oleksii Reznikov in what has been described as the biggest shake-up of his defence...
China shocked by US plans for massive new tariffs!
THE CHINESE government has said that it is ‘shocked’ after the US government announced plans for massive new tariffs, escalating the trade war between...
Tory new definition of terrorism in a crackdown on all opposition to Zionist...
MICHAEL Gove, the Tory Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, is due this week to unveil plans to ban individuals and...
Re-nationalise the Railways
Yesterday’s announcement that the Tory-led coalition government’s much heralded investment in the railways is to be financed solely through fare increases is a catastrophe...
No hardship payments says Woodley
TGWU leader Tony Woodley confirmed yesterday that the hardship payments to the locked out Gate Gourmet workers have been stopped. He informed a delegation of...
Unite Takes Action Against Serco BA And The Bank Of England!
YESTERDAY striking Serco workers from Bart’s NHS Trust, striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew, and striking Bank of England workers marched and picketed the...
Scandal-hit government steps up attack on unions
IN her speech to the annual Tolpuddle Martyr’s rally held last Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady lambasted the coalition government over the Transparency...
French Government Passes Pensions ‘Reforms’ Without A Vote!
THE French government has chosen the moment – when France, Europe and the world is obsessed by the coronavirus crisis – to launch a...
Sunak mulls over how to slash pensions to ‘rescue’ British capitalism!
AT THE weekend, The Telegraph newspaper reported that Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak is ‘mulling’ over his options for breaking the triple lock on pensions...
Iranian retaliation strike on Israel a direct challenge to imperialist domination
IRAN’S retaliatory strike against Israel, launched on Saturday, has provoked an outpouring of hypocrisy from the imperialist nations and their tame media outlets. How dare...
Workers have the right to self defence against terrorism & capitalism
SIX hundred new armed officers are being trained for anti-terrorist warfare in the city of London, the Metropolitan Police has announced. This will bring the...
Smash imperialism to defeat terrorism
YESTERDAY Home Secretary Reid dismissed the many appeals for a change in British Foreign Policy from a multitude of community and political leaders, who...
US Threatens North Korea With War
‘WE are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea, we are not going to accept it,’ US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher...
Essential relationship = master and servant
US President Barak Obama, in his speech to both houses of parliament last Wednesday, did little more than restate the old George Bush doctrine...
Crisis-ridden capitalism has had its day – forward to the World Socialist Revolution!
Yesterday, the Daily Telegraph reported that an executive at banking giant ING has said that the US Federal Reserve (Fed) could be forced to...
Karzai talks with the Taleban as US policy comes unstuck
THE situation in Afghanistan has gone from bad to worse as far as the imperialist powers and their plans for the region are concerned. Last...
Burnham’s Labour government prepares for war with Russia – time to force the TUC...
Yesterday, the Labour government’s Armed Forces minister, Louise Sandher-Jones, revealed plans for the mobilisation of army veterans in preparation for a war against Russia. The...
A desperate Israeli ruling class prepares to escalate the war into the Lebanon!
WHILE US president Joe Biden is desperately peddling a phoney ‘peace plan,’ in an effort to divert the massive tidal wave of anger sweeping...
There will be no ‘Maidan-style counter-revolution’ in Belarus declares President Lukashenko
CONGRATULATIONS to President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus. He received over 80 per cent of the vote in the Belarus presidential election and saw off...
As The Economic And Political Crisis Of Capitalism Deepens The US And UK...
WORKERS throughout the world have experienced, through massive job losses and huge wage cuts, just how the world crisis of the capitalist system is...
Palestinian liberation fighters condemn the White House’s continuing support for Israeli barbarism!
THE Palestinian resistance groups have condemned the recent statements made by the White House spokesman regarding the Rafah carnage, saying the remarks are just...
UK Workers Are Threatened By Covid-19 Mutations – Trade Unions Must Bring Down Tories...
HOSPITALS in the south of England say they have seen a ‘real rise in pressure’ as the number of Covid patients needing treatment rapidly...
Labour demands students foot the bill to bail out bankrupt universities
ON Monday, Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced that university tuition fees will be increased for the first time in eight years. Phillipson’s increase means...
Royal Mail declares war but CWU carries on talking
ROYAL Mail has announced that it has brought the ‘period of calm’ in the Royal Mail to an end, and that it will be...
Lilliputian Smith, the would-be great dictator!
LABOUR right winger Owen Smith, in his desire to satisfy the big bosses and the bankers, is going even further than the Tories after...
British capitalism in complete economic collapse driven by imperialist war
Yesterday the UK’s energy regulator Ofgem announced that the energy prices for millions of households will increase by 4% on 1st October driven by...
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...
May Loses Support Of Both The Remainers And Leavers – Looks To Labour To...
THAT BANKRUPT British capitalism and imperialism is unable to stand on its own two feet anymore is obvious. It faces the prospect of the...
Lobby TUC Sept 7th to demand they call a general strike now for a...
THE September strikes by RMT union members on London’s underground system are just the latest challenge to the super-austerity policies of PM Keir Starmer’s...
Oxfam’s Pleas To The Bankers Will Be Ignored – World Revolution Is The...
‘THE IMF must abandon demands for austerity as the cost-of-living crisis drives up hunger and poverty worldwide’ is the demand being made by Oxfam. Oxfam’s...
Strike wave intensifies this week – now is the time to call a general...
Today, over 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies are continuing national strike action called by the RMT union over pay,...
US Rushes Drones And Hellfire Missiles To Iraq
THE US has sent 75 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles to Iraq, with many more on the way. They are to be used to try to...
P&O sackings expose the ‘sham’ of consultation with the unions – only a general...
THE CHIEF executive of P&O Ferries, Peter Hebblethwaite, appeared before a joint hearing of the transport and business committee of MPs yesterday to answer...
New Labour fawns over the bourgeoisie
YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair stepped in to try and save his Minister for Culture, Media and Sports, Tessa Jowell and also his government. So we...
Defend jobs, wages and rights – bring down Brown government
PRIME Minister Brown’s alliance with the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party has paid off with the passage by nine votes of his amendment to the...
Halt The Israeli Onslaught On Gaza! Labour Must Recognise State Of Palestine!
TWO MORE Palestinians were killed yesterday morning in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip, said medical officials, bringing the number of Palestinians...
Tory split emerges with demands on Johnson for a budget that makes war on...
IN ADVANCE of the budget next week, former Tory chancellor Philip Hammond delivered a shot across the bows of the Tory government with a...
Re-call TUC conference! Sack the traitors! – We need a leadership that will...
THE NHS crisis is ‘like being in a war,’ Patrick Carter, who advises Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, told the Royal College of Anaesthetists’...
Trade unions must act over NHS crisis by organising a general strike
HOSPITALS across the country are already running close to 100% bed occupancy and the full effects of winter haven’t even started to impact on...
UK banks fail stress test while manufacturing collapses
LAST Friday the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the results of its stress test on 51 of the biggest banks throughout Europe and Britain. Fearful...