Blind leading the blind at BofE!
A MONTH before the start of the 2007 financial crash, the Bank of England was completely unaware of the impending biggest disaster in the...
BA struggle coming to a head
EXTENSIVE talks have been taking place over the last seven weeks under the Chairmanship of TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber between Unite and BA,...
Time To Sack The Leadership Of The FBU!
YESTERDAY’S closure of ten London fire stations, with the loss of 552 firefighter jobs and the axing of 14 fire engines, shows how little...
Cameron Favours New Anti-Union Laws
LAST Saturday, the Tory leader, Cameron, told the Daily Telegraph that if he should win the General Election he is ready to toughen the...
Putin Frantically Looking For Imperialist Partners
AT the St Petersburg Economic Forum, President Putin has revealed the basis for both his domestic and foreign policies. It is to seek to...
Capitalism kills – UK death rate increased by Tory austerity war on workers
ON MONDAY, the BMJ health journal published the results of its research into the impact of the cost-of-living crisis and the austerity policies ruthlessly...
PLO rejects Israeli attempts to forcibly displace the Palestinian people and demands a Palestinian...
THE Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, stressed on Tuesday night in a meeting held at the...
‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher’ the Daily Telegraph advises Tory...
SATURDAY’S Daily Telegraph gave the Tory leadership candidates some advice. This was: ‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher – and the...
EU raises the need for a European army, navy and airforce
THE super-imperialist ambitions of the European Union (EU) have begun to emerge in the wake of its Brexit defeat in the UK. So far, its...
‘State suicide’ of Italian pensioner
CAPITALISM’S latest scheme to save failed banks claimed the life of an Italian pensioner who lost his £72,000 life savings following the collapse of...
US National March for Palestine takes place today in Washington – US workers &...
MASSIVE demonstrations are sweeping the United States in support of Palestine. There have been big marches and rallies in New York, Chicago, Texas, San...
Turkey Poised To Invade Northern Iraq
THE Turkish army is poised to invade northern Iraq in order to respond to PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) attacks on its troops, which...
Hamas Heroes Are Not Defeated And Await The Assistance Of The Workers Of The...
EVEN US intelligence agencies estimate that the death toll among Hamas fighters from Israel’s ongoing attempt to crush the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza...
RBS crashes as banks get set for rate rises
LOSSES AT the state owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) were twice as bad as expected, at £1.13bn and much bigger than the £950...
Nurses determined to fight the Tories – all trade unions must strike with them...
The annual conference of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Brighton this week is taking place at a time when the entire NHS...
Coalition putting over-65s to work!
UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen by 65,000 in the three months to May, while the number of newly unemployed in receipt of the JobSeekers Allowance, for...
Vote ‘NO’ and organise Greek Socialist Revolution!
THE Syriza party won the last Greek general election with its declarations that once elected it would put an end to the austerity dictatorship...
After levelling Mosul and Raqqa, the US-UK-French alliance is moving into northern Syria
THE FALSE claims of the Ministry of Defence that there were no civilian casualties in UK air strikes on Iraq, namely on Mosul, have...
The Stalinist theory of one country with two social systems has encouraged the...
THE EVENTS in Hong Kong over the past month have seen thousands of people storming the Hong Kong parliament and raising the Union Jack...
Massive turn-out of workers to fight Tory austerity
THE 250,000 workers and youth who marched on Saturday, along with the thousands who also marched in Glasgow and Liverpool, proved once again that...
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH – TUC MUST ORGANISE GENERAL STRIKE for FEBRUARY 1!
YESTERDAY’S mass picket lines outside NHS hospitals are a direct result of the fact that the Tory government is insulting workers and will not...
UAW refusal to accept immediate wage cuts scuppers bail-out
THE $14bn (£9.4bn) bail-out deal for the Big Three US car giants has failed to get the support of the US Senate. Its refusal came...
Turkish crisis strengthens the Syrian people and President Assad
SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that the Turkish president Erdogan may be using the ‘coup attempt’ in Turkey to eliminate his opponents...
Junior doctors must call new strike and the BMA and TUC must stop with...
THE BMA warned yesterday that ‘Politically driven mismanagement is undermining patient care in England. It was responding to a report from the King’s Fund...
Johnson demands pensioners and workers must suffer poverty to keep inflation down
TORY prime minister Boris Johnson was interviewed yesterday on ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme and announced that there will be no attempt to increase...
Make May Day the start of a general strike to smash the capitalist state...
YESTERDAY, the High Court in London ruled that the strike action by nurses on May 2nd was unlawful under existing Tory anti-union laws. Pat Cullen,...
Tax Bonanza for NHS Privateers
The private health companies, that are circling the NHS and salivating at the prospect of making billions of pounds profit out of the sick...
US plans to use nuclear bunker busters against Iran
THE New Yorker has published an article by award winning journalist Seymour Hersh, that claims that the US administration of President G W Bush...
British banks hit by Dubai collapse
AFTER the Abu Dhabi stockmarket experienced a record one-day fall of 8.3 per cent, and Dubai’s Financial Market Index fell 7.3 per cent yesterday,...
Osborne’s Budget For The Bosses!
OSBORNE began his budget address yesterday by admitting the calamitous state of British capitalism saying that recovery would be ‘challenging’ since ‘we’ve had the...
By 278 votes to 0 MPs vote for extending the Universal Credit top-up beyond...
THE TORY government was delivered a massive blow on Monday evening when it was defeated by 278 votes to 0 when MPs voted for...
Japan withdraws troops from Iraq. A blow to Bush & Blair!
PRIME Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced yesterday the withdrawal of the 600 Japanese troops from Iraq by the end of next month. These ‘non combatant’...
Labour Pushes For Pensions War
MORE than half a million civil servants are to be told that they will have to pay a lot more towards their pensions. This is...
24.4% (5.64m) of Spanish workers are unemployed!
THE number of unemployed people in Spain reached 5,639,500 at the end of March, with the unemployment rate hitting 24.4%, with youth unemployment at...
Brown lambasts Tube strikers and public sector workers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown mounted an outspoken attack on members of the RMT railworkers’ union on strike at the London Underground bankrupt maintenance company...
Tories wiped out in North Shropshire by-election. Now is the time for the TUC...
THE VOTE came in at 4am on Friday morning for the North Shropshire by-election. The Liberal Democrats won, taking a seat the Tories have...
Labour Intends To Prop Up Capitalism And Continue From Where The Tories Left Off!
KING Charles yesterday outlined his new Labour government’s law-making plans in his speech to Parliament. The Labour Party now has an overall majority over all...
British Army Handed 300 Over To Afghan Torturers
AFTER the killing and torture of Baha Mousa in Iraq was supplemented by a court martial that refused to convict those responsible for his...
Barber’s two ‘big worries’, the crisis of capitalism and workers’ anger!
BRENDAN Barber the TUC general secretary in his New Year message confesses that he has two ‘big worries’ for the year 2008. He...
Stop NHS cuts and privatisation – a general strike to defend the NHS
THE CRISIS in the NHS has reached a breaking point with NHS Providers and the NHS Confederation issuing an unprecedented joint report calling for...
Capitalism on the brink of destroying humanity – World Socialist Revolution is the only...
CAPITALISM has dived into the abyss of a world crisis that threatens not simply trade wars but world wars on a scale never seen...
Tories want to gag the trade unions as well as chain them!
STRIKING unions are to be gagged as well as chained, the TUC’s general secretary Frances O’Grady has said, referring to a consultation document linked...
Free Assange – Jail the imperialists, the real war criminals
YESTERDAY, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has been unlawfully detained by...
Anti-Russian campaign of the US and UK ruling classes leads to the assassination of...
THE assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, on Monday by an ex-policeman Mevlut Altintas – who was sacked after the failure...
Palestine erupts on 44th anniversary of Six-Day-war
IN 1967, Israel, in the infamous ‘Six-Day War’, used its air power, and its backing from the Western powers, to defeat Arab armies and...