British capitalism is going down, the working class must defend its rights and go...
ON MONDAY shock figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showed that Britain is £490 billion poorer than it was thought to be...
Capitalist state steps back from the brink!
BRITISH Airways cabin crew cheered and danced and celebrated yesterday morning. They sang ‘We are the Champions’ after their strength forced a panel...
Troika poised to show Greece the door
GREEK PM Antonis Samaras is meeting the organisation of Greece’s international creditors, the Troika (IMF, EU, ECB), to try to persuade it to give...
The first step towards a government of generals
GENERAL Sir Richard Dannatt is to become Defence Minister if there is another Tory government. He will do so, not by becoming a Tory MP...
Brown Warns Against Labour ‘Extremists’
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday did his best to hand back the political initiative to his politically battered and discredited Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...
Labour smashed in Gorton and Denton! It is now time to organise the British...
LABOUR’S spectacular defeat in Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election in Manchester, although expected, has driven deep splits and recriminations within the party. Hannah Spencer, the...
No economic solution to capitalist crisis as BIS warns financial markets at risk
THE BANK for International Settlements (BIS) – dubbed the bank for central banks – issued a dire warning in its latest quarterly review that...
30th anniversary of Malvinas war – reject imperialist war hysteria
Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas (Falklands) war, a war involving a tiny island with a population in 1982 of less than...
Business rates hike is to bankrupt the NHS – Time to bring the ...
NHS hospitals and GP surgeries in England and Wales face a massive £635 million hike in their business rates by the May government over...
Hurry And Make Peace With Taleban Urge Mps
THE start of an Afghan-led peace deal with the Taleban is needed to secure the future of Afghanistan after British troops leave, a group...
To defeat terrorism– withdraw from Iraq and smash imperialism
THURSDAY’S ‘bomb attacks’ – which did not cause a single serious injury but caused widespread alarm and panic – not least amongst the security...
Iran wants to talk – US–UK want to impose sanctions
THE Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared that he is ready to talk to President Obama and other leaders and have a ‘fair, logical’...
Patients assessed, treated & sent home on same day! The Tories ‘Long Term ...
THE TORY government, using their NHS Long Term Plan have stepped up their war against the health service, attempting to drive through measures that...
Norfolk & Norwich NHS Trust – screwed by the PFI bandits
THE Octagon private sector consortium has been branded the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’ by a House of Commons committee. MPs on the public accounts...
PM Sunak Ditches HS2 And Launches Savage Cuts To Smash The Trade Unions!
THE GMB trade union yesterday slammed the scrapping of the HS2 Northern route, the biggest cut in the rail network since the days of...
Capitalism has reached the end of the road – it’s time for a...
THE economic and political crisis gripping capitalism is causing despair and despondency amongst the bourgeoisie and its media representatives at the highest levels. This week,...
Socialist revolution is the only answer to the ‘economic tsunami’ swamping capitalism!
THIS week, forecasts for the increase in household energy bills were dramatically increased to over £4,200 for an average UK household in January next...
Cameron, Farage and Iwaszkiewicz forming a common front
NEO-fascist movements in Ukraine are operating with the connivance of the Kiev authorities, which is absolutely unacceptable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on...
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...
EU preparing Greek ‘regime change’!
THE debt talks between Greece and its international creditors collapsed on Thursday night with German Chancellor Merkel telling the Greek PM Tsipras to shut...
Pound drops and inflation rises as recession grows
THE pound fell to an exchange rate of $1.77 yesterday, its lowest level for two-and-a-half years. In June sterling was trading at $2, but...
Oil giants make huge profits – nationalise oil and energy industries now!
WHILE workers face skyrocketing energy bills forcing millions to go without heat this winter the giant oil and gas company Shell has announced annual...
Labour To Slash The Benefits Of The Sick And The ‘Suspect’
The Labour government is absolutely determined to impress its big business backers and show them that it is ready to take action against ‘slackers’...
Brown hints about withdrawal from Basra
PRIME Minister Brown was yesterday midway to giving up his ‘there is no timetable for a withdrawal from Iraq’ line – imposed on him...
Johnson reveals his feet of clay with his two-year transition plan to remain in...
AFTER ALL the bluster from Boris Johnson about delivering Brexit and that leaving the EU by October 31st was a ‘do or die’ issue,...
Coalition Aiming To Cut The Mentally Ill!
THE government is planning to strip mentally ill people of their state benefits if they do not agree to undergo treatment for anxiety and...
General Council must support locked out Gate Gourmet workers
ON Monday September 12 the TUC Annual Congress was lobbied by 300 of the over 700 locked out Gate Gourmet workers. The Congress then passed...
After A Decade Of Savage Austerity The Tories Propose A Massive Inflation!
THE NEW Tory chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, yesterday painted a picture of British capitalism as fundamentally ‘robust’ while the NHS was ‘sound’...
French government collapses – forward to the European socialist revolution!
FRENCH bourgeois rule was plunged into a massive crisis on Wednesday when MPs voted to kick out prime minister Michel Barnier’s administration after just...
ONLY a Socialist revolution can provide a future for workers and youth!
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled his latest attempt to resuscitate British capitalism in the midst of a crisis that has destroyed the economic...
Tories plan to replace national pay bargaining for public sector workers with performance-related pay...
THE TORIES are determined to put an end to trade union-negotiated across the board pay increases for all public sector workers and replace national...
NATO plans for war on Russia as capitalism crashes! Forward with world revolution
IN WHAT was described as a ‘historic first’, a UK navy destroyer, HMS Duncan, was placed under the direct command of NATO and ordered...
3.1 million children living below poverty line – the TUC advocates doing absolutely nothing!
This is a treacherous abdication of all responsibility by the trade union leaders for this crisis of poverty. They have not lifted a single...
As Syria burns the Israeli regime intensifies its repressions of the Palestinians
THE Palestinian Minister of Finance, Shukri Bishara, has just addressed members of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) in New York, telling it that...
Youth for revolution!
THE massive growth in unemployment sparked by the worldwide financial collapse in the capitalist system in 2008 is hitting youth so hard that the...
Bank of England boss warns UK finances hit by US war on Iran as...
THE Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, warned on Tuesday that the unprovoked, illegal war on Iran by the US is having...
South African socialist revolution underway!
THOUSANDS of mine workers have downed tools at South Africa’s Marikana Lonmin mine after an AMCU union leader, Mawethu Steven, was shot dead at...
US Trade Unions At The Crossroads
THE most powerful capitalist economy in the world is now living on a veritable knife edge, liable at any moment to crash spectacularly, bringing...
Russian workers having overthrown capitalism must carry out a political revolution against the...
THE degeneration of the Russian Stalinist bureaucracy has been revealed for all to see with its hiring of a mercenary army of criminals to...
Syriza Begins T0 Swing To The Right!
GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said he is confident that agreement can be reached with creditors over the repayment of ‘Greece’s debts’,...
Starmer cuddles up to the Financial Times as he gets ready to stab the...
WORLD capitalism and in particular British capitalism is in its greatest crisis ever with sections of the Tory party compeletely demoralised by the ‘Oceans...
Head of Oxfam GB damns UK as ‘morally incoherent’ over arming the Israeli genocide!
THE head of Oxfam GB, Halima Begum, has damned the UK government for supplying arms to Israel while simultaneously providing humanitarian aid to Gaza...
BBC reveals how police abuse body cameras – time to disband the police and...
IN 2005, the Metropolitan Police introduced a trial of body-worn cameras for police officers, a move that was quickly rolled out by forces throughout...
Down With The US-Israel Axis – Forward To A UK Workers Government That Will...
ISRAEL celebrated the moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem on Monday, recognising the city as the ‘the capital of Israel’ by massacring 60...
Nuclear Terrorists Attend Seoul Summit
A WORLD leaders summit in Seoul on nuclear security has called for closer co-operation to tackle the threat of nuclear terrorism. President Obama warned there...