UK capitalism is in its death agony – Now is the time to organise...
THE UK economy is heading for a recession and a slump as the latest official figures show. It shrank between July and September by...
After Afghan Disaster, UK Ruling Class Is Determined That UK Workers Must Pay For...
THE HUMILIATING hiding that the UK ruling class has taken from the Taliban in Afghanistan, where the US and the UK have squandered tens...
On The Eve Of The Budget, Workers Are Demanding Action To Bring Down...
THE TUC General Council has met and issued a statement on the crisis. In it, it disgracefully treats the Tory government as a potential...
Palestine suspends recognition of the state of Israel!
THE PALESTINIAN Central Council met in Ramallah on Sunday and Monday and, after deliberations on important matters for the Palestinian people, it made a...
Putin driving Belarus into the arms of the EU
‘IT is of utmost importance for us to establish good relations with the West,’ said President Lukashenka of Belarus on Tuesday. This statement is a...
Labour reach new depths of treachery over NHS
AT the weekend the new Labour shadow health secretary, Andrew Burnham, delivered a treacherous stab in the back to the NHS with the announcement...
Saddam Murder Within Days
THE decision to hang the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, and also the Iraqi Vice-President, Taha Yasin Ramadan – whose sentence was increased from life...
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...
‘Fools Gold’ Sends Stock Markets Rocketing Upwards
BOTH Wall Street and the London stock markets made record advances yesterday. The FTSE 100 index rocketed upwards on Friday morning adding £80billion to share...
Bring down the Irish government to smash the Water Tax!
OVER 150,000 people took part in nationwide protests last Saturday against the introduction of savage water charges throughout the Republic of Ireland. Up to 100...
FBU anger mounting – strike action on the way!
FIREFIGHTERS risk their lives every time they are called out. They never know what they are going to have to tackle, and often do...
Judges Take Just 5 Minutes To Reject Hunt’s Appeal
THE Court of Appeal’s ruling yesterday that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt did not have legal power to implement cuts at Lewisham Hospital in south-east...
Trade unions must call a general strike to stop Tories ending all Covid restrictions
YESTERDAY, Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the ending of all remaining Covid restrictions in England this week. The Tories’ ‘Living with Covid’ plan means...
Grenfell crisis – many millions are living in unsafe buildings eight years after the...
NEW research has found that 136 firefighters who were exposed to toxic smoke at Grenfell are now suffering from occupational diseases. 1 in 4...
Bush defends waterboarding and torture
US President, George W Bush, last Saturday revealed the inseparable connection between imperialism and atrocities when he vetoed Congressional legislation that would have...
Putin cuddles up to the West over Ukraine!
SUNDAY night’s meeting between the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has shown conclusively the counter-revolutionary nature of...
The only way to really defend Venezuela is for the working class to smash...
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech last Tuesday night that a coup attempt by a small group of the military had...
Truss Is Shattered While Johnson Is Posing As The Man To Save UK Capitalism!
LIZ Truss, who not so long ago posed on the Polish border on a British tank expressing her hostility to Russia, before becoming more...
Occupy GM, Ellesmere Port and Luton & nationalise to defend jobs
THE UK’s biggest car manufacturer, Vauxhall, with plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton, has admitted its more than 5,000 jobs are under massive threat...
Banking Crisis Heading For The Precipice!
THE INABILITY of the US economy to recover from its jobs slump, alongside the colossal indebtedness of the EU banks – German, Italian, French...
Workers want the Tories out but don’t want Miliband and Balls back
THIS IS the message that is coming out of the Bradford West by-election where Respect candidate George Galloway was ‘unexpectedly’, out of the blue,...
Tory Big Brother will be spying on everybody!
THE News International empire’s phone hacking and spying, and the way that it sought to regulate the government and bend the police force to...
French elections ‘shaken’ by surge in working class support for socialist policies
THIS WEEK has seen a dramatic upsurge of support amongst workers and youth in France for the outsider left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in the...
Only re-nationalisation of energy industry under socialism can prevent fuel poverty
BRITISH capitalism in the 21st century cannot guarantee even the most basic pre-requisites for life if you are not wealthy. This is the stark message...
French unions must call general strike to smash Macron’s murderous police forces!
FRANCE’S President Emmanuel Macron, after his panicky early return to France from an EU summit, has now been forced to postpone a planned state...
Private equity group to ‘cut and slash’ Chrysler
DAIMLERCHRYSLER is selling a 80.1 per cent share in its crisis-hit American Chrysler division to the private equity group Cerberus for $7.4bn. President George...
Brexit Moment Of Truth Fast Approaching! The Working Class Must Be Ready To Take...
YESTERDAY was the last working day before Parliament is due to be prorogued ahead of a new Queen’s Speech. The House of Commons is...
Ireland – hurtling towards a socialist revolution
THE right-wing Fine Gael party is set to form a coalition with its traditional partner, the right-wing Labour party, after a ‘political revolution’ which...
French revolution coming to a head!
THE massive strike movement against the Socialist Party-imposed anti-union laws is continuing in France with the railways due to take national strike action today...
Cameron’s Magna Carta hypocrisy
THIS week the Tory-led coalition is set to announce yet more changes to the education syllabus, changes designed to further Cameron’s pledge to drive...
Berezovskiy goes bust as capitalist crisis deepens!
POLICE were yesterday searching the home of Boris Berezovskiy. They were desperately looking for chemical, biological or nuclear material, so that they could...
Human Rights Watch Denounces Israeli Apartheid Crimes!
AN international leading human rights watchdog, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), has accused the Israeli authorities in a 213-page report titled ‘A Threshold Crossed:...
Trade union leaders should resign as well!
IN a statement on Friday, the day after the general election disaster for reformism, the TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady showed just what a...
TUC conference swings to the right – a new leadership must be built!
THIS year’s annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference marked a historic lurch to the right by the leadership of the trade unions. At a time...
Manchester students tear down the fences. UK workers and youth are building up for...
STUDENTS have torn down prison-like fencing erected around their campus on the first day of the new nationwide lockdown. As the Tories allowed the second...
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...
Egyptian revolution in permanence!
THE Egyptian army opened fire on thousands of workers and young people in Tahrir Square on Saturday morning, killing four and wounding 117. ...
Labour leader Starmer and the TUC General Council remain silent as Zionist gangsters murder...
A DELEGATION from the European Union along with representatives of about 20 countries visited yesterday the Palestinian town of Huwwara, south of Nablus, and...
Inflation carries on cutting wages, pensions and benefits
THE Office of National Statistics has given the figures on inflation rates for last month which confirm that British capitalism faces total economic collapse,...
Egypt warns Israel while Palestinians urge global Intifada!
EGYPT has warned it’s ready to respond militarily after Israeli troops seized a sensitive corridor of land along its border with the Gaza Strip. According...
Palestinian Prisoners Are Staging A Mass Hunger Strike – Now Is The Time ...
PALESTINIAN prisoners are staging a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons to protest against crackdowns and mistreatment by the prison officials. They say their strike,...
Fake war on Crony Capitalism
On Monday the LibDem leader, Nick Clegg, added his views to the emerging consensus between Labour and the Tories that the problem with British...
Lord Turner gives up on capitalism – forward to the socialist revolution!
CAPITALISM is not delivering on its promise to raise living standards, Lord Adair Turner, a former head of the business lobby the CBI, has...
Brown orders troop retreat from Basra City
BRITISH troops retreated from Basra City, quitting their base in the Presidential Palace on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab waterway in the dead...
TUC must call a general strike to stop US-UK war criminals
THE UK ruling class, alongside its US masters, is getting ready to attack Syria in a matter of hours. It is to be struck with...