Banks tremble at the thought of the end of Quantitative Easing
THE pound fell below $1.49 against the dollar on Friday, close to a three-year low. Sterling traded as low as $1.4858 at one point. The...
TUC must call a general strike at once to defend the Palestinian people from...
THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said yesterday that the number of Palestinians who have been driven from their...
Wages still being slashed by price rises!
THE CPI rate of inflation fell to 1.5% in the year to May 2014, down from 1.8% in April, according to the Office of...
May’s university review ‘Dead on arrival’! Students, lecturers & staff must unite and strike...
‘DEAD on arrival,’ is how Vanessa Wilson, chief executive of the University Alliance Group described outgoing PM May’s new report on university education. The Augar...
Irish Trade Unions Put The Tuc To Shame
LAST Friday, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions called a 100,000 strong national demonstration in Dublin, with demonstrations in many other Irish cities and...
Trump’s Terrorist Regime Kills Iranian Leaders As It Drives Forward To A New Middle...
IRAN’S most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been murdered by a US air strike in Iraq. The...
Davis resignation shatters Tories as May goes looking for Labour votes
TORY Brexit Secretary David Davis exploded a bomb under the leadership of PM Theresa May on Sunday with his resignation from the cabinet. May had...
Flammable insulation & cladding, tower blocks built to collapse & fire services stripped to...
LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan says Londoners have been let down after the Tory government rejected his request for new firefighting equipment. Tory Home Secretary Amber...
Government collapsing but trade union leaders watch and wait
PRIME Minister Blair and former Blair ultra-loyalists spent yesterday slashing away at each others throats. Blair branded Blairite ex-junior minister, Tom Watson ‘disloyal, discourteous...
Free the five and give them full British citizenship
THE UK government has requested the release of five British residents from US custody at Guantanamo Bay, something which the Blair government, in which...
Bolton Blaze Shows That Tackling Cladding Is A Life And Death Issue That Is...
THE CLADDING (HPL) that encased the Bolton students’ accommodation block that was engulfed in flames last week was found, after examination by scientists, to...
Working class will smash Johnson’s fantasies with socialist revolution
TORY prime minster Boris Johnson yesterday delivered a speech composed entirely of wishful thinking from which reality was completely excluded. In Johnson’s fairy-tale world British...
Call a national postal strike and bring out all the public sector
ROYAL Mail chairman Allan Leighton reiterated yesterday that the organisation cannot afford to improve its 2.5 per cent pay offer, despite staff voting 77...
Peugeot, the NHS and pensions
THE crisis of capitalism is now erupting in Britain with massive force. The government has declared that the bankrupt capitalist system cannot afford final salary...
Build Millions Of Council Homes To House The Homeless
HOMELESS people die thirty years before the national average, says the latest research from Sheffield University commissioned by Crisis, the national charity for single...
Moment of truth for Greece!
GREECE’S Syriza government delayed yesterday’s 300m euros (£216m) debt repayment to the IMF, saying that it will pay over to the Troika (the...
US opens missile base in Romania and plans for bases in Poland and Hungary
AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...
Tuc Must Call General Strike In Support Of Palestine And To Crush The Anti-Union...
LAST Saturday, a massive demonstration of over 300,000 workers and youth marched to Whitehall, close to 10 Downing Street, calling for the trade union...
GM strikers are fighting for all US workers
ABOUT 73,000 carworkers, members of the 600,000-strong United Automobile Workers (UAW) trade union, went on indefinite strike at 11am on Monday at General Motors’...
Backward British capitalism lets hundreds of homes flood
HUNDREDS of houses have been flooded across the country over these last months, and angry residents are demanding to know why nothing has been...
By Recognising The Golan Heights As Part Of Israel, Trump Is Opting For A...
ON MONDAY, US President Donald Trump signed a declaration that recognised Israeli ‘sovereignty’ over Syria’s Golan Heights. The strategically important Golan Heights are recognised in...
Trump is set to impose the death agony of the US capitalist system onto...
THREATS, demands and bullying aimed at the whole world from US President Donald Trump, dominated the Davos Economic Forum in a video call on...
Trump Says Bin Salman Innocent Until Proven Guilty – After Khashoggi Is Butchered In...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has cautioned against rushing to blame Saudi Arabia and its Crown Prince over the disappearance and butchering of Saudi journalist...
Charlotte becomes a class war zone! The US socialist revolution is emerging
THE US National Guard have arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina, with armed-to-the-teeth state troopers lining the streets and turning the city into a war...
Spanish workers on the road to revolution
SPANISH PM Mariano Rajoy has just announced a 3% VAT rise from 18%-21%, and a series of austerity measures that will cut the Spanish...
Murdoch Empire Still Remains To Be Broken
PRIME Minister Cameron used his usual tactic at prime minister’s questions yesterday, when asked why he brought a criminal into 10 Downing Street...
Greek workers on the march to socialist revolution
THE Greek working class, Greek youth and the majority of the middle class and the small farmers have battled the EU imposed austerity programmes...
Mandelson plan for uni cuts must be defeated
MANDELSON’S decision to lop £398m from the higher education budget, and to bring in third class tuition, will see thousands of workers in...
Imperialist powers are preparing Middle East war – disarm them with socialist revolutions!
AT a time when US President Trump and France’s Macron are plotting a permanent US presence in northern Syria, to be supported no...
Blair & Brown’s NHS cuts boost the Tories
ONLY those with short memories, or strong stomachs, did not have to stop themselves vomiting when hearing Tory leader David Cameron talk about his...
Huge $8.6bn loss at General Motors
GENERAL Motors (GM) bosses admitted on Thursday that their losses for 2005 were $8.6bn, their largest since 1992 when the board of directors was...
State violence escalates – three dead in eight days!
The news that yet another person has died after a confrontation with the police brings the total of deaths arising out of such incidents...
Obama Puts British Imperialism In Its Place
WITH more than 100 million gallons of oil already freed to spew all over the US Gulf coast, the ‘special relationship’ between the US...
Decisive Action Needed To Defend Welfare State!
THE working class is rising up to defend the Welfare State. On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of workers and members of the public took...
TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defend the NHS
TODAY junior doctors launch four days of strike action throughout the NHS in England over the demand for a 35% pay increase to make...
Israel is in its death agony – the US, UK and EU trade unions...
THE ISRAELI war cabinet minister Gantz has threatened to resign and completely split the ruling Israeli group unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets out...
Tory donor scandal reveals not just the racism but the massive profits leeched from...
When The Guardian newspaper on Monday reported the racist comments made by Frank Hester, the owner and sole shareholder of the Pheonix Partnership (TPP),...
Pound falls after Rachel Reeves reduced to tears in Parliament
DURING PM’s Question Time in Parliament on Wednesday Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves broke down in tears as Prime Minster Keir Starmer dodged a question...
Care for the Elderly crisis – capitalist barbarism at work
WHEN workers pass the age at which their labour can be exploited for profit they become a useless burden on society as far as...
With stockmarkets crashing it is time to smash capitalism and go forward to world...
AMID world stock markets crashing, and the head of the IMF revealing she has ‘sleepless nights’ over the dangerous risks of collapses in the...
Defend The NHS By Bringing Down The Coalition!
THE Tory-led coalition lie, that the NHS is safe in their hands, has been exploded by the announcement that over 1,630 frontline jobs are...
US workers on the march – unions must break with Democrats and form...
THE strike actions of US workers are growing apace and are achieving big successes as the working class begins to use its power. One week...
CWU leaders organise a consultative ballot !over pensions
TRUE to form the CWU leadership is declining to give any kind of leadership to its massive membership on the vital issue of the...
The TUC must support the Palestinian march on Gaza with a general strike in...
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of displaced Palestinian citizens resumed on Wednesday morning their march back to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip which Israel...
French And UK Workers Must Unite To Bring Down Macron And Johnson With Socialist...
THE imperialist powers are not only in their greatest crisis ever, they are completely split and divided. The UK is prepared to take legal action...