Close down the Murdoch press – forward to a workers government
LABOUR leader Miliband, true to form, has spoken up for new media ownership rules to limit Rupert Murdoch’s ‘dangerous’ and ‘unhealthy’ concentration of power. He...
The lesson from the tower block fire disaster is stop the fire service cuts!
SIX people have been confirmed dead and many are missing after a huge fire engulfed a 24-storey North Kensington tower block, Grenfell Tower, after...
Dollar fall heralds a deepening capitalist crisis and world revolution
ON FRIDAY, the exchange rate of the dollar plunged down against other major world currencies and gold rose by 1.2 per cent to $638.5...
Demand the TUC bring down the Tories
ON Thursday Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, delivered a speech proclaiming that as far as the government is concerned ‘the matter is closed’: he...
End the Iraq and Afghan wars! Let the Chagossians return home!
ON the fifth anniversary of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the working class and the young people of the UK and the US,...
The slump deepens as Labour steps up attacks on the poorest
UK Gross Domestic Product fell in the three months from April to June by 0.7% confirming that the slump is deepening and that the...
US–UK organising Palestinian civil war
THERE is no doubt that the US and UK ruling classes are hard at work seeking to organise a Palestinian civil war. The object is...
Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Coalition!
TRANSPORT UNION RMT has called on its members and the entire trade union movement to get out on the streets in full support of...
One Year Since The Marikana Massacre
THE MARIKANA massacre of mineworkers in South Africa one year ago, in which 34 miners were murdered by the police and hundreds injured, has...
Overthrow of Niger’s pro-imperialist government a massive blow to imperialism
THE OUSTING of Niger president Mohamed Bazoum by the military has sent shock waves across the imperialist world, with France and the United States...
Afghan crisis deepens as deadline nears
AFGHANISTAN’S finance minister has said deadlock over the disputed presidential election has cost the economy $5bn, so far. Omar Zakhilwal has said he will have...
Labour MPs and the trade unions must junk the Lammy plan to ditch trial...
DOZENS of Labour MPs have correctly attacked the plan of the Justice Minister and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy to axe trial by jury...
Capitalism”s Global Financial Ice Age
THIS week saw a series of announcements from banks and economists about impending doom for capitalism. On Wednesday, the RBS bank advised all its clients...
Blair is deliberately smashing the NHS
THE just announced 1,000 strong mass sackings at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire which includes 750 compulsory redundancies, as well as 370 nurses...
Labour’s knives are out for use against the UK’s working class and its youth...
THE future of the youth minimum wage is now under review by the former Health Secretary Alan Milburn. The alleged ‘social mobility’ expert has told...
Biden administration in crisis over Israeli failure to defeat Hamas
CHUCK SCHUMER, the Democratic Senate majority leader, described as the highest ranking Jewish official in the United States and top ally of president Joe...
TORIES FACE WIPE OUT – WHILE LABOUR MPs PLAN EU ELECTIONS COUP!
WITH THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS fast approaching, the bourgeois democratic system through which the capitalist ruling class has ruled over the working class in the...
Capitalism hits end of the road – now is time to end it with...
ELON MUSK, the world’s first dollar trillionaire, set another record this week when he became the biggest ever loser of personal wealth on record. Musk’s...
150,000 Deaths – Tories Put The Bosses First – They Refuse To Lock Down...
THE BMA yesterday condemned the 150,000 Covid deaths, so far, since the start of the pandemic. The reason for the mountain of corpses is...
Trump pushes US and world capitalism into slump and recession
LEADING bourgeois economists are making doom laden predictions about the effect of Donald Trump’s pledges to ‘make America great’ through trade wars and expelling...
Crazy UK capitalism won’t dump disaster prone nuclear power
GUNTHER Oettinger, the EU’s energy commissioner, has compared the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster – with its repeated explosions of nuclear material and...
Capitalism reaches end of the road – time to end it with the world...
LATE on Wednesday evening Space X, the company owned by multi-billionaire Elon Musk, announced its plans to float on the stock market next week,...
Tories Will Have The Power ‘To Censor The Internet’ To Silence Opposition To Imperialist...
THE TORY government is attempting to assume the absolute power to censor the internet as part of its new Online Safety Bill – a...
Organise a general strike to kick out the Tory-LibDem regime
EVERYONE has had the chance to work out what the Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition government’s Comprehensive Spending Review means, with £81bn in cuts hitting jobs...
Milosevic is dead but the crisis in the Balkans remains
THE death of Slobodan Milosevic in his cell at The Hague, four years into his trial by the imperialist powers for genocide, has left...
98 deaths in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan
ON the brink of the third anniversary of the Anglo-US invasion of Iraq, the US based Human Rights First organisation has released a report...
No Cash For Operations – While £900 Million Pfi Scheme Collapses
EX-LABOUR MP Alice Mahon is considering taking the NHS to the High Court after the service refused to allow her access to a drug...
New York Times Urges Biden To Quit At Once As US ‘Democracy’ Crashes
THE New York Times is just the first US newspaper to urge the incumbent Democratic Party president Joe Biden to quit the 2024 presidential...
US capitalism in crisis – war at home and abroad is its only way...
US CAPITALISM, the most powerful in the world, is teetering on the brink of collapse under a tidal wave of debt. This dire warning was...
Corbyn’s ‘reshuffle’ exposes weakness of left reformism
LABOUR leader, Jeremy Corbyn, completed his first reshuffle of the shadow cabinet after a tortuous round of negotiations designed to keep the right-wing of...
Fighting inflation means fighting capitalism
CHANCELLOR Darling said on Sunday that pay rises for people ‘from the boardroom to the shopfloor’ need to be ‘consistent’ with the 2% inflation...
Don’t stop at the House of Lords! Abolish Parliament and go forward to a...
ON Wednesday night, a spokesman for the Tory government delivered a blunt message to the House of Lords that they either accepted Brexit or...
Answer Plot To Revoke Article 50 With A Socialist Revolution
THE UK Supreme Court yesterday rejected an attempt by the UK government to prevent the European Court of Justice (ECJ) judges hearing a legal...
Britain’s household debt time-bomb
DESPITE all the propaganda pumped out by Osborne in his budget speech last week, about UK capitalism ‘walking tall’ and well on the way...
Stop The Police Chiefs Taking Over The Fire Service!
JUST a few weeks ago the Grenfell Tower inferno burnt men, women and children to death, because the fire was able to take...
Crisis hit Osborne pledges ruthless class war on workers, pensioners and youth
CHANCELLOR Osborne began his Autumn Statement yesterday ‘We will do whatever it takes to protect Britain from this debt storm . ....
NATO under the hammer – as Tories refuse to serve in Kandahar
THE surge organised by President Obama and General Petraeus in Afghanistan has been turned into its opposite by the Taleban. The Taleban have now organised...
Ferguson battle anticipates US revolution
THE tactics weaponry and ammunition used in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, by the police and Missouri National Guard, have led to...
No let-up in NHS crisis – trade unions must act
WITH the dust barely settled on both the Labour and Tory Party conferences, the brutal reality of the economic crisis gripping British capitalism is...
Cameron takes a begging bowl to India
PRIME Minister David Cameron and the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government have decamped from London to New Delhi this week to drum up business, such...
The lawyers have forced the government to retreat and put the trade union...
THE news that the coalition government has been forced to retreat over its proposed cuts to legal aid fees by the decisive actions of...
Defend the Tamil people! Unite the Sri Lankan workers! Bring down the Rajipakse...
THERE is a war taking place in Sri Lanka, in which the government of President Rajipakse, armed, equipped, trained and financially supported by the...
US slaughters Iraqis during the referendum on a constitution
WHILE US President George W Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair and their quislings in Baghdad were pumping out propaganda about ‘freedom and democracy’,...
Mursi follows on from Mubarak as the US’ man in Cairo
PRESIDENT MURSI of Egypt has followed up his successful negotiation of the end of the current round of Israel’s war with Gaza – which...
8-day war games: US military train up Syrian terrorists! Workers of France, UK &...
US MILITARY forces have just held eight days of exercises with Syrian terrorists in the south of the country around the US military base...