UK steel industry collapse – occupy to defend jobs, nationalise the steel industry
THE slaughter of the British steel industry continued yesterday with the official announcement by Tata Steel that it is to axe a further 1,050...
Osborne seeking showdown with unions
ON Thursday the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, made an emergency statement to parliament on the international economic crisis that is engulfing British capitalism to...
Bosses predict massive shocks after UK general election!
TO say that the international banking system and the world stock markets are in a state described as ‘nervous’ is to do great injustice...
The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class – time to...
MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...
King sees nothing but the ‘black cloud of uncertainty’
THE Governor of the Bank of England yesterday poured gallons of ice cold water over the prospects of British and world capitalism. King cut the...
Severe Child Poverty On The Rise Under Labour
RESEARCH by charity ‘Save the Children’ has found that between 2004 and 2008, an additional 260,000 children were pushed into severe poverty in the...
Free Julian Assange – Jail The Imperialist Butchers
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange was arrested in London yesterday and is now in jail, awaiting hearings to extradite him to Sweden where he will...
Inflation soaring not falling – General Strike now!
MONTHLY figures released yesterday reported that inflation in Britain had fallen from 2.8% in July to 2.7% in August, leading some bourgeois economists to...
Merkel-Sarkozy deal will fail to stem euro crisis
THE media were out in force at the end of last week to hear German Chancellor Angela Merkel reveal details of a bail-out package...
US to arm Ukrainian coupists
US imperialism has reacted to the breakdown of talks at the weekend of the Contact Group on Ukrainian reconciliation with threats to massively intervene...
TUC must immediately act to stop Clarence House staff sackings by the monarchy and...
THE PCS trade union has called for the proposed staff redundancies at Clarence House to be halted and pledged to support every member of...
Tories Reeling From Crisis To Crisis While Lapdog Starmer Complains Johnson Not Listening To...
AS THE Tories reel from one crisis to another over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic that has so far led to over 380,000...
Answer 30% savage cuts with a general strike!
YESTERDAY the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, proudly announced that four government departments have agreed to make cuts in their budgets of 8% a year...
Blair Defies Labour Over Education Privatisation
LABOUR Prime Minister Blair has ruled out changes to his education reform (privatisation) plans despite a challenge by more than 50 Labour MPs,...
Capitalism Is In Its Greatest Ever Crisis. Now Is The Time To Organise The...
DURING stock market trading last Friday more than £12.8bn was wiped off the value of the UK’s bank stocks as the rumours of ‘bad...
Workers Reject Tories And Lib-Dems, Now Take Action To Get The Coalition Out!
THE Tories and the LibDems were whipped around the country in the council elections, with Labour retaking Liverpool and numerous cities and towns, as...
Gadaffi In Tripoli – Hague In Disarray!
WHILE Cameron is in Kuwait seeking to sell more rubber bullets, poison gas and a variety of war machines to the British-trained Gulf monarchies,...
UK and US trade unions must support the Palestinian socialist revolution!
WHILE the US and UK backed Israeli murder machine, both civil and military is at work on a daily basis killing Palestinian men women...
Record numbers miss out on first choice secondary schools – Bring all schools back...
NATIONAL Offer Day was yesterday, with record numbers of children missing out on their first choice of secondary school. More than half a million...
SLUMP SET TO DEEPEN WARNS BofE GOVERNOR
The Bank of England governor Mervyn King yesterday admitted that the UK entered a recession in the middle of 2008. Stunned by the...
The trade unions must follow the example of the ruling class and deal with...
THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...
Labour demands students foot the bill to bail out bankrupt universities
ON Monday, Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced that university tuition fees will be increased for the first time in eight years. Phillipson’s increase means...
A socialist government and a socialist foreign policy needed to defeat terrorism!
NEWS LINE sends its condolences to the families and friends of the 22 people, including children, who were killed and the 59 who were...
Crisis Forces Osborne To Re-Write His Budget!
LAST November 25th in his Autumn Statement Chancellor Osborne was full of praise for the way that allegedly the UK was now full set...
Israel steps up its war to drive Palestinians from their homes!
SCORES of armed Israeli settlers attacked the homes of Palestinians in the village of Sebastia in the occupied West Bank province of Nablus on...
Labour marshalling its strikebreakers
THE capitalist state has had to admit that its war on two fronts means that it cannot rely on the British army for strike...
Israel prison service is beating and assaulting female Palestinian detainees inside Damon prison!
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly condemned Israeli forces’ brutal aggression against Palestinian women at Damon Prison in the Palestinian occupied territories. ‘Beating female Palestinian...
Barclays Vice Chair On NHS Commissioning Board
YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Health told the House of Commons that the government will be taking a step back from the...
Police death squads are ok says ACPO
THERE is no need to change the strategy police use to deal with suicide bombers – to put as many bullets into their brain...
Chelsea Tories just could not wait to start evicting
JUST hours after Tory leader Cameron announced that council houses were no longer going to be ‘homes for life’ – but were to be...
Corbyn For Pm – Bring Down The Tories And Forward To Palestine!
THESE are truly desperate times for the Tories. Their government is selling out Brexit. Their party is split and divided, with Boris Johnson challenging...
No to school reopening and a forced return to work – for a general...
WHILE the Tories were hailing the relaxation of the lockdown rules that came into effect yesterday in England as a giant step forward, senior...
Maude and Cameron seek the support of parliament for law-breaking
THE Tory-led coalition is rushing through parliamentary legislation to impose on the Civil Service trade unions savage changes to their redundancy agreement (Civil Service...
Re-nationalise the energy suppliers – the only way to end preventable deaths
FIGURES released this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a dramatic increase in the number of preventable deaths among the elderly...
Imperialist ‘surge’ in Iraq and Afghanistan = mass slaughter
SIX Iraqi primary schoolchildren have been slaughtered by a US helicopter spraying al-Nedawat village with machine gun fire and hitting a primary school, in...
Abolish student loans and debt, and restore grants!
LAST Monday the coalition government’s drive to privatise every single public service and completely smash up the welfare state took yet another grotesque turn...
Workers hit by inflation leap and huge jobs crisis
THE UK Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate rose sharply to 3.4% in March from 3% the month before, official figures show. The Retail...
Airbus Workers Take To The Streets!
STRIKES and protest marches are taking place at Airbus plants in France and Germany for a third day after it was announced that over...
MPs must vote to quit the EU – forward to the Socialist United States...
THE Brexit Secretary Davis yesterday urged MPs not to ‘tie the prime minister’s hands’ and to defeat the two House of Lords amendments to...
Organise a general strike for the nationalisation of plants facing closure!
ECONOMIC activity declined by 0.8 per cent over the three months to the end of June, a fall of 5.6 per cent in Gross...
100 years since the Balfour Declaration, Palestinians are still paying for it with...
ISRAEL has detained one million Palestinians since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent occupation of the West Bank,...
Brown, Keynes and revolution
AFTER actively assisting in the creation of trillions of debt, and showing its contempt for the concept of value by selling almost half of...
Interest rates held at 4.75% as inflation increases!
THE Bank of England yesterday held UK interest rates at 4.75% until at least next February. This follows two cuts to the interest rates this...
Britain is set to rearm with the working class paying the full bill with...
THE Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he is willing to give up his war with Russia in the Ukraine, and is also...
The Crisis Of Capitalism Is Making It Clear That The Working Class Must Take...
BRITAIN is in the grip of the deepest recession since records began putting the country on course for the biggest economic collapse since 1709...