Output Down As Banking Crisis Deepens
THE CBI bosses organisation said yesterday that UK manufacturers expect to reduce output over the next three months, driving another nail into the coffin...
QUEEN’S SPEECH:Making the poor pay & more police powers
THE Queen’s Speech yesterday was dominated by the unprecedented world financial crisis and deepening slump, and its impact on decrepit British imperialism. It opened: ‘My...
Answer Tories’ ‘perversion of democracy’ with a general strike to kick them out
YESTERDAY’S meeting of the Tory ‘Brexit War Cabinet’ at Chequers was convened under conditions where the entire Tory leadership was openly at war with...
Recall The Tuc Congress To Call General Strike To Support The Junior Doctors
THE latest two-day strike action of the junior doctors has been a resounding success with massive picket lines, and huge public support, while the...
Inflation Out Of Control, Rate Rise On The Way
INFLATION is on the rise with the CPI rate increasing from 3.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent, while the RPI rate rose from...
Defend North Korea’s right to defend itself from Imperialist War
IN HIS New Year speech North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un warned US imperialism not to start a nuclear war against the country saying that...
The Way Forward – Starve The Working Class Says King!
THE governor of the Bank of England, in his Tuesday night speech detailed the source of the gigantic inflationary rise in living costs that...
Hamas calls on all states to follow Colombia’s example and sever all relations with...
HAMAS has condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the failure to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, following two days of talks in...
Revolution coming to North America!
THE continuing Egyptian revolution – in particular the determined occupations of Tahrir Square and the fearless struggle of Egypt’s workers for their rights...
Tories are readying to impose new taxes, and engage in massive wage cutting! Remove...
EARLIER this week, Apple was priced on the US stock market at $2.3tn (£1.7tn), more than the combined ‘value’ of the entire FTSE 100. The...
CRISIS DEEPENING – as production and the pound fall!
UK industrial output collapsed in August, unexpectedly as far as the bourgeoisie was concerned, destroying any remaining thoughts of green shoots of recovery. Bourgeois...
Bankrupt capitalism aims to balance the books through foreign aid cuts and vicious austerity...
ON TUESDAY, Tory PM Boris Johnson narrowly avoided defeat on a motion to cut UK foreign aid after a rebellion by Tory MPs. In the...
Tories join with Labour to dump Johnson and prepare way for a national government
YESTERDAY, MPs debated the motion from Labour that would refer the behaviour of prime minister Boris Johnson to the Commons standards committee to investigate...
Defend the PCS and all trade unions with a general strike
THE PCS TRADE UNION last Saturday issued a statement to its members announcing that it was the victim of a government plot to destroy...
Youth in Europe erupt against more austerity
ON Sunday a mass movement of workers led by young people took to the streets of cities across Europe in a powerful demonstration of...
Savage Greek property tax provokes mass revolt
In the past few days electricity bills delivered to Greek households have contained a demand for the hated new property tax. This tax, which ranges...
German and UK military chiefs say ‘we must rearm’ and prepare for war with...
BRITAIN and Germany’s highest ranking military chiefs have just made an unprecedented joint appeal to the workers of Europe to accept the ‘moral case’...
Trump caves in over Ukraine – now is the time to get rid of...
AMERICA’S junior imperialist allies in the UK and Europe were in a state of shock as details of US president Donald Trump’s climbdown over...
Brown boasts that he has assured the future of the banks
THE Prime Minister revealed once again on BBC Radio 2 just what his priorities are and just what he is working night, noon and...
German coup attempt, a warning to UK workers as the Tories ready the military...
TWENTY-FIVE people have been arrested in raids across Germany on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. The group of fascists and far right military...
Unions must take action to defend jobs, wages and pensions from rampant inflation
THE rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation in the UK in September, rose to 5.2% from 4.5% the month before. A huge leap in...
Sunak extends furlough as Bank of England prints another £50 billion to try and...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the furlough scheme will be extended until the end of March next year, with the government continuing...
Break the siege of Gaza!
TWO boats carrying humanitarian aid breached the Israeli siege of the Palestinian people in Gaza when they arrived at the main port of Gaza...
NHS in crisis – bring down the Coalition
THE long awaited public inquiry into the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust opened yesterday. It was in Mid-Staffs hospital that between 2005 and 2008 an estimated 400 patients...
100 years since the start of the great imperialist slaughter!
YESTERDAY, August 4th, saw the leaders of the major imperialist powers remembering the centenary of the start of the first great imperialist slaughter, the...
Carney tells banks to find £11.4 billion to save them going bust
DESPITE all the recent words from Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, about the underlying health of British capitalism, his actions yesterday...
Workers of the world unite to fight for the victory of Palestine!
ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’, heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza,...
Unite must hit back and defend its members, with full TUC support
THE petrochemical plant at the giant Grangemouth complex in central Scotland is to close with the loss of over 800 jobs, owner Ineos announced...
Banks teeter on edge of collapse – Official
THE European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of its latest stress tests carried out on 123 European banks on Sunday, results which showed...
Bank of England pledges to ride to the rescue of capitalism!
THE BANK of England yesterday vowed that it would ride to the rescue of the world’s financial markets by joining with other central banks...
Sunak’s speech a declaration of war on workers to make them pay for the...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his speech to the Tory Party conference yesterday pledged to ‘double down’ on his plans to resuscitate drowning British...
Tories to slash benefits to unemployed & sick
TORY Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government unveiled its plans to target the unemployed and others on benefits, depriving them of their entitlements, or...
Stop US-UK terrorism – No war on Syria – Bring down the Tories –...
THE last few days has seen an acceleration in terrorist activity of all types. The first terrorist attack was last Thursday when the US...
Defend the NHS with a general strike to bring down Tories
TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been told in a letter from NHS bosses that the NHS is ‘no longer able to meet the...
British capitalism even more bankrupt than the Bank of England admits
LAST week, the Bank of England issued a ‘gloomy’ outlook for the UK economy with its growth forecast cut in half from that made...
Kick out TUC leaders who refuse to fight and are begging Tories to extend...
FROM TODAY the Tory furlough scheme starts to unwind with businesses forced to contribute 10% of furloughed workers’ wages, rising to 20% in August...
Israel Murders Ismail Haniyeh On Behalf Of The US And UK Ruling Classes!
IRAN’S Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said yesterday that the Islamic Republic and the Resistance Front will avenge the murder of Ismail Haniyeh, head...
Forward to the end of the occupation of Iraq
BOTH American generals and ex-British ambassadors have been predicting that Iraq is either on the brink of civil war or that it has already...
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...
Turning A New Page In The NHS!
THE leaders of 10 NHS organisations have called in an open letter for a ‘new page to be turned’ in 2014. Powerful organisations including...
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...
Corbyn, O’Grady and McCluskey are determined to prevent workers from getting rid of Cameron
YESTERDAY, under orders from Tory leader Cameron, most of the King’s horses and most of the King’s men of the major trade trade unions...
‘New Leader – Old Agenda’
IN a motion for next month’s Trades Union Congress, UNISON correctly says the use of private firms in public services is ‘harmful, wasteful, and...
Putting The Trade Union Leaders To Shame
SEVEN people were arrested at Prestwick Airport yesterday, after appointing themselves as ‘citizen weapons inspectors’, and forcing themselves onto a US cargo flight to...
US Trade Gap Widens As Banks Get Ready For Economic Storm
THE US trade gap widened in January to $44.45bn (£29.53bn) from December’s figure of $38.14bn, the US Commerce Department has reported. Much of the rise...