McCluskey and the ideologically-driven Tory cuts
WRITING in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper the general secretary elect of Unite, Len McClusky, was forced to use the dread words ‘general strike’ in the...
Homelessness, fuel poverty & debt! Time to assign capitalism to the dustbin of history!
AS TEMPERATURES plummet and the cold weather sets in, homeless charity Shelter calculated that over a quarter of a million people will wake up...
Workers Of The World Unite – Is Still The Slogan Of The Hour!
NET migration to the UK is at an all-time high, reaching 330,000 in the year to March 2015, that is 94,000 more than in...
Labour’s Shadow Chancellor Shows Her Tory Hand, Declaring There Will Be No Wealth...
WITH the Tory Party split and divided, Labour is now revealing its own pro-Tory proposals to make the working class pay for the continuing...
Its revolution or ruin for the Middle Class
IT was Harold Macmillan back in the days of ‘You have never had it so good’ in the late 1950s and early 1960s who...
The US and UK bosses are planning major attacks on Russia and China! ...
AT A summit last Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned his American counterpart Joe Biden that US support for Taiwanese independence is ‘playing with...
EU crisis sharpening to breaking point!
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is attending the meeting of the EU Finance Ministers in Poland to convey the alarm of the...
103 years of the Balfour Declaration – British workers must fight to liberate...
ON NOVEMBER 2nd 1917, during the first great imperialist war, the UK ruling class committed one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century...
The Tory crisis is the source of the Labour ‘racism’ provocations!
THE attempt to frame up Ken Livingstone as a rabid racist, after similar attempts to do the same to Labour leader Corbyn, who was...
Save the NHS by bringing down the Tories and expropriating the bosses and the...
THE NHS is the greatest of the gains that the working class made in the period immediately after the Second World War. It was brought...
Drive to bring local performance-related pay into the NHS must be defeated
THE chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) Chris Hopson, representing more than 200 NHS trusts across England, has called for the ripping...
Heseltine joins Blair’s campaign for an anti-Brexit uprising!
LORD Heseltine is notorious for his closure of the mining industry in 1993, as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the Major...
Brown insists on wage cuts for workers & billions for bankers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown justified pay cuts for workers in the public services and the billions handed over by the Treasury to the bankrupt...
Unions to call for London-wide strike action to defeat Tory attack on TfL workers
RAIL unions have pledged mass industrial action in response to the Tory attacks on the jobs, pay and pensions of workers at TfL (Transport...
Industry collapses in UK under impact of capitalist crisis
THE UK economy stagnated with no growth in the last quarter of 2019, according to official figures from the ONS (Office for National Statistics). Gross...
National strike action to defend the Royal Mail and its workforce
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday warned that Royal Mail were planning sacking between eight and twenty per cent of the workforce, with London...
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...
Tories rip up workers health and safety as their bankrupt economy disintegrates!
TORY CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak did the rounds of press interviews yesterday preparing the way for today’s reopening of non-essential shops and businesses and he...
Benefits slashed while bankers prosper
Today Parliament votes on the Tory coalition bill to place a 1% cap on all benefits and tax credits for the next three years...
Capitalist leaders have lost confidence in the system and are preparing for the worst!
THESE are fearful times for the leaders of EU capitalism. The fear factor is not just present in Brussels. Admiral Alan West, who...
Workers must organise unions to take the UK out of the EU on October...
THE EU’s Brexit negotiator Barnier has set the scene for this week’s ‘Brexit showdown’ in the House of Commons by rejecting out-of-hand PM Johnson’s...
Send Blair to the War Crimes Tribunal!
EX-PM Blair could be made to stand trial for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq, Labour leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn has said. Corbyn correctly...
Carney’s ‘forward guidance’ comes a huge cropper!
BANK of England governor Carney has dumped his forward guidance policy under which interest rates would rise once the UK unemployment rate had been...
State to give bankrupt bankers cash in exchange for their paper rubbish
PRIME Minister Brown has made an appeal to the Wall Street bankers to be honest, surely a contradiction in terms. He wants them to publicly...
Central banks cutting off ‘free money’ means a world economic crash for capitalism
NOT EVERY bourgeois economic commentator has swallowed the upbeat line peddled by central bankers that capitalism has weathered the storm of its economic crisis...
Brown’s foreign policy shaped by defeats in Iraq & Afghanistan
FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband, the ‘rising star’ in the government, was given the task of presenting Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s foreign policy strategy at...
Bank of England warning that world stock markets on the verge of crash!
The Bank of England yesterday warned that the capitalist financial markets are at risk of ‘sharp correction’. In its latest financial stability report the Bank...
Inflation up as Blair-Brown move to cut wages!
INFLATION in the UK is accelerating out of control. According to the latest Labour government figures which grossly underestimate the process the Consumer...
Rejoice – Syrian forces on the outskirts of Palmyra!
THE Fars news agency has reported that ‘At approximately 11:45pm (Damascus Time) on Tuesday night, the Syrian Army’s “Tiger Forces”, backed by Hezbollah, the...
British Chambers of Commerce looks to class war in New Year
FOR some days now, Minister Jowell has been campaigning in the cabinet to stop Gordon Brown being verbally beastly to the Tories, by bringing...
Wages rising fast – a sick Tory joke!
THE food bank charity, the Trussell Trust says it has handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the...
Tories have blood on their hands over Channel drownings
TWENTY-SEVEN people, including a pregnant woman and three children, were drowned attempting to cross the Channel in an inflatable boat on Wednesday – the...
Clinton threatens ‘catastrophic assault’ on the Syrian state!
THE ‘Friends of Syria’ meeting in Paris on Friday saw the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, frantically beating the war drums against Syria,...
Browne’s speech: Taleban fighters throw NATO into crisis
LABOUR’S Defence Secretary Des Browne admitted yesterday that the Taleban resistance movement in Afghanistan is making NATO’s attempt to control the country ‘harder than...
Call National Postal Strike! Form A Public Sector Trade Union Alliance!
THIS WEEK hundreds of London delivery offices, and a number of mail centres and other offices and hubs have been taking strike action, after...
AA sold to Saga, Permira and CVC bosses pocket £300m
TRUE to form the private equity capitalist groups Permira and CVC having acquired the prestigious AA motoring group with the help of huge borrowings...
Bring Down The Tories – Abolish Universal Credit – Forward To A Workers Government...
IT has become crystal clear that the Universal Credit system equals universal misery for the growing masses of the working poor in the UK. As...
Hunt blames the working class for capitalist crisis as Tories prepare a class war...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been in Washington this week attending the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF, the main economic...
Forward To The British Socialist Revolution! And The World Socialist Republic!
HOME SECRETARY Shabana Mahmood has issued a ban on what she calls a ‘hate march’, that is the Al Quds Day Protest on Sunday...
Time to nationalise the banks – the only way to prevent another crash and...
THE BANK of America’s March survey has openly warned that another 2008-type worldwide crash is on the way. Its March survey polled 200 investors...
Basic Rights To Be Dumped In The Bin!
IN the wake of the French terror attacks PM Cameron has promised a ‘comprehensive piece of legislation’ to close the ‘safe spaces’ used by...
French Workers Force Macron Back – Now They Will Bring Him Down!
OH HOW the mighty have fallen! ‘Emperor Macron’, in the tradition of Napoleon III, has made no secret that he considers himself the master...
Ukrainian workers refuse to end occupations!
THE agreement, styled as a ‘de-escalation roadmap’, reached at Geneva last Thursday by representatives from Russia, US, EU and the Ukraine coupist government, represents...
The Tories are planning to smash the trade unions – To defend the right...
THE General Council of the TUC is set to meet on Tuesday, in a meeting that has been kept a secret, lest large numbers...
Leaving university £70,000 in debt!
MEDICAL students will be left almost £70,000 in debt under Government plans to allow universities to charge up to £9,000 in tuition fees, the...