Capitalism diving into world recession – forward to world socialist revolution!
AT MIDNIGHT on Thursday the US tariff war on the rest of the world erupted as Donald Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ levies on imports from foreign...
British capitalism hits the rocks!
IN THE early hours of last Friday, a seismic crash in the value of the pound against the dollar caused panic amongst the world’s...
Tory arrogance only possible because of TUC servility
THE past week has been dominated by the sheer arrogance of the Tory-led coalition as it prepares to implement its plans for the wholesale...
Blair listens only to the bosses
PRIME Minister Blair, despite all his vows about listening to the people – made outside 10 Downing Street on the day after the general...
Parliament Is Up To Its Neck In Sleaze – It Must Be Closed Down...
EX-TORY MP Owen Paterson has been a paid consultant for clinical diagnostics company Randox since 2015, and for meat distributor Lynn’s Country Foods since...
Workers want the Tories out but don’t want Miliband and Balls back
THIS IS the message that is coming out of the Bradford West by-election where Respect candidate George Galloway was ‘unexpectedly’, out of the blue,...
The GMB understands the need for redundancies
JCB has announced 400 more redundancies, blaming a ‘significant’ reduction in incoming orders. The redundancies are made up of 297 shop floor jobs and 101...
UK government must answer war crimes charges in both Iraq and Yemen!
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has condemned UK war crimes in both the Yemen and in Iraq. In the Yemen UK-supplied weaponry to Saudi Arabia has been...
Support the firefighters and the postal workers
FIRE chiefs in Warwickshire are planning to close seven fire stations and axe a third of fire appliances with the loss of one hundred...
Corbyn intends to end the rule of banking class with regulations!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn wound up this week’s Labour Party conference with a speech that he insisted outlined policies for ‘socialism in the 21st...
Workers defeat Labour Party coupists with increased majority for Corbyn
313,209 Labour Party members and supporters with their leadership vote for Jeremy Corbyn, have driven back the right wing coup attempt that was underway,...
China’s Historic Space Achievement demonstrates the strength of a planned economy
YESTERDAY, a Chinese spacecraft made a giant leap forward in human exploration of space when it became the first ever to land on the...
TUC must call a general strike to ensure all ‘independent contractors’ have workers’...
THE TORY plan to reduce Britain to a slave labour, hire-and-fire, zero-hours economy is now being challenged powerfully by groups of young workers. With the...
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...
Saudis oil war is deepening the world crisis
SAUDI Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, has said the oil producers’ cartel, Opec, will not cut production even if the price falls to $20...
Rail fares and inflation are let rip – as wages and benefits are frozen...
RAIL commuters were protesting at Waterloo Station in London yesterday after they heard that ticket price rises of between 8% and 13% are to...
Trump’s trade war with EU & UK accelerates as US seeks to bankrupt its...
THIS WEEK at the World Economic Forum in Davos, US president Donald Trump reignited his trade war with Britain and Europe. On Wednesday Trump vowed...
Homelessness is growing like a plague – Nationalise the banks and the building industry...
THE homelessness rate across England is at its highest since 2018, after Tory government policies have forced a record number of families to live...
Brown Speeding Up The Privatisation Programme
THE reaction of the Brown government to the eruption of the capitalist crisis has been to champion the interests of the banks, pledging to...
Brown, Mitchell and Obama threaten Palestinians with a dirty deal
PALESTINIANS are once again being threatened with a dirty deal after the Netanyahu-Brown meeting in London. After a Brown declaration that Britain is Israel’s ‘true...
Kensington & Chelsea Council, Rydon, TMO & Tories must stand trial for Grenfell
THE INQUIRY into the Grenfell Tower inferno was told this week by senior London Fire Brigade officer Andrew O’Loughlin that ‘The building was so...
Boom-time for bailiffs
APART from the bankers and speculators, there is another group looking to make huge profits at the expense of the human misery being created...
NATO expands Afghan war – Britain to take the lead
NATO foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels, have endorsed a plan to expand the alliance’s role in Afghanistan with Britain taking the lead. It will...
Sunak not ‘daunted’ by job of driving through super austerity to rescue British capitalism!
Rishi Sunak delivered his first address to the nation as prime minister yesterday morning. He started by praising Liz Truss and Boris Johnson in a...
Any attempt to ban Rail and Post strikes must be met with a general...
THE DECEMBER 12 general election will take place in the middle of an unprecedented wave of strikes as workers show their revolutionary determination to...
Trump Backs Counter-Revolution Against Chinese Workers – Time To Complete The World Socialist Revolution!
US president Donald Trump yesterday seized the opportunity for US imperialism to make a provocative intervention in the internal affairs of China by backing...
The ‘bank of central bankers’ warns new banking collapse imminent
THE Swiss based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has just issued its starkest warning yet that the entire debt fuelled international banking system is...
Only one answer to mass unemployment – Socialist Revolution
WHILE firms and businesses are closing down as furlough ends and millions of workers are being thrown out of work, the Tories launched their...
Low Interest Rates And Quantitative Easing Forever Pledges Carney
THE new Bank of England governor Carney yesterday in his ‘Inflation Report’ gave big business a sample of his ‘forward guidance’. This amounted to inflation,...
Programme of action needed to prevent capitalist catastrophe
YESTERDAY Adams Childrenswear announced that it had closed down 111 of its stores throughout the UK, and that its remaining 160 shops would stay...
British Capitalism Gets The Shakes Over Eu Crisis!
UK Chancellor George Osborne lashed out at Germany’s ‘Iron Chancellor’ Merkel before the meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels yesterday. He attacked Merkel...
Stop Cameron’s counter-revolution at home and abroad!
CAMERON told the House of Commons on Monday afternoon in his statement on national security strategy that: ‘On Thursday I will make the case for Britain...
Federal Reserve opts for debt mountain and to crash the $
FOLLOWING the decision of the US federal Reserve Bank to reduce its interest rate by 0.5 per cent, double the expected 0.25 per cent...
Trade unions must strike to defend the NHS!
TOMORROW Central Surrey Health (CSH), a private company set up by nurses and therapists, will find out whether they have won the £22m contract...
British War Crimes In Iraq Will Just Not Go Away – Even The UK...
AS IS WELL KNOWN the moment that US President Bush heard about the criminal terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in NewYork on Tuesday...
No recovery for capitalism from 2008 crash – forward to socialist revolution
A RECENT analysis by Sky News has shown that the ‘recovery’ of British capitalism since the world banking crash in 2008 is actually smaller...
US-Led Coalition Conducted 34,573 Air Strikes In Iraq And Syria Between August 2014 And...
THE US-UK-led military coalition reported on September 26 that it had conducted a total of 34,573 airstrikes in both Iraq and Syria between August...
Rejected Sunak brought back as Tory leader – unions must call a general strike...
Rishi Sunak was appointed Tory Prime Minister yesterday after his opponent Penny Mordaunt withdrew from the race at the last minute. Sunak was overwhelmingly rejected...
Never mind the claimants – use lie detectors on the politicians
WORK and Pensions Minister John Hutton said yesterday that lie detectors will be used to help root out benefit cheats in job centres later...
Coalition To Use Prisoners To Cut Wages
PRISONERS will be forced to work 40 hours a week, Thatcherite veteran Clarke told the Tory Party conference yesterday. The Justice Minister...
Ten-hour day for schoolkids!
AT ONE time it used to be said that British workers were working such long hours that they did not have an opportunity to...
Sinn Fein Takes Its Seat On Six Counties Policing Board
DAITHI McKay, Martina Anderson and Alex Maskey of Sinn Fein have just taken their seats on the Policing Board of the PSNI, the...
No sackings, or wage ‘holidays’ for bankrupt banks and councils
YESTERDAY the Brown government was emphasising that it had no interest in running the three banks that it was ‘part-nationalising’ (rescuing) with £37bn of...
New Labour fawns over the bourgeoisie
YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair stepped in to try and save his Minister for Culture, Media and Sports, Tessa Jowell and also his government. So we...
World bankers are in charge as the IMF justifies turning the money tap on...
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) made a wildly optimistic prediction yesterday that soaring UK inflation would become nothing more than a historical blip in...