Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism
EVERYWHERE capitalism is crashing! Yesterday the FTSE 100 index fell to 3472.68 points making a 50 per cent crash from the FTSE’s...
50% rise in SA farmworkers’ wages is just the start!
THE Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) has welcomed, as a ‘short term victory’, an increase in the minimum wage for farmworkers from R69...
Comet collapse and private equity
Last Friday the administrator brought in to wind down the collapsed electrical retailer chain Comet announced that 330 staff would be made redundant with...
Israeli regime is on the path to collapse says Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah!
THE Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement stated yesterday that the Israeli far-right cabinet’s insistence on pushing ahead with its controversial judicial overhaul...
Israel threatens to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza
THE DAILY Telegraph reported at the weekend that they had been told by two Israeli officials that daily ‘violations’ by the Palestinian resistance movement...
Stop the A&E closures! End the £50bn of NHS cuts! Defend the NHS by...
GROWING demand on A&E departments will make them unsustainable if effective action is not taken quickly, according to MPs on the Health Committee. Launching a...
Stop the great pensions robbery!
2.5 million public service employees are being told how much extra the coalition government intends to force them to pay in pension contributions from...
G20 debt pile reaches $135 trillion – Capitalism is breaking apart – forward with...
THIS WEEK the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another warning that the world capitalist financial system is on the verge of a gigantic...
Bankrupt Britain must take the revolutionary road – Make the TUC call a general...
THE leader of Birmingham City Council has apologised to the people of the city and insisted he had ‘no prior notice’ or knowledge of...
After Corbyn’s victory TUC delegates must call a general strike
THE left wing backbench MP, Jeremy Corbyn, won a stunning victory in the Labour Party leadership contest on Saturday, as the working class gave...
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...
Union leaders must take action to bring down the Tories – and reject working with...
THE WORLD Health Organisation has issued its ‘Test, Test and Test’ call as its main policy to lay the basis for dealing with the...
Socialist Revolution is the only real answer to the capitalist crisis!
NEARLY one million people in Britain are just £10 away from falling into poverty according to the new analysis from the leading poverty charity,...
Barbaric anti-homeless spikes scandal
THE picture showing one-inch-long metal spikes driven into the pavement in the doorway of a block of luxury flats in central London in order...
US Transferring The War Into Pakistan
THE Chief of the Taleban movement in Pakistan Hakimullah Mehsud yesterday blamed the US firm Blackwater, that had an army of mercenaries operating in...
Corbyn appeases Labour’s right wing – the UK must leave the EU, as decided...
THE UK was changed forever when the over-confident Tory leadership of Cameron and Osborne got the House of Commons to agree a resolution...
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...
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...
Anti-Russian war alliance begins to crumble as head of German navy quits!
GERMANY’S navy chief has resigned from his post after drawing criticism from the German government and Ukraine over his remarks in support of Russian...
Junior Doctors Are Determined To Defeat The Tories
TENS of thousands of junior doctors struck yesterday and made it very clear that they are not a protest movement, and that their first...
‘Eu Disintegration Inevitable’ Says George Soros
GEORGE Soros, the multi-billionaire ‘vulture’ investor who makes his fortune betting on capitalism’s crisis and who is credited with breaking the pound in the...
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...
Workers have the right to self defence against terrorism & capitalism
SIX hundred new armed officers are being trained for anti-terrorist warfare in the city of London, the Metropolitan Police has announced. This will bring the...
Israel imitates the Nazis with its murderous attacks on Palestinians!
ISRAELI forces on Thursday evening sealed off the main entrance to Duma village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to...
On tenth anniversary of world banking collapse – Forward to Socialism!
ON THE eve of the tenth anniversary of collapse into bankruptcy of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, which brought the world’s capitalist banking...
Backward Britain – Reading shuts Physics Department
THE backwardness of British capitalism was revealed yesterday for all to see when Reading University shut down its Physics Department. As usual, the reality is...
May Called And Lost ‘Snap Election’ – Now Drive Her Out Of Office!
THE Tory Party has now suffered its second self-inflicted disaster in just under a year. On June 23 2016, it lost the EU referendum that...
Hague, Cameron are responsible for Linda Norgrove’s death
US special forces in Afghanistan mounted an attempt to rescue Linda Norgrove after the British government in the persons of Foreign Secretary Hague and...
Iran Is Not The Villain Of The ‘Nuclear Threat’
PRESIDENT Obama made it crystal clear in his 11.45pm Saturday night address, over the just-signed six-month interim nuclear agreement with Iran, that he is...
Israeli land robbery continues as Human Rights Watch condemns Hamas!
ISRAEL has ordered Palestinian landowners to evacuate their land in the town of Tuqu’ in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli authorities...
Tuc Must Act Over Cameron’s War!
ON MONDAY the bourgeois press proclaimed the rag-bag of mercenaries and brigands who make up the so-called ‘rebels’ had crushed the forces loyal to...
Tory Austerity forces parents to rely on baby banks for essentials – time to...
IN LAST year’s autumn budget Tory chancellor Philip Hammond claimed that ‘austerity is coming to an end’ in Britain. Hammond’s claim backed up Theresa May’s...
ECB interest rate cut is last throw of the dice. Forward with European socialist...
ON Thursday afternoon Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), announced that the bank has cut its benchmark interest rate from 0.5%...
Osborne reveals new 10% cuts, while Duncan Smith volunteers to put welfare to the...
SEVEN departments of government, the Ministry of Justice, Department for Communities and Local Government, Department for Energy and Climate Change, HM Treasury, the Cabinet...
Sanctions war against Russia is driving forward revolution in the EU and UK!
THE CAPITALIST powers of the EU, US and UK are growing fearful that the prosecution of their war against Russia, is actually unleashing a...
Osborne to intensify Tory slave labour drive
LONG-TERM unemployed workers and youth will have to undertake work for no pay in return for their benefits, or else starve, with the government...
Labour plans to criminalise the entire working class
THE government is planning ‘behaviour orders’ for people considered to be at risk of committing a violent crime. Class prejudice, ie racial and working...
French workers’ refusal to vote for austerity puts socialist revolution on immediate agenda
IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote...
End The UK Support For Rajapakse
THE News Line hails the heroic resistance of the Tamil Tigers to the armed forces of the Rajapakse military dictatorship, which is seeking to...
Palestine to sue UK over the Balfour Declaration!
MAHMOUD Abbas, the Palestinian president, is to sue Britain over its 1917 Balfour declaration that paved the way for the establishment of Israel in...
Tory racist attack on
34,000 FOREIGN students have had their visas cancelled and over 1,000 have been kicked out of the country as a result of the racist...
Drive the privateers out of the care system
IN ENGLAND last year 928 adult social care workers a day quit their jobs, according to an analysis of data from the charity ‘Skills...
Army demanding reinforcements for Afghanistan
JUST a few months ago, the then Defence Minister John Reid was telling the media – while trying to douse public concern...
Trump boasts that stock markets have gained $6 trillion since his election!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Monday outlined his new national security strategy. He stressed: ‘When the American people speak, all of us should...
Syria, the Kurdish people and the Turkish workers must stand together against imperialism!
THIRTY-FIVE Syrian civilians have reportedly been killed and 75 others wounded by fresh Turkish artillery and tank fire plus air strikes on Jubb al...