US capitalism in crisis, UK capitalism near collapse
US interest rates have now been increased to five per cent, with last Wednesday’s 16th monthly increase in a row. In fact, the new chief...
Unite the public sector TUC must call indefinite general strike
TODAY'S four-hour national strike by firefighters is just the tip of a gigantic iceberg of working class hatred steadily bearing down on the leaky...
Sack The Leaders Who Are Selling Out Pensions
YESTERDAY the TUC leader Brendan Barber, who organised the betrayal of the 760 locked-out Gate Gourmet workers, and before that organised the betrayal of...
Workers will reject Tory ‘charm offensive’ – Time to kick them out with a...
Mark Harper, the latest Tory transport secretary, appeared on the BBC yesterday morning to claim that the government was not responsible for blocking any...
To disband the police force and defend the NHS from privateers the TUC...
ON Thursday, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced new government reforms of the police disciplinary system which means that in future any police officer...
Bank of England warns the UK risks a ‘vicious circle’ of debt that will...
THE governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, this week issued another warning that the UK economy risks being in a ‘vicious circle’...
Carney steps up his anti-May war!
THE war between the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, and Tory prime minister Theresa May was stepped up on Wednesday when...
The Queen’s Dinner Party For Despots!
THE KINGS of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Swaziland were at a dinner for despots yesterday as part of the celebration of the Queen’s Diamond...
The TUC Must Take Action T0 Defeat Johnson’s Savage Cuts And To Disband The...
PM BORIS Johnson has refused to rule out raising taxes again, on the first day of the Tory Party conference and just three weeks...
Workers action shakes Rajapakse
A FIERCE struggle has erupted in Sri Lanka between the military-police dictatorship of Mahinda Rajapakse and over a hundred thousand garment workers in the...
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...
Ex-Bank of England boss believes world financial crash is ‘certain’ and ‘sooner rather than...
MERVYN KING, the head of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013, has added his name to the number of the capitalist world’s...
Fake war on Crony Capitalism
On Monday the LibDem leader, Nick Clegg, added his views to the emerging consensus between Labour and the Tories that the problem with British...
Long Live the Libyan revolution!
YESTERDAY the bourgeois media were demanding to know ‘exactly why this killer was freed’, calling Abdelbaset Ali al Megrahi a...
Netanyahu’s coalition rips away façade of Israeli ‘democracy’ – trade unions must boycott Israel
OVER 10,000 people took to the streets of the main Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday in protest against the policies unveiled last...
French youth rise up over death of 24 year-old after police attack music festival
THE GOVERNMENT of French president Emmanuel Macron went into a full blown crisis this week with riots in Nantes on Saturday where thousands of...
Make Hammond’s Budget his last by a general strike to kick the Tories out...
THE Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, closed his autumn budget statement on Wednesday with the announcement that this would be his ‘first and last’. Faithfully obeying...
Education cuts and £9,000 fees destroying the future for youth
AFTER record A-Level results, hundreds of thousands of students will be refused university places this year because of the coalition’s savage cuts policy. After being...
MODERNITY = mass murder, executions and ID cards
BLAIR yesterday announced the latest line of government spin – that compulsory ID cards, state-run mass fingerprinting and DNA bases, along with no-jury trials...
Now Smash The Bill And Bring Down The Coalition!
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) yesterday carried a 97% vote of no confidence in Health Secretary Lansley, with 478 for six against and...
Bush talks peace as Israeli tanks kill eleven in Gaza
THE content of the Bush ‘peace offensive’ was yesterday revealed for the whole world to see when Israeli tanks, supported by artillery fire ...
Tories are being whipped into line by the international banks!
‘A SPEECH to calm the party and the country’ was how the Tory-supporting Daily Mail greeted the speech by newly installed prime minister Rishi...
Bankers gripped by fear are relying on ‘hope’!
THE new Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), Charles Bean said yesterday that when the so-called ‘credit crunch’ began last August central...
NHSTogether must organise strike action to defend GPs!
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown’s government is targeting General Practitioners (GPs) in its rush to privatise the National Health Service (NHS). Two key barriers to a...
Capitalist crash drives HBOS into the arms of Lloyds TSB
THE Federal Reserve Bank’s $85bn ‘rescue’ of AIG was carried out to stave off an immediate international financial and business collapse. It has turned...
Support Palestinian General Strike
TEACHERS, hospital workers and other government workers have come out on general strike in the West Bank and Gaza Strip following the non-payment of...
US-UK stand by as Israel prepares Gaza ground attack
YESTERDAY morning Israel allowed about 450 foreign passport holders to leave the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing near Beit Hanoun, after refusing to...
Hamas & Fatah agree to Palestinian elections to form government to defeat Zionism and...
A NEW unity between all Palestinian factions against the common enemy – Israel and the US – is rapidly developing. The leadership of the...
Labour will not reverse hospital closures!
THE Health Services Journal (HSJ) has just revealed that the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA) officials are keeping confidential (that is well hidden) until...
Imperialism is on its last legs – Time for the world socialist revolution!
ON Monday, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was freed from the high-security Belmarsh jail after a deal was agreed for him to plead guilty to...
BIS warns of new banking ‘catastrophe!’
CAPITALISTS are quaking in their boots at the prospect of the next worldwide banking crash. All eyes are on Italy going the same...
World crisis of capitalism places socialist revolution on immediate agenda
ON FRIDAY the global stock markets reached a record increase with shares values shooting up by over £5 billion in what is being hailed...
Workers across the world support call for a ‘Strike for Gaza’
HOSPITALS in the Gaza Strip are ‘stretched to breaking point’ and infections are ‘exploding’ the UN reported yesterday. The United Nations Office for the Coordination...
Banking crash spreads like wildfire through capitalist financial world
LAST Friday, the US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was forced to close down and had its assets seized by the US Federal Reserve following...
Civil war declared as Tories are torn apart by the capitalist crisis – Kick...
CIVIL WAR in the Tory Party has erupted as Boris Johnson and his allies launch a coordinated attack on PM Rishi Sunak, with the...
Slump ‘deepening at an alarming pace’
THE British Chambers of Commerce yesterday published its Fourth Quarter Economic Survey of nearly 6,000 businesses. It highlights what it called ‘a...
Sunak admits ‘borrowing will have to end’ and prepares for war against the working...
IN THE Spectator magazine this week, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak broke ranks with the official Tory line that British capitalism could survive by indefinitely...
Crisis of US economy deepens and UK follows suit!
THE US economy has seen 7.6 million jobs destroyed since the US and worldwide slump began, and then deepened, after the crash of the...
Blow the whistle on the Tories by kicking them out
THE TORY health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, yesterday announced that the government is to issue for consultation draft guidelines that, it claims, will end the...
Bedroom Taxes Leading To Mass Evictions!
THE full effects of the coalition’s bedroom tax, which was introduced last April, have been highlighted in two reports published on Wednesday and revealed...
‘Prime Minister’ Brown shows the City he is their man
Gushing Gordon Brown began his speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet on Wednesday night, by exhibiting his fawning subservience to the audience of bankers....
Tories and military show contempt for Parliament
THE ‘sovereign will’ of parliament was shown to be a complete fiction with the exposure of the participation of British pilots in bombing raids...
Abbas surrenders to Israel and the US over the right to return
THE Palestine National Authority President, Mahmud Abbas has just been warmly greeted as a true friend and ‘partner for peace’ by the Israeli...
Labour Must Bring Back Corbyn And Dump Starmer Now – After He Refused To...
ONLY 15 Labour MPs, including Jeremy Corbyn, were prepared last Tuesday to vote against the Tories to bring the Johnson government down! The vote on...
NHS A&E departmentsto be shut in scores
THE policy of the Labour government, as far as the NHS is concerned, is to hand over more and more of the NHS budget...