British economy skating on thin ice
BA is currently approaching a number of private equity companies about forming a consortium to bid for Iberia airlines. Iberia said last month...
Nationalise the Banks!
As the scandal engulfing the banks accelerates daily, so the attempts by both Labour and coalition party leaders to pretend they can stop future crises...
Capitalism Is In Its Greatest Ever Crisis. Now Is The Time To Organise The...
DURING stock market trading last Friday more than £12.8bn was wiped off the value of the UK’s bank stocks as the rumours of ‘bad...
Inflation Running Riot – Time To Put An End To Capitalism And Bring In...
THE TORY government is now presiding over huge increases in prices, the biggest increases in 40 years. A massive inflation is under way with...
Union must end all ‘positive engagement’ with the employers – only occupations and strikes...
A STORM has erupted over the revelations that a taskforce set up in 2017, with the object of protecting the future of the Ford...
One year since the Gate Gourmet lockout
ON August 10, 2005 Gate Gourmet, owned by Texas Pacific, locked out in a pre-planned operation over 800 workers, an assault that was calculated...
Miliband will do everything that is necessary to defend capitalism
YESTERDAY the main trade union leaders were full of praise for Miliband’s conference speech. This was no doubt an expression of relief that he...
Labour and the bosses knifing pensions and pensioners
A SURVEY from pensions advisers Origen published yesterday shows that companies are continuing to either close their final salary pensions schemes or end admission...
May To Meet Trump On Friday – Trump To Meet The Queen In Summer!
IT’S BEEN a lightning courtship. PM May is to meet Trump on Friday. May opposed the Brexit pre-referendum and was appointed PM by the 1922...
Overthrowing capitalism only way to eradicate Covid variants
THE NEW variant strain of Covid-19, given the name Omicron by the World Health Organisation (WHO), burst onto the world scene last week although...
US workers bracing themselves for ‘fiscal cliff’
THE US labour movement is now bracing itself for a last minute ‘deal’ on the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ with the Republican Party, in which the...
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...
British capitalism not in ‘technical recession’. It is diving into a Great Depression!
YESTERDAY, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) produced figures on the state of the UK economy that showed it had fallen into a ‘technical...
‘A positive response’ says Bush on Iran
US President George W Bush has welcomed Iran’s initial reaction to a proposal from the EU states designed to achieve a deal with...
Tories, with the support of the Labour Party, begin forcing asylum seekers on to...
THE TORIES kicked off their ‘stop the boats week’ yesterday with the announcement that the first 50 asylum seekers will be forced onto the...
Take strike action to support FBU!
THE London Firefighters one day strike last Saturday has drawn a swift response from the capitalist state, via their mouthpieces in the bourgeois press. Commenting...
Students and universities under savage coalition attack
IN ORDER that the universities can have their budgets slashed and be privatised or closed, students are to be charged up to £9,000 a...
The markets panic and crash as capitalism heads for a major catastrophe!
THE stock markets are crashing as the Tory government’s borrowing costs went soaring yesterday to a 15-year high, amid a global shares sell off...
TUC must call a general strike to free Palestine now!
OVER a million workers and youth marched in London on Saturday to a rally outside the US Embassy, in a ‘National March for Palestine’...
New Israeli Regime ‘Will Work Against Peace’ Says Erekat
THE new right-wing Israeli coalition government, just formed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, will be belligerent and work against peace, a senior Palestinian official...
CQC head demands thousands of NHS bed closures!
DAVID Prior, the new head of the NHS regulatory body the Care Quality Commission, nailed his colours firmly to the Tory mast of privatising...
Labour squeezing poor and cutting services to prop up the banks
CHANCELLOR Darling has told his cabinet colleagues there will be no more money made available for schools, hospitals or transport. These vital services face cuts,...
Only Socialist Revolution can end inequality
NOTHING demonstrates more graphically the increasing polarisation between the working class and the capitalist class than the gigantic and ever-increasing differentials between the obscene...
UK economy is crashing into bankruptcy under the impact of the world capitalist crisis!
THE TORY Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride has refused to call for the resignation of Labour’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Asked by Camilla Tomney on GB News...
Tories to create a slave wage army of youth!
DAVID Cameron yesterday pledged that a future Tory government would ‘effectively abolish’ youth unemployment by simply forcing every young person to do ‘community work’...
Israel is stepping up its war on Lebanon & Palestine – The UK trade...
THE Israeli army yesterday continued its bloody war on Lebanon for the 20th consecutive day, launching dozens of airstrikes, bombing homes and gatherings, and...
Recall TUC to demand an indefinite general strike to kick out the Tories
At its annual conference yesterday, the leaders of the National Education Union (NEU) reported that the latest Tory pay offer was rejected by an...
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...
Greek crisis sharpens – the working class must take the power!
AHEAD of today’s summit of the European Union the Greek transport minister issued an open threat that unless striking transport workers returned to work...
House of Commons recognises Palestine!
‘THAT this House believes that the Government should recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel, as a contribution to securing a...
French General Strike escalates in fight to bring down Macron
THE MASS strikes and demonstrations throughout France today mark the sharp escalation of the confrontation between French workers and the ‘bankers’ government of president...
308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla 308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla blockade busters
ON May 31 this year, Israeli commandos abseiled onto the deck of the ‘Mavi Marmara’, which was sailing in international waters on its way...
Myanmar workers and youth on the path to armed revolution to overthrow military junta
THE MYANMAR embassy in London was taken over by representatives of the country’s military junta on Wednesday with the previous Ambassador Kyaw Zwar Minn...
While NHS workers scrabble for PPE Tories pay £1 million a day to keep...
A MASSIVE mountain of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is currently sitting on Felixstowe docks while frontline healthcare workers are still being forced to work...
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...
Nicholson warns huge debt crisis facing NHS after May 7
JUST retired NHS chief Sir David Nicholson CBE has left the NHS with a pension pot worth almost £1.9 million, after earning a basic...
Abolish The House Of Lords – And The Commons As Well
WEDNESDAY’S vote in the House of Commons when there was a 113 majority for the replacement of the House of Lords by an elected...
Bring Down The Tories! UK Must Not Support Trump’s War On Syria!
RUSSIA will take all political, diplomatic and military retaliatory measures if necessary should the United States deliver a strike on Syria, Russian State Duma...
NO reconstruction, only destruction in Afghanistan
THE top NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Jones, has just apologised for the death of up to 80 Afghan civilians in a series...
Israel Cancels Military Delegation Visit To UK
ISRAEL cancelled the visit of a military delegation to Britain last week after British authorities could not guarantee that the Israeli occupation army’s...
Disarm imperialism through the victory of the world socialist revolution!
LAST week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a whole series of blogs on its website warning that the entire US banking...
Sunak in crisis over Rwanda judgement while Starmer stands with Tories and US imperialism...
PRIME minister Rishi Sunak saw the Tory plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda shredded by the Supreme Court ruling them unlawful on Wednesday. Five...
Workers Must Support Corbyn Against The Tory And Labour Witch-Hunters!
THE BOURGEOIS media and Labour’s right wing pro-Zionists have no shame, as their attempts to label Labour leader Corbyn an anti-Semite show – otherwise...
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...
Refugees from imperialist wars are welcome – the enemy of the working class is...
ON WEDNESDAY it was revealed that the Tory government is considering building an ‘asylum processing centre’ in the South Atlantic on Ascension Island. The Foreign...