The fate of UK banks linked to the fate of South Africa’s Zuma –...
‘THIS is the third high-profile money-laundering scandal to involve major British banks this year,’ John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, said yesterday, responding to reports...
US healthcare privateer to head NHS England!
WITH the appointment of Simon Stevens as the new head of NHS England, the Tory-led coalition have put in charge of the day-to-day running...
Economic Crisis Is Smashing Up Europe!
YESTERDAY official statistics for France show that core inflation had actually fallen into negative figures, - 0.2%, for the first time in recorded history...
After 100 days – Cameron pledges to step up class war!
PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...
Karzai dashes to bring Taleban into the government
WHILE hundreds of Afghan civilians are being killed in General Petraeus’ Afghan surge, and British and US casualties escalate upwards despite the ‘victories’ being...
Health unions in head-on collision with the government over pay! Entire working...
UNIONS representing NHS workers have written directly to the Tory government over their pay. The fourteen unions represent over a million NHS workers. The...
Palestinian Factions Meet To Decide On The Way Forward To The State Of Palestine!
THE Palestinian factions and forces held a meeting in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Saturday, to discuss the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement...
Anger over Saddam’s death silences Blair
AT last President Bush has stammered out a few words about the lynching of President Saddam Hussein, saying that he would have preferred to...
Ukraine dumped by an imperialism too weak to defeat Russia
IT HAS become clear over the past days that Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky have been unceremoniously dumped by the imperialist powers and...
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...
Mass Hospital Closures On The Way
HEALTH Minister Mike O’Brien has responded to the findings of the government-established Care Quality Commission (CQC). This has just claimed that one in eight of...
Worldwide strikes against Amazon’s brutal exploitation of workers – socialist revolution only answer
WORKERS at the online retail giant Amazon warehouse in Minnesota were out on a six hours-long strike yesterday called to coincide with the company’s...
TUC must end its shameful silence on Palestine and be forced to call a...
Last Saturday, over 170,000 workers, students and youth marched through London in support of the struggle of the Palestinians against the occupation of their...
Social Revolution Is The Issue Not Terrorism!
THE Continuity IRA and the Real IRA have opened fire and killed and wounded soldiers and policemen in the north of Ireland, breaking open...
‘Clear-cut robbery in Cyprus’ – the penalty for the crime is revolution!
THE Cypriot parliament yesterday postponed an emergency session on the 7-10% banking tax imposed by the EU on every depositor in the country’s...
Labour government splits over ‘class war plan’ to raise income tax rates
MAJOR splits have emerged in the Labour government Cabinet over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s class-war plans to raise income tax rates...
Desperate Osborne swings the axe as the capitalist crisis deepens
IN HIS Spending Review of yesterday, drawn up at a time when the capitalist crisis is deepening, with inflation rising and the banks warning...
Unions Must Stop Pleading With Bosses And The Tories And Use Their Strength To...
BORIS JOHNSON’S policy of do-nothing to combat or turn back the coronavirus has now been dumped after 229 scientists wrote to the government saying...
Reformists and Stalinists seek to break Greek teachers’ struggle
THE confrontation between Greek teachers and the Greek state and its EU masters has erupted this week after all teachers were served at the...
Recall the TUC Congress now to sack the TUC leaders for their refusal to...
LAST month, the TUC unanimously passed an emergency motion headed: ‘Stop the escalation of war in the Middle East’ and committed the TUC ‘to...
Award-winning photo of 9-year-old Palestinian amputee symbolises Gaza
A HEARTBREAKING picture of a 9-year-old Palestinian boy who lost both his arms in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City has won the prestigious...
A new war on Gaza is ‘not far away’ and will be ‘the bloodiest...
A NEW war between Israel and Palestinian factions in the occupied Gaza Strip ‘is not far away’, and ‘will be deadlier and more destructive...
NATO warmongers meet in Brussels
NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the ‘long-term security implications’ of Russia’s response to the US-UK-EU inspired coup in Kiev, and...
Giant investment companies dump shares as world banking crash looms
Testifying to MPs at the Treasury Committee yesterday, Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, issued a sharp rebuke to Labour chancellor Rachel...
Ludicrous Cameron claims Tories are the workers’ party
CAMERON began his election manifesto speech yesterday morning by insulting the intelligence of the listeners by stating ‘We are the party of working people,...
Canada Bans Arms Sales To Israel – UK And US Workers Must Force Their...
A CANADIAN government official said that Canada will stop exporting weapons to Israel due to the continued international criticism of its ongoing war on...
Answer Brown’s attacks with a general strike
THE rapidly deepening debt crisis of the capitalist system is leading to a financial collapse and a slump of historic proportions as the bankers’...
Smash the Gate Gourmet ‘Gangster Capitalists’
THIS Sunday locked out Gate Gourmet workers will be marching through Southall determined to win their jobs back after a bosses’ coup last...
TUC must call a general strike to halt Tory drive to runaway inflation and...
US stocks have made huge losses after a major sell-off last Friday on Wall Street. By Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly...
End Of The Road For The UK-US Afghan War
THE news that the death toll of British soldiers in Afghanistan passed the 400 mark this week has been greeted with outpourings of grief...
Sudanese Masses Resistance Forces Junta To Agree To Murder Trial For Military Officers!
EIGHT SENIOR military officers are to be charged in Sudan with crimes against humanity over their part in the mass killing of over 150...
‘Relentless’ rise in public debt unsustainable world bankers warn as capitalism dives into the...
THE head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) issued the gravest warning yet to the governments and central banks of the capitalist world...
Capitalism Facing ‘Debt Annihilation’ While Its Supporters Panic And Prepare A New World...
OPTIMISM is in very short supply in the UK ruling class when it examines the state of British capitalism. The Business Comment in The Sunday...
‘Vote Leave’ on June 23 to get rid of Cameron and the Tory...
ON Monday Tory PM Cameron warned that if the UK leaves the EU it could trigger off another great European war. What a condemnation...
EU and Arab workers must unite to smash imperialism
FRENCH police have arrested several suspects over the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine massacre in Paris, which killed 12 people to ‘avenge an insult to...
Rumsfeld Raves About Nuclear ‘Bunker Bombs’
THE US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has defended, at an Asia-Pacific conference of regional defence ministers and military chiefs, the US drive to develop...
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...
Bank of England to unleash hyperinflation in a desperate attempt to save capitalism
REPORTS emerged over the weekend that the Bank of England is on the verge of announcing another massive round of money printing to pay...
Hands Off Rt! Defend Democratic Rights! Russia Is Not The Enemy! Our...
THE decision by the UK state-owned NatWest Bank to cancel RT’s (Russia Today) UK bank accounts is a crude attempt by...
Norfolk & Norwich NHS Trust – screwed by the PFI bandits
THE Octagon private sector consortium has been branded the ‘unacceptable face of capitalism’ by a House of Commons committee. MPs on the public accounts...
Defeat May’s rotten deal! Forward to a ‘No Deal’ on March 29 and a...
PM May has now created a massive political crisis in the UK by revealing her real position on Brexit. For over a year...
Only socialist revolutions can defeat missile threat
ROMANIAN President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that Romania will host US interceptor missiles along its border with the Russian Federation. This latest missile plan...
Break With The Eu Now! Forward To A Socialist United States Of Europe!
THE TORY Party is now on the brink of a split as pro-Remainers plan to unite with Labour, Liberal Democrat, Scottish and Welsh Nationalist...
Baghdad bombings blow to Bush!
MORE than 200 people were killed in Baghdad on Wednesday in five bombings. This is the highest number of deaths in a single day...
China must scrap the ‘one country two social systems’ policy and declare for a...
CHINA has condemned the counter-revolutionaries who stormed and vandalised the Hong Kong parliament building on Monday and raised the flag of the former occupying...