Bush’s and Bernanke’s policies cannot stop the debt debacle
IN A WEEK when billions were wiped off share prices in New York, Tokyo and London, on Friday both United States President George Bush...
Capitalism Is Set To Destroy Small Business And Then Turn The UK Into The...
A FIFTH of all UK small and medium sized businesses are set to close permanently over the next four weeks as they run out...
Imperialist mad dogs bomb Pakistan ‘ally’ and step up Syrian intervention!
THE desperate crisis of world capitalism is driving forward world revolution, as the continuing revolutionary eruptions in Greece and the eurozone states, and the...
Unreal capitalism deserves to perish!
THE crash of the British banks continued yesterday after Royal Bank of Scotland declared a £27bn loss for 2008 on Monday and its share...
Halt The Israeli Onslaught On Gaza! Labour Must Recognise State Of Palestine!
TWO MORE Palestinians were killed yesterday morning in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip, said medical officials, bringing the number of Palestinians...
Obama’s Second Coming – Full Of Empty Words
OBAMA began his second term on Monday, after four years of office which saw GM and other motor car giants go bust, Lehman Brothers...
Israel uses facial recognition in drive to turn West Bank into a concentration camp
ISRAEL has escalated its campaign of total surveillance of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank utilising a mass programme of facial recognition to build...
Israel responds to UN resolution calling for ‘sustainable ceasefire’ by ramping up genocide!
ISRAEL intensified its bombardment of Gaza over the weekend hitting 200 targets in a single 24-hour period on Friday and Saturday. Just one of these...
Nato Is Considering Joining Trump’s Attack On Iran!
THE catastrophic effects on the global economy of the unprovoked and illegal war against Iran by the US and Israel has caused widespread fear...
Special treatment for the servants of the Murdoch empire!
YESTERDAY, the convicted News of the World journalists who had carried out ‘industrial scale’ hacking on behalf of Murdoch’s News International received lenient sentences. At...
Labour calls for gas and oil rationing to ‘solve’ the energy crisis
THOUSANDS of people took to the streets across Britain on Saturday, demonstrating against the massive increase in energy prices and a cost of living...
US Supreme Court ruling destroys myth of bourgeois democracy and imposes dictatorship on US...
On Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled that ex-President Donald Trump enjoys ‘absolute immunity’ for ‘official acts’ as president, a ruling that at a...
Ferguson resistance joins hands with Walmart workers
THE US working class is now definitively on the march after six days of action in the town of Ferguson culminated in calls...
Labour to let multi-nationals take over NHS Primary Care Trusts
THE government is set to turn the screws of further NHS privatisation on the NHS with its plans to invite private health insurance...
Tories crushed in by-elections – TUC must take action now to bring them down!
THE TORIES have been smashed by two huge by-election defeats, in a couple of their ‘safe’ seats, Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, where their large...
Lebanese Reject The Draft UN Resolution
THE Lebanese government yesterday rejected the UN draft resolution on the Lebanon. The Speaker of the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies, Nabih Birri, said that it...
Slum landlords flourish under the Tory attack on council housing
A ‘ROGUE’ landlord has been threatened by a judge with nine years in jail if he doesn’t pay a record-breaking £1.5 million fine for...
Labour To Slash The Benefits Of The Sick And The ‘Suspect’
The Labour government is absolutely determined to impress its big business backers and show them that it is ready to take action against ‘slackers’...
Big pensions for bosses, poverty for workers
A new report by the Incomes Data Services and the High Pay Commission has thrown the spotlight on the issue of pensions, and the...
No end to austerity under the Tories – workers must act to kick them...
TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered not so much a Spring Statement to parliament yesterday as a half hour of self-congratulation and boasting about how...
Step up the public sector strike to a general strike
THE National Executive of the Public and Civil Servants Union (PCS) have called out their members in England on a one-day strike on Wednesday...
Banks to do immigration checks! Smash this racist Tory government!
FROM January 1st banks and building societies will be legally obliged to check the current accounts of 76 million account holders and compare them...
Law cannot be allowed to get in the way of profiteering
THE Attorney General – the same official who ruled after much equivocation that the war with Iraq was legal – on Thursday told the...
Iran – a choreographed crisis at the G20!
Iran informed the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in a letter last Monday that it has a second uranium enrichment plant under...
Make Capitalism History! The Way To End Poverty
TODAY’S Edinburgh march to ‘Make Poverty History’ will be led by Bishops, Cardinals and boss class politicians, in other words, by the religious and...
Occupy Corus! No Sackings! Renationalise Now!
THERE were oceans of tears yesterday for the 1,700 workers who are to be sacked when Corus mothballs the greater part of its plant...
Tenants face mass evictions
TENANTS receiving housing benefit have been issued with eviction notices by the largest ‘buy-to-let’ private landlord in the country. Fergus Wilson, who owns 1,000 properties...
America on verge of bankruptcy US Treasury Secretary warns
US TREASURY Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday warned congressional leaders that the Treasury will run out of cash next month and the federal government...
Markets calling time on Labour government – time for working class to call time...
Yesterday, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported that one of the biggest investors in UK government debt has sold off ‘fragile’ UK bonds in what...
US opens missile base in Romania and plans for bases in Poland and Hungary
AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...
Trump defeats second impeachment bid and vows to continue with ‘Make America Great...
EX-PRESIDENT Donald Trump has welcomed his impeachment acquittal on the charge of ‘inciting insurrection’, saying, his political movement ‘to Make America Great Again’ has...
Business rates hike is to bankrupt the NHS – Time to bring the ...
NHS hospitals and GP surgeries in England and Wales face a massive £635 million hike in their business rates by the May government over...
Tory ‘war on terror’ used in war on Junior Doctors
EMAILS, made public this week, between the Tory government and the head of NHS England, Sir Bruce Keogh, reveal the way the Tories attempted...
Abbas calls for a Government of the State of Palestine!
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas told the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday that, ‘We are here today for all of us...
Traitor Tsipras is handing over power to the right wing!
WITH his resignation as Greek prime minister on Thursday night, the leader of the ‘left’ Syriza government, Alexis Tsipras, has signalled that he and...
Unemployment set ‘to surge by 400,000’ under the Labour government, with young people most...
‘CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves’ tax raids destroy jobs’, warned a report by The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) yesterday. Unemployment will jump by 400,000 under Labour,...
UK workers must support the Hamas call for action against genocide!
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in a statement on Wednesday, called on the ‘free people of the world to escalate popular protest’ against the...
Hands off Palestine Action! Demand TUC call a general strike to bring down Starmer...
Over 300,000 marched in London on Saturday, in a powerful demonstration of support for a Palestinian state and against the genocidal war being waged...
Putin defies Trump – Time to Build 4th International – Forward with World Socialist...
THE peace talks between Russia and the Western powers represented by Donald Trump have hit the buffers with an almighty bang after Russia refused...
Defend the right to strike by forcing the TUC to call a general strike...
THE Tories wasted no time in placing their anti-strike laws before parliament yesterday in their determination to break the trade unions and inflict the...
UK politicians send letter urging Starmer to ‘act now’ over Gaza – time for...
A JOINT letter signed by leading politicians in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales was sent to Labour prime minister Keir Starmer yesterday calling for...
Rapidly rising inflation threatens wages, jobs, and homes
THE UK inflation rate has leapt to an 11-year high of three per cent according to the government’s Consumer Prices Index (CPI) which grossly...
From Thatcher to Blair and Cameron – a common determination to smash the Welfare...
THE just-released Thatcher papers confirm that the Tory leader had a very real hatred of the NHS and the Welfare State and, along with...
Brown must end UK support for Rajapakse – Victory to the Tamil Tigers
THE government of Sri Lanka led by President Rajapakse is currently fighting a war on two fronts, on behalf of US and UK imperialism. On...
June 30th must be a one-day general strike!
PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union leader Mark Serwotka said yesterday, just before the massive vote for strike action on June 30th by his PCS...