World Bank Predicts Widespread Economic Destruction Ahead!
THE WORLD Bank stated yesterday that 90% of the world’s economies have been plunged into a slump by the coronavirus pandemic, inflicting global carnage...
Obama-Erdogan To Meet Over Syria At G20
THE Turkish government warned on Monday that it would carry out more strikes on the previously US-backed Kurdish militia in Syria if it fails...
Lessons of 1926 are vital for today!
THIS year there is great interest in the 80th anniversary of the general strike of 1926. It is not hard to work out why....
Blair skating on the thinnest of thin ice
PRIME Minister Blair has been secretly questioned, for a second time, by police investigating allegations that honours were sold for cash by his government....
No war with Russia – Bring capitalism down with socialist revolutions!
ON TUESDAY Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced sanctions against Russia over the decision by Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognise the Republics of Lugansk...
Rejoice – Syrian forces on the outskirts of Palmyra!
THE Fars news agency has reported that ‘At approximately 11:45pm (Damascus Time) on Tuesday night, the Syrian Army’s “Tiger Forces”, backed by Hezbollah, the...
British capitalism’s crisis of rule
THE inability of the Tories to pull ahead in the opinion polls, proves that 13 years of Labour rule has not been enough to...
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...
Working class will smash Johnson’s fantasies with socialist revolution
TORY prime minster Boris Johnson yesterday delivered a speech composed entirely of wishful thinking from which reality was completely excluded. In Johnson’s fairy-tale world British...
Mandela mourners boo ANC President Zuma
THE presence of all of the capitalist world’s leaders could not keep the South African masses quiet about their real feelings for the ANC...
UK loses AAA credit rating
Late last Friday, Moody’s Investors Service, one of the world’s three main credit rating agencies, downgraded the sovereign credit rating of the UK and...
it’s your money for your life says NICE
IF NICE and the ‘NHS health reformers’ have their way, free health care at the point of need is destined for the dustbin of...
TUC must act on its resolution, organise the complete boycott of Israel, call a...
MISSILES are raining down on the people of Gaza, as the Israelis step up their war to prevent the establishment of the state of...
TUC goes from lobbying the Tories to open support for the right-wing Ukrainian regime!
ON TUESDAY, the TUC abruptly announced that it was cancelling a planned cost of living demonstration and march due to take place in Blackpool...
Britain Boarded The Grace 1 Off Gibraltar To Protect US And UK Oil Thieves...
ON JULY 4th, 30 Royal Marines boarded the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 off Gibraltar, allegedly on orders from the USA, because of suspicions...
Tories plan to pauperise and then privatise the NHS – make the TUC...
IN ITS WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL the Daily Telegraph sought to shed crocodile tears for the striking health workers who are continuing to battle against the...
Greek workers on the march to socialist revolution
THE Greek working class, Greek youth and the majority of the middle class and the small farmers have battled the EU imposed austerity programmes...
Smash capitalism to end hire and fire at will and poverty pay
WHAT kind of future capitalism has in store for the entire working class was forcibly brought home this week – a future where workers...
Hague recognises Syrian opposition while Qatar and Saudis supply the guns and cash!
The ‘Friends of Syria Conference’ in Tunis has seen the representatives of the United States and the UK, Clinton and Hague, laying into Russia...
SALUTE ABDUL HAROUN – The man that the tunnel could not stop!
ABDUL Rahman Haroun is a hero. The Sudanese national walked the full length of the Channel Tunnel (31 miles), dicing with death all of...
The Israeli Army Burned Down Kamal Adwan Hospital. It Must Be Forced Out Of...
THE Palestinian Ministry of Health said yesterday that the Israeli occupation army had burned Kamal Adwan Hospital – the last operating hospital in northern...
Blair ‘comfortable’ with five shots to the head, shoot to kill policy
ON Sunday, Police Commissioner Blair told the world that the policy of shooting to kill ‘terrorist suspects’ was national policy, not just a Metropolitan...
952,000 16-24 year olds out of work!
COMMENTING on the rise in unemployment figures, Dave Prentis, General Secretary of Unison said: ‘Being out of work at Christmas is particularly tough, especially...
Tory Party disintegrating – working class must prepare to seize power now!
THE CONSERVATIVE Party is tearing itself apart this week as Tory MPs await with trepidation the result of the inquiry by Sue Gray into...
The ‘Peace Process’ is a Fraud!
THE long-serving Palestinian prisoners whom Israel has pledged to release, and whose pledge prepared the way for the Palestinian leader Abbas to reopen the...
Fatah Must Change Its Leadership
THE victory of the Hamas movement in the fighting in the Gaza Strip is a huge setback for the imperialist diplomacy of the US...
Hunt and Bailey will ‘do whatever is necessary’ to save bankrupt capitalism. Time to...
ON MONDAY night, 400 leading figures from the world of high finance and corporate business gathered at the Mansion House in London to hear...
Tories getting ready to blitz NHS and Welfare State
YESTERDAY PM Cameron pledged that a Tory government will introduce a law, within 100 days of taking office, guaranteeing no rise in income tax...
Crunch Time For The British Banks
BOTH the HSBC and Barclays banks along with the Royal Bank of Scotland have suffered major share losses in the past week, as investors...
With their anti-migrants and anti-trade union laws the Tories are the common enemy of...
On Monday, over 180 UK health professionals and representatives from leading medical bodies sent a letter to Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak denouncing the...
Black Friday mayhem in bankrupt UK
BLACK Friday came to the UK yesterday with scenes of chaos and mayhem in supermarkets up and down the country, scenes that came close...
Revolution coming to North America!
THE continuing Egyptian revolution – in particular the determined occupations of Tahrir Square and the fearless struggle of Egypt’s workers for their rights...
Tuc Congress Leaders Refuse To Fight!
ON Sunday at the TUC Congress delegates voted unanimously to defend the right to strike, with GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny declaring: ‘If the...
UK workers are weighed down by debt while landlords are fattened on £21bn of...
LENIN, in his work ‘Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism’, wrote about one of the most important connections between the imperialist drive for colonies...
The Banks Are All Northern Rocks!
TEXAS PACIFIC GROUP’S decision to cut and run, taking with it the £179 million that was to be used to buy 23 per cent...
Draghi proposes Central Bank dictatorship – while the German bankers warn of hyper-inflation
SPANISH 10-year bond yields fell yesterday to 5.77%, below 6% for the first time since May, while yields on the equivalent Italian bonds fell...
The TUC Congress must demand that the State of Palestine is established from the...
THE Palestinian Centre for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared has called on the international community to take serious and effective action to compel Israel...
Renationalise the rail privateers
THE private railway system has, so far, seen many tens of billions of public money thrown at it to make sure that the private...
The great betrayal – NHS union leaders call off strike action!
NHS trade unions have called off (‘suspended’) today’s strike and betrayed their members by accepting the government’s decision not to pay the...
French revolution stuns EU bosses and political leaders
THE 55 per cent vote, by the working class and the rural population of France against the European Constitution, is a body blow to...
Full support for the Tube workers!
THE STRIKING Tube workers brought London to a standstill yesterday, and every London worker and commuter must give them their full support against the...
Ten Million Households Are Suffering
TEN million households are suffering from the financial and political crisis says Which? as it calls on the coalition government, ahead of its Autumn...
‘Our Time Has Come’ Israeli Leader Bennett Greets Biden’s ‘Gift’ Of The Golan Heights!
ISRAEL’S PM is ecstatic. ‘Our time has come’ Naftali Bennett declared to the world after US President Biden gave the Golan Heights to Israel,...
Tory budget–tax relief for bosses, tax increases for low paid!
THE headlines in the bourgeois press yesterday howled about Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, breaking a cast-iron Tory election manifesto pledge that there would be...
UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to defend their wages...
AS WORKERS well know, the coming winter is going to be a desperate affair with sky-high inflation and food and energy rationing, leaving families...