‘Recovery’ Rests On Bed Of Nitroglycerine
THE 0.1 per cent ‘recovery’, the ‘work’ of Gordon Brown and Chancellor Darling has caused laughter and incredulity throughout the planet. It is a...
ECB interest rate cut is last throw of the dice. Forward with European socialist...
ON Thursday afternoon Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), announced that the bank has cut its benchmark interest rate from 0.5%...
World capitalism collapsing into wars and economic crash – Forward to the victory of...
THE World Economic Forum commenced its annual meeting at the Swiss Alpine resort of Davos this week with US president Donald Trump due to deliver...
Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova heading for huge upheavals!
THE Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, travelled to Brussels yesterday morning to sign, along with Georgia and Moldova, the ‘partnership’ agreement with the European Union. It...
Government Plans Secret Courts!
A REPORT issued yesterday by the civil rights group Amnesty describes the proposed Justice and Security Bill as being straight out of a Franz...
Another US blow for Pakistan!
THE US Congress yesterday froze $700 million of aid to its ally Pakistan until it gets assurances that Pakistan will combat the spread of...
Prices and unemployment increase as bosses demand workers pay the price for capitalist crisis
OVER half of UK companies are planning to push up prices in the next three months according to the latest research by the British...
World bankers are in charge as the IMF justifies turning the money tap on...
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) made a wildly optimistic prediction yesterday that soaring UK inflation would become nothing more than a historical blip in...
Tory GP funding formula robs the poor and gives to the rich
A STUDY published this week in the British Journal of General Practice shines a searchlight on one of the main causes of ‘health inequality’...
Labour Party breaking apart – now is the time to build the WRP to lead...
THE Labour Party conference yesterday morning opened to boos and jeers from delegates furious at the Labour leadership’s manoeuvres to shunt the crunch vote...
Jamaican High Commissioner demands halt deportations! End May’s hostile environment by kicking the Tories...
‘WE MAY very well be deporting people who are entitled to be here,’ the Jamaican High Commissioner said, calling on the UK government to...
Imperialist Butcher Blair Wants To Slaughter More Arabs!
TONY BLAIR, who is understandably opposed to the full transcripts of all of his talks with President Bush being published in the Chilcot Inquiry...
TUC supports Heseltine – the Tory who closed down the mining industry
IT says something about the depth of the capitalist crisis, and the lack of ability in the Cameron government, that Lord Heseltine, who in...
Ex Bank of England boss demands let ‘zombie’ companies crash to save capitalism
FORMER Bank of England governor Mervyn King this week called for heavily indebted ‘zombie’ companies to be allowed to ‘disappear’ taking with them, although...
The GMB understands the need for redundancies
JCB has announced 400 more redundancies, blaming a ‘significant’ reduction in incoming orders. The redundancies are made up of 297 shop floor jobs and 101...
Local elections being delayed as the crisis of UK capitalism deepens!
A FURIOUS backlash erupted on Thursday against the Labour government’s cancellation of May’s local government elections, which could deprive 10 million citizens of the...
‘No strategy to deal with crisis’ – ruling class
‘WE HAVE no ability to turn the economy around. When the next recession comes it is going to be deeper and last longer than...
Brexit Moment Of Truth Fast Approaching! The Working Class Must Be Ready To Take...
YESTERDAY was the last working day before Parliament is due to be prorogued ahead of a new Queen’s Speech. The House of Commons is...
EU Blowing Apart, Replace It With The Socialist United States Of Europe!
THE EUROPEAN Commission yesterday issued a dire warning that Europe and the EU is suffering ‘an economic shock without precedent since the Great Depression’...
Sack all pro-bombing Labour MPs
TORY prime minister, David Cameron, is all set to make the biggest gamble of his political life on Wednesday by pushing forward a parliamentary...
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...
End the occupation of Iraq! Bring down the Bush regime!
A VOTE in the Senate of the United States on Saturday fell just four votes short of the two-thirds needed to debate a resolution...
First the 2016 referendum defeat for the ruling class, now May is being ...
THE LAST week has seen the Tory drive to have PM May crowned as Empress, via a runaway election victory and a huge majority,...
Only a general strike can end the barbarity of gig economy!
A REPORT in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper brought home the deadly reality experienced by workers in the gig economy that now dominates British capitalism. 53-year-old Don...
Tories aiming for a national government
LENIN’S definition of a revolutionary situation was one in which the ruling class could not rule in the old way, and was riven with...
Millions must march for Palestine on Saturday August 3 – They must also instruct...
A FORMER Lebanese lawmaker Naser Kandeel said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to the US featured a planned coordination...
Blair Gang In Disarray After Pm Fails To Vote
YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair was insisting that he can push through his right wing capitalist ‘reform programme’ despite suffering a double defeat at the...
Homeless deaths are rapidly increasing! Capitalism is rotten! Only socialism can take society...
THE NATIONAL Audit Office (NAO) has produced a new report which says that the true number of people sleeping on the streets ‘far exceeds’...
Tory government a ‘dying administration’ – put it out of its misery with a...
YESTERDAY, NHS England was due to publish the Tory blueprint for dealing with the huge NHS backlog and reducing the record six million patients...
Merkel’s Short-Lived Victory
ON Thursday, the German Parliament (Bundestag) voted by 523 to 85 to increase the funds available to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) from...
All out for the News Line–Gate Gourmet sacked workers conference
THE sacked Gate Gourmet workers were locked out almost six months ago on August 10th-11th 2005 by a management and an owner that was...
NATO chief tells Starmer spend more on weapons or ‘learn to speak Russian’
THE Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, was in Britain this week meeting with Labour Prime minister Keir Starmer to hammer home the demand...
HSBC says Italy and Germany better off outside the euro
THE HSBC, one of the world’s major banks, has published a paper called ‘European Meltdown’ in the wake of the Dutch and French votes...
Jobs For Youth – Smash The Cheap Labour Economy
Youth unemployment is now higher than it was in 1997, with 702,000 young people aged 16-24 jobless, according to official figures released just before...
Johnson Government Cannot Defeat The Covid Virus Because It Puts The Bosses’ Profits Before...
THE JOHNSON government is now paying the price for refusing to follow the example of China by organising a national lockdown, with no loss...
US moving to ground war in Iraq and Syria
THE United States is poised to step up the war in Iraq and Syria with the sending of more US ground forces. Speaking to...
Forced Labour schemes in crisis – bring down the coalition
A concerted public relations exercise has been launched to vilify the unemployed and attack critics of its flagship policy of forcing those on Jobseekers...
The US with 5,113 deployed nuclear bombs, and Israel with 200, is ‘threatened by...
THE US told the world on Monday that it has 5,113 nuclear war heads operationally deployed. This arsenal is supplemented by the warheads...
Trump’s Economic Miracle Is A Bankrupt Mirage – US Workers Need Alternative To Trump...
THE US Federal Reserve Bank yesterday launched an unlimited money printing programme to try to halt the collapse of the US ‘economic miracle’, and...
You must accept capitalism and its cuts orders Johnson
YESTERDAY, Alan Johnson, the ex-CWU postal workers leader, warned the trade unions that they must accept the capitalist crisis, and as slaves of capital...
Stock market crash – Only socialist revolution can end the carnage!
ON MONDAY the Wall Street stock market crashed with the Dow Jones Index, which follows the fortunes of 30 large US companies on a...
Sanctions on Russia rebound on US as countries dump the dollar as dominant world...
ONE OF the main consequences of the US-led sanctions designed to strangle the Russian economy and lead to regime change has been to hasten...
Doctors, NHS staff & nurses are gearing up for pay strike action! All trade...
MONDAY is the anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service (July 5th 1948) and Johnson’s Tories have marked the event by refusing...
British Imperialism In The Dock!
RETIRED General Frank Kitson is being sued over the Loyalist murder of a Roman Catholic, Eugene Heenan in Northern Ireland in February 1973 and...
How to win the firefighters struggle!
THE six-hour strike by firefighters on New Year’s Eve was a demonstration of the solidarity and determination of FBU members across the country to...