Forest Gate report justifies police-state tactics
THE official Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) published its report yesterday into complaints against the Metropolitan Police over its huge police raid in Forest...
Royal Mail – The Way Forward To Victory
THE announcement by the CWU of a programme of two 48-hour national strikes across all sections of Royal Mail, along with a programme of...
Havoc In The Eurozone!
THE noose strangling the entire capitalist economy of Europe tightened round the neck of Germany yesterday with the news that the powerful Asian investment...
Greece on the brink of revolutionary explosion
YESTERDAY, there were major clashes on the streets of Athens as 6,000 riot police clashed with tens of thousands of workers and youth who...
The BofE didn’t recognise the crisis of capitalism even when it stared it in...
SIR John Gieve, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, yesterday admitted that he was a victim of the historical blindness of the...
UN Condemns Eu Over Mass Murder In The Med!
THE UN refugee agency has said once again that not enough is being done to save the lives of the tens of thousands of...
General Strike On May 1 ‘Public Service Day’
THE PCS civil servants trade union has confirmed that up to 270,000 civil servants will be stopping work on May 1 against the Blair-Brown...
Employment figures mask the real crisis of British capitalism
THE BIG lie of this minority Tory government is that British capitalism is thriving, its economy is in vigorous good health and that workers...
Carney urges united action by the bourgeoisie of Europe
IN his speech in Dublin on Wednesday, Bank of England Governor Carney delivered a warning to the EU – as Greek shares collapsed on...
Sack TUC traitors who collaborate with Tories and bosses – Build a new leadership...
CHANCELLOR Rishi Sunak opened his Budget speech on Wednesday with an appeal to ‘put aside party politics, and act in the national interest’ in...
Bring Down The UK-French-US War Lords
BRITISH IMPERIALISM was run out of Basra and Iraq, and is about to be run out of Afghanistan. However, it is still organising new...
Defend the NHS – kick the government out!
THE coalition’s much-vaunted consultation period over its proposals to smash up the NHS and privatise it out of existence finally came to an end...
World Revoluti0N Is The Reality – Build The Fourth International Now!
SATURDAY saw demonstrations and occupations taking place in many countries following the example of the Spanish and Greek square occupations that have featured as...
‘Perfidious Albion’ betrays Palestine again!
THE British ruling class has played a special role as far as Palestine in concerned. In the Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917, the United...
Demands ramped up for Labour to slash pensions, benefits and NHS spending to rescue...
THE DEMANDS for the Labour government to slash all government spending on welfare is reaching a crescendo in the run-up to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’...
Working Class Is On The March – It Is Refusing To Pay The Bill...
THE UK working class is on the march, spurred forward by the worldwide crisis of the capitalist system, with Britain very much the weakest...
Britain ‘drifting’ towards a police state–Manchester Chief Constable
SIR Peter Fahy, Greater Manchester Chief Constable and vice-chair of the National Counter-Terrorism Committee, has warned that the fight against ‘extremism’ is leading to...
Trump Coup Attempt Fails
ON WEDNESDAY afternoon thousands of US president Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington before storming the US Congress to put a stop to the...
Unite Takes Action Against Serco BA And The Bank Of England!
YESTERDAY striking Serco workers from Bart’s NHS Trust, striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew, and striking Bank of England workers marched and picketed the...
Starmer’s bound to come a cropper trying to ride two horses at the same...
PRIME Minister Keir Starmer’s attempt to ride two horses at the same time, by forming trading relations or ‘partnerships’ with both the EU and...
Stop the war against Syria – smash austerity at home
THE humiliating climb-down by David Cameron over Syria on Wednesday night exposes for all to see the weakness of British imperialism, the coalition government...
Hamas Insists That Israel Must Agree To A Permanent Ceasefire!
Hamas says it has submitted its response to a US-backed plan for a ceasefire in Gaza, with a senior official telling the BBC that...
Strike action at Heathrow needed to win Gate Gourmet struggle!
TALKS at Congress House last Tuesday, between the Trades Union Congress, the T&G and Gate Gourmet management were busy discussing the company’s ‘compromise agreement’. Gate...
Labour plans ruthless cuts and mass privatisation of public sector to ‘save’ British capitalism
The Telegraph newspaper has revealed an internal letter from Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Treasury department ordering cabinet ministers to be ‘ruthless’ in identifying public...
Imperialist lies over Aleppo – a cover for their own war crimes
SUNDAY’S emergency meeting of the UN Security Council witnessed the orchestrated attack on the Syrian people and Russia by the imperialist powers. The meeting was...
Trump splits US ruling class with demand they give up vast profits in China
ON THE eve of the G7 Summit in France over the weekend US president Donald Trump ordered US companies to leave China and move...
Sarkozy sentenced to three years for corruption – Cameron still evades justice!
FRENCH ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in jail, two of them suspended, for corruption. He was convicted of trying to...
Only a sliding scale of wages can defend workers from inflation
OFFICIAL figures have confirmed that consumer price inflation surged to 5.4% in 12 months to December – up from 5.1% month before – the...
Corbyn calls for a National Government – Workers must demand a socialist government
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday wrote a letter to leaders of the LibDems, the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party along with selected...
Tories’ Enabling Act Brings In Open Bourgeois Dictatorship
THE UK government in alliance with the Labour Party has over a three-day period pushed through an emergency law, the Data Retention and Investigatory...
Maliki Objects To US-Puppet Army Raid On Sadr City
YESTERDAY was the first day after the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad announced that he had given the Iraqi puppet government a timetable...
Treat the Council Tax as you did the Poll Tax!
THE Council Tax is set to rise by four per cent on average this year, more than double the government’s current rate of inflation...
Cameron’s ‘Chain Gangs’ For The Unemployed
THE PCS civil servants trade union yesterday rightly condemned the coalition government’s plans to force the long-term unemployed, and unemployed youth, to do manual...
The TUC and the public sector must support the postal workers’ struggle
WITH the result of the CWU Royal Mail industrial action ballot due on Thursday, the bosses are getting ready for action, while the position...
Trump Courts North Korea To Avoid A War On Two Fronts!
THE SIGNED Joint Statement of US President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, issued from the Singapore Summit yesterday morning, commits Trump ‘to provide...
Brown Won’t Retreat From Blair Agenda
PREMIER Blair got his well deserved come-uppance at the TUC Congress on Tuesday, while the co-author of his policies Gordon Brown was welcomed like...
Blair – Bush’s Servant To The Bitter End
THE knives were out for disgraced Deputy Prime Minister Prescott yesterday. He is the man who was important to the Prime Minister because he...
It’s Bercow v Trump as the British ruling class splits between Washington and Brussels!
SPEAKER Bercow, with his condemnation of any invitation to US President Trump to address both Houses of Parliament, has shown just how split and...
Labour MPs must fight for a socialist solution to the crisis of capitalism in...
WITH the UK’s Labour government set to face challenges from the left to the King’s Speech today, the Fire Brigades Union has urged MPs...
More British Troops For Iraq!
WITHOUT any vote in the House of Commons hundreds of British troops are to be sent to Iraq, which is already being bombed by...
Rate cuts and printing pound notes – Brown’s recipe for disaster
THE Bank of England yesterday cut interest rates to 1.5 per cent, the lowest level in its 315-year history, since the start of the...
Recession-hit UK and EU diving into economic crash while Trump declares trade war on...
Yesterday, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) issued a warning to Labour’s chancellor Rachel Reeves that growth expectations amongst UK companies have taken ‘a...
Lord Jones and Sir Richard Branson turn on Brown
TWO of the Brown government’s big business backers Lord Digby Jones, the ex-CBI boss and Richard Branson, the Thatcherite businessman have unsurprisingly turned-coat. No doubt...
Only way to defend the NHS is to kick out the Tories and bring...
ON SUNDAY the 72nd anniversary of the NHS, created in 1948 by Clement Attlee’s post-war Labour government, was marked by handclapping, with Boris Johnson...
UK Attorney General Lord Hermer raises spectre of the rise of fascism in UK!
AT a speech delivered to the Royal United Services Institute on Thursday evening, Sir Richard Hermer KC, the Attorney General, and the Labour government’s...