Revolution the only way out of capitalism’s debt crisis
NEXT week, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, will be announcing the results of his spending review to parliament, outlining £20 billion of austerity cuts...
Brown’s bonanza for City speculators
ALMOST a third of Britain’s 700 biggest businesses paid no corporation tax in 2005-2006, according to a study carried out by the official National...
China’s Historic Space Achievement demonstrates the strength of a planned economy
YESTERDAY, a Chinese spacecraft made a giant leap forward in human exploration of space when it became the first ever to land on the...
Manufacturing contracts in October for sixth successive month
AFTER all of the Tory propaganda chatter about the ‘recovery has begun’ the reality is that the slump is deepening. The UK’s manufacturing sector,...
Go forward to socialism – only way to avoid threatening catastrophe!
JAPAN is the second biggest power in the capitalist industrial world, behind the United States. It has just announced that its industrial output dropped...
Renationalise Tata Steel to defend workers’ jobs and pensions
THE announcement that Tata Steel has reached an agreement with the steel trade union leaders that will ‘save’ the industry has been greeted as...
Sanders concedes – Forward to the American socialist revolution
LAST WEDNESDAY, the US ‘democratic socialist’ Senator Bernie Sanders announced to his supporters that he was quitting the race to become the Democratic candidate...
Trade unions must strike to defend the NHS!
TOMORROW Central Surrey Health (CSH), a private company set up by nurses and therapists, will find out whether they have won the £22m contract...
TUC Postpones Its Congress. It Is Time For A New And Revolutionary Leadership
THE RMT announced yesterday that the ‘RMT joins the whole nation in paying its respects to Queen Elizabeth' and that ‘the planned railway strike...
Macron convenes crisis meeting after rushing back to France from EU summit!
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron convened a crisis meeting yesterday amid a wave of working class uprisings that engulfed France after a 17-year-old driver was...
Tuc Must Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tory-Led Coalition
THE TUC met yesterday afternoon to discuss pay and pensions and the planned mass demonstration and day of action on March 26 against the...
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...
US Gunships Attack Fallujah As Sunni And Shia Unite!
THE US military has started using attack helicopters as well as jet fighters and bombers in attacks against the cities of Fallujah and...
TUC MUST demand recognition of the State of Palestine and call for an international...
SPEAKING in Madrid yesterday, the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the recognition of a Palestinian state is ‘in Europe’s geopolitical interests’. The Spanish...
Scrap Academies – restore free state education
THE Academy school project – to replace state owned schools, with ‘independent’, millionaire sponsored, and privately run schools, who hire the staff that...
Workers defeat Labour Party coupists with increased majority for Corbyn
313,209 Labour Party members and supporters with their leadership vote for Jeremy Corbyn, have driven back the right wing coup attempt that was underway,...
Revolutionary crisis shaking regimes all over Europe
GERMAN Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy on Saturday decreed that the preservation of the euro required a 70bn euro currency reserve fund and...
TUC must call general strike to smash the anti-union laws and support the State...
HUNDREDS of Palestinians are being brutally murdered and others injured as a result of the ongoing Israeli airstrikes and artillery bombardments across the Gaza...
Chancellor Reeves slashes regulations that inhibit banks from taking the ‘risks’ that crashed the economy...
Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves revealed her plans to slash the rules and regulations that have inhibited the banks and financial speculators from taking risks,...
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...
The trade unions must follow the example of the ruling class and deal with...
THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...
UK living standards ‘to fall behind Malta’ as UK capitalism crashes under debt
ON Monday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its latest updated figures which showed that the average person now has £38 less to...
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...
Zionist regime escalates genocide in Gaza City
SINCE the Israeli regime’s war cabinet vote last week to occupy Gaza City and force the removal of its entire Palestinian population of one...
Take the PCS civil servants up on ‘full support’ offer
LAST THURSDAY at 2pm as the postal workers came out on their 48-hour strike, the PCS civil service union sent a special message to...
Forward to Colombian revolution!
COLOMBIA, the country that has been hailed by the US as the second most populous ‘democracy’ in South America and a key partner in...
Bourgeois Lunacy At Rbs
YESTERDAY the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced the largest annual loss in UK corporate history of £24.1bn, made up of a £7.9bn trading...
Tax Cuts For The Rich – The Scrap Heap For The Workers
TWENTY five right wing ruling class economists have worked out the way to revive the dying capitalist economy, and it is, while continuing the...
Trade Unions must occupy hospitals threatened with closures! Come to the ATUA conference!
THE NHS is the battleground within which the class struggle in this country is being fought out to the finish. The Tory government plans...
After A Decade Of Savage Austerity The Tories Propose A Massive Inflation!
THE NEW Tory chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, yesterday painted a picture of British capitalism as fundamentally ‘robust’ while the NHS was ‘sound’...
US crisis pauses before another leap forward!
THE deal pushed through Washington late Wednesday night to raise the US debt ceiling – at present standing at a massive $16.7 trillion –...
Tories refuse any measures to limit Covid deaths – Kick them out, and bring...
COVID restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid ‘stumbling into a winter crisis’ Matthew Taylor, head of the NHS Confederation, has...
Snap General Election Farce!
LABOUR Prime Minister Brown, a cautious and bumbling, conservative politician, is due to decide this weekend whether to take a big gamble and call...
If one guard is sacked the TUC must call the whole working class out!
THE STRIKE of the Southern guards, which begins on Tuesday, is a pivotal struggle for the entire working class. What is under threat is...
Housing crisis: socialism the only solution
THE proposal to blow up five blocks of flats in Glasgow’s Red Road, as part of the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games, has...
Luxury liners are going in – but the aid is nowhere to be seen...
THE fact that Luxury cruise liners are still docking in Haitian ports, not very far from the epicentre of the earthquake, which has killed...
Crisis-Ridden Bosses And Tories Fear The Election
THE Tory Party, its media wing and the boss class as a whole are getting very worried about the election, and what is to...
Trade union leaders trying to manage capitalism
Rising unemployment is a national emergency declared the TUC yesterday after the government revealed that 150,000 workers had lost their jobs in the last...
Egyptian Army Mobilises For Military Coup
GENERAL Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s army chief, whose force is paid for by the United States, has warned that the current political crisis ‘could...
Labour sells out on state education
THE Labour shadow education minister, Stephen Twigg, made a speech yesterday that was billed as ‘wresting’ the initiative on education from the Tories –...
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...
Brown Threatens Royal Mail Funding!
AT THE CWU rally at Central Hall yesterday afternoon, CWU leader Billy Hayes presented a successful outcome of the postal workers struggle as relying...
Unions must demand TUC call a general strike to support junior doctors and defend...
TODAY is the first of four days of strike action by junior doctors throughout the health service in England, in what is the biggest...
Government By Police Chiefs
AT his monthly press conference last Monday, the Prime Minister admitted that the source of his proposal, that the police should be allowed to...
Iraq and Afghanistan – imperialists coming under the hammer
US CASUALTIES are now mounting in both Afghanistan and Iraq, while at home the anti-war and anti-Bush movement is growing by leaps and bounds,...