Capitalist State Prefers Brown Over Cameron
LABOUR Prime Minister Brown is the choice of the capitalist state should there be a hung parliament on May 7, even if the...
CWU leaders capitulate to Royal Mail bosses – Time to build a new leadership...
LAST Friday, the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) finally revealed to their members in Royal Mail (RM), details of the treacherous sell-out...
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...
Greek debt is on an ‘explosive path’ says the IMF
THE International Monetary Fund has warned that Greece’s debts are on an ‘explosive path’ in its first annual review of the country’s economy since...
KICK OUT THE TORIES ON JUNE 8th AND KICK OUT THEIR TUC COLLABORATORS...
THE leadership of the TUC yesterday stuck the knife into the backs of the working class when it called for workers to look more...
Disabled to be impoverished by Welfare Bill
As the Welfare Reform Bill progresses through the committee stage of the House of Lords so more evidence is emerging about the catastrophic effect it...
US and UK cannot win Afghan hearts and minds!
THE massacres of the Afghan civilian population by air and missile attacks continue, proving that imperialist armies are in the business of mass murder,...
UK-NATO attempt on Gadaffi’s life fails!
THE murderous attack on the home of Saif al Arab, the youngest son of Colonel Gadaffi, killed Saif and three grand children of the...
Unions Dither While NHS Logistics Is Sold!
LAST Wednesday, the trade unions with the support of the majority of the Labour Party constituency parties defeated the government on the vital issue...
Global oil reserve shrinks at alarming levels as US fails to force reopening of...
ON Monday, US president Trump responded to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the US and Iran as it reached the end of the...
Saudis oil war is deepening the world crisis
SAUDI Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, has said the oil producers’ cartel, Opec, will not cut production even if the price falls to $20...
King’s Fund warns NHS being systematically destroyed!
A REPORT from the independent health think-tank, the King’s Fund, has revealed that the NHS is systematically being destroyed through government-imposed financial cuts. The Fund...
Clinton Beats The War Drums
SPEAKING to students at a Qatar university during a tour of the Gulf region designed to whip up anti-Iran feeling, US Secretary of State...
Victorious Syria Reopens Aleppo Airport!
THE SYRIAN government has reopened Aleppo airport for civilian flights in a great victory over the US-UK axis which, supported by Turkey, has sought...
Irish Union Votes To Repudiate Bank Debt!
The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union is to contact ‘like-minded unions’ to seek ‘international legal opinion regarding the possibility of mounting a successful legal...
Bush and Blair’s ‘democratic Iraq’
PRESIDENT George Bush is due to meet with his puppet Prime Minister of Iraq, Maliki, in the Jordanian capital of Amman, to discuss Bush’s...
Tories are the party of the bankers, the bosses and the landlords! Tenants beware!
THE south-east London borough of Newham achieved the dubious record of having the biggest rise in house prices in the whole of the UK...
Trade unions must reject Coalition attack on the unemployed and the poor
EX-ARMY officer Duncan Smith, the Coalition’s Work and Pensions Secretary, yesterday announced a Universal Credit to replace all benefits, and also ...
Capitalist crisis will lead to all out war with China regardless of who wins...
THE DRUMS are beating ever louder for an all-out war against China as world capitalism plunges into recession while the economy of the deformed...
Labour is going to bring a co-payment system into the NHS
AS the economic crisis deepens, the drive to privatise the NHS is being stepped up on a number of fronts. One is the growing...
Dont Talk To Israeli Leaders Say Palestinian Youth
OVER the past two days, Palestine National Authority security forces have been using force to try to prevent peaceful demonstrations of Palestinian youth opposing...
End low pay through a general strike to kick out the government
ON the day that NHS workers took strike action for the first time in 30 years, and in the case of midwives the first...
Brown outlines new attack on teachers and state education!
‘IN the past those who had the raw material – the coal, the oil and the basic commodities, or the infrastructure – the ports...
THE STERN REVIEW: Trust me, I’m a banker!
ON WEDNESDAY Sir Nicholas Stern presented his Review of the Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by Chancellor Gordon Brown. Stern is the Chief Economist...
UK Is £2 Trillion In Debt – Tories Are Ringing The Alarm Bells...
UK GOVERNMENT debt has risen above £2 trillion and hit £2.004 trillion for July. The debt is £227.6bn more than last year. It is...
‘Remainers’ Take The Struggle Onto The Streets – An Example That Workers Must Follow...
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of ‘Remainers’ marshalled by the likes of billionaire George Soros and other speculators set out on Saturday to try to create...
US Trade Gap Widens As Banks Get Ready For Economic Storm
THE US trade gap widened in January to $44.45bn (£29.53bn) from December’s figure of $38.14bn, the US Commerce Department has reported. Much of the rise...
Inflation Is Cutting Pay At A Massive Rate – The Trade Unions Must Fight...
THE purchasing power of workers’ pay packets is falling at the fastest rate since 2001. Between March and May, pay, excluding bonuses, was down 2.8%...
Answer Cameron’s war on two fronts with a General Strike
DAVID Cameron’s speech outlining his ‘five-year plan to fight extremism’ was in reality an outline of the Tory government’s war plans for both the...
Occupy NHS Logistics on October 1 – trade unions must take strike action!
WEDNESDAY’S twin votes at the Labour Party conference against NHS privatisation emphasised for all to see just how great is the isolation of the...
UAW reformists propose to surrender gains of US workers
THE UAW leaders are prepared to ‘suspend’ all of the gains of US autoworkers to try and assist the big bosses of GM, Chrysler,...
Public Sector Disaster F0R British Capitalism
THE UK’s public sector net deficit for October reached £11.4bn and is the highest monthly deficit since records began. The national debt at...
Fed raises rates, as US bankers resolve to make the world pay for their...
THE US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 0.25 of a percentage point – its first increase since 2006. This is after years of...
£1.6 billion stock market sell off as capitalism crashes. Forward to world socialism!
THE amount withdrawn from equity funds last month was £1.6bn as the bosses panicked that PM Burnham will be forced to put up taxes....
Defend the NHS with a general strike! Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry!
ONE in five new drugs will be rationed on the NHS under new plans to ‘save the health service money.’ This is the latest...
TUC right wing determined to stay in the EU whatever it costs the working...
AT this year’s annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) the right-wing of the trade union bureaucracy will attempt to commit the working...
An NHS For The Rich!
THE BMA and the main TUC trade unions are completely opposed to the Health and Social Care Bill and have given up all efforts...
Iraqi puppets feel the noose tightening
IN the last few days the Iraqi puppet National Assembly, whose authority does not run outside of the Green Zone US fortress in central...
The whole world rages at the persecution of the Palestinians yet the TUC still...
PALESTINE’S UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the UN Security Council to ensure ‘protection’ for Palestinians, who have increasingly come under deadly attacks...
Pentagon rails against the ‘Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act!’
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has issued a warning that legislation allowing families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia...
US and Israel – Get out of Syria! Aid the Syrian people by ...
SYRIAN air defences shot down one of four Israeli warplanes targeting a military site near Palmyra on Friday, the General Command of the Syrian...
US Ruling Class Fails To Assassinate Maduro – Workers Must Defend The Venezuelan...
VENEZUELA’S President Nicolas Maduro has survived an assassination attempt during a military parade celebrating the 81st anniversary of the Bolivarian National Guard in the...
Bring Down The May Government, Quit Eu And Bring In Socialism!
GENERAL LORD Dannatt, the chief of the General Staff from 2006-2009, writing in The Daily Telegraph, has bemoaned the ‘national embarrassment of almost...
Bank of England split over interest rates revealing chaos and demoralisation at the heart...
THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday made the surprise decision to hold UK interest rates at 5.25% instead of the widely...
Gaza Rises From The Rubble And Celebrates Its Real Heroes!
N a moment where the pain of siege merged with tears of joy and victory, Gaza emerged on Monday from beneath the rubble to...