Bank of England pushes up interest rates as inflation spirals out of control!
THE BANK of England Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and decided to increase the interest rate by 0.25% to 0.75% in a futile attempt...
Pensions crisis will revolutionise millions
‘THERE is no obligation on the part of employers to provide pensions’, said the National Association of Pension Funds yesterday. This was its response to...
British forces in a crisis in Afghanistan
THE British army went into Helmand province in Afghanistan like lions, with their officers explaining that they were going to take on the Taleban,...
Labour Set To Drive Workers Off The Roads
ALISTAIR Darling, the Labour government transport minister, yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to drive millions of working class drivers off the roads with a...
Stop the UK plot to launch a missile attack on Russia by bringing down...
US PRESIDENT Biden is now poised to lift the ban on the UK’s Storm Shadow missiles being fired into Russia by the US-UK’s fascist...
End The Dirty War In Afghanistan!
THE deaths of two more British soldiers, blown up by IEDs in Afghanistan, has brought the total number of British troops killed in...
Trump revels in charges of treason as US is gripped by a death agony...
YESTERDAY evening, former US president Donald Trump, accompanied by a US Secret Service Motorcade, swept up to Fulton county jail and handed himself in...
Gm And Capitalism Go Bust, As Parliament Is Discredited
LENIN’S definition of a revolutionary situation is one in which the ruling class is unable to rule in the old way – and has...
UK CPI rate increase only the start of inflation spiral
YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that the UK inflation rate had more than doubled in April this year as energy costs...
Brown Warns Against Labour ‘Extremists’
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday did his best to hand back the political initiative to his politically battered and discredited Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...
Millions Of Youth Facing Employment Crisis As Capitalism Nose Dives!
ONE MILLION YOUTH aged 16-24 are no longer in employment, education or training, the latest figures show! The Centre for Social Justice said last week...
Tories offer GPs ‘cash for cuts’ to stop patients getting hospital treatment – unions...
THE GP website Pulse revealed this week that in four areas in England local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have set up a ‘profit-sharing’ scheme...
Blair’s police state demonising Muslims
ABU Bakr, the 27 year old English teacher, and one of the nine Muslim men arrested by the police, and put under the media...
Trump And Blair Are Furious As The Taliban Heads For Government!
THE success of the Taliban movement and the mass of the Afghan people in securing a US and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the...
US combat troops quit – Iraqi masses will now deal with the puppets they...
THE last US army combat brigade pulled out of Iraq on Thursday morning, allegedly bringing to an end all US combat operations. These...
British Capitalism Is On The Rocks! All Life Support Attempts Are Failing As The...
SUCH is the crisis of British capitalism more than half of the adult population, 27 million people, have had to be financially assisted by...
Fire doors fail! Millions at risk! Kick Tories out before another fire breaks out!
FIRE doors in the Grenfell Tower failed, providing further evidence that this horrific tragedy could have been prevented. There is not a shadow of...
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...
Lagarde Calls For ‘Brave Action’ To Inflate Economies
IMF Managing Director Lagarde has warned that the world economy is ‘too weak for comfort’, and that it could be heading for years of...
The crisis is forcing the working class forward – Now build the WRP
Last week’s collapses on Wall Street and on the Japanese stock market emphasised to the whole world that the capitalist crisis is deepening. The...
Defend Iran Againstfrench And US Threats
THE French government is threatening Iran with retribution if it does not give up its nuclear energy programme. The French Prime Minister, De Villepin, one...
Cowen making workers pay for capitalism’s crisis in Ireland
IN A third attempt within six months to save bankrupt Irish capitalism, Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s Fianna Fail government unveiled a draconian budget on Tuesday,...
Defend living standards! Nationalise the oil and gas companies!
JUST a few months ago the UNISON leadership accepted the government’s below inflation wage cutting deal over three years. Now the union has had...
‘Wrong body’ insult confirms racist state
Just one week after a demonstration in London by the United Families and Friends Campaign against deaths in police custody has come the shocking...
With The Tories At Their Weakest Now Is The Time For A General Strike...
SATURDAY’S massive turnout for the trade union sponsored mass demonstration with its lead banner declaring ‘Not One Day More – Tories out’ has spread...
NHS under attack – DEFEND IT NOW!
THE capitalist crisis and the massive indebtedness of British capitalism, with its national debt closing fast on its GDP of £1.4...
Don’t stop at the House of Lords! Abolish Parliament and go forward to a...
ON Wednesday night, a spokesman for the Tory government delivered a blunt message to the House of Lords that they either accepted Brexit or...
Millions of low paid US workers are on the march!
FOLLOWING the Black Friday strike action at 1,500 WalMart stores throughout the US, fast-food workers in over 100 cities will walk off the job...
EU, US and UK rulers are provoking war in the Ukraine! Workers of the...
BRITISH forces arrived yesterday in Ukraine to ‘train up Ukrainian troops’ while the US has sent in weapons, to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to...
Brown wants to form a Blairite government
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has confirmed to the BBC that he will run a Blairite administration if he becomes prime minister. He said that...
Economic collapse driving US capitalism towards war with China
AT THE end of January, $1 trillion was wiped off the value of America’s leading high-tech companies – the so called ‘Magnificent Seven’ –...
US Fed’s third emergency programme in 2 days fails to stop capitalist crash
THE US Federal Reserve announced late on Wednesday the third emergency programme in two days in an increasingly desperate and futile attempt to avoid...
UK trade unions must take action to stop Israel shooting and gassing Palestinians!
IN FOUR weeks of Friday protests at the Gaza ‘border’ more than 32 Palestinians have been killed and over 5,000 injured by Israeli snipers...
Time to drive the Tories out! TUC must call a general strike to give...
AFTER the Tory insult of a 1% pay offer to the heroic health workers, the working class and youth are boiling with anger and...
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...
The IMF sees the writing on the wall with second warning in 24 hours...
THE International Monetary Fund’s Financial Stability Report has given its second warning in 24 hours about a new financial catastrophe that it sees coming...
Huge $8.6bn loss at General Motors
GENERAL Motors (GM) bosses admitted on Thursday that their losses for 2005 were $8.6bn, their largest since 1992 when the board of directors was...
Bring down Brown-Mandelson regime – forward to a workers’ government
YESTERDAY afternoon the PM’s office was leaking the speech that Brown is due to give to the TUC Congress on Tuesday. It stressed that if...
McCluskey promises illegal action!
IN a full-page article in Thursday’s Guardian newspaper, the leader of the country’s biggest union, Len McCluskey, announced that the Unite executive had unanimously...
BRITAIN FACES A FASTER AND STEEPER DOWNTURN SAYS BofE CHAIR ANDREW BAILEY
ON WEDNESDAY, the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, speaking at the European Central Bank’s annual policy forum, warned that soaring inflation...
French workers move to bring down Sarkozy regime!
YESTERDAY, the French railworkers’ trade unions began their indefinite strike action, to defeat the attempts of the Sarkozy regime to destroy their pension agreements,...
Obama seeks wider support for central Asian war
PRESIDENT Obama has shaken his supporters with his admission that the war in Afghanistan is not being won, and that he is willing to...
Taliban cuts the US-UK imperialist powers down to size – now the US and...
THE US AND UK imperialist powers have just suffered a historic defeat in Afghanistan. Last week, even as they scuttled out of the country,...
After the students national march . . .
ALMOST 25,000 students marched through London on Sunday demanding free education, despite the lack-lustre campaign by the leadership of the National Union of Students...
US Democrats want Trump impeachment to form basis of bloc with Republican Party!
DONALD Trump became the first president of the United States to be impeached twice when the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to charge...