French government collapses
ON Monday the French government effectively collapsed as a direct result of a massive split in the leading ranks of the ruling Socialist Party...
Workers forced into debt and facing jail to keep the banks from crashing
T EMERGED yesterday that the number of debt repayment orders issued by the courts last year reached a record level of 1.15 million. These official...
Left Asked To Form Greek Government
FOLLOWING the failure to form a government by the leader of the Greek Tories, Antonis Samaras, the leader of the Coalition of...
TUC must call a General Strike to defend NHS
JUNIOR doctors start six days of strike action today, the longest strike by doctors in the history of the NHS, over their demand for...
Labour right-wing plot with Tories to close down Parliament to prevent Brexit
IT EMERGED at the weekend that the latest stage in a coup to overturn the Brexit referendum result by an alliance of right-wing Labour...
Labour leadership contenders back Tory cuts
ALL four of the declared candidates for Labour Party leader, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Mary Creagh, have been busy over...
Half a million families will lose their homes if rates are put up, warns...
IN its direst warning to date on the scale of personal debt, the Bank of England has predicted that half a million families will...
With Labour government in crisis bankers and bosses step up calls for a National...
THE DEMAND for a National Government to rescue the British economy from bankruptcy is rapidly emerging in the bourgeois press, as the only way...
Bank of England to ‘crucify the consumer’
NOT ONLY has the world crisis of capitalism now been accepted as the reality by even the most sceptical of the bourgeoisie, its different...
Kick out TUC leaders who refuse to fight mass unemployment – build a revolutionary...
INTERVIEWED on Sky’s Sophy Ridge programme on Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady appealed for the Tories to unite with the TUC, saying: ‘Let’s...
US vetos Ukraine ceasefire – tells Poroshenko to make war!
ON MONDAY evening Russia invited Ukrainian border guards and international observers to oversee the Russian side of the border with Ukraine, in an 11th-hour...
Public Debt doubles – overthrow bankrupt capitalism
The coalition government will be forced to accept this month that the bank bailout has more than doubled the size of the Public Debt...
Socialist revolution is the only way to smash capitalist police state!
ON TUESDAY, the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, US president Joe Biden met with Floyd family members. The meeting...
Bin Laden killing opens Obama election campaign
When US President, Barack Obama, announced on Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a dawn raid by US special forces...
Gaza war crimes exposed – unions must call worldwide boycott of Israel
ISRAELI soldiers at a military academy have exposed the essence of the cold-blooded and murderous nature of the recent Israeli army onslaught into the...
Britain’s national debt has tripled – as the UK economy breaks down – nationalisation...
THE British National Debt has almost tripled in the period between 2005 and 2025, outpacing all the other major capitalist states. Britain now has a...
Israel invades Rafah and blocks all aid to Gaza – working class must call...
ON MONDAY evening, the political bureau of Hamas announced that it had approved a ceasefire deal in Gaza. This surprise move prompted the BBC’s International...
End all collaboration between TUC and Tories – build a new leadership to call...
TRADES Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Frances O’Grady’s speech to its annual conference contained no call for action from the unions to fight Tory...
Trade Unions Must Take Action Alongside The Junior Doctors!
TODAY’S strike by junior doctors has the support of 100% of workers across the country. They are not fooled by all the Tory propaganda that...
Call a one day general strike to defend the NHS
YESTERDAY the leaders of the NHS trade unions were in their own words ‘raising the heat over the future of the NHS’. What resolute and...
Coalition building a landlords’ paradise – bring back Council Housing! Now!
THE Coalition government is busily building a paradise for the landlords, the latest Shelter Rent Report shows. In this paradise, private tenants, who can no...
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...
Hunt throws down the gauntlet – the trade unions must pick it up!
THE Department of Health, headed by Health Secretary Hunt, has said that a proposed 1% increase in NHS staff pay was unaffordable, and is...
Brown To Nationalise Northern Rock Losses
BROWN and the Treasury have announced that they prefer a private sector ‘solution’ to the Northern Rock bank crisis, while Brown’s spin doctors have...
Osborne launches permanent austerity war against workers
CHANCELLOR OSBORNE underlined the precarious nature of his ‘recovery’ when he told the House of Commons yesterday ‘the job is not done…we don’t squander...
US death toll rockets in Iraq
FIVE more American troops were killed and three were captured near Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, in a pre-dawn attack on Saturday. The...
Israel speeding up the demolition of Palestinian homes and schools!
AS the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration nears, the Israeli government, its armed forces and its legions of settlers are intensifying their programme...
‘We are the masters now’ say Tories and employers
THE TORY-led coalition is poised to give all power to the employing class through neutering employment tribunals and giving the employers their own ‘charter’...
NHS privatisation can seriously damage your health!
NOBODY knows the number of botched or mismanaged operations being carried out by the private Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) businesses, funded by the...
Business Secretary Reynolds can’t keep blast furnaces going!
THE British Labour government’s business secretary has refused to confirm if the government can get the sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep...
Build councils of action to support the postal workers
‘THIS has been the best-supported strike I’ve ever seen,’ CWU General Secretary, Billy Hayes told striking postal workers in Peckham yesterday. This was after the...
Join the YS lobby of the TUC on September 11 to call a general...
THE GRENFELL Tower disaster was a turning point for the working class where the callous and ruthless nature of the ruling class was exposed...
Obama Attempts To Ride The Revolutionary Tiger
IN his speech on Thursday, President Obama made it clear that the United States is currently attempting to ride the tiger of revolution. He said:...
Mosul Falls – Imperialist Policy Collapses In Middle East
LARGE numbers of people have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants from the ISIS pro-Al Qaeda group effectively...
Unite gives its full backing to Labour
LEN McCluskey, addressing the Unite policy conference in Liverpool yesterday, stated that the unions and the NHS face ‘the fight of our lives’ to see...
Israel receives a warning from Hezbollah!
PALESTINIAN children in Israeli jails are being subjected to torture, and physical and psychological abuse by Israeli officials, says the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’...
Unite cuts funding to Labour – time to force TUC to call a general...
THE UNITE union, the largest union donor to the Labour Party, announced this week that it has voted to cut its Labour affiliation by...
Ukraine dumped by an imperialism too weak to defeat Russia
IT HAS become clear over the past days that Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky have been unceremoniously dumped by the imperialist powers and...
Bank of England Governor warns of ‘apocalyptic’ food crisis and admits Bank powerless to...
ANDREW Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, bluntly spelt out to MPs that the world faces an ‘apocalyptic’ food crisis that will have...
Vote ‘Leave’ on June 23 to get rid of Cameron and the Tory government!...
IT is rapidly becoming crystal clear how important it is to vote ‘Leave’ in the June 23rd referendum on the EU. A ‘Leave’ vote will...
Latest IMF report – Corporations in US, Britain and Europe facing bankruptcy
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) this week produced its latest Global Financial Stability Report, its half-yearly analysis of the state of the world’s banks...
Tory Ambulance Privatisation Drive!
FIGURES extracted this week by Freedom of Information requests prove conclusively that the privatisation of the ambulance service is being pushed through by the...
Zionist parliament finalises ‘death penalty’ bill targeting Palestinian abductees
On Sunday, news outlets across Israel revealed the finalised plans by the Zionist regime to carry out executions of Palestinians abducted by the Israeli...
Workers must answer state preparations by forcing through Brexit and putting an end to...
AFTER the news that over 3,000 troops were being mobilised for action after Brexit Day on March 29th, we have now been told that...
Organise a general strike over pensions!
ABOUT 1.5 million local council workers are to strike on March 28 to defend their local government pension scheme. It is being described as...