Bankrupt Miliband brings back Butcher Blair!
LABOUR leader Miliband’s refusal to fight for socialist policies and answer massive austerity with a campaign to replace bankrupt capitalism with socialism has seen...
Trade unions and the Labour government
AT the Labour Party conference, the trade unions and a large minority of Labour constituency parties defeated the Labour government on at least five...
World banking system faces melt-down
THE world crisis of capitalism has sharpened to the extent that even the staid Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has been forced to express...
Inflation rages, the trade deficit widens and the bosses demand even tougher anti-union laws
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee yesterday kept rates at 0.5%. Inflation however is continuing to rise as world oil, wheat, meat, cotton and...
Corbyn must demand a general election at once!
AS THE Tory and Labour Party crises deepen, the Bank of England yesterday announced that the outlook for UK financial stability is ‘challenging’. Bank of...
With Food Banks Going Broke And The Tories Targeting The Railways The TUC Must...
THE TUC CONGRESS is set to meet on Tuesday October 18th, just as the Truss government is poised to take the rail trade unions...
Fight VAT increases with mass actions to bring down coalition
THE increase of VAT from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent today will mean destitution for millions of unemployed and low paid workers...
Osborne’s capitulation to banks
Yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, introduced legislation on banking reforms – reforms which he is desperately trying to insist will prevent the continuing...
Answer attacks on welfare state with a general strike
THE LOCAL Government Association (LGA) yesterday warned that the increase in council tax bills by 5% will do absolutely nothing to halt the continued...
World Crisis Blowing US Trade Union Leaders Apart
THE American workers are facing major problems, caused by the deepening crisis of the world capitalist system. Among these problems are the export of millions...
The Trade Unions Must Call General Strikes To Bring Down Capitalism!
SEVERAL human rights organisations have condemned the UK Supreme Court’s decision that a lawsuit against the government, challenging its continued arms sales to Israel,...
Trump and Pence threaten Venezuela with military intervention!
PRESIDENT Trump, in his latest speech on restarting the Afghan war, made it clear he is not just interested in ‘killing terrorists’. He insisted: ‘We...
Brown and Darling saving the bosses by savaging the workers
AS is his way, the Prime Minister addressed the CBI bosses organisation yesterday, just hours before his Chancellor was due to declare to the...
Time The TUC Organised General Strike Action To Aid The Establishment Of Palestinian State!
THE TUC has just published a statement condemning Israel and stating that ‘The illegal occupation of Palestine means that Palestinians face violations of their...
World Crisis Can Only Be Resolved By World Revolution!
THE DEEPENING of the world crisis of capitalism is driving forward massive job cuts for workers across the world, as manufacturing industry globally faces...
TUC Leaders Waste Time Writing To Truss For ‘A Cast-Iron Assurance’!
YESTERDAY’S capitalist press was full of dire warnings of the massive increases in taxation that the Truss government is planning, and with it the...
Victory to Assad! Stop bombing Libya – withdraw UK special forces!
ON Monday the US launched air strikes on the Libyan city of Sirte against ISIL, at the request of one of the current Libyan...
Labour MPs condemn gov. for planning ‘shameful trade deal’ with Israel!
THE Labour government has outraged a large number of Labour MPs and very many Labour Party members and supporters by proceeding with its plan...
Only re-nationalisation of energy industry under socialism can prevent fuel poverty
BRITISH capitalism in the 21st century cannot guarantee even the most basic pre-requisites for life if you are not wealthy. This is the stark message...
British Army Handed 300 Over To Afghan Torturers
AFTER the killing and torture of Baha Mousa in Iraq was supplemented by a court martial that refused to convict those responsible for his...
Trade unions must call general strike to bring down May government and bring...
ON TUESDAY Theresa May launched what has been billed as her final attempt to cobble together a parliamentary majority amongst MPs for her ‘new’...
Revolution not bourgeois aid or charity, the future for Africa
ON Saturday, leaders of the capitalist world, from the Pope and his Cardinals to various Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and not a few Chancellors...
The crisis savages the workers while the rich double their wealth
THE total wealth of the richest 1,000 individuals and families in Britain has more than doubled in the last 10 years to £547bn, the...
One Year Since The Marikana Massacre
THE MARIKANA massacre of mineworkers in South Africa one year ago, in which 34 miners were murdered by the police and hundreds injured, has...
Grenfell Tower – Tories tore up health and safety rules then invited cladding companies...
AN INVESTIGATION by Sky News into the role of the firms that produce the plastic used to cover the exterior of Grenfell Tower has...
Capitalist state steps back from the brink!
BRITISH Airways cabin crew cheered and danced and celebrated yesterday morning. They sang ‘We are the Champions’ after their strength forced a panel...
Corbyn lets Labour’s right wing drag him into the ‘Remain’ camp!
LABOUR leader Corbyn was pushed yesterday for convincing reasons for voting to ‘Remain’ in the EU in the forthcoming referendum. He said that EU...
Chinese Stalinists fear workers political revolution!
IN an extraordinary speech given at his annual press conference, the outgoing Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, warned that China risks a ‘historical tragedy’...
NATO under the hammer – as Tories refuse to serve in Kandahar
THE surge organised by President Obama and General Petraeus in Afghanistan has been turned into its opposite by the Taleban. The Taleban have now organised...
Bring down Blair regime from the left
THE Blair government suffered two body-blows yesterday. Blair’s main cabinet ally, Blunkett, was forced to resign, and the government’s 66 majority was reduced to...
Forward to the end of the occupation of Iraq
BOTH American generals and ex-British ambassadors have been predicting that Iraq is either on the brink of civil war or that it has already...
Millions of Palestinians facing death by starvation – unions must call general strikes in...
UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, has accused Israel of ‘starving civilians’ including a million children in Gaza by deliberately blocking food...
US Opening Up Second Front In Africa
MILLIONS of Africans will understandably be fearful at the latest strategic initiative that US President George Bush has just announced. The president has instructed his...
Tories Challenge The Unions With Plan To Impose Low Pay
UNIONS have reacted angrily to plans to scrap national pay rates for public sector workers. Chancellor George Osborne is expected to say civil...
Bp Leads Shares Crash As Banking Crisis Grows!
OIL giant BP’s share price has fallen nearly 17 per cent to £4.12, its lowest level since March 2009. The sharp sell-off came as it...
The Crisis In The Ukraine!
THE OSCE has revealed the 12-point roadmap behind the September 5 truce signed in Minsk. The document, titled ‘Protocol on the results of consultations...
Workers action shakes Rajapakse
A FIERCE struggle has erupted in Sri Lanka between the military-police dictatorship of Mahinda Rajapakse and over a hundred thousand garment workers in the...
As world crisis deepens the UK working class needs to take power and bring...
THE working class of the world faces a revolutionary autumn and winter, as the major imperialist powers step up their war in the Ukraine...
Carney steps up his anti-May war!
THE war between the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, and Tory prime minister Theresa May was stepped up on Wednesday when...
Mamdani’s Victory Must Be Followed By The Victory Of Gaza And Its Starving People
ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S victory winning the race to become New York City’s first Muslim mayor came as Democrats swept through the first major elections of...
Israeli land robbery continues as Human Rights Watch condemns Hamas!
ISRAEL has ordered Palestinian landowners to evacuate their land in the town of Tuqu’ in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli authorities...
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...
Take mass action on September 21 to stop NHS privatisation
UNISON members working for NHS Logistics will take two 24-hour strikes over the next two weeks to fight the Labour plan to privatise the...
Trump to send nuclear armed missiles to Ukraine – end imperialist wars with victory of...
ON MONDAY, US president Donald Trump addressed the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in a rambling hour-long speech where he boasted of the ‘historic dawn...
King urinates on the green shoots of recovery
‘THE world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition,’ said Bank of England governor Mervyn...