Bush is confronted by the legacy of Hurricane Katrina
UNITED States President George Bush was in New Orleans yesterday on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the city. The hurricane killed...
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...
Workers Must Support Corbyn Against The Tory And Labour Witch-Hunters!
THE BOURGEOIS media and Labour’s right wing pro-Zionists have no shame, as their attempts to label Labour leader Corbyn an anti-Semite show – otherwise...
Labour seeking state control of inquests
THE parliamentary Human Rights Committee report on the government’s latest Counter-Terrorism Bill, before its second reading in the House of Commons, records just...
‘No quick fix’ in the Lebanon says Downing Street
YESTERDAY saw US landing craft from a US aircraft carrier taking off US citizens and others, who had to wade through the sea to...
TUC leader pleads with EU president
YESTERDAY, Tory leader David Cameron hosted a breakfast meeting with the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, as part of his campaign to...
Martial Law plan for the UK as Cameron plans to strike Libya
THE capitalist press over the weekend was full of ‘revelations’ concerning ‘Operation Temperer’ a plan drawn up by police chiefs to put Britain...
A bankrupt Tory budget for a bankrupt Britain!
CHANCELLOR Hammond outlined a bankrupt policy for a bankrupt Britain yesterday in the House of Commons. The paper-thin disguise for this bankruptcy was Hammond’s...
Hands Off Addenbrooke’s – Stop The Savage NHS Cuts By Bringing Down The Tories!
THE prestigious and world famous NHS Addenbrooke’s Hospital has been placed into special measures. UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis commented yesterday: ‘This is a shocking...
UK steel industry collapse – occupy to defend jobs, nationalise the steel industry
THE slaughter of the British steel industry continued yesterday with the official announcement by Tata Steel that it is to axe a further 1,050...
Accept £4 billion of London NHS cuts or pay for treatment says NHS England
LONDON Hospitals are at ‘breaking point’ according to a report from NHS England over a £4 billion funding gap. NHS England (London region) director Dr...
Greek working class delivers blow to EU capitalism
THE victory of Syriza in the Greek election represents a huge blow by the Greek working class against European capitalism. Syriza, the coalition of the...
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...
Answer Hunt’s ‘eye-watering’ austerity cuts to restore the confidence of the bankers with...
THE UNITE trade union kicked off a campaign yesterday morning to call on Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt to ‘use...
Duncan Smith blames the poor and food banks for poverty
THE Tory Works and Pension Minister, Iain Duncan Smith, is furious with the accusation that the government’s policies of cutting all benefits to the...
PCS strike – No compromise with Tories possible. A general strike to kick them...
OVER 500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) came out on strike this...
Bankrupt Britain must take the revolutionary road – Make the TUC call a general...
THE leader of Birmingham City Council has apologised to the people of the city and insisted he had ‘no prior notice’ or knowledge of...
Children Going To School Hungry!
THE survey by the ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) into child poverty has exposed what the reality of bankrupt capitalism means for millions...
Union leaders go easy on Brown’s bosses’ budget
CHANCELLOR Brown’s budget yesterday outlined savage attacks on the working class, particularly low paid workers. His decision to abolish the 10 pence tax rate...
Tories and military show contempt for Parliament
THE ‘sovereign will’ of parliament was shown to be a complete fiction with the exposure of the participation of British pilots in bombing raids...
Bush dresses down ‘quitter’ Brown!
BUSH flew into London yesterday after sending a public order to Gordon Brown, via the Observer newspaper. This was that Brown must not announce...
Brown pleads in Jeddah for more oil and £100bn of investment in UK
FÎRST of all we saw the Bush-Blair attack on Iraq, whose strategic purpose was to expropriate Iraq’s oil in order to lower the world...
Lobby the TUC on 27 April to demand they take action to support the...
THE lobby of the TUC general council meeting tomorrow is crucial for the fight, not just in defence of the junior doctors, but to...
Publish and be damned – not as far as the Chilcot report is concerned!
FAMILIES of British soldiers killed in the Anglo-American March 2003 invasion, and then occupation, of Iraq, were yesterday threatening legal action against the chairman...
Gm And Magna Reach Agreement In Principle
GENERAL Motors and Magna and its Russian partner Sberbank (which includes the Gaz carmaker) have reached an agreement in principle over the contract...
All out on November 4th – UK must apologise for Balfour Declaration – UK...
PALESTINIAN Foreign Minister Riyad Malki said yesterday that Palestine is still waiting for the US Administration to submit its ideas and plan for achieving...
TERRORISM BILL: Defeat Blair’s police-state measures!
THE Labour government’s new Terrorism Bill, published yesterday, will be debated by MPs in the House of Commons today. For the past few days, Prime...
Tories in chaos as Paterson resigns amidst sleaze accusations – time to kick...
THE TORY government was in chaos yesterday following Tuesday’s vote to disband the existing Standards Committee replacing it with a Tory dominated committee to...
Victory To Gadaffi – Defeat The Nato Gangsters!
ON Saturday, Colonel Gadaffi stated that the counter-revolutionary groups that had tried to rise up in a number of areas in Tripoli had been...
Biden has China and Russia in his sights! End imperialist wars by putting an...
THROWING TRUMP’S ‘America First’ economic policy out the window, the new US administration under President Biden is reinstating the interventionist policies which dominated during...
Nationalise the drug companies and end agency staffing to save NHS
THE NHS is today fighting for its life, with even more savage cuts to come after the election. The Tories are actively planning to regionalise...
UK workers must support the Hamas call for action against genocide!
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in a statement on Wednesday, called on the ‘free people of the world to escalate popular protest’ against the...
Bring Down Blair Over Pensions
THE big pensions clash between the trade unions and the government is underway after nine unions representing 1.5 million council workers agreed to ballot...
French government collapses – forward to the European socialist revolution!
FRENCH bourgeois rule was plunged into a massive crisis on Wednesday when MPs voted to kick out prime minister Michel Barnier’s administration after just...
84,7000 Yemeni children have starved to death! UK workers must bring down the May...
A UK-BASED charity says more than 84,700 children under the age of five have starved to death in Yemen since the Saudi regime and...
Zionists’ murderous onslaught on Palestinians – UK unions must act now!
A ONE-day strike was called yesterday by Palestinians in the city of Jenin following the murder of two Palestinians by Israeli troops in a...
Behind The Crisis Talks In Minsk On Wednesday!
THE ‘peace talk’ that suggests Merkel and Hollande are seeking to organise a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis, acceptable to all, the imperialist...
Brexit crisis deepens reflecting the death agony of British capitalism!
THE British ruling class, far from recovering from the Brexit mutiny, when its chosen policy for saving British capitalism – that of ceding...
British capitalism is on the rocks of the capitalist crisis – the only way...
IN THE Daily Telegraph of January 1st one Robert Tombs writes under a headline: ‘As in 1914 and 1939, we may be sleepwalking towards...
Notre-Dame Cathedral burnt out as Macron concentrates spending on civil war riot police and...
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron was forced to cancel his important address to the French nation on Monday night, after a massive fire erupted at...
Streeting’s NHS ‘Back to Basics’ is a mandate for full scale cuts and complete...
LABOUR’S health secretary Wes Streeting yesterday unveiled his new ‘trimmed down’ mandate for the NHS. Declaring that he would bring the health service ‘back to...
Capitalism Is Set To Destroy Small Business And Then Turn The UK Into The...
A FIFTH of all UK small and medium sized businesses are set to close permanently over the next four weeks as they run out...
Spanish workers on the road to revolution
SPANISH PM Mariano Rajoy has just announced a 3% VAT rise from 18%-21%, and a series of austerity measures that will cut the Spanish...
Tories split and turn on each other while TUC Congress refuses to take general...
THE Tory Party is now split and divided as the world- wide capitalist crisis deepens and the weakness of the imperialist powers becomes more...
Increased sanctions on Russia drive the bosses’ war against the working class at home!
THE MOVE by the US, the UK and EU ruling classes to cut off all oil and gas supplies from Russia is now ‘unstoppable’...