Inflation Out Of Control, Rate Rise On The Way
INFLATION is on the rise with the CPI rate increasing from 3.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent, while the RPI rate rose from...
Reid goes into opposition to a Brown government
IT MUST be a grave crisis indeed when Reid the Home Secretary – who only a week ago was posing as carrying the entire...
Israeli Dress Rehearsal For Attack On Iran!
US officials yesterday admitted that a major military exercise, which saw more than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighter jets taking part in...
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...
TUC general secretary appointed to the Bank of England Board
ON WEDNESDAY, Labour’s Chancellor John Healey announced that he has appointed TUC general secretary Paul Nowak to the board of the Bank of England. Healey...
Britain ordered to slash spending on welfare benefits or face huge tax rises
BRITAIN must cut spending on welfare benefits or face a miserable cycle of repeated tax rises every year, JP Morgan, the world’s largest bank,...
Kelly forges ahead with schools’ privatisation
AMID media speculation that Blair’s government is willing to compromise on plans for independent ‘trust schools’, contained in next month’s Education Bill, the reality...
Labour Defence Secretary sends a message to Moscow
THE defence review will send a ‘message to Moscow’ about Britain’s ‘readiness to fight if required’, Defence Secretary John Healey has told the BBC. Ripping...
Forward with the European socialist revolution
YESTERDAY Europe shook as millions of Spanish workers took to the streets in a general strike, while over 100,000 workers from all over Europe...
Workers Must Occupy Gm Luton And Ellesmere Port And Demand Their Nationalisation
NEXT MONDAY June 1 GM will seek Section 11 Bankruptcy, cutting off GM Europe with less cash than is required to see the week...
World crisis hits eurozone
THE announcement by the unelected Italian prime minister, Mario Monti, that he is quitting the job sent the Italian economy into a massive crisis...
Tory hostile environment alive and well and making a profit for the government!
A NEWSPAPER investigation has revealed that the Home Office has been making huge profits out of the human misery of the Tories’ ‘hostile environment’...
1 million forced onto Universal Credit while another 2 million get nothing – Tories...
THE NUMBER of people forced to claim Universal Credit soared by nearly a million in the past two weeks. According to the Department for Work...
The raging coronavirus crisis is smashing up the worldwide capitalist economy!
ON FRIDAY £60 billion was wiped off the UK’s leading companies. The FTSE 100 plunged by 3.62%. In the US a rate cut saw...
Daily Telegraph warns capitalism has entered its ‘final act’ with UK the ‘tinderbox’ of...
Such is the depth of the crisis in British capitalism that even the ultra-loyal Tory press can no longer pretend that the working class...
Youth unemployment driving world socialist revolution
This weekend, the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos debated the issue of youth unemployment worldwide, a debate that exposed the mortal terror being...
Demolition of West Bank Khan al-Ahmar village is a war crime says Amnesty!
THE PLANNED demolition by Israeli forces of a West Bank village and the forcible transfer of its residents to make way for illegal Jewish...
Miliband’s Labour saves Cameron government
ON MONDAY evening, Labour Party leader Miliband completely betrayed the interests of the working class, the youth and the majority of the middle class...
Starmer wants British boots on ground in Ukraine and to force workers to pay...
IN ADVANCE of yesterday’s panic meeting of EU and UK leaders in Paris, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer announced that he is prepared to...
Labour stands by crumbling capitalism to the end
ON Monday Chancellor Darling opened his pre-budget report with a piece of cheerful idiocy, saying that he was ‘confident that the UK, as an...
War on Iran expands threatening to crash stock markets and drive inflation
THE US and the Israeli regime ramped up their war against Iran and the people of the Middle East yesterday with an increased bombardment...
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...
Nationalise the Pharmaceutical Industry
AT last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, 100 pharmaceutical companies and private health care companies issued a statement demanding that governments around the...
Low Interest Rates And Quantitative Easing Forever Pledges Carney
THE new Bank of England governor Carney yesterday in his ‘Inflation Report’ gave big business a sample of his ‘forward guidance’. This amounted to inflation,...
Disband the police force now – forward to a workers state and socialism
DAVID Carrick, a serving Metropolitan Police officer, admitted 49 offences in court on Monday, pleading guilty to 24 rape charges, and false imprisonments, and...
Brown boasts that he has assured the future of the banks
THE Prime Minister revealed once again on BBC Radio 2 just what his priorities are and just what he is working night, noon and...
Greek crisis rages – forward with European socialist revolution
European finance ministers met in Brussels yesterday to rubber-stamp the deal agreed at the last minute last Thursday to bail-out the bankrupt Greek economy...
10,000 Jobs Threatened As Starmer Spends Billions On The UK Military!
CUTS to infrastructure projects like roads and school repairs threaten 10,000 UK jobs following outgoing PM Keir Starmer’s decision to cut billions of pounds...
War declared against the working class as 800 P&O seafarers are sacked and replaced...
POWERFUL protests erupted in Liverpool, Hull and Dover yesterday after 800 P&O Ferries’ seafarers were sacked by decree and replaced by cheap labour. The RMT...
Egyptian Army Mobilises For Military Coup
GENERAL Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s army chief, whose force is paid for by the United States, has warned that the current political crisis ‘could...
NATO States To Deliver War Planes To Kiev As US And UK Plan...
THREE NATO countries will deliver more than 70 warplanes for the use of Ukraine, military representatives in Kiev announced yesterday morning. According to a statement...
Netanyahu’s coalition rips away façade of Israeli ‘democracy’ – trade unions must boycott Israel
OVER 10,000 people took to the streets of the main Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday in protest against the policies unveiled last...
Only a sliding scale of wages can defend workers from inflation
OFFICIAL figures have confirmed that consumer price inflation surged to 5.4% in 12 months to December – up from 5.1% month before – the...
Bring down the Tories on June 8th to save the NHS, and end benefit...
ON JUNE 23 2016 the adventurers Cameron and Osborne, the then PM and Chancellor, came unstuck when they lost their EU referendum and were...
Trade unions must take action to boycott Israel, and halt all arms supplies!
ISRAELI warplanes struck multiple targets across the Gaza Strip on Friday after a 72-hour ceasefire agreement ended at 8am, killing a child and injuring...
Rescue US – The Eu Bosses Plead With Chinese Stalinists
AS details emerge of the desperate measures hammered out in Europe on Wednesday night in an attempt to save the eurozone from collapse and...
Russia Under Attack!
RUSSIA IS UNDER FULL SCALE ATTACK with oil prices now down to $60 a barrel and the Saudis and the Gulf states saying that...
US workers must form a Labour Party
THE Republican Party has won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, and now controls both Houses of Congress, turning the final...
Labour slashing 100,000 NHS jobs as recession drives war to make working class pay...
YESTERDAY, the Guardian newspaper revealed that 100,000 jobs in the NHS could be wiped out because of the brutal cost-cutting regime imposed by Labour...
Tories split over reopening – time to bring them down
THE SPLIT within the Tory Party over ending the coronavirus lockdown broke out in the open at the weekend when Tory Foreign Secretary Dominic...
Al-Sadr Calls To End US Occupation Of Iraq
THE White House has finally endorsed the text of the US-Iraq unequal treaty that will allow the US to keep 150,000 troops in Iraq...
Restore Grants, End Fees, Defend Free State Educaton!
TUITION fees must rise by 100 per cent to £6,000 a year if universities are to cover their teaching costs, is the main...
Coalition plans Royal Mail sell-off at knock-down price
News broke yesterday that the long expected attempt by the coalition to sell off and privatise Royal Mail is set to occur this autumn. What...
Chilcott Inquiry Findings Must Be Published At Once!
THIS week the chairman of the influential Public Administration Committee urged ministers to ‘sort out’ the delay in publishing the official inquiry into the...
Political crisis in Europe
The political crisis for the European bourgeoisie deepened yesterday following the results of exit polls at the end of the first round of voting...