Northern Rock sold at a loss as dictatorships rule in EU!
NORTHERN Rock (NR) plc is being sold to Virgin Money by the coalition government for £747m. After Northern Rock was nationalised in 2008 it...
Trade unions must take action to support the Tamil people
THOUSANDS of Tamils demonstrated on Westminster Bridge on Monday evening against the failure of the Brown government to lift a finger to save the...
EU 750 billion euros ‘Recovery Fund’ nothing more than a Trojan Horse for...
LAST Tuesday the emergency summit of leaders of the EU 27 member states finally agreed to a 750 billion euros pandemic recovery fund after...
Brown orders troop retreat from Basra City
BRITISH troops retreated from Basra City, quitting their base in the Presidential Palace on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab waterway in the dead...
Recall The Tuc Congress To Call General Strike To Support The Junior Doctors
THE latest two-day strike action of the junior doctors has been a resounding success with massive picket lines, and huge public support, while the...
Head teachers up in arms – schools being cut to the bone! All-out strike...
MORE than 7,000 heads have written a joint letter to 3.5 million families warning of the acute funding crisis in schools. The heads insist...
Miliband to support Tory cuts and Royal Mail privatisation!
ED MILIBAND, the new Labour Party leader, has made it perfectly clear that his victory does not mean that he is going to oppose...
Defend All A&E’s – Stop The NHS Cuts And Closures!
THE message from Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of NHS England about the NHS crisis, is ‘what crisis?’ There are just too many...
Form Councils Of Action To Stop All Evictions! Take Over Empty Properties To House...
THE UK is in the grip of a huge housing crisis with workers who have jobs and earn wages being evicted by greedy landlords...
Bury bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism
SUNDAY marked the fifth anniversary of the biggest banking collapse in the history of capitalism to date. On 15 September 2008 Lehman Brothers, a massive...
Super Inflation, The Result Of US–UK Intervention Into The Ukraine War, Is Driving Revolution...
AS THE US and the UK continue to fuel and arm the war in the Ukraine, the economic outlook for Europe and the EU...
Israel extends Wall to grab Jerusalem
THE Israeli Cabinet decided last Sunday to extend the route of the Zionists’ illegal ‘Security Wall’ to grab a large chunk of Palestinian East...
Rice calls for US-Africa open markets deal
THE US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, is currently touring Africa, putting forward the US plan to establish free trade and open markets with...
End the Israeli occupation of Palestine!
IT IS 40 years since Israeli warplanes destroyed the Egyptian airforce on the ground and Israeli troops occupied the Sinai peninsula, occupied Syria’s Golan...
House nuisance neighbours in containers says Field
LABOUR’S war against the working class and the poor continues, with Birkenhead MP Frank Field advocating that nuisance neighbours should be evicted and ‘housed’...
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...
Reject Gate Gourmet mass sackings deal!
A MASS meeting of the 710 TGWU trade union members, sacked and locked-out at Gate Gourmet, will take place at the Monsoon Club in...
Refugees From Imperialist Wars Are Welcome – Our Enemy Is At Home!
YESTERDAY the Tory government started to make good its pledge to mobilise the full might of its state armed forces against a handful of...
Smash Israeli Annexation Plan – Forward To The Palestinian State!
ISRAEL’S illegal annexation of Palestinian land due to start yesterday failed to materialise as the entire scheme was plunged into disarray. July 1 had been...
Stock Markets Crashing Worldwide!
THE sharp rises followed almost immediately by even bigger losses on the international stock markets over the past few days, point in only one...
Obama Heading For The Fiscal Cliff – US Workers Beware!
OBAMA’S re-election is a product of the refusal of US workers to allow an all-out robber baron of capitalism, Romney, to have control over...
Right To Strike Under Attack
The announcement by the Tory media, culture and sport secretary, Jeremy Hunt, that cabinet ministers are actively discussing the introduction of Ronald Reagan style...
TUC must call action now against the BoE and Tory theft of $1bn of...
ONE BILLION dollars (£800m) worth of Venezuelan gold in the vaults of the Bank of England has been successfully seized, in an act of...
Restore Student Grants – Smash All Fees
Students’ expenditure has gone up 44 per cent in real terms under the three Labour governments, an official Student Income and Expenditure survey has...
Workers must mobilise to disarm the capitalist state to end police killings of workers...
RASHAN Jermaine Charles died after being arrested by the police in the early hours of Saturday morning, July 22 on Kingsland Road, Hackney, east...
Labour’s ambition is to make the UK a ‘defence industrial superpower’!
ANNOUNCING the government’s spending review, which sets out day-to-day spending for the next four years, chancellor Rachel Reeves made a massive increase on defence...
French workers press forward as Stalinists retreat
MASS meetings of rail and transport workers were voting in France yesterday to continue their strike actions in defence of pensions. The RATP...
UK and US workers must unite to smash capitalism and imperialism! Forward to Socialism!
ELON Musk’s chainsaw wielding stunt with Argentine President Javier Milei before a conservative convention in the US on Thursday was a call to war...
Blair threatens to ‘close the book’ on the north
THE British and Irish premiers yesterday outlined their plan to restore direct rule from Westminster, via Dublin, if the Paisleyite DUP does not agree...
Housing crisis: socialism the only solution
THE proposal to blow up five blocks of flats in Glasgow’s Red Road, as part of the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games, has...
Demand TUC call a General Strike!
The leaders of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have refused to condemn Labour right-winger Alan Milburn for accepting a position with the Tory-led coalition...
Israel military in crisis – calls up 60,000 reservists to occupy Gaza City
ON MONDAY Hamas reported that the group had agreed terms for a ceasefire plan for Gaza that calls for a 60-day pause in fighting...
Benefit cap to be lowered by £6,000 say Treasury officials
CHANCELLOR George Osborne, the hammer of the poor, is so determined not to increase the taxes of the rich that he is about to...
Stop Royal Mail privatisation – No to mass sackings!
THE CWU leaders Dave Ward and Billy Hayes yesterday warned that the Brown government and the Royal Mail top management are planning to sack...
Tories to create a slave wage army of youth!
DAVID Cameron yesterday pledged that a future Tory government would ‘effectively abolish’ youth unemployment by simply forcing every young person to do ‘community work’...
Answer Labour’s war on benefits with a general strike to kick them out and...
Labour yesterday unveiled its much trailed ‘Get Britain Working’ plan, hailed by Starmer’s government as the ‘biggest employment reforms in a generation’, to drive...
Obama’s New Crusade To ‘Save The Christians Of Iraq’
THE USA and the UK have launched their new crusade on the pretext of saving the Christians and the Yazidis of Iraq from the...
Eu Meltdown
CREDIT ratings agency Moody’s yesterday reflected the rapidly developing EU meltdown by doing the unthinkable – warning the EU’s strongman, Germany, that...
Capitalism kills – UK death rate increased by Tory austerity war on workers
ON MONDAY, the BMJ health journal published the results of its research into the impact of the cost-of-living crisis and the austerity policies ruthlessly...
World capitalism is set to crash – It must be replaced with the World...
JUST five months after being elected with a landslide majority, a life or death political and economic crisis has engulfed British capitalism. Labour PM Sir...
Tories Splitting Over Eu Crisis!
WHETHER British capitalism should remain within the crisis-ridden, sinking ship of the EU, or strike out on its own has immediately split the Tory...
Make sure you attend the ‘Save Ealing Hospital, Save the NHS Conference!’
THE conference called tomorrow by the West London Council of Action and the All Trades Unions Alliance has come at a critical time. This week...
Sunak admits ‘borrowing will have to end’ and prepares for war against the working...
IN THE Spectator magazine this week, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak broke ranks with the official Tory line that British capitalism could survive by indefinitely...
Lecturers & students must strike to end all university fees and restore grants!
THE LATEST increase in university tuition fees in England to £9,250 by the Tory government has been launched without any announcement from the Department...
The Death Agony Of Capitalism Requires A Socialist Revolution!
THE crisis of the capitalist system erupted on Saturday with an opening salvo of explosive tariffs imposed by the US President Trump on his...