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...
British capitalism’s crisis of rule
THE inability of the Tories to pull ahead in the opinion polls, proves that 13 years of Labour rule has not been enough to...
Cameron’s Permanent War On Workers
‘TODAY the biggest challenge we face is economic,’ Cameron told his audience of City of London bosses on Monday night at the Lord Mayor’s...
US-UK bullies threaten war with Iran!
THE Tory Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, declared the UK’s readiness to go to war with Iran last Thursday when he threatened that UK and...
CWU must organise national industrial action ballot!
BEING able to force the Brown-Mandelson government to ‘shelve’ the bill for the part-privatisation of the Royal Mail proves that the working class is...
ICC refuses to act over Israel’s Gaza war crimes
PALESTINIAN youth and workers marched very bravely all over the occupied territories last Friday on Land Day, and they were met as usual by...
Defend living standards! Nationalise the oil and gas companies!
JUST a few months ago the UNISON leadership accepted the government’s below inflation wage cutting deal over three years. Now the union has had...
General Strike To Defend The Cwu! Smash The Union Busters! Defeat Privatisation!
POSTAL workers are not surprised at the leak which shows that Royal Mail management, with the support of the Brown government, intends to impose...
Capitalist State Tooling Up F0R Civil War
A SCOTLAND YARD review into the 2010 summer riots ‘Four Days in August’ shows very clearly that the capitalist state in the UK...
Peugeot, the NHS and pensions
THE crisis of capitalism is now erupting in Britain with massive force. The government has declared that the bankrupt capitalist system cannot afford final salary...
Social Revolution Is The Issue Not Terrorism!
THE Continuity IRA and the Real IRA have opened fire and killed and wounded soldiers and policemen in the north of Ireland, breaking open...
GM jobs crisis hits UK-EU!
THE week long closure of the two remaining GM owned Vauxhall plants in the UK at Luton and Ellesmere Port which started yesterday marks...
Bush’s ‘New Middle East’
BUSH is trying to establish his ‘New Middle East’ on the bones of thousands of dead and injured Lebanese and Palestinian men, women and...
Top of the capitalist agenda – raising food prices and starving the world
THE United Nations is warning of disturbances and revolutions in developing countries worldwide as its food price index hits an all-time high. The UN’s food...
Starmer refuses to condemn Trump as he threatens to unleash war across the globe. General...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump, after his illegal attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of president Nicolas Maduro, immediately followed up with threats that US imperialism...
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...
The Police Spy In Your Pocket
THE millions of people throughout the world who rushed out last June to buy the latest must-have piece of technology from the Apple company...
TORIES FACE WIPE OUT – WHILE LABOUR MPs PLAN EU ELECTIONS COUP!
WITH THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS fast approaching, the bourgeois democratic system through which the capitalist ruling class has ruled over the working class in the...
The BofE didn’t recognise the crisis of capitalism even when it stared it in...
SIR John Gieve, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, yesterday admitted that he was a victim of the historical blindness of the...
The Eagle cannot fly so Smith is to challenge Corbyn
NOW that the ‘Eagle’ has refused to fly as pledged, she has handed the baton, although just 25 votes behind and with votes still...
The eurozone is a pack of cards ready to collapse, says the economist who...
THE man who is credited as the principle architect of the single European currency 14 years ago has just warned that his ‘project’ is...
Gates flays NATO and threatens the US will abandon ship
LAST Friday, at the NATO summit, the outgoing US Defence Secretary Bill Gates flayed NATO savagely and ridiculed the military alliance, threatening that the...
Labour government forced to borrow £18 billion last month as UK capitalism crashes into...
SPIRALLING public spending and interest payments on government debt have forced Chancellor Rachel Reeves to borrow £18 billion last month, the highest August figure...
Programme of action needed to prevent capitalist catastrophe
YESTERDAY Adams Childrenswear announced that it had closed down 111 of its stores throughout the UK, and that its remaining 160 shops would stay...
New Israeli Regime ‘Will Work Against Peace’ Says Erekat
THE new right-wing Israeli coalition government, just formed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, will be belligerent and work against peace, a senior Palestinian official...
Lobby TUC for general strike to bring down coalition
THIS year the Trade Union Congress meets in Bournemouth from the 8th to 11th September under conditions where, if the Tory-led coalition government have...
Putin defies Trump – Time to Build 4th International – Forward with World Socialist...
THE peace talks between Russia and the Western powers represented by Donald Trump have hit the buffers with an almighty bang after Russia refused...
UK stuck in ‘debt doom loop’ – Socialist Revolution the only way to break...
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a dire warning to Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves that she must take ‘unpopular’ decisions to halt British...
It Is Time For The UK, EU And US Trade Unions To Recognise And...
A SENIOR member of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has said that there is no real will on the part of the United States...
Sarkozy flops – gets less votes than Chirac
THE landslide vote for Sarkozy that was to get him off on a flying start as the ‘Saviour of France’ for his war against...
Workers and the trade unions must take action to bring down split Tories!
ON Friday 15th September 14 trade unions representing over a million nurses and NHS staff wrote to Tory Chancellor Hammond, to demand a 3.9%...
New Espionage Act under way to jail journalists and whistleblowers
THE Tory government is set to introduce a new Espionage Act under which its judiciary will be able to jail journalists and ordinary members...
Capitalism sinking under $199 trillion of debt
A MAJOR report by the McKinsey Global Institute exposes the historic depth of the crisis gripping the world capitalist system, a debt crisis of...
Starmer cuddles up to the Financial Times as he gets ready to stab the...
WORLD capitalism and in particular British capitalism is in its greatest crisis ever with sections of the Tory party compeletely demoralised by the ‘Oceans...
Forward with the Egyptian revolution
HUNDREDS of people are reported to have been killed in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities throughout Egypt, and thousands injured after the army leaders...
Truss insists no retreat as she prepares to split Tories and move to dictatorship
TORY Prime Minister Liz Truss finally emerged from Downing Street yesterday to make her first public statement on the economic crisis that has brought...
May Day uprising: in France and across Europe workers rise up against capitalist crisis
THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets throughout France on Sunday sending a clear ‘message’ that workers are preparing a massive...
Gates Gives Pakistan Its Orders
NO sooner has the US’s man, Musharraf, been decisively beaten in the Pakistan elections, than the US through its Defence Secretary Gates is issuing...
US unions being driven to historic break with Democrats
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said last Friday that US workers want an ‘independent’ labour movement designed to help the working class, not a specific...
Bring Out All The Unions To Defend The NHS!
THE situation could not be clearer. The whole of the trade union movement and the majority of non-trade unionists support the 24-hour strike actions...
Greece headed for revolution!
THE situation for Greek capitalism has become so serious that Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos has demanded that Germany returns the Greek gold that...
Labour saves Cameron
Just six weeks in power and the Tory government are so weak and divided that they can only survive through the treacherous support of...
Arab League – accomplices of imperialism
The leaders of the 22 member Arab League meeting on Saturday came out decisively on the side of imperialism when they issued a call...
Scotland Yard refuses to back down as the capitalist state gives up on bourgeois...
TORY leadership rivals Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have found themselves leading the condemnation of Scotland Yard after a senior officer threatened to prosecute...
Nagasaki anti-militarism!
LAST week saw the 70th anniversary of one of the greatest war crimes in human history, the dropping of the two Atomic bombs onto...