Times Rich List shows that austerity UK has become a paradise for the...
THE just-published Sunday Times rich list shows that in austerity-hit UK – where millions of workers have not had a rise in the ten...
Stop Hospital Closures – Halt NHS Privatisation
THAT the record £2.1 billion NHS surplus should coincide with press headlines that the NHS is at breaking point is no accident. The winter has...
US trade unions must evict Trump and break with Democrats to found a Labour...
PRESIDENT TRUMP has stated that he has no intention of leaving the White House and the presidency voluntarily. He said on Saturday: ‘We all know...
Economic crisis of capitalism can only be resolved with socialist revolution
THE PLUNGE of world capitalism over the precipice of an almighty crash has become so obvious that a sense of panic is gripping bourgeois...
Hands off nurses! Government to blame for cuts
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) started its annual conference this week in the midst of a brutal attack on the nursing profession spearheaded...
Obama attempts to con Irish workers
FOR the second time in two weeks Irish workers and youth have been subjected to a powerful imperialist propaganda assault designed to shore up...
US Armed Forces Chief Opts For Dialogue With Iran
THE scale of the military and economic beating that the US-UK imperialists have taken, as a result of their disastrous military adventures in Iraq...
Palestine suspends recognition of the state of Israel!
THE PALESTINIAN Central Council met in Ramallah on Sunday and Monday and, after deliberations on important matters for the Palestinian people, it made a...
A bankers budget from a bankers government
DESPITE all the government statements against leaking government information before it is to go before the House of Commons, the Treasury was at it...
Brazil and Bernanke give banks the shivers!
IT REALLY doesn’t take very much to send the international capitalist money markets into a state of panic, as the US Federal Reserve chairman,...
Sunak’s speech a declaration of war on workers to make them pay for the...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his speech to the Tory Party conference yesterday pledged to ‘double down’ on his plans to resuscitate drowning British...
Indefinite united strike action needed by public sector workers
MEMBERS of the 270,000-strong National Union of Teachers (NUT), Britain’s largest teaching union are to take strike action on April 24 over pay. They...
Blair and Brown threaten the trade unions
THE message from the Blair-Brown leadership to the trade unions and their leaders is ‘face up to globalisation or cease to exist’. Even the two’s...
Royal Mail – The Way Forward To Victory
THE announcement by the CWU of a programme of two 48-hour national strikes across all sections of Royal Mail, along with a programme of...
G20 bankrupts meet protected by 10,000 riot police batons
LEADERS of the major capitalist states, and the leaders of Russia and China, who have linked their fate to the future of the crisis...
Capitalist recovery fraud is stoking working class fury
WORKERS and young people will be forgiven if they believe that they are living in some parallel universe that has absolutely no connection with...
Obama champions murdering Americans abroad!
OBAMA, in his speech on Thursday at Fort McNair, presented himself as a president eager to end the foreign wars of the USA, and...
Nationalise BA – Get Rid Of Work-For-Nothing Capitalism
THE Willie Walsh plan for rescuing BA from the capitalist crisis is quite straightforward. He has gone beyond wage cuts, he wants ‘his’ 40,000...
Oil giants make huge profits off backs of workers – nationalise the oil and...
AS MILLIONS of families face massive increases in their energy bills when the Tories raise the cap on prices by 54% in April, the...
308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla 308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla blockade busters
ON May 31 this year, Israeli commandos abseiled onto the deck of the ‘Mavi Marmara’, which was sailing in international waters on its way...
A Case Of Strange Bedfellows
THE Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has come back from the US convinced that the Labour government must change its position against the use...
Lilliputian Smith, the would-be great dictator!
LABOUR right winger Owen Smith, in his desire to satisfy the big bosses and the bankers, is going even further than the Tories after...
The working class faces the threat of state terrorism!
TWO videos, one by the FBI and one by the British police, have just been issued giving advice to people about actions they should...
Raising the white flag over Basra airfield
THE rotting reality behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spin concerning the ‘reconfiguration’ of British troops in southern Iraq is the complete demoralisation of the...
US and South Korea ‘pour gasoline onto the fire’ says North Korea
THE US and South Korea have begun conducting annual military drills, ignoring North Korean appeals to halt the exercises. Last week North Korea appeared to...
A billionaires’ paradise – the UK under Blair and Brown
IN the last 12 months the working class and the vast majority of the middle class have desperately struggled under a huge and...
Yellen signs up to Gordon Brown’s ‘no more boom or bust’ on the brink...
IN A SPEECH in London last Tuesday, the chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Janet Yellen, announced to a disbelieving world that the...
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...
Agree to robbery with violence or face eviction – Troika warns Cyprus
MPs in Cyprus have been told to agree, by Monday, on a series of bills to raise 6bn euros off the backs of the...
Ice – Immigration Customs Enforcement Officers – Murder Alex Jeffrey Pretti!
FOUR US immigration officers have shot and killed a 37-year-old man, Alex Jeffrey Pretti in front of screaming protesters in an anti-ICE protest in...
‘Let them go bust’ says Bank of England chief
THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, in a letter to the House of Commons Treasury select committee has warned that efforts...
Banks are crashing while 140,000 repossessions loom at Northern Rock
THE HSBC bank has just declared a 28 per cent, $3.9bn fall in half year profits. It has written off another $3.7 billion...
No ‘bounce back’ as UK economy shrinks by further 1.5% in three months
IT SPEAKS volumes for the disastrous state of British capitalism that news that the UK economy has collapsed by a further 1.5% in the...
The British state is compromised by its complicity with terrorists!
TORY leader Theresa May relaunched the sinking ship of her election campaign with a speech yesterday that re-hashed the now familiar line that the...
Running Scared Of Youth And Revolution!
THE German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned a Paris conference of French, German and Italian leaders on Tuesday that youth unemployment of almost 25%...
Peace Prize for the ‘Fourth Reich’
The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ‘six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe’, according to Thorbjoern Jagland...
Russian workers having overthrown capitalism must carry out a political revolution against the...
THE degeneration of the Russian Stalinist bureaucracy has been revealed for all to see with its hiring of a mercenary army of criminals to...
Army is ‘sick’ from Iraq & Afghan campaigns
ONE in every fourteen British soldiers, almost 7,000 are sick or injured at a time when every regiment of 600 faces a shortfall of...
30th anniversary of Malvinas war – reject imperialist war hysteria
Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas (Falklands) war, a war involving a tiny island with a population in 1982 of less than...
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...
Karzai talks with the Taleban as US policy comes unstuck
THE situation in Afghanistan has gone from bad to worse as far as the imperialist powers and their plans for the region are concerned. Last...
US Raises Interest Rates To The Highest Level In 22 Years – The Workers...
THE US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years, as it fights to stabilise prices in the world’s...
Occupy to stop car plant closures – nationalise the motor industry to defend...
YESTERDAY, US carmaker Ford announced it will close the car engine plant in Bridgend, South Wales, throwing all 1,700 workers out of a job...
NHS driven to the brink by Tory cuts! This government must be kicked...
AS THE NHS winter crisis sets in, savage cuts to the health service have pushed services to the point of collapse. A severe lack...
Reactionary Gove wants a pro-imperialist syllabus
THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has advanced his plan to rid the GCSE English exam of classic books and plays he considers to...