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US ‘putting a knife to China’s neck’
ON MONDAY the Chinese government issued a document accusing US president Donald Trump’s administration of ‘trade bullyism practices’ that represent the ‘greatest source of...
Corbyn and McDonnell peddle reformist rubbish to avert revolution
Both Jeremy Corbyn and his deputy, shadow chancellor John McDonnell, unveiled their ‘radical’ new plans for saving British capitalism from the anger of the...
Break with the EU now! Forward to a Workers Government and...
WHEN TORY PM May went to the European Union to try and sell her Chequers plan she was met with a unanimous ‘NO’ from...
Form Councils Of Action To Stop Savage Council Cuts And Bring...
THE LEADERS of England’s councils have predicted the inevitability of ‘unpalatable cutbacks’ in vital council services next year as a result of the Tories...
Israel sacrifices Russian IL-20 and 15 lives to protect its...
THE ISRAELI regime has repaid Russia and President Putin for their attempts to reach some agreement over a withdrawal of Iranian forces from Syria,...
‘No strategy to deal with crisis’ – ruling class
‘WE HAVE no ability to turn the economy around. When the next recession comes it is going to be deeper and last longer than...
Rbs And Criminal Activity!
ROYAL Bank of Scotland (RBS) chief executive Ross McEwan has been accused by MPs on the Treasury Select Committee of withholding information about an...
Doctors and nurses warn cuts mean new winter crisis
DOCTORS and nurses slammed government cuts and warned of a new winter crisis in response to the latest NHS Digital performance figures released on...
On tenth anniversary of world banking collapse – Forward to Socialism!
ON THE eve of the tenth anniversary of collapse into bankruptcy of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, which brought the world’s capitalist banking...
NHS Staffing Crisis As Wages Are Forced Down And Conditions Worsened
THE shortage of NHS staff in England is worsening official figures show. One in 11 posts is vacant, with the situation particularly bad...
Defend Russia And China By Completing World Socialist Revolution!
RUSSIA has begun its largest military manoeuvres in four decades in eastern Siberia, with thousands of troops from China and Mongolia also taking part. The...
Congress Must Sack O’Grady And Mobilise To Bring Down The Tories!
THE ‘leader’ of the Trade Union Congress, Frances O’Grady yesterday stabbed millions of workers in the back when she declared on The Andrew Marr...
Blair Wants To Split The Labour Party And Join With Remain...
THE DEPTH of the crisis of the UK ruling class can be gauged by the fact that they have been forced to bring the...
SAFTU DEMANDS ARREST JOOSTE! – after Steinhoff shares plunge by R134bn
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) demands that Markus Jooste, the former Chief Executive Officer of Steinhoff, be arrested and charged with...
Bankrupt Italian Capitalism Is Set To Crash And Bring The Bankrupt...
ITALY’S economic crisis is reaching the point of explosion, an explosion that even bourgeois economists fear will bring down the eurozone and the entire...
Labour Must Expel The Splitters And Battle For A Corbyn-Led Government!
SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell has revealed he is ‘worried and saddened’ about the prospect of the Labour Party being split by the fake ‘Labour...
Tory austerity gives workers choice of ‘eat, heat or pay rent’...
‘EAT, heat or pay rent’ that is the stark choice facing millions of low paid and unemployed workers living in private rented accommodation in...
Workers must take action to force through the 2016 Referendum decision...
BREXIT Secretary Raab announced yesterday that ‘Today, I want to set out the steps we in government and you in business, the public sector...
Raab Outlines Brexit Crisis!
TORY Brexit secretary Dominic Raab yesterday set out what he called ‘practical and proportionate’ advice in case the UK leaves the EU with no...
AUSTERITY MUST END NOW! says Unite’s McCluskey as nurses’ leader quits
‘AUSTERITY must end now,’ Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey said yesterday, on the eve of the TUC Congress, following the announcement that the UK...
Greek austerity is set to continue! Only way out is through...
GREECE has completed a three-year eurozone emergency loan programme worth 61.9bn euros (£55bn; $70.8bn). This was part of the biggest bailout in global financial...
RBS bankers joked about destroying the US housing market
THIS week, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a load of emails and transcripts of phone conversations between senior executives of RBS, the...
Super-rich elite is thumbing its nose at super-exploited workers and commuters!
RESEARCH into FTSE 100 chief executives’ pay packages and the just-published findings have confirmed to angry workers that they have been taken for a...
Corbyn For Pm – Bring Down The Tories And Forward To...
THESE are truly desperate times for the Tories. Their government is selling out Brexit. Their party is split and divided, with Boris Johnson challenging...
Stock markets crash as ‘contagion’ from Turkish currency collapse spreads to...
Last Friday the Turkish currency, the lira, crashed spectacularly, dropping as much as 16% relative to the dollar – it lost a third of...
Tory enforcers paid £1,500 a day to push through savage Northants...
TWENTY-one libraries closing, rubbish collections and road maintenance stripped to the bone, hundreds of council workers sacked, children’s services axed – these were...
The split in the British ruling class is clearing the way...
THE POUND was sent crashing down yesterday against the US dollar and the euro prompting the bourgeois press to howl about ‘the end of...
Turkey strike ban is ‘a violation of constitution’
TURKEY’S Constitutional Court has ruled that the cabinet decree banning IndustriALL’s affiliate United Metalworkers’ Union (Birleflik Metal-Is) decision to strike in 2015 is a...
Bank of England hike in interest rates will push workers and...
YESTERDAY’S announcement by the Bank of England of an increase in interest rates from 0.5% to 0.75% will be disastrous for the vast majority...
Huge Increase In Teenagers Going Hungry!
THERE is a huge increase in the number of teenagers going hungry during the summer holidays, a National Education Union (NEU) poll finds today....
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...
AS THE CAPITALIST CRISIS DEEPENS, MPs WANT A DICTATORSHIP OVER...
THE UK faces a ‘democratic crisis’ with voters being targeted with ‘pernicious views’ and data being manipulated, a parliamentary MPs committee warns. According to...
Household debt £300bn! Council evictions soar! Bring capitalism down!
HOUSEHOLD debt in UK is worse than at any time on record a new report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. Credit cards,...
Zionists intervene to try and prevent Corbyn-led Labour government!
WITH THE Tory government split, divided, and on the rocks after refusing to carry out the 2016 referendum instruction to ‘Leave the EU’, the...
US getting ready to attack Iran! It has warned its allies...
US DEFENCE Secretary James Mattis has said that the United States will have no cooperation with the Russian military in Syria, at least...
Defend the NHS! Stop the wholly-owned subsidiaries in their tracks!
THERE are Unite and Unison trade union protests in York and Chesterfield today against moves by two NHS trusts to set up wholly-owned subsidiaries...
Parents Queue At 3Am To Get Their Children Into Breakfast Clubs!
MORE than 130 parents queued outside a school in Cardiff, Wales from 3am Thursday morning to try and get their child a space at...
Tusk pleads for Trump to end trade war with warning it...
PRESIDENT of the European Council Donald Tusk yesterday issued a desperate plea for Europe, China, America and Russia to ‘work together’ and ‘prevent conflict...
Right to strike restored – for those waiting for ‘leave to...
IN LIGHT of the Windrush scandal the government has been forced to change the rules to ensure workers from other countries can participate...
Workers must take action to bring down the May government and...
THE RESIGNATION of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary was only delayed until he was faced with dying from shame if he held back any...
PM May surrenders to EU! UK needs a workers government and...
ON THURSDAY 23rd June, 2016, the EU referendum took place and the people of the United Kingdom took a revolutionary decision to leave the...
Celebrate the first 70 years by bringing down the Tories and...
THE NHS was the product of war and revolution, namely the slaughter of soldiers and civilians fighting fascism in World War 2, and...
Bankrupt McCluskey won’t take action to bring down the Tories!
IN A statement passed overwhelmingly by Unite’s policy conference in Brighton, the union stressed that its priority is to push for a general election...
Tories Greet NHS 70Th Annniversary With More NHS Cuts!
WHILE 70,000 NHS workers were marching through London on Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Tory-appointed bosses of NHS England were...
Celebrate 70 years of the NHS! –by bringing down the Tories
70 YEARS of the NHS are being celebrated with a mass demonstration today in central London supported by the TUC and 11 other health...