Monthly Archives: September 2022

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for Parliament to be recalled so MPs can abandon last week’s mini-budget ‘before any more damage is...

THE WFTU (World Federation of Trade Unions) has ‘strongly denounced’ and condemned state repression against the workers and the people of Sri Lanka. A WTFU...

TORY Prime Minister Liz Truss finally emerged from Downing Street yesterday to make her first public statement on the economic crisis that has brought...

THE Bank of England (BoE) launched a huge intervention in government bond markets yesterday, as the UK financial crisis spiralled out of control following...

African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members barred ANC Chairman Gwede Mantashe from speaking at their 14th national congress on Monday. ‘Hamba Gwede’ (Go Gwede) and ‘asinamali’...

THE International Monetary Fund has openly condemned the UK government over its tax cuts that handed billions to the rich, warning that the measures...

Sir Keir Starmer opened his keynote speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool yesterday by condemning the Truss Tory government’s mini-budget last week,...

LABOUR leader Keir Starmer, in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday, pledged that he is ‘not just pro-business’ but wants to...

THE AMERICAN National Nurses United (NNU) applauds the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) efforts to investigate the exploitative and coercive employment-related Training Repayment Agreement...

THE pound crashed to its lowest level ever against the dollar yesterday morning threatening that it will soon reach parity with the US currency. Sterling...

ISRAELI settlers have once again invaded the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem in the latest act of provocation against...

‘THEY'VE lost credibility, they’re losing confidence, they’re out of control,’ Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool as the pound...

THE LABOUR Party Conference in Liverpool opened yesterday with a minute’s silence, followed by leader Sir Keir Starmer leading the hall in singing God...

AN US aircraft carrier and warships from its strike group arrived in South Korea on Friday for the first time in nearly five years...

THE opening of the Labour Party conference took a new turn yesterday when the Labour Party leader Starmer, who has played a key part...

UK CAPITALISM is in crisis. After the falls in sterling, and the rampant oil, gas and food inflation, the ruling class is desperate and...

IN ITS first acts of desperation, the new government of Prime Minister Liz Truss has decided to announce that the moratorium on fracking has...

CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng yesterday unveiled his mini-budget that will see the working class and the poor robbed, in order to further enrich the UK...

MIDWIVES in England and Wales are to be balloted on industrial action. The move was announced by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) at its...

ON the eighth anniversary of the September 21 Revolution, thousands of Yemeni people poured onto streets in the northwestern city of Sa’ada and other...

CHANCELLOR Kwasi Kwarteng has unveiled the plans by the Tory government to drive part-time workers back into full employment by cutting their benefits. Under the...

TORY Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg announced yesterday that the taxpayer is to subsidise the energy bills of every business in Britain to the tune...

ISRAELI occupation forces on Tuesday and Monday night detained at least 14 Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories, six of them from East...

ALL WORKERS, youth and trade unionists must support the decision of Russian leader Putin to call up reservists to serve in the Ukraine, and...

‘MAKE October 1st the start of a general strike,’ said All Trades Unions Alliance (ATUA) National Secretary Dave Wiltshire yesterday, after the ASLEF and...

‘THE WEST has been behaving brazenly in Ukraine for years, Russia was forced to react in order to save people in Donbass,’ Serb member...

THE economies of every EU country face permanent recession according to Barclay’s Bank chief economist for the EU, Sylvia Ardagna, under the impact of...

FIVE-HUNDRED dock workers employed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC) at the Port of Liverpool began a two-week strike last night. Unite regional...

FORMER chief justice of Kenya, Willy Mutunga, has attacked the British government over its ‘act of gross inhumanity and injustice’ after two Kenyan tribes filed a case...

IT didn’t take long for the working class to move into action following the funeral of Elizabeth II with hundreds of dock workers at...

THE TORY war on the railways and railway workers is to resume immediately, with reports yesterday of mass ticket office closures being ‘hardwired’ into...

THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has commended Chilean President Gabriel Boric’s refusal to accept the credentials of the Israeli regime’s new ambassador to the...

THE TUC CONGRESS is set to meet on Tuesday October 18th, just as the Truss government is poised to take the rail trade unions...

THE Right to Education Campaign (REC) today condemned the Israeli military raid that resulted in the detention of 10 students of Birzeit University as...

THE MODI government’s ‘lies and myth-making’ at the National Labour Conference have been denounced by the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU). The...

RUSSIA’S Energy Minister has announced that the Nord Stream 2 will be ‘replaced’ by an alternative gas pipeline to China, as a consequence of...

PM TRUSS is determined to remove a cap on bankers’ bonuses as part of a post-Brexit shake-up of City rules, to really get the...

THE borders of the Kherson region are securely protected by the Russian military, and any attempts by the Ukrainian armed forces to advance towards...

THE new Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is reported to be preparing to scrap the cap on the multi-million pound bonuses bankers award themselves. Originally the...

SOARING milk, cheese and egg costs have pushed food inflation to its highest level for 14 years, with millions of UK families heading into...

THE BIDEN administration urged railroads and unions to reach a deal to avoid a railroad work stoppage, saying on Monday it would pose ‘an...

THE PCS trade union has called for the proposed staff redundancies at Clarence House to be halted and pledged to support every member of...

DOCKERS at Britain’s two major ports – Merseyside and Felixstowe – are to strike together at the end of this month and the beginning...

SPORADIC clashes between demonstrators and police took place in the Chilean capital Santiago on Sunday as the country marked the 49th anniversary of the...

THE UK’s job market, which the Tories and their supporters have long held to be evidence of the ability of British capitalism to ‘bounce...