Monthly Archives: October 2022
YESTERDAY, PM Truss was fighting for her political life against a Tory faction that is determined to ditch her as soon as possible, if not sooner. Getting rid of Liz Truss would be a ‘disastrously bad idea’, the Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said, as he defended the Prime Minister’s...
The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped its charges against Palestine Action activists after levelling charges of ‘blackmail’ earlier in the year. In a recent report by The Electronic Intifada it was revealed that several legal proceedings against pro-Palestine activists have collapsed due to lack of substantial evidence proving illegality of...
Liz Truss was only installed as Prime Minister little more than 4 weeks ago but yesterday a senior Tory minister, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, was forced to tell the BBC that it would be a ‘disastrously bad idea’ to kick her out. Millions of workers think this is a great...
BANK of England (BoE) Governor Andrew Bailey announced yesterday morning that there will be no more government bond-buying by the Bank after tomorrow, regardless of the consequences for the UK economy. Bailey told the BBC that he had stayed up all night to try and think of a way to...
Amazon workers at JFK8, the company’s Staten Island warehouse that voted to unionise earlier this year, held a sit-in, strike on Monday after a fire broke out in the warehouse. Seth Goldstein, a lawyer for the Amazon Labour Union (ALU), said that a machine had been causing problems and smoking...
THE Bank of England on Tuesday insisted that it was dumping the pound and would proceed with its decision to stop supporting the bond market on Friday after reports it may extend it, leaving major pension funds facing bankruptcy. ‘The Bank was buying bonds to stabilise their price and prevent...
THE SPEED of the UK economy crashing into complete bankruptcy is breathtaking, as it leaves the Tory government along with the Bank of England (BoE) desperately trying to avert disaster with ‘emergency interventions’ over ‘material risk to UK stability’. Yesterday, the BoE announced that it is making another emergency intervention...
SECURITY services in Bahrain supported by the UK have been accused of ‘serious and persistent’ human rights abuses. A joint Human Rights Watch and Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy report, published on Monday 10 October, alleges people have been tortured at Bahrain’s interior ministry. The group also says two other...
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) responded with fury to Tory Health Secretary Therese Coffey’s declaration on TV yesterday morning that, regardless of whether they go on strike or not, she is not going to give the nurses any more than a miserable 3% pay rise this year. RCN General...
LIZ TRUSS returns to Parliament for the first time as Prime Minister today, amidst a bubbling rebellion of MPs and economists who are aghast at the collapse of support for the Tories in the polls since she came to power and of confidence in the UK economy. Yesterday, Chancellor Kwarteng...
Railway workers in Scotland took 24-hour strike action on ScotRail yesterday after the RMT union rejected a real-terms pay cut. ScotRail bosses have offered 5% but with inflation running at well over 11%, and a cost of living crisis that shows no signs of ending, RMT is demanding the company...
AT THE weekend, the Tory-supporting Telegraph newspaper published an article by its economics expert Jeremy Warner which carried the dire headline: ‘Few have woken up to the full horror of Britain’s diminished situation.’ Warner complains that ‘voters and large parts of the political class don’t yet recognise this dispiriting predicament,...
TORY Minister for Equalities Nadhim Zahawi claimed yesterday morning that ‘blackouts are extremely unlikely this winter,’ when he did the rounds of the TV studios on behalf of the Truss government. This is despite the National Grid warning that UK households could lose power for three hours at a time...
‘US-UK Hands off Assange!’ said demonstators in Parliament Square before several thousand made a human chain around the Houses of Parliament on Saturday. ‘There’s only one decision - no extradition! ‘Free Julian Assange! The 51-year-old activist is facing extradition to face trial for allegedly violating the US espionage act by publishing classified...
CABINET ministers are urging fellow Conservatives to get behind Prime Minister Liz Truss, after a week of open disagreement and back-stabbing within the Tory party. They warn the party must unite or it risks ending up in opposition. The Tory split comes after the plans to abolish the top billionaires’...
THROUGHOUT Europe, strikes and demonstrations are gaining momentum, notes France’s CGT trade union federation. Faced with inflation and the energy crisis, demonstrators demand wage increases and a change in the model of society.
In Spain, enough is enough!
In Spain, the sharp rise in fuel prices is at the origin of a...
THE working class of the world faces a revolutionary autumn and winter, as the major imperialist powers step up their war in the Ukraine against Russia, and create the conditions where their own working classes at home go hungry and are unable to pay their heating bills or feed...
MORE than 300,000 members are receiving ballot papers in the post from yesterday launching the RCN’s biggest strike ballot in its 106-year history. You can make your mark on that history by voting ‘yes’ to strike action stated the RCN. RCN General Secretary & Chief Executive Pat Cullen said: ‘We are...
IRANIAN Minister of Petroleum Javad Owji says Iran’s crude oil and petrochemical exports continue without disruption after the Biden administration announced a new round of sanctions against the Islamic Republic last week. ‘The sale and export of crude oil, condensates and petroleum products are being carried out without interruption, and...
TORY prime minister Liz Truss didn’t waste time. She fled the country immediately after the meltdown of her government at the Tory Party conference. Yesterday she jetted off to the Czech Republic for ‘key meetings’ in Prague with European politicians where the number one item will be trying to maintain...
TWENTY-THREE YEARS after 31 lives were lost in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, RMT says that government policy is in danger of dragging the railways closer towards the same cocktail of conditions that led to tragedy on 5th October 1999. Ladbroke Grove was one of a number of disasters under...
PRIME MINISTER Truss declared war on ‘militant trade unions and nationalised industries’ in her speech at the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday morning. Her speech never made a mention of the row which had been engulfing the conference the day before – over her intention to slash workers’ benefits. Instead,...
Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has slammed the Saudi-led coalition for failing to renew the UN-brokered truce deal and deteriorating the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn country. Spokesman of the movement Mohammed Abdul-Salam made the remarks in a phone call with David Gressly, the United Nation’s Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen. ‘The coalition of aggression...
TORY prime minster Liz Truss closed the Tory Party conference yesterday with a speech designed to convince the party faithful that, despite performing a wild U-turn on Monday, she was determined to plough on with tax cuts for the rich paid for by the working class. Truss denounced all previous...
More than 75,000 children are stuck in temporary accommodation due to insufficient housebuilding and low benefits, new studies have concluded. Reports from University College London and the Centre for London thinktank found that the cost of living crisis could increase homelessness in the capital.
The UCL review, led by Prof Sir...
Monday’s Daily Telegraph had in its editorial an early celebration of a PM Truss ‘victory’ in getting her Tory party to accept the abolition of the top rate of income tax. The prospect of many more millions for capitalist millionaires and billionaires was in the bag. The Telegraph stressed: ‘Ms...
FOLLOWING his humiliating U-Turn in the small hours of yesterday morning, when Chancellor Kwazi Kwarteng’s announced the abolition of the 45p rate of tax for the very rich was being reversed, he made his speech to the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham yesterday afternoon. He announced new laws to outlaw...
THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Intelligence Organisation has strongly condemned the latest terrorist attack in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan, warning that it will deal heavy blows to any terrorists who threaten the country’s security. The statement, released on Sunday, came two days after the commander of the...
TO DESCRIBE the forced decision by Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to abandon his plans to end the 45% top rate of income tax to those earning over £150,000 a year as a ‘U-turn’ doesn’t do justice to the catastrophic collapse of the Tory government under Liz Truss. This plan to...
AS THE Tory Party Conference began in Birmingham yesterday PM Truss boasted that she means to proceed from last week’s huge tax cuts for the rich to massive benefit and budget cuts for the poor and public services. Appearing on BBC TV yesterday morning, Truss said that the mini-budget cutting...
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) took strike action on Friday and Saturday and explained the reasons for doing so. In a letter to all its members it wrote: ‘Dear Colleague, The CWU have called all members to take strike action this Friday and Saturday (30th September and 1st October). Royal Mail’s announce...
THE Tory Party is now in Conference and in the biggest crisis in its history, after its ‘mini budget’ caned the poor and the working class and gave billions to the already rich, with a message that there was a lot more to come from workers. The UK-US war in...
YESTERDAY’S capitalist press was full of dire warnings of the massive increases in taxation that the Truss government is planning, and with it the pauperisation of all benefit claimants who the government is determined to allow to be destroyed by rampant inflation. There will no doubt be more tax giveaways...
THE TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!' was the message from the CWU picket line, at the Jubilee Mail Centre in Hounslow west London yesterday morning. CWU Area Distribution Rep Will Powlesland, told News Line: 'Today we are defending our...