Monthly Archives: September 2023
THE Tory Party is now split and divided as the world- wide capitalist crisis deepens and the weakness of the imperialist powers becomes more evident. Tory propaganda outlets such as the Daily Telegraph are livid that the Tory government will not denounce any collaboration with China, and insists that the...
THERE was a powerful Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists lobby of the TUC Conference in Liverpool on Monday morning, where delegate after delegate declared full support for the demand that the TUC must call an immediate General Strike to smash the Strikes Minimum Service Levels Act! Following the lobby,...
DELEGATES to the TUC Congress unanimously passed Composite Motion 1 – the Campaign against the Minimum Service Levels (MSL) legislation – which instructs the TUC to ‘build mass opposition to the MSL laws, up to and including a strategy of non-compliance and non-cooperation to make them unworkable, including industrial...
SHADOW Deputy PM Angela Rayner told the TUC Conference in Liverpool yesterday that a Labour government will overturn the Tory anti-strikes Minimum Service Levels (MSL) Act ‘within 100 days’. Rayner said: ‘The next Labour government will ask Parliament to repeal these anti-trade union laws within our first 100 days.’ She pledged...
IN Delhi, India’s capital, the G20 summit has captured significant global attention. This event brought together world leaders to discuss international economic strategies, presenting varied viewpoints on India’s economic trajectory and its socio-economic challenges. At the outset, one cannot help but notice the central government’s unwavering ambition to position India...
THE capitalist class of Britain and Europe have been served with a warning that unless they act quickly to slash all public spending they face increased taxation on their massive profits. The warning was issued by analysts at French multinational bank BNP Paribas, who said that spending on renewable energy...
DELEGATES to the TUC conference in Liverpool spoke out in favour of a general strike to defeat the Tory Strikes Minimum Service Levels legislation yesterday morning. The Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists lobby of the conference kept up a constant chant of ‘Smash the anti-union laws – call a...
INSTEAD of organising a general strike to smash the anti-union laws, the TUC leader Paul Nowak has decided to report the UK government to the United Nations, whom he describes as a ‘watchdog on workers’ rights’. The TUC said yesterday that it is ‘reporting the UK government to the United...
Dozens of Jordanian members of parliament have called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in response to the forced stripping of five Palestinian women by Israeli soldiers during a raid on their home in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil. In a statement on Thursday night, members of...
THE RMT and the NASUWT have put down a motion at the TUC Conference condemning the new Tory scabs charter and calling for a campaign against the Minimum Service Levels (MSLs) legislation. It declares the: ‘Conference asserts that anti-trade union restrictions represent a direct attack on workers’ rights to fair...
HUNDREDS of Israeli high school students in a ‘Youth Against Dictatorship’ statement have announced that they will refuse to serve in the Israeli military in protest against the policies of the far-right Netanyahu administration. ‘Youth Against Dictatorship’, in a statement released at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium high school in central...
WHEN young Jay (name changed), an Iranian teenager, set foot on UK shores, a myriad of emotions swirled within him: relief, uncertainty, hope, and overwhelming fear. Soon after his arrival, he was received by the UK immigration authorities, only to be lodged in a hotel designated for children seeking asylum. This...
SIX unions have asked urgent questions of Gillian Keegan, the Secretary of State for Education, about RAAC affected schools. The general secretaries of six unions representing school workers, including heads, teachers and support staff – GMB, NAHT, NASUWT, NEU, Unison and Unite – have written a joint letter calling for...
IN A DAMNING assessment of the Tory government, The Daily Telegraph yesterday declared that: ‘The Tories under Rishi Sunak have shifted further left, and Keir Starmer’s Labour further to the right, making them almost indistinguishable.’ The article, by Allister Heath, gets close to hysteria when he writes: ‘We might as...
FIFTY million people live in modern slavery, says the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights. Modern slavery is hidden in plain sight and is deeply intertwined with life in every corner of the world.
Each day, 50 million people are tricked, coerced, or forced into exploitative situations that they...
At least 13 schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) had funding to rebuild approved under a Labour scheme which was later scrapped by the Tory-LibDem Coalition in 2010. Building Schools for the Future (BSF) – was a £55bn project to renew every secondary school in England, rebuilding...
THE Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner Group, which was being cheered to the rafters when its members were said to be marching on Moscow to deal with Putin, is now set to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government, according to the UK Home Office. In...
THE 50th extraordinary conference of Federation of Arab Communities in Latin America (FEARAB America) began on Monday at Damascus University Amphitheatre. Speaking at the conference, Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Fayssal Mikdad considered that this conference constitutes an essential lever of national efforts with the countries where expatriates reside, in addition...
MONDAY 11th September will be the 50th anniversary of the seizure of power by the Chilean military, led by general Augusto Pinochet, backed by the CIA, which brought in a brutal military dictatorship that murdered thousands of workers and peasants and imposed on Chile the economic theories of monetarism...
DEPUTY head of Russia’s Security Council, and Russia’s former president, Dmitry Medvedev has described Ukraine’s Western backers as a ‘pro-Nazi coalition’, dismissing the idea of Moscow reconciling with the West as a vain illusion. Washington and its allies in Europe and elsewhere continue to support Kiev despite it acting increasingly...
ON SUNDAY, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky sacked his defence minister Oleksii Reznikov in what has been described as the biggest shake-up of his defence ministry since the Russian military action in February 2022. Reznikov is credited with securing billions of dollars from the US, UK and other NATO countries, but...
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cut the schools repair budget in half in 2021 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, it emerged yesterday morning. While thousands of teachers and children walk into school this morning wondering if the building will collapse on their heads, Sunak claimed that it was...
‘OUR policy at the TUC is to call a general strike,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch told News Line on the picket line at Euston Station in central London on Saturday. Staff working on 14 train operating companies were on strike action on Saturday, after rail bosses refused to acknowledge...
Niger’s military rulers on Friday revoked the diplomatic immunity of France’s ambassador and ordered police to expel him from the African country. A letter sent by Niger’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said French Ambassador Sylvain Itte ‘no longer enjoys the privileges and immunities attached to his status as a member...
YESTERDAY’S Observer newspaper a champion of the rule of the British bosses and bankers, was forced to admit that it had been told by a senior civil service whistleblower that: ‘Tory ministers and their advisers were ‘‘dangerously complacent’’ about crumbling school buildings constructed with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC),...
Over one thousand angry RMT rail union members and their supporters marched from the Department of Transport offices to Downing Street on Thursday evening determined to stop the Tory government’s onslaught to close all station ticket offices in the country. Behind the RMT national banner, demonstrators shouted slogans and carried...
THE Junior Doctors and Consultants in England, faced with a ruling class that is determined to destroy the NHS, have joined forces and will jointly undertake four days of strike action, beginning next month. They are in fact striking a might blow against all those who want to destroy the...
‘PEOPLE are ready to take general strike action now,’ train drivers union Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan told News Line yesterday. Speaking at the Euston Station, north London, picket line during the national strike, he said: We’re here today because these workers who did their duty during the pandemic are...
POLICE officers guilty of gross misconduct in England and Wales will face automatic sackings, the government has announced. The change follows high-profile cases of officers committing rape and murder. The Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, called the changes ‘a return to kangaroo courts’. Under the new system, chief constables...
TRADE unions worldwide have condemned the latest attack on workers in Sri Lanka. Different Global Union Federations (GUF), including the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI), and trade union solidarity support organisations join the Sri Lankan trade union movement in condemning the proposed ‘Single Employment Bill’, which contains provisions that...
ON Thursday, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced new government reforms of the police disciplinary system which means that in future any police officer found guilty of gross misconduct will be automatically sacked. In addition, all police staff who fail vetting will also be liable to dismissal under these measures,...