Starmer’s speech – an application to join a national coalition with the Tories!
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s first speech to a Labour Party conference yesterday was acclaimed by his supporters as heralding a ‘new dawn’ for the...
Nationalise BAA – forward to a national transport system
THE call has gone up in the Competition Commission report that three of BAA’s seven airports – two of its three in London, out...
Boots Joins The NHS Privatisation Drive
CHEMIST giant Boots wants to breach the NHS system by bringing GPs and consultants into its stores as part of an alleged drive to...
Lift the ban from the Gaza Under-19 team!
THE banning of the Under-19 Gaza football team from coming to play in Britain after they had been invited to play against Chester...
Brexit crisis deepens reflecting the death agony of British capitalism!
THE British ruling class, far from recovering from the Brexit mutiny, when its chosen policy for saving British capitalism – that of ceding...
Disband the Met Police – forward to a workers state and socialism
WHEN Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel is forced to say that she is ‘appalled and sickened’ by the behaviour of Metropolitan Police officers, then...
Nurses and doctors strike to defend NHS while Starmer joins with Tories to denounce...
YESTERDAY, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) opened the ballot for strike action by nurses in response to the Tory pay offer of a...
Osborne to slash £5bn from welfare – answer with general strike
In today’s Autumn statement on the economy, the Tory chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, will announce that he intends to ‘kick start’ British...
Ukrainian Stalinists giving way to EU-backed regime-change attempt
THE Ukrainian Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov, of the Stalinist Party of the Regions resigned on Tuesday in an attempt to draw the EU-backed right-wing...
Ex Bank of England boss demands let ‘zombie’ companies crash to save capitalism
FORMER Bank of England governor Mervyn King this week called for heavily indebted ‘zombie’ companies to be allowed to ‘disappear’ taking with them, although...
Irish enforced bail-out will bring EU to breaking point!
IRISH Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, and the Irish government, are being forced onto their knees by the EU and the European Central Bank...
Remainer MPs attempt to block no deal! Workers must take strike action to drive...
Commons on Thursday to try to ensure that Parliament is able to block any attempt by the expected Johnson-led Tory government to shut Parliament...
Gate Gourmet workers defend the right to picket – now TGWU must make strike...
YESTERDAY, the determination and militancy of the 670 Gate Gourmet locked-out workers forced the High Court judiciary to acknowledge that they did indeed have...
Smash anti-strike bill by forcing TUC to call a general strike to kick the...
THE TUC yesterday published an analysis that showed that 5.5 million workers in England, Scotland and Wales would have their right to strike threatened...
UK carriers are ready to be deployed against the Houthis. UK workers must kick...
THE UK’s aircraft carriers are ready to be deployed to fight the Houthis, and to threaten war with the Iranian revolution, was the message...
British army – out of control and out of its depth
AFTER the disgraceful episode, where not one soldier or officer was found guilty of the murder of Baha Mousa, the attempt to sanitise the...
Cameron to sack Gove as IMF warns economy heading for adverse shocks
THE knives are out for one-time Tory Party hero Michael Gove, the self-styled ‘hammer of the teaching trade unions’, who has had the temerity...
Crisis Forces Osborne To Re-Write His Budget!
LAST November 25th in his Autumn Statement Chancellor Osborne was full of praise for the way that allegedly the UK was now full set...
Only Socialist Revolution can resolve the political and economic crisis and force a break...
YESTERDAY, Scottish appeal court judges ruled that the decision by the Tory government to suspend parliament for five weeks in the run-up to the...
Palestinian Premier Condemns Israel’s Killing Of Four Young Palestinians!
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has condemned the Israeli army killing of four young Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Jenin and...
War declared against the working class as 800 P&O seafarers are sacked and replaced...
POWERFUL protests erupted in Liverpool, Hull and Dover yesterday after 800 P&O Ferries’ seafarers were sacked by decree and replaced by cheap labour. The RMT...
Demand an immediate recall of the TUC to call a general strike
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...
Governor King fears crash – time to go forward to socialism
Last Friday, Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, issued a dire warning that Britain risks another financial crisis unless the government introduces...
The Imf Issues Warning To The UK And Europe
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its growth forecast for Britain for the third time in nine months and warned George Osborne that...
Socialist Revolution Is The Only Alternative Now
UNITE leader Len McCluskey has pointed out correctly some of the immediate implications of the Miliband-Balls line that Labour will honour and continue with...
UAW reformists propose to surrender gains of US workers
THE UAW leaders are prepared to ‘suspend’ all of the gains of US autoworkers to try and assist the big bosses of GM, Chrysler,...
Workers Reject Tories And Lib-Dems, Now Take Action To Get The Coalition Out!
THE Tories and the LibDems were whipped around the country in the council elections, with Labour retaking Liverpool and numerous cities and towns, as...
The bosses are dumping their crisis onto the backs of workers. It is time...
YESTERDAY nine members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase the interest rate from 1.25% to 1.75%. This is the sixth...
Now send Brown packing – forward to a workers government!
Blair stood down yesterday, driven out of power by the Iraqi insurgency and the British workers’ determination to defend their welfare state. The disorientated...
Interest rates held at 4.75% as inflation increases!
THE Bank of England yesterday held UK interest rates at 4.75% until at least next February. This follows two cuts to the interest rates this...
Hamas defiant over Trump’s threat to unleash hell on Gaza
HAMAS was defiant in its response yesterday to the threats by US president Donald Trump that he would cancel the ceasefire agreement in Gaza...
Financial Services Authority Warns Of Inevitable Collapse
WITH business sure that the Bank of England is due to raise interest rates to at least five per cent, warnings are being made...
Tory Leadership Crisis Deepens, While Labour’s Right Wing Lashes Out At Corbyn!
THE CRISIS-ridden Tory leadership has launched its campaign to elect a new leader to replace the shattered May, who betrayed Brexit and then piloted...
Palestinians rising up against Israeli drive to ethnically cleanse them from Jerusalem
ISRAELI forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday morning, firing rubber-coated bullets, tear gas and sound bombs at Palestinian worshippers, wounding hundreds in a...
US Longshoremen show the way with strike action on May Day to stop the...
DOCKWORKERS of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have decided to stop work for eight hours in all US West Coast ports on May...
No immunity over Grenfell Tower atrocity – arrest the real criminals and charge them...
WITNESSES from the firms responsible for creating a death trap at Grenfell Tower are to be granted immunity from prosecution arising out of any...
Well done BA cabin crew – Now Unite must use its full strength on...
AT Gatwick and at Heathrow on Sunday morning pickets got tremendous support from passing motorists, coaches and lorries, and fellow airport workers. The lines of...
No Fees Or Loans And Restore Student Grants For All!
AFTER Blair and Brown abolished students’ grants and introduced a regime of fee paying for university education – putting an end to free university...
The UN must accept Palestinian statehood – Defeat the US-UK governments’ opposition!
MEMBERS of the UN Security Council have failed to reach a consensus on the Palestinian bid to become a full member state of the...
Expel Hutton And Field From The Lab0Ur Party!
EX-LABOUR cabinet minister John Hutton, a 100 per cent Blairite, has joined the Tory-LibDem coalition, and been appointed by it to head a commission...
Brown to give power over NHS away to independent committee
CHANCELLOR Brown yesterday, on the BBC Politics Show, sought to trump his rival, the outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair, in the competition between them...
Drive Out Zero-Hours Contracts
FIGURES released last Wednesday purport to show the UK unemployment rate for the three months to September fell to 7.4% from 7.6% – a...
Bosses demand a prison workforce to keep wages below poverty level
IT EMERGED yesterday that desperate UK food companies are begging Tory ministers to let them use prisoners to work in meat processing plants as...
Half a million families will lose their homes if rates are put up, warns...
IN its direst warning to date on the scale of personal debt, the Bank of England has predicted that half a million families will...
Trade unions must take action to support the Tamil people
THOUSANDS of Tamils demonstrated on Westminster Bridge on Monday evening against the failure of the Brown government to lift a finger to save the...