There Will Be No Labour Leadership Election Says Tony Woodley
TONY Woodley, the Unite joint general secretary, has stepped into the row over the demand for a Labour Party leadership debate and a leadership...
The time has come to organise the British Socialist Revolution!
PM Keir Starmer’s humiliating defeat and capitulation to the rebellion of 127 Labour MPs, over his proposed welfare cuts on Thursday night, has thrown...
Prosecute bosses that do not pay the minimum wage! Overthrow capitalism!
‘NAMING and shaming’ bosses who refuse to pay workers even the minimum wage is not enough, trade union GMB correctly insisted yesterday, demanding...
British Capitalism Is On The Rocks And Needs Replacing With A Nationalised And Planned...
THE BANK OF ENGLAND has issued a warning that not only will the bankrupted UK economy not grow in the wake of the Rachel...
30,000 Businesses Will Go Bust In 2024!
ECONOMISTS at the multi-national financial advice service PwC have issued a stark warning that nearly 30,000 businesses in the UK will collapse under the...
On May Day, on the TUC march on May 12, & on Nakba Day...
THE ‘GREAT March of Return’ has become the beacon for all Palestinians and the workers of the world to unite in the struggle...
Tory party split over huge NI tax rise – It is time for the...
THE TORY government is being ripped apart from top to bottom, with every day bringing new reports of ministers fighting amongst themselves in a...
Rate cuts and printing pound notes – Brown’s recipe for disaster
THE Bank of England yesterday cut interest rates to 1.5 per cent, the lowest level in its 315-year history, since the start of the...
Only answer to capitalist crisis – build WRP and sections of 4th International to...
THE CRISIS in the Tory party sharpened over the weekend, as the requirement to dump the economic collapse of British capitalism onto the backs...
Hewitt Demands An NHS £250 Million Surplus!
HEALTH Secretary Hewitt, who not so long ago said that there would be no limits to privatisation in the NHS, yesterday revealed that she...
Israel tears up Gaza truce agreement and resumes genocidal war in the Strip
ON TUESDAY, the Israeli Zionist state resumed its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip with the deadliest aerial bombings of the besieged territory since...
Tories Consciously Undermining The Union!
THE Tories this week pushed through parliament their plans for ‘English votes for English laws’ under which only English MPs would have the right...
Gmb Cuts Cash To Labour While Unite To Discuss A Boycott
THE GMB Central Executive Council (CEC) has voted to reduce its current levels of affiliation to the Labour Party from 420,000 to 50,000 from...
Greek working class delivers blow to EU capitalism
THE victory of Syriza in the Greek election represents a huge blow by the Greek working class against European capitalism. Syriza, the coalition of the...
There must be ‘non-negotiable rules’ Kelly tells minorities
COMMUNITIES Secretary Ruth Kelly, launching a Commission on Integration and Cohesion yesterday, declared: ‘I believe that we should celebrate and clearly articulate the benefits...
Unions must call a general strike to support Palestine! – Kick the Tories out...
ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’ heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza...
Record Breaking Inflation!
RECORD BREAKING UK inflation rate statistics were reported by the ONS (Office for National Statistics) yesterday. Inflation rose at its fastest annual pace for nine...
150,000 Deaths – Tories Put The Bosses First – They Refuse To Lock Down...
THE BMA yesterday condemned the 150,000 Covid deaths, so far, since the start of the pandemic. The reason for the mountain of corpses is...
US Democrats protest at Israeli attacks on Palestinians – the British TUC does nothing!
ON SUNDAY, thousands of right wing Israeli settlers stormed Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem to mark the so-called flag march in the Old...
CBI calls for more anti-union laws!
YESTERDAY the employers’ organisation, the CBI, was joined by Tory London mayor, Boris Johnson, in demanding further laws to outlaw strike action against the...
Obama Prepared To Bomb Syria!
US President Barack Obama outlined his long-awaited ‘strategy’ on Wednesday night to ‘degrade and ultimately destroy’ the Islamist group ISIL that has established an...
European Union’s jobless crisis leading to revolution
FRENCH trade unions and student unions have mounted huge general strikes and protest actions in recent months against the massive rise in unemployment. France’s...
EU and US fall out over oil, gas and Russian sanctions!
THE INCREASINGLY fractious relationship between the US and its rival capitalist bloc the European Union, is on the point of erupting into a full...
Homelessness, fuel poverty & debt! Time to assign capitalism to the dustbin of history!
AS TEMPERATURES plummet and the cold weather sets in, homeless charity Shelter calculated that over a quarter of a million people will wake up...
Workers shake Labour to its foundations with their vote for Brexit!
THE EU elections have shattered both the Labour and the Tory parties. With a national turnout of 37%, Labour got 13.6 of the vote, the...
‘No quick fix’ in the Lebanon says Downing Street
YESTERDAY saw US landing craft from a US aircraft carrier taking off US citizens and others, who had to wade through the sea to...
Workers must support Russia – the US-UK trade unions must stop war drive by...
FOR SOME weeks the UK and US ruling classes have been telling the world that Russia is just waiting to invade the Ukraine, that...
Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan to end terrorism
NEWS LINE sends its condolences to the families of those who were killed in Thursday’s terrorist attacks on London, and its best wishes for...
‘Big Society’ a cover for destroying jobs and life-saving services!
TORY leader Cameron yesterday delivered his speech on the ‘Big Society’ but had a problem defining what he meant. He said: ‘You can call it...
A desperate ruling class forced to wheel out Gordon Brown to ‘save the day’...
WITH THE Tory government of Theresa May staggering from one crisis to another this week over the issue of Brexit, the desperation of the...
US Ends Quantitative Easing!
THE US Federal Reserve has announced it is ending its quantitative easing (QE) stimulus programme begun in 2008. The six years since the banking collapse...
Labour’s plan to demolish the public sector
LABOUR’S Minister for Communities and Local Government, David Milliband, yesterday addressed the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) Annual Conference called ‘Empowerment not abandonment’. He...
The Tory Party is blowing apart! TUC must call a general strike to kick...
LIZ Truss appeared outside 10 Downing Street at 1.30pm yesterday to announce that she was resigning following a meeting with the Chairman of the...
Sack the RBS bankers! Workers management of the nationalised banks!
CITY Minister Lord Myners yesterday said shareholders should take action to stop million pound bonuses after Royal Bank of Scotland directors threatened to resign...
Build a revolutionary leadership in the unions
THE CRISIS that has erupted this week over the question of the Tory government’s determination to keep schools open in the face of the...
Defend Every Job In Gm Europe – Occupy And Nationalise
THE Detroit board of US carmaker General Motors last Friday postponed making a decision on who should acquire its Opel division, including the two...
Riga humiliation for Bush and NATO
WHILE President George Bush was condemning EU leaders for not sending more forces to Afghanistan to fight the Taleban, officials of the main central...
Break with the EU – Forward to the British socialist revolution and Socialist United...
THE POLITICAL and economic crisis over Brexit has reached explosion point this week, with negotiations between the Tory government and the leaders of the...
Forward to the August 20th Gate Gourmet workers march
TUC General Council members gave a good welcome to lobbying locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday morning. A number promised to attend the anniversary...
Stock markets around the world crash as the US plunges into recession
STOCK markets in Europe and Asia crashed yesterday morning as the international financial world suddenly woke up to the grim reality that US capitalism...
Obama opens up class war front against US workers!
LAST WEEK President Obama, speaking at the Pentagon, told the American people that he was going to open up a new front for the...
UK arming Israel and supplying it with drones, sniper rifles and other murderous equipment!
DURING almost a month of Friday demonstrations in Gaza, called the ‘Great March of Return’, the Israeli army has used snipers to shoot dead...
The biggest fall in living standards since 1931!
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that living costs have risen 25% in the past five years and placed an ‘unprecedented’ financial burden on...
Duncan Smith’s ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Peddles Lies!
THE Department for Work and Pensions has admitted lying to the public by making up stories from fictional claimants, and passing them off as...
Israel continues with its Gaza massacres
ISRAEL has rejected the UN security council resolution calling for a ceasefire and a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and is determined to carry...