Derisory increase in minimum wage wiped out by inflation!
APPROXIMATELY 2 million low paid workers will be covered by the increase in the national minimum wage that came into effect yesterday. Under this increase...
Palestinians Are Being Murdered And Starved – Time For The Major Trade Unions To...
THE Palestinian Centre for Human Rights stated yesterday that the Israeli occupation army’s targeting of the World Central Kitchen team in southern Gaza is...
Murdoch’s Man, Hunt Savages The NHS With A View To Privatise
Local AFL-CIO leaders and trade unionists from across the United States were in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday to ask members of Congress to...
Thousands of jobs threatened at Bridgend, Luton and Ellesmere Port!
YESTERDAY Unite leader McCluskey was at the Bridgend plant in south Wales to address the three shifts of workers at separate meetings on the...
Five Tory advisors quit! Finish Johnson and the Tories off with a general strike...
FIVE Tory advisors to Prime Minister Boris Johnson have now resigned. They are leaving the sinking ship while more Tory MPs have handed in...
Interest Rate War Rages Round Bank Of England
HOSTILITIES have broken out between rival gangs of economists on the eve of the meeting of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...
Clarke staggers on as Tories hold back from resignation call
The ex-Home Secretary Blunkett was forced to resign after interfering to get his lover’s nanny special treatment from the passport office, and then seeking...
Syria Is Right To Press On To Retake Eastern Ghouta From The Terrorists!
A SYRIAN army statement confirmed yesterday that Syrian government forces will lift the siege on the terrorist-held sections of the Damascus suburb of...
Johnson condemns Corbyn and beats the war drums against Syria!
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spoke up yesterday to attack Jeremy Corbyn and to announce that it will be very difficult for the UK...
Time for the working class to bury British capitalism
Sir Gus O’Donnell, the most senior civil servant in the country, has broken cover with the public admission that the crisis of the capitalist...
Milosevic is dead but the crisis in the Balkans remains
THE death of Slobodan Milosevic in his cell at The Hague, four years into his trial by the imperialist powers for genocide, has left...
Establish the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital in 2017!
THE Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saeb Erekat has denounced the ongoing escalation by the Israeli government against its Palestinian citizens as...
NATO warmongers meet in Brussels
NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the ‘long-term security implications’ of Russia’s response to the US-UK-EU inspired coup in Kiev, and...
Jewish workers support Corbyn! Anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism! Forward to the Palestinian state!
THE JEWISH Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies on Monday night launched a demonstration outside the House of Commons accusing Labour leader Jeremy...
Unite must hit back and defend its members, with full TUC support
THE petrochemical plant at the giant Grangemouth complex in central Scotland is to close with the loss of over 800 jobs, owner Ineos announced...
Israel military in crisis – calls up 60,000 reservists to occupy Gaza City
ON MONDAY Hamas reported that the group had agreed terms for a ceasefire plan for Gaza that calls for a 60-day pause in fighting...
EU law being used to slash wages and attack unions
THE wave of ‘wildcat strikes’ that are taking place in power stations and oil terminals throughout the UK have the full support of the...
Nationalise The Banks Jail The Bankers
THE capitalist media has been forced, in recent days, to reveal some of the misdoings of the great banks that stand astride the...
Capitalist state gives support to Walsh’s diktat!
THE decision by a Judge in chambers to rule the BA strike action illegal is a major blow at the legal right to strike. It...
US-UK Beat War Drums Over The Ukraine – Workers Must Get Ready For General...
THE United States, and its NATO allies, with the UK in the lead, and the right wing Ukrainian regime out in front are daily...
Japan withdraws troops from Iraq. A blow to Bush & Blair!
PRIME Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced yesterday the withdrawal of the 600 Japanese troops from Iraq by the end of next month. These ‘non combatant’...
UN Forces Quit Mitrovica
THE divided town of Mitrovica was in turmoil yesterday morning, after UNMIK police and KFOR troops, in a major provocation, stormed a local court...
Lebanon and Iraq erupt as masses demand political overthrow of their governments
LEBANON erupted over the weekend with renewed clashes between thousands of demonstrators and security forces on Sunday following violent clashes in Beirut on Saturday...
Workers are giving 100% support to the ambulance service strikers – now finish off...
THE GMB has suspended its Christmas Strike date for ambulance service workers, right at the time when the Tories are reeling from their deadly...
No to a return of the Tories. Bring down Brown from the left
BROWN has survived the resignations of Hutton, Purnell, Smith, Flint, Blears, Hoon and others, and remains Prime Minister for the moment. The next test comes...
Sanctions on Russia rebound on US as countries dump the dollar as dominant world...
ONE OF the main consequences of the US-led sanctions designed to strangle the Russian economy and lead to regime change has been to hasten...
Israeli Dress Rehearsal For Attack On Iran!
US officials yesterday admitted that a major military exercise, which saw more than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighter jets taking part in...
Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the fire
YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...
It’s bags of gold for the Taleban, but wage cuts for the workers!
ALL the ‘we will win the war in Afghanistan’ propaganda has now been dumped as the political leaders of imperialism have begun to grasp...
56 Refugees forced to sleep in a single office! Boot the Tories and their...
REFUGEES are being held in office space in Kent, with as many as 56 women and children crammed into a single room, sleeping together...
Supreme Court rules against Brexit!
BY A UNANIMOUS decision eleven judges in the Supreme Court declared that the five-week suspension, or prorogation, of Parliament is ‘unlawful, void and of...
Sinn Fein Takes Its Seat On Six Counties Policing Board
DAITHI McKay, Martina Anderson and Alex Maskey of Sinn Fein have just taken their seats on the Policing Board of the PSNI, the...
Police chief Blair must resign says Maria Otone de Menezes
YESTERDAY, the parents of Jean Charles de Menezes retraced the final journey taken by their son, an entirely innocent man who was shot dead...
Bankers raise interest rates to deepen the slump, and make workers pay for...
THE Bank of England has raised UK interest rates to their highest level for 14 years as it battles to stem soaring prices, by...
End all complicity with Zionist genocide – demand TUC call a general strike to...
ON THURSDAY, Palestinians commemorated the 77th anniversary of Nakba, the Catastrophe, when the unarmed population of Palestine was forcibly driven from their land by...
General strike to bring down Tories to end arming Israeli genocide
YESTERDAY, Israeli troops pulled out of Al-Shifa, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, after two weeks of brutal attacks that left behind a...
Pick Up The Tory Libdem Gauntlet And Call A General Strike
THE RMT’s Bob Crow yesterday issued a ‘call to arms’ to the entire Labour and Trade Union movement and to all the communities under...
No ‘trade-off’ for the NHS: Kick out the Tories instead!
THE HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stevens, yesterday released the report ‘Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’, a report that makes...
Netanyahu fills new Israeli government with racists and fascists for a pogrom against...
On Wednesday, the recently elected president of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, finally announced that he has assembled a ruling coalition cabinet between his Likud party...
Millions Of Youth Facing Employment Crisis As Capitalism Nose Dives!
ONE MILLION YOUTH aged 16-24 are no longer in employment, education or training, the latest figures show! The Centre for Social Justice said last week...
Decade of Tory NHS cuts has disabled the NHS! 4.6m now wait for operations....
THE SURGE in coronavirus cases in January hit key services including cancer and even routine surgery, NHS England figures released on Thursday exposed. Over the...
National strike action to defend the Royal Mail and its workforce
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday warned that Royal Mail were planning sacking between eight and twenty per cent of the workforce, with London...
Brown To Support US Air Strikes On Iran
YESTERDAY the bourgeois media reported that Britain’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who came to office pledging that the UK would cease to be Bush’s...
Nato Is Considering Joining Trump’s Attack On Iran!
THE catastrophic effects on the global economy of the unprovoked and illegal war against Iran by the US and Israel has caused widespread fear...
Obama regime collapses in chaos – as Syria peace battles to emerge!
ON December 8, the White House said that the outgoing US President Barack Obama had relaxed the so-called Arms Export Control Act for the...