Barber’s two ‘big worries’, the crisis of capitalism and workers’ anger!
BRENDAN Barber the TUC general secretary in his New Year message confesses that he has two ‘big worries’ for the year 2008. He...
Stephen Hawking defends the NHS – and exposes the Tories – while the TUC...
THE FAMOUS Cambridge University scientist Stephen Hawking has spoken up to defend the NHS and has publicly exposed the Tory plan to privatise it...
New Curriculum abolishes childhood
THIS week, children and young people return to school in England where they face being subjected to a new education curriculum devised by the...
British Capitalism Is On The Rocks! All Life Support Attempts Are Failing As The...
SUCH is the crisis of British capitalism more than half of the adult population, 27 million people, have had to be financially assisted by...
Trump Backs Counter-Revolution Against Chinese Workers – Time To Complete The World Socialist Revolution!
US president Donald Trump yesterday seized the opportunity for US imperialism to make a provocative intervention in the internal affairs of China by backing...
Pound falls after Rachel Reeves reduced to tears in Parliament
DURING PM’s Question Time in Parliament on Wednesday Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves broke down in tears as Prime Minster Keir Starmer dodged a question...
Labour leadership contenders back Tory cuts
ALL four of the declared candidates for Labour Party leader, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Mary Creagh, have been busy over...
Trump declares trade war on world – only socialist revolution can resolve this crisis
DONALD Trump wasted no time after his victory in Tuesday’s presidential election to declare his intention to wage a new trade war on the...
Public debt and pensions black hole
THE right-wing, free market think tank, the Adam Smith Institute, yesterday hit out at the Tories’ ‘deeply immoral’ failure to bring down the national...
TUC makes overtures to Johnson’s Tories – We must replace TUC traitors with a...
THE TUC yesterday published a statement that amounts to nothing less than an abject surrender to the Tory government and a grovelling offer to...
Tories seek to smash NHS up into 42 pieces! Entire working class must strike...
TORY Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the new government White Paper in Parliament on Thursday pushing a complete reorganisation of the...
Permanent wage-cutting and zero-hour contracts are all that capitalism has to offer
THE Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate has fallen to 6.4%, down from 6.5% in May, with the number of people unemployed...
To deal with MRSA – end NHS privatisation!
MRSA is now linked to nearly 1,000 deaths each year in NHS hospitals. There is no doubt that it is a product of the...
620,000 sick and disabled will lose £675 a month under Labour’s attack on benefits...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer is prepared to defy the growing anger of workers by pushing through welfare cuts that will impoverish over 600,000...
Shares Crash As Debt Crisis Explodes
IN London yesterday, the FTSE 100 rebounded momentarily, but then fell back into the red, down by 48.5 points by 1pm after a...
Tory plans to put troops on the streets
IT EMERGED in the bourgeois press at the weekend that the army has been drawing up plans for troops to be sent onto the...
Smash anti-union bill!
YESTERDAY thousands of trade union members attended a rally and mass lobby of parliament called by the TUC in an attempt to – in...
Starmer Declares For Thatcher And Confirms He Is An Out And Out Enemy Of...
LABOUR leader Starmer has yet again stabbed the working class in the back, with his praise for Margaret Thatcher, the Tory leader who sought...
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...
Unite leaders share out the pain among its GM members
THE Unite leaders’ policy that workers must share the pain of the capitalist crisis bore more rotten fruit on Tuesday. This was when Unite’s...
Pensions are now a revolutionary question
TUC leader, Brendan Barber, said yesterday in his gloom and doom-ridden New Year’s message that the Lord Adair Turner pensions report created ‘tough decisions’,...
US engulfed by political crisis as Biden is forced out
ON SUNDAY, US president Joe Biden caved in to the demands of senior Democrats and the Wall Street supporters of the party to step...
Only by abolishing capitalism can poverty be abolished!
THE WEALTH gap in Britain has widened dramatically during the pandemic with the richest 10% of the population gaining an extra £50,000 each on...
The US And The Eu Are The Gangsters
WE are currently witnessing the greatest eruption of vilification against Russia and its leadership since the Fulton speech by Winston Churchill on March...
McDonnell rejects socialist policies of mass nationalisation of industry in favour of a deal...
LAST Thursday, Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell outlined Labour’s economic policy for the general election which amounted to piling even more debt on the...
Disabled to be impoverished by Welfare Bill
As the Welfare Reform Bill progresses through the committee stage of the House of Lords so more evidence is emerging about the catastrophic effect it...
Israel bombs last functioning hospital in Gaza – working class must force TUC to...
THE ISRAELI regime intensified its relentless land and air bombardment of Gaza this weekend, including the bombing of the last functioning hospital in Gaza...
Capitalism’s Historical Crisis Demands Socialist Revolution
THE historic crisis of world capitalism has come to a head with a vengeance, with both the once mighty US economy and the European...
Labour manifesto – a recipe for selling off the NHS and the Welfare State!
THEY say that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, and Gordon Brown proved the point yesterday when he began his forward to...
Youth jailed for protesting against Israeli atrocities
IN DECEMBER 2008, hundreds of thousands of workers and youth marched to the Israeli embassy, in a number of demonstrations, denouncing the Israeli onslaught...
Production and wages falling while ‘pay-day’ loan sharks boom as Christmas nears
THE UK’s industrial output fell 0.7% in October, its fastest fall for six months. It is now 1.7% lower than the same month in...
CWU leaders capitulate to Royal Mail bosses – Time to build a new leadership...
LAST Friday, the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) finally revealed to their members in Royal Mail (RM), details of the treacherous sell-out...
Workers must fight for Palestine and bring down the Tory government that celebrates the...
THE NATIONAL march and rally demanding ‘Justice Now: Make it Right for Palestine’ is a massive demonstration of the support and solidarity that exists...
Congress Must Sack O’Grady And Mobilise To Bring Down The Tories!
THE ‘leader’ of the Trade Union Congress, Frances O’Grady yesterday stabbed millions of workers in the back when she declared on The Andrew Marr...
Low Paid UK By Permission Of The Tuc!
THE coalition government has named 70 companies that won’t pay workers the minimum wage. Even the government says that the 100 cases in the care...
Never mind the claimants – use lie detectors on the politicians
WORK and Pensions Minister John Hutton said yesterday that lie detectors will be used to help root out benefit cheats in job centres later...
BA, car output and production crashes!
BRITISH Airways has just announced a loss before tax of £401m for the year to 31 March, a collapse from a profit of £922m...
Disband The Police Death Squads!
THE fact that armed police used internationally banned dum dum bullets, seven of which splintered, expanded and exploded inside the head of Jean Charles...
NHS pharmacy services under threat – warn unions
Unite is seeking an urgent meeting with Health Secretary, Andy Burnham ‘as NHS pharmacy services are threatened by a government decision’. Burnham is being asked to...
Labour’s ‘business friendly’ manifesto is declaration of war on the working class!
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer launched the party’s ‘business friendly’ election manifesto in Manchester yesterday morning with the promise that a Labour government would put...
‘Oppressed will rise all over the world’ – says Iranian president
Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad has hailed his election win as a new Islamic revolution which he said he hoped would now spread its way...
Palestinian Presidency Condemns The Killing Of Six Palestinians By The Zionist Occupiers!
THE Palestinian presidency has expressed its strong condemnation and rejection of the crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces in Jenin camp yesterday evening,...
Capitalism diving into recession and hyperinflation – time to put it out of its...
YESTERDAY morning, Tory ministers had to submit to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) their plans to impose the cuts demanded by Chancellor Jeremy...
Labour prepares for war – time to kick them out!
IT was revealed this week that the Labour government is set to introduce changes to a new armed forces bill, due to come before...
Abolish PFI and contract cleaners to stop NHS bugs deaths
THE number of deaths linked to the hospital bug Clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA. Deaths involving Clostridium difficile rose by 69 per...