NHS Executives back away from imposition – Unions must take strike action
HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s contract imposition has already begun to hit the rocks with 10 of the 20 NHS executives who signed the Dalton letter...
Tories prepare for perfect storm of anger from workers – General strike now to...
AS THE annual conference of the TUC, this year conducted on-line, opens, the GMB union released analysis of official data showing that 100,000 care...
Hayes & Ward must go! Build a new leadership in the CWU!
AS 2,000 postal workers were gearing up for a 24-hour strike on Friday against Royal Mail’s plans to close mail centres, Dave Ward, the...
Hunt Plans To Force The Disabled To Work – Time To Bring Down The...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Budget speech yesterday in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up to a...
Labour government splitting apart as ministers prepare for a national government!
YESTERDAY, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that splits had erupted in the heart of Keir Starmer’s Cabinet between deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and...
US and UK cannot win Afghan hearts and minds!
THE massacres of the Afghan civilian population by air and missile attacks continue, proving that imperialist armies are in the business of mass murder,...
Time to nationalise the banks – the only way to prevent another crash and...
THE BANK of America’s March survey has openly warned that another 2008-type worldwide crash is on the way. Its March survey polled 200 investors...
McCluskey and the ideologically-driven Tory cuts
WRITING in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper the general secretary elect of Unite, Len McClusky, was forced to use the dread words ‘general strike’ in the...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Defend Jobs, Homes, Basic Rights And Deal With Climate...
THE TUC’s ‘Put People First’ march on Saturday brought 50,000 workers and youth onto the streets marching behind powerful contingents from the GMB and...
Answer Airbus threat to thousands of jobs in UK and Europe with occupations...
YESTERDAY, Airbus announced that it will scrap all production of its flagship A380 superjumbo aircraft, a giant cruise liner with two decks and capable...
Occupy and demand nationalisation at Grangemouth
THE people of Scotland will be watching tomorrow and expecting you to ‘fire up Grangemouth’ was the message from Unite to Jim Ratcliffe and...
Coalition launches Royal Mail ‘Blitzkrieg’ – Recall CWU conference!
A ‘blitzkrieg strategy’ was how the bourgeois press dubbed last Monday’s announcement by business minister, Michael Fallon, that he was starting the process of...
Trump Wants The Whole World To Pay For The Crisis And Death Agony Of...
DEEP splits among the imperialist powers emerged this week over the rapidly growing support for a Palestinian state, at the same time as Trump...
Answer Hunt’s ‘eye-watering’ austerity cuts to restore the confidence of the bankers with...
THE UNITE trade union kicked off a campaign yesterday morning to call on Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt to ‘use...
Tories promise money for schools in the Tory shires, and ‘reasonable force’ for working...
YESTERDAY the Department for Education announced that it will be pushing for higher pay for newly qualified teachers as part of the Tory government’s...
Crown won’t prosecute police killers
AT a briefing on their investigation into the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station on July 22, the Independent Police...
Housing crash on the way!
THE latest Bank of England figures show that the number of new mortgages being given to house buyers has fallen by 20 per cent...
Workers must lobby parliament on October 19th and call general strike to leave the...
THE Supreme Court in Scotland yesterday delayed its decision on whether it would be necessary for the courts to intervene and force PM Johnson...
France sends in more troops to join US forces in Syria
FRANCE, the former colonial power in Syria, has expanded its military presence in the country, supporting the United States which is organising Kurdish...
Johnson moves to put the skids under Prescott
THE Blairite cabinet, faced with the working class rejecting Blair, his war on Iraq, his onslaught on the Welfare State, and with popular revulsion...
Capitalism kills – UK death rate increased by Tory austerity war on workers
ON MONDAY, the BMJ health journal published the results of its research into the impact of the cost-of-living crisis and the austerity policies ruthlessly...
On The Eve Of The Budget, Workers Are Demanding Action To Bring Down...
THE TUC General Council has met and issued a statement on the crisis. In it, it disgracefully treats the Tory government as a potential...
To defend jobs and pensions bring down the coalition!
UNIVERSITY STAFF and students are under massive attacks from the Tory-led coalition. Coalition ministers are pressing ahead with 25% funding cuts, and the UCU trade...
Production down, inflation up, pensioners savings destroyed – the ‘recovery’ so far!
INFLATION may stay above 3% during the rest of this year, according to Paul Tucker, a deputy governor of the Bank of England. He...
Thieves, drug users, arsonists and spies – recruited by the Metropolitan police
BACK in 2014 the police announced that they were ‘relaxing’ their rules on recruitment to allow convicted criminals to join. In fact, this just legitimised...
Putin wants a ‘game with rules’ with imperialism!
PUTIN posed the question at last week’s International Discussion Club in Sochi: ‘The World Order: New Rules or a Game without rules’. (see feature) He...
War on welfare – revolution the only way forward
Yesterday, more than two million people on Incapacity Benefit found themselves officially labelled by the Tory-LibDem coalition as scroungers and parasites living off the...
McDONNELL SPLITS LABOUR OVER SCOTTISH NATIONALISTS – HE IS GETTING READY FOR A...
IN AN interview in Edinburgh on Tuesday Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell brazenly broke with the official Labour Party policy of opposition to a...
Britain’s ‘Black Hundreds’ Seeking State Support
UP to 1,500 English Defence League racists, plus foreign supporters, marched through Luton on Saturday, escorted by police from 27 forces as well as...
State threatens Climate Change Camp
YESTERDAY dozens of police officers were inspecting the beginning of the Climate Change camp, in a sportsfield owned by Imperial College, less than 1,000...
Macron only scrapes a win thanks to abstentions and anti-Le Pen votes!
THE RESULT of the French presidential election on Sunday saw the right-wing Emmanuel Macron winning with 58.54% of the vote, beating the leader of...
Pakistan resisting US demands for new offensives
PAKISTAN’S army has just announced that it will launch no new offensives on its territory in 2010. At the same time the US Defence...
Two Years Since ‘Operation Protective Edge’
TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack...
The Tory crisis is the source of the Labour ‘racism’ provocations!
THE attempt to frame up Ken Livingstone as a rabid racist, after similar attempts to do the same to Labour leader Corbyn, who was...
Trump boasts that stock markets have gained $6 trillion since his election!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Monday outlined his new national security strategy. He stressed: ‘When the American people speak, all of us should...
Labour’s six months of work is no solution to the jobs crisis!
LABOUR has pledged a ‘jobs guarantee’ scheme for young unemployed people, that will last for the whole of next parliament, if it wins the...
Dollar fall heralds a deepening capitalist crisis and world revolution
ON FRIDAY, the exchange rate of the dollar plunged down against other major world currencies and gold rose by 1.2 per cent to $638.5...
Defend General Practice by driving privateers out of the NHS and nationalising the drug...
THE head of the Royal College of GPs yesterday said that the job of full-time GPs was now ‘undoable’ owing to the huge pressures...
Trump’s ‘deal’ strengthens Israel’s occupation of Palestine and restores colonial control over Gaza
PRESIDENT Trump, backed by ex-UK Premier Tony Blair, has given Hamas three or four days to respond to his so-called ‘peace plan’. He has...
Trump sends troops to steal Syrian oil! Kurds and Syrian army unite to drive...
WHEN US President Donald Trump abruptly announced on October 9 that all US troops would be pulled out of northern Syria, his administration indicated...
US pilots confronted Boeing over safety before Ethiopia crash and were ignored!
SECRET recordings have revealed that the American pilots union confronted US aircraft manufacturer Boeing about the safety of their bestselling 737 Max 8 plane...
Sunak demands police crack down on all opposition to Zionist genocide.
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has summoned the country’s police chiefs to tell them they must use all the existing and wide-ranging police powers...
Balls promises more cuts under Labour
THE shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, made his keynote speech to the annual conference of the Labour Party yesterday setting out the economic policy of...
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...
2024 was the deadliest year for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails!
PALESTINIAN prisoners’ institutions have declared that 2024 has been the deadliest year in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement. In a press conference held...