Strike wave hits UK as workers rise up against bankrupt capitalism!
AS CHRISTMAS approaches, the strike wave sweeping Britain is far from abating, in fact it is growing in strength and determination by the day...
PCS strike – No compromise with Tories possible. A general strike to kick them...
OVER 500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) came out on strike this...
Labour Sets Out To Transform Capitalism!
SHADOW Chancellor John McDonnell made it perfectly clear at Labour’s Conference on the Economy that the Labour Party was now for ‘transforming capitalism’, and...
Karzai calls for rethink, as Taleban attacks mount
THE Afghan ‘government’ has called for a rethink of the US-led fight against the Taleban, after heavy casualties to civilians caused by US air...
Rajapakse And His Backers Will Not Defeat The Tamil People
YESTERDAY the imperialist-backed Rajapakse regime was claiming to have killed the LTTE leadership, including Velupillai Prabakaran, and that the struggle is now over. Its...
Forward with the European socialist revolution
YESTERDAY Europe shook as millions of Spanish workers took to the streets in a general strike, while over 100,000 workers from all over Europe...
The TUC Congress must demand that the State of Palestine is established from the...
THE Palestinian Centre for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared has called on the international community to take serious and effective action to compel Israel...
The working people of the world must NOW take action to establish the...
THE Palestinian presidency on Wednesday expressed its great thanks and appreciation for the strong and clear Saudi position expressed in the Saudi statement issued...
British Capitalism At The Centre Of The Capitalist Crisis
THE worldwide capitalist crisis drove the pound down on Friday into an unprecedented collapse. The pound slumped 9.6 US cents to $1.52 at...
Gaza war crimes exposed – unions must call worldwide boycott of Israel
ISRAELI soldiers at a military academy have exposed the essence of the cold-blooded and murderous nature of the recent Israeli army onslaught into the...
Bank of England appoint Bernanke, the architect of QE, to rescue British capitalism from...
At the weekend, bosses at the Bank of England announced that they had drafted in the ex-chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank (Fed),...
Bangladesh: a paradise for the bosses, and a hell for the workers
THE arrest of the owner of the collapsed building in Dakha is just a tiny sop to the massive anger felt by Bangladeshi workers...
It is the tyranny of the minority that must be ended through socialist...
THE ‘tyranny of the majority’ should not dictate exit from the EU, former Tory PM John Major said yesterday, in remarks that have sparked...
Labour Mayor Andy Burnham reveals Labour MPs want him to oust Starmer
THE Labour Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, in an interview with The Daily Telegraph newspaper yesterday said that many Labour MPs have been privately...
World capitalism is set to crash – It must be replaced with the World...
JUST five months after being elected with a landslide majority, a life or death political and economic crisis has engulfed British capitalism. Labour PM Sir...
Cameron’s goose is well and truly cooked!
THE Liberal Democrats have won the Eastleigh by-election, with the UK Independence Party pushing the Conservatives into third place, with Labour as also-rans. Mike Thornton...
Unions must take action! Occupy Bombardier! Bring down the coalition! Nationalise to...
THE proposed sacking of 1,500 Bombardier workers in Derby is the beginning of the end for the train construction industry in the UK, and...
Trade unions must fight zero hours contracts
THE news that over one million workers now have ‘zero hours contracts’ and work only when their employer wants them, have no holidays or...
As Israel Steps Up Its Massacre Of Palestinians The TUC And Trade Unions Worldwide...
THE Israeli occupation forces in Palestine are continuing with their genocide and have committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the...
UK heading for ‘no deal crisis’ – Only answer is a socialist revolution!
THE MAY government on Tuesday defeated an attempt by 12 pro-EU Conservative MPs, supported by Labour EU Remainers, to destroy its revised post-Brexit trade...
Reid goes into opposition to a Brown government
IT MUST be a grave crisis indeed when Reid the Home Secretary – who only a week ago was posing as carrying the entire...
Unions Must Dump Blair, Brown And Beckett
THE decision of up to 40 members of Foreign Secretary Beckett’s local Labour Party branch, Derby South, to quit the party, concretely proves that...
‘Red lights flashing’ – Cameron signals more cuts
WRITING in the Guardian yesterday, David Cameron announced that, following his meeting with world leaders at the G20 conference in Brisbane, he has suddenly...
Hands off Serwotka – Sack the Coalition!
AT a time when the whole of the working class and the middle class is under the most savage attacks from the Tory Lib-Dem...
Millions Are Marching For Palestine – The TUC Must Call A General Strike To...
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth marched for Palestine in mass rallies that erupted throughout the UK on Saturday, and were more than...
Trades unions must fight for jobs for youth!
NEARLY half of all employers (45 per cent) will not be offering jobs to 16-year-old school-leavers and graduates this year. The Chartered Institute of Personnel...
‘Blair and Straw have a great deal to answer for,’ says Alex Salmond
SNP foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond spoke up for millions of British people yesterday when he highlighted the role that one-time Labour PM Blair...
Miliband adopts Osborne’s programme to smash Welfare State!
LABOUR Party leader Miliband’s speech on the party’s economic strategy showed conclusively that the Labour Party leaders are prepared to completely destroy the Welfare...
Crisis Of Capitalism Reaches The Point Of Explosion! Socialist Revolution Is The Only...
EUROPEAN leaders are set to meet today for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine. They are frightened that Russia and the USA...
SNP join Tories in refusing any pay negotiations with nurses
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Scotland has voted overwhelmingly to reject the final pay offer from the nationalist SNP government, meaning Scottish...
Tories Open Up The Battle Against Socialism
THE content of the ‘devolution campaign’, which has now developed into the ‘Home Rule for England campaign’ was revealed yesterday when Tory Justice Secretary...
UN report confirms that Capitalist austerity has driven millions into poverty in the...
A REPORT by an official UN agency has confirmed what every worker across Europe knows – namely that the savage austerity measures carried out...
Bankrupts On Parade!
THE leaders of Labour, ‘New’ or otherwise, chose to debate their leadership credentials yesterday over the Murdoch-owned Sky TV, the centre of the Murdoch...
Budget Day strikes – demand TUC calls a general strike to kick out the...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will be delivering his Budget speech today in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up...
Labour believes that the elderly must be made to pay
IT has emerged that it is a question of principle for the Labour government that elderly people who are now living in nursing and...
Unite leaders betray airport workers – for an emergency conference to elect a...
THE BETRAYAL by the leadership of the Unite union plunged to new depths last week in the negotiations between the union and the management...
Bring Down The May Government, Quit Eu And Bring In Socialism!
GENERAL LORD Dannatt, the chief of the General Staff from 2006-2009, writing in The Daily Telegraph, has bemoaned the ‘national embarrassment of almost...
Trade unions must act now to defend living standards!
BANK of England Governor Mervyn King sent a letter to Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday because inflation has taken off. Under statutory obligations put in place...
BBC reveals how police abuse body cameras – time to disband the police and...
IN 2005, the Metropolitan Police introduced a trial of body-worn cameras for police officers, a move that was quickly rolled out by forces throughout...
Anti-union laws and wage cuts will stay – Brown tells trade unions
Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday gave a fitting reply to all those trade union bureaucrats who were saying that he could be forced to...
US debt crisis will crash Wall Street and plunge the US and world capitalism...
THE US economy, the largest and most powerful capitalist economy in the world, is in the grip of a crisis that will plunge America...
US is complicit in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp massacre that killed 274 Palestinians!
ON Friday, Israeli forces launched a murderous attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza with bombs directed at its market place, which...
Just What The Doctor Ordered!
EARLY yesterday morning 21 people were arrested and charged under the various terrorism acts, while Scotland Yard said that the 21 were engaged in...
Italian Banks on verge of crash following Renzi’s defeat
THE defeat for the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, in Sunday’s referendum to change the Italian constitution and concentrate the political power in his...
BofE keeps interest rates at record level and promises further rises!
AS WIDELY predicted, the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday voted to hold the UK key base interest rate at 5.25% while...