Grenfell Tower survivors treated with contempt by Tories – time to kick the government...
THE contemptuous treatment of the survivors of the fire that killed 80 people at least has been sickening. Last week it emerged that those who...
Congress must call general strike to bring down the Tories and bring in a...
THE TUC meets in Brighton this week for its most vital Congress in living memory. It meets at a time when the working class...
Strikebreaker Hunt demands ‘call off NHS strike!’
‘BRITAIN needs a pay rise!’ These were the cynical words of PM Cameron last Friday in Washington, after five years of remorseless wage-cutting in...
Southern Cross collapse– true face of privatisation
On Monday Tory prime minister, David Cameron, unveiled the long awaited White Paper that will enshrine in law the ‘presumption’ that public services should...
TUC prepares for treacherous deal with Labour’s coup leaders
YESTERDAY morning Angela Eagle, one of the main conspirators behind the right-wing plot to oust Jeremy Corbyn from the leadership, announced publicly for the...
Bp Hitting Russian Rocks
MANY senior foreign executives at oil giant BP’s Russian partnership TNK-BP are to be forced to leave Russia after their requests for work permits...
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...
World Crisis Of Capitalism Is Driving A World Revolution For Socialism
THIS week the ‘big guns’ of the capitalist world banking system will each be holding their regular monthly meetings with only one question on...
GERMAN ELECTIONS: Workers deliver a blow to free market ‘reforms’
AFTER Sunday’s General Election, Germany did not have a Chancellor, or a government yesterday. This plunged the country into a huge economic and political...
Tuc Congress Must Demand All British Troops Out Of Afghanistan!
WITH ten British troops killed in Helmand province so that just hundreds of people could vote – and after five per cent turned out...
Turn The November 30Th Strike Into An Indefinite General Strike
THERE can be only one demand for next week’s one-day strike by public sector workers and that must be for the TUC to call...
Crunch Time For The Eurozone
August is traditionally the month when politicians, bankers and bureaucrats across Europe take an extended break away from the chaos of the economic meltdown...
Take Action With The Postal Workers
THE CWU postal workers trade union has been forced to take strike action, very much against the wishes of the CWU leadership, by a...
US economy slumps as Obama proposes huge budget debts
THE American economy contracted by 6.2 per cent in the last three months of last year, as consumer spending dropped by 4.3 per cent...
Hunt steps up war on NHS
THE Tory drive against doctors and health workers throughout the NHS was reaffirmed last week when re-appointed health secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed that GPs...
Cameron and Miliband united in defending EU bosses and bankers
THE Tory-led coalition was rocked on Monday night when over 80 Tory backbench MPs, leftovers from the days of empire, voted for a...
After China sneezes Wall Street drops like a stone
A NINE per cent fall on the small Chinese stock market, after rumours that the Stalinist bureaucracy was about to tax shares, and slightly...
The workers of the world must now come to the aid of the Palestinian...
‘OUR right to self-determination is inalienable. It is not tied to a timeframe’, Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Thursday said...
Police to be ‘reformed’ along RUC lines
SIR Ronald Flanagan, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary in England and Wales, and the senior police adviser to the Home Secretary, will publish a...
One more turn of the police state screw!
YESTERDAY Home Secretary, Smith was having a go at presenting the introduction of biometric identity cards as a matter of personal convenience, and even...
Northern Rock crisis coming to a head
THE collapse of the US sub-prime market has produced a major banking crisis in the UK, which has seen the Northern Rock bank being...
The IMF sees the writing on the wall with second warning in 24 hours...
THE International Monetary Fund’s Financial Stability Report has given its second warning in 24 hours about a new financial catastrophe that it sees coming...
Italy, Spain and Greece erupting against EU austerity
ITALIAN car giant Fiat has shut down five of its plants as the Italian ruling class struggles against a transport workers strike directed against...
Royal Mail’s Privatisation Bill includes the end of the daily delivery
THE Coalition’s Business Secretary, Cable, told MPs last week in the House of Commons that the Bill to privatise the Royal Mail ‘will maintain...
Workers and elderly to be hammered for the benefit of privateers
CURRENTLY all over the country A&E’s are being closed, in some areas entire hospitals are to be demolished, while the number of private patients...
Workers will not get any ‘new deal’ from the Tories! Make the TUC call...
THE WINDRUSH scandal, missiles launched at Syria without even seeking permission from Parliament, the Grenfell fire disaster, the winter NHS meltdown, homelessness and rough...
Vote ‘NO’ and organise Greek Socialist Revolution!
THE Syriza party won the last Greek general election with its declarations that once elected it would put an end to the austerity dictatorship...
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...
French publisher arrested in UK under anti-terror laws as ruling classes unite against workers
ON Monday, Ernest Moret, who works at the Paris based publisher Editions La Fabrique, was stopped by Metropolitan Police officers after travelling to London...
Action Needed Now Over Housing Crisis!
HOMELESSNESS among households in England has risen by 54 per cent since 2010 – rising annually every year – shows the latest report by...
Blair is speeding up the privatisation drive
ON all fronts the Blair government is speeding up its privatisation offensive, so that his governments can leave as their legacy for big...
TUC And Right Wing Labour Are Supporting Driving Workers Back To Work!
PM JOHNSON’S drive to return workers to work, despite the coronavirus epidemic, announced in Parliament on Monday at 3.00pm has met with a split...
Darling’s forecasts ‘too optimistic’, says Treasury Committee
THE British capitalist economy and government finances are in a worse state than Chancellor Alistair Darling led everyone to believe when he delivered his...
Inflation Out Of Control – Only Solution Is Get Rid Of Capitalism!
BRITISH capitalism has plunged even deeper into debt! It was revealed yesterday that interest payments on the massive £2.4 trillion national debt have more...
Lords defeat Tory police state bill – trade unions must now take action to...
THE TORY government’s plan for a police state dictatorship over the trade unions and all public protest movements took a big hit yesterday when...
Hunt’s Autumn budget – brings in the open dictatorship of the bankers!
YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Autumn budget – the second budget from the government in under two months. The first was the disastrous...
Trade unions must bring down crisis-ridden Tories, break with the EU and bring in...
THE TORY leadership is now in complete disarray, with PM May repeatedly refusing on Tuesday to say how she would vote if there was...
General Rose supports the Iraqis right to fight occupiers
GENERAL Rose, who was the commander of the UN forces in Bosnia, has just publicly supported the right of the Iraqi insurgents to fight...
Students across the US rise up against genocidal war in Gaza showing the way...
STUDENTS across America have risen up against the barbaric genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza and in support of Palestine in a...
Brown Speeding Up The Privatisation Programme
THE reaction of the Brown government to the eruption of the capitalist crisis has been to champion the interests of the banks, pledging to...
Staffing cuts causing ‘avoidable’ maternal deaths
AN independent inquiry into the unusually large number of maternal deaths in London over the past two years has confirmed that the government policy of...
Call a general strike – build Councils of Action – forward to Socialism
THE Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said yesterday that the government should ban strikes by workers in essential services, adding that this...
Trade Unions Must Defend The Nurses Right To Strike By Calling A General Strike...
AS LONG AGO AS LAST FEBRUARY, the Regulatory Policy Committee’s report on the Tory proposed anti-strike legislation found the government had not fully assessed...
US Ruling Class Forced To Nationalise Bankrupt Mortgage Giants
THE nationalisation of the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac mortgage finance companies by the ultra right wing Bush administration is a forced admission of...
Hague recognises Syrian opposition while Qatar and Saudis supply the guns and cash!
The ‘Friends of Syria Conference’ in Tunis has seen the representatives of the United States and the UK, Clinton and Hague, laying into Russia...