Merkel’s Short-Lived Victory
ON Thursday, the German Parliament (Bundestag) voted by 523 to 85 to increase the funds available to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) from...
Reject BA Sell-Out!
THERE can be only one response by BA cabin crew to the latest attempt by the national leadership of Unite to impose a ‘settlement’...
Irish Trade Unions Put The Tuc To Shame
LAST Friday, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions called a 100,000 strong national demonstration in Dublin, with demonstrations in many other Irish cities and...
Tories Use State Against Health Workers
TRADE UNION leaders are angry that the government has organised police and army scabbing on today’s four-hour NHS strike over the refusal of the...
Trade union leaders abandon members – build a revolutionary leadership in the unions
A STUDY published yesterday revealed that as many as six million workers in Britain live in fear of losing their jobs in the next...
Unions must demand TUC call a general strike to support junior doctors and defend...
TODAY is the first of four days of strike action by junior doctors throughout the health service in England, in what is the biggest...
US Opening Up Second Front In Africa
MILLIONS of Africans will understandably be fearful at the latest strategic initiative that US President George Bush has just announced. The president has instructed his...
Teachers, parents and students taking action to defend education
OVER the past week, lecturers have been on strike against sackings, parents are occupying schools to stop their closure, and students, angry at high...
Afghanistan A Graveyard For The British Army
BRITISH forces in Afghanistan have, just this month, suffered their highest injury rate since they invaded in 2001, new Ministry of Defence figures show. A...
Unreal capitalism deserves to perish!
THE crash of the British banks continued yesterday after Royal Bank of Scotland declared a £27bn loss for 2008 on Monday and its share...
Fight Tory class war programme – bring down the Coalition!
OSBORNE began his spending review speech yesterday by saying that: ‘Today’s the day when Britain steps back from the brink’. In fact, his speech represented...
Tory government ‘pathetic’ and ‘incapacitated’ – time to bring them down with a general...
WEDNESDAY’S debate and vote in parliament on the issue of the roll-out of Universal Credit has been hailed as a ‘symbolic defeat’ for the...
Egyptian revolution in permanence!
THE Egyptian army opened fire on thousands of workers and young people in Tahrir Square on Saturday morning, killing four and wounding 117. ...
Wage freezing, wage cutting, redundancies and revolution ahead for workers!
THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says that if there is a capitalist government in office in 2016 it will have to find an...
MPs SHOW THE WAY ON THE ISSUE OF PAY!
MEMBERS of Parliament will receive an 11% pay rise following the publication of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority recommendations later on this week The rise...
Democrats and Republicans sink their differences when it comes to imperialist war
WHILE US president Donald Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night was met with impotent angry silence by Democrats, there...
Greek Workers Have No Alternative To Revolution!
A LEAKED email sent to the Greek Ministries of Finance and Labour from the Troika mafia in Brussels says Greek private sector workers must...
TUC must be made to call a general strike to put an end to...
THE International Monetary Fund has openly condemned the UK government over its tax cuts that handed billions to the rich, warning that the measures...
Bring Down Blair Over Pensions
THE big pensions clash between the trade unions and the government is underway after nine unions representing 1.5 million council workers agreed to ballot...
May survives Party conference – but will need Labour’s help to sell-out Brexit!
THE sight of PM May ‘dancing’ onto the Tory Party conference podium’ no doubt celebrating that she had survived the Tory Party conference thus...
Salafist Provocateurs Playing Israel’s Game!
A SALAFIST group yesterday claimed responsibility for a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip towards the Israeli town of Ashkelon on Saturday night, as...
Forward With The European Socialist Revolution!
ON MONDAY in the House of Commons, ex-Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw rounded on the government stating: ‘Instead of sheltering behind complacent language and...
Putin’s cuts decree will drive forward political revolution!
THE Putin regime has been hit hard by the world capitalist crisis, especially by the fall in oil prices, and the effect that the...
Tories breaking triple-lock will plunge millions of pensioners into poverty!
MILLIONS of pensioners will be plunged into poverty as the Tories press ahead with ending the triple-lock on state pensions. The triple-lock guarantees the basic...
Ban all secret trials! Smash the capitalist state!
AN unprecedented attempt by the government to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the UK has been blocked by the Court...
Private equity group to ‘cut and slash’ Chrysler
DAIMLERCHRYSLER is selling a 80.1 per cent share in its crisis-hit American Chrysler division to the private equity group Cerberus for $7.4bn. President George...
Demand an immediate recall of the TUC to call a general strike
THE UK’s job market, which the Tories and their supporters have long held to be evidence of the ability of British capitalism to ‘bounce...
Victory to Syria – forward to liberation of Palestine!
THE Israeli terror against the people of Occupied Palestine is being stepped up remorselessly. The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Riyad Mansour says...
Labour will let bankers’ bonuses soar and make the working class pay for capitalist...
LABOUR’S shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves yesterday pledged any future Labour government to be the bankers’ best friend, ready and willing to facilitate awarding massive...
Desperate UK and French imperialism begins new ‘Grab for Africa’
EARLIER this week French aircraft bombed the positions of the anti-imperialist forces in the Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) led by Laurent Gbagbo, while French...
Trump To Invite Netanyahu To His Inauguration!
PRESIDENT-ELECT Trump’s advisers are planning to invite Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the president-elect’s inauguration ceremony, so as to publicly stress just...
US And UK Ruling Classes Have Been Undermined By Defeat In Afghanistan!
THE RULING US Democratic Party, led by President Biden, was yesterday being pressed by its NATO allies to delay the US rapid retreat (rout)...
All out behind the firefighters
Today, the London FBU are staging the first of two eight hour strikes against the plans to sack the entire workforce of over 5,000...
Labour Party ramps up attack on NHS – TUC must call a general strike...
LABOUR Party shadow health secretary Wes Streeting doubled down on his attack on the NHS yesterday with a speech to a conference organised by...
150,000 Deaths – Tories Put The Bosses First – They Refuse To Lock Down...
THE BMA yesterday condemned the 150,000 Covid deaths, so far, since the start of the pandemic. The reason for the mountain of corpses is...
Bosses share bonanza
THE ages old reformist illusion that the worst excesses of capitalism can be curbed through a mixture of indignation and moral outrage received yet...
NGOs defy Israeli regime’s demands to provide information that will put the lives of...
EIGHT international aid groups working in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories said yesterday that they would defy an order to provide information about...
TUC must call a general strike at once to defend the Palestinian people from...
THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said yesterday that the number of Palestinians who have been driven from their...
Business Secretary Cable Tells Vauxhall Workers: You’Re On Your Own!
LAST MAY the Unite union leaders agreed for their members in the UK that they would provide savings of 106m euros over four years,...
Extend lecturers strike into a general strike to defend pensions and education
TALKS began yesterday between the University and College Union (UCU) and Universities UK (UUK), the body representing all universities, at the conciliation service ACAS...
UNITE leader offers to assist Tory productivity drive
THE immediate response of the leaders of the trade unions representing public sector workers to the wage-cutting programme outlined by Osborne in this week’s...
US Agent Maliki Turns On Shi’Ite Masses
IN the last days of the Bush presidency, the US military has unleashed the Iraqi puppet army, led by its Prime Minister Maliki, to...
Stop The Airports, Call Out The Tgwu And The Tuc!
It has just been confirmed what we already knew – that the Gate Gourmet bosses, in a well planned action, provoked a walk-out by...
De Menezes murder not a crime says state
THE current farce that is being played out, of trying a police death squad under the health and safety laws, is not only a...
Cox joins the war criminals with her plan to attack Syria!
ON Monday evening in the House of Commons Labour MP Jo Cox came to the rescue of Cameron and the Tories when she...