Sri Lanka Tea Workers Battle For £2 A Day
SRI LANKAN tea workers, some 400,000 strong, are mainly Tamil women workers, who work for around £1 a day and live, along with their...
Trump forced to retreat as Iran deals crushing blow to US imperialism
JUST 90 minutes before Trump’s self-imposed deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or he would destroy Iran’s ‘whole civilisation’, the US...
Trade Union Bureaucracy Resumes Its Full Support For Pension Busting!
ON December 20th the major local government trade unions, after coming under massive attack from their local government members, suspended their support, agreed on...
Only Socialist Revolution can end inequality
NOTHING demonstrates more graphically the increasing polarisation between the working class and the capitalist class than the gigantic and ever-increasing differentials between the obscene...
Smash Universal Credit! It is the tool for ruling through fear and mass evictions!
THOUSANDS of families in England will be spending Christmas in fear that the New Year will bring eviction from their homes. This was the message...
Support the junior doctors with a general strike!
THE Cameron government is being driven forward by the intensifying crisis of the capitalist system to have it out with the working class and...
Trump Will Live To Regret His Empty Davos Boasting! US Debt Mountain Will Lead...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s address to the annual get together of politicians, billionaires, bankers and other assorted ‘running dogs’ of capitalism at the World...
US Patriots In Gulf Prepare Way For Israeli Strike At Iran
THE US has moved to prepare the way for an Israeli strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities by deploying missile shields in Qatar, the UAE,...
UK trade unions must support the Palestinian people and assist them to establish their...
PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi told European diplomats on Tuesday that relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to...
Victory To Gadaffi – Defeat The Nato Gangsters!
ON Saturday, Colonel Gadaffi stated that the counter-revolutionary groups that had tried to rise up in a number of areas in Tripoli had been...
Macron Beats The War Drums As Capitalist Crisis Deepens!
A FINANCIAL TIMES report says a senior European defence official has acknowledged that ‘Western special forces’ are unofficially present in Ukraine, despite US-led NATO’s...
More sanctions on Russia drive up inflation while Tories blame strikes for crisis
YESTERDAY an embargo on seaborne Russian oil exports came into force, a move that will drive up the price of oil internationally and add...
Carney tells banks to find £11.4 billion to save them going bust
DESPITE all the recent words from Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, about the underlying health of British capitalism, his actions yesterday...
Savage cuts have just begun in debt-ridden capitalist Britain
SPENDING on Welfare over this Parliamentary term has fallen by just £2.5bn despite the Tory-led coalition aiming to slash spending by £19bn. The Institute for...
‘We are the masters now’ say Tories and employers
THE TORY-led coalition is poised to give all power to the employing class through neutering employment tribunals and giving the employers their own ‘charter’...
Brown demands police-state detention law
AHEAD of MPs considering the Second Reading of the new Counter-Terrorism Bill in Parliament yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for extension of...
Hunt urges NHS to ‘Sign up for Safety’ while he cuts the service to...
HEALTH Secretary Hunt is urging the NHS in England to reduce the number of serious mistakes being made and save 6,000 lives over the...
TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defend the NHS
TODAY junior doctors launch four days of strike action throughout the NHS in England over the demand for a 35% pay increase to make...
Scottish Power – huge profits and huge price rises
SCOTTISH Power has just reported a 95 per cent leap in its profits. It also warned its 5.2 million customers to prepare for a...
Hamas Political Bureau member Basem Naim calls for new roadmap to implement ceasefire!
A MEMBER of Hamas’s political bureau, Basem Naim, has criticised Board of Peace representative Nickolay Mladenov for publishing a new roadmap to implement phase...
Labour trying to hide jobless figures
WITH unemployment set to go up by at least one million this year, to three million, the government is in a panic. Its panic is...
UK capitalism is in its death agony – Now is the time to organise...
THE UK economy is heading for a recession and a slump as the latest official figures show. It shrank between July and September by...
Bma Oppose Health Rationing
‘We are not against improving patient referral standards, but we are opposed to referral management to cut costs and ration treatment,’ British Medical Association...
Workers of the world must follow the lead of the students and take general...
THE Geneva-based rights group, Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) says Israel is ‘intentionally’ demolishing schools and medical facilities, including those run by the UN agency...
The only way to really defend Venezuela is for the working class to smash...
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech last Tuesday night that a coup attempt by a small group of the military had...
Brown boasts that he has assured the future of the banks
THE Prime Minister revealed once again on BBC Radio 2 just what his priorities are and just what he is working night, noon and...
Right wing coupists routed in Labour NEC elections!
SUPPORTERS of Labour leader Corbyn have swept the board in elections to Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee, routing the right wing and giving it...
Unions fight EU’s privatisation & cheap-labour Directive
THOUSANDS of workers marched to the European Parliament in opposition to the infamous Bolkestein Directive, to lobby a four-day debate of MEPs, in Strasbourg...
Balls’ conscription for 16 to 18 year olds
SCHOOLS Secretary and chairman of the Fabian Society Ed Balls, has already made his mark in Britain. Before he became a minister he was part...
No justice under capitalism for De Menezes family
THE decision of the Crown Prosecution Service that no individual will be charged over the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes, but that the...
Putin lays down law to Soviet states
THE Putin regime has infuriated the British bourgeoisie by its strengthening of the state owned gas and oil sectors of the Russian economy, at...
Defend jobs & pay! Nationalise the car industry!
FIAT, the multinational car monopoly based in Italy, is in talks with the German government and the Works Council at Opel, the subsidiary of...
Only socialist revolutions can defeat missile threat
ROMANIAN President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that Romania will host US interceptor missiles along its border with the Russian Federation. This latest missile plan...
Brown And King Split As British Capitalism Founders
PM Brown has reacted to the Bank of England chief’s public admonition that the next Budget must not plunge the UK into another flood...
UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to defend their wages,...
WITH food banks running out of food, the poor are being condemned, not just to poverty but to a starvation existence, of begging on...
Capitalism cannot be reformed – it must be overthrown with Socialist Revolution.
IN HIS speech on Saturday to the Labour Party Policy Forum Jeremy Corbyn proved that left reformism has absolutely no answers to the crisis...
A Capitalist Nightmare Confronts The Bosses As Economic Collapse And Revolution Nears!
THIS week the Daily Telegraph has published a supplement ‘The Investors’ Handbook 2020’ subtitled: ‘Rising protectionism, negative interest rates, equity bubbles, debt mountains, trade...
No hardship payments says Woodley
TGWU leader Tony Woodley confirmed yesterday that the hardship payments to the locked out Gate Gourmet workers have been stopped. He informed a delegation of...
US capitalism in crisis – war at home and abroad is its only way...
US CAPITALISM, the most powerful in the world, is teetering on the brink of collapse under a tidal wave of debt. This dire warning was...
Stray dogs devour the bodies of dead Palestinians with Israeli troops looking on –...
THE Hamas Movement said yesterday that the sight of stray dogs devouring the bodies of martyrs in northern Gaza before the eyes of Israeli...
Workers targeted by loan companies to pay for private medical treatment
‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) deals, along with other personal loan arrangements, are being aggressively pushed out for NHS patients as part of the...
Palestine erupts on 44th anniversary of Six-Day-war
IN 1967, Israel, in the infamous ‘Six-Day War’, used its air power, and its backing from the Western powers, to defeat Arab armies and...
The Palestinians will respond to savage Israeli attacks with a massive Intifada to establish...
ISRAEL’S navy yesterday targeted Palestinian fishermen sailing offshore Rafah city in the southern besieged Gaza Strip and confiscated two boats, according to a WAFA...
Time to put an end to the institutionally corrupt and racist police force ...
THE LONG independent report into the murder of 37-year-old private detective Daniel Morgan in south London in 1987 was finally published on Tuesday and...
The continuing collapse of leadership in the FBU
THE leadership of the FBU ignominiously collapsed at yesterday’s FBU recall conference, held to decide on industrial action to defend the final salary pensions...