Smash The Anti-Union Laws!
THE RMT has called off its Network Rail strike action of signal workers after the judiciary declared it to be illegal, using the ruling...
The housing crisis intensifies as police and bailiffs clear estates for the benefit of...
THE housing crisis in the UK has reached explosion point. There is no new council housing being built, rents are being driven sky-high, while housing...
TUC to lobby Tory Party conference – to change Tory policy
THE TUC General Council statement issued on Saturday constitutes a betrayal of the working class and the trade unions. It seeks to divert...
Class war sharpening – unions need new leaders
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister, Cameron, was warning the BAA Unite workers that they must not strike. This was at least six hours before the result...
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...
The Trade Unions Must Defend Every Job!
THE London and New York stock markets were in free fall yesterday, losing hundreds of points, with tens of billions of dollars and pounds...
The currency crash and the socialist revolution
THE decision by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to abandon its three-year cap on the franc last Thursday has had an immediate and catastrophic...
Bury bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism
SUNDAY marked the fifth anniversary of the biggest banking collapse in the history of capitalism to date. On 15 September 2008 Lehman Brothers, a massive...
Gourmet locked-out workers smash Woodley-Barber ‘compromise’ deal
THE Gate Gourmet catering company was forced to admit on Saturday that the ‘sweetheart’ deal, which the leaders of the TGWU and the ...
Occupy Tata Steel NOW! Kick the Tories out! Tata must be nationalised...
THE decision by the bosses to sell off Tata Steel is one that will lead not just to poverty for 19,000 workers and...
Free social care and care homes for the elderly
THE just-published ‘State of Social Care’ report from the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) was greeted as ‘a damning indictment of a...
Demand recall of the TUC to sack current leaders replacing them with a leadership...
Today will be the biggest day of strike action across the country in over a decade, with hundreds of thousands of workers from nearly...
Bring Down Crisis-Ridden Tories – Quit The Eu Now!
THE PATHETIC political collapse of PM May is the result of the massive hostility of the UK working class to her ripping up the...
Hamas Ready To Form A National Unity Government!
ADDRESSING a national meeting of the leaders of Palestinian political factions in Gaza City on Saturday, Ismail Haniyah, the head of the Hamas political...
Barber’s secret meetings with Tories
BRENDAN BARBER, general secretary of the TUC, who doubles as a director of the Bank of England, has been at it once again, doing...
US crisis intensifies!
THE US dollar, reflecting the crisis of the US capitalist economy, is now sinking fast against both the euro and the pound sterling. Rising...
Answer 30% savage cuts with a general strike!
YESTERDAY the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, proudly announced that four government departments have agreed to make cuts in their budgets of 8% a year...
Balls Is The Bankers Man!
BEFORE the 1997 election, the Blair-Brown gang proved to big business that they were the right men to run capitalism by conducting a war...
Capitalism”s Global Financial Ice Age
THIS week saw a series of announcements from banks and economists about impending doom for capitalism. On Wednesday, the RBS bank advised all its clients...
TUC leaders plead while workers starve
IN advance of the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, announcing to parliament on Wednesday his spending review, which will detail exactly how he intends to...
NEC declares war on Labour Party members with the support of the Law Courts
THE Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Labour Party right wing and against Labour Party democracy last Friday afternoon, when it banned...
Trump and Pompeo encourage Zionist Israel, while Biden prepares to accept land seizures!
ISRAEL is in a race against time to create a fait accompli in Palestine before US President Donald Trump leaves office, Palestinian Prime Minister...
Thousands of jobs threatened at Bridgend, Luton and Ellesmere Port!
YESTERDAY Unite leader McCluskey was at the Bridgend plant in south Wales to address the three shifts of workers at separate meetings on the...
Imperialists step up war preparations against Iran
A report from the director of US national intelligence, James Clapper, issued last Tuesday signalled that imperialism’s war preparations against Iran have reached the...
Pre-empt savage cuts with a general strike!
LIB DEM leader Nick Clegg has reiterated his original claim there will need to be ‘savage’ spending cuts. Clegg put forward the same...
‘Systematic policy to destroy Gaza’s health system has reached the point of no return!’
DOCTOR Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, has said that the suffering of the wounded in the Strip is...
Anarchists Being Used To Increase Police-State Powers
LAST Saturday’s 500,000-strong TUC demonstration against the coalitions cuts policy has shaken the coalition, and given the capitalist state a lot to think about. Such...
Scandalous Academies!
AN academy chain in London set up by the Tory schools minister Lord Nash is having its education curriculum drawn up by his daughter. The...
Defeat The May-Corbyn Pact To Knife Brexit – No To A National Government!
TORY Prime Minister May emerged from her meeting with her cabinet on Tuesday and immediately issued a letter to every Tory MP calculated to...
Spain follows Greece with mass strikes against austerity
SPANISH Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialist Party government scraped through Parliament its 15bn euro (£13bn) austerity package, by 169 votes to 168,...
British capitalism, backward, parasitic, and ripe for revolution
A REPORT by business research firm Datamonitor says that people in the UK are borrowing on average almost twice that of citizens in other...
Eurozone crisis reaches crunch
MONDAY’S’ summit meeting of the European Union leaders took place under siege conditions in Brussels as the city was paralysed by a general strike...
Revolution – only way out for Ireland and Europe!
THE Irish Government’s guaranteeing 100 per cent of all banking deposits has resulted in the Irish state drowning in a bottomless pit of bail-outs....
Unite must stop Heathrow to win the BA struggle!
Striking British Airways cabin crew began another five days of strike action last night. On the eve of the action BA cabin crew told...
Scots workers reject nationalism – now for revolution
SCOTTISH workers rejected the narrow reactionary nationalism of the SNP on Thursday because of the fact that they hate both the Scottish and English...
Iran Has The Right To Nuclear Power
THE Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, made it very clear last Wednesday what Iran’s position is on its right to develop...
From Thatcher to Blair and Cameron – a common determination to smash the Welfare...
THE just-released Thatcher papers confirm that the Tory leader had a very real hatred of the NHS and the Welfare State and, along with...
Israel in favour of Gaza Truce ONLY when it has crushed Hamas!
ISRAEL on Wednesday said it backed Egyptian efforts to mediate a truce with Hamas in and around Gaza but also at the same time...
US Casualties Mount In Iraq
US forces in Iraq suffered 24 deaths in Iraq in May, more than any month since September 2008. The total number of US casualties since...
Students Will Fight For A Future
UP to 100,000 students marched through London yesterday to protest against £9,000-a-year tuition fees, and the way that the Tory-LibDem coalition is turning back...
Outsourcing companies facing ruin – socialist revolution is the only answer!
IT IS almost exactly one year since the dramatic collapse into bankruptcy and compulsory liquidation of the giant outsourcing and construction company Carillion. At the...
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...
Tories to slash public services by £17bn
UK PUBLIC services will be slashed by up to £17 billion, the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned, as Tory chancellor Rishi...
Enemy Well And Truly Inside The Gates!
SIMON Stevens the new Chief Executive of NHS England is no stranger to the NHS and the struggle to privatise it. He was chief...
Massive strike action greeted by Tory coalition threats!
AS millions of public sector workers, teachers, firefighters, local government workers and many other sections took strike action yesterday, Prime Minister Cameron pledged to...