Cabin crew angry at Woodley sell-out
LAST Monday’s branch meeting of BASSA T&G cabin crew, to gain their approval for the deal agreed by TGWU leader Woodley and BA boss...
US workers taking action to drive up wages and defend their jobs
THE once-mighty US economy is facing a wave of strikes by powerful sections of the working class who are determined to drive up their...
London’s Met police to be split with directly recruited detectives!
THE news yesterday that, for the first time, London’s Metropolitan police will be directly recruiting plainclothed detectives with no previous experience of policing is...
Socialist revolution is the only answer to the ‘economic tsunami’ swamping capitalism!
THIS week, forecasts for the increase in household energy bills were dramatically increased to over £4,200 for an average UK household in January next...
Corbyn Called A ‘Stalinist’ As Labour Right Wing Plots For A Second Referendum
LABOUR leader Corbyn has been accused of organising a ‘Stalinist purge’ after he sacked ex-leadership contender and Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Owen Smith on...
British government inquiry into ‘complicity in torture’ is a fraud
ON Wednesday the government published the Evidence Protocol for the ‘inquiry’ into allegations of British complicity in torture – a year after the inquiry...
Labour right wing propping up the Tories!
ACTING Labour Party leader Harriet Harman yesterday betrayed working people when she led over 100 Labour MPs in abstaining over the Welfare Bill which...
Blair using EU to attack workers’ wages and conditions
THE Blair government has only one real use for the EU, and that is as a tool for cutting the wages and increasing the...
UK ruling class is demanding £20 billion more in military spending to prepare a...
JUST days after the British armed forces supported the illegal seizure of the empty Russian-flagged oil tanker, the Marinera, by the US military in...
60,000 families face eviction under Tory Housing Bill
60,000 HOUSEHOLDS in England face being thrown out of their council houses next year as a result of the Tories ‘pay to stay’ policy. Under...
EU ripped apart by crisis – time to bring it down and advance to...
WITH the Labour right-wing openly organising at the party conference in Brighton this week to bind the party firmly to a campaign to remain in...
Labour must move to stop war, and force the May government to resign!
WHILE Trump and US Defence Secretary, General ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis were blowing hot and cold over whether they were going to attack Syria or...
Scabby TUC says it’s powerless and agrees a consensus with Heseltine
AT THE last TUC Congress its leaders were forced by the anger of delegates to accept and agree a resolution that the TUC was...
Spanish workers on the road to revolution
SPANISH PM Mariano Rajoy has just announced a 3% VAT rise from 18%-21%, and a series of austerity measures that will cut the Spanish...
Al-Aqsa Mosque a ‘flashpoint’ in the fight to end Israeli occupation of Palestine
THE ISRAELI refusal to remove metal detectors from the outside of the Jerusalem compound which contains the al-Aqsa Mosque is fast becoming a flashpoint...
FOOD BANKS becoming the rule in poverty-stricken UK
THERE are currently 270 food banks across the UK where poverty-stricken workers and youth are directed to get subsistence amounts of food. As the capitalist...
Coalition plans Royal Mail sell-off at knock-down price
News broke yesterday that the long expected attempt by the coalition to sell off and privatise Royal Mail is set to occur this autumn. What...
China shows the way to defeat the coronavirus plague – while the British ruling...
THE creator of the Universal Credit onslaught against the working class and the poor, Iain Duncan Smith has launched an attack on China in...
‘No Kings’ mass movement emerging in the USA to smash Trump’s policies!
MILLIONS of demonstrators took to the streets in cities across the United States on Saturday, taking part in the ‘No Kings’ protest movement against...
Price Explosion threat to working class
ENERGY bills will rise by more than 60% within the next few years, a report for the UK’s biggest domestic energy supplier Centrica said...
NHS A&E departmentsto be shut in scores
THE policy of the Labour government, as far as the NHS is concerned, is to hand over more and more of the NHS budget...
‘It’s the concern, the fear, the sheer uncertainty’ says BoE’s King
THE chief of the Federal Reserve Bank, Bernanke, has hinted heavily that the developing slow down of the US economy will be met with...
Nurses and doctors strike to defend NHS while Starmer joins with Tories to denounce...
YESTERDAY, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) opened the ballot for strike action by nurses in response to the Tory pay offer of a...
Demoralised Davos surveys the debacle of the world capitalist crisis!
THE World Economic Forum meeting in Davos to celebrate capitalism finds the assembled chief executives, politicians and would-be prophets much more pessimistic and frightened...
Stock markets are in crisis – capitalism is reeling! Forward to the socialist revolution!
THE carnage in overvalued US stock markets on Thursday saw billions of dollars lopped off share prices just days after president Donald Trump paused...
Answer low pay with general strike
ON the day that up to 400,000 health workers in England came out on a second four-hour strike over the refusal of the government...
The Palestinian revolution is driving Israel back! End the occupation of Palestine! Forward to...
HAMAS declared a ‘historic victory’ of Palestinians in their struggle against the occupying regime of Israel yesterday, after the Israeli regime conceded an unconditional...
Oldham stuns Tories as workers reject ruling class invitation to destroy Corbyn!
THE Oldham by-election did not go according to the ruling class-Tory script. There was no collapse in the Labour vote. Corbyn was not sacked...
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...
Crisis-Ridden Bosses And Tories Fear The Election
THE Tory Party, its media wing and the boss class as a whole are getting very worried about the election, and what is to...
Daily Telegraph warns capitalism has entered its ‘final act’ with UK the ‘tinderbox’ of...
Such is the depth of the crisis in British capitalism that even the ultra-loyal Tory press can no longer pretend that the working class...
Education cuts and £9,000 fees destroying the future for youth
AFTER record A-Level results, hundreds of thousands of students will be refused university places this year because of the coalition’s savage cuts policy. After being...
Barbaric anti-homeless spikes scandal
THE picture showing one-inch-long metal spikes driven into the pavement in the doorway of a block of luxury flats in central London in order...
Starving The Poor!
AS hard evidence emerges about how the ‘local welfare assistance’ scheme is operating in practice across England, it is quite clear that deliberately starving...
NHS faces privatisation – kick out the coalition now!
EVERY week without fail, doctors, medical journals, and health experts produce authoritative studies that ram home the fact that under this Tory-led coalition government...
Pantomime In Parliament – Corbyn Refuses To Move No Confidence In May Government!
IT IS NOW crystal clear that PM May continues to rule the UK because the Labour opposition, led by Jeremy Corbyn, refuses to put...
US, UK, Karzai Drive To Bribe The Taleban
ON the eve of the Afghan conference in London this week, UK and other Nato troops are to launch an offensive to take control...
No education cuts Restore free state education
CHANCELLOR Darling has announced that £600m will be ‘saved’ by 2012/13 from across ‘higher education, science and research budgets, including student support’, meaning...
Workers must call general strikes to defeat plans by US imperialism and Israel to...
WHILE Israeli Zionist occupation forces expand their genocidal assault on Gaza, reports have emerged in the Israeli media and Financial Times (FT) that Israeli...
The Rapid Rise Of Joblessness Proves The Need For A UK Workers Revolution!
THE rapid rise in joblessness amongst the UK’s youth has pushed Britain to an unwanted milestone. For the first time in a quarter of...
UK loses AAA credit rating
Late last Friday, Moody’s Investors Service, one of the world’s three main credit rating agencies, downgraded the sovereign credit rating of the UK and...
Greek workers and Palestinian masses are allies
THE Greek Pasok capitalist government, that is using its state forces to bludgeon and gas tens of thousands of workers protesting against its sell-off...
Bankrupt British capitalism must be removed by organising a Workers and Young Socialists revolution
FOLLOWING the failure of the US-Israeli illegal and unprovoked ‘shock and awe’ aerial blitzkrieg on Iran launched on 28 February, Iran’s fierce defence of...
King wanted to print even more paper money!
WHEN the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided two weeks ago to print £50 billion more for its stimulus programme binge, the City, which was...
US threatens Iran and Venezuela
YESTERDAY the United States Secretary of Defence and Secretary of State, Gates and Clinton, threatened Iran with extreme sanctions if it insisted on its...