GM-Opel-Vauxhall crisis deepening
NICK REILLY, the GM executive who closed down Vauxhall Motors in 2002, unveiled, yesterday in Frankfurt, the GM plan for Opel...
War Fever Against Russia
THE US and the EU are set to stiffen and widen their sanctions against Russia. Their intention is to target its finances, energy...
NHS Staffing Crisis As Wages Are Forced Down And Conditions Worsened
THE shortage of NHS staff in England is worsening official figures show. One in 11 posts is vacant, with the situation particularly bad...
EU gives Italy three weeks to re-write its budget or face fines!
ITALY is now on a collision course with the EU. The European Commission has issued an ultimatum insisting that the country’s budget plan does...
Osborne’s regime of pay freezes and wage cuts
IN his last budget speech before the general election, Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made the astounding claim that living standards will ‘grow strongly every...
Bolivia nationalises oil and gas resources
BOLIVIA’S President Morales has gone from having a conference last week in Havana with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, which established a...
Palestine at boiling point – take action now to establish the Palestinian state!
THE victory of the people of Gaza in the 51 day war, imposed on them by Israel’s attempt to completely destroy Gaza has changed...
Gadaffi In Tripoli – Hague In Disarray!
WHILE Cameron is in Kuwait seeking to sell more rubber bullets, poison gas and a variety of war machines to the British-trained Gulf monarchies,...
A UK G-Bay & more armed police as Tories seek big majority to force...
NEW Guantanamo Bay-style jails-within-jails are being opened for the first time in the UK to incarcerate ‘extremists of all kinds’, while police are being...
Watch out! The bank robbers are still at large!
‘MORE and more leverage in the system. The whole building is about to collapse anytime now. . . Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab....
NHS privateer investigated for ‘unsafe’ GP Service
Serco, the country’s top privateer in the NHS and other public services, is under investigation over allegations that it ran an ‘unsafe’ GP out-of-hours...
TUC leaders condemn Autumn Statement but refuse to take any action!
THE TUC leaders are unanimous in their condemnation of the latest Tory autumn statement, but yet again refuse to call any action to bring...
Blair And Brown Crippling African Health Care!
THE current Blair drive to have Gordon Brown and himself depicted in the media as the saviours of the African continent has hit the...
Overthrow British capitalism to end imperialist atrocities
THE brutalising, maiming, beating and even killing of the ‘subject peoples’ by imperialist troops is part and parcel of the imperialist system and tradition,...
Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Sri Lanka
AFTER an exhausting, genocidal war, hugely costly in lives and resources, and in the face of a working class movement that is now demanding...
To deal with MRSA – end NHS privatisation!
MRSA is now linked to nearly 1,000 deaths each year in NHS hospitals. There is no doubt that it is a product of the...
Economic Crisis Is Smashing Up Europe!
YESTERDAY official statistics for France show that core inflation had actually fallen into negative figures, - 0.2%, for the first time in recorded history...
Scrap the US-EU free trade TTIP treaty!
EU-US talks aimed at clinching a comprehensive free trade deal, that will allow the US to economically and politically dominate Europe and defy EU...
Business Secretary Reynolds can’t keep blast furnaces going!
THE British Labour government’s business secretary has refused to confirm if the government can get the sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep...
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...
THE STERN REVIEW: Trust me, I’m a banker!
ON WEDNESDAY Sir Nicholas Stern presented his Review of the Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by Chancellor Gordon Brown. Stern is the Chief Economist...
Miliband is a fraud!
ED Miliband’s speech to the National Policy Forum was devoted to the theme that Labour, while ‘going beyond’ the completely discredited open worship of...
Security Council extends Iraq occupation mandate
THE imperialists and their Chinese and Russian stooges on the UN Security Council have extended the mandate of the US-led occupation armies in Iraq,...
One day general strike to defend the NHS
IN the last two months the trade union movement and NHS professional organisations have been forced to take serious notice of the deepening crisis...
Irish and UK ruling classes uniting against working class
MARX says in his 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak,...
The TUC must now call mass general strike action in support of Palestine and...
THE Hamas movement said on Saturday that the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in the northern Gaza Strip and the Israeli occupation army’s attacks on...
The Death Agony Of The Blair Government
THE Blair government is now under attack from all sides, after its Prime Minister turned yellow and refused to attend the House of Commons...
Reid is talking liberty but is planning repression
HOME Secretary Reid yesterday spoke about the importance of liberty – a new subject for a Home Secretary who preaches the ‘war against terror’,...
Tories and Labour unite to bar Bulgars and Romanians
THE Tory Party yesterday called for restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania when these countries shortly join the EU. The Tory Party immigration...
Defend university education! Forward to the British socialist revolution!
‘LET THEM FAIL!’ declared yesterday’s Daily Telegraph in response to repeated calls for emergency government funding to rescue endangered English universities as the economic...
Turkish Workers Rise Against Erdogan!
RELATIVES of around 150 miners, missing after the deadly mine explosion at the privatised Soma mine in western Turkey, are maintaining a permanent vigil...
Trade union inquiry needed into London transport disaster
YESTERDAY’S tube and bus disaster in London, with 33 dead and hundreds injured, has already been claimed as a terrorist attack, despite the fact...
Chelsea Tories just could not wait to start evicting
JUST hours after Tory leader Cameron announced that council houses were no longer going to be ‘homes for life’ – but were to be...
Demand the TUC bring down the Tories
ON Thursday Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, delivered a speech proclaiming that as far as the government is concerned ‘the matter is closed’: he...
Tory party split over huge NI tax rise – It is time for the...
THE TORY government is being ripped apart from top to bottom, with every day bringing new reports of ministers fighting amongst themselves in a...
Smith Commission’s anti-working class Trojan Horse
THE Smith Commission has proposed, with the support of all the major parties, that the Scottish Parliament should have the power to set income...
Tory coronavirus inquiry is an attempt to put off reckoning with working class
ON WEDNESDAY, Tory prime minister Boris Johnson announced that there would be ‘a full and independent inquiry’ into the government handling of the coronavirus...
UNISON, TGWU, and GMB leaders all support Brown’s staged pay cuts!
ANYONE who was wondering why, at the TUC Congress, when union leaders were moving resolutions calling for coordinated industrial action against the Brown government’s...
Corbyn faces coup if elected
LAST week the right-wing of the Labour Party showed their desperation over the snowballing support for the Jeremy Corbyn leadership campaign by trotting out...
May Loses Support Of Both The Remainers And Leavers – Looks To Labour To...
THAT BANKRUPT British capitalism and imperialism is unable to stand on its own two feet anymore is obvious. It faces the prospect of the...
Blair Conversion Seals His Counter-Revolutionary Role
TONY BLAIR, his hands still dripping with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and with financial scandals swirling all round...
British capitalism is on its knees – forward to the socialist revolution!
CHANCELLOR Osborne made it clear in his Budget statement yesterday that he is not the master of the situation, and is completely dominated by...
Forward to the August 20th Gate Gourmet workers march
TUC General Council members gave a good welcome to lobbying locked out Gate Gourmet workers yesterday morning. A number promised to attend the anniversary...
SOUTH AFRICA: Legacy of the revolution betrayed
THE fighting in Johannesburg and its surrounding black townships, over the past week – with more than 23 people being killed, pitched battles with...
Unelected Prince Charles sees cabinet papers before elected ministers!
ON 30 January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded outside the Banqueting House in Whitehall as a man of blood, and an enemy of...