RMT victory in ScotRail dispute shows the way forward for working class
ON WEDNESDAY, the RMT transport union members won a massive victory in their fight against the ‘pitiful’ pay offer from ScotRail. RMT members at ScotRail,...
Tories’ Enabling Act Brings In Open Bourgeois Dictatorship
THE UK government in alliance with the Labour Party has over a three-day period pushed through an emergency law, the Data Retention and Investigatory...
Maude signals plan to ban strikes
The Tory cabinet office minister, Francis Maude, made a fantastical offer to the TUC and leaders of the public sector unions last Friday when...
‘Keep The Ground Aflame With Popular Resistance’ Urges President Abbas
THE PALESTINIAN President, Mahmoud Abbas has called for more popular resistance and warned ‘We should not underestimate it’. He has called for further visits to...
Pompeo Seeks To Build Alliance Against The Palestinian And Iranian Revolutions!
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo is currently in the Middle East organising an Israeli-Arab coalition to fight Iran and prevent a Palestinian state. Pompeo...
Bank rate rigging ‘Everyone was at it’
The crisis resulting from the bank rate rigging scandal that has engulfed Barclays took a dramatic turn over the weekend with the revelation that...
A socialist government and a socialist foreign policy needed to defeat terrorism!
NEWS LINE sends its condolences to the families and friends of the 22 people, including children, who were killed and the 59 who were...
Putin Moves To Reassure Western ‘Partners!’
WITH the shelling and bombing of eastern Ukraine still taking place, and with tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in southern Russia, President Vladimir...
Palestinian leadership says peace talks will fail!
THE Palestinian leadership in Ramallah is working on the basis that the peace talks with Israel will fail and that both sides know...
Berezovskiy goes bust as capitalist crisis deepens!
POLICE were yesterday searching the home of Boris Berezovskiy. They were desperately looking for chemical, biological or nuclear material, so that they could...
Labour brings 20% interest payments into its health market
NHS trust hospitals and Primary Care Trusts are to be charged 10 per cent interest on money they borrow from their strategic Health Authority...
Johnson Getting Ready To Follow Trump, End The Lockdown And Bring In Millions Of...
THE MASSIVE ‘Black Lives Matter’ marches this weekend saw millions of workers internationally and tens of thousands of youth and workers in the UK...
British Army Finds Afghan Solution!
THE Afghan war saga continues. First of all it was the tour of duty that would last for three years, with Labour Defence Minister John...
Labour Pledges More Austerity!
POLITICAL ‘role reversal’ is the phrase being bandied about by bourgeois political commentators as they scratch their heads trying to make comparisons between the...
Federal Reserve opts for debt mountain and to crash the $
FOLLOWING the decision of the US federal Reserve Bank to reduce its interest rate by 0.5 per cent, double the expected 0.25 per cent...
Mass murder in the Med!
THIS week the UN announced that 300 migrants had drowned after being forced into unseaworthy boats in a desperate attempt to escape the wars...
Bank of England split over interest rates revealing chaos and demoralisation at the heart...
THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday made the surprise decision to hold UK interest rates at 5.25% instead of the widely...
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...
Unite leaders on their knees in front of Walsh!
BRENDAN Gold, Unite’s national secretary for civil air transport, said, after emerging from Monday’s BA Cabin crew rally in Kempton Park, that there would...
Axing free TV licences: the spark to unite pensioners, youth and workers to kick...
THE Tory government has now launched war on the elderly, the youth and the working class simultaneously! There is a war on the youth, with...
Workers must take action to put an end to rail privatisation!
TORY MP Sir Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill, told the House of Commons and Transport Secretary Chris Grayling yesterday, that the Rail Industry...
Police get armed as the state prepares for a showdown with working class
JUST over a month ago, Tory prime minister David Cameron announced that hundreds of extra armed police would be sent around the country to...
Demented capitalism is producing mass murderers
NORWAY is commemorating one year since 77 mainly young people who were members of the Young Socialists, and engaged in a summer school, were...
Tories Greet NHS 70Th Annniversary With More NHS Cuts!
WHILE 70,000 NHS workers were marching through London on Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Tory-appointed bosses of NHS England were...
There was no fire safety report before refurbishing Grenfell – Build Council of Action...
GRENFELL Tower was safe until the refurbishment took place, when it was wrapped in highly flammable insulation and cladding, described by fire safety experts...
P&O sackings expose the ‘sham’ of consultation with the unions – only a general...
THE CHIEF executive of P&O Ferries, Peter Hebblethwaite, appeared before a joint hearing of the transport and business committee of MPs yesterday to answer...
Ending the capitalist crisis needs more than reformist policies
JOHN McDONNELL the newly appointed Labour shadow chancellor, made his first speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday outlining the ‘new economics’ that he...
20 years since 9/11 and imperialism has been driven out of Afghanistan! Shut down...
TODAY is exactly two decades after the terror attacks on the United States on 11 September, 2001. That morning, Al-Qaeda-affiliated hijackers flew two Boeing...
Iraqi masses to march today to end the US-UK occupation
ON THE eve of today’s expected one million strong march in Baghdad, called by Moqtada al-Sadr, against the US-UK occupation of Iraq, US tanks...
Tories guarantee working class will pay for the profits of the rail privateers
YESTERDAY the Tory government announced its plans to save the profits of the private rail companies by bankrolling them for another 18 months. In March,...
Qe Tapering Leading To A Crash
WHAT started last week as a crisis in the international capitalist stock markets is turning into a full-scale crash with Wednesday’s decision by the...
Throw out Tory NHS pay offer – Bring down the Tories to secure decent...
THE DEAL reached last week between the majority of health unions and the Tories must be thrown out by NHS workers. The deal, which...
No To Imperialist War In West Africa!
SUFFERING a decisive and humiliating defeat at the hands of the Afghan people has in no way diminished British imperialism’s appetite for military adventures...
No Free Ride For The Tories
THE terrorist atrocity in Manchester last Monday night which killed 22 young people at a pop concert has been seized upon by the Tories...
Now Smash The Bill And Bring Down The Coalition!
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) yesterday carried a 97% vote of no confidence in Health Secretary Lansley, with 478 for six against and...
Nut Warns Over Free Schools And Academies
COMMENTING on the latest Education at a Glance report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Christine Blower, General Secretary of the...
Capitalism is ‘At War’ – answer Cameron with general strike
BRITISH capitalism is ‘at war’ Cameron told the bosses yesterday, an ‘economic war’ which requires the state to rip up the rule book, strip off...
Cruddas scandal – ruling class split over Cameron leadership
The resignation by the chief Tory fundraiser and party co-treasurer, Peter Cruddas, late on Saturday gave one more glimpse into the corruption that lies...
US-UK Plays Sectarian Card In Iraq
YESTERDAY the role model for US-UK imperialism was Pontius Pilate, as the US military and Prime Minister Blair sought to wash their hands of...
Magna to sack 10,000 – Woodley congratulates Mandelson and Brown
THE Unite trade union leadership has reacted to the news that GM has handed over GM Europe to Magna, in a deal bankrolled by...
Palestinian Prisoners Go 0N Hunger Strike For Unity
PALESTINIANS are commemorating Land Day, the 35th anniversary of the uprising against Israel’s land theft, in which six young protesters were killed by...
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...
Ukrainian Right Wing Draws Closer To Nato
THE decision by the Ukrainian government to offer joint use of missile attack and space early warning systems to the Western powers...
Children starve in Britain while bankers reap billions
IN the same week that the capitalist banking system was exposed as a centre of criminal venality, lying and cheating in order to secure...
EU crisis sharpening to breaking point!
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is attending the meeting of the EU Finance Ministers in Poland to convey the alarm of the...