Turkey Poised To Invade Northern Iraq
THE Turkish army is poised to invade northern Iraq in order to respond to PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) attacks on its troops, which...
Capitalist crisis – Big bank losses and oil over $86
DESPITE having seen Northern Rock share prices crash by 60 per cent, queues of depositors outside branches taking out £2bn of their savings and...
NHS 2007: Pull your own teeth out!
EVERY day Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Health Secretary Alan Johnson churn out propaganda about ‘improving’ the National Health Service (NHS) and people’s...
Reject postal sell-out deal!
THE reply of the leaders of the CWU postal workers union, Billy Hayes and Dave Ward, to the injunction obtained by the ruthless Royal...
Gates and Rice go calling on Putin
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin threatened on Friday in talks with top US administration officials, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates,...
Put Blair and Brown in the dock over C.difficile deaths
THE blood price paid by the public for the running of the NHS as a business, with the private sector at its centre and...
Postal workers are standing up to management bullies
POSTAL workers in towns and cities all over the UK were forced out on unofficial strike yesterday morning when management sought to impose the...
Blair Demands More Police State Measures
AT A TIME when his office is on trial over the state execution of Jean Charles de Menezes, Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair...
Brown Threatens Royal Mail Funding!
AT THE CWU rally at Central Hall yesterday afternoon, CWU leader Billy Hayes presented a successful outcome of the postal workers struggle as relying...
Brown To Support US Air Strikes On Iran
YESTERDAY the bourgeois media reported that Britain’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who came to office pledging that the UK would cease to be Bush’s...
Take the PCS civil servants up on ‘full support’ offer
LAST THURSDAY at 2pm as the postal workers came out on their 48-hour strike, the PCS civil service union sent a special message to...
Snap General Election Farce!
LABOUR Prime Minister Brown, a cautious and bumbling, conservative politician, is due to decide this weekend whether to take a big gamble and call...
De Menezes murder not a crime says state
THE current farce that is being played out, of trying a police death squad under the health and safety laws, is not only a...
Banks declare record indebtedness as gold and Wall Street shares reach record highs
THE US banks are now having to declare their indebtedness. Citigroup has lost $6 billion in a third quarter of this year write down, as...
Pentagon launches Africa command centre
AS PAY negotiations between the American car giants General Motors (GM) and Ford, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) have reached a critical point,...
Cornwall Marches To Save Fire Service
TWO hundred firefighters and control room staff were joined by thousands of angry local residents in a 13-mile march from Camborne to Falmouth on...
Bush & Brown move in to exploit protests in Myanmar
UNITED States President George Bush declared at the end of last week: ‘I call on all nations that have influence with the (Myanmar) regime...
All unions must take action to support the postal workers!
POSTAL workers, members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are on strike today in north-east and south-east London against Royal Mail’s plans to axe...
NHS privatisation in London could ‘cost lives’
THE government’s Healthcare Commission published a report yesterday which called for National Health Service (NHS) hospital trusts to ‘do more to ensure they consistently...
Brown’s foreign policy shaped by defeats in Iraq & Afghanistan
FOREIGN Secretary David Miliband, the ‘rising star’ in the government, was given the task of presenting Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s foreign policy strategy at...
GM strikers are fighting for all US workers
ABOUT 73,000 carworkers, members of the 600,000-strong United Automobile Workers (UAW) trade union, went on indefinite strike at 11am on Monday at General Motors’...
Votes scrapped at Labour Party conferences
THE leaders of big trade unions lined up behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth on Sunday to ensure...
Unite workers to go forward to socialism
THE two wings of the bourgeoisie are now going at it hammer and tongs to both exploit and abuse workers from the new EU...
Brown guarantees the banks while he cuts workers wages
THE Brown government has not just guaranteed all of the Northern Rock bank deposits, it has also underwritten its so called ‘commercial paper’, that...
Royal Mail – The Way Forward To Victory
THE announcement by the CWU of a programme of two 48-hour national strikes across all sections of Royal Mail, along with a programme of...
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...
Brown cuts workers’ pay to underwrite the bankers
YESTERDAY was an historic day, with Prime Minister Brown pledging to bail out the banks. At the TUC Congress, Labour Party leader Brown told...
French join anti-Iran war party
FRENCH Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Sunday that in relation to Iran: ‘We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is...
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...
Bush bull cannot cover over US defeat
BRITISH troops have just scuttled out of Basra, leaving the various militias of the city in full control. They have settled down at Basra airport,...
‘Let them go bust’ says Bank of England chief
THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, in a letter to the House of Commons Treasury select committee has warned that efforts...
Build the WRP to deal with the TUC right wing
AT the Trades Union Congress in Brighton this week, delegates have given a relatively timid expression of the determination of millions of workers to...
Royal Mail declares war but CWU carries on talking
ROYAL Mail has announced that it has brought the ‘period of calm’ in the Royal Mail to an end, and that it will be...
Call national strike action to defeat Royal Mail and Brown
AFTER weeks of secret talks, which were extended by a further week and were conducted behind the backs of the CWU membership, the Royal...
TUC must boycott Israel!
IT is a disgrace that at this week’s TUC Congress there are no resolutions on the Middle East and Afghanistan where over...
American revolution will replace the failed American dream
UAW car workers President Ron Gettelfinger last Thursday lifted the lid just a little on the lives of tens of millions of US workers,...
Answer Brown’s attacks with a general strike
THE rapidly deepening debt crisis of the capitalist system is leading to a financial collapse and a slump of historic proportions as the bankers’...
Housing costs soar!
SINCE Labour took office in 1997, house prices have gone up four times more quickly than workers’ pay, according to figures published by the...
Brown lambasts Tube strikers and public sector workers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown mounted an outspoken attack on members of the RMT railworkers’ union on strike at the London Underground bankrupt maintenance company...
Brown orders troop retreat from Basra City
BRITISH troops retreated from Basra City, quitting their base in the Presidential Palace on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab waterway in the dead...
Bush’s and Bernanke’s policies cannot stop the debt debacle
IN A WEEK when billions were wiped off share prices in New York, Tokyo and London, on Friday both United States President George Bush...
Patients & staff paying price of £1bn NHS under-spend
LABOUR ministers are boasting that the projected £983m under-spend in the National Health Service are evidence that it has regained its ‘financial footing’. Health Secretary...
Brown justifies anti-union action and pay cuts
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown insisted yesterday that meagre pay rises, that are phased in and amount to a pay cut, will be imposed by...
Bush is confronted by the legacy of Hurricane Katrina
UNITED States President George Bush was in New Orleans yesterday on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the city. The hurricane killed...
Brown’s bonanza for City speculators
ALMOST a third of Britain’s 700 biggest businesses paid no corporation tax in 2005-2006, according to a study carried out by the official National...