McCluskey and the ideologically-driven Tory cuts
WRITING in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper the general secretary elect of Unite, Len McClusky, was forced to use the dread words ‘general strike’ in the...
Overthrow the rule of the bankers – forward to socialism
THE horrific future under capitalism for workers and youth is being revealed on a daily basis, as the price of the government’s £1.3 trillion...
Israel speeding up the demolition of Palestinian homes and schools!
AS the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration nears, the Israeli government, its armed forces and its legions of settlers are intensifying their programme...
Netanyahu ready to strike Iran, while McCain calls to bomb Syria
ISRAEL, which has several hundred nuclear bombs, has issued a warning that it will not wait much longer before it strikes Iran, which has...
Tories To Ban Right To Strike!
THE next Tory government will introduce a threshold on union ballots for strike action. PM Cameron has said: ‘I want a Conservative government to...
Defend state education – defeat academies drive
TEACHERS at Copland School in Wembley, who took part in their fifth one day strike against being forced into academy status yesterday, must be...
Banks to do immigration checks! Smash this racist Tory government!
FROM January 1st banks and building societies will be legally obliged to check the current accounts of 76 million account holders and compare them...
Housing crisis demands revolutionary solution
Yesterday, in a speech delivered in the Hertfordshire town of Stevenage, Labour leader, Ed Miliband, reiterated his pledge that the next Labour government would...
UK Opts For Syria Regime Change
WITH its recognition of the Syrian ‘opposition’ as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, the UK has joined France, Saudi Arabia and...
Tories crushed in by-elections – TUC must take action now to bring them down!
THE TORIES have been smashed by two huge by-election defeats, in a couple of their ‘safe’ seats, Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, where their large...
Workers will not get any ‘new deal’ from the Tories! Make the TUC call...
THE WINDRUSH scandal, missiles launched at Syria without even seeking permission from Parliament, the Grenfell fire disaster, the winter NHS meltdown, homelessness and rough...
Israeli regime is on the path to collapse says Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah!
THE Secretary General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement stated yesterday that the Israeli far-right cabinet’s insistence on pushing ahead with its controversial judicial overhaul...
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...
US Military Chief Undermines The President Over US Troops In Iraq
THE US’ top military commander General Dempsey has broken ranks with President Obama by telling the Senate Armed Services Committee that US...
Lobby the TUC on September 7th! Demand it calls a general strike to bring...
INDIVIDUAL US military personnel assisting the war crimes of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza and the Palestinian West Bank territory could be prosecuted...
Toxic Tories lash out at immigrants and the poor
PEOPLE who do not speak fluent English will be barred from public sector jobs which involve working directly with the public, the government has...
PFI, Foundation Trusts and £20bn of Tory cuts are preparing NHS closures & privatisation
FIGURES publicised by Labour’s shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, have shown that one third of England’s hospitals have been completely full at some time...
Capitalism makes billions out of coronavirus – time to get rid of it!
THE CAPITALIST contempt for the health and safety of workers in the pursuit of profit has been highlighted this week by the giant on-line...
New Orleans war zone – 20,000 National Guards, and US army helicopter fired on
THE United States ruling class, running the world’s number one super-power and presiding over the richest nation on Earth, was yesterday shown to be...
Khaddam Calls For Syrian Uprising
THE former Syrian Vice-President, Abdul Halim Khaddam, set himself up as a would-be Quisling for President Bush yesterday, after he called for a...
Furious Postal Workers Are Now Ready For Decisive Action!
THE CWU stands absolutely united in its anger at the Royal Mail bosses and the ruling class’ High Court following Wednesday’s ‘outrageous’ decision to...
The US with 5,113 deployed nuclear bombs, and Israel with 200, is ‘threatened by...
THE US told the world on Monday that it has 5,113 nuclear war heads operationally deployed. This arsenal is supplemented by the warheads...
Workers will not pay for Carillion bankruptcy – drive out the privateers with...
20,000 jobs in the UK and a similar number of jobs abroad are under threat with the collapse of the giant construction company Carillion...
US Ruling Class Forced To Nationalise Bankrupt Mortgage Giants
THE nationalisation of the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac mortgage finance companies by the ultra right wing Bush administration is a forced admission of...
Tory Party On The Rocks!
THE Survation poll for the Mail on Sunday shows that UKIP, with turncoat Tory MP Carswell as their candidate, will win the October Clacton...
China responds to Obama!
CHINA’S state media have responded to Barak Obama’s Pentagon announcement that the US is turning its back on the North Atlantic, and therefore...
EU law being used to slash wages and attack unions
THE wave of ‘wildcat strikes’ that are taking place in power stations and oil terminals throughout the UK have the full support of the...
Strikebreaker Hunt demands ‘call off NHS strike!’
‘BRITAIN needs a pay rise!’ These were the cynical words of PM Cameron last Friday in Washington, after five years of remorseless wage-cutting in...
End futile talks with Israel! Forward to Palestinian state!
AHMAD Sa''adat, secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and Marwan al-Barghouthi, member of the Fatah Central Committee, have...
Brown must end UK support for Rajapakse – Victory to the Tamil Tigers
THE government of Sri Lanka led by President Rajapakse is currently fighting a war on two fronts, on behalf of US and UK imperialism. On...
The needs of profit making are a higher morality than bourgeois law
THE High Court yesterday ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted unlawfully by dropping a corruption inquiry into a £43bn Saudi arms deal....
Take Action To Stop US-UK-Israel Attack On Iran
WHAT is being termed as a coalition of trade unions (Unison, the GMB and Amicus), charities and faith groups yesterday warned Tony Blair that...
US, UK Ambassadors Are Run Out Of Libya By Their Former Agents!
HMS Enterprise has arrived near to Tripoli to evacuate any remaining British people who want to leave Libya, after the British embassy was shut...
Coalition To Use Prisoners To Cut Wages
PRISONERS will be forced to work 40 hours a week, Thatcherite veteran Clarke told the Tory Party conference yesterday. The Justice Minister...
Unemployment Crisis Deepening
TOTAL unemployment stood at 2.46 million for the three months to December, down 3,000 on the figure for the previous three months. However, long-term...
More fare rises! Re-nationalise the railways!
YESTERDAY the main rail unions held a series of protests at rail stations which involved the handing out of postcards to commuters detailing the...
‘NHS Standing On A Burning Platform’ – Time To Deal With The Arsonists!
THE NHS is standing on a ‘burning platform’ is the stark assessment of Professor Sir Mike Richards, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of...
Second Xmas on the dole for 700,000!
ACCORDING to research published by the TUC on Monday, over 250,000 people will be spending their second successive Christmas on the dole. Even this figure...
Victory to Assad – Forward to the Palestinian state!
MAKING use of Russian air power, the Syrian army is now pressing forward on all fronts, driving back the Islamists who are now negotiating...
Tory austerity gives workers choice of ‘eat, heat or pay rent’ – Time to...
‘EAT, heat or pay rent’ that is the stark choice facing millions of low paid and unemployed workers living in private rented accommodation in...
1 million forced onto Universal Credit while another 2 million get nothing – Tories...
THE NUMBER of people forced to claim Universal Credit soared by nearly a million in the past two weeks. According to the Department for Work...
US imperialism plans oil and gas war!
THE news that America intends to ‘flood the world’ with cheap liquefied natural gas (LNG) reveals just how far advanced US imperialism is along...
Millions of children face hunger under Tory austerity – TUC must act!
A SHOCKING study carried out by the GMB union released yesterday showed that almost one in ten school staff bring in their own food...
German economy crashing into recession
GERMANY, the EU’s biggest economy, is fast heading into recession according to economists who are growing increasingly fearful that inflation fuelled by the EU...
320 children were slaughtered by Israel in Gaza War
ISRAEL’S military onslaught on Gaza, where it not only used massive bombs and missiles but banned cluster bombs and white phosphorus weapons, killed 1,387...