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...
Steel workers must reject the Tata steel deal – vote ‘NO!’
AT the end of this month, steel workers at Port Talbot are to vote on a deal struck between their unions and Tata Steel...
Don’t let them drive the trade unions out of politics
IT IS now becoming obvious that the furore over parliamentary expenses and their alleged misuse, involving at least one leading Tory MP, was just...
Demoralised Simpson says Cameron rather than Miliband!
ON the eve of the TUC Congress, the TUC leader, Brendan Barber, has issued a call to the Brown government to tax the rich. There...
While NHS workers demand action, Prentis and Barber stay on their knees
YESTERDAY thousands of NHS workers took part in the ‘NHS Together’ Lobby of Parliament to demand an end to NHS privatisation. The lobbying...
More cuts planned – despite Buncefield fire!
RESIDENTS whose lives were put at risk, and even the management of devastated businesses near the Buncefield oil storage depot in Hertfordshire have been...
Hamas Calls For The Working People Of The World To Take Part In Massive...
THE Hamas Movement has called on the world’s free people and the Arab and Islamic nations to actively participate in massive and angry rallies...
Crisis of German Capitalism nears breaking point – the Banks must be nationalised under...
Amid a major slump in the German economy, the profits of the giant Deutsche Bank, the country’s largest, crashed a huge 92 per cent...
‘Freedom’ for Local Government means only the rich will prosper!
THE Independent Commission on Local Government Finance has said England’s local authorities need ‘urgent devolution of powers, funding and taxes’, and that Public Services...
Forward with the Egyptian revolution
HUNDREDS of people are reported to have been killed in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities throughout Egypt, and thousands injured after the army leaders...
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...
STOP the Tory drive for 20,000 more police! Smash the capitalist state with a...
THE CHIEF Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor, in his ninth and final annual review, has warned that Tory PM Johnson’s promise to hire 20,000...
US debt ceiling deal – a declaration of war on working class
On Saturday, president Joe Biden rushed to sign off the deal reached with the Republican Party to suspend the $31.4 trillion US debt ceiling...
AMCU rejects corporatist agreement with SA bosses
THE decision by the South African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) not to sign the Framework Agreement for a Sustainable Mining Industry...
‘Hope’ sets sail despite Israeli-Greek-Moldovan deal to stop it
THE Libyan ship ‘Hope’, a Moldovan-flagged cargo vessel, left a Greek port on Saturday night for Gaza with 2,000 tonnes of supplies, in the...
Bosses fear ‘worst financial crisis since the Second World War’
A JOINT report from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC) yesterday revealed the fears in business circles that the ‘credit...
UNITE leader offers to assist Tory productivity drive
THE immediate response of the leaders of the trade unions representing public sector workers to the wage-cutting programme outlined by Osborne in this week’s...
G7 nations unanimous in support of Israeli war crimes in Gaza!
THE United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Wednesday issued a damning statement that Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in...
NHS more popular than ever despite Tory propaganda campaign
A SURVEY by the polling company Ipsos MORI has revealed that the NHS is more popular amongst workers and the middle classes than those...
AA sold to Saga, Permira and CVC bosses pocket £300m
TRUE to form the private equity capitalist groups Permira and CVC having acquired the prestigious AA motoring group with the help of huge borrowings...
Union must end all ‘positive engagement’ with the employers – only occupations and strikes...
A STORM has erupted over the revelations that a taskforce set up in 2017, with the object of protecting the future of the Ford...
TUC supports Heseltine – the Tory who closed down the mining industry
IT says something about the depth of the capitalist crisis, and the lack of ability in the Cameron government, that Lord Heseltine, who in...
Army demanding reinforcements for Afghanistan
JUST a few months ago, the then Defence Minister John Reid was telling the media – while trying to douse public concern...
Trump forced to retreat as Iran deals crushing blow to US imperialism
JUST 90 minutes before Trump’s self-imposed deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or he would destroy Iran’s ‘whole civilisation’, the US...
Lobby TUC for general strike to bring down coalition
THIS year the Trade Union Congress meets in Bournemouth from the 8th to 11th September under conditions where, if the Tory-led coalition government have...
Stop The Council Cuts – Bring Down The Coalition!
COUNCILS all over the UK are poised to make the most savage cuts ever that will wreck and destroy local communities by destroying all...
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...
The British state is compromised by its complicity with terrorists!
TORY leader Theresa May relaunched the sinking ship of her election campaign with a speech yesterday that re-hashed the now familiar line that the...
Now is the time to build the Workers Revolutionary Party
THE deeper the crisis of the capitalist system gets, the more desperate the measures that it takes to sustain the bosses and bankers’ system,...
Time To Destroy The Anti-Union Laws With A General Strike And A Socialist Revolution!
THE FBU has made a decisive intervention, demanding that the trade unions build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament...
Labour racists seek state dictatorship over immigrants
JUST imagine the furore there would be if British migrants to India were told that they would have to be conversant in Hindi, be...
Thousands Of NHS Redundancies Are To Go Ahead – Trade Unions Must Take Action...
THOUSANDS of NHS staff redundancies in England are now to be forced through after a deal was reached with the Treasury to allow the...
T&G & TUC must call strike action to reinstate Gate Gourmet workers!
THE 670 Gate Gourmet workers, members of the Transport and General Workers Union (T&G), sacked over a month ago for taking strike action, know...
Dempsey’s Five Deadly Options
THE US chief of staff, General Dempsey, has written an Open Letter to the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, Carl Levin, about the...
The Real Tory Voice Speaks Out
THE declaration by Tory grandee, Lord Young – a key member of the Thatcher and Major governments that fought the NUM and supported Murdoch’s...
Bush In Middle East To Organise New War Against Hezbollah
US President George W Bush has arrived in the Middle East and has vowed to bolster up the Lebanese army and to tackle Hezbollah,...
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...
Labour is considering capitalist state regulation of newspapers
THE Labour government is considering a plan to impose state regulation of journalists and newspapers! Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has published preliminary proposals that would...
Deeper Into The Afghan Quagmire
BRITAIN’S top general in Afghanistan has backed the call of his US commander for 40,000 more troops to be sent into the Afghan quagmire,...
Trade unions must bring down crisis-ridden Tories, break with the EU and bring in...
THE TORY leadership is now in complete disarray, with PM May repeatedly refusing on Tuesday to say how she would vote if there was...
US, UK, Turkey Make Sure Syrian Truce Collapses
A POWERFUL car bomb exploded in Damascus on Friday, on the first day of the Syrian cease-fire, killing five people and injuring 32. Thus was...
Defend jobs & pay! Nationalise the car industry!
FIAT, the multinational car monopoly based in Italy, is in talks with the German government and the Works Council at Opel, the subsidiary of...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Feed The Planet
OXFAM warned yesterday that average prices of staple crops will more than double in 20 years if urgent action is not taken to change...
Tories and Labour right-wing call for war with Russia
WAR hysteria dominated the Parliamentary debate on Tuesday, with both Tory and Labour MPs pushing for a full-scale war against Russia over unproven accusations...
The absurdity of Miliband’s ‘one nation banking’ under capitalism
LABOUR leader Miliband has once again revealed the absolute bankruptcy of reformism. In a speech made yesterday he denied that there were laws governing...