Labour’s ‘business friendly’ manifesto is declaration of war on the working class!
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer launched the party’s ‘business friendly’ election manifesto in Manchester yesterday morning with the promise that a Labour government would put...
Trade unions need their own political representation
AMID the media frenzy surrounding the publication of former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s autobiography, A Journey, ballot papers were sent out for the Labour...
Benefit Sanctions Are Starving Children!
100,000 children were left to starve last year as a direct result of the Tory-led coalition’s drive to cut benefit payments to the unemployed...
Financial Tsunami Is Heading For UK – Time To Nationalise Banks And Major Industries!
‘BRACE, BRACE FOR IMPACT, a financial tsunami is heading for Britain, threatening to sweep away Andy Burnham’s premiership before it even gets started.’ This...
Only way to avoid an economic collapse is to cut government spending and slash...
JUST days before Andy Burnham is installed as PM on Monday, amid much speculation and lobbying about the future policies and the personnel of...
BMA has shown the way – now all trade unions must take action to...
ON Monday, the BMA conference (ARM) passed unanimously a vote of No Confidence in the Tory-led coalition’s Health Secretary, Hunt, and also called for...
Union leaders are fiddling while the NHS burns! General Strike now to win...
THE BURNING issue of NHS workers’ pay is so explosive that the Tories left it to the very last day that Parliament sits before...
TUC must stand up for the disabled against the Tory government!
THE UN has slammed the UK, which it says has violated the Convention on Disabled People’s Rights. A damning UN report released yesterday states that...
As the capitalist system rushes towards the precipice – the great gains of the...
PANIC gripped the UK ruling class yesterday as the bond markets ‘were thrown into chaos and a crisis’ that is bringing new cost of...
Low Paid prevented from having a Family Life
A CASE brought before the Supreme Court yesterday spotlights the extent to which British capitalism inflicts not just indignity but the denial of the...
There Is No Christmas Truce For Palestinians As Israel Attacks Both Gaza And The...
ISRAELI warplanes at dawn yesterday launched a series of airstrikes against several posts across the besieged Gaza Strip, causing extensive material damage. WAFA’s correspondent reported...
US Working Class At The Crossroads – Break With The Democrats Now!
EVERYWHERE, from the motor car industry to the mines of Appalacia, the US working class is struggling for its jobs and its trade union...
Tories prepare for perfect storm of anger from workers – General strike now to...
AS THE annual conference of the TUC, this year conducted on-line, opens, the GMB union released analysis of official data showing that 100,000 care...
Abbas calls for a Government of the State of Palestine!
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas told the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday that, ‘We are here today for all of us...
US Economy Declines – As States Go Bust!
THE former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, has warned that the US economy is heading towards a deepening of the slump...
Imperialist aggression is the roots of terrorism
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that there is to be more new repressive legislation, on top of the huge powers that the government and...
Heathrow Battlefield
TONY Woodley, the TGWU general secretary, commenting on the sacking of one of the leading members of the TGWU by BA yesterday, and the...
Anti-Russian Pogrom At The G20!
PRESIDENT PUTIN has left the G20 summit in Australia early after a relentless attack on Russia was mounted by the USA-UK axis and its...
Bankers get their bonuses – workers get stick
THE coalition, as expected, has signalled to the bankers that their multi-million bonuses are safe, emboldening the head of Barclays to tell the House...
Bank crisis spreads while US government faces running out of money on June 1st...
THE BANKING crash has continued, with First Republic being the third US bank to collapse within three months. First Republic was taken over by the...
Occupy NHS Logistics on October 1 – trade unions must take strike action!
WEDNESDAY’S twin votes at the Labour Party conference against NHS privatisation emphasised for all to see just how great is the isolation of the...
Bring down the Cameron-Murdoch police state
YESTERDAY’S parliamentary committee sessions saw News International stand brazenly in denial of any knowledge of the phone hacking that took place at the News...
Atos & Capita to be paid £700m to throw disabled off benefits! Kick Atos,...
THE TORY government have turned their fire against one of the most vulnerable sections of society: disabled people. The government has launched a three-pronged attack:...
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,...
General Sanders Says That The UK Army Must Be Ready For A War To...
THE new Chief of the General staff, Sir Patrick Sanders, yesterday urged that Britain must be ready to fight Putin, comparing the present situation...
24.4% (5.64m) of Spanish workers are unemployed!
THE number of unemployed people in Spain reached 5,639,500 at the end of March, with the unemployment rate hitting 24.4%, with youth unemployment at...
Bank of England splits over measures required to keep British capitalism afloat!
ON WEDNESDAY the Adam Smith Institute admonished the Bank of England as ‘worse than useless’, and warned: ‘There is already a major crisis...
UK Workers Are Threatened By Covid-19 Mutations – Trade Unions Must Bring Down Tories...
HOSPITALS in the south of England say they have seen a ‘real rise in pressure’ as the number of Covid patients needing treatment rapidly...
Israeli genocide exposed at International Court of Justice!
YESTERDAY, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) met to consider the lawsuit filed by South Africa condemning Israel for the crime of committing genocide...
Cowardly Corbyn desperately walks the tightrope over the EU and the single market!
LABOUR’S right wing were furious on Friday after the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party conference blocked a vote on single market membership. Instead,...
Workers do Battle All Over Europe!
GREEK riot police fired tear gas and beat Ministry of Culture workers yesterday morning after the workers had occupied the Acropolis in Athens demanding...
Palestinian groups sign ‘national unity’ agreement for a united fight for victory and the independent...
YESTERDAY officials from 14 Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Fatah, signed a ‘national unity’ agreement in the Chinese capital Beijing that ended any divisions...
Trade Unions Must Act To Secure Nurses’ & Doctors’ Pay Rise!
PM BORIS JOHNSON has said that there is a ‘moral duty’ to get all children back into schools in England next month. Writing in...
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...
Tories insist on ‘gagging orders’ to cover up for their crimes against workers
IT EMERGED this week that the company hired by the Tories to test for flammable cladding on government and other public buildings in the...
US Threatens North Korea With War
‘WE are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea, we are not going to accept it,’ US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher...
Lessons from the 1984-85 miners strike
THE government papers released under the 30-year rule concerning the 1984-85 miners strike confirm that Thatcher and the Tories, despite their considerable preparations over...
CRISIS DEEPENING – as production and the pound fall!
UK industrial output collapsed in August, unexpectedly as far as the bourgeoisie was concerned, destroying any remaining thoughts of green shoots of recovery. Bourgeois...
Greek blood money debt bonds for sale!
BANKRUPTED Greece, still up to its neck in debt, is to sell five-year bonds, in the country’s first long-term debt sale since its international...
Bosses are taking the axe to the Welfare State, pensions and the NHS! Forward...
IN MONDAY’S Daily Telegraph, Roger Bootle spells out the ‘fallacy’ in its business section that economic growth is the key to Britain’s survival as...
End the legal thievery of the super-rich with expropriation and a socialist revolution!
THE SECRET hidden world of the mega rich, giant corporations, hedge funds, politicians, heads of State and the Queen has had the spotlight thrown...
Blair the leader of the Party of Order
PRIME Minister Blair held a meeting of his Cabinet yesterday morning and, true to form, the Cabinet, filled with his lackeys, found that he...
EU in crisis – forward with the European socialist revolution
The crisis of European capitalism is so severe that it has driven the bourgeoisie to tear at each other’s throats in a frenzy of...
Coalition lies on NHS privatisation exposed – trade unions must act
THE oft repeated claim by Tory prime minister Cameron that the coalition will not privatise the National Health Service has finally been exposed for...
World Socialist Revolution only answer to capitalist war at home and abroad!
The political crisis of the Stalinist bureaucracy in Russia, that emerged dramatically on Friday with the march on Moscow by the mercenary Wagner group,...