TUC Leader O’Grady To Quit – TUC Must Organise General Strike For June 18th!
THE General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Frances O’Grady, is to step down after nine inglorious years at the helm of the...
Occupy and demand nationalisation at Grangemouth
THE people of Scotland will be watching tomorrow and expecting you to ‘fire up Grangemouth’ was the message from Unite to Jim Ratcliffe and...
Tunisian Revolution Brings Down Interior Minister
TUNISIAN President Ben Ali has dismissed his interior minister and ordered the release of most of those detained during the current clashes over food...
Imperialist War abroad and class war at home – a general strike is the...
THE Trade Union Congress is meeting at a very crucial time for the working people of the UK and for the working people of...
Lobbying Bill A Conscious Attack On The Working Class
THE Tory-led coalition’s proposed new Lobbying Bill is sending shock waves throughout the leadership of the TUC, as its full import becomes known. This bill,...
Hammond and Carney in ‘war games’
THE Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, and the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, were forced to sit a test...
Poverty under capitalism is ‘killing people on a grand scale’
‘SOCIAL injustice is killing people on a grand scale.’ This is the conclusion of the World Health Organisation’s Commission on Social Determinants of...
Cotton Goes, But Savage Fire Cuts Continue – Workers Councils Of Action Must Impose...
YESTERDAY, the London Fire Brigade’s (LFB) commissioner, Dany Cotton, announced that she was resigning from her post four months early. Cotton came under sustained criticism...
State Defends Its Right To Execute Innocents!
YESTERDAY, Lord Stevens, the ex-Metropolitan Police commissioner, urged that there should be no change in the policy of the state, after a completely innocent...
The Tory Party to evict pensioners and criminalise the disabled!
THE Tory crusade has begun to resolve the capitalist crisis by heaping the cost of it onto the poor, the disabled, the elderly, the...
The Republicans Are In A Desperate Crisis While The Democrats Have No Way Forward...
US PRESIDENT TRUMP going down with the coronavirus has sharpened the crisis of the imperialist powers, including the UK, who were up till now...
With a 42% turnout French workers humiliate Macron!
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron’s party, La République en Marche, has won a parliamentary majority, just weeks after his presidential victory. With nearly all the...
Fatah Must Change Its Leadership
THE victory of the Hamas movement in the fighting in the Gaza Strip is a huge setback for the imperialist diplomacy of the US...
Bankers dump the dollar and shares and crave for gold!
THE current heir to the Rothschild banking dynasty, Lord Jacob Rothschild, has pronounced that the game is up, the world’s central banks have shot...
After levelling Mosul and Raqqa, the US-UK-French alliance is moving into northern Syria
THE FALSE claims of the Ministry of Defence that there were no civilian casualties in UK air strikes on Iraq, namely on Mosul, have...
BA getting ready for mass sackings
THE capitalist press yesterday was full of revelations that the new BA boss, Willie Walsh, recruited after making savage cuts at Aer Lingus, is...
Palestinians warn Israel over Jabal al-Baba ethnic cleansing!
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Monday warned Israel that the Jabal al-Baba community to the east of Jerusalem is a red line, warning...
Privatisation and health care are opposites!
YESTERDAY Southern Cross announced 3,000 redundancies. Its crash is underway with the lives of thousands of elderly residents at stake as well as the...
Labour government splits over ‘class war plan’ to raise income tax rates
MAJOR splits have emerged in the Labour government Cabinet over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s class-war plans to raise income tax rates...
The Bank of E grapples with the contradictions of the capitalist economy
IN its latest report the Bank of England monetary committee has rejected the line put forward in the budget by the Chancellor of the...
Abandon The ‘Fantasy Of The Right To Return’ Demands Netanyahu
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu put the final nails into the coffin of the two state solution when he urged, on Monday, that...
UK loses AAA credit rating
Late last Friday, Moody’s Investors Service, one of the world’s three main credit rating agencies, downgraded the sovereign credit rating of the UK and...
PM May woos Labour’s right wing!
ON THE eve of the Tory Party Conference, with the party split from stem to stern over Brexit, Tory leaders have announced that they...
Break With Eu Now! Bring Down The Tories! Forward To Socialism!
THE EU leadership last Friday morning at 6am rescued PM May from the debacle of her Northern Ireland crisis, and saved her government by...
Labour – Dancing To A Tory Tune – Is Attacking The Trade Unions
THE Unite union, which in recent years has prevented the Labour Party from going bust and has financed its election campaigns with donations of...
Britain, once the workshop of the world, collapses to be the 12th biggest manufacturer!
BRITAIN, where modern industrial capitalism began and which became the workshop of the world, has now collapsed to being the world’s 12th biggest manufacturer,...
Give Employment Tribunals power to make employers take back sacked workers
FOLLOWING an increase in the number of employment tribunals – after an attempt was made two years ago to make it deliberately harder for...
Time For The Tuc To Call General Strike
THE Fire Brigades Union has organised a national demonstration in London on Wednesday 16 October. The FBU is under an all-out attack on the...
TUC must call indefinite general strike to bring down coalition now!
TODAY’S meeting of the TUC general council must get off the fence and call for an immediate all-out, indefinite general strike to bring down...
EU raises the need for a European army, navy and airforce
THE super-imperialist ambitions of the European Union (EU) have begun to emerge in the wake of its Brexit defeat in the UK. So far, its...
Corbyn must demand a general election at once!
AS THE Tory and Labour Party crises deepen, the Bank of England yesterday announced that the outlook for UK financial stability is ‘challenging’. Bank of...
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,...
Trade unions must take action to defend the NHS
AS far as the NHS is concerned the vultures are now gathering for the kill. On Monday, News Line publicised a leaked e-mail ...
Tories Want To Bomb Syria!
TORY Defence Minister, Michael Fallon, with the full support of Cameron and leading members of the Labour Party, is calling for Britain to start...
Tory Party in meltdown – force TUC to call a general strike to kick...
TO DESCRIBE the forced decision by Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to abandon his plans to end the 45% top rate of income tax to...
The eurozone is a pack of cards ready to collapse, says the economist who...
THE man who is credited as the principle architect of the single European currency 14 years ago has just warned that his ‘project’ is...
What A Difference The War Drive Against Russia Makes For Ukrainian Refugees!
THE Tory government is offering all households in the UK £350 a month to take in people fleeing the war in the Ukraine. Housing...
Occupy UK Car Plants! Call General Strike To Bring In Workers Government To Nationalise...
THE UNITE union, representing car workers, said yesterday that its members will fight ‘tooth and nail’ to safeguard Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant, and urged...
Merkel-Sarkozy deal will fail to stem euro crisis
THE media were out in force at the end of last week to hear German Chancellor Angela Merkel reveal details of a bail-out package...
Follow Holby City Equity Take Strike Action With Junior Doctors
THE Equity trade union members who play the doctors and medical staff in the BBC medical drama Holby City have offered their full support...
Flood Disaster = Britain’s New Orleans
WE all saw the Katrina disaster, and what it did to New Orleans, destroying whole areas of the city and making them uninhabitable to...
Unite and the major trade unions must defend jobs with occupations and a general...
THE UK government is considering intervening in large UK companies through ‘Project Birch’ to ‘save’ the firms that are going bust by more government...
US And Israel Are Buying Time To Prolong The War Says Hamas Leader
A SENIOR official of the Hamas resistance group says the US and Israel are pursuing a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in a...
Answer the capitalist crisis with a socialist programme
THE deepening capitalist crisis has seen the breakdown of the decisive Doha Round of World Trade Organisation talks, with the United States refusing and...
Bolton Arrives To Boost Johnson And Open The Door For UK Troops In The...
JOHN BOLTON, President Trump’s National Security Adviser, was in town yesterday recruiting mercenaries to the US cause, including its trade war with China and...