Reinstate sacked gas workers – demand union leaders call general strike to defeat fire...
ON WEDNESDAY, up to 500 engineers were sacked by British Gas for refusing to sign a scab, wage-cutting new contract under the company’s fire...
Government plans to smash up health and safety laws
THE Tory-led coalition is pushing full steam ahead with its plans to completely smash up the health and safety legislation and leave hundreds of...
Unite cuts funding to Labour – time to force TUC to call a general...
THE UNITE union, the largest union donor to the Labour Party, announced this week that it has voted to cut its Labour affiliation by...
Shares Crash As Debt Crisis Explodes
IN London yesterday, the FTSE 100 rebounded momentarily, but then fell back into the red, down by 48.5 points by 1pm after a...
Lilliputian Smith, the would-be great dictator!
LABOUR right winger Owen Smith, in his desire to satisfy the big bosses and the bankers, is going even further than the Tories after...
Tories determined to impose even bigger pay cuts on NHS workers – time...
TORY ministers have instructed the supposedly independent NHS Pay Review Body to cap the wages of frontline health workers to just 2% in 2023-24. At...
Spain follows Greece with mass strikes against austerity
SPANISH Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialist Party government scraped through Parliament its 15bn euro (£13bn) austerity package, by 169 votes to 168,...
Reopen Mining Industry – No To Nuclear Power
British capitalism is today facing a massive energy crisis, largely of its own making. It was after all, Thatcher and Heseltine who shut down...
Germany dives into deflationary spiral
THE crisis of world capitalism continues to batter the economies of the eurozone into the ground with virtually every day bringing forth yet more...
TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers
THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...
Reeves’ pre-budget speech a message that the Labour government is ready to carry out...
YESTERDAY morning Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves gave an unprecedented pre-budget speech designed, she said, to address ‘speculation’ about what she would be announcing in...
Coalition Government announces plan to end council housing
Earlier this week the Coalition government’s Housing Minister, Grant Shapps, unveiled the government’s plans to destroy the last vestige of affordable social housing. In what...
Tory coronavirus inquiry is an attempt to put off reckoning with working class
ON WEDNESDAY, Tory prime minister Boris Johnson announced that there would be ‘a full and independent inquiry’ into the government handling of the coronavirus...
World Crisis Driving Capitalism Into Wars And Revolutions – Time To Carry Out The...
WITH the US, EU and the UK capitalist economies and regimes in a growing and desperate economic and political crisis, the imperialist powers are...
Gaza has 45.2 % unemployment – Greek youth unemployment is 45%!
GAZA’S unemployment rate is among the world’s highest, at 45.2%, the UN has found. The territory continues to be blockaded by Israel, while the...
Zionist regime bans 37 aid agencies from Gaza and West Bank as it intensifies...
YESTERDAY, Israeli authorities announced that the Zionist regime had banned 37 international aid agencies operating in Gaza and the West Bank, with Hamas saying it...
Action Needed Now Over Housing Crisis!
HOMELESSNESS among households in England has risen by 54 per cent since 2010 – rising annually every year – shows the latest report by...
Bankers’ bonuses are a diversion
The headline news throughout the bourgeois media yesterday was that Stephen Hester, Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, had magnanimously bowed to...
The working class must force its leaders to call a general strike to bring...
PM Sunak’s new anti-trade union legislation will make the UK one of the most difficult countries in the world to go on strike, a...
Iraq’s US dictated constitution – divisive, sectarian and no right to strike
THE attempt by the US to foist its version of a ‘constitution’ onto Iraq, in alliance with a section of the Shi’ite clergy and...
World capitalism at the ‘tipping point’ of collapse – time to put an end...
A RELIABLE gauge of the panic gripping the capitalist class over the fast developing world crisis of capitalism and its crushing effect on the...
After 10 years of austerity, and a boom in billionaires and paupers, workers will...
A REPORT this week from the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the effects of Tory austerity cuts has brought home the fact that...
Only answer to banking crisis is expropriation!
THE COALITION government’s policy to ‘ring-fence’ the banks is at best a cosmetic attempt to appear to be trying to protect retail banking, and...
Germany’s two largest banks in merger talks, creating Europe’s biggest ‘zombie bank’
LAST weekend the two largest German banks, Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank, entered merger talks in a last desperate measure to delay a banking collapse...
‘Treason’ law threat is to the whole working class
SCOTLAND YARD and the Crown Prosecution Service are meeting to discuss bringing charges against three men under the Treason Act, for which the death...
Queen’s Speech leaked as axe set to fall on public sector and business grants!
THE leaking of the Queen’s budget speech is unprecedented, and is an expression of the depth of the split and the cynicism in the...
Afghan crisis – more combat troops to be sent
THE British government’s Defence Secretary, Des Browne, said yesterday that he would be making a statement to the House of Commons as soon as...
Only Gold Is Money, The Rest Is Paper Masquerading As Money
WEDNESDAY’S announcement by the German central bank (Bundesbank) that it was going to physically repatriate its vast gold holdings from New York and Paris...
Prices and unemployment increase as bosses demand workers pay the price for capitalist crisis
OVER half of UK companies are planning to push up prices in the next three months according to the latest research by the British...
US-UK rescues ISIS fighters from Raqqa – no doubt they will now be sent...
PM MAY made crystal clear yesterday that Russia is the main enemy of crisis-wracked UK imperialism. In fact, Tory newspapers have been making it...
Labour becoming the Party of ‘remain’! Break with the EU through socialist revolution!
TO THE ALARM and anger of all those Labour supporters who voted to break from the EU, Labour is swiftly and openly becoming...
Socialist revolution is the answer to capitalist austerity and poverty wages
OVER a million public sector workers across Britain are paid poverty level wages according to a report issued yesterday by the Living Wage Foundation. 1.2...
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...
Ban condemns assault on refugees, while Cameron gets ready to bomb Syria!
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is ‘shocked’ after Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannon to force refugees – men,...
Netanyahu marches against terrorism in Paris!
WHEN the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine lampooned the prophet, it knew that it was trampling over the religious susceptibilities of millions of Muslims, and...
Imperialists step up war preparations against Iran
A report from the director of US national intelligence, James Clapper, issued last Tuesday signalled that imperialism’s war preparations against Iran have reached the...
CBI bosses turn on Labour for not hitting working class harder
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves turned up at the annual conference of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) yesterday to defend her autumn budget in...
Tories want more powers for police to crush the trade unions – TUC must...
TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the government will be tabling fresh amendments to the Public Order Bill, being debated in the...
US credit experts warn a crash is coming
NEWS IS quietly emerging from the top of the US banking fraternity that, despite the wild euphoria that has gripped the world financial centres...
Beginning of the end for Johnson – finish Tories off with a general strike
WHEN The Daily Telegraph carries as its banner headline ‘Beginning of the end for Boris?’ then it is certain that plots to dump him...
Junior doctors fighting! TUC leaders crawling!
YESTERDAY the junior doctors took the first day of their three days of strike action, and shook the Tory regime to its core with...
Working class will refuse to pay for Carillion bankruptcy
THE BANKRUPTCY last January of Carillion, Britain’s largest construction company, is going to cost the working class more than £150 million on top of...
Cameron’s ‘One Nation’ excludes the working class, youth and poor!
THE Queen yesterday outlined that her government ‘will legislate in the interests of everyone in our country. It will adopt a one nation approach’. This...
Capitalism diving into recession and hyperinflation – time to put it out of its...
YESTERDAY morning, Tory ministers had to submit to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) their plans to impose the cuts demanded by Chancellor Jeremy...
In the drive to privatise, the Tories are abolishing the NHS!
THE NHS is, in practice, being steadily and consciously abolished by the Tories as they drive relentlessly to the goal of a fully privatised...