Oil companies fight to carve up Libya
IT HAS not taken long for the hyenas of the giant oil companies to descend on Libya’s oil and gas resources intent on both...
Time for US workers to break with the Democratic Party
A NEW Gallup poll survey shows that 14% of American households describe poverty wages and the cost of healthcare as their most important financial...
Tory policies to defund and privatise the NHS responsible for Shrewsbury maternity disaster!
THE INDEPENDENT Ockenden inquiry into maternity provisions at the Shrewsbury NHS Trust has revealed a horrific catalogue of failures contributing to the deaths of...
Abolish Fees, Restore Grants And Free State Education For All
A REVIEW of university student fees in England has been launched by Business Secretary Mandelson. The object of the review is to increase, perhaps...
NHS being bankrupted, to keep crisis-ridden capitalism going!
THE message from the government over the proposed dissolving of the South London Healthcare Trust and the closure of its major hospitals is...
Workers begin to occupy their plants and demand nationalisation!
BRITISH capitalism is on the rocks and has started to break apart! This is the significance of the total outstanding government debt of the...
Greek working class delivers blow to EU capitalism
THE victory of Syriza in the Greek election represents a huge blow by the Greek working class against European capitalism. Syriza, the coalition of the...
Palestinians reaction to Israel’s onslaught has been to increase their support for revolutionary...
A NEW opinion poll shows that public support for the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and armed confrontation, as the best means to end Israeli...
Hunt vows to slash benefits to drive sick back to work and pledges UK...
THIS week, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt jetted off to Washington to attend the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the stated...
TGWU leaders and TUC committed to 675 Gate Gourmet redundancies
YESTERDAY morning Gate Gourmet strikers were dismissing and rubbishing the letters that they have been receiving from the company. These offered them a minimum pittance...
GPs under the heel of Labour’s NHS ‘reforms’
THE Brown government has bullied NHS GPs in the most brutal and cowardly fashion, and has given them an offer that they could not...
Snap General Election Farce!
LABOUR Prime Minister Brown, a cautious and bumbling, conservative politician, is due to decide this weekend whether to take a big gamble and call...
The New UK-US Trade Deal Means NHS Must Pay Billions For New Medicines Says...
THE UK-US trade deal will mean the NHS has to divert billions from other NHS services to pay more for new medicines. Around £45bn in...
Budget Day strikes – demand TUC calls a general strike to kick out the...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will be delivering his Budget speech today in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up...
Time To Put The Tory Libdem Coalition Out!
WHEN the leaders of the Coalition are forced to pledge publicly that it will go the distance and will not split apart, the...
Demand the TUC bring down the Tories
ON Thursday Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, delivered a speech proclaiming that as far as the government is concerned ‘the matter is closed’: he...
Bush talks peace as Israeli tanks kill eleven in Gaza
THE content of the Bush ‘peace offensive’ was yesterday revealed for the whole world to see when Israeli tanks, supported by artillery fire ...
The shadow bank collapse will ‘destroy Trump presidency!’
THE rapidly developing crisis within the so-called ‘shadow banking’ industry will result in a massive and dramatic catastrophe that has the power to ‘destroy...
The UK ruling class is split, unable to rule, and frightened by the mass...
YESTERDAY Tory PM May pledged that she would not allow the British people’s vote for Brexit to be sabotaged. The would-be sabatoeurs are the majority...
Tories Want To Go From Starving Children To Pauperising Pensioners!
THIS week Tory prime minister Boris Johnson was forced to make a humiliating retreat over free school meals following a campaign led by the...
TUC corporatists must be kicked out! Come to the ATUA conference to build a...
THE TRADE Union Congress (TUC) organised the knifing in the back of the Southern guards’ and drivers’ struggle on Thursday, brokering a ‘deal’...
The Firefighters are the heroes of Grenfell! Jail the real culprits – big business...
A LEAKED report by the chairman of the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry, Martin Moore-Bick, has found a scapegoat for the fire – they are...
NHS Staffing Crisis As Wages Are Forced Down And Conditions Worsened
THE shortage of NHS staff in England is worsening official figures show. One in 11 posts is vacant, with the situation particularly bad...
King’s Fund Warning Must Be Acted On!
THE Quarterly Monitoring Report of the King’s Fund does not pull any punches about the future that the Tory-led coalition has planned out for...
UK military torn apart by ‘internal warfare’
THE ARMED wing of the British capitalist state is being torn apart by ‘internal warfare’, according to a report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph. This major...
Tory War On Teachers
THE Tory conference this week stepped up its vicious attack on teachers and their unions with education secretary Michael Gove treating them, as befits...
Labour adopts coalition cuts
THE three-day meeting of Labour’s ‘policy forum’ ended on Sunday with a massive vote to commit the Labour Party to carrying on with the...
TUC attempting to dump the fight against Tory anti-union laws!
IN advance of the national ‘protect the right to strike’ day of demonstrations on Wednesday 1st February the TUC has published a statement headed...
Stop regeneration, and start the refurbishment and building of council houses
THE Fire Brigades Union has called for a public inquiry into the fatal fire in the Camberwell high rise block which claimed six lives....
Hunt’s Autumn budget – brings in the open dictatorship of the bankers!
YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Autumn budget – the second budget from the government in under two months. The first was the disastrous...
Hundreds of thousands of UK firms ‘looking down the barrel’ of bankruptcy
BRITISH capitalism enters 2022 with experts and business owners predicting a massive surge in bankruptcies amongst SMEs (small to medium sized enterprises with no...
Vote ‘Leave’ – Bring Down Cameron – Forward To Socialist United States Of Europe!
THE mass of the working class and the majority of the middle class must vote to ‘Leave’ the EU today to strike a body...
A desperate ruling class forced to wheel out Gordon Brown to ‘save the day’...
WITH THE Tory government of Theresa May staggering from one crisis to another this week over the issue of Brexit, the desperation of the...
Now Organise The General Strike!
SATURDAY’S mass marches in London, Glasgow and Belfast were marches to bring down the coalition, regardless of the intentions of their TUC organisers who...
Form Public Sector Alliance to defeat the Brown government
THE Brown government is showing clearly and conclusively that it stands with the bosses, the bankers, and the employers against the workers and their...
Tesco & Next Make Bryant Run
THE shadow minister for immigration, Bryant, yesterday ran away from confronting Tesco and Next over employing migrant workers at reduced wages in place of...
Permanent recession for Europe as sanctions on Russia backfire on capitalism. Forward with European...
THE economies of every EU country face permanent recession according to Barclay’s Bank chief economist for the EU, Sylvia Ardagna, under the impact of...
NHS – Coalition Moves In For The Kill!
A FIVE-YEAR plan for the NHS – produced by NHS England, Public Health England, the regulator Monitor, the NHS Trust Development Authority, Care Quality...
Victory to the Syrian army in Idlib! Forward with the Turkish workers revolution...
THE TURKISH government has said it will not hesitate to invade Syria to prevent the Syrian army pressing ahead with its counter-terrorism offensive to...
Tory-type austerity is now Ball’s centre ground
WRITING in the Guardian this week, Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, made it clear that the Labour leadership’s economic policy consisted solely of moving...
Kiev, EU and US facing defeat in East Ukraine!
UKRAINIAN President Petro Poroshenko has cancelled a visit to Turkey, citing ‘Russian troop deployments’ in the east of the country. His announcement came as...
End all immigration control!
THE death of a 40-year-old woman at Yarl’s Wood on Sunday has once again thrown the spotlight on the privately-run immigration removal centre. According to...
Israelis Bomb Gaza And Shell The Lebanon
FOUR Lebanese soldiers were killed and at least four wounded when Israeli tanks opened fire at Lebanese positions on the border with Israel shortly...
EU torn apart by Covid pandemic – forward to Socialist United States of...
THE DEADLY third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is ripping the EU apart over vaccinations and lockdowns. In Germany, with 9,549 new cases and 180...
Reject BA Sell-Out!
THERE can be only one response by BA cabin crew to the latest attempt by the national leadership of Unite to impose a ‘settlement’...