STPs are an agency of international capitalism, a Trojan Horse for the privatisation...
THE TORY Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) have been shrouded in secrecy right from the start as the Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, did...
Call Goes Up For An ‘Organisation For The Maintenance Of Supplies’ As Bosses Get...
THE DAILY Telegraph yesterday called to ‘Combat strikes with contingency plans’ after observing that ‘What has been billed as a Winter of Discontent in...
Balls’ conscription for 16 to 18 year olds
SCHOOLS Secretary and chairman of the Fabian Society Ed Balls, has already made his mark in Britain. Before he became a minister he was part...
‘Israel’s war of annihilation won’t break our will!’
THE President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, has said that the Palestinian people will remain steadfast and adhere to their legitimate rights,...
With capitalism in crisis, and the NHS being knifed by Starmer – UK needs...
THE immediate ending of the pensioners’ Winter Fuel Allowance was necessary to prevent an economic collapse and a run on the banks, declared Lucy...
Free the Chagos Islands – Britain’s own Guantánamo Bay!
ON WEDNESDAY the General Assembly of the United Nations delivered a stunning vote which overwhelmingly condemned the continuing occupation of the Chagos Islands. By 116...
Nationalise LDV and GM Vauxhall – no Royal Mail privatisation!
WITH even more right-wing forces seeking to bring down the Brown government from the right, trade unions now have an opportunity to show their...
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...
Blair’s great pensions robbery
LABOUR’S ‘pensions revolution’ is a major attack on the working class, the elderly and the youth. The origin of the ‘revolution’ is not that the...
Miliband is a fraud!
ED Miliband’s speech to the National Policy Forum was devoted to the theme that Labour, while ‘going beyond’ the completely discredited open worship of...
Defend car jobs! Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot!
VAUXHALL Chairman Jonathan Browning announced yesterday that the General Motors (GM) subsidiary is to cut about 900 jobs, by the end of August, at...
US Raises Interest Rates To The Highest Level In 22 Years – The Workers...
THE US central bank has raised interest rates to the highest level in 22 years, as it fights to stabilise prices in the world’s...
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...
Public sector must strike alongside the firefighters!
‘You want a war pal, you’ve picked on the wrong union and we’re going to take you on and you will not win,’ GMB...
Israel given green light by Biden to expand genocide into Rafah
THE GENOCIDAL onslaught against the 1.4 million Palestinian men, women and children forced into the tiny city of Rafah on the border with Egypt...
Israel Joins Al Qaeda In Attacking Syria
IN LINE with Obama’s policy of ‘leading from the rear’ (a tactic learnt after receiving some very, very harsh lessons in Iraq and Afghanistan),...
Working Class In Ukraine Winning Over The Army
ON SATURDAY a National Assembly was held in the Black Sea city of Odessa, and other assemblies were held in all of the...
Pound drops and inflation rises as recession grows
THE pound fell to an exchange rate of $1.77 yesterday, its lowest level for two-and-a-half years. In June sterling was trading at $2, but...
Brown pledges to bring morality to the bankers!
AT yesterday’s Labour Party conference Premier Brown focused on the ‘wrong choices’ that the Tories had made over policies to deal with the...
Labour-Tory Race To The Right!
TEACHERS will have to be re-licensed every few years or face the sack under a future Labour government. This is the just unveilled position of...
Trade unions must act now and call general strikes to kick out Tories and...
THERE has been no let-up in the murderous bombardment of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a tiny city on the border with Egypt...
Putting The Trade Union Leaders To Shame
SEVEN people were arrested at Prestwick Airport yesterday, after appointing themselves as ‘citizen weapons inspectors’, and forcing themselves onto a US cargo flight to...
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...
Labour blindfolds itself so as not to see the developing capitalist crisis!
THE Labour Party manifesto launched on Tuesday contained a number of slight but significant changes from the draft leaked to the press last week. On...
1,002,296 have died from Covid-19 – Capitalism cannot deal with this crisis!
THE number of people worldwide who have died from Covid-19 has passed one million, reaching 1,002,296 with 33,378,462 infected, the Johns Hopkins University reported...
The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class – time to...
MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...
Banks are crashing while 140,000 repossessions loom at Northern Rock
THE HSBC bank has just declared a 28 per cent, $3.9bn fall in half year profits. It has written off another $3.7 billion...
Lift the ban on the Tigers – Stop the massacres of Tamils
SUPPORTED by the US, the UK and India the Sri Lankan army is bombing and shelling Northern Sri Lanka in a frantic, ruthless and...
Greek Crisis To Explode All Over Europe!
AS 100,000 workers marched through Athens on May Day, and tens of thousands marched through large numbers of Greek towns and villages, it...
Israeli Dress Rehearsal For Attack On Iran!
US officials yesterday admitted that a major military exercise, which saw more than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighter jets taking part in...
Millions of children face hunger under Tory austerity – TUC must act!
A SHOCKING study carried out by the GMB union released yesterday showed that almost one in ten school staff bring in their own food...
National Guard ‘armed, locked and loaded’ in New Orleans
LOUISIANA State Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin have deployed 300 heavily-armed National Guard troops and 60 state police on the streets of...
Bring Down The UK-French-US War Lords
BRITISH IMPERIALISM was run out of Basra and Iraq, and is about to be run out of Afghanistan. However, it is still organising new...
Middle East at boiling point as US threatens Palestinians and Syria!
THE US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, speaking on Tuesday at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, said that the Palestinians’...
Tories are being whipped into line by the international banks!
‘A SPEECH to calm the party and the country’ was how the Tory-supporting Daily Mail greeted the speech by newly installed prime minister Rishi...
Blears Speaks With Forked Tongue
HOME Office minister Blears has had a strenuous week. On the one hand she has been working to support British Transport Police Chief Johnston....
Savage Israeli occupation lashes out at Palestinians!
THE Fatah movement in southern Hebron declared a day of mourning on Wednesday after a 17-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces who had...
Johnson moves to put the skids under Prescott
THE Blairite cabinet, faced with the working class rejecting Blair, his war on Iraq, his onslaught on the Welfare State, and with popular revulsion...
CIA annual Threat Assessment Report reveals panic over failure to defeat Hamas
ON MONDAY, the US intelligence agency, the CIA, published its annual Threat Assessment Report for 2024 which warned that America faces an ‘increasingly fragile world...
PFI debts are strangling NHS
LAST Friday, the ‘independent’ health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), finally issued its report on healthcare provision at the Barts Healthcare Trust,...
EU Makes A Fool Of Johnson – Time For The UK Working Class To...
THE BRITISH Prime Minister was given the ‘Greek plus’ treatment by the EU leadership on Monday when the EU assembled British ‘Remainers’ to boo...
Lebanese and Palestinian masses stand fast
THE bravery and determination of the Palestinian and Lebanese people in standing fast against the Israeli military murder machine has thrown not just the...
Workers Must Defend The Palestinian People By Bringing Down The US And UK Governments!
THE head of the politburo of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has issued a stern warning against any Israeli military operation on the southern...
Queen’s speech intensifies coalition attacks on jobs pensions and basic rights!
THE Queen’s speech spelt out that her Tory-LibDem government is to step up its war against public sector pensions, continue to place the...
Saudi Arabia issues its demands to Qatar – submit or be crushed
YESTERDAY, Saudi Arabia issued a set of 13 wide-ranging demands to Qatar which it insists have to be met before the sanctions imposed on...