Human rights groups quit UK’s fake torture inquiry!
TEN leading human rights organisations, along with victims of torture and their lawyers, have withdrawn from the British government’s Detainee Inquiry because they believe...
Labour’s cuts to disability benefits hit 700,000 families – time to kick out Starmer...
THIS week, The Guardian newspaper, using the Freedom of Information Act, published the Labour government’s own internal assessment of the impact of the planned...
28th anniversary of declaration of Palestinian independence!
SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saed Erekat said yesterday that the international community has failed in its responsibility to correct the...
NHS leaders in Scotland come out in the open with plans to destroy the...
THE BBC yesterday revealed that NHS leaders in Scotland have been discussing setting up a ‘two-tier’ health service. These discussions were recorded in draft minutes...
NHS not living with Covid but dying from it
‘THE GOVERNMENT must be honest about the threat the pandemic still poses,’ the editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and Health Service Journal...
Academies hoard £2.5 billion
ACADEMY schools in England are sitting on a vast hoard of cash estimated to be nearly £2.5 billion, or more than £550,000 per school. Money...
Another Warning Issued About The Criminal Nature Of The New Anti-Union Laws
LEADING employment lawyers are to issue yet another warning that the Tory government’s new Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill will give ministers ‘unfettered power’...
Blair’s decisive moment of NHS transition
LABOUR’S re-spun campaign to close local Accident and Emergency Departments, and entire District General Hospitals, in favour of Regional Centres of Excellence got under...
British Capitalism Is On The Rocks! All Life Support Attempts Are Failing As The...
SUCH is the crisis of British capitalism more than half of the adult population, 27 million people, have had to be financially assisted by...
Ford and GM shutting down in Europe
THE US motorcar giants GM and Ford were rescued from bankruptcy by President Obama who ‘nationalised’ them, so that the US taxpayer could get...
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...
Nemtsov loved by the US and UK ruling classes – hated by the...
YESTERDAY over 20,000 people marched in Moscow and several thousand in Leningrad to mourn the death of Boris Nemtsov. The vast majority of the Russian...
Obama orders review over Syria
PRESIDENT Barack Obama has stepped up the number of US troops in Iraq to over 3,000 and has also admitted that there may be...
Trump pledges to make US capitalism great again by pauperising the US workers and...
ALARM is spreading among US imperialism’s imperialist rivals at incoming US president Donald Trump’s pledge to make ‘America Great Again’ by pauperising the whole...
Millions of UK households and children driven into poverty by bankrupt capitalism – socialist...
THE NUMBER of people living in poverty in the UK has shot up to 16 million – the highest level since records began in...
Trade Union Leaders Are Pulling Their Punches!
IT is a disgrace that the trade union leaders who led the May 10th pensions strike, when 400,000 trade union members stopped work, refused...
Homelessness is growing like a plague – Nationalise the banks and the building industry...
THE homelessness rate across England is at its highest since 2018, after Tory government policies have forced a record number of families to live...
May’s university review ‘Dead on arrival’! Students, lecturers & staff must unite and strike...
‘DEAD on arrival,’ is how Vanessa Wilson, chief executive of the University Alliance Group described outgoing PM May’s new report on university education. The Augar...
Rajapakse And His Backers Will Not Defeat The Tamil People
YESTERDAY the imperialist-backed Rajapakse regime was claiming to have killed the LTTE leadership, including Velupillai Prabakaran, and that the struggle is now over. Its...
Jamaican High Commissioner demands halt deportations! End May’s hostile environment by kicking the Tories...
‘WE MAY very well be deporting people who are entitled to be here,’ the Jamaican High Commissioner said, calling on the UK government to...
Blair and Cameron unite to split the Labour Party
NINETY Five Labour MPs voted against the government’s renewal of the Trident programme in the House of Commons on Wednesday evening as the Labour...
War of words between puppet Karzai and US
THE Afghan puppet president, Karzai, has gone to Washington and been forced, by rising Afghan anger, to publicly complain about the actions of the...
Occupy to stop hospital closures – trade unions must bring down the Coalition with...
IN THE UK at the moment there are dozens of District General Hospitals – some of the best in the world – set for...
All out action needed to defend pensions and jobs
THE CWU is warning that 40,000 jobs will go as a result of increased mechanisation of the Royal Mail system. It is also objecting...
Netanyahu turning the screws on Palestinians to the point of revolution!
THE Israeli Netanyahu regime is now working hard at its programme for the ‘final solution’ to the question of Palestine and the Palestinians. The Palestinian...
Banks learnt nothing from the 2008 crash as world debt and UK credit card...
RBS, still over 70% state-owned, is the worst prepared of the UK’s biggest banks to cope with the next financial crisis, a crisis which...
Iran offers talks on the US created nuclear crisis
THE imperialist powers are studying Iran’s offer of more talks to resolve the crisis that the US has created over Iran’s right to develop nuclear...
US imperialism prepares for a bloodbath to overthrow legitimate government in Venezuela
DURING an anti-government demonstration in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, on Wednesday the head of the country’s National Assembly Juan Guaido launched a right-wing coup against...
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...
No gagging of Pitchford Inquiry into police spies and police provocateurs!
THE Pitchford Inquiry into police undercover operations directed against various protest movements – trades unions, political movements and MPs – is to be gagged...
EU ripped apart by crisis – time to bring it down and advance to...
WITH the Labour right-wing openly organising at the party conference in Brighton this week to bind the party firmly to a campaign to remain in...
Make Hammond’s Budget his last by a general strike to kick the Tories out...
THE Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, closed his autumn budget statement on Wednesday with the announcement that this would be his ‘first and last’. Faithfully obeying...
Blair sets out the plans to privatise the NHS for his stooge Starmer to...
AS the NHS celebrated its 75th anniversary yesterday former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair launched his latest campaign for complete privatisation of the health...
Tory Party Breaking Apart Over Eu Referendum
LEAVING the EU could lead to the break up of the UK, said former Tory leader and former Foreign Secretary, William Hague yesterday. Since the...
Elderly Care Is Disintegrating – The Only Remedy Is To Get The Tories...
A LETTER to Chancellor Osborne and Health Secretary Hunt signed by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, the Care Provider Alliance, which...
Stock markets around the world crash as the US plunges into recession
STOCK markets in Europe and Asia crashed yesterday morning as the international financial world suddenly woke up to the grim reality that US capitalism...
Out with Hunt, out with the rotten coalition!
LABOUR is to demand a parliamentary vote over Culture Secretary Hunt’s breaching of the ministerial code, by refusing to take responsibility for the actions...
Johnson Will Use His Dictatorial Powers Against The Working Class!
THE DEBATE on the adjournment of Parliament for a month until April 21 took place immediately after the Tory emergency legislation passed though the...
To prevent an economic catastrophe workers must nationalise the banks and industries!
AS EXPECTED, the early results of the local council and Wales and Scotland regional elections yesterday morning showed a total wipeout of the Labour...
Right-wing Labour wants to force workers to remain in EU!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn finally bit the bullet yesterday afternoon when he announced he would issue a three-line whip to Labour MPs instructing them...
Socialist Revolution Is The Only Alternative Now
UNITE leader Len McCluskey has pointed out correctly some of the immediate implications of the Miliband-Balls line that Labour will honour and continue with...
Labour heading for a major collision with the working class and its trade unions
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to tell workers that major unavoidable tax rises are on the way since she has inherited a £20bn...
Tory ‘Orwellian’ attempts to cover Grenfell Tower atrocities in secrecy
THE CAMPAIGN group ‘openDemocracy’ has revealed evidence of a concerted campaign by a secretive government Freedom of Information (FOI) screening unit to interfere with...
Tories in chaos as Paterson resigns amidst sleaze accusations – time to kick...
THE TORY government was in chaos yesterday following Tuesday’s vote to disband the existing Standards Committee replacing it with a Tory dominated committee to...
Brown Demands Pay And Pension Cuts
‘WE would fight any attempts to impose a wage freeze,’ UNISON warned in the wake of Gordon Brown’s call for public-sector pay rises to...