Ten trade union leaders write to Burnham demanding he ends UK support for US...
At the weekend, Labour’s new prime minister Andy Burnham announced he would be undertaking a ‘national tour’ of the country to improve the government’s...
Miliband appeals to Tory and UKIP voters!
FOR many years the Labour Party projected itself as the champion of the working class, hence its very close ties with the trade unions,...
100,000 Youth Lay Siege To Parliament!
YESTERDAY huge masses of youth marched on the House of Commons, which was deciding to bring in tuition fees of £9,000 a year, turning...
Workers must answer state preparations by forcing through Brexit and putting an end to...
AFTER the news that over 3,000 troops were being mobilised for action after Brexit Day on March 29th, we have now been told that...
End the Iraq and Afghan wars! Let the Chagossians return home!
ON the fifth anniversary of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the working class and the young people of the UK and the US,...
The housing crisis intensifies as police and bailiffs clear estates for the benefit of...
THE housing crisis in the UK has reached explosion point. There is no new council housing being built, rents are being driven sky-high, while housing...
TUC and all trade unions must take action alongside the Junior Doctors!
THE junior doctors have responded magnificently to the Tory threat to dictate their contracts and to impose them from next August with a landslide...
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...
Labour set to cave in to the bosses and ditch minimum wage rise for...
YOUTH are bearing the brunt of unemployment according to new Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures released this week. According to the ONS figures, unemployment...
US Worldwide Torture Network
THE Council of Europe has announced it is investigating 31 reports of unmarked executive aircraft being used by the CIA to transport ‘suspected terrorists’...
Defending the NHS means sacking the BMA leadership
THE BMA leadership yesterday came out in favour of NHS rationing. It also supported the NHS having a written constitution, and being run by...
Stop the return of British troops to Helmand province!
THE Taleban armed forces are now retaking Sangin town in Helmand Province, which was taken over as a British responsibility after the retreat from...
Capitalism is crashing and must be replaced by a socialist revolution!
THE only way that bankrupt capitalism can survive is through making the working people of the world pay for its crisis with their jobs,...
US opens missile base in Romania and plans for bases in Poland and Hungary
AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...
Brexit crisis coming to a head – Quit the EU Now – Forward to...
TOMORROW will see the moment of truth for both the Tory and Labour Parties when May’s programme for a Brexit that will leave the...
Universal Credit cannot be reformed – it must be scrapped through mass strike action...
MORE than 1.2 million people are on Universal Credit, while more than 100 new Jobcentres will be operating it by Christmas. Universal Credit is...
Collapse of Greensill Capital – another Lehman Brothers crisis!
THE COLLAPSE of Greensill Capital, a finance company which acted as a massive lender to companies, has sent shock waves throughout the UK steel...
Hands Off Addenbrooke’s – Stop The Savage NHS Cuts By Bringing Down The Tories!
THE prestigious and world famous NHS Addenbrooke’s Hospital has been placed into special measures. UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis commented yesterday: ‘This is a shocking...
Nurses announce strike days as they join the mass strike wave sweeping the UK...
THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) confirmed yesterday that nurses will go on strike for two days in the two weeks before Christmas on...
Special relationship goes up in the smoke of burning Basra
WITH more US troops dying and the numbers of Iraqi civilians being killed and injured rising throughout Iraq, the US military surge has failed...
Tories aiming for a national government
LENIN’S definition of a revolutionary situation was one in which the ruling class could not rule in the old way, and was riven with...
Labour Cabinet Minister Fears For Her Seat
THE Labour government’s policy to cut, close, reconfigure, and privatise the NHS has caught up with a number of senior government ministers, including leading...
Spooks fear revolution
THE Tory foreign secretary, William Hague, appeared on television yesterday morning to give a less than convincing pledge that ‘law abiding citizens’ have ‘nothing...
Brown & Mandelson are not talking down the pound, they are planning to scrap...
THE EU Commission’s President Barroso has been told by the ‘people who matter’, ie by members of the Labour government, that they now...
Wage Cuts For Workers – Huge Profits For The Bankers
CHANCELLOR Darling yesterday warned Britain’s public sector workers that they must follow what he called the example of the private sector, and...
Class issues in Zimbabwe’s elections
AS IS to be expected the imperialists, with Britain in the lead, are engaging in an economic blockade, black propaganda, etc to get rid...
Unions Must Be Made To Take Action To Secure The Nationalisation Of Tata Steel,...
THE Unite and GMB trade unions have issued calls for the Johnson Tory government to take action to save 8,000 Tata workers jobs in...
Trade Unions Must Act To Secure Nurses’ & Doctors’ Pay Rise!
PM BORIS JOHNSON has said that there is a ‘moral duty’ to get all children back into schools in England next month. Writing in...
Time to put an end to ‘zombie’ capitalism with socialist revolution
STEPHEN Welton, head of the small business investors group the Business Growth Fund (BFG), warned this weekend that the UK economy is in the...
Brown outlines new attack on teachers and state education!
‘IN the past those who had the raw material – the coal, the oil and the basic commodities, or the infrastructure – the ports...
Bank crisis spreads while US government faces running out of money on June 1st...
THE BANKING crash has continued, with First Republic being the third US bank to collapse within three months. First Republic was taken over by the...
Darling Robs The Poor To Prop Up The Bankers
CHANCELLOR Darling yesterday admitted that the Labour government, cold-bloodedly, in the last budget, abolished the 10p tax rate for the lower paid, knowing that...
Israel closes Irish embassy in fury over Ireland’s recognition of Palestine and its support...
THE DECISION by the Israeli regime on Sunday to close its embassy in Dublin brought a swift response from Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister) Simon...
Corbyn comes good for the bosses’ and bankers’ EU
CORBYN has been transformed into his opposite as far as the ruling class and Labour’s rabid Blairite right wing is concerned. He has gone...
British Government Must Recognise Hamas
IT IS AN indisputable fact that Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist, was freed by the Hamas movement just two weeks after Hamas took control...
Tuc Congress Must Demand All British Troops Out Of Afghanistan!
WITH ten British troops killed in Helmand province so that just hundreds of people could vote – and after five per cent turned out...
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...
Imperialist drive to war with Russia takes leap forward
THE war preparations by the imperialist nations against Russia took a giant leap forward this week with NATO and non-NATO troops massed in north-western...
No Military Action Against Iran – At This Point Says Rice
BRITAIN’S Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has just revealed the policy of the British government on Iraq – or has he? He said that Iran...
New Labour Is Proposing 24-Hour Courts And Fast-Track Sentencing Of Workers And Youth!
COURTS ARE now to sit for 24 hours in order to impose fast-track sentencing under New Labour Emergency Government plans to crack down on...
TUC conference swings to the right – a new leadership must be built!
THIS year’s annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference marked a historic lurch to the right by the leadership of the trade unions. At a time...
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...
Palestinians Condemn Trump – Now The UK Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action...
PALESTINIAN factions have condemned US President Donald Trump’s statements, in which he discussed the possibility of displacing the residents of the Gaza Strip to...
Trade unions must strike to defend the NHS!
TOMORROW Central Surrey Health (CSH), a private company set up by nurses and therapists, will find out whether they have won the £22m contract...
EU announces further below-zero rate cuts and 2.6tn euro QE as new banking collapse...
THE EUROPEAN Central Bank (ECB) has announced its biggest package of rate cuts and economic stimulus in three years as EU President Mario Draghi...