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...
TUC must call indefinite general strike to bring down coalition now!
TODAY’S meeting of the TUC general council must get off the fence and call for an immediate all-out, indefinite general strike to bring down...
Tories have blood on their hands over Channel drownings
TWENTY-SEVEN people, including a pregnant woman and three children, were drowned attempting to cross the Channel in an inflatable boat on Wednesday – the...
Henley New Labour Disaster – Less Votes Than The Bnp!
LABOUR’s fifth place at Henley, shamefully behind the fascist BNP, will go down in history as an example of a party being thrust into...
Bank of England issues warning as pound crashes
DITCHING his opposition to a new third runway at Heathrow airport on Thursday, Ed Miliband, the UK Energy Secretary, not only cravenly abandoned his...
British Military Opposes Any Petraeus Surge In Afghanistan
GENERAL Petraeus is now the commander of all NATO forces in Afghanistan, and has declared that he intends to organise a NATO ‘surge’ in...
Brown, Keynes and revolution
AFTER actively assisting in the creation of trillions of debt, and showing its contempt for the concept of value by selling almost half of...
Thieves, drug users, arsonists and spies – recruited by the Metropolitan police
BACK in 2014 the police announced that they were ‘relaxing’ their rules on recruitment to allow convicted criminals to join. In fact, this just legitimised...
Omicron strain batters USA as President Biden seeks to divert US workers’ anger with...
THE Omicron strain of the Coronavirus now accounts for more than 73% of new US cases of Covid-19, up from 13% just a week...
A general strike to kick out the Tories and bring in socialism will end...
THIS WEEK, the boss of British Gas, Chris O’Shea, sent letters to 7,500 of its service engineers informing them that on Wednesday 14 April...
End the regime of forced prepayment meters – nationalise British Gas and all...
IN THE WEEK when the giant oil and gas company Shell announced record profits of £32.2 billion, on the back of the soaring cost...
60,000 families face eviction under Tory Housing Bill
60,000 HOUSEHOLDS in England face being thrown out of their council houses next year as a result of the Tories ‘pay to stay’ policy. Under...
IMF warns Labour must carry on with cuts to satisfy the international money markets
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week joined in the chorus of bankers, speculators and capitalist financiers warning the Labour government that it must...
UK trade unions must give full support to the Palestinian mass uprising that Israel...
EMBOLDENED by the inauguration of President Trump, and awaiting his decision to go ahead with moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,...
Brown’s worthless apology for imperialist child trafficking
FOR centuries British capitalism has sought to export its surplus populations and its trouble makers to the rest of the world. Rebellious trade unionists such...
Strikes hit hospitals and airports as workers rise up against wage cutting!
WHILE the Tories tear themselves apart awaiting the heavily redacted report by Sue Gray into Boris Johnson and all the parties at Downing Street...
The working class must win the class war
IN the middle of the Labour Party’s general election campaign, a section of the Labour cabinet led by Mandelson, Jowell and others is breaking...
DRIVE THE MAY GOVERNMENT OUT! MARCH ON PARLIAMENT ON JULY 1st!
THE May government has now entered the world of the surreal. It has just about been able to schedule a Queen’s Speech of sorts...
EU is going up in flames! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
THE European Union is like a huge powder magazine that started to smoulder even before the Brexit vote in the UK on June 23rd,...
Make the TUC call a general strike now to boot out the Tories and...
RAIL, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) members will be joined by many other trade unionists today at 7.00am and on Saturday 26th March at...
The government refuses to release the Shrewsbury 24 trial secret papers
THE ruling class state machinations that secured the jailing of a number of Shrewsbury pickets after the first national building workers strike in...
Support BA workers! Forward to a general strike!
LABOUR PM Gordon Brown yesterday condemned the BA cabin crew members of Unite for the seven days of strike action due to take place...
Tahrir Square demonstrators stand fast against army command and secret police attacks
AFTER the dictator Mubarak’s insistence, on Tuesday night, that he will remain president of Egypt until next September, the ‘managed change’ for Egypt, favoured...
Witch-Hunter Healey Hits Out At Russia As British Capitalism Struggles To Survive!
DEFENCE SECRETARY John Healey has said that three Russian submarines have carried out a ‘covert’ operation in the Atlantic, north of the UK, lasting...
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...
Debt crisis threatening students, home-buyers & public services
COMMENTING on a report from the Student Loan Company (SLC) on Monday, National Union of Students (NUS) President Gemma Tumelty said: ‘Fee loans, along...
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...
US Threatens Syria With War
THE US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, who was recently transferred from Afghanistan, last Monday threatened the Syrian government with war. He accused Syria of...
Traitor Tsipras is handing over power to the right wing!
WITH his resignation as Greek prime minister on Thursday night, the leader of the ‘left’ Syriza government, Alexis Tsipras, has signalled that he and...
Support Chagos Islanders’ right to return!
TODAY’S picket of 10 Downing Street by the Chagos Islanders and their supporters is a vital one. They are demanding that the Prime Minister, Gordon...
Cut in interest rates by the Fed will accelerate capitalism’s world crash
THE US CENTRAL Federal Reserve Bank on Wednesday performed an abrupt U-turn on its policy of attempting to hold back the vast amount of...
Zero-hours contracts and below legal minimum wages dominate in private care agencies
ANALYSIS by the GMB union of figures in the national Skills for Care database reveals that care workers employed in the private sector are...
Disband the Met Police – forward to a workers state and socialism
WHEN Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel is forced to say that she is ‘appalled and sickened’ by the behaviour of Metropolitan Police officers, then...
Russia resisting regime change in Syria!
RUSSIA said yesterday that it strongly disagreed with changes to its draft UN Security Council resolution on Syria made by the western imperialist powers. ‘Unfortunately,...
Osborne demands smash Welfare States throughout the EU
THE crisis of British capitalism deepened yesterday with Chancellor Osborne warning the EU ‘We can’t go on like this’, while the Ford motor company...
Unite must hit back and defend its members, with full TUC support
THE petrochemical plant at the giant Grangemouth complex in central Scotland is to close with the loss of over 800 jobs, owner Ineos announced...
Support North Korea Against US Aggression!
WITH the crisis of capitalism deepening and the US economy showing not the slightest signs of recovery, it is only natural that the US...
End Tory racist deportation by demanding a general strike to kick them out
YET ANOTHER attempt by the Tory government to deport over 50 people to Jamaica on Wednesday came unstuck with the Home Office forced to...
Tories to opt out of human rights
AT THE Tory Party conference yesterday, Theresa May and her defence secretary Michael Fallon jointly announced that in any future war British troops would...
103 years of the Balfour Declaration – British workers must fight to liberate...
ON NOVEMBER 2nd 1917, during the first great imperialist war, the UK ruling class committed one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century...
Corbyn intends to end the rule of banking class with regulations!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn wound up this week’s Labour Party conference with a speech that he insisted outlined policies for ‘socialism in the 21st...
British troops in Afghanistan were ‘out of control’ and ‘feral’
THE CASE of Alexander Blackman (the former marine sergeant sentenced to life imprisonment in 2013 for the murder of a wounded Afghan fighter) has...
Russian troops return to bases, giving the Ukrainian government the chance to break with...
RUSSIAN troops have completed their training drills in Belarus, very close to neighbouring Ukraine, and will begin returning to their bases, the Ministry of...
Cameron’s beat, beat, and beat again ruling class morality!
THE Tory-led coalition's savage attack on welfare claimants and the inevitable poverty and destitution they have caused for millions of working class families ...
‘Remainers’ Take The Struggle Onto The Streets – An Example That Workers Must Follow...
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of ‘Remainers’ marshalled by the likes of billionaire George Soros and other speculators set out on Saturday to try to create...