Trade unions must reject Coalition attack on the unemployed and the poor
EX-ARMY officer Duncan Smith, the Coalition’s Work and Pensions Secretary, yesterday announced a Universal Credit to replace all benefits, and also ...
Tories, with the support of the Labour Party, begin forcing asylum seekers on to...
THE TORIES kicked off their ‘stop the boats week’ yesterday with the announcement that the first 50 asylum seekers will be forced onto the...
NHS under siege – TUC must act
TORY Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced on June 2nd that the NHS must ‘stop making excuses’ and deliver ‘its side of the bargain’ going...
UK and US imperialism’s drive to war must be answered through the victory of...
IN his ‘Letter to American Workers’, published in Pravda on August 22 1918, after the victorious Russian revolution, Lenin wrote, ‘We are now, as...
NHS held to ransom by Cyber terrorists – Hunt must resign and the...
ON FRIDAY afternoon a terrorist cyber attack was launched on the NHS in England and Scotland that brought it to a standstill in many...
Labour Set To Deport Thousands Of Asians And Africans
RETROSPECTIVE changes to the Highly Skilled Migration Programme (HSMP) which originally passed into law in 2006 will mean thousands of non-EU migrants being forced...
Bosses threaten car workers jobs if they vote to leave EU
THE giant German car maker, BMW, has written to every one of its 8,000 employees in Britain making the thinly veiled threat that in...
Meet Tory payback time for working class with a general strike to kick them...
THE END of September is ‘payback time’ for the working class as far as the Tories are concerned. This is when all the debt incurred...
Duncan Smith’s ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Peddles Lies!
THE Department for Work and Pensions has admitted lying to the public by making up stories from fictional claimants, and passing them off as...
War exposes weakness and bankruptcy of capitalism in UK and Europe!
CITY AM, the business and financial newspaper, published an opinion piece yesterday which included a lengthy quote from Karl Marx on the profound effects...
Workers will demand Unite’s national action against fire and rehire be stepped up to...
YESTERDAY the Unite union announced it is launching a campaign to end fire and rehire with ‘coordinated strikes and actions across the country’. In a...
Demoralised Davos surveys the debacle of the world capitalist crisis!
THE World Economic Forum meeting in Davos to celebrate capitalism finds the assembled chief executives, politicians and would-be prophets much more pessimistic and frightened...
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...
Winograd Inquiry confirms Israel has feet of clay
THE Israeli inquiry into its July 2006 attack on the Lebanon has found that it was ‘a large and serious failure’. It also...
Israel extends genocidal war to ‘safe’ city of Rafah
US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken arrived in Egypt yesterday at the start of yet another Middle East tour – his fifth since the...
Trump defeats second impeachment bid and vows to continue with ‘Make America Great...
EX-PRESIDENT Donald Trump has welcomed his impeachment acquittal on the charge of ‘inciting insurrection’, saying, his political movement ‘to Make America Great Again’ has...
Homelessness rises by 134%! Socialist revolution needed to build millions of council homes!
HOMELESSNESS has risen by a startling 134% since the Tories came to power in 2010, with the amount of people sleeping on the...
Revolutionary crisis in France
The first round of voting in the French presidential election, held last Sunday, produced an unprecedented defeat for the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and his...
Anglo-French summit plans new imperialist wars in Africa!
YESTERDAY, PM Theresa May met with French President Macron in a UK-France Summit that was, however, no ordinary summit. Firstly, it took place at the...
The Israeli Army Burned Down Kamal Adwan Hospital. It Must Be Forced Out Of...
THE Palestinian Ministry of Health said yesterday that the Israeli occupation army had burned Kamal Adwan Hospital – the last operating hospital in northern...
Capitalism Is In Its Greatest Ever Crisis. Now Is The Time To Organise The...
DURING stock market trading last Friday more than £12.8bn was wiped off the value of the UK’s bank stocks as the rumours of ‘bad...
Labour’s collapse in front of the Tories proves the need to build the new...
ON Thursday the Labour Party suffered its worst defeat in a general election since 1935 and handed Boris Johnson’s Tory party a majority in...
BIS warns new ‘Lehman Brothers’ crash under way
THE SWISS-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued yet another warning that the world’s banking system is heading for a monumental crash. The BIS,...
Laws’ resignation holes the coalition!
ON Monday May 25th, David Laws, the new Chief Secretary of the Treasury, standing next to his master Chancellor Osborne, announced that the £6.2...
Pogromist Johnson Speaks Up For The Security Services
BORIS JOHNSON writes in Monday’s Daily Telegraph, in the wake of the Rigby trial, ‘the most important question now is how we prevent other...
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...
Well Done – The Syrian Delegation In Geneva!
ALL workers must support the stand of the Syrian delegation at the Geneva 2 Conference. This stand was that there had to be a full...
Brown To Nationalise Northern Rock Losses
BROWN and the Treasury have announced that they prefer a private sector ‘solution’ to the Northern Rock bank crisis, while Brown’s spin doctors have...
Central Banks in disarray as capitalism poised for a crash
THE disarray and panic that is a permanent state for the central banks of Europe and America was on open display yesterday. In the US,...
It’s much later than Brown or Blair think
THE working class electors in the safe Labour seat of Dunfermline and Fyfe ignored the crisis at the top of the Liberal Democrats, so...
Take action to halt the continuing murderous attacks on Gaza’s starving masses!
THE Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has condemned the Israeli-American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and complicit governments, especially the US and British administrations, for the...
Privatisation of roads and Royal Mail
The leadership of the postal workers union (CWU) delivered a treacherous blow to their members when they hailed the announcement that the government is...
Inflation Letting Rip As Darling Fiddles
CONSUMER Prices Index (CPI) inflation has been driven up to 3.5 per cent in January by, amongst other factors, VAT returning to 17.5...
Agree to robbery with violence or face eviction – Troika warns Cyprus
MPs in Cyprus have been told to agree, by Monday, on a series of bills to raise 6bn euros off the backs of the...
Demagogue Brown ‘names and shames’ the public sector
THE PCS trade union yesterday accused the bankers’ Prime Minister, Gordon Brown of ‘beginning a bidding war on who can cut the most.’ The...
US privateers are already taking over NHS services!
THE ENDLESSLY repeated slogan that ‘The NHS is Not for Sale’ is completely empty in the face of the fact that US companies and...
Tories insist on ‘gagging orders’ to cover up for their crimes against workers
IT EMERGED this week that the company hired by the Tories to test for flammable cladding on government and other public buildings in the...
Tuc Must Call A General Strike Now To Support The Palestinian Masses By Bringing...
THE United Nations says the ongoing Israeli war in Palestine has left the Gaza Strip ‘uninhabitable’ and that the destruction in the Palestinian territory...
Unions must mount massive campaign to nationalise Vestas now!
THE Vestas occupation clearly shocked the employer and weakened the Labour government to the point where a mass struggle has to be launched by...
Benefits War Against Sick
THE Tory work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith yesterday launched yet another vitriolic attack on the unemployed, the sick and disabled. On Sunday he...
Stalinist bureaucracy Shanghaied by working class
THE Chinese working class is definitely on the march. It has already compelled the Stalinist bureaucracy to start bringing in legislation forcing the western capitalist...
Bma Must Throw Out Tory Health Plans!
GPs have already expressed their opposition to the Coalition plan to privatise the NHS being pushed into law by Health Secretary Lansley. They have...
Starmer urges send British jets to the Ukraine to combat Russia!
Dispatching British fighter jets to Ukraine ‘to police the skies against Russia above the Ukraine’, emerged as a planning proposal at Sir Keir Starmer’s...
Blair’s not going anywhere – except over to the Tories
PRIME Minister Blair, speaking to one of his major supporters, Murdoch’s Sun newspaper yesterday, spelt out that he was not going into early retirement...
Stop the NHS being privatised! Defend funds for services – don’t use them for...
The abolition of NHS England by merging it with the Department of Health, announced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday, is the...