NHS Staffing Crisis As Wages Are Forced Down And Conditions Worsened
THE shortage of NHS staff in England is worsening official figures show. One in 11 posts is vacant, with the situation particularly bad...
Donors cough up to keep Syrian refugees out of EU while their Islamists sabotage...
WESTERN leaders and their allies have opened a donor conference in London with an urgent plea for billions of pounds in aid for refugees...
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...
Socialist revolution the only way to prevent mass unemployment
THE ANNOUNCEMENT this week by the aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls Royce that it is to slash 4,600 jobs in the UK as part of...
Hamas defiant after Israel’s ‘unilateral ceasefire’
PALESTINIAN resistance movements and their fighters remained defiant after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared on Saturday that the Israeli War Cabinet had decided to...
The continuing collapse of leadership in the FBU
THE leadership of the FBU ignominiously collapsed at yesterday’s FBU recall conference, held to decide on industrial action to defend the final salary pensions...
Put Cameron, Hague and Obama on trial, and free Assange!
ACCORDING to William Hague, the Tory Foreign Minister and Acting Prime Minister, Britain has a ‘legal obligation’ to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to...
Accessories To Murder!
THE Israeli Cabinet, after its weekly meeting on Sunday, issued a statement that it was greatly encouraged by the ‘low-key’ international response to its...
Osborne Mugs The Pensioners!
WEDNESDAY’S budget left no room for doubt about who the coalition government intends should pay to bail out the bankrupt British economy – pensioners,...
Stop Bedroom Tax! End evictions! Unions must act!
THE warning given over the weekend by the head of one of the leading housing associations that the bedroom tax will lead to mass...
Murdoch – the police – the government and the state
THE admission by Met police chief Sir Paul Stephenson, that Murdoch’s News International was paying serving police officers, comes as no shock to those...
The US’ allies in Egypt are at each other’s throats!
THE bloodbath in Egypt last Wednesday, which saw hundreds of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood cut down in cold blood by the Egyptian army,...
Trump ‘begging for a deal’ at peace plan talks with Iran!
THE Iranian foreign ministry denounced the attack carried out by the US early on Tuesday morning as ‘an act of bad faith’ and a...
Paper tiger union leaders ‘pause for peace’ at Grangemouth
THE just concluded 48-hour strike by the Grangemouth oil refinery workers was a magnificent success and showed to the entire world the power that...
100,000 march as trade union leaders fiddle while Tories burn NHS!
SATURDAY’S 100,000-strong march to defend the NHS from the accelerating Tory drive to destroy it showed once again that the masses are ready to...
Fight VAT increases with mass actions to bring down coalition
THE increase of VAT from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent today will mean destitution for millions of unemployed and low paid workers...
Force leaders who won’t fight to resign – organise a general strike!
THE third reading of the Health and Social Care Bill was approved by MPs by 65 votes on Wednesday evening, with just four LibDem...
Heseltine joins Blair’s campaign for an anti-Brexit uprising!
LORD Heseltine is notorious for his closure of the mining industry in 1993, as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the Major...
Call strike action to defeat Tory plans to destroy university system
YESTERDAY, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published a detailed report into the effects of the Tory higher education bill due to return to...
Workers of the world unite in the struggle for socialism!
THE UK authorities issued National Insurance numbers to 713,000 overseas workers in the year to April 2007. The WRP and the News Line are pleased...
ICC refuses to act over Israel’s Gaza war crimes
PALESTINIAN youth and workers marched very bravely all over the occupied territories last Friday on Land Day, and they were met as usual by...
Ukrainian workers refuse to end occupations!
THE agreement, styled as a ‘de-escalation roadmap’, reached at Geneva last Thursday by representatives from Russia, US, EU and the Ukraine coupist government, represents...
UK recession ‘inevitable’ – only socialist revolution can end capitalist crisis
THE FICTION of a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ for British capitalism is now firmly rejected by even the most loyal of...
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...
Reid rants against foreigners ‘stealing our benefits’
YESTERDAY Home Secretary John Reid showed that patriotism is indeed the last refuge of a scoundrel when he attacked foreigners for ‘stealing our benefits’....
Zionist parliament approves draft ‘death penalty’ bill targeting Palestinians
ON MONDAY, the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, approved the first reading of a bill that allows the Zionist regime to legally pass the death...
Egypt – Revolution In Permanence!
MUBARAK has gone, while the revolution that removed him, at the cost of hundreds of dead, is continuing to develop. Workers and the middle...
Yemen defiant in face of imperialist onslaught – Forward to victory of World Socialist...
ON SUNDAY, thousands of Yemenis marched through the streets of the capital Sana’a against the US/Saudi blockade of their country and holding American imperialism...
Birmingham bin workers deliver blow to Labour government wage-cutting – time to build a...
The overwhelming vote by 400 Birmingham bin workers on Monday to reject a pay cutting offer from their employer was a decisive blow against...
Israeli War Criminals Must Now Face Arrest, Detention, And Trial By A War Crimes...
THE US, Israel’s major backer and armer, has condemned the International Criminal Court (ICC) decision to launch a full investigation into Israeli war crimes. In...
Consultants in revolt against Blair’s ‘health reforms’
Hospital consultants in the West Midlands are boycotting the new ‘reformed’ system for selecting junior doctors for specialist training. The consultants said they would...
Two-day Greek General Strike – time for all-out indefinite action!
LAST week the two main Greek trade union organisations representing workers in the public and private sector called a two-day general strike starting today...
Care Home Big Five Demand A State Subsidy!
THE National Living Wage could result in a ‘catastrophic collapse’ in the number of care homes, according to the five biggest private providers, Four...
Economic tsunami to hit Japan
‘We have been humbled by nature’ the Japanese ambassador to Britain said of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that has devastated northern Japan with...
Landlords ban DSS tenants! End the housing crisis through putting an end to...
AT LEAST one in 10 landlords are ‘unlawfully’ advertising their flat for rent by saying that they do not accept tenants on housing benefit,...
Blair’s plans remain a ‘Trojan Horse’ for an education market
A political storm of the highest order has broken out in Greece over mass phone-tapping. This follows revelations, at a special press-conference last Thursday in...
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...
Security Council extends Iraq occupation mandate
THE imperialists and their Chinese and Russian stooges on the UN Security Council have extended the mandate of the US-led occupation armies in Iraq,...
WITH THE TORIES COLLAPSING, THE BANKERS HOLD TALKS WITH SHADOW CHANCELLOR McDONNELL!
AN ARTICLE in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph revealed that a series of behind-the-scenes meetings has been taking place between members of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet...
Tory Party trying to blame China to cover up their own culpability in the...
THE TORY Party has launched a massive campaign to blame China to cover up their own culpability in the rapid spread of the coronavirus,...
Lansley calls to ‘break down the system’
TORY coalition Health Secretary Andrew Lansley addressed the BMA doctors union conference in Brighton yesterday, telling delegates: ‘Every step we take we must take...
Send Blair to the War Crimes Tribunal!
EX-PM Blair could be made to stand trial for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq, Labour leadership front-runner Jeremy Corbyn has said. Corbyn correctly...
Trade Unions must call a general strike now to scrap the Tory Health and...
ON TUESDAY the Unite union, which has 100,000 members working in the health sector, wrote to every member of the House of Lords urging...
Luxury liners are going in – but the aid is nowhere to be seen...
THE fact that Luxury cruise liners are still docking in Haitian ports, not very far from the epicentre of the earthquake, which has killed...
Growing fears over another bank crash
THERE were renewed calls yesterday by Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and other political leaders of major capitalist countries for international cooperation to tackle the...