Bigot Straw Stirs Up Division Amongst Workers
LABOUR MP Straw has been a Blackburn MP for 27 years and has long been aware that numbers of Muslim women in Blackburn wear...
Defend benefits! down with ‘universal credit’!
THE announcement yesterday that the work and pensions minister, Iain Duncan Smith, had won his battle with the treasury over bringing in a single ‘universal...
No Sackings! Re–Nationalise Steel Industry!
STEEL firm Corus, a subsidiary of India’s Tata Steel cut 3,500 jobs yesterday, 2,500 in the UK out of its 24,000 employees here. ...
Coalition poised to hand out a death sentence for pensioners!
The Coalition is to hit out at millions of pensioners. Currently anyone over 60 is eligible for the winter fuel allowance, with households getting...
New generation organises five section strike! TUC must call a General Strike to end...
A NEW generation of workers is now organising themselves into unions and is combining their labour power by striking together. There is no doubt...
Tgwu Leaders Seek To Sell Deal For Gate Gourmet
‘THEY are trying to break our unity. We reject this deal.’ This is what pickets near to the Gate Gourmet plant told News Line...
Brown lambasts Tube strikers and public sector workers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown mounted an outspoken attack on members of the RMT railworkers’ union on strike at the London Underground bankrupt maintenance company...
Turkish Masses Serve Notice On Erdogan
THE uprising of the Turkish masses, which began over the future of a park in European Turkey and rapidly spread across the country, including...
Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!
INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...
Greek Debt Crisis Set To Explode Under The Eu!
TALKS on a Greek debt deal, it was reported yesterday, have ‘hit a snag’. The Institute of International Finance (IIF), and their creditors group...
US imperialism plans oil and gas war!
THE news that America intends to ‘flood the world’ with cheap liquefied natural gas (LNG) reveals just how far advanced US imperialism is along...
Demand for national strike action growing over NHS Logistics
TONIGHT at 10pm the five NHS Logistics distribution centres will be picketed by striking staff fighting to stop the privatisation of the NHS supplier. They...
Israel Is Blocking Gaza Gas And Selling It To Egypt
ISRAEL IS currently preventing gas from entering the Gaza Strip and is selling it to Egypt – while Palestinians inside the Gaza Strip are...
Israel lurches further right as Defence Minister Yaalon resigns!
THE resignation yesterday of the Israeli defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, signals a sharp turn to the right by the government of Binyamin Netanyahu. Yaalon announced...
Iran wants to talk – US–UK want to impose sanctions
THE Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared that he is ready to talk to President Obama and other leaders and have a ‘fair, logical’...
Overthrow imperialism the only way to get rid of terrorism!
MANY people were killed or seriously injured in terrorist attacks at Brussels international airport and a city metro station on Tuesday morning. Two explosions hit...
Tories Are Split And Divided – Now Is The Time To Bring Them Down...
IT WAS ‘sackcloth and ashes day’ at The Sunday Telegraph yesterday as it surveyed the collapse of the Truss regime. It wrote that: ‘Jeremy Hunt,...
German Ruling Class Gets Ready For Another War With Russia!
‘WE are witnessing a turning point … the world is not the same anymore,’ said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech last Sunday,...
Junior doctors are fighting for the NHS – demand the TUC stands with them,...
TODAY’S strike by junior doctors must be supported by the entire trade union movement and the working class. What is at stake in this dispute...
Starmer embraces ‘harsh light of fiscal reality’ as he demands working class pays for...
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to ‘embrace the harsh light of fiscal reality’ in a speech delivered in Birmingham yesterday, in what was...
Entwistle Put To The Sword
THE crisis of the capitalist state is rapidly deepening after the just-appointed ex-Director General of the BBC, George Entwistle, was publicly put to the...
The GMB understands the need for redundancies
JCB has announced 400 more redundancies, blaming a ‘significant’ reduction in incoming orders. The redundancies are made up of 297 shop floor jobs and 101...
The laws of the capitalist crisis dominate
AT the centre of the current media drive to find out, identify, and persecute the individuals, whether bankers and/or politicians who are held to...
NHS privatisation in London could ‘cost lives’
THE government’s Healthcare Commission published a report yesterday which called for National Health Service (NHS) hospital trusts to ‘do more to ensure they consistently...
Socialist revolution is the only way to smash capitalist police state!
ON TUESDAY, the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, US president Joe Biden met with Floyd family members. The meeting...
Syrian Army Advances Are Dealing A Massive Blow At Trump’s Deal Of The Century!
THE ISRAELI DAILY newspaper Hayom has reported that the US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is to lead the joint committee that the US...
‘A Gift from God’ Erdogan describes coup attempt!
TURKEY’S President Erdogan has called the just concluded coup attempt that saw parliament bombed and 250 people killed ‘a gift from God... because this...
OBR demands more austerity, more taxes on the poor and tax cuts for rich!
THE government’s financial watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), issued its latest report on Thursday, warning that British public finances are in a...
Portuguese economic and political crisis reaches explosion point!
PORTUGAL’S borrowing costs have jumped to over 7%, meaning that it will shortly have to seek another IMF-EU bailout, by offering even more cuts...
Pound crashes against every currency in the world – time to put an end...
THE pound crashed to its lowest level ever against the dollar yesterday morning threatening that it will soon reach parity with the US currency. Sterling...
Unions must occupy the steel industry to save thousands of jobs! Bring down the...
GREENSILL Capital, the biggest lender to crisis-ridden steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance, collapsed into administration yesterday. It has gone bust, and 5,000 steel...
Greece On The Brink!
THE Greek working class has been pushed right to the brink of revolution this week with the passage of a bill in the Vouli...
Bank rate rigging ‘Everyone was at it’
The crisis resulting from the bank rate rigging scandal that has engulfed Barclays took a dramatic turn over the weekend with the revelation that...
War declared against the working class as 800 P&O seafarers are sacked and replaced...
POWERFUL protests erupted in Liverpool, Hull and Dover yesterday after 800 P&O Ferries’ seafarers were sacked by decree and replaced by cheap labour. The RMT...
BIS predicts deflation and depression
LAST year the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was alone amongst banks in warning that the situation had similarities to that at the time...
Gate Gourmet Locked Out Workers Refused Entry To Tuc Congress
YESTERDAY the leadership of the TGWU refused entry, as visitors, to the TUC Congress to some 20 locked out Gate Gourmet workers who have...
Gold Shooting Upwards As The Dollar Plunges!
THE price of gold hit a record of 1,111.20 dollars an ounce in trading in London on Monday, as the dollar weakened after a...
Syrian Workers Must Take The Power And Bring In A Workers Government And Socialism!
LARGE NUMBERS of workers and youth have occupied the Damascus residence of the just-deposed President Assad, with Damascus placed under a curfew. After the collapse,...
Government war on health unions
David Cameron has convened a summit at Downing Street this afternoon to discuss the ‘implementation of NHS reforms’ with a ‘range of national healthcare...
France erupts as youth rise up against capitalist state brutality!
FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron was forced to convene a government emergency crisis meeting on Wednesday morning following two nights of protests and rioting across...
IMF warns coronavirus threatens to crash world economy
Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued a stark warning on Sunday that the world’s ‘fragile’ economic recovery could be...
Truss insists no retreat as she prepares to split Tories and move to dictatorship
TORY Prime Minister Liz Truss finally emerged from Downing Street yesterday to make her first public statement on the economic crisis that has brought...
Trump threatens to destroy North Korea and warns Iran, Cuba and Venezuela!
PRESIDENT TRUMP began his speech at the UN by immediately patting himself on the back, stating that ‘Fortunately, the United States has done...
To defeat terrorism– withdraw from Iraq and smash imperialism
THURSDAY’S ‘bomb attacks’ – which did not cause a single serious injury but caused widespread alarm and panic – not least amongst the security...
1 million forced onto Universal Credit while another 2 million get nothing – Tories...
THE NUMBER of people forced to claim Universal Credit soared by nearly a million in the past two weeks. According to the Department for Work...