Capitalist Crisis Is Driving Forward World Revolution
THIS Sunday’s 65th Anniversary rally of the assassination of Leon Trotsky by an agent of the Stalinist bureaucracy in 1940 is taking place at...
Blair the leader of the Party of Order
PRIME Minister Blair held a meeting of his Cabinet yesterday morning and, true to form, the Cabinet, filled with his lackeys, found that he...
Delphi Battle Looms For US Trade Unions
THE battle lines are being drawn up in the United States between the vanguard of the working class in the auto industry and the...
Government By Police Chiefs
AT his monthly press conference last Monday, the Prime Minister admitted that the source of his proposal, that the police should be allowed to...
French youth revolution will set Europe ablaze!
NEITHER the Gendarmerie, nor troops or even the fatwas of the ‘holy men’ can stop the French youth rebellion, which is the product of...
Blair stands by 90 days internment as Clarke negotiates its defeat
PRIME Minister Blair stands convinced that 90-days internment without charge is not just desirable but is absolutely indispensable for satisfying the Metropolitan Police’s minimum...
The army and police – a law unto themselves
The Surrey Police re-investigation into the deaths of four teenage recruits at the Deepcut army barracks has been called a ‘farce’ by Geoff Gray,...
Bring down Blair regime from the left
THE Blair government suffered two body-blows yesterday. Blair’s main cabinet ally, Blunkett, was forced to resign, and the government’s 66 majority was reduced to...
Blunkett quits against Blair’s wishes
YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair made it clear to the House of Commons during Question Time, that he had urged his Cabinet colleague, Blunkett,...
General Council must support locked out Gate Gourmet workers
ON Monday September 12 the TUC Annual Congress was lobbied by 300 of the over 700 locked out Gate Gourmet workers. The Congress then passed...
Take Strike Action To Defend The NHS
THE Royal College of Nursing, the nurses trade union, yesterday announced that it is seeking a judicial review to force the Blair government to...
A Palestinian state – Not in our lifetime say Zionist leaders
MORE than 15 Israeli air strikes on Thursday, Friday and early Saturday destroyed Gaza Strip water, power and roads and killed seven Palestinians. Yesterday,...
Hands off Iran – Forward to the state of Palestine
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has voiced his ‘dismay’ over remarks by Iran’s president calling for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. Annan...
Israel calls for Iran to be expelled from the United Nations
THE Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. He also said that ‘a world without the...
Economic Crisis Set To Wreak Havoc To Jobs And Homes
THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday warned that thousands of manufacturing jobs are about to be slashed by employers seeking to reduce their costs,...
At least three provinces reject the US’ Iraq constitution
IT IS remarkable that in a ‘constitutional referendum’ organised by a puppet government, in a country under occupation by the US and the UK,...
Blair Launches ‘Irreversible’ NHS-Education Market!
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that he was poised to make irreversible changes to primary and secondary education by bringing in an education market...
Army Leaks Anti-Iraq War Propaganda
THE leaking of a Ministry of Defence poll commissioned by senior British army officers has acted as an antidote to the fatuous pro-war propaganda...
Israel calls for the US to take action against Syria
SYRIA yesterday condemned the UN report into the assassination of the former Lebanese Premier, Hariri – a report which pointed the finger of blame...
Police killers escape prosecution – and are exonerated by the CPS
YESTERDAY the capitalist state looked after its own, and decided that the two armed police officers who shot dead an unarmed man, Harry Stanley,...
Opportunist union leaders sell public sector workers’ future
OPPORTUNIST trade union leaders in the health, education and civil service sectors yesterday sold out the future of public sector workers by agreeing that...
General Motors slashes workers’ healthcare
AMERICA’S largest manufacturing company, General Motors (GM), announced on Monday that its losses were $1.6bn in the three months to the end of September,...
US slaughters Iraqis during the referendum on a constitution
WHILE US President George W Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair and their quislings in Baghdad were pumping out propaganda about ‘freedom and democracy’,...
Unions must act NOW to reinstate Gate Gourmet workers!
TODAY scores of T&G members will be picketing the Gate Gourmet plant at Heathrow Airport, as they have every day since they were locked...
Big business to take over NHS funds
THE Labour government is speeding up the break-up, privatisation and destruction of the National Health Service, despite the vote at the Labour Party Conference...
Brown targets European workers’ rights and benefits
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown published a pamphlet Global Europe-Full Employment and penned a special article in the Financial Times yesterday, lecturing the leaders of European...
TERRORISM BILL: Defeat Blair’s police-state measures!
THE Labour government’s new Terrorism Bill, published yesterday, will be debated by MPs in the House of Commons today. For the past few days, Prime...
Merkel’s ‘Grand Coalition’ – Germany’s crisis deepens!
ANGELA MERKEL, the leader of Germany’s right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU), announced on Monday: ‘We have the basis for coalition talks. The CDU will...
Abbas – Sharon Summit Cancelled!
PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas’ summit with the Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, which was due today, has been cancelled after Abbas said he was opposed to...
Terminal 5 – BA gets ready for its ‘Wapping’
THE buzz word in the financial media yesterday was ‘Wapping’. The media was referring to the union busting operation carried through by Rupert Murdoch in...
Judges attack ‘unlawful’ terror laws – police demand more repression
YESTERDAY the capitalist state was split over the Blair government’s police state attacks on democratic rights. Two Law Lords attacked Home Office plans,...
Blair’s Iraq adventure bites the dust
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday had a meeting with the long standing CIA agent and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, who is now posing as the...
Iraqi puppets feel the noose tightening
IN the last few days the Iraqi puppet National Assembly, whose authority does not run outside of the Green Zone US fortress in central...
Trade unions and the Labour government
AT the Labour Party conference, the trade unions and a large minority of Labour constituency parties defeated the Labour government on at least five...
Smash Privatisation – Renationalise!
THE privatisation of the railways has been a complete disaster and for the families of those killed in rail crashes it is a disaster...
Iraq and Afghanistan – imperialists coming under the hammer
US CASUALTIES are now mounting in both Afghanistan and Iraq, while at home the anti-war and anti-Bush movement is growing by leaps and bounds,...
BA getting ready for mass sackings
THE capitalist press yesterday was full of revelations that the new BA boss, Willie Walsh, recruited after making savage cuts at Aer Lingus, is...
Kick out the yellow trade union leaders
THE GATE GOURMET bosses were cock-a-hoop yesterday, and no wonder – after the leader of the TUC, Barber, and the leaders of the...
Police chief Blair must resign says Maria Otone de Menezes
YESTERDAY, the parents of Jean Charles de Menezes retraced the final journey taken by their son, an entirely innocent man who was shot dead...
Reject Gate Gourmet mass sackings deal!
A MASS meeting of the 710 TGWU trade union members, sacked and locked-out at Gate Gourmet, will take place at the Monsoon Club in...
Brown promises to ‘renew new Labour’
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown, the pretender to the Labour leadership and 10 Downing Street, told the Labour Party conference in Brighton yesterday: ‘Our mission is...
Sharon unleashes bombing raids and assassinations on the Palestinians
THE Israeli government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has launched a new war on Palestinians living in territories under Zionist occupation less than three...
Withdraw British troops now! Bring down the Blair government!
MORE than 100,000 people are expected to take part in the anti-war demonstration in London today, according to its organisers, the Stop the War...
Met chief’s agenda – police ‘justice’ and troops on the streets!
Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, presented his ‘wish list’ of latest demands to the Labour government, when speaking to the Police Superintendents’ Conference...
Strike action at Heathrow needed to win Gate Gourmet struggle!
TALKS at Congress House last Tuesday, between the Trades Union Congress, the T&G and Gate Gourmet management were busy discussing the company’s ‘compromise agreement’. Gate...