Action not words required to win Gate Gourmet struggle
LAST Thursday afternoon, at a meeting attended by TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, TGWU leader Tony Woodley told the Gate Gourmet shop stewards that...
Petrol price rises leading to new fuel blockade
UK petrol and diesel prices are still rising in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with the average cost of petrol now at 95.1 pence...
General strike now to stop destruction of the NHS!
NHS HOSPITALS are facing an immediate cut of £1.6 billion, with the government ordering NHS Trusts to ‘balance their books’ by making cutbacks and...
Blair is speeding up the privatisation drive
ON all fronts the Blair government is speeding up its privatisation offensive, so that his governments can leave as their legacy for big...
Emergency Action needed to win Gate Gourmet dispute
THE Gate Gourmet strikers are fighting in the most determined fashion to win back their jobs in the face of a hostile union busting...
Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Usa
THE New Orleans disaster stands as a testament – with its over 10,000 dead and over 200,000 refugees – to the bankruptcy of the...
Iraq war veterans sent into New Orleans
YESTERDAY 300 Arkansas national guards were sent into the hurricane hit city of New Orleans, after having just returned from Iraq. The Governor of Louisiana,...
New Orleans war zone – 20,000 National Guards, and US army helicopter fired on
THE United States ruling class, running the world’s number one super-power and presiding over the richest nation on Earth, was yesterday shown to be...
TGWU leaders and TUC committed to 675 Gate Gourmet redundancies
YESTERDAY morning Gate Gourmet strikers were dismissing and rubbishing the letters that they have been receiving from the company. These offered them a minimum pittance...
Public sector pensions battle set to erupt
THE working class continues to pay a massive price for its reformist trade union leadership. This is completely committed to supporting the capitalist...
Bush fails to get Iraqi puppets to agree ‘constitution’
OVER the weekend, President Bush made personal phone calls to both the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in...
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...
Iraq’s US dictated constitution – divisive, sectarian and no right to strike
THE attempt by the US to foist its version of a ‘constitution’ onto Iraq, in alliance with a section of the Shi’ite clergy and...
Robertson’s call to murder Chavez is US policy
EX-US presidential candidate Pat Robertson, an ultra religious leader of the US’ ‘moral majority’ has just called for the US state to murder...
Gate Gourmet Locked Out Workers Reject Woodley’s Rotten Compromise
TGWU leader Tony Woodley’s speech at Southall on Monday, and his remarks to journalists both before and after the meeting, were a dereliction of...
NHS A&E departmentsto be shut in scores
THE policy of the Labour government, as far as the NHS is concerned, is to hand over more and more of the NHS budget...
Gate Gourmet workers defend the right to picket – now TGWU must make strike...
YESTERDAY, the determination and militancy of the 670 Gate Gourmet locked-out workers forced the High Court judiciary to acknowledge that they did indeed have...
The issue is the shoot to kill policy says de Menezes campaign
THE family of Jean Charles de Menezes, murdered by police on the Tube on July 22, have called for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir...
BA seeks to put the boot into Heathrow workers
BA is seeking to put the boot into its workforce at Heathrow to create a climate of intimidation and fear. It has announced in its...
Put police death squad chiefs on trial for murder
DOCUMENTS leaked from the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) show that on July 21, a young Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, was shot seven...
Oil Price Rises Driving Up Inflati0N
RISING crude oil prices are driving up the price of petrol at the pumps. Petrol is now at around 92 pence a litre, an increase...
Stop The Airports, Call Out The Tgwu And The Tuc!
It has just been confirmed what we already knew – that the Gate Gourmet bosses, in a well planned action, provoked a walk-out by...
After Iraq Debacle – Bush Plans To Attack Iran
THE US President, George W Bush said on Friday: ‘All options are on the table,’ adding that he had not ruled out the option...
Blair Wants Government Control Of Judges
THE Blair government announced yesterday through its Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, that it was going to bring in legislation that will tell judges how...
US-UK officially warn Iran about interfering in Iraq
BRITAIN and the United States had the gall to officially protest, last Wednesday, to the Iranian government about Iranian interference into the internal affairs...
Howard condemns ‘judicial activists’ as security risks
Tory leader Michael Howard was yesterday bending over backwards to give every support to the Labour Prime Minister Blair and his war against democratic...
Innocent Until Proven Guilty To Be Binned!
DRACONIAN repressive measures are now being proposed, off the cuff, thick and fast, as the Blair government races to put an end to the...
‘Treason’ law threat is to the whole working class
SCOTLAND YARD and the Crown Prosecution Service are meeting to discuss bringing charges against three men under the Treason Act, for which the death...
US Puppets Can’t Agree On Iraq Constitution!
IRAQ’S puppet leaders are unable to agree on a constitution for the country despite all of the urgings from the US Secretary of Defence,...
Supporting Iraq or Palestine is to be a crime!
RESPONDING immediately to Tory pressure, Prime Minister Blair yesterday launched his programme of draconian attacks on basic rights and liberties, for a reign of...
Blair paved the way for Davis and Howarth
IT was Prime Minister Blair who insisted that the 7th July bombings and the July 21 attempted bombings were nothing to do with the...
Blears Speaks With Forked Tongue
HOME Office minister Blears has had a strenuous week. On the one hand she has been working to support British Transport Police Chief Johnston....
Defend Iran Againstfrench And US Threats
THE French government is threatening Iran with retribution if it does not give up its nuclear energy programme. The French Prime Minister, De Villepin, one...
Blair on holiday – Commissioner Blair is in charge
HOME Secretary Clarke is currently on holiday, after the Prime Minister insisted that he should not bow to public pressure and cancel it, as...
Stop NHS privatisation to end the bed cuts
HEALTH Secretary Hewitt warned over a month ago that if NHS trusts failed to resolve their growing debt crisis, hospital departments would be closed...
‘Demilitarisation’ in the north and Shoot to Kill in Britain!
JUST minutes after the IRA issued a statement that it was giving up its historic armed struggle, the British army began demolishing a watch...
IRA gives up armed struggle to join the democrats
‘All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms. ‘All Volunteers have been instructed to assist the development of purely political and democratic programmes...
The PM’s wife can speak out on rights – but the TUC cannot!
THE scale of the crisis that has hit capitalist Britain is now so great that it has forced the Prime Minister’s wife, Cherie...
Removing the Blair gang is a matter of vital public safety
PRIME Minister Tony Blair announced yesterday at his monthly press conference that he would not ‘give an inch to terrorism’, and vowed to combat...
Blair ‘comfortable’ with five shots to the head, shoot to kill policy
ON Sunday, Police Commissioner Blair told the world that the policy of shooting to kill ‘terrorist suspects’ was national policy, not just a Metropolitan...
State Defends Its Right To Execute Innocents!
YESTERDAY, Lord Stevens, the ex-Metropolitan Police commissioner, urged that there should be no change in the policy of the state, after a completely innocent...
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...
Rice calls for US-Africa open markets deal
THE US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, is currently touring Africa, putting forward the US plan to establish free trade and open markets with...
Chancellor Brown prudently bends his ‘golden rule’
CHANCELLOR Brown, in testimony to the Treasury Select Committee, has announced that he is bending his much vaunted ‘golden rule’ – that the government...
Blair, Thatcher lavish praise on fellow Tory Heath
IN THESE days, when capitalist Britain is being rocked by the world economic crisis and the disaster of its imperialist policies in Iraq and...