CWU strike is solid
On the picket line at Greenford Mail Centre in west London yesterday morning, CWU member Stephen Byrne told News Line: ‘Today and tomorrow are...
Streeting’s NHS ‘Back to Basics’ is a mandate for full scale cuts and complete...
LABOUR’S health secretary Wes Streeting yesterday unveiled his new ‘trimmed down’ mandate for the NHS. Declaring that he would bring the health service ‘back to...
TUC must answer zero-hours contracts with a general strike!
ON Wednesday night TV viewers were treated to a film clip on the news of the managing director of Sports Direct, Mike Ashley, pulling...
Tories want more powers for police to crush the trade unions – TUC must...
TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the government will be tabling fresh amendments to the Public Order Bill, being debated in the...
300,000 march on Downing Street for Palestine. TUC must call a general strike for...
THE Palestinian factions are standing fast! They have said that they will not sign any agreement or deal unless the people’s demands are achieved,...
Prevent new ‘Catastrophe’ for Negev Bedouins!
THOUSANDS of protesters participated in large demonstrations in Haifa, Jerusalem and in the Negev on Saturday against the Israeli Prawer Plan to drive the...
Tories tearing each other apart over net zero emissions – prepare for revolution there...
GRANT Shapps, the Tory secretary of state for energy security and net zero, yesterday unveiled the government’s latest strategy to achieve net zero emissions...
Netanyahu’s coalition rips away façade of Israeli ‘democracy’ – trade unions must boycott Israel
OVER 10,000 people took to the streets of the main Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday in protest against the policies unveiled last...
Tory War On Teachers
THE Tory conference this week stepped up its vicious attack on teachers and their unions with education secretary Michael Gove treating them, as befits...
US debt crisis will crash Wall Street and plunge the US and world capitalism...
THE US economy, the largest and most powerful capitalist economy in the world, is in the grip of a crisis that will plunge America...
Tory budget–tax relief for bosses, tax increases for low paid!
THE headlines in the bourgeois press yesterday howled about Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, breaking a cast-iron Tory election manifesto pledge that there would be...
Forward to the political revolution in the Ukraine
UKRAINIAN President Viktor Yushchenko has mounted a coup attempt in the Ukraine, dissolving parliament and calling a snap general election on May 27th. The parliament...
Merkel defeated in Berlin
THE economic collapse of the eurozone continues to drive a huge political crisis for bourgeois political parties across Europe as splits on how to...
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...
Labour Slashes Welfare Benefits To Make The Poorest Pay For The Capitalist Crisis!
LABOUR CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves made further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments in her Spring Statement yesterday. The government announced big welfare spending reductions...
Labour Is The Bankers Party!
THE New Labour Brown government has come out as the true representative of the biggest banks, as befits a government that has doubled the...
UK ‘control orders’ are illegal says EU rights body
EVEN the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Alvaro Gil-Robles has condemned the issuing of control orders by the British Home Secretary as...
Blair convinces nobody with his education market
YESTERDAY saw the Prime Minister seeking to reinvent himself as the champion of the people and a supporter of ‘social justice’. Speaking in...
Osborne to lend billions to the bosses that the banks turn away
AT THE Tory Party conference on Monday, Chancellor Osborne outlined the three mistakes made by government, the bosses and the bankers which...
US Fails In Drone Attempt On Life Of Taleban Leader
A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan’s tribal region killed at least 12 persons on Thursday. Drone aircraft fired two missiles on a religious seminary...
IRAQ – the last rites for the occupation and its stooges
PRESIDENT George W Bush’s plan to stabilise Iraq through a military ‘surge’ is ‘a lost cause’, said the New York Times last Sunday. The New...
Labour’s Stirrup to be sacked early, as Tory MP appeals to Mullah Omar!
THE Tory Defence Secretary Fox yesterday revealed that Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, chief of the defence staff, is to be sacked early,...
Iranians celebrate 47th anniversary of the revolution that ended imperialist rule of Iran
YESTERDAY, millions of Iranians took to the streets across the country to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the revolution that overthrow the hated Pahlavi...
Cameron Presiding Over A Sea Of Misery!
NINE million people across the UK are living with serious debt problems, according to a new report by the Money Advice Service (MAS). MAS points...
Renationalise the Royal Mail – new leadership required for CWU
THE full price for the capitulation of the CWU leadership over the privatisation of Royal Mail is now rapidly emerging. The union, which halted...
There Must Be Action To Halt Royal Mail And NHS Privatisation
THE Royal Mail faces privatisation this summer after the passage of the Postal Services Bill through parliament yesterday after its third reading. The legislation will...
Students and UCU to ‘take to the streets!’
SHOWING contempt for parliament, the watchdog for university access (Offa) yesterday gave the green light to all universities to increase tuition fees in England...
Reactionary Gove wants a pro-imperialist syllabus
THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has advanced his plan to rid the GCSE English exam of classic books and plays he considers to...
Victory to Assad – Forward to the Palestinian state!
MAKING use of Russian air power, the Syrian army is now pressing forward on all fronts, driving back the Islamists who are now negotiating...
Britain’s Criminal War Against The Kenyan Land Freedom Army
BRITISH conscripts were sent out to Kenya in the 1950s, where they were turned into brutes and sadistic killers, in the war of British...
A UK G-Bay & more armed police as Tories seek big majority to force...
NEW Guantanamo Bay-style jails-within-jails are being opened for the first time in the UK to incarcerate ‘extremists of all kinds’, while police are being...
US Armed Forces Chief Opts For Dialogue With Iran
THE scale of the military and economic beating that the US-UK imperialists have taken, as a result of their disastrous military adventures in Iraq...
Soviet Workers And Youth Want The Ussr Restored!
THE interviews given by Mikhail Gorbachev on the 25th anniversary of the Stalinist bureaucracy overthrowing the USSR show that the question of the restoration...
US bosses handed $1.5 trillion by Trump – Forward to the US socialist revolution!
THE US Senate has approved by 51 votes to 48 a measure slashing the taxes of the rich and the major banks and companies...
Time For The Tuc To Call General Strike
THE Fire Brigades Union has organised a national demonstration in London on Wednesday 16 October. The FBU is under an all-out attack on the...
Corbyn Called A ‘Stalinist’ As Labour Right Wing Plots For A Second Referendum
LABOUR leader Corbyn has been accused of organising a ‘Stalinist purge’ after he sacked ex-leadership contender and Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Owen Smith on...
Coalition imposed pay freeze hits workers and middle class
A report issued on Monday by the independent Resolution Foundation spells out exactly the desperate situation being faced today by the so-called ‘squeezed middle’,...
Forward To The Greek Revolution!
THE PASOK socialist party and its leader, George Papandreou, won a landslide election victory on Sunday in Greece's snap general election, winning over 43...
Working class will refuse to pay the bill for the huge historic crisis of...
CHANCELLOR Hunt, and Prime Minister Sunak are set to dump the whole historic crisis of out-of-date and senile British capitalism onto the backs of...
As Syria burns the Israeli regime intensifies its repressions of the Palestinians
THE Palestinian Minister of Finance, Shukri Bishara, has just addressed members of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) in New York, telling it that...
Starmer clears out Corbynite Long-Bailey to clear the way for a national government with...
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has unceremoniously sacked shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. This is the MP who was the main contender standing against...
Israeli Dress Rehearsal For Attack On Iran!
US officials yesterday admitted that a major military exercise, which saw more than 100 Israeli F-16 and F-15 fighter jets taking part in...
News International bought policemen and state officials, and dictated to political parties
THE Leveson Inquiry has exposed the diseased nature of British capitalism, its ruling class and its state apparatus. The state, during the period of...
Tories Greet NHS 70Th Annniversary With More NHS Cuts!
WHILE 70,000 NHS workers were marching through London on Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Tory-appointed bosses of NHS England were...
Israel In A Desperate Crisis As Fitch Downgrades Israel To An ‘A’ Outlook Negative!
THE FITCH ratings agency’s downgrading of Israel to ‘A’ reflects the impact of the continuation of the war in Gaza, heightened geopolitical risks and...