Italy ‘Ungovernable’
THE bourgeoisie of Europe woke up on Tuesday morning to discover, to their horror, headlines proclaiming that the third largest economy in Europe had...
Fight slave labour bosses at Gate Gourmet and Irish Ferries
THE British and Irish trade unions are under serious and heavy attack at Gate Gourmet at Heathrow airport, and at Irish Ferries. At Gate Gourmet,...
US Democrats protest at Israeli attacks on Palestinians – the British TUC does nothing!
ON SUNDAY, thousands of right wing Israeli settlers stormed Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem to mark the so-called flag march in the Old...
Gaza war crimes exposed – unions must call worldwide boycott of Israel
ISRAELI soldiers at a military academy have exposed the essence of the cold-blooded and murderous nature of the recent Israeli army onslaught into the...
Tories boost their navy in the Gulf, part of a ‘Maritime Coalition’ against Iran!...
TORY foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to ‘reverse cuts to the size of the Royal Navy’ if he becomes prime minister. Hunt has...
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...
Workers targeted by loan companies to pay for private medical treatment
‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) deals, along with other personal loan arrangements, are being aggressively pushed out for NHS patients as part of the...
Police get armed as the state prepares for a showdown with working class
JUST over a month ago, Tory prime minister David Cameron announced that hundreds of extra armed police would be sent around the country to...
Greece Can’t Pay – Workers Won’t Pay!
ACCORDING to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, Greece has a much bigger budget deficit than that reported by the Greek government last year....
25 years since the Malvinas war
THE 1982 Malvinas (Falklands War) was a decisive event not just for Britain’s Foreign Policy but for its home policy. The islands off the Argentinian...
Central Bankers warn of new financial crash
THE Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has broken ranks with the IMF and the World Bank and issued a grim warning to the ruling...
‘Cameron ‘wouldn’t last 30 seconds’ if voters back leaving EU
PM Cameron earlier last week insisted he would remain Prime Minister even if he lost the June 23 referendum. This position has been challenged in...
Kick out TUC leaders who warn of a tsunami of job losses but refuse...
NEW ANALYSIS by the research group the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) has shown that unemployment in the UK will be a massive increase...
Wages still being slashed by price rises!
THE CPI rate of inflation fell to 1.5% in the year to May 2014, down from 1.8% in April, according to the Office of...
Slump ‘deepening at an alarming pace’
THE British Chambers of Commerce yesterday published its Fourth Quarter Economic Survey of nearly 6,000 businesses. It highlights what it called ‘a...
No ‘windfall tax’ – nationalise the energy companies
TORY ministers are in a state of despair over the complete inability of the Johnson government to come up with any measures to ‘help’...
Defend the NHS – make the TUC call a general strike
WITH 23,000 beds being cut from hospital wards over the last four years alone, the entire trade union movement must immediately move into action...
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...
Smash the Bedroom Tax with a general strike!
A GRANDMOTHER, who because of the Bedroom Tax, had to pay an extra £20 a week, has thrown herself in front of a...
Tories target workers, disabled and children to pay the bankers’ debts!
OSBORNE said of his emergency Budget yesterday; ‘Yes it is tough; but it is also fair.’ Further on in his speech he allowed just...
Mubarak regime offers 15 per cent rise in pay and pensions!
WORKERS and youth in Cairo held mass demonstrations yesterday following the release of the detained Google executive and facebook radical Wael Ghonim. The demonstrators in...
McDonnell makes his bid to lead government of national unity – while Corbyn calls...
JOHN McDONNELL made his bid to lead the proposed government of national unity to smash Brexit during his interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today...
Duncan Smith’s ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Peddles Lies!
THE Department for Work and Pensions has admitted lying to the public by making up stories from fictional claimants, and passing them off as...
Major warns Johnson of the fate of Charles I as fear of revolution grips...
IN AN interview yesterday morning ex-Tory prime minister John Major stated that he would personally take Boris Johnson to court if he attempts to...
PCS strike – No compromise with Tories possible. A general strike to kick them...
OVER 500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) came out on strike this...
Starmer Congratulated By Union Leaders, Now Awaits His National Service Government Call-Up!
THE election of Starmer as Labour leader has been cheered to the rooftops by both the trade union bureaucracy and the Tory Party-supporting media. His...
CWU leaders capitulate to Royal Mail bosses – Time to build a new leadership...
LAST Friday, the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) finally revealed to their members in Royal Mail (RM), details of the treacherous sell-out...
Since bankrupt capitalism offers workers a ‘bleak old age’– get rid of it!
LORD McFall, who has been examining private sector pension schemes, has concluded in his Workplace Retirement Income Commission review, that workers on private pensions...
British Capitalism’s Bankrupt, Budget Shows It’s Time To Expropriate Bosses!
TORY CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt has unveiled the contents of this year’s Budget in the House of Commons. It is the last scheduled Budget before...
May Government ‘Hanging By A Thread’ – Cme Rings The Alarm Bells For World...
THE WORLD’S capitalists are ringing the alarm bells at the prospect that the May government will fall. The US CME Group that owns and operates...
With the NHS ‘close to collapse’ and wages being slashed by inflation make the...
WITHOUT enough staff, the NHS is increasingly close to collapse,’ the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned yesterday. RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive,...
Osborne’s ‘city states’ are part of the break-up of British capitalism
OSBORNE’S plans for English cities to have mayors and combined authorities with powers over housing, health care, transport, planning and policing mean that London,...
UN Admits Al-Qaeda Bombing Damascus!
THE UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has admitted that Al-Qaeda is behind two deadly suicide car bomb attacks in Syria last week. Fifty-five people were...
UK political crisis explodes as Parliament refuses to support immediate ceasefire!
THE House of Commons tied itself up into knots on Wednesday as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support...
Free Mohammed al-Qiq
The Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq is close to death according to independent doctors who have visited him in the hospital where he is being...
Bush’s ‘Defining Hour’ Or When The Bell Tolls For Imperialism
BUSH opened his 2007 State of the Union speech with an open admission that his regime is facing defeat both at home and abroad....
Working class erupts as inflation rips through Europe – build sections of the 4th...
EUROPE has erupted in strikes as workers rise up against raging inflation which is driving down living standards to poverty levels across the EU. Germany,...
Labour right-wing plot with Tories to close down Parliament to prevent Brexit
IT EMERGED at the weekend that the latest stage in a coup to overturn the Brexit referendum result by an alliance of right-wing Labour...
Knives out in the Labour cabinet mask a crisis of bourgeois rule
JUST three members of the Labour cabinet put out a statement on Saturday supporting their leader Gordon Brown. Chancellor Darling, deputy leader Harman and skills...
The majority of Russians want the return of the USSR
THE LATEST poll of Russian people has revealed that the number who want a return of the USSR has set a new record. The Levada-Centre...
Brown Warns Against Labour ‘Extremists’
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday did his best to hand back the political initiative to his politically battered and discredited Prime Minister Tony Blair. ...
£65bn PFI Nightmare for the NHS!
THE PFI Private Finance Initiative was brought in by the Major Tory government, and while it was opposed by Labour in opposition, it was...
Basic Rights To Be Dumped In The Bin!
IN the wake of the French terror attacks PM Cameron has promised a ‘comprehensive piece of legislation’ to close the ‘safe spaces’ used by...
TUC begs for partnership
TOMORROW the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, will be presenting before parliament his last budget before the general election on May 7 – a budget...
Deepening capitalist crisis is driving the US-UK axis to war with Russia!
US DEFENCE Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the US fleet of warships to remain in the Mediterranean Sea, driving up the tensions between the...