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...
Football fans rise up to drive back the big capitalist bosses!
ON SUNDAY night, the investment bankers, venture capitalists and hedge funds, who own the six biggest football clubs in Britain, announced that they were...
Osborne’s capitulation to banks
Yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, introduced legislation on banking reforms – reforms which he is desperately trying to insist will prevent the continuing...
Field cuddles up to Cameron while Tories plan to end free NHS care
JUST days after the failure of the Hoon-Hewitt attempt to remove Gordon Brown as premier, one of Labour’s leading right-wingers, Frank Field, yesterday...
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...
Corbyn stabs Brexit in the back for the benefit of the bosses and...
LABOUR leader Corbyn, in his response to PM May’s Monday update to the House of Commons ahead of this week’s European Council, made it...
Lift the ban on the Tigers – Stop the massacres of Tamils
SUPPORTED by the US, the UK and India the Sri Lankan army is bombing and shelling Northern Sri Lanka in a frantic, ruthless and...
Scandalous Academies!
AN academy chain in London set up by the Tory schools minister Lord Nash is having its education curriculum drawn up by his daughter. The...
World economy on brink of collapse
THE capitalist economy of Europe took a decisive step over the brink into the abyss of collapse with the news that the euro debt...
Union leaders go easy on Brown’s bosses’ budget
CHANCELLOR Brown’s budget yesterday outlined savage attacks on the working class, particularly low paid workers. His decision to abolish the 10 pence tax rate...
Call a General Strike!
THE Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have submitted a motion to next week’s TUC congress calling for the TUC to organise a co-ordinated...
Capitalism is dead in the water!
ON Thursday, a member of the powerful Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, in an unguarded moment, blurted out the truth that exports from...
Only a general strike can defeat Tory anti-union strike breakers law
IN ADVANCE of last night’s vote in parliament on the Tory bill waging war on the right to strike by allowing employers to bring...
Macron Set To Lose His Majority As French Workers Vote Socialist!
PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron is set to lose his outright majority after a strong challenge from a coalition of left-wing parties in National Assembly elections....
Schools being asset-stripped by academy trusts
THE HOUSE of Commons education committee has written to the Tory academies minister, Lord Agnew, expressing MPs’ concern about a ‘lack of transparency and...
Trump Setting Out To Impose A Greater Israel On The Palestinians By Force...
WITH his declaration that the Trump Administration no longer recognises that the imposed Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal, US Secretary...
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,...
Reject Labour’s racist points system!
A NEW points-based immigration system for workers who want to come to the UK from outside the EU was unveiled by Home Secretary Charles...
Unite must hit back and defend its members, with full TUC support
THE petrochemical plant at the giant Grangemouth complex in central Scotland is to close with the loss of over 800 jobs, owner Ineos announced...
UK banks will have to refinance £800bn of debt
JUST days after the Tory-led coalition’s ‘emergency budget’ declared war on the working class, the poor, the middle class, children and pensioners – with...
Labour told British capitalism needs its own ‘Elon Musk’ to avoid disaster
Last week, The Daily Telegraph newspaper published an article that clearly set out the dangers of a revolutionary upsurge by workers and youth resulting...
Iraq crisis sharpens with no government, the trade unions banned and no electricity
IRAQ casualties have risen sharply amidst the political vacuum following the inability of the various puppet pro-Shia or pro-Sunni parties, led by Maliki...
Break with the EU NOW! Forward to a socialist UK!
FOLLOWING the intervention of ex-PM Tony Blair to demand that the UK remains in the EU, all the counter-revolutionary, anti-working class forces have begun...
After The Care Homes Massacre – Kick The Tories Out Now!
THE damning report released yesterday by the Public Accounts Committee on the effect of Tory policies towards the elderly in care homes came as...
Charlotte becomes a class war zone! The US socialist revolution is emerging
THE US National Guard have arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina, with armed-to-the-teeth state troopers lining the streets and turning the city into a war...
NHS Already Being Cut And Closed
THAT the Health and Social Care Act is all about privatising the NHS and handing it over to the private sector via the new...
Latest revised official figures show British capitalism diving into recession – socialist revolution is...
YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revised down its estimates of the UK’s economic growth as measured by the country’s Gross Domestic Product...
Starmer announces creation of a ‘standing army’ as the Labour government moves to impose...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer emerged from an emergency COBRA meeting of ministers on Monday to announce the formation of a new ‘standing army’...
Libya faces a bloodbath as imperialist stooges fight for control
A BLOODBATH is being predicted in Libya after the leader of the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), General Khalifa Haftar, launched a military offensive...
US workers bracing themselves for ‘fiscal cliff’
THE US labour movement is now bracing itself for a last minute ‘deal’ on the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ with the Republican Party, in which the...
The bankers are in charge as Hunt postpones fiscal statement until November 17th
TORY Chancellor Hunt announced yesterday that the ‘fiscal statement’, which had been due to be delivered next Monday, 31st October, will now be delayed...
Lid lifted on US torture regime while the UK’s role is redacted!
THE REPORT by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) very belatedly exposes the CIA torture regime that was imposed after the 2001...
While NHS workers scrabble for PPE Tories pay £1 million a day to keep...
A MASSIVE mountain of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is currently sitting on Felixstowe docks while frontline healthcare workers are still being forced to work...
Seattle Police Chief Quits As Working Class Gears Up To Deal With Trump!
SEATTLE’S chief of police has thrown in the towel and quit on the same day that the city council voted to reduce the police...
US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Agreed – Awaits Trump’s Signature!
LAST week the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said Washington is not seeking a permanent military presence in Afghanistan, after the Taliban said...
Only Socialist Revolution can end inequality
NOTHING demonstrates more graphically the increasing polarisation between the working class and the capitalist class than the gigantic and ever-increasing differentials between the obscene...
Wild optimism at Davos
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, ended last Saturday. The four days of the forum...
Boeing shares crash – company stands accused of cost cutting that risked air safety
THE US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has been brought to its knees following two catastrophic crashes of its bestselling aircraft, the short haul 737 Max...
CANADIAN WORKERS PREVENT ISRAELI CONTAINER SHIP DOCKING – AS NEW ISRAELI REGIME OK’S ‘FLAG...
CANADIAN workers on June 14th prevented an Israeli container ship from unloading by forming a picket line at the entrance to the Fairview container...
Derisory increase in minimum wage wiped out by inflation!
APPROXIMATELY 2 million low paid workers will be covered by the increase in the national minimum wage that came into effect yesterday. Under this increase...
Capitalism Is On Its Knees – Time To Organise World Socialist Revolution!
SPEAKING at a poorly attended Scottish Labour Party conference yesterday Sir Keir Starmer said the United States ‘is right’ about the UK and Europe...
Tories’ massive cuts of flood defences and Fire and Rescue Services have led...
THE Army has been called out in York, Leeds, and parts of Lancashire after flood defences failed. In the case of York the...
The Way Forward – Starve The Working Class Says King!
THE governor of the Bank of England, in his Tuesday night speech detailed the source of the gigantic inflationary rise in living costs that...
One word ‘strike’ sends the TUC into a spin
EARLIER this week the News Line stated that it would not be enough to adopt a programme at the current TUC Congress, but that...
Tories to create a slave wage army of youth!
DAVID Cameron yesterday pledged that a future Tory government would ‘effectively abolish’ youth unemployment by simply forcing every young person to do ‘community work’...