GM’s Reilly insists no decision made on which plants are to close
GENERAL Motors’ head of operations in Europe, Nick Reilly, has a history – he was in charge of the operation that shut down Vauxhall...
Defend the PCS and all trade unions with a general strike
THE PCS TRADE UNION last Saturday issued a statement to its members announcing that it was the victim of a government plot to destroy...
One year since the first Covid-19 lockdown on 23 March 2020!
ON 23 March 2020, Boris Johnson outlined measures to stop the spread of Covid-19, with a series of stop-go lockdowns. Since then, of the major...
FBU must fight against a Police Commissioner controlled ‘Fire Service’
THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...
IMF: World faces £9.5tn Covid bill as capitalism crashes into bankruptcy
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned yesterday that the Covid-19 crisis could cost the global economy a staggering £9.5 trillion in the biggest hit...
Brown in partnership with McDonalds is going to bring in forced labour
TRUE to form, Brown the bankers’ prime minister, opened his speech on apprentices yesterday by hailing the employers saying: ‘I am delighted to join...
Bankrupt McCluskey won’t take action to bring down the Tories!
IN A statement passed overwhelmingly by Unite’s policy conference in Brighton, the union stressed that its priority is to push for a general election...
Arrogant Osborne rewards the rich and savages the workers and the poor
CHANCELLOR Osborne’s second budget this year will be his first for a Tory government with an overall majority and he intends to use it...
Labour manifesto – a recipe for selling off the NHS and the Welfare State!
THEY say that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, and Gordon Brown proved the point yesterday when he began his forward to...
Trump caves in over Ukraine – now is the time to get rid of...
AMERICA’S junior imperialist allies in the UK and Europe were in a state of shock as details of US president Donald Trump’s climbdown over...
Royal Mail getting ready for New Year war!
BRENDAN Barber has won another battle honour from the employers. His first was at Gate Gourmet, which publicly congratulated him on its website for the...
Magna to sack 10,000 – Woodley congratulates Mandelson and Brown
THE Unite trade union leadership has reacted to the news that GM has handed over GM Europe to Magna, in a deal bankrolled by...
Imperialist Crisis Deepens
JUST days after the mid-term elections dealt a decisive blow to his administration, Bush with the support of the Democrats has seen to it...
Imperialism Playing With Syrian Fire
SYRIA’S Ba’athist leader Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western action against his country will cause an ‘earthquake’ that will ‘burn the whole region’, and...
Tory police state plans alive and well!
PLANS for more secret court hearings, in the Justice and Security Bill, will create a ‘statutory straitjacket’ for judges, Martin Chamberlain, one of the...
The revolution in Nepal – part of the world revolution
LEON Trotsky’s theory of the Permanent Revolution shows how ‘the democratic tasks of the backward bourgeois nations lead directly, in our epoch, to the...
Heathrow class struggle sharpens as Terminal 5 looms
THE closer we get to the new Terminal Five, the more intense the class struggle becomes between the bosses of the BAA (British Airports...
Millions of low paid US workers are on the march!
FOLLOWING the Black Friday strike action at 1,500 WalMart stores throughout the US, fast-food workers in over 100 cities will walk off the job...
Darling can’t look the capitalist crisis in the face
CHANCELLOR Darling began his budget speech yesterday on a note of contrived optimism saying that ‘today’s budget will take Britain through the most serious...
Time To Destroy The Anti-Union Laws With A General Strike And A Socialist Revolution!
THE FBU has made a decisive intervention, demanding that the trade unions build a campaign to defy the anti-strike laws being pushed through Parliament...
PNA leaders bankrupt – unions must boycott Israel
The leak of confidential documents covering the ‘peace’ negotiations between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel reveals starkly the bankruptcy and futility of...
Coalition putting over-65s to work!
UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen by 65,000 in the three months to May, while the number of newly unemployed in receipt of the JobSeekers Allowance, for...
Call A General Strike Now!
THE demand for a general strike to bring down the government has been driven by the working class onto the immediate agenda of the...
Now is the time to build the Workers Revolutionary Party
THE deeper the crisis of the capitalist system gets, the more desperate the measures that it takes to sustain the bosses and bankers’ system,...
Palestine – the UK unions must take action in support of Palestinian people!
THE Palestinian Presidency has strongly condemned the ‘dangerous Israeli escalation against our people in the Gaza Strip, which so far has resulted in the...
No fighter planes for Ukraine – only a socialist revolution can stop imperialist war
UKRAINIAN president Volodymyr Zelensky turned up in Britain on Wednesday to address Parliament in a speech demanding that the UK supply fighter planes for...
Tory government acted illegally! It has no right to rule and must be...
THE Supreme Court yesterday dealt a death blow to the Tory strategy to make it financially impossible for workers to take their employers...
EU moves to suspend all aid to Palestine
YESTERDAY the European Union followed the example of the US and suspended its aid to the Palestine National Authority. The EU has given $400...
Hodge, Blears and Blair say foreigners to the back of the queue
LABOUR Industry Minister Margaret Hodge has won the support of Hazel Blears (Chairman of the Labour Party and a candidate for the deputy leadership...
Pna And Fatah Want To Disarm Fighters
ONE can now see why the Zionists and the US government were so keen to get rid of Yasser Arafat. He not only refused to...
US raid on the Yemen kills 57 as Trump prepares for war with Iran
US FORCES at dawn yesterday carried out a series of ground and air raids against a village in the Yemeni province of Bayda, killing...
Cuts will push councils to breaking point!
THE cuts to local government funding will ‘push councils to breaking point’ according to council leaders. On Thursday the Tory Communities and Local Government minister, Kris Hopkins,...
TUC Trade Unions Must Support A Palestinian State By Imposing A Boycott Of Israel!
HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on April 27: ‘The oppression of Palestinians has reached a threshold and a permanence that meets...
Bring Down The Tories! UK Must Not Support Trump’s War On Syria!
RUSSIA will take all political, diplomatic and military retaliatory measures if necessary should the United States deliver a strike on Syria, Russian State Duma...
US sanctions on Iran are, in fact, a declaration of war on the Iranian...
PRESIDENT Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton has stated that the United States is exerting ‘unprecedented pressure on the government of Iran to change...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Defend Jobs, Homes, Basic Rights And Deal With Climate...
THE TUC’s ‘Put People First’ march on Saturday brought 50,000 workers and youth onto the streets marching behind powerful contingents from the GMB and...
Frost Quits Cabinet As Tory Party Crisis Deepens And Police Clash With Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Lockdown...
LORD FROST has delivered a heavy blow at the John- son government with his resignation letter of last Saturday. He wrote: ‘You know my concerns...
Mervyn King The Bankrupt Representative 0F A Bankrupt Social System!
ON Wednesday night, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, delivered a speech that amounted to little more than an extensive...
Tories move to scrap defence cuts and prepare for war!
ON Monday, the Chief of the UK General Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, said in his speech at the Royal United Services Institute, a...
India’s Farmers And Workers Are On The March To A Socialist Revolution!
INDIA’S farmers have launched a nationwide general strike against new capitalist laws creating agricultural markets, which they rightly say go against their interests and...
Cameron At War At Home And Abroad
CAMERON’S Monday ‘European Council’ statement to parliament was all about the crisis of imperialism, its wars abroad, and dictatorship at home. He managed to discuss...
Defeat imperialist intervention into Syria – NO to war with Iran! Bring down...
THE Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that, ‘Britain has rebuffed US pleas to use military bases in the UK to support the build-up of forces...
As Capitalism Shuts Down Workers Must Be Mobilised To Fight For Socialism!
THE SCENE has been set for today’s budget by the crash of the stockmarkets on Monday March 9th when trillions of pounds were wiped...
Clarke staggers on as Tories hold back from resignation call
The ex-Home Secretary Blunkett was forced to resign after interfering to get his lover’s nanny special treatment from the passport office, and then seeking...
Israelis mass tanks on Gaza border
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister has promised prolonged and extensive military action to free an Israeli soldier missing and presumed held captive in southern Gaza. Mouthing...