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...
Hunt Planning New Blitz On NHS And NHS Workers!
BOTH the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) trade unions yesterday warned that Health Secretary Hunt is planning...
Working Class Must Use Its Power To Smash Capitalism And Go Forward To Socialism!
SINCE the Hamas uprising against the Israeli occupation and siege of Gaza on 7 October 2023, the Israeli war of reprisal and genocide has...
Japan under US protection says Clinton
CHINA has condemned the latest comments made by the United States over the disputed Diaoyu Islands in which Hillary Clinton said that Japan is...
Obama asks Congress to decide on war or peace
IN A MAJOR abdication of Presidential power, Obama has given the US Congress the task of deciding whether there should be a strike on...
Make the TUC take action to defend the NHS
YESTERDAY both Blair and Hewitt mocked NHS workers insulting their intelligence with the Hewitt line that this year was the best ever year for...
Knives Out Inside The Tory Party– Time For The Working Class To Bring Them...
AS THE Tory party implodes, and the lynch mob search mounts for the author or authors of the ‘Dirty Dossier’ that named 40MPs and...
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...
Unions at court to fight pensions rip-off
Yesterday six trade unions appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice to appeal against a High Court decision that the coalition government will slash...
Israel continues with its Gaza massacres
ISRAEL has rejected the UN security council resolution calling for a ceasefire and a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and is determined to carry...
As Johnson gets May mark-2 ready – workers must take action to take the...
AS THE date for leaving the EU, October 31st comes closer and closer, all of the vultures are desperately gathering over the corpse of...
Capitalism Is Set To Destroy Small Business And Then Turn The UK Into The...
A FIFTH of all UK small and medium sized businesses are set to close permanently over the next four weeks as they run out...
US Senate agrees $1.2tn ‘coronavirus stimulus’ – US and world capitalism heading for an...
THE US Senate finally agreed on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. This huge sum was in fact just half of what Biden wanted –...
LGA Warns ‘Extreme Cost-Cutting’ Is Destroying All Services!
THE LOCAL Government Association’s (LGA) Richard Watts has written to Tory Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick (of the two houses) warning against ‘extreme cost-cutting’...
Reject Gate Gourmet mass sackings deal!
A MASS meeting of the 710 TGWU trade union members, sacked and locked-out at Gate Gourmet, will take place at the Monsoon Club in...
Youth for revolution!
THE massive growth in unemployment sparked by the worldwide financial collapse in the capitalist system in 2008 is hitting youth so hard that the...
British capitalism not in ‘technical recession’. It is diving into a Great Depression!
YESTERDAY, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) produced figures on the state of the UK economy that showed it had fallen into a ‘technical...
UK living standards ‘to fall behind Malta’ as UK capitalism crashes under debt
ON Monday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its latest updated figures which showed that the average person now has £38 less to...
The biggest fall in living standards since 1931!
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that living costs have risen 25% in the past five years and placed an ‘unprecedented’ financial burden on...
Lecturers 76% ‘Yes’ for strike – 37 Universities to come out! All unions must...
UNIVERSITY lecturers and staff across the country have voted for strike action with an overwhelming 76% ‘YES’ vote. It means 37 universities will join...
Recall TUC to demand an indefinite general strike to kick out the Tories
At its annual conference yesterday, the leaders of the National Education Union (NEU) reported that the latest Tory pay offer was rejected by an...
The Great Pension Robbery – Contributions have tripled! This government must go! Call...
MILLIONS of workers, as of yesterday, have been hit for six. The amount that comes out of their wages in pension contributions now...
Opportunist union leaders sell public sector workers’ future
OPPORTUNIST trade union leaders in the health, education and civil service sectors yesterday sold out the future of public sector workers by agreeing that...
Defend the NHS! Come to NE London Council of Action Conference!
EARLIER this week Chancellor Alistair Darling promised the most draconian cuts in public spending for 20 years as a result of the Labour government’s...
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...
TUC Leader O’Grady To Quit – TUC Must Organise General Strike For June 18th!
THE General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Frances O’Grady, is to step down after nine inglorious years at the helm of the...
Workers do Battle All Over Europe!
GREEK riot police fired tear gas and beat Ministry of Culture workers yesterday morning after the workers had occupied the Acropolis in Athens demanding...
British capitalism is on the rocks of the capitalist crisis – the only way...
IN THE Daily Telegraph of January 1st one Robert Tombs writes under a headline: ‘As in 1914 and 1939, we may be sleepwalking towards...
Overthrow British capitalism to end imperialist atrocities
THE brutalising, maiming, beating and even killing of the ‘subject peoples’ by imperialist troops is part and parcel of the imperialist system and tradition,...
German workers join European strike wave
MORE than 20,000 German doctors are taking strike action all this week demanding a cut in working hours and a 30-per-cent pay rise. The...
Trump turning US into a ‘banana republic’ after threats of criminal charges against boss...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump was accused of turning the US into a banana republic over the threat of legal charges being brought against the...
Universities in crisis – courses slashed, thousands to be sacked and fees to soar!
UNIVERSITIES are being hit hard by the capitalist crisis with thousands of jobs and courses going, and with students facing a lifting of the...
Workers Must Support Corbyn Against The Tory And Labour Witch-Hunters!
THE BOURGEOIS media and Labour’s right wing pro-Zionists have no shame, as their attempts to label Labour leader Corbyn an anti-Semite show – otherwise...
Darling’s plan to make workers pay for crisis
CHANCELLOR Darling made his pre-budget speech to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon in the form of a Labour general election manifesto. His line was...
Stop the return of British troops to Helmand province!
THE Taleban armed forces are now retaking Sangin town in Helmand Province, which was taken over as a British responsibility after the retreat from...
The TUC Must Call A General Strike To Stop The Israeli Massacres Of Palestinians!
ISRAELI occupation forces have committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of...
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...
Obama To The Right Of Bush Over Palestine
THE US democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama, during his visit to Palestine, refused to go back on his earlier statement, made at a Zionist...
Afghan crisis – the Dutch won’t go so the Brits must take the strain!
YESTERDAY the Dutch parliament delayed its decision to send more than 1,000 Dutch troops to Afghanistan, as part of a NATO force, under British...
British army – out of control and out of its depth
AFTER the disgraceful episode, where not one soldier or officer was found guilty of the murder of Baha Mousa, the attempt to sanitise the...
No Military Action Against Iran – At This Point Says Rice
BRITAIN’S Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has just revealed the policy of the British government on Iraq – or has he? He said that Iran...
Shutting down News of the World won’t end Murdoch-Cameron crisis
RUPERT Murdoch has moved with great ruthlessness to try to make sure that he takes over BSkyB by shutting down the News of the...
Obama selects his bourgeois team to save US capitalism
BARACK OBAMA has just been elected by an explosion of popular support and anger that has united the working class and brought the majority...
Bank of England suspected of serious fraud!
THE Bank of England this week was revealed to be under investigation by no less than the Serious Fraud Office. Founded in 1694, the Bank...
Capitalist Britain Is Heading For Food Shortages – It Is Time To Get Rid...
LABOUR MINISTERS have been warned that the Labour government must prepare for ‘the threat of food shortages’. The National Audit Office has already warned that...