Education Bombshell – The University Cuts Begin!
THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday condemned the decision by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to reduce funding for university...
Coalition lies on NHS privatisation exposed – trade unions must act
THE oft repeated claim by Tory prime minister Cameron that the coalition will not privatise the National Health Service has finally been exposed for...
Occupy UK Car Plants! Call General Strike To Bring In Workers Government To Nationalise...
THE UNITE union, representing car workers, said yesterday that its members will fight ‘tooth and nail’ to safeguard Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant, and urged...
Millions of children face hunger under Tory austerity – TUC must act!
A SHOCKING study carried out by the GMB union released yesterday showed that almost one in ten school staff bring in their own food...
Grenfell Towers are everywhere! Capitalism cannot be regulated, it must be overthrown!
THE TORY government is pushing its Building Safety Bill that it says addresses the big issue of fire safety raised by the horrific Grenfell...
Disband the Met Police – forward to a workers state and socialism
WHEN Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel is forced to say that she is ‘appalled and sickened’ by the behaviour of Metropolitan Police officers, then...
Call national strike action to defeat Royal Mail and Brown
AFTER weeks of secret talks, which were extended by a further week and were conducted behind the backs of the CWU membership, the Royal...
Iraq a ‘disaster’; NATO can’t win in Afghanistan – Blair and Brown must go!
FOLLOWING last Friday’s published remarks of Labour Minister Margaret Hodge, one of Blair’s closest political friends, describing the Prime Minister as practising ‘moral imperialism’,...
Overthrow imperialism the only way to get rid of terrorism!
MANY people were killed or seriously injured in terrorist attacks at Brussels international airport and a city metro station on Tuesday morning. Two explosions hit...
Tories responsible for deaths in care homes and amongst NHS workers – Time to...
THIS week, the Tories’ criminal liability for the deaths of thousands of health care workers, the elderly and the disabled was revealed in two...
Brown Hauls Down The Flag
LIKE a thief in the night Prime Minister Brown sneaked into Basra airport on Saturday night to tell British troops that their period of...
Irish workers reject the Catholic Church’s State and demand abortion rights!
THE Catholic Church-dominated state of the Irish Republic was rocked to its foundations on Saturday when the results came through after the referendum on...
No socialist programme for Corbyn!
LABOUR leader Corbyn was full of confidence as he opened his campaign to be re-elected as leader of the Labour Party yesterday. He said:...
US agreed Turkish air raids on northern Iraq
DOZENS of Turkish planes bombed supposed PKK bases in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing villagers, damaging infrastructure and forcing villagers to flee, local Iraqi...
TUC must call a general strike to defend Palestinians and support the State of...
THERE is no doubt that the recent massive demonstrations where hundreds of thousands of UK youth marched, with many chanting for a State of...
Westminster Council demands unemployed do ‘voluntary work’
The Tory ‘flagship’ council, Westminster, yesterday unveiled its blueprint for dumping the savage cuts in local government finances squarely on the backs of the...
Tory party split over huge NI tax rise – It is time for the...
THE TORY government is being ripped apart from top to bottom, with every day bringing new reports of ministers fighting amongst themselves in a...
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...
Starmer splits Labour Party from unions to prove he is ready for a national...
THE sacking by Keir Starmer of Labour MP Sam Tarry from his post as shadow transport minister has sent shock waves throughout the Labour...
Osborne decrees huge wage and benefit cuts for the public sector and the poor
CHANCELLOR George Osborne in his Autumn statement was forced to admit failure, that his policies were not working and that he had been forced...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Resolve The Crisis Of Capitalism!
THE DAY after official figures were released showing that the UK economy was crashing into the deepest depression for 300 years, the governor of...
Demoralised Simpson says Cameron rather than Miliband!
ON the eve of the TUC Congress, the TUC leader, Brendan Barber, has issued a call to the Brown government to tax the rich. There...
UK Trade Unions And Unions Worldwide Must Take Action Against Israel!
229 Arab and international human rights organisations and networks have strongly condemned the assassination of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, after she...
Banks to do immigration checks! Smash this racist Tory government!
FROM January 1st banks and building societies will be legally obliged to check the current accounts of 76 million account holders and compare them...
UK will be hit by the biggest economic blow of all advanced capitalist nations,...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that the weak British economy faces the biggest economic shock in the G7, the most advanced industrialised nations...
US opens missile base in Romania and plans for bases in Poland and Hungary
AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...
Recall TUC Congress to elect a new leadership prepared to defeat Starmer & Co
PM Starmer’s latest policy U-turn, of abandoning the protection against unfair dismissal from day-one for new employees in the Employment Rights Bill, created a...
Petrol Market Working Well, Says The Oft
WITH petrol poised to rise to £7.40 a gallon, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has intervened to rub salt into the gaping wounds...
After Brexit, Forward To The European Socialist Revolution!
PRIME Minister May in her letter to EU President Tusk has described the invoking of Article 50 to begin the UK’s withdrawal from the...
Close the EU’s concentration camps!
THE agreement between the EU and Turkey on dealing with the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist-inspired wars in the Middle East has...
Quit The Eu Now! Forward To Socialism!
KEIR Starmer, Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Leaving the EU, will, today in the House of Commons, open a debate for Labour on...
UN condemns Tory government for its onslaught on the disabled!
THE UK government’s welfare ‘reforms’ amount to a ‘systematic violation’ of the rights of disabled people, according to an inquiry by the United Nations...
Imperialists step up war preparations against Iran
A report from the director of US national intelligence, James Clapper, issued last Tuesday signalled that imperialism’s war preparations against Iran have reached the...
Grenfell Tower – Tories tore up health and safety rules then invited cladding companies...
AN INVESTIGATION by Sky News into the role of the firms that produce the plastic used to cover the exterior of Grenfell Tower has...
STOP the Tory drive for 20,000 more police! Smash the capitalist state with a...
THE CHIEF Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor, in his ninth and final annual review, has warned that Tory PM Johnson’s promise to hire 20,000...
Egyptian Revolution Set To Leap Forward
THE Egyptian revolution moved into a decisive stage yesterday with the announcement by the election committee overseeing the recent final run-off for president that...
TUC must call a general strike to free Palestine now!
OVER a million workers and youth marched in London on Saturday to a rally outside the US Embassy, in a ‘National March for Palestine’...
Trade union leaders must be forced to act in support of Palestine and for...
YESTERDAY, US president Donald Trump kept the world waiting for him while he made up his mind about intervening on the side of Israel...
China shocked by US plans for massive new tariffs!
THE CHINESE government has said that it is ‘shocked’ after the US government announced plans for massive new tariffs, escalating the trade war between...
Israel Accepts Gaza Ceasefire Out Of Fear Of The Arab Revolution
THE Egyptian military have brokered a truce between the militant Palestinian factions in Gaza and the Israeli military, which had been bombing Gaza for...
US National March for Palestine takes place today in Washington – US workers &...
MASSIVE demonstrations are sweeping the United States in support of Palestine. There have been big marches and rallies in New York, Chicago, Texas, San...
Britain Boarded The Grace 1 Off Gibraltar To Protect US And UK Oil Thieves...
ON JULY 4th, 30 Royal Marines boarded the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 off Gibraltar, allegedly on orders from the USA, because of suspicions...
Afghan crisis deepens as deadline nears
AFGHANISTAN’S finance minister has said deadlock over the disputed presidential election has cost the economy $5bn, so far. Omar Zakhilwal has said he will have...
Unemployment is soaring! Defending the ‘right to work’ means getting rid of capitalism!
UNEMPLOYMENT is set to soar to levels not seen since The Great Depression, the ‘Hungry 1930s’, when workers starved. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)...
No Charges For The NHS – Kick The Coalition Out
THE savage Tory-led coalition’s cuts programme to smash the NHS is now well under way! Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...