Defend the fire service with occupations, strike action and a general strike
FIREFIGHTERS at their conference yesterday decided to put a seven-point pensions plan to ministers and seek new talks to try to avoid strike action...
Unemployment and slave labour – the bourgeois future for youth
‘UK unemployment falls to 2.56 million’, is the fraudulent headline, with Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith declaring: ‘It’s the private sector...
Celebrate Giap’s Victory
MILLIONS of workers and youth both in Vietnam and throughout the world are mourning the death of General Giap, who led the military...
Bosses are taking the axe to the Welfare State, pensions and the NHS! Forward...
IN MONDAY’S Daily Telegraph, Roger Bootle spells out the ‘fallacy’ in its business section that economic growth is the key to Britain’s survival as...
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:...
Balls promises more cuts under Labour
THE shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, made his keynote speech to the annual conference of the Labour Party yesterday setting out the economic policy of...
Dump May Regime And Her Grammar Schools!
TORY PM May yesterday launched her new offensive attempting to restore ‘secondary moderns’ by allowing every school to become a selective grammar school, and...
Palestinians Set To March On Gaza! The UK And US Trade Unions Must Take...
ON the day the Palestinian death toll in the Gaza genocide reached 40,000, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas defiantly announced he will visit Gaza, the...
TUC Gen Sec Nowak wants workers to march in support of Ukrainian fascists!
IN THE case of the UK trade union leadership, it is very much a case of what Lenin termed as ‘One Step Forward and...
BMA & RCEM demand urgent action to end NHS winter crisis! TUC must call...
DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has demanded ‘urgent action this winter to stop the National Health Service derailing entirely’. This stark warning came in a new report...
Eu Meltdown
CREDIT ratings agency Moody’s yesterday reflected the rapidly developing EU meltdown by doing the unthinkable – warning the EU’s strongman, Germany, that...
Met Police Still Taking Action Over Everard Vigil – Time To Disband The Met!
SIX people have been charged by the Met police for allegedly breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules while attending the Sarah Everard vigil in south London. Many...
Russia must recognise the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics!
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ‘On recognition in the Russian Federation of the documents and licence plates of vehicles issued to...
Time to put an end to the institutionally corrupt and racist police force ...
THE LONG independent report into the murder of 37-year-old private detective Daniel Morgan in south London in 1987 was finally published on Tuesday and...
Blair is speeding up the privatisation drive
ON all fronts the Blair government is speeding up its privatisation offensive, so that his governments can leave as their legacy for big...
End funding ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ US Democrat Senators demand!
YESTERDAY, 93 Democrat members of the US House of Representatives issued an official letter calling on the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to open...
State threatens Climate Change Camp
YESTERDAY dozens of police officers were inspecting the beginning of the Climate Change camp, in a sportsfield owned by Imperial College, less than 1,000...
Bank of England pushes up interest rates as inflation spirals out of control!
THE BANK of England Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and decided to increase the interest rate by 0.25% to 0.75% in a futile attempt...
Tories Stepping Up The Class War While The Tuc Is Calling A Lobby Of...
THE TORY government has made it crystal clear that its current reorganisation is being made in order to carry out a very serious assault...
Carney steps up his anti-May war!
THE war between the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, and Tory prime minister Theresa May was stepped up on Wednesday when...
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...
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...
Israel given green light by Biden to expand genocide into Rafah
THE GENOCIDAL onslaught against the 1.4 million Palestinian men, women and children forced into the tiny city of Rafah on the border with Egypt...
Homelessness in rural England rises by a third in a year! Socialist revolution to...
HOMELESSNESS in rural England has soared by as much as a third between 2012 and 2018, new figures released yesterday have shown. As rich...
Re-call TUC conference! Sack the traitors! – We need a leadership that will...
THE NHS crisis is ‘like being in a war,’ Patrick Carter, who advises Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, told the Royal College of Anaesthetists’...
PM May gets panic attack – Labour must get after the Tory fox, and...
IN HIS Birmingham rally on Saturday Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, got an ecstatic welcome from masses of people for his denunciation of the Tory...
MPs’ Committee blames councils over homeless and dodges government!
THE MPs’ Communities and Local Government Select Committee has said that homelessness is ‘undoubtedly increasing’ and that the scale is greater than statistics suggest. The...
Working Class Doesn’t Want The Tories
TO the shock and horror of the Tory Party, the latest YouGov poll shows that its lead over Labour has fallen to just two...
Stock market crash – Only socialist revolution can end the carnage!
ON MONDAY the Wall Street stock market crashed with the Dow Jones Index, which follows the fortunes of 30 large US companies on a...
Unions must call a general strike to support Palestine! – Kick the Tories out...
ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’ heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza...
Make May Day the start of a general strike to smash the capitalist state...
YESTERDAY, the High Court in London ruled that the strike action by nurses on May 2nd was unlawful under existing Tory anti-union laws. Pat Cullen,...
Cynical US Slaps Pakistan’s Wrist Over Bin Laden ‘Treason’
SADDAM Hussein and Colonel Gadaffi led Arab nationalist, secular regimes in Iraq and Libya, and were both opposed to Al Qaeda on principle and...
Nuclear Terrorists Attend Seoul Summit
A WORLD leaders summit in Seoul on nuclear security has called for closer co-operation to tackle the threat of nuclear terrorism. President Obama warned there...
Tory counter-revolution must be defeated!
THE Tories yesterday announced that as part of the autumn anti-trade union legislation they will be stopping public sector workers automatically paying subscriptions to...
End Tory racist deportation by demanding a general strike to kick them out
YET ANOTHER attempt by the Tory government to deport over 50 people to Jamaica on Wednesday came unstuck with the Home Office forced to...
Labour’s political crisis accelerates the collapse of weak UK capitalism
THE ECONOMIC collapse of weak British capitalism has been accelerated this week by the political ‘death spiral’ of Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer. At yesterday’s...
Obama seeks bloc with Republicans against unions
THE State of the Union speech by President Obama was all about the theme that the only thing that can save the crisis-ridden US...
US And UK Ruling Class Are Humbled In Afghanistan – Forward To The Victory...
THE US ruling class, and its UK and German allies have suffered a historic defeat in Afghanistan. This is the verdict of the former UK...
Biden in Kiev trying to shore up coupist regime
US Vice-President Joe Biden told the assembled right wingers at the Ukraine parliament yesterday that the US stands with the country’s new leaders in...
Capitalist crash drives HBOS into the arms of Lloyds TSB
THE Federal Reserve Bank’s $85bn ‘rescue’ of AIG was carried out to stave off an immediate international financial and business collapse. It has turned...
Lord Turner gives up on capitalism – forward to the socialist revolution!
CAPITALISM is not delivering on its promise to raise living standards, Lord Adair Turner, a former head of the business lobby the CBI, has...
Cruddas scandal – ruling class split over Cameron leadership
The resignation by the chief Tory fundraiser and party co-treasurer, Peter Cruddas, late on Saturday gave one more glimpse into the corruption that lies...
Get British troops out of Iraq now!
PRIME Minister Tony Blair told troops in Basra on Thursday: ‘We want to draw down our forces. We don’t want to keep people here...
Capitalism must be overthrown to resolve its crisis!
The propagandists for the bourgeois order are rushing to try and defend the capitalist system as being blameless as far as the crisis is...
Bosnian Workers And Youth Show The Way In The Balkans
THE class war has erupted in Bosnia with a vengeance as youth and workers rise up in action, uniting all religions and nationalities in...