Labour’s Affiliated Trade Unions Say ‘PM Will Not Lead Labour Into Next Election!’
LABOUR’S affiliated trade unions yesterday said that the Prime Minister ‘will not lead Labour into the next election’, and called on the party to...
The last-ditch attempt to save the euro and head off revolution
ON Thursday the European Central Bank (ECB), after months of prevarication and splits within its ranks, finally took the decision to launch the eurozone’s...
Government collapsing but trade union leaders watch and wait
PRIME Minister Blair and former Blair ultra-loyalists spent yesterday slashing away at each others throats. Blair branded Blairite ex-junior minister, Tom Watson ‘disloyal, discourteous...
Illegal and deadly restraints still in use, smash the racist capitalist state
Just 16 months after a man died whilst being restrained by private security guards on board an aircraft, the House of Commons home office...
Crisis of US economy deepens and UK follows suit!
THE US economy has seen 7.6 million jobs destroyed since the US and worldwide slump began, and then deepened, after the crash of the...
Multinational companies who supplied cladding and insulation on Grenfell Tower making super-profits!
Yesterday’s Observer newspaper revealed that manufacturers of the insulation installed on Grenfell Tower – cladding that led to the inferno that killed 72 people...
Geithner-Obama Warn Republicans ‘Don’t Hold Usa To Ransom!’
BOTH US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and President Obama issued warnings to the Republican Party on Monday that, so dire is the world crisis,...
No economic solution to capitalist crisis as BIS warns financial markets at risk
THE BANK for International Settlements (BIS) – dubbed the bank for central banks – issued a dire warning in its latest quarterly review that...
PM May hammers the poor as 7,585 families receive 50p housing benefit!
PM MAY makes a lot of noise about her concern for the ‘just about managing’, ie the middle classes in crisis-ridden Britain. In fact,...
Tories want to gag the trade unions as well as chain them!
STRIKING unions are to be gagged as well as chained, the TUC’s general secretary Frances O’Grady has said, referring to a consultation document linked...
TUC to lobby Tory Party conference – to change Tory policy
THE TUC General Council statement issued on Saturday constitutes a betrayal of the working class and the trade unions. It seeks to divert...
28th anniversary of declaration of Palestinian independence!
SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saed Erekat said yesterday that the international community has failed in its responsibility to correct the...
Winograd Inquiry confirms Israel has feet of clay
THE Israeli inquiry into its July 2006 attack on the Lebanon has found that it was ‘a large and serious failure’. It also...
Victory to the Palestinians; forward to the Palestinian state; drive imperialism out of the...
FIERCE clashes are continuing between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth organised in Popular Committees across all of the West Bank districts. The Palestinian Red Crescent...
Migrants Not Wanted In The UK – Unless They Are ‘White Helmets’
THAT well known humanitarian organisation, the Israeli armed forces, that is killing Palestinians on a daily basis, has just conducted a ‘humanitarian’ raid into...
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...
US Rushes Drones And Hellfire Missiles To Iraq
THE US has sent 75 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles to Iraq, with many more on the way. They are to be used to try to...
STPs are an agency of international capitalism, a Trojan Horse for the privatisation...
THE TORY Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) have been shrouded in secrecy right from the start as the Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, did...
Corbyn On The Ballot Paper – Another Defeat For Labour Right Wing!
THE decision of the Labour Party NEC in a secret vote, by 18-14, for Labour leader Corbyn to go forward onto the leadership ballot...
Maude signals plan to ban strikes
The Tory cabinet office minister, Francis Maude, made a fantastical offer to the TUC and leaders of the public sector unions last Friday when...
Windrush just ‘tip of the iceberg’ – time to kick out the Tories and...
IN A MONUMENTAL act of cynicism, the Tory government on Monday announced that this Friday will be designated ‘Windrush Day’ and that henceforth 22nd...
Unions Must Answer Truss Threats By Calling A General Strike To Bring Down The...
THE Margaret Thatcher look-alike, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, is seeking to sound like, look like and act like Margaret Thatcher, as she vows to...
Brown pledges to bring morality to the bankers!
AT yesterday’s Labour Party conference Premier Brown focused on the ‘wrong choices’ that the Tories had made over policies to deal with the...
Israel is a terrorist state – while anti-Zionism is not a form of racism!
YOU can tell that the split and divided Tory party and capitalist class in the UK are in very serious trouble when they have...
EU and US fall out over oil, gas and Russian sanctions!
THE INCREASINGLY fractious relationship between the US and its rival capitalist bloc the European Union, is on the point of erupting into a full...
The fate of UK banks linked to the fate of South Africa’s Zuma –...
‘THIS is the third high-profile money-laundering scandal to involve major British banks this year,’ John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, said yesterday, responding to reports...
The blind Chancellor who cannot see the crisis
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday could not see and would not even hear of a crisis in the British capitalist economy that he has presided...
Greek vote provokes revolutionary crisis
YESTERDAY''S Greek presidential vote heralds the start of a fresh eurozone crisis that threatens to bring down the Eurozone and with it the whole...
CWU leaders embrace privatisation!
A BALLOT of CWU members announced this week showed a vote of 94% in favour of a ‘legally binding contract’ between the leadership of...
Demand TUC call a general strike to defeat anti-union laws
LAST November, the Tories were confidently predicting that when their anti-strike ‘Minimum Service Levels’ law was finally passed before Christmas, around 40% of rail...
Coup Against Corbyn Underway As Head Rabbi Announces He Is ‘Not Fit For High...
WITH just over two weeks to go before the general election, the campaign by the Tories and their right-wing supporters in the Labour Party...
Mass strikes in US as workers rise up in ‘Striketober’
The US working class has mobilised in an unprecedented wave of mass strikes across the country this month in what is being designated as...
Take action to stop the bosses closing factories and Tories privatising services!
WITH the crisis of capitalism deepening, the UK bosses and bankers are using the US trade war, the developing banking collapse and slump (on...
UK continuing to stab the Chagossians in the back
THE WikiLeaks revelations prove once again that British imperialism, although greatly weakened, remains just as poisonous and rotten as ever. This comes out clearly in...
Cbi Demands Huge Cuts To Save The Bosses
THE employers organisation, the CBI, yesterday demanded that the Tory coalition government go even further than it has pledged, in destroying benefits and...
A Record £65.5 Billion Trade Deficit For 2005
THE UK trade deficit with the rest of the world for 2005 was a catastrophic £65.5 billion. The deficit on goods and services...
British imperialism filmed at work
A COURT martial in Wiltshire yesterday heard that Corporal Donald Payne was filmed as he abused and swore at hooded Iraqi detainees, in September...
RMT ready to stop Network Rail
THE RMT railworkers trade union has confirmed that members on Network Rail maintenance have voted by 77% for strike action in response...
To defend NHS bring down the Tories and nationalise drug companies!
ON Budget Day when the Chancellor is expected to ignore the cash crisis facing the NHS – after the service has suffered massive cuts...
Sarkozy flops – gets less votes than Chirac
THE landslide vote for Sarkozy that was to get him off on a flying start as the ‘Saviour of France’ for his war against...
The working class must win the class war
IN the middle of the Labour Party’s general election campaign, a section of the Labour cabinet led by Mandelson, Jowell and others is breaking...
The unions must call a general strike to bring in a workers government!
ANDY BURNHAM’S bid to challenge PM Keir Starmer for the Labour Party leadership late Thursday, following Wes Streeting’s resignation as Health Secretary, has ignited...
UK heading for ‘no deal crisis’ – Only answer is a socialist revolution!
THE MAY government on Tuesday defeated an attempt by 12 pro-EU Conservative MPs, supported by Labour EU Remainers, to destroy its revised post-Brexit trade...
Food Prices Rocket, With Energy Price Rises To Come!
UK CPI consumer price inflation remained unchanged at 2.7% in November, according to official data, despite the fact that there were big rises in...
Starmer Wants To Impose EU Laws Onto The UK Working Class
PM SIR KEIR STARMER has just unveiled legislation that will give the power to the PM to adopt EU legislation without giving MPs a...