Labour Pushes For Pensions War
MORE than half a million civil servants are to be told that they will have to pay a lot more towards their pensions. This is...
Taleban inflict serious reverse on US–UK forces in Camp Bastion!
IT HAS emerged that the US-UK forces lost six Harrier jump jets – completely destroyed with two more badly damaged – in the highly...
Support BA workers! Forward to a general strike!
LABOUR PM Gordon Brown yesterday condemned the BA cabin crew members of Unite for the seven days of strike action due to take place...
General Strike required to win junior doctors struggle!
THE Academy of Medical Royal Colleges yesterday issued a statement saying: ‘This is a time of unprecedented crisis for the NHS. With this in...
Forcing Boeing to halt 737 Max production threatens to crash US economy
THE GIANT US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has finally called a halt to all production of its 737 Max aircraft after the Federal Aviation Administration...
The Capitalist Crisis Is Driving Forward Economic Collapse, Wars And Revolutions At Record...
FOOD prices in the UK continued to surge at the fastest rate in nearly 45 years in April, as inflation fell at a slower...
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)...
May assumes dictatorial powers over Parliament – time to bring her down with a...
TORY Prime Minister Theresa May was determined on Monday to avoid a substantive vote in Parliament on ‘her right’ to go to war and...
Thousands Of NHS Redundancies Are To Go Ahead – Trade Unions Must Take Action...
THOUSANDS of NHS staff redundancies in England are now to be forced through after a deal was reached with the Treasury to allow the...
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...
Breast cancer scandal inevitable outcome of Tory privatisation of NHS – time to...
LAST WEDNESDAY, Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt apologised ‘wholeheartedly and unreservedly for the suffering caused’ to the hundreds of thousands of women who were...
The Bank Prints More Money While M&s Insists That The UK Is Skint
THE Bank of England yesterday maintained its interest rate at 0.5 per cent and decided to step up its money printing programme to give...
‘Keep The Ground Aflame With Popular Resistance’ Urges President Abbas
THE PALESTINIAN President, Mahmoud Abbas has called for more popular resistance and warned ‘We should not underestimate it’. He has called for further visits to...
Tories moving to bring in Martial Law and a licence to kill for spies
PM JOHNSON announced the latest draconian lockdown rules in the House of Commons last Tuesday, with the threat that, if not obeyed to the...
Prosecute bosses that do not pay the minimum wage! Overthrow capitalism!
‘NAMING and shaming’ bosses who refuse to pay workers even the minimum wage is not enough, trade union GMB correctly insisted yesterday, demanding...
Royal Mail workers must set the date for their all out strike action!
ON TUESDAY, postal workers delivered a massive 94.5% YES vote to strike in defence of their jobs, pay and conditions and the very existence...
A billionaires’ paradise – the UK under Blair and Brown
IN the last 12 months the working class and the vast majority of the middle class have desperately struggled under a huge and...
Carney’s ‘forward guidance’ comes a huge cropper!
BANK of England governor Carney has dumped his forward guidance policy under which interest rates would rise once the UK unemployment rate had been...
Weak British imperialism heading for a major fall
THE chickens are coming home to roost for British imperialism, as the mounting casualty figures in both Afghanistan and Iraq show. It is a long...
World economy on brink of collapse
THE capitalist economy of Europe took a decisive step over the brink into the abyss of collapse with the news that the euro debt...
Osborne’s Budget For The Bosses!
OSBORNE began his budget address yesterday by admitting the calamitous state of British capitalism saying that recovery would be ‘challenging’ since ‘we’ve had the...
Blair listens only to the bosses
PRIME Minister Blair, despite all his vows about listening to the people – made outside 10 Downing Street on the day after the general...
Transport Unions Must Refuse To Transport Asylum Seekers To Rwanda!
THE TORY government’s racist drive to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda came unstuck on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) granted...
It’s a Labour heaven for bankers but a hell for workers, youth and immigrants!
THE class message of the Labour government is clear. It is that if you’re a banker, you can do no wrong and are...
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...
BJP defeated in regional election as India’s masses turn on Modi!
INDIA’S prime minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing BJP party suffered a massive political defeat at the hands of voters in West Bengal on...
Tories and Labour right-wing call for war with Russia
WAR hysteria dominated the Parliamentary debate on Tuesday, with both Tory and Labour MPs pushing for a full-scale war against Russia over unproven accusations...
Lloyd’s pulls the plug on Europe
NOT just Greece but the Eurozone and, by extension, the whole of Europe is a financial basket case that is heading inexorably towards a...
Reject BA Sell-Out!
THERE can be only one response by BA cabin crew to the latest attempt by the national leadership of Unite to impose a ‘settlement’...
Labour under ex-prosecutor Starmer cannot win a general election – What is needed is...
LABOUR has failed to dominate the council elections despite the illegal actions of PM Johnson, and the way that under his government living standards...
G20 talks dominated by world crisis, and the fear of world revolution!
THE initial stages of the G20 talks in China were yesterday dominated by the world crisis of capitalism, the sharpening antagonisms that this crisis...
Israel is stepping up its war on Lebanon & Palestine – The UK trade...
THE Israeli army yesterday continued its bloody war on Lebanon for the 20th consecutive day, launching dozens of airstrikes, bombing homes and gatherings, and...
Starmer is making the poor pay for the crisis. The TUC must strike to...
FOLLOWING the failure of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ panic visit to beg, or borrow, £600 million from China, the Labour government of Keir Starmer is...
Respond to the death agony of imperialism by organising the victory of the worldwide...
ON FRIDAY, June 21, The Republic of Armenia officially recognised the State of Palestine, raising the number of countries that recognise Palestinian statehood to...
Palestinian leadership condemns international community after fatal shooting of teenage girl by Zionists!
THE Palestinian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that the fatal shooting of a teenage girl by Israeli military forces during a raid in the northern...
Child death toll reaches over 5,500 in Gaza as Israel extends its war on...
YESTERDAY was World Children’s Day, the United Nations annual day for action on children’s rights which marked the adoption by the UN of the...
Renationalise All Of The Energy Companies!
THE super-rich energy companies were yesterday accused by MPs of all parties of ‘ripping off’ the poorest people in the country who cannot afford...
Ban all secret trials! Smash the capitalist state!
AN unprecedented attempt by the government to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the UK has been blocked by the Court...
Hands Off Addenbrooke’s – Stop The Savage NHS Cuts By Bringing Down The Tories!
THE prestigious and world famous NHS Addenbrooke’s Hospital has been placed into special measures. UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis commented yesterday: ‘This is a shocking...
Targeted assassination of journalists as Zionist regime plans military occupation and massacre of Palestinians...
LATE on Sunday, a deliberate Israeli drone attack hit a tent for journalists located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, killing...
Kerry Warns Russia Over Eastern Ukraine
THE US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Russia that it must not recognise the elections that are due to take place this...
Tories to slash benefits to unemployed & sick
TORY Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government unveiled its plans to target the unemployed and others on benefits, depriving them of their entitlements, or...
King warns the ruling class to tackle the causes of the crisis
ADDRESSING a press conference yesterday afternoon, the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, said that ‘Tackling the symptoms of the crisis without...
TUC Leader Nowak Urges The Tories To Compromise With The Trade Unions Just As...
IN THE understatement of the year, the new leader of the TUC Paul Nowak warned yesterday that further strikes could lie ahead in 2023...
‘Medieval’ levels of health inequality have devastating effects on NHS
On Sunday, the Guardian newspaper published part of the results from its months-long investigation into the effects of poverty on the NHS. Included in the...