Blair’s decisive moment of NHS transition
LABOUR’S re-spun campaign to close local Accident and Emergency Departments, and entire District General Hospitals, in favour of Regional Centres of Excellence got under...
National strike action to defend the Royal Mail and its workforce
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday warned that Royal Mail were planning sacking between eight and twenty per cent of the workforce, with London...
Tories To Legislate Strike-Breakers Charter!
THE new Business Secretary Sajid Javid said yesterday that there will be ‘significant changes’ to strike laws under the new Tory regime. Under it...
Tories to bail capitalism out, while leaving workers and their families to die of...
GLOBAL stock markets crashed on Thursday, the biggest single day fall in history. This is the historic crisis of capitalism, its death agony. The...
Victory To The Palestinian Revolution!
THE LATEST statistics produced by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics show clearly that Israeli domination of the occupied Palestinian territories has lead to...
CORBYN, McDONNELL SET TO BETRAY AS BREXIT ‘DAY OF DECISION’ APPROACHES!
SENIOR Labour Party leaders are at war with each other over the best way to betray the 2016 referendum result, when PM Boris Johnson...
Workers and youth forward to the Socialist revolution!
LAST Sunday the president of the National Union of Students (NUS), Aaron Porter, made a surprise visit to a meeting of students occupying University...
Osborne to make £11.5bn spending review cuts!
ON a day during which it was announced by German bankers that Cyprus’ banks may never open again, and by the ONS that UK...
Brown demands police-state detention law
AHEAD of MPs considering the Second Reading of the new Counter-Terrorism Bill in Parliament yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for extension of...
Hunt throws down the gauntlet – the trade unions must pick it up!
THE Department of Health, headed by Health Secretary Hunt, has said that a proposed 1% increase in NHS staff pay was unaffordable, and is...
Socialist revolution only answer to capitalist debt crisis
Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves was making her pitch yesterday to the bankers and business bosses that any future Labour government would be a...
Hamas celebrates Israeli defeat while Trump calls for Middle East countries to provide the...
ON SUNDAY Israeli occupation forces withdrew from the Netzarim Corridor, the military zone they controlled that cut the north of the Gaza Strip from...
Labour leaders split over increasing income tax and abolishing welfare state!
YESTERDAY’S ‘bombshell U-turn’ over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget plans not to increase income tax has exposed the civil war in...
Blair And Cameron – Tweedleedum And Tweedledee!
YESTERDAY the new leader of the Tory Party, David Cameron publicly disowned the Tory Party manifesto, written for the last general election, just seven...
Inflationary crisis driving revolution across EU and UK! Time to build the Fourth...
AS INFLATION soars and the cost of petrol rapidly rises, workers across Europe are being forced to protest, with strikes spreading like wildfire. European energy...
Collapse of Greensill Capital – another Lehman Brothers crisis!
THE COLLAPSE of Greensill Capital, a finance company which acted as a massive lender to companies, has sent shock waves throughout the UK steel...
British imperialism being cut down to size by the crisis
BRITISH imperialism, at the height of its power and even up to the 1930s, had at its heart the dictum of sea power, that...
Tories and Labour get ready for more state repressions
HOME Secretary Theresa May said yesterday that thousands of people are potentially at risk of being radicalised in the UK. ...
State Department rubbishes ‘ignorant’ Blair
A POLITICALLY ‘sick’ Prime Minister Blair was yesterday delivered another major blow, this time at the hands of the US State Department, when...
UCU & NUS stop pleading with the Tories & call an all-out strike...
TODAY tens of thousands of lecturers and students will march through central London to demand free education for all. The Tory government has pushed plans...
Police prepare for ‘summer of rage!’
YESTERDAY the bourgeois media was full of the thoughts of police chiefs who are preparing for a ‘summer of rage’, and pointing to the...
Right Sector Leader Advising The Military
THIS week all pretence that the illegal regime, that took power in an imperialist-inspired and financed coup last year, rests on ‘popular democratic’ support,...
End free movement in EU urges May as Tory crisis deepens!
THE deepening worldwide capitalist crisis is driving forward revolution with seven-league boots. The crisis is threatening a new banking and industrial crash at any moment...
New universities going bust as education becomes a commodity
FORTY-SIX universities, mainly but not entirely made up of ex-Polytechnics, were put on a list by the Labour government, after the introduction of tuition...
Sack Commissioner Dick and disband the Met police NOW! Forward to a workers state...
THE METROPOLITAN police officer, PC Wayne Couzens, has been sentenced to life imprisonment after it was proven in court that on March 3, 2021...
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...
Care Homes Crisis
FOUR Seasons Health Care, the largest provider of care homers for the elderly in Britain, has announced that it is going bust, losing £26...
Tories refuse to negotiate – opt for a fight to the finish. Junior doctors...
YESTERDAY the BMA junior doctors’ leader Dr Johann Malawana said, referring to the forthcoming strike actions: ‘No junior doctor wants to take this action,...
Privatisation destroys infrastructure
BRITAIN’S infrastructure was reduced to complete meltdown over Christmas through a combination of high winds and heavy rainfall. Not because of blinding snow storms, hurricane...
EU tearing itself apart while British capitalism collapses under a sovereign debt crisis
On Friday EU leaders gathered for a three-day summit to agree on a proposed £1.6 trillion financial plan to bail out the national states...
Miners charged with murder – ANC stands with the bosses!
THE SOUTH AFRICAN ANC government and its state apparatus have taken a very clear class stand, alongside international capital, with their decision to charge...
Axe the privateers – Defend NHS beds
THE BMA yesterday condemned the Reform report, ‘Fewer Hospitals, more competition’, stating in response to the Reform privatisation manifesto that ‘bed...
British trade unions must take action to support Palestinians
PALESTINIAN doctors reported on Wednesday evening that five Palestinians, including a child and a woman, were killed by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the...
Teachers must not fight alone – TUC must call a general strike
The annual conferences of the two largest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, meeting at the weekend heard that the unions and the...
Turn the imperialist war against Russia into a civil war to smash British Capitalism
THE BRITISH ruling class has now made it crystal clear that it favours a class war on two interconnected fronts. On the home front it...
Drive Tory rabble out with a general strike to bring in a workers government...
THE House of Commons privileges committee published its report into former prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday and it turned out to be even more...
Bankers raise interest rates to deepen the slump, and make workers pay for...
THE Bank of England has raised UK interest rates to their highest level for 14 years as it battles to stem soaring prices, by...
Javid Warns Against Any Attempt To Return To Austerity!
FORMER TORY Chancellor Sajid Javid has warned against a return to austerity as the bankrupt UK economy plunges into a historic disaster with its...
Economists warn US-Israeli war on Iran will push a further 200,000 UK households into...
THE UK economic think-tank, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Niesr), this week issued yet another warning that the US-Israeli war on...
UAW reformists propose to surrender gains of US workers
THE UAW leaders are prepared to ‘suspend’ all of the gains of US autoworkers to try and assist the big bosses of GM, Chrysler,...
French revolution – spreading throughout Europe
FRANCE has been shaken for the past six months by an eruption of anger by the education trade unions and by student and school...
There will be no ‘Maidan-style counter-revolution’ in Belarus declares President Lukashenko
CONGRATULATIONS to President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus. He received over 80 per cent of the vote in the Belarus presidential election and saw off...
Renationalise the electricity and gas monopolies!
POWERGEN, the energy monopoly, is putting up the prices of its gas and electricity services by 18.4 per cent and 9.7 per cent, next...
There Must Be Action To Halt Royal Mail And NHS Privatisation
THE Royal Mail faces privatisation this summer after the passage of the Postal Services Bill through parliament yesterday after its third reading. The legislation will...
Third World Britain beaten only by the USA
WOMEN in the UK are more than twice as likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth as those in Poland, Austria or Belarus, according...