All out for the News Line–Gate Gourmet sacked workers conference
THE sacked Gate Gourmet workers were locked out almost six months ago on August 10th-11th 2005 by a management and an owner that was...
RMT victory in ScotRail dispute shows the way forward for working class
ON WEDNESDAY, the RMT transport union members won a massive victory in their fight against the ‘pitiful’ pay offer from ScotRail. RMT members at ScotRail,...
TUC and all trade unions must take action alongside the Junior Doctors!
THE junior doctors have responded magnificently to the Tory threat to dictate their contracts and to impose them from next August with a landslide...
UK War Crimes
LAST night’s BBC Panorama programme revealed yet more evidence of unlawful killings of Afghans by members of the Special Air Service (SAS) during the...
BMA leaders run away after Cameron waves big stick
THE BMA and its Junior Doctors Committee yesterday ‘made the decision to suspend the 48-hour industrial action planned for 26-28 January. We are announcing...
The Tories are planning to smash the trade unions – To defend the right...
THE General Council of the TUC is set to meet on Tuesday, in a meeting that has been kept a secret, lest large numbers...
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...
Two State Solution Was A Trap For Palestinians
ISRAEL’S tactic in the ongoing ‘peace talks’ with the Palestine National Authority has been to carry on stalling, for the last ten years, agreeing...
Second Round French election farce – Forward to the French Socialist revolution!
THE SECOND round of the French regional elections last Sunday confirmed that the French workers have had enough of the bourgeois, Bonapartist, fascist and...
Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!
INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...
Russian strike on foreign mercenary centre in Ukraine a massive blow against imperialist war...
ON SUNDAY morning around 30 cruise missiles fired by the Russian military hit the mis-named International Peacekeeping and Security Centre in western Ukraine, which...
Price Explosion threat to working class
ENERGY bills will rise by more than 60% within the next few years, a report for the UK’s biggest domestic energy supplier Centrica said...
Military in Myanmar dump Aung San Suu Kyi for civil war against Burma’s ...
N THE early hours of Monday the military in Myanmar (formerly called Burma) seized power in a coup that saw the country’s leader Aung...
CRISIS DEEPENING – as production and the pound fall!
UK industrial output collapsed in August, unexpectedly as far as the bourgeoisie was concerned, destroying any remaining thoughts of green shoots of recovery. Bourgeois...
TORIES FACE WIPE OUT – WHILE LABOUR MPs PLAN EU ELECTIONS COUP!
WITH THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS fast approaching, the bourgeois democratic system through which the capitalist ruling class has ruled over the working class in the...
Cameron and Tories in crisis
THE understanding that in times of acute capitalist crisis the ruling class can no longer rule in the old way is being borne out...
Osborne furious over ‘back to the 1930s’ taunt
THE Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, was described in the bourgeois press as being ‘rattled’ by the news coverage of his Autumn Statement. In fact, ‘rattled’...
The eurozone is a pack of cards ready to collapse, says the economist who...
THE man who is credited as the principle architect of the single European currency 14 years ago has just warned that his ‘project’ is...
Trade Unions Must Defend The Nurses Right To Strike By Calling A General Strike...
AS LONG AGO AS LAST FEBRUARY, the Regulatory Policy Committee’s report on the Tory proposed anti-strike legislation found the government had not fully assessed...
Obama seeks wider support for central Asian war
PRESIDENT Obama has shaken his supporters with his admission that the war in Afghanistan is not being won, and that he is willing to...
US and EU backed armed mobs run riot in the Ukraine!
THE imperialist backed Ukrainian right-wing, including self-declared fascist movements, have brazenly made a call to arms, and to prove the point on Tuesday shot...
Israel threatens to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza
THE DAILY Telegraph reported at the weekend that they had been told by two Israeli officials that daily ‘violations’ by the Palestinian resistance movement...
Orange Counter-Revolution Defeated!
THE OPPOSITION leader Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Party of the Regions, has won the Ukrainian presidential election, and has defeated Prime Minister...
Scavenger Hague Leaps Into Ukraine Conflict
THE British Foreign Secretary Hague tweeted his support for the ‘new Ukrainian government’ on Saturday midday along with his German opposite number. However, there...
Tories considering a national government – they must be overthrown! Forward to a workers...
THE COLLAPSE of the US economy with 10 million US workers losing their jobs in the last two weeks, allied to the already collapsed...
Cameron and May want to squash basic rights and freedom of speech!
TORY PM CAMERON has just reprimanded the people of the UK for being ‘over tolerant’ of extremism, signalling that his regime is so unstable...
Lansley calls to ‘break down the system’
TORY coalition Health Secretary Andrew Lansley addressed the BMA doctors union conference in Brighton yesterday, telling delegates: ‘Every step we take we must take...
Recall the TUC Congress to organise a general strike for Palestine!
ON Thursday, the TUC’s non-existent Day of Action to support Palestine, 63 people were annihilated by Israel in northern Gaza and 22 in Central...
Imperialist Vultures Gather Over Syria
HAVING failed to overthrow President Assad of Syria by force of arms, the imperialist powers are now turning to Russia, and are seeking the...
UK cannot fight the IS movement that it helped to create!
THE UK’s role in fighting the Islamic State is ‘strikingly modest’ and should be stepped up, the House of Commons Defence Select Committee has...
Turkish Workers Rise Against Erdogan!
RELATIVES of around 150 miners, missing after the deadly mine explosion at the privatised Soma mine in western Turkey, are maintaining a permanent vigil...
‘Put an end to capitalism’ to solve the food crisis
WITH another 100 million people no longer able to afford the food they need to live, two international meetings were underway in London and...
Second Xmas on the dole for 700,000!
ACCORDING to research published by the TUC on Monday, over 250,000 people will be spending their second successive Christmas on the dole. Even this figure...
By-elections spell out depth of the coalition crisis
LABOUR has won three by-elections, holding Croydon North, Middlesbrough and Rotherham, while the coalition governing parties were wiped out. The Tories came behind UKIP, their...
Tory war on two fronts – against the working class at home and...
LAST week Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the Tory offensive against the rights, conditions and wages of every worker. This is the strategy behind the...
Turkey Invades Northern Iraq
THOUSANDS of Turkish soldiers, backing a number of tank led armoured columns, crossed into northern Iraq on Thursday evening, after a massive artillery bombardment...
IDS’ war to starve and break the poor!
JUST how ruthlessly Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is conducting the ruling class’ war on the poor can be seen in...
Workers must bring down May government, break with the EU NOW and go forward...
THE Tory government and party is now split into warring groups, one of which is pursuing a leadership election to knife their leader May...
Royal Mail getting ready for New Year war!
BRENDAN Barber has won another battle honour from the employers. His first was at Gate Gourmet, which publicly congratulated him on its website for the...
UK An Out-Of-Control Police State!
THE revelation by Sky News of the ‘Stingray’ programme, where fake mobile phone towers are set up to capture people’s mobile calls without their...
More sanctions on Russia drive up inflation while Tories blame strikes for crisis
YESTERDAY an embargo on seaborne Russian oil exports came into force, a move that will drive up the price of oil internationally and add...
Israeli genocide exposed at International Court of Justice!
YESTERDAY, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) met to consider the lawsuit filed by South Africa condemning Israel for the crime of committing genocide...
Coalition opts for new anti-union laws and dictatorship
CIVIL SERVANTS are angry that Cabinet Office minister, and head of the Star Chamber to force through government policy, Francis Maude, is going...
Government Plans Secret Courts!
A REPORT issued yesterday by the civil rights group Amnesty describes the proposed Justice and Security Bill as being straight out of a Franz...
Civil war declared as Tories are torn apart by the capitalist crisis – Kick...
CIVIL WAR in the Tory Party has erupted as Boris Johnson and his allies launch a coordinated attack on PM Rishi Sunak, with the...