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’s War Being Stepped Up
THE government of Pakistan yesterday summoned the US ambassador to Islamabad to protest at yet another US drone missile attack on Pakistani civilians. ...
Shooting at the UK’s Afghan Sandhurst!
THE ‘row’ that left an Afghan officer cadet dead and three NATO troops injured at the UK-established ‘Sandhurst in the Sand’ in Helmand province...
Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the fire
YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...
Abolish Fees, Restore Grants And Free State Education For All
A REVIEW of university student fees in England has been launched by Business Secretary Mandelson. The object of the review is to increase, perhaps...
Tories’ catastrophic split – time to kick them out
THE Tory party was delivered shattering blows on the eve of its conference when Tory MP Mark Reckless stepped out onto the platform of...
Leaving the European Union will require a workers socialist revolution!
PM MAY last Monday afternoon, in her first statement to MPs in parliament since her Florence speech last month and her debacle at the...
Corbyn Displays The Bankruptcy Of Reformism At The TUC!
WHAT has emerged out of the bankruptcy of Parliament this week is that the Labour leadership, along with the other opposition parties and rebel...
Message to marchers – bring down coalition to give workers and youth a future!
TODAY’S march called by the TUC is a massive demonstration of the anger and hatred felt by the working class, whole sections of the...
Clarke staggers on as Tories hold back from resignation call
The ex-Home Secretary Blunkett was forced to resign after interfering to get his lover’s nanny special treatment from the passport office, and then seeking...
Brown Threatens Royal Mail Funding!
AT THE CWU rally at Central Hall yesterday afternoon, CWU leader Billy Hayes presented a successful outcome of the postal workers struggle as relying...
The Deputy Prime Minister resigns, but the May government is allowed to continue!
ON WEDNESDAY PM May was finally forced to sack her Deputy Prime Minister Damian Green following an inquiry by officials from the Cabinet Office...
Nationalise LDV and GM Vauxhall – no Royal Mail privatisation!
WITH even more right-wing forces seeking to bring down the Brown government from the right, trade unions now have an opportunity to show their...
Resistance erupts over ‘austerity’, as EU crisis worsens
THE government of President Nicolas Sarkozy announced yesterday the raising of the pension age in France from 60 to 62. Workers will have to...
Boom-time for bailiffs
APART from the bankers and speculators, there is another group looking to make huge profits at the expense of the human misery being created...
Britain, Germany, Spain And The US Poised On The Brink Of Recession
THE European Commission stated yesterday that the UK, Germany and Spain, key members of the EU, with Germany being the world’s biggest exporter, are...
Police paramilitary rule
TODAY the Police Federation’ annual conference will be addressed by the reappointed Tory Home Secretary, Theresa May, an event that the Federation’s leaders are...
Britain Is Aiding US Torture Machine
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to answer questions yesterday as to whether the United States government operates CIA secret prisons outside of...
BA senses weakness of Woodley leadership
BA yesterday threw the TGWU’s attempt at a compromise out of the window when it announced that all of its planes will be grounded...
Trump Is Organising A US Coup Not A Presidential Election Campaign!
IN HIS FOURTH of July speech US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claims are out to...
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...
Capitalism offering only poverty and war to working class and middle class
FALLING incomes will mean the biggest drop in living standards for middle-income families since the 1970s, when the Yom Kippur war resulted in the...
A bankrupt budget for a bankrupt economy
THE AIM of every government in 2008 is to ‘maintain stability through the world economic slowdown’, said Chancellor Darling yesterday in his budget...
Ferguson resistance joins hands with Walmart workers
THE US working class is now definitively on the march after six days of action in the town of Ferguson culminated in calls...
Backstabber Starmer Is Splitting Labour. He Wants To Be Part Of A Tory-Led...
JEREMY Corbyn will not be a Labour candidate at the next general election, Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has said. Corbyn the former...
Workers must force the UK out of the EU on October 31
ON TUESDAY night, MPs voted by 329 to 299 to pass a motion in principle to back Boris Johnson’s EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill. Almost immediately,...
11.7 million unemployed as British capitalism collapses – socialist revolution the only answer
AS MANY as 11.7 million people will be thrown out of work – either through being furloughed or simply being sacked – in the...
Defend All A&E’s – Stop The NHS Cuts And Closures!
THE message from Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of NHS England about the NHS crisis, is ‘what crisis?’ There are just too many...
Workers must bring down the Tories and bring in a workers government to break...
THE EU’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, in a two minute report, has ordered the British ruling class to accept ‘all decisions’ of the EU...
Scottish Labour strikes a blow at UK imperialism’s war plans
SCOTTISH Labour yesterday struck a blow at the war plans of British imperialism when its Perth conference decided to call for the Trident nuclear...
Right Wingers Provoking Labour Split
UNITE leader Len McCluskey has issued a statement refuting the claims that Jeremy Corbyn was responsible for Tom Watson’s ending the union-led efforts to...
British capitalism is collapsing – TUC must call a general strike to kick out...
NEW car sales in Britain plunged in March by 15.7% compared to the same period last year, a massive drop that spells out the...
TUC attempting to dump the fight against Tory anti-union laws!
IN advance of the national ‘protect the right to strike’ day of demonstrations on Wednesday 1st February the TUC has published a statement headed...
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...
NATO gets ready for pre-emptive nuclear strike
NATO has developed a tactic for halting the ‘imminent’ spread of nuclear weapons or of other weapons of mass destruction. This is a formula tailor-made...
Defend the Fire Service, the Ambulance Service and the Welfare State! Sack all of...
THE general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), Matt Wrack, has warned that proposals from Home Secretary Theresa May, to bring fire and...
US Begins Serious Peace Talks With Taliban – It Now Knows It Cannot Win...
THE 2001 SEPTEMBER 11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York was seized on by President Bush as the green light for...
The Police Spy In Your Pocket
THE millions of people throughout the world who rushed out last June to buy the latest must-have piece of technology from the Apple company...
Peace Prize for the ‘Fourth Reich’
The European Union has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ‘six decades of work in advancing peace in Europe’, according to Thorbjoern Jagland...
Bring Blair before a tribunal says General Rose
THE call by retired General, Sir Michael Rose, for the Prime Minister to be impeached by the Privy Council over the invasion of Iraq...
Throw out Tory NHS pay offer – Bring down the Tories to secure decent...
THE DEAL reached last week between the majority of health unions and the Tories must be thrown out by NHS workers. The deal, which...
Extend lecturers strike into a general strike to defend pensions and education
TALKS began yesterday between the University and College Union (UCU) and Universities UK (UUK), the body representing all universities, at the conciliation service ACAS...
Bolton Blaze Shows That Tackling Cladding Is A Life And Death Issue That Is...
THE CLADDING (HPL) that encased the Bolton students’ accommodation block that was engulfed in flames last week was found, after examination by scientists, to...
Now sack the union leaders to bring down the Tories and bring in a...
THE ‘Leave’ victory in the just-held referendum constitutes a huge revolutionary victory for the working class and the poor of the UK who voted...
The Bank of England is set to embark on a series of interest rate...
THE UK has ‘no alternative’ but to hike interest rates in a bid to make borrowing much more expensive to try to slow down...