Parliament can’t be reformed, sweep it away!
CORRUPTION and parliaments are inseparable. Oliver Cromwell made this clear when he shutdown the Rump Parliament, reciting as he did the vices of the...
‘Currency wars’ will lead to imperialist war
THE meeting of the G20 group – the 20 leading countries in the world – concluded in Seoul yesterday with the usual empty claims of...
Labour Plans New Pensions Robbery
EX-CBI boss, Lord Turner’s plans for pensions are just the means chosen by the Blair government to make the working class pay for the...
Only one solution to the death agony of capitalism: bury it now with...
EVEN sections of the bourgeois media, and the bourgeoisie that it represents, were yesterday able to describe the appearance of the current world...
Force Blair out now! Forward to a workers’ government!
YESTERDAY was a letter writing day for Labour MPs. There were at least three different letters circulating among Labour MPs, including one signed by the...
Organise general strike to defend CWU
ROYAL Mail, backed by Brown and Mandelson, are making no secret of the fact that they intend to stamp on the CWU, in order...
Stop the war with a general strike to bring down coalition
ANGLO-US-FRENCH forces have killed over 100 Libyans and wounded hundreds more in their opening onslaught of cruise missiles, launched from the sea, and bombs...
US Fails In Drone Attempt On Life Of Taleban Leader
A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan’s tribal region killed at least 12 persons on Thursday. Drone aircraft fired two missiles on a religious seminary...
Two-day Greek General Strike – time for all-out indefinite action!
LAST week the two main Greek trade union organisations representing workers in the public and private sector called a two-day general strike starting today...
Mandelson to read last rites for GM Luton – workers must occupy the plant...
BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson – who did not lift a finger to save the LDV van factory from administration, to which it was consigned...
Labour to let multi-nationals take over NHS Primary Care Trusts
THE government is set to turn the screws of further NHS privatisation on the NHS with its plans to invite private health insurance...
Bin Laden killing opens Obama election campaign
When US President, Barack Obama, announced on Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a dawn raid by US special forces...
Blair’s policies split Labour and aid the Tories
‘IT’S wrong that Downing Street thinks it can run the Labour Party: we are an elected party, a democratic party,’ said the Labour Party...
Israel Threatens Palestine With The ‘Iron Fist’
ISRAEL has greeted the exercise by the Palestinians of their democratic right to elect Hamas as their governing party, with the most concentrated attacks...
No evidence for ‘street cleaners’ plot’ against Pope
TO ADD to the drama surrounding the visit of the Pope – who set the scene with his, and his associates’ attacks on...
RBS crashes as banks get set for rate rises
LOSSES AT the state owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) were twice as bad as expected, at £1.13bn and much bigger than the £950...
Labour right wing propping up the Tories!
ACTING Labour Party leader Harriet Harman yesterday betrayed working people when she led over 100 Labour MPs in abstaining over the Welfare Bill which...
Police death squads are ok says ACPO
THERE is no need to change the strategy police use to deal with suicide bombers – to put as many bullets into their brain...
Kiss of death for Deutsche Bank and the world banking system
THE writing is most definitely on the wall for Europe’s largest bank, with the kiss of death being delivered over the weekend when German...
Blair threatens to ‘close the book’ on the north
THE British and Irish premiers yesterday outlined their plan to restore direct rule from Westminster, via Dublin, if the Paisleyite DUP does not agree...
IMF Declares UK Economy going bust
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, issued the gravest warning yet on the state of the UK economy on Tuesday,...
Workers must unite to fight savage cuts and closures!
THE deepening capitalist crisis is creating the conditions for a showdown between Labour and Capital – over who runs this country, and for whose...
Inflation Out Of Control, Rate Rise On The Way
INFLATION is on the rise with the CPI rate increasing from 3.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent, while the RPI rate rose from...
Stop the pensions betrayal!
THE membership, branch leaderships and regional leaderships of the local government trade unions must stop the betrayal of their final salary pensions by union...
Iran Has The Right To Nuclear Power
THE Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, made it very clear last Wednesday what Iran’s position is on its right to develop...
Give Employment Tribunals power to make employers take back sacked workers
FOLLOWING an increase in the number of employment tribunals – after an attempt was made two years ago to make it deliberately harder for...
Go forward to socialism – only way to avoid threatening catastrophe!
JAPAN is the second biggest power in the capitalist industrial world, behind the United States. It has just announced that its industrial output dropped...
Stop the war against Syria – smash austerity at home
THE humiliating climb-down by David Cameron over Syria on Wednesday night exposes for all to see the weakness of British imperialism, the coalition government...
Unions must take action! Occupy Bombardier! Bring down the coalition! Nationalise to...
THE proposed sacking of 1,500 Bombardier workers in Derby is the beginning of the end for the train construction industry in the UK, and...
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...
Obama Puts British Imperialism In Its Place
WITH more than 100 million gallons of oil already freed to spew all over the US Gulf coast, the ‘special relationship’ between the US...
Occupy To Stop Hospital Closures
THE Chief Executive of the NHS, Sir David Nicholson, had a stark message for hospitals when he told the BBC yesterday that they would...
Over 100,000 could die because of fuel poverty in capitalist Britain
OVER 100,000 people in Britain could literally freeze to death over the next 25 years because they are too poor to afford to adequately...
Tuc General Council Must Meet To Defend Right To Strike!
COMMENTING on yesterday’s decision in the High Court banning the BA cabin crew strikes, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘This is a desperately...
Stop the Afghan slaughter – withdraw troops now
TODAY the British ruling class is in mourning for the 100 British soldiers that they have sent to their deaths in Afghanistan, no mind...
Netanyahu Demands A Palestinian Bantustan
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday endorsed for the first time the creation of a Palestinian state, provided it had none of the...
Labour’s drive for Foundation Trusts and privatisation kills!
The Royal College of Nursing has described the Healthcare Commission’s investigation into emergency care at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust as ‘shocking’ and said that...
US arms Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia for war with Iran
THAT the US is preparing a new great war in the Middle East and the Gulf to destroy Iran and Syria is crystal clear...
State ownership brings MG Rover back from the dead!
THE state-owned Nanjing Automobile company, which bought MG Rover for a knock down price of £53 million and then transferred and reassembled 10,000 tonnes...
Obama’s New Crusade To ‘Save The Christians Of Iraq’
THE USA and the UK have launched their new crusade on the pretext of saving the Christians and the Yazidis of Iraq from the...
Stop Royal Mail privatisation – No to mass sackings!
THE CWU leaders Dave Ward and Billy Hayes yesterday warned that the Brown government and the Royal Mail top management are planning to sack...
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...
Lift the siege on the Palestinians!
PRIME Minister Ismail Haniya’s Palestinian Authority (PA) national unity government, sworn in on Saturday, is being recognised and supported by more and more...
Howard condemns ‘judicial activists’ as security risks
Tory leader Michael Howard was yesterday bending over backwards to give every support to the Labour Prime Minister Blair and his war against democratic...
Chancellor Brown To Scrap Pensions Deal
EX-CBI bosses leader Lord Turner’s report into the future of pensions – commissioned by the Blair government – is due to be published on...