Trades unions must take action to end NHS privatisation
‘END this ludicrous, divisive and expensive experiment of the market in healthcare in England.’ This was the call from Dr Hamish Meldrum, the Chairman of...
Berezovskiy goes bust as capitalist crisis deepens!
POLICE were yesterday searching the home of Boris Berezovskiy. They were desperately looking for chemical, biological or nuclear material, so that they could...
Starmer announces creation of a ‘standing army’ as the Labour government moves to impose...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer emerged from an emergency COBRA meeting of ministers on Monday to announce the formation of a new ‘standing army’...
US Longshoremen show the way with strike action on May Day to stop the...
DOCKWORKERS of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have decided to stop work for eight hours in all US West Coast ports on May...
Workers and elderly to be hammered for the benefit of privateers
CURRENTLY all over the country A&E’s are being closed, in some areas entire hospitals are to be demolished, while the number of private patients...
Sinn Fein Ready To Embrace The Psni
THE decision by Sinn Fein to accept the north of Ireland law courts and the police service wholeheartedly (including the special branch) completes the...
With The Tories At Their Weakest Now Is The Time For A General Strike...
SATURDAY’S massive turnout for the trade union sponsored mass demonstration with its lead banner declaring ‘Not One Day More – Tories out’ has spread...
US explodes as workers and youth take to the streets to oppose Trump’s attacks...
LOS ANGELES, the second largest city in the US, exploded over the weekend following a massive raid on Friday by federal agents from Immigration...
Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer foresees a summer of discontent organised by the far right
ASKED yesterday whether the country faced a ‘Summer of Riots’, the Labour Party Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer responded: ‘It’s obvious to me, and...
Davis resignation shatters Tories as May goes looking for Labour votes
TORY Brexit Secretary David Davis exploded a bomb under the leadership of PM Theresa May on Sunday with his resignation from the cabinet. May had...
Capitalism is a broken system – nationalise the banks and the car industry
British Banks have been recapitalised by the working class, who were not consulted by the government before the Prime Minister took the decision...
Merkel’s ‘Grand Coalition’ – Germany’s crisis deepens!
ANGELA MERKEL, the leader of Germany’s right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU), announced on Monday: ‘We have the basis for coalition talks. The CDU will...
‘Sell Everything!’ Shrieks The Rbs!
IN his November Autumn statement, Chancellor Osborne was full of optimism that the crisis of world and British capitalism was being resolved, with his...
Cameron prepared to use Navy against refugee boats!
DAVID Cameron dramatically escalated the British government’s war against refugees fleeing imperialist war in the Middle East and North Africa when he announced...
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...
Trump turning US into a ‘banana republic’ after threats of criminal charges against boss...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump was accused of turning the US into a banana republic over the threat of legal charges being brought against the...
‘Thousands upon thousands of people are living in dangerous homes’ says FBU leader Wrack!
ON JUNE 14th 2017, almost three years ago, fire broke out in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block in North Kensington. It caused the deaths...
UNITE denounces TTIP but supports Cameron in EU referendum!
THE Unite trade union leadership specialises in doubletalk. One example is the way that it is verbally 100% opposed to the anti-trade union legislation that...
Only re-nationalisation of energy industry under socialism can prevent fuel poverty
BRITISH capitalism in the 21st century cannot guarantee even the most basic pre-requisites for life if you are not wealthy. This is the stark message...
Kick The Israeli Troops Out Of Gaza!
YESTERDAY the US barred the way in the United Nations Security Council to a resolution condemning the Israeli assault on Gaza, calling for all...
Irish trade unions must call a general strike!
IRISH TUC leader David Begg said on Saturday ‘It appears that the day of reckoning has arrived. The barbarians are at the gates.’ ...
Welcome all Refugees! Bankrupt EU spreads racist poison!
THE Danish parliament has just voted to rob asylum seekers of their valuables – so that they pay for their upkeep. This policy immediately brings...
Local elections being delayed as the crisis of UK capitalism deepens!
A FURIOUS backlash erupted on Thursday against the Labour government’s cancellation of May’s local government elections, which could deprive 10 million citizens of the...
RCN – thousands of nurses leaving NHS as Labour opens the door to private...
ANALYSIS by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has found that over 32,000 student nurses in England could drop out of their courses by...
The lessons of Katrina and Buncefield
A VIDEO showing President George W Bush being warned on the eve of Hurricane Katrina that the storm could breach New Orleans’ flood defences...
Free first class medical care and accommodation for the sick and elderly
ONCE again PM Gordon Brown and the Labour Party have revealed that while they rushed to handing over £150 billion to the bankers, they...
Hezbollah and Iranian forces have every right to be in Syria at the invitation...
SYRIA’S deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, has hailed Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement’s assistance to Syria, and its struggle for survival, saying...
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...
Abuse of elderly inevitable outcome of privatisation
A major study by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the quality of home care for the elderly in England has thrown the...
TUC must call a general strike to halt Tory drive to runaway inflation and...
US stocks have made huge losses after a major sell-off last Friday on Wall Street. By Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly...
Three Defeats For Tory Welfare Bill
THE Tory/LibDem coalition suffered three defeats on Wednesday; in the House of Lords over their plans to slash £1.6 billion from the benefits of...
St Valentine’s Day Massacre of eurozone economy
OFFICIAL figures released yesterday show that the economy of the 17 nations that comprise the eurozone suffered an overall crash of 0.6% in the...
PM And Chancellor Sunak Forced To Self Isolate As Labour Continues Its Support For...
THE Prime Minister and Chancellor are to ‘now self-isolate as normal’ after both met with Health Secretary Sajid Javid who had tested positively for...
Ukrainian corruption erupts into the open
ON SUNDAY, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky sacked his defence minister Oleksii Reznikov in what has been described as the biggest shake-up of his defence...
European Union’s jobless crisis leading to revolution
FRENCH trade unions and student unions have mounted huge general strikes and protest actions in recent months against the massive rise in unemployment. France’s...
30,000 Businesses Will Go Bust In 2024!
ECONOMISTS at the multi-national financial advice service PwC have issued a stark warning that nearly 30,000 businesses in the UK will collapse under the...
US crisis pauses before another leap forward!
THE deal pushed through Washington late Wednesday night to raise the US debt ceiling – at present standing at a massive $16.7 trillion –...
Youth and workers in global strike against climate change – Time to end the...
TODAY, a week of action across the world starts with a Global Climate Strike in at least 137 countries. This follows mass action in every...
Macron only scrapes a win thanks to abstentions and anti-Le Pen votes!
THE RESULT of the French presidential election on Sunday saw the right-wing Emmanuel Macron winning with 58.54% of the vote, beating the leader of...
Cabin crew angry at Woodley sell-out
LAST Monday’s branch meeting of BASSA T&G cabin crew, to gain their approval for the deal agreed by TGWU leader Woodley and BA boss...
US economy slumps as Obama proposes huge budget debts
THE American economy contracted by 6.2 per cent in the last three months of last year, as consumer spending dropped by 4.3 per cent...
North Korea Has The Right To Self Defence
YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, condemned North Korea’s testing of an intercontinental missile that when developed will have the capacity to deliver...
General Strike from October 10th to support Palestine and go forward to a UK...
THIS year’s British TUC Congress in Brighton from 8-11 September took key decisions to align trade unions with the pro-Palestine, pro-peace and anti-war movements,...
Students & lecturers set to erupt over fees & cuts!
THIS September, students in universities across the country are set to erupt in anger when they return after the £9,000 cap on university tuition...
Full speed ahead for a slave labour UK economy
COALITION leader Cameron is considering calls to freeze the minimum wage, with the British Chambers of Commerce advising that ‘Britain cannot afford to price...