Nurses demand emergency conference to remove union leaders guilty of pay betrayal
NURSES reacted with fury last week when they received their July pay packets and realised that the 3% pay increase their union, the RCN,...
A milestone in the failure of the US-UK war against Iraq
THERE were no pictures beamed around the world yesterday of United States President Barack Obama at a passing out parade in Baghdad on the...
Abolish the monarchy – forward to a workers’ republic and socialism!
DETAILS of the settlement between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre to end her claim that she was forced to have sex with the Duke...
Paper tiger union leaders ‘pause for peace’ at Grangemouth
THE just concluded 48-hour strike by the Grangemouth oil refinery workers was a magnificent success and showed to the entire world the power that...
Victory To Syria – Down With The US, UK And Israel
THE unprovoked air strike by Israeli forces on a scientific research centre on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus is the opening shot...
Gaza human rights centre issues call for international community to intervene to halt...
YESTERDAY marked Human Rights Day, a day observed annually across the world to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by...
British MPs reduced to whinging while Taliban take control!
WHILE the Taliban’s top political leaders arrived in Afghanistan to take control of the country, British MPs held an emergency debate in Parliament yesterday...
News International bought policemen and state officials, and dictated to political parties
THE Leveson Inquiry has exposed the diseased nature of British capitalism, its ruling class and its state apparatus. The state, during the period of...
Banks to do immigration checks! Smash this racist Tory government!
FROM January 1st banks and building societies will be legally obliged to check the current accounts of 76 million account holders and compare them...
Build the Revolutionary Leadership – Forward to the Socialist Revolution!
THE MASSIVE vote of over 17 million workers and youth to leave the EU on March 29th has driven the ruling class and its...
Drive to bring local performance-related pay into the NHS must be defeated
THE chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) Chris Hopson, representing more than 200 NHS trusts across England, has called for the ripping...
Defend North Korea’s right to defend itself from Imperialist War
IN HIS New Year speech North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un warned US imperialism not to start a nuclear war against the country saying that...
As Israel implodes – forward to the Palestinian State where Palestinian and Jewish workers...
AFTER 27 weeks of mass Israeli and Palestinian protests, Israel’s legislature has approved the first reading of a racist and divisive plan drawn up...
Unite must hit back and defend its members, with full TUC support
THE petrochemical plant at the giant Grangemouth complex in central Scotland is to close with the loss of over 800 jobs, owner Ineos announced...
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...
Bankrupt capitalism is responsible for 100,000 deaths in UK – Only a socialist revolution...
ON TUESDAY, the UK officially recorded 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 with half of these deaths being recorded since November 2020. Even this terrible number of...
The UK, EU And US Trade Unions Must Show Their Support For Palestine With...
SENIOR Hamas official Abdul-Rahman Shadeed has condemned Saturday’s settler attacks in al-Mughayir village east of Ramallah and other West Bank areas, describing them as...
Stop Royal Mail Privatisation!
NEXT week the postal workers union, CWU, is holding its delegate conference under conditions where the coalition government is planning the wholesale privatisation of...
Bank and government split as crisis deepens
THE decision of the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King to name and shame the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Darling, as...
Palestinians force Israel to agree ceasefire in Gaza
LAST Friday Israel launched a murderous bombardment on the Gaza Strip killing at least 27 Palestinians, including two pregnant women and at least two infants,...
Imperialist drive to war with Russia takes leap forward
THE war preparations by the imperialist nations against Russia took a giant leap forward this week with NATO and non-NATO troops massed in north-western...
Airbus Workers Take To The Streets!
STRIKES and protest marches are taking place at Airbus plants in France and Germany for a third day after it was announced that over...
Trade union leaders trying to manage capitalism
Rising unemployment is a national emergency declared the TUC yesterday after the government revealed that 150,000 workers had lost their jobs in the last...
Trump sends 15,000 troops to Mexican border – threatening to open fire on migrants!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump spat on the Statue of Liberty this week and the revolutionary history of the United States, especially its call from...
US piracy forces down Bolivian plane in search for Snowden
THERE is not the slightest doubt that Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have done a huge service to the whole of...
Greece must be sacrificed – Osborne dons his butcher’s apron!
CHANCELLOR Osborne was in the mood for sacrifices on Tuesday and as is his way, the way of the British bourgeoisie, these sacrifices were...
The Jubilee turns sour as capitalism crashes
THE Jubilee ‘celebrations’ have turned out to be a petty, momentary diversion for sections of the middle class, away from the real drama...
Brown supports lifting £3,000 cap off top-up fees
YESTERDAY Chancellor Gordon Brown joined hands with two of the leaders of the capitalist class to signal his willingness to raise the £3,000 cap...
Labour manifesto – a recipe for selling off the NHS and the Welfare State!
THEY say that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, and Gordon Brown proved the point yesterday when he began his forward to...
Tories get ready for war with Syria
PM Cameron is facing a direct legal challenge over a new version of the ministerial code which has been produced and which omits a...
Labour must condemn any secret talks with the Tories and mobilise to bring them...
‘I GOT us into this mess, and I will get us out of it’ PM May told the massed ranks of Tory backbenchers at...
Putin wants a ‘game with rules’ with imperialism!
PUTIN posed the question at last week’s International Discussion Club in Sochi: ‘The World Order: New Rules or a Game without rules’. (see feature) He...
Tory government responsible for thousands of unnecessary deaths – time to kick them out!
YESTERDAY marked the 10th anniversary of the BBC Panorama programme that exposed the shocking treatment of the patients at Winterbourne View, a private hospital...
Tories Profiteering Out Of The NHS!
NHS patients from outside the EU are to be charged 150% of the cost of treatment in the NHS. This is part of a ‘crackdown’...
Iraq crisis sharpens with no government, the trade unions banned and no electricity
IRAQ casualties have risen sharply amidst the political vacuum following the inability of the various puppet pro-Shia or pro-Sunni parties, led by Maliki...
Stop children and immigrants being used as ‘cash cows’
EVIDENCE is emerging about the extent to which the Tory policy of creating a ‘hostile climate’ for immigrant workers is being used by the...
Time for the TUC to call a general strike to kick out the Starmer...
LORD Peter Mandelson was arrested on Monday and released on bail pending further investigations early yesterday morning. The former Labour minister, US ambassador and the...
New Health Act must be smashed along with the government that has brought it...
THE Tory-led coalition will now be able to close all of the hospitals on its hit list, and more as it wishes, to ‘save’...
Brown and Darling give the nod to 40,000 sackings!
ONCE AGAIN the Labour Party leadership of Brown and Darling have shown where their class allegiance lies – and at great cost to the...
French Stalinists step in to help Sarkozy
OVER a million French civil servants went on strike yesterday, joining the hundreds of thousands of railworkers, busworkers and gas and electricity workers who...
Forward to the State of Palestine! Down with Zionism and Imperialist conspiracies to...
ARREST warrants for genocide for Israeli PM Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant were finally issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) this...
War against Taleban spreads into Pakistan
THE centre of Mingora as well as large parts of the provincial capital of Swat have been destroyed and are rubble after five weeks...
Tory counter-revolution must be defeated!
THE Tories yesterday announced that as part of the autumn anti-trade union legislation they will be stopping public sector workers automatically paying subscriptions to...
By 278 votes to 0 MPs vote for extending the Universal Credit top-up beyond...
THE TORY government was delivered a massive blow on Monday evening when it was defeated by 278 votes to 0 when MPs voted for...
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...