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...
No hardship payments says Woodley
TGWU leader Tony Woodley confirmed yesterday that the hardship payments to the locked out Gate Gourmet workers have been stopped. He informed a delegation of...
Occupy And Nationalise UK Gm Plants Now!
BOTH Spain and the UK have refused to sign the Memorandum of Understanding that binds together the Magna-Sberbank-GM deal under which there are...
‘We are the masters now’ say Tories and employers
THE TORY-led coalition is poised to give all power to the employing class through neutering employment tribunals and giving the employers their own ‘charter’...
Benefit Sanctions Are Starving Children!
100,000 children were left to starve last year as a direct result of the Tory-led coalition’s drive to cut benefit payments to the unemployed...
Netanyahu in secret talks with Obama
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and United States President Barack Obama held two sessions of secret talks at the White House yesterday, lasting a...
Chinese and Russian Stalinists are getting burnt by the crisis
THE Chinese Stalinists are now paying an enormous price for linking their fate with that of US capitalism. First of all they declared parts of...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Defend Jobs, Homes, Basic Rights And Deal With Climate...
THE TUC’s ‘Put People First’ march on Saturday brought 50,000 workers and youth onto the streets marching behind powerful contingents from the GMB and...
Unions must mount massive campaign to nationalise Vestas now!
THE Vestas occupation clearly shocked the employer and weakened the Labour government to the point where a mass struggle has to be launched by...
Tory Coalition Turns To Civil War Tactics!
THE Tory-led coalition is planning to reintroduce the Riot Act nearly 40 years after it was abolished in England and Wales. Under proposals set out...
Tories Open Up The Battle Against Socialism
THE content of the ‘devolution campaign’, which has now developed into the ‘Home Rule for England campaign’ was revealed yesterday when Tory Justice Secretary...
Crisis hit Osborne pledges ruthless class war on workers, pensioners and youth
CHANCELLOR Osborne began his Autumn Statement yesterday ‘We will do whatever it takes to protect Britain from this debt storm . ....
TUC must support junior doctors with a general strike!
THE decision by the British Medical Association to authorise fresh strike action by junior doctors over the imposition of a new work contract is...
OBAMA READY FOR MAJOR STRIKE ON SYRIA, SAYS McCAIN
US SENATOR and former Republican presidential candidate John McCain has warned that a Congressional vote against military action in Syria would be ‘catastrophic’. He also...
Universities in crisis – courses slashed, thousands to be sacked and fees to soar!
UNIVERSITIES are being hit hard by the capitalist crisis with thousands of jobs and courses going, and with students facing a lifting of the...
Stop the UK arms sales to the Saudi and Bahraini despots!
DESPERATE for trade after Brexit, and for access to Middle East oil, bankrupt capitalist Britain is desperately licking the boots of Arab feudalists, while...
Cox joins the war criminals with her plan to attack Syria!
ON Monday evening in the House of Commons Labour MP Jo Cox came to the rescue of Cameron and the Tories when she...
Trade unions must reject Coalition attack on the unemployed and the poor
EX-ARMY officer Duncan Smith, the Coalition’s Work and Pensions Secretary, yesterday announced a Universal Credit to replace all benefits, and also ...
New Irish coalition agrees to water and housing taxes
THE Irish coalition has been officially formed between two right-wing parties in the Republic, Fine Gael and the Labour Party, and will be unveiled...
You must accept capitalism and its cuts orders Johnson
YESTERDAY, Alan Johnson, the ex-CWU postal workers leader, warned the trade unions that they must accept the capitalist crisis, and as slaves of capital...
US police murder of George Floyd is part of a war on the entire...
THE WORKING class internationally has risen up in anger over the police murder of George Floyd in the US. The burning issue over police...
Labour marshalling its strikebreakers
THE capitalist state has had to admit that its war on two fronts means that it cannot rely on the British army for strike...
Ealing A&E saved! Now Maternity & Children’s wards must be re-opened!
THE PLANS to close Ealing and Charing Cross A&Es have been scrapped after a mass campaign by the West London Council of Action secured...
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...
Workers of the world unite in the struggle for socialism!
THE UK authorities issued National Insurance numbers to 713,000 overseas workers in the year to April 2007. The WRP and the News Line are pleased...
US-UK Plays Sectarian Card In Iraq
YESTERDAY the role model for US-UK imperialism was Pontius Pilate, as the US military and Prime Minister Blair sought to wash their hands of...
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...
All out action needed to defend pensions and jobs
THE CWU is warning that 40,000 jobs will go as a result of increased mechanisation of the Royal Mail system. It is also objecting...
US raises the stakes by signing missile deal with Poland
THE US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tbilisi yesterday for talks with the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. Her mission was to get...
Palestinian government rejects Blair’s plotting
THE leaders of the Palestine National Authority (PNA) government yesterday rejected the interference of British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Palestinian internal affairs. Dr Mousa...
BA workers reject wage cuts! Renationalise BA Now!
A MASS meeting of more than 3,000 British Airways cabin crew workers yesterday threw out by a massive majority the airline’s plans to slash...
85 Million Brits By 2081!
IN the recent period the government, the Bank of England and the employers have been glorying in the fact that the enlargement of the...
Pakistan PM forced to condemn US raid
THE Pakistani Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, yesterday spelt out that Pakistan cannot accept actions like the recent US cross-border air strike on a village...
The world crisis is driving forward world
THE world crisis of the capitalist system is deepening rapidly, and is creating a political and revolutionary crisis in the major capitalist states, where...
Forward to the end of the occupation of Iraq
BOTH American generals and ex-British ambassadors have been predicting that Iraq is either on the brink of civil war or that it has already...
Support the postal workers – Bring down Brown government
GORDON Brown launched his government of national unity yesterday by giving ex-Tory Sean Woodward a job in the cabinet (he defected from the Tories...
Inflation Surges As Bosses Slash Wages And Jobs
THE government revealed yesterday that inflation shot up in December with CPI inflation reaching 3.7% (up from 3.3%), and the RPI rate, which...
Leaked documents reveal a failed mass-murder machine
THE leaked 90,000 US Afghan war documents once again show – as did the My Lai mass killings of the Vietnamese people – the...
Work till you drop! – Capitalism’s programme for the elderly
CAPITALISM is truly on the rocks! Unemployment is already heading for three million, of which the majority of the unemployed will be aged between 16...
One Day General Strike On January 31
THE government’s policy of mass sackings of civil servants, of driving down their wages, and of outsourcing and privatisation has driven civil servants to...
New Labour fawns over the bourgeoisie
YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair stepped in to try and save his Minister for Culture, Media and Sports, Tessa Jowell and also his government. So we...
Brown & Mandelson are not talking down the pound, they are planning to scrap...
THE EU Commission’s President Barroso has been told by the ‘people who matter’, ie by members of the Labour government, that they now...
End CWU paralysis – reinstate strike actions!
KARL MARX wrote in his masterpiece ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’ that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur,...
Inflation Now Out Of Control!
ACCORDING to the latest figures, factory input inflation – that is the increase in raw materials paid for by manufacturers – rose by a...
Agree to robbery with violence or face eviction – Troika warns Cyprus
MPs in Cyprus have been told to agree, by Monday, on a series of bills to raise 6bn euros off the backs of the...