100 years since the start of the great imperialist slaughter!
YESTERDAY, August 4th, saw the leaders of the major imperialist powers remembering the centenary of the start of the first great imperialist slaughter, the...
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...
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...
Nato Murders Civilians In Tripoli Air Strikes
IN another night of terror, murder and horror NATO, allegedly making war on Libya to protect civilians from air attack, has been murdering...
Demagogue Brown ‘names and shames’ the public sector
THE PCS trade union yesterday accused the bankers’ Prime Minister, Gordon Brown of ‘beginning a bidding war on who can cut the most.’ The...
Hewitt, Hoon and Cameron fail to shift Brown
ON Wednesday mid-day, ex-ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon sent a text to all Labour MPs asking them to support a call for a...
Take action to stop NHS cuts and closures
IT is now obvious that the Labour government is setting out, at breakneck speed, to privatise the NHS. It has set up private treatment centres...
All out for the News Line–Gate Gourmet sacked workers conference
THE sacked Gate Gourmet workers were locked out almost six months ago on August 10th-11th 2005 by a management and an owner that was...
US Mounts Drone Assault On The Yemen
AFTER withdrawing its embassy staff from 20 countries, the US ruling class has now launched a drone blitz on the Yemen, with three drone...
Afghan war lost – withdraw British troops now!
THE imperialist invasion of Afghanistan is coming apart at the seams. In fact, the UK troops themselves are now rejecting it, as a legitimate operation,...
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...
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...
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...
Gates flays NATO and threatens the US will abandon ship
LAST Friday, at the NATO summit, the outgoing US Defence Secretary Bill Gates flayed NATO savagely and ridiculed the military alliance, threatening that the...
Afghan crisis – the Dutch won’t go so the Brits must take the strain!
YESTERDAY the Dutch parliament delayed its decision to send more than 1,000 Dutch troops to Afghanistan, as part of a NATO force, under British...
Nato Murderers!
IT is enshrined in International Maritime Law that any ship, whether civilian or military, is bound to answer distress calls and render assistance to...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Brown prepared to impose ‘unpopular measures’
PRIME MINISTER Brown said yesterday that he will not be diverted from taking ‘unpopular’ decisions to ensure Britain gets through the global credit crunch....
Forward to a public sector general strike to smash Brown’s wage cutting policies
GMB members working in the NHS yesterday voted by over 96% to reject the 2008 pay offer in a consultative ballot on the government’s...
Renationalise Energy Companies And Abolish Tuition Fees!
AT A time of a desperate economic crisis of capitalism, when millions of families fear that they will not be able to pay their...
CETA collapse – now workers must end all capitalist trade agreements through a general...
LAST Friday the much delayed CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) between the EU and Canada hit a brick wall when the Belgium region...
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...
Postal workers call a national strike ballot!
25,000 postal workers are to go on 24-hour strikes this Friday in London, and in many parts of the country on Friday, Saturday and...
Irish government disintegrates – forward to a workers and small farmers government
AFTER the resignation of the Foreign Minister and four other members of the Irish cabinet, the Prime Minister, Cowen has resigned as the...
Defend the Royal Mail – bring down the coalition!
The Tory-led coalition’s Business Secretary, Vince Cable, yesterday launched a demagogic attack on ‘spiv’ and ‘gambling’ bankers and their bonuses at the LibDem Conference. This...
Youth reject a life in debt!
AFTER almost 10 years of a Labour government under Prime Minister Blair, young people who get jobs after leaving university find they end up...
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...
The BofE didn’t recognise the crisis of capitalism even when it stared it in...
SIR John Gieve, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, yesterday admitted that he was a victim of the historical blindness of the...
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...
Egyptian Military Shut Down Gaza Power Supply
ALI AL-HAYIK, the head of Gaza’s Federation of Industries and the Palestinian Businessmen Association on the Gaza Strip, warned yesterday that dozens of factories...
Ukrainian workers are fighting the US-UK backed gangsters
THE rapidly developing crisis in the Ukraine, has placed the issue of the defence of the Ukraine from this imperialist-backed assault, and the brigands...
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...
US bombings condemned as a War Crime
THE medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has rightly denounced the targeted bombing by US planes of its medical centre in the...
Gates and Rice go calling on Putin
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin threatened on Friday in talks with top US administration officials, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates,...
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...
Police officer who attacked Tomlinson will not even be charged with assault!
HARRY STANLEY was shot dead by armed police in Hackney in September 1999. They said that they thought that he was carrying a shotgun...
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...
Cwu Leaders Must Call Indefinite Strike Action
HALF WAY through the CWU’s two weeks of rolling strike action it is perfectly clear that well over 90 per cent of the CWU’s...
Bankrupt Barber won’t fight for workers!
ADDRESSING the Scottish TUC yesterday, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber was desperate to show that the addition of another million unemployed in the next...
Ex-Defence Minister Fox Demands A Class War Against Workers And Their Trade Unions!
THE coalition’s ex-Defence Secretary, Fox, put forward his demands for the Tory-led coalition’s March 21 crisis budget yesterday in the Financial Times. It was a...