Maude-Miliband Unite To Condemn Pension Strikers
YESTERDAY’S stoppage in defence of pensions saw 90 per cent of PCS members stopping work, the biggest turn-out for strike action in the union’s...
Forward with the Greek socialist revolution
THE Greek working class remains undefeated as the clashes between teachers and students with the riot police in Salonica on Thursday have proven. The source...
Carey calls to ‘defend Britain’s Christian identity’
IN a call that will be enthusiastically taken up by the BNP, which champions Christian civilisation, the ex-Archbishop of Canterbury, Carey has urged the...
Berezovskiy calls for the violent overthrow of Putin
FOR some time the Blair government has been bringing in draconian anti-terrorist legislation, such as the Terrorism Act 2000. It has been boldly ‘identifying’ terrorism...
End the Israeli occupation of Palestine!
IT IS 40 years since Israeli warplanes destroyed the Egyptian airforce on the ground and Israeli troops occupied the Sinai peninsula, occupied Syria’s Golan...
Capitalist Debt Crisis Demands A Socialist Revolution!
THE deepening world capitalist crisis is poised to see entire nation states defaulting, plunging their banks into an even more desperate crisis, deepening the...
Cameron Poses As The Soldiers’ Friend
THE government is to write into law for the first time the principles of a ‘military covenant’, which will give members of the navy,...
‘It’s A Social Revolution’ Says Archbishop Of Dublin
IRISH Congress of Trade Unions General Secretary Patricia King has warmly welcomed the overwhelming ‘yes’ vote in the marriage equality (gay marriage) referendum saying...
GM’s Reilly insists no decision made on which plants are to close
GENERAL Motors’ head of operations in Europe, Nick Reilly, has a history – he was in charge of the operation that shut down Vauxhall...
Government determined to destroy District General Hospitals
THE HSJ (Health Service Journal) has done a service to the NHS, and its tens of millions of users. It has revealed just how...
British Commander Demands Tro0P Numbers In Helmand Be Doubled
A FEW WEEKS ago the US Secretary of Defence, Gates, was accused of trying to corral the British government into sending more troops...
UK police state spying on MPs is legal says IPT!
NOTHING is being allowed to halt or even get in the way of the all-powerful GCHQ spy machine that has been long established as...
Fight for jobs, and against evictions and benefit cuts!
THOUSANDS more working-class families are going to their local Citizen Advice Bureau because of the effects of unemployment, debts, threatened loss of homes and...
Gmb Cuts Cash To Labour While Unite To Discuss A Boycott
THE GMB Central Executive Council (CEC) has voted to reduce its current levels of affiliation to the Labour Party from 420,000 to 50,000 from...
Simpson Aims To Prop Up The Brown Government
AT a time when the working class is starting to roar like a lion and demand and vote by over 90 per cent majorities...
Israeli Fury At Palestinian Unity!
PALESTINIAN president, Mahmud Abbas, and Hamas leader, Khaled Mishaal, yesterday signed the Palestinian Unity Agreement in Cairo, putting an end to the split in...
No renegotiations – Merkel and Sarkozy warn Greece
THE fact that Papandreou has had to sack the Greek Military General Staff at the same time as he has angered Sarkozy and Merkel...
Corbyn lets Labour’s right wing drag him into the ‘Remain’ camp!
LABOUR leader Corbyn was pushed yesterday for convincing reasons for voting to ‘Remain’ in the EU in the forthcoming referendum. He said that EU...
BMA Junior Doctors reject Tory-imposed contract!
THE decision by the British Medical Association (BMA) to refuse to re-enter contract negotiations for doctors in training will be welcomed by every trade...
The absurdity of Miliband’s ‘one nation banking’ under capitalism
LABOUR leader Miliband has once again revealed the absolute bankruptcy of reformism. In a speech made yesterday he denied that there were laws governing...
Tories out to destroy free speech
THE full extent of the Tory plans to smash up the right to free speech was revealed yesterday by an unlikely source, the new...
Libya disintegrates while the NATO vandals admire their work
A SHRINE in the Libyan capital Tripoli venerating a Sufi Muslim saint has been destroyed – the latest in a series of outrages by...
Snap General Election Farce!
LABOUR Prime Minister Brown, a cautious and bumbling, conservative politician, is due to decide this weekend whether to take a big gamble and call...
Fatah junta seizes control of the West Bank
YESTERDAY President Abbas decreed the ending of parliamentary rule in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as he appointed an illegal government headed...
Workers of the world unite in the struggle for socialism
OVER 600,000 workers have come to work in the UK from the eight nations which joined the European Union in 2004, said Home Office...
Scrapping of Public Health England part of Tory plan to force through privatisation...
The lead story in last weekend’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper announced: ‘Hancock axes failing public health body,’ adding ‘PHE (Public Health England) to be scrapped...
Bring Out All The Unions To Defend The NHS!
THE situation could not be clearer. The whole of the trade union movement and the majority of non-trade unionists support the 24-hour strike actions...
Nationalise BAA – forward to a national transport system
THE call has gone up in the Competition Commission report that three of BAA’s seven airports – two of its three in London, out...
Black Friday mayhem in bankrupt UK
BLACK Friday came to the UK yesterday with scenes of chaos and mayhem in supermarkets up and down the country, scenes that came close...
Bosses Demand Lift The Lockdown While Pensioners Are Locked In At Home!
WITH British capitalism up to its neck in hundreds of billions of debt, and with the middle class small proprietors ruined, the cry is...
There must be ‘non-negotiable rules’ Kelly tells minorities
COMMUNITIES Secretary Ruth Kelly, launching a Commission on Integration and Cohesion yesterday, declared: ‘I believe that we should celebrate and clearly articulate the benefits...
Obama’s Second Coming – Full Of Empty Words
OBAMA began his second term on Monday, after four years of office which saw GM and other motor car giants go bust, Lehman Brothers...
US and EU backed armed mobs run riot in the Ukraine!
THE imperialist backed Ukrainian right-wing, including self-declared fascist movements, have brazenly made a call to arms, and to prove the point on Tuesday shot...
Obama seeks wider support for central Asian war
PRESIDENT Obama has shaken his supporters with his admission that the war in Afghanistan is not being won, and that he is willing to...
After the BA battle ‘pirate Walsh’ seeks to shut down Iberia, sacking 3,800!
IAG chairman Walsh plans to axe 3,800 jobs – a fifth of the Spanish Iberia airline’s workforce – in a country where unemployment is...
Greek workers defy Troika
ON Sunday the Greek working class, youth and rural poor delivered a hammer blow to bankers and the capitalist system when it defied all...
Brown lambasts Tube strikers and public sector workers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown mounted an outspoken attack on members of the RMT railworkers’ union on strike at the London Underground bankrupt maintenance company...
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...
‘No quick fix’ in the Lebanon says Downing Street
YESTERDAY saw US landing craft from a US aircraft carrier taking off US citizens and others, who had to wade through the sea to...
Ruling Class Targets The Political Levy
THERE has been a frenzied hue and cry raging for weeks now over the minor mistakes of Labour cabinet ministers over relatively minor...
MPs want a secret inquiry into the Afghan debacle and defeat!
THE UK government should set up an inquiry into ‘lessons learned’ after troops withdraw from Afghanistan at the end of this year, the MPs...
Darling’s plan to make workers pay for crisis
CHANCELLOR Darling made his pre-budget speech to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon in the form of a Labour general election manifesto. His line was...
Entwistle Put To The Sword
THE crisis of the capitalist state is rapidly deepening after the just-appointed ex-Director General of the BBC, George Entwistle, was publicly put to the...
Even the right-wing bourgeois press is being threatened by the state!
THE furore in the bourgeois press about the lenient treatment handed out to the Tory culture secretary, Maria Miller, who was found guilty of...
Turn The November 30Th Strike Into An Indefinite General Strike
THERE can be only one demand for next week’s one-day strike by public sector workers and that must be for the TUC to call...