Universal Credit = war on benefits
YESTERDAY the Tory-led coalition launched its ‘pathfinder’ trial of the new Universal Credit System at a job centre in Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester. From here the government...
Tory-type austerity is now Ball’s centre ground
WRITING in the Guardian this week, Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, made it clear that the Labour leadership’s economic policy consisted solely of moving...
Miliband wants to break with unions so Labour can form a national government...
STANDING with the ‘One Nation’ Tory slogan behind him, Labour leader Miliband yesterday outlined his intention to wrest the Labour Party completely away from...
Discontented generals enter into politics
THE formation of the United Kingdom National Defence Association (UKNDA) led by ex-chiefs of the general staff and politicians such as David Owen is...
British capitalism is stuck in the mire of slump!
THE UK’s public sector net borrowing hit a record high of £20.3 billion in November, official figures show. The figure was the highest for any...
Labour cutting thousands of jobs! Trade unions must bring Labour down with general strike!...
THE PCS trade union has responded to Labour’s huge civil service cuts pronouncements. A shocked and shaken PCS said: ‘The impact of making cuts will...
Disbanding The Met Police Force Is Long Overdue. It Must Be Disbanded Without Delay!
POLICE in London have strip-searched 650 mostly Black children – most of whom were found to be innocent of the suspicions against them –...
Tory leader Badenoch offers to ‘work together’ with Starmer to slash benefits
YESTERDAY, in a speech in London, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch made an offer to Keir Starmer to work together on a plan to slash...
Spanish Opel workers vote for strike action!
WORKERS at Opel’s factory in Zaragossa, Spain, have announced four days of strikes starting next week, after failing to reach an agreement with Magna...
CQC head demands thousands of NHS bed closures!
DAVID Prior, the new head of the NHS regulatory body the Care Quality Commission, nailed his colours firmly to the Tory mast of privatising...
Trade unions must strike to defend the NHS!
TOMORROW Central Surrey Health (CSH), a private company set up by nurses and therapists, will find out whether they have won the £22m contract...
British Army Handed 300 Over To Afghan Torturers
AFTER the killing and torture of Baha Mousa in Iraq was supplemented by a court martial that refused to convict those responsible for his...
Syria Is Right To Press On To Retake Eastern Ghouta From The Terrorists!
A SYRIAN army statement confirmed yesterday that Syrian government forces will lift the siege on the terrorist-held sections of the Damascus suburb of...
British troops in Afghanistan were ‘out of control’ and ‘feral’
THE CASE of Alexander Blackman (the former marine sergeant sentenced to life imprisonment in 2013 for the murder of a wounded Afghan fighter) has...
Step Up The Struggle For Palestine
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas has pledged that he will submit a resolution to the UN Security Council to make a decision that the Israeli occupation...
Vultures Want To Pick At Argentina’s Bones
FOR workers in Britain, Argentina may well appear to be a far off country in South America whose sovereign default on its debts to...
More sanctions on Russia drive up inflation while Tories blame strikes for crisis
YESTERDAY an embargo on seaborne Russian oil exports came into force, a move that will drive up the price of oil internationally and add...
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...
No secret talks! Reinstate the strikes! Sack Hayes and Ward!
THE CWU postal workers top leadership, Hayes and Ward, on Thursday called off the rolling strikes and suspended all strike action, except in the...
Truss makes it clear that ‘trade unions’ are the main enemy she is determined...
TORY prime minster Liz Truss closed the Tory Party conference yesterday with a speech designed to convince the party faithful that, despite performing a...
TUC must end its shameful silence on Palestine and be forced to call a...
Last Saturday, over 170,000 workers, students and youth marched through London in support of the struggle of the Palestinians against the occupation of their...
Troika Forcing Greek Revolution
THE Troika of the IMF, the ECB and the EU have imposed such a massive austerity programme onto the backs of the Greek working...
PCS strike – No compromise with Tories possible. A general strike to kick them...
OVER 500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) came out on strike this...
Strike wave intensifies this week – now is the time to call a general...
Today, over 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies are continuing national strike action called by the RMT union over pay,...
US Federal Reserve is too scared to raise interest rates!
ON Thursday evening, the US Federal Reserve policy committee decided yet again that it did not dare to raise interest rates by a fraction...
Sarkozy sentenced to three years for corruption – Cameron still evades justice!
FRENCH ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in jail, two of them suspended, for corruption. He was convicted of trying to...
Corbyn’s Programme Without The Working Class Taking Power Is A Reformist Fairytale
JEREMY Corbyn launched the Labour Party’s Manifesto for the upcoming general election yesterday claiming it is ‘a manifesto for hope that will bring real...
Localism Bill a cover for mass sackings and privatisation
YESTERDAY saw the Tory-led coalition finally unveil its so-called ‘Localism Bill’, which is central to its plans to make massive cuts in local government...
TUC Must Support Next Saturday’s Mass Rally, Recognise The Palestinian State And Demand That...
SATURDAY saw the concrete proof of just how much support the brave Palestinian people have won in their battle to undo the dirty work...
Tories wiped out in North Shropshire by-election. Now is the time for the TUC...
THE VOTE came in at 4am on Friday morning for the North Shropshire by-election. The Liberal Democrats won, taking a seat the Tories have...
Tories getting ready to blitz NHS and Welfare State
YESTERDAY PM Cameron pledged that a Tory government will introduce a law, within 100 days of taking office, guaranteeing no rise in income tax...
Defend every job, bring down the Brown government, forward to socialism
LLOYDS stated yesterday that its takeover of HBOS would save it at least £1.5bn a year, more than it had been expecting, which all...
Arab League army to fight Iran not Israel or its US backers!
THE Arab summit has been deciding that it will form its own armed force based on Egypt and Saudi Arabia to fight subversion, extremism...
Trade Unions Must Take Action Over Gaza
FORTY-THREE Palestinians were killed by Israeli tanks and rocket fire on UN-run schools late on Monday night and during Tuesday. The schools were well...
Socialist revolution is only way to resolve the ‘epic clash’ between bankrupt capitalism and...
It is not just British capitalism that is facing a financial crisis; the entire world capitalist system is being strangled by debt, and with...
Occupy to stop NHS closures! Bring down Coalition to defend the NHS!
THE Tory Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, announced yesterday that, following the legal period required for consultation, he was implementing the threat made last month...
Liam Fox’s ‘jihad’ against public spending
SPEAKING on BBC radio yesterday morning the LibDem business secretary, Vince Cable, described proposals being put forward by senior Tory MP Liam Fox as...
Human Rights Watch Denounces Israeli Apartheid Crimes!
AN international leading human rights watchdog, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), has accused the Israeli authorities in a 213-page report titled ‘A Threshold Crossed:...
Join the WRP to organise a general strike and a socialist revolution!
PM KeIr Starmer’s humiliating retreat on Tuesday, over his plans to drastically cut the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) benefits for disabled workers has opened...
Capitalist state uses ‘guilt by association’ to attack youth
A REPORT by Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre For Crime and Justice Studies published last week focuses on the way police and prosecutors collude to...
As Capitalism reels Corbyn ‘suggests’ a very minimal Fabian programme
LAST week saw the ruling classes of the capitalist world reeling at the prospect of another huge banking crash, with its high priests, the...
Trade union leaders abandon members – build a revolutionary leadership in the unions
A STUDY published yesterday revealed that as many as six million workers in Britain live in fear of losing their jobs in the next...
Defend the Tamil people! Unite the Sri Lankan workers! Bring down the Rajipakse...
THERE is a war taking place in Sri Lanka, in which the government of President Rajipakse, armed, equipped, trained and financially supported by the...
US/North Korean Summit sabotaged by Bolton & Pence. End imperialist war through the world...
THE SUMMIT between North Korean President Kim Jong-un and US President Trump was cancelled by Trump on Thursday. It was US National Security Adviser...
Blair’s Guildhall speech proclaims ‘globalisation’ & war
LABOUR premier Tony Blair spoke about the fight against ‘global terrorism’ and called for free-trade ‘globalisation’ in his foreign policy speech at the City...