CWU leaders agree surrender terms!
AFTER calling off last winter’s national strike by their members in Royal Mail without the members’ agreement – and without their members’ demands to...
Brown Speeding Up The Privatisation Programme
THE reaction of the Brown government to the eruption of the capitalist crisis has been to champion the interests of the banks, pledging to...
Universities are for students, not big business!
ALMOST a third of young people (31 per cent) starting at university this autumn are being forced to live with their parents, because they...
No education cuts Restore free state education
CHANCELLOR Darling has announced that £600m will be ‘saved’ by 2012/13 from across ‘higher education, science and research budgets, including student support’, meaning...
Myanmar – bloody military crackdown exposes weakness of the junta!
THE WEEKEND saw the bloodiest crackdown by the Myanmar military dictatorship when police and soldiers opened fire on demonstrators killing at least 18 and...
Afghan war not worth fighting, say British workers
SIR Jock Stirrup, the British army commander, has admitted that the great majority of the British people are opposed to the imperialist war in...
Greek workers must build their revolutionary leadership
THE fact that the Greek working class brought Syriza from nothing to power, in the course of one general election, has been correctly taken...
Time For Labour To Sack Starmer And To Start Supporting Palestine And Workers...
WITH the Tory Party in its greatest crisis ever – as the capitalist world crisis intensifies and the Tory party brings in new savage...
NHS to become part of leisure industry!
It’s now official – NHS hospitals under the Tory-dominated coalition government are set to become little more than a franchise of the leisure and...
Sanders takes lead as US workers and youth rise up against capitalist crisis
THE US independent ‘democratic socialist’ Senator Bernie Sanders has become front-runner for the Democratic Party nomination to stand against Trump in the presidential election...
Chile – workers and youth vote to smash Pinochet-era constitution
TENS of thousands of Chilean workers and youth flooded the main square of the capital Santiago on Sunday celebrating the result of the referendum...
‘Do Or Die’ Johnson Has Already Faced An Attempt To Remove Him!
THE JUST-elected Tory leader Boris Johnson has already faced an attempt to remove him by Tory Minister of State for Europe Sir Alan Duncan,...
Build The Wrp In 2008!
THE TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, in his New Year’s message said that his two fears for 2008 were the dangers of a banking...
Palestinians are rising up to defend their land and achieve their State of Palestine...
THE temperature is rising all over the Middle East as US and Israel seek to force the Palestinians to accept the dirty ‘deal of...
Long Live The Libyan Revolution
THE forty-year-old Libyan revolution is being celebrated with enthusiasm this week by the Libyan masses in Tripoli. The revolution, led by Colonel Gadaffi, put an...
UN raises alarm over Palestinian hunger strikers –– Free them now!
THE United Nations (UN) has raised the alarm over the health condition of hunger-striking Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...
UCU & NUS stop pleading with the Tories & call an all-out strike...
TODAY tens of thousands of lecturers and students will march through central London to demand free education for all. The Tory government has pushed plans...
Down With US Plan For Middle East Nato – Forward With Struggle For...
JORDAN’S King Abdullah II told CNBC television news network last week that he supports the formation of a NATO-style military alliance in the Middle...
Chagos Islanders To Lobby 10 Downing Street
A DELEGATION of Chagos Islanders from Crawley will be delivering a letter to the new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street this...
Cameron supervised the destruction of Guardian hard drives
THE picture painted by Home Secretary May of the police doing their duty in the Snowden affair, as they saw it, without any government...
Murdoch withdraws BskyB bid – Now bring down coalition!
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister announced that a judge-led phone hacking inquiry will have powers to call media proprietors, editors and politicians to give evidence,...
Workers action shakes Rajapakse
A FIERCE struggle has erupted in Sri Lanka between the military-police dictatorship of Mahinda Rajapakse and over a hundred thousand garment workers in the...
Time to take the Gourmet struggle forward to victory
THE intervention at the TUC Congress last Monday by the Gate Gourmet locked out workers was an outstanding success. It let every delegate of...
Israeli government forced to remove metal detectors from Al Aqsa Mosque!
THE ISRAELI security cabinet decided on Monday night, after massive Palestinian demonstrations and international protests, to remove the metal detectors which had been installed...
Palestinian masses break the blockade and start tearing down the walls
THE Palestinian revolution has shown the way forward by blowing a massive hole in the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, so that hundreds of...
Forward To Jerusalem!
THE Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday that eight Security Council members are guaranteed to vote in favour of the Palestinian bid for full...
Britain’s ‘Treasure Islands’ for the super rich – while it’s super austerity for...
THE ‘Panama papers’ leak of 11 million documents shows that the rich and infamous worldwide, including heads of state, are avoiding taxation...
Follow the lead of US workers and youth! Force the TUC to call a...
FROM Los Angeles to New York, Austin to Boston, Chicago to Atlanta, American students and faculty members at major US universities have risen up...
Darling ignored over short selling
BRITISH capitalism is staring disaster straight in the face. Motor car sales in December 2008 were 47.5 per cent lower than in December 2007. Yesterday,...
Labour is rushing to Johnson’s defence. Make the TUC call a general strike...
THE TORIES have launched the most vicious attack on the working class since they came to power in 2010. After ten years of austerity,...
Ex–Blairite Short Reveals Blair Coup Against Cabinet
CLARE SHORT, one-time International Development Minister, revealed to the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday just how Blair, with the aid of Goldsmith, deceived the Cabinet and...
Mandelson plan for uni cuts must be defeated
MANDELSON’S decision to lop £398m from the higher education budget, and to bring in third class tuition, will see thousands of workers in...
The Palestinian Revolution Is On The Verge Of A Great Victory!
THE head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, said yesterday that the Palestinian revolution is on the ‘verge of a...
Trade unions must act now to defend living standards!
BANK of England Governor Mervyn King sent a letter to Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday because inflation has taken off. Under statutory obligations put in place...
Nationalise British Gas! Bosses Are Making Billions Out Of The Crisis As Millions Go...
BRITISH Gas’ owner Centrica has posted huge profits after oil and gas prices soared last year as the US and the UK stoked up...
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...
Unite Helps Bosses Cut Workers’ Wages
THE UNITE trade union leaders yesterday were in full flight praising Toyota workers for taking their advice and assisting the bosses by accepting a...
Stop the NHS being privatised! Defend funds for services – don’t use them for...
The abolition of NHS England by merging it with the Department of Health, announced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday, is the...
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...
Occupy Vauxhall plants – the only way to save jobs!
TORY business secretary Greg Clark emerged from talks in France with General Motors and PSA, the owners of Peugeot, announcing that the talks had...
Bank of England splits over measures required to keep British capitalism afloat!
ON WEDNESDAY the Adam Smith Institute admonished the Bank of England as ‘worse than useless’, and warned: ‘There is already a major crisis...
Hunt tells workers to let their families freeze to support the war on Russia!
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has issued the call for workers to go without heating this winter to support the imperialist war on Russia. Appearing before...
Stop regeneration, and start the refurbishment and building of council houses
THE Fire Brigades Union has called for a public inquiry into the fatal fire in the Camberwell high rise block which claimed six lives....
Bangladesh: a paradise for the bosses, and a hell for the workers
THE arrest of the owner of the collapsed building in Dakha is just a tiny sop to the massive anger felt by Bangladeshi workers...
Brown And King Split As British Capitalism Founders
PM Brown has reacted to the Bank of England chief’s public admonition that the next Budget must not plunge the UK into another flood...