Tory-Lib Dem Budget hitting the poor hardest – IFS report
WORKING class families and pensioners are being hit hardest by Chancellor George Osborne’s Emergency Budget. This is the key finding from a study by the...
Brown Won’t Retreat From Blair Agenda
PREMIER Blair got his well deserved come-uppance at the TUC Congress on Tuesday, while the co-author of his policies Gordon Brown was welcomed like...
Botched intelligence and shoot-to-kill ‘mistakes’ are par for the course says Clarke
THE former Labour Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, yesterday continued with his campaign to restore his alleged political reputation. He says that this was...
Greek Government Starts A Pogrom!
GREECE is currently having its books and the success of its austerity measures examined by the EU Troika, made up of the representatives...
Trade unions must call a general strike to support the state of Palestine. Turn...
THE President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, has received US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at the presidential headquarters in the city...
Tories to slash benefits to unemployed & sick
TORY Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government unveiled its plans to target the unemployed and others on benefits, depriving them of their entitlements, or...
General Motors & Ford threaten to stop production in US
AS PAY negotiations between the American car giants General Motors (GM) and Ford, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) have reached a critical point,...
GM jobs crisis hits UK-EU!
THE week long closure of the two remaining GM owned Vauxhall plants in the UK at Luton and Ellesmere Port which started yesterday marks...
As the Tories get ready for more budget attacks on workers, the TUC must...
THE SICKEST NHS patients ‘face hours on trolleys’ and in hospital corridors as the NHS desperately tries to find them beds, according to research...
‘Medieval’ levels of health inequality have devastating effects on NHS
On Sunday, the Guardian newspaper published part of the results from its months-long investigation into the effects of poverty on the NHS. Included in the...
Tories declare war on unions
THE Tory-led coalition, faced with this Thursday’s one-day strike by two million workers, is driving forward preparations for new anti-union laws which will make...
Recall The Tuc Congress To Call General Strike To Support The Junior Doctors
THE latest two-day strike action of the junior doctors has been a resounding success with massive picket lines, and huge public support, while the...
Tuc Leaders Are Betraying The Working Class
THE 150,000 workers who turned out in London on Saturday, as well as the thousands in Glasgow and Belfast, represent a massive change...
TUC unites with bosses to plead with Tories for aviation bail-out rather than fight...
YESTERDAY the TUC joined with aviation bosses and Heathrow management in a joint statement calling for the Tories to ‘protect the UK’s vital aviation...
Sack Ian Blair and disband police death squads
YESTERDAY’S De Menezes family press conference gave its view of the Stockwell 2 document drawn up by the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission). ...
Russia must intervene to drive Kiev junta out!
FOLLOWING the illegal Ukrainian presidential election – called to try and legitimise the imperialist-inspired coup – the billionaire, Petro Poroshenko, wasted no time in...
WITH THE TORIES COLLAPSING, THE BANKERS HOLD TALKS WITH SHADOW CHANCELLOR McDONNELL!
AN ARTICLE in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph revealed that a series of behind-the-scenes meetings has been taking place between members of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet...
A British ‘barbaric act of aggression’ in Basra
THE Labour Government’s Defence Secretary, John Reid, declared yesterday that sending six Warrior tanks to demolish the wall of a prison compound in Basra,...
Fight Tory class war programme – bring down the Coalition!
OSBORNE began his spending review speech yesterday by saying that: ‘Today’s the day when Britain steps back from the brink’. In fact, his speech represented...
General strike shakes the Rajapaksa regime! Forward to workers power!
LAST Thursday, the Sri Lankan capital Colombo was halted as hundreds of thousands of trade unionists and their supporters took to the streets in...
Britain involved up to its neck in rendition
LAST week, the House of Commons was told by the Foreign Secretary, Miliband, that it had been deceived in numerous statements by Labour government...
General Strike required to win junior doctors struggle!
THE Academy of Medical Royal Colleges yesterday issued a statement saying: ‘This is a time of unprecedented crisis for the NHS. With this in...
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...
Brown Demands Pay And Pension Cuts
‘WE would fight any attempts to impose a wage freeze,’ UNISON warned in the wake of Gordon Brown’s call for public-sector pay rises to...
TUC MUST CALL GENERAL STRIKE FROM SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15th IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINIAN REVOLUTION...
THE Hamas Movement has reiterated its rejection of US president Donald Trump’s renewed remarks about his intent to relocate the citizens of Gaza to...
News International, Parliament and the state
THE revelation yesterday that the News of the World (NoW) newspaper had quietly suspended its assistant editor (news), Ian Edmondson, just before Christmas, has...
Tory lies over ‘Syrian gas attack’ exposed!
THE ENTIRE justification for last Friday’s illegal bombing of Syria by British, US and French forces is falling apart rapidly as the truth emerges. The...
Western Bosses Alliance Breaks Apart At Quebec G7 Summit!
THE G7 summit has ended in tantrums, with US President Donald Trump lashing out at Canada’s Trudeau, who was hosting the gathering. Trump from...
Hunt blames the working class for capitalist crisis as Tories prepare a class war...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been in Washington this week attending the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF, the main economic...
Grenfell fire and corona pandemic underline that under capitalism life is cheap! Overthrow...
THE GRENFELL inquiry has heard from the bosses of both the insulation and the cladding companies that produced the flammable material installed on the...
End TUC collaboration with Tories
The news this week that Unison, the largest public sector union, has launched a legal challenge to the coalition government’s white paper on the...
Capitalism must be overthrown to resolve its crisis!
The propagandists for the bourgeois order are rushing to try and defend the capitalist system as being blameless as far as the crisis is...
US raids Libyan stooges!
THE Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, put into power by a murderous NATO campaign that culminated in the murder of Colonel Gadaffi, has called...
Boycott Israel To Demand A Palestinian State
THE Israeli armed forces, under orders from the Israeli government, are continuing to attack defenceless Palestinian women, children and men in the Gaza Strip,...
Brave Gazans Set Out To Break The Israeli Sea Blockade
A NUMBER of Palestinian activists yesterday set off in two boats on a sea journey from Gaza towards the naval limits set by Israel,...
Occupy To Stop Steel Sackings – Bring Down The Tories To Nationalise Steel
THE shutdown of the steel industry continued yesterday without a single call from the trade unions for action to stop the closures and defend...
Brown to give power over NHS away to independent committee
CHANCELLOR Brown yesterday, on the BBC Politics Show, sought to trump his rival, the outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair, in the competition between them...
UK Workers Are Threatened By Covid-19 Mutations – Trade Unions Must Bring Down Tories...
HOSPITALS in the south of England say they have seen a ‘real rise in pressure’ as the number of Covid patients needing treatment rapidly...
New right-wing party to replace Tories being organised as spectre of revolution haunts British...
AS THE Tory Party continues to disintegrate by the hour, demands from the ruling class for a new right-wing party to emerge from the...
Blair’s ‘summary power’ for war on the working class
PRIME Minister Tony Blair launched the Labour government’s new ‘Respect Action Plan’ yesterday, declaring that he was setting out to overthrow basic democratic rights...
Turn the massive marches for Palestine into Socialist revolutions to smash capitalism!
SOUTH Africa’s Minister of Justice, Ronald Lamola, stood firm yesterday outside the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, maintaining that Israel has...
Vote Leave – bring down the Tories. For a workers government to defend jobs,...
THE UK Prime Minister, Cameron, has delivered a thinly disguised deadly threat to the UK working class. This is that if it has the...
US threatens Iran and Venezuela
YESTERDAY the United States Secretary of Defence and Secretary of State, Gates and Clinton, threatened Iran with extreme sanctions if it insisted on its...
Gove calls for parents to scab
Over the weekend the Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove issued a call for parents to volunteer to break Thursday’s strike by civil servants and...
Baghdad bombings blow to Bush!
MORE than 200 people were killed in Baghdad on Wednesday in five bombings. This is the highest number of deaths in a single day...