Sri Lanka Tea Workers Battle For £2 A Day
SRI LANKAN tea workers, some 400,000 strong, are mainly Tamil women workers, who work for around £1 a day and live, along with their...
Only a Socialist Revolution can force the break with the bosses’ and bankers’ EU!
NOTHING summed up the crisis that is gripping the leadership of the trade unions like the TUC’s joint statement this week, with the bosses...
To The Hague With The Israeli Leadership
AN inquiry ordered by the UN Human Rights Council said on Wednesday that Israel violated human rights law and international humanitarian law when its...
Thousands of jobs threatened at Bridgend, Luton and Ellesmere Port!
YESTERDAY Unite leader McCluskey was at the Bridgend plant in south Wales to address the three shifts of workers at separate meetings on the...
Brown supports lifting £3,000 cap off top-up fees
YESTERDAY Chancellor Gordon Brown joined hands with two of the leaders of the capitalist class to signal his willingness to raise the £3,000 cap...
Welsh government plans to implement Tory drive to close hospitals and destroy the NHS
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the Welsh government yesterday that it was embarking on a strategy to ensure patients only go to hospital when it is...
Lesson of the Shrewsbury Appeal victory and Mittings inquiry – capitalist state must...
ON WEDNESDAY the leaders of 12 of the largest and most prominent trade unions issued a letter demanding immediate action to ensure transparency in...
Geneva Report Issues Dire Warning!
JUST six years after the beginning of the 2008 financial collapse – at a time when Cameron and Co. are talking about a recovery,...
Rumsfeld Raves About Nuclear ‘Bunker Bombs’
THE US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has defended, at an Asia-Pacific conference of regional defence ministers and military chiefs, the US drive to develop...
US and Israel – Get out of Syria! Aid the Syrian people by ...
SYRIAN air defences shot down one of four Israeli warplanes targeting a military site near Palmyra on Friday, the General Command of the Syrian...
TUC leaders can’t get enough of the EU’s corrupt corporatism and its anti-working class...
TUC GENERAL secretary Frances O’Grady this week re-hashed all the arguments used by the TUC before the 2016 referendum that only by remaining captive...
The eurozone is a pack of cards ready to collapse, says the economist who...
THE man who is credited as the principle architect of the single European currency 14 years ago has just warned that his ‘project’ is...
‘Recovery’ Rests On Bed Of Nitroglycerine
THE 0.1 per cent ‘recovery’, the ‘work’ of Gordon Brown and Chancellor Darling has caused laughter and incredulity throughout the planet. It is a...
Youth will rise up against savage Tory attacks!
IT is definitely no fun being young under the Tories! As is well known, the Tories are absolutely desperate to be the party that hammers...
Tories-Lib Dems declare war on the working class
The unemployment rate for the three months to March 2010 was 8.0 per cent, up 0.2 per cent on the quarter, the Office for...
Junior Doct0Rs’ Struggle Is Not Over – Reject Barber’s ‘New Contract’
JOHAN Malawana, the Chair of the Junior Doctors Committee, addressing the BMA annual conference in Belfast, told delegates that: ‘This was the year when...
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...
Balls and Miliband argue for a permanent cuts regime
LABOUR leader Miliband’s speech of yesterday was a pre-election attempt to bolster up support from workers by arguing that Labour will be...
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...
Revolution Erupts In Syria As Fuel Prices Are Increased By 25% To 40% –...
LARGE scale protests have erupted in Syria after the ruling Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) regime raised fuel prices again.
The HTS oil ministry announced that...
Forward to the State of Palestine! The UK trade unions must call a...
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday issued a statement on the occasion of the ‘International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People’, stressing that the...
May survives Party conference – but will need Labour’s help to sell-out Brexit!
THE sight of PM May ‘dancing’ onto the Tory Party conference podium’ no doubt celebrating that she had survived the Tory Party conference thus...
TUC Must Smash The ‘Minimum Service Levels’ Anti-Union Laws!
The TUC has responded to the Tory government's 'Minimum Service Levels: issuing work notices’ document outlining how a trade union should operate as a...
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...
Tory hypocrites vow to create a land of ‘opportunity for all’
TORY leader Cameron treated his audience to a big dose of Tory hypocrisy yesterday, when he vowed in the final speech to the Tory...
US-UAE-Israel Deal Is To Set Up Anti-Iran War Front!
THE announcement on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel have reached a peace deal did not emerge suddenly in the past...
Take Strike Action To Defend The NHS
THE Royal College of Nursing, the nurses trade union, yesterday announced that it is seeking a judicial review to force the Blair government to...
Tories want to criminalise anyone ‘undermining’ capitalism
ON SATURDAY, the Guardian reported that the Tories are working towards a new definition of ‘extremism’ that includes anyone who ‘undermines British institutions or...
Zionist parliament finalises ‘death penalty’ bill targeting Palestinian abductees
On Sunday, news outlets across Israel revealed the finalised plans by the Zionist regime to carry out executions of Palestinians abducted by the Israeli...
CBI bosses demand NHS privatisation
THE CBI boss Richard Lambert spoke up yesterday at the CBI Public Service Summit to insist that the financial belt-tightening that the Brown government...
Biden In London To Tell UK Government That It Must Support Use Of...
A GROWING number of Washington’s NATO allies – including Britain, Spain, Canada and Germany – have already declared their refusal to follow the US...
US budget deal threatens working class
ON Tuesday night, the chairs of the US House and Senate budget committee, Paul Ryan (Republican) and Patty Murray (Democrat), held a joint press...
Deutsche Bank on verge of catastrophic crash that will bring down world banks
THE GIANT German Deutsche Bank announced yesterday that it was slashing more than 7,000 jobs from its global investment arm as part of a...
Visteon Workers Show The Way – Occupy To Defend Jobs!
THE Visteon plants in Belfast, Enfield, and Basildon, formerly owned by the Ford Motor Company, but now supplying parts to the motor car industry,...
Trade unions must call massive strike actions in support of Palestine and Iran!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has threatened to invade Kharg Island in order to take control of Iran’s oil exports. In an interview with the Financial...
Tories Want To Bomb Syria!
TORY Defence Minister, Michael Fallon, with the full support of Cameron and leading members of the Labour Party, is calling for Britain to start...
Heroic Iran Breaks US Blockade Of Venezuela As Its Oil Tankers Enter Venezuelan Waters!
ON SUNDAY, the Iranian embassy in Caracas posted a video of the first Iranian oil tanker arriving in Venezuelan waters. ‘The first Iranian tanker...
Unions Must Take Strike Action To Stop ‘Son Of Star Wars’
THE real content of the ‘war against terror’ (a tool for promoting imperialist interests and for grabbing the world’s resources) has been proven with...
World Bank issues a warning that attacking Iran will have cascading impact on the...
THE President of the World Bank, Ajay Banga, has warned that the US-Israeli aggression against Iran will have a cascading impact on the global...
UN Chief ‘deeply concerned’ over Israel assault on occupied West Bank!
IN a statement issued on Wednesday, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he was ‘deeply concerned’ about the Israeli regime’s all-out military...
War on welfare – revolution the only way forward
Yesterday, more than two million people on Incapacity Benefit found themselves officially labelled by the Tory-LibDem coalition as scroungers and parasites living off the...
Price Explosion threat to working class
ENERGY bills will rise by more than 60% within the next few years, a report for the UK’s biggest domestic energy supplier Centrica said...
‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher’ the Daily Telegraph advises Tory...
SATURDAY’S Daily Telegraph gave the Tory leadership candidates some advice. This was: ‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher – and the...
Tories guarantee working class will pay for the profits of the rail privateers
YESTERDAY the Tory government announced its plans to save the profits of the private rail companies by bankrolling them for another 18 months. In March,...
Brown and Darling saving the bosses by savaging the workers
AS is his way, the Prime Minister addressed the CBI bosses organisation yesterday, just hours before his Chancellor was due to declare to the...