Clinton, Hague beat war drums over Syria
YESTERDAY US and UK diplomats were foaming at the mouth over an alleged massacre by the Syrian armed forces of men women and...
This Is A War That Has To Be Won!
UNITE co-leader Tony Woodley stated yesterday that it was not possible to get an agreement with BA and cancel the BA cabin crew...
Take Action With The Postal Workers
THE CWU postal workers trade union has been forced to take strike action, very much against the wishes of the CWU leadership, by a...
Break with the EU NOW! Forward to a socialist UK!
FOLLOWING the intervention of ex-PM Tony Blair to demand that the UK remains in the EU, all the counter-revolutionary, anti-working class forces have begun...
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,...
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...
Academy head earns £500,000 while over half of multi-academy chains are going bust
THE TORY policy of forcing every school in England to become academies and turn the entire education system into a profit-making business has created...
Replace Bankrupt Capitalism With World Socialism!
THERE is not the slightest doubt that capitalism worldwide is in its greatest crisis ever. The US-UK failed attempt to occupy Iraq and...
Tories get ready for war with Syria
PM Cameron is facing a direct legal challenge over a new version of the ministerial code which has been produced and which omits a...
Tories Ally Themselves With Purnell To Beat The Unemployed
YESTERDAY in the House of Commons the Tories were glorying in the fact that their votes will make sure that Labour’s bill to force...
Students Under Attack–Restore Free State Education!
THE NUS has just published its Poverty Commission Report which shows how education costs are rising, condemning students to live in poverty and blighting...
Endless propaganda barrage and historical falsification used as a cover for imperialist war...
Ben Wallace, Tory defence secretary, in a speech yesterday accused Russian president Vladimir Putin of ‘hijacking history’. Wallace spoke while Russia celebrated Victory Day...
Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism
EVERYWHERE capitalism is crashing! Yesterday the FTSE 100 index fell to 3472.68 points making a 50 per cent crash from the FTSE’s...
Bring down the Tories – the only way to defend and develop the NHS!
THE BMA’s just-published Survey of Doctors reveals the depth of the crisis that the Tory government has plunged the NHS into, as a result...
Take Decisive Action To Win Postal Struggle
AFTER almost two days of discussions, the CWU leadership has rejected the call of the membership of the union for indefinite strike action, and...
Bank and government split as crisis deepens
THE decision of the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King to name and shame the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Darling, as...
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...
The Rapid Rise Of Joblessness Proves The Need For A UK Workers Revolution!
THE rapid rise in joblessness amongst the UK’s youth has pushed Britain to an unwanted milestone. For the first time in a quarter of...
General Council must support locked out Gate Gourmet workers
ON Monday September 12 the TUC Annual Congress was lobbied by 300 of the over 700 locked out Gate Gourmet workers. The Congress then passed...
Get ready to defend the NHS with occupations and a general strike
LORD Crisp, who was NHS chief executive in England from 2000 to 2006, has said there is over-capacity in the ‘hospital sector’ and that...
US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Agreed – Awaits Trump’s Signature!
LAST week the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said Washington is not seeking a permanent military presence in Afghanistan, after the Taliban said...
After the Peace Prize – let battle commence!
AT the same moment as France and Germany were being given a Nobel prize for keeping the peace in Europe, ie not going to...
Judges and lawyers demand end to UK arms to Israel. It’s time the TUC...
OVER 600 UK lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including three former supreme court justices, have written to Rishi Sunak warning that the UK...
OCCUPY to stop NHS closures – demand unions call a general strike!
THE West London Council of Action spoke out and acted for many workers yesterday when it launched the occupation of the Maternity...
French revolution coming to a head!
THE massive strike movement against the Socialist Party-imposed anti-union laws is continuing in France with the railways due to take national strike action today...
Capitalism’s ‘storm clouds’ herald revolution
AT THE end of last week the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, announced that all his stated austerity plans in last autumn’s budget statement were...
Flybe collapse just the start! Coronavirus has brought the crisis of capitalism to a...
LOW-COST British airline Flybe has collapsed with the loss of 2,000 jobs. The pilots union BALPA has put the blame squarely on the Tory...
Osborne to intensify Tory slave labour drive
LONG-TERM unemployed workers and youth will have to undertake work for no pay in return for their benefits, or else starve, with the government...
Tory And Labour Leaders Reveal Their Feet Of Clay In Their First General Election...
THE TORY and Labour Party leaders, Johnson and Corbyn, revealed their feet of clay during their first general election debate on Tuesday night, when...
Transport Unions Must Refuse To Transport Asylum Seekers To Rwanda!
THE TORY government’s racist drive to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda came unstuck on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) granted...
Eu Leaders Make War Against Greek Workers
‘Down with the junta of the bankers! Kick out the swindlers of Brussels.’ These were the slogans being shouted by Greek workers and youth...
Labour conference exposes bankruptcy of Starmer’s government – now is the time to bring...
THE speech by Labour’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves to the party’s annual conference on Monday was nothing more than an appeal to the international financial services...
Tories Are Down – Now They Must Be Put Out!
THE Tories are down but they are not out! The trade unions must mobilise for action at once to deliver a knock-out blow to...
Johnson Pleads For Compromise – The Working Class Must Finish The Job!
BORIS Johnson revealed his plans for a Brexit deal at the Tory Party conference yesterday before formally putting his proposals to the EU. Johnson’s deal...
Production down, inflation up, pensioners savings destroyed – the ‘recovery’ so far!
INFLATION may stay above 3% during the rest of this year, according to Paul Tucker, a deputy governor of the Bank of England. He...
Time For The Tuc To Call General Strike
THE Fire Brigades Union has organised a national demonstration in London on Wednesday 16 October. The FBU is under an all-out attack on the...
Savage cut in ESA to claw back £1.4bn from the disabled!
THE peers of the House of Lords on Monday night capitulated to the Tory government over cuts to disabled people’s benefits to ‘encourage them...
Bury The Health And Social Care Bill Now!
ON March 15 at the historic Special Representative Meeting (SRM) of the BMA, which its Council was forced to call to decide on the...
An NHS For The Rich!
THE BMA and the main TUC trade unions are completely opposed to the Health and Social Care Bill and have given up all efforts...
UK Denies Entry To Pro-Palestinian Academic On The Basis That He Is A ‘Threat...
ANDREAS MALM, a pro-Palestine academic who was planning to travel to the United Kingdom has been denied entry because the government says his ‘presence...
PM Sunak Ditches HS2 And Launches Savage Cuts To Smash The Trade Unions!
THE GMB trade union yesterday slammed the scrapping of the HS2 Northern route, the biggest cut in the rail network since the days of...
Biden in Kiev trying to shore up coupist regime
US Vice-President Joe Biden told the assembled right wingers at the Ukraine parliament yesterday that the US stands with the country’s new leaders in...
BA struggle coming to a head
EXTENSIVE talks have been taking place over the last seven weeks under the Chairmanship of TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber between Unite and BA,...
Attack on FBU an attack on every worker – defend the right to strike...
THE TORY move to make strikes illegal and ban trade unions stepped up yesterday with the official annual report on the fire service. The report...
South Africa crashes into economic depression – socialist revolution is the only way forward
ON WEDNESDAY South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the death at the age of 91 of George Bizos, the renowned human rights lawyer who...