Brown’s National Economic Council ‘war cabinet’ will be making war on the workers
‘WE have agreed to make a solemn engagement as heads of state and government to support banking and financial institutions faced with the crisis,’...
Bosses threaten car workers jobs if they vote to leave EU
THE giant German car maker, BMW, has written to every one of its 8,000 employees in Britain making the thinly veiled threat that in...
Anger over Saddam’s death silences Blair
AT last President Bush has stammered out a few words about the lynching of President Saddam Hussein, saying that he would have preferred to...
Cuts will push councils to breaking point!
THE cuts to local government funding will ‘push councils to breaking point’ according to council leaders. On Thursday the Tory Communities and Local Government minister, Kris Hopkins,...
The US Falters, Shares Crash And Revolution Stalks Europe!
THE US, EU and Asian stockmarkets have taken yet another hit as the decline and fall of the US capitalist economy continues. On Thursday, the...
Merkel’s Short-Lived Victory
ON Thursday, the German Parliament (Bundestag) voted by 523 to 85 to increase the funds available to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) from...
‘Red lights flashing’ – Cameron signals more cuts
WRITING in the Guardian yesterday, David Cameron announced that, following his meeting with world leaders at the G20 conference in Brisbane, he has suddenly...
‘One Last Big Push’ To Disaster
PRESIDENT BUSH and his military advisors were yesterday poised to announce ‘one last big push’ for victory in Iraq, and that 20,000 more US...
Assad warns of new war danger in the Middle East
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad warned yesterday that the Israeli attack on the Gaza humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters, in which nine Turkish citizens...
Interest Rate War Rages Round Bank Of England
HOSTILITIES have broken out between rival gangs of economists on the eve of the meeting of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...
China has beaten coronavirus while Tories will allow 60% of the population to be...
CHINA’S Wuhan province reported a zero increase in new coronavirus infections last week. China has beaten the virus and with no new cases, their...
Inflation Letting Rip As Darling Fiddles
CONSUMER Prices Index (CPI) inflation has been driven up to 3.5 per cent in January by, amongst other factors, VAT returning to 17.5...
DECISIVE ACTION NEEDED TO DEfEND THE NHS AND WELFARE STATE
On Tuesday, NHS North West London announced that it would close A&E departments at Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing Hospitals. Two million west...
Bosses seek abolition of trade unions – answer attack with general strike
The Institute of Directors (IoD) has proposed a 24-point plan to the Tory-led coalition government to save British capitalism. Central to their ‘blueprint for growth’ is...
The state is looking to take control
THE capitalist state used to be the mailed fist concealed within the velvet glove in Britain. Its real power was covered by the parliamentary...
Hewitt And Hoon Stab Labour In The Back
HEWITT and Hoon, are two of the Labour Party’s leading Blairites. Hoon was heavily involved in Blair’s criminal Iraq war, and in the...
Airbus Workers Take To The Streets!
STRIKES and protest marches are taking place at Airbus plants in France and Germany for a third day after it was announced that over...
The last-ditch attempt to save the euro and head off revolution
ON Thursday the European Central Bank (ECB), after months of prevarication and splits within its ranks, finally took the decision to launch the eurozone’s...
McCluskey’s surrender not enough for the Tories!
IN his speech to Unite leaders earlier in the week, the union’s general secretary, Len McCluskey, effectively threw in the towel and capitulated to...
Brown Threatens Royal Mail Funding!
AT THE CWU rally at Central Hall yesterday afternoon, CWU leader Billy Hayes presented a successful outcome of the postal workers struggle as relying...
Brown justifies anti-union action and pay cuts
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown insisted yesterday that meagre pay rises, that are phased in and amount to a pay cut, will be imposed by...
Osborne hammers the workers, the welfare state, youth and the poor!
CHANCELLOR Osborne’s first Tory government budget hammers the poor, the youth and the working class while lowering Corporation Tax and pledging to NATO an...
‘The war against terror’ – a war that cannot be won!
IT’S official. The western imperialist states are engaged in a ‘war against terror’, which they have been waging since the Bush-Blair axis was formed...
Abbas Ready For Talks And A Deal With Netanyahu!
PALESTINIAN Authority President, Mahmud Abbas on Monday declared his willingness to work with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, adding that he hoped to get...
Privatisation drive created Mid-Staffs NHS carnage
RELATIVES of some of the 400 plus patients who died at the Mid-Staffs NHS Trust were unanimous yesterday about the official, just published report,...
Workers defeat Labour Party coupists with increased majority for Corbyn
313,209 Labour Party members and supporters with their leadership vote for Jeremy Corbyn, have driven back the right wing coup attempt that was underway,...
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...
AMCU rejects corporatist agreement with SA bosses
THE decision by the South African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) not to sign the Framework Agreement for a Sustainable Mining Industry...
Time for a general strike to stop the war!
‘THIS is a tremendous demonstration of the anger of the British people against what Blair has done in Iraq and is threatening to do...
Israeli War Criminals Must Now Face Arrest, Detention, And Trial By A War Crimes...
THE US, Israel’s major backer and armer, has condemned the International Criminal Court (ICC) decision to launch a full investigation into Israeli war crimes. In...
Expel Hutton And Field From The Lab0Ur Party!
EX-LABOUR cabinet minister John Hutton, a 100 per cent Blairite, has joined the Tory-LibDem coalition, and been appointed by it to head a commission...
Amazon Rugeley One Of The Most Dangerous Workplaces In Britain!
WORKING in an Amazon warehouse, a woman in the last months of pregnancy was forced to stand for ten hours a day, while another...
Jobs For Youth – Smash The Cheap Labour Economy
Youth unemployment is now higher than it was in 1997, with 702,000 young people aged 16-24 jobless, according to official figures released just before...
British government inquiry into ‘complicity in torture’ is a fraud
ON Wednesday the government published the Evidence Protocol for the ‘inquiry’ into allegations of British complicity in torture – a year after the inquiry...
The NHS must be free and available to all at the point of need!
RECENTLY there have been a few years of increased government spending on the NHS, after many years of chronic underspending. Most of the new...
Victory to Syria – down with imperialism and Stalinism!
THE Syrian war has reached a ‘stalemate’ and President Bashar al-Assad’s government will call for a ceasefire at the Geneva conference on the state’s...
Answer capitalist crisis with a socialist revolution
ON Wednesday the world capitalist crisis deepened after the US Federal Reserve cut its interest rate from 4.75 per cent to 4.50...
Police Chief Tapes Talks With Ministers
THE Metropolitan Police chief Blair was yesterday forgiven by the Attorney General for secretly tapping at least one of their conversations ‘for future reference’. It...
Workers shake Labour to its foundations with their vote for Brexit!
THE EU elections have shattered both the Labour and the Tory parties. With a national turnout of 37%, Labour got 13.6 of the vote, the...
Ferguson resistance joins hands with Walmart workers
THE US working class is now definitively on the march after six days of action in the town of Ferguson culminated in calls...
NHS to be butchered to pay the bankers’ debts
LARGE-scale hospital cuts and closures are now being organised for immediately after the next general election. These cuts have been dictated by the current enormously...
Data bases and electronic spying won’t save the bourgeoisie
THE inventor of the genetic technology behind the national DNA database has said that the database’s unlimited expansion to include millions of people who...
Sack Gove, May and Cameron! TUC must call a general strike to bring down...
EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove, who has carried forward the privatisation battle against the teaching trade unions, and driven forward the Free School-Academy agenda,...
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...
How to deal with the police spies and their state machine
ACCORDING to an internal review conducted by the chief constable of Derbyshire, Mick Creedon, the London Metropolitan Police spying activities on the family of...