Labour’s ‘business friendly’ manifesto is declaration of war on the working class!
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer launched the party’s ‘business friendly’ election manifesto in Manchester yesterday morning with the promise that a Labour government would put...
TUC must immediately act to stop Clarence House staff sackings by the monarchy and...
THE PCS trade union has called for the proposed staff redundancies at Clarence House to be halted and pledged to support every member of...
Unions act now against NHS cuts
A HUGE contract for health services, including end-of-life care in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, is being put out to tender with privateers such as Virgin...
Brown Going Further Than Blair & Reid On ‘Security’
PREMIER to be, Brown, yesterday told the world, five days before the outgoing Home Secretary Reid is to introduce his counter terrorism measures...
It’s Trump versus the courts. Now is the time with the bosses split and...
A HUGE political crisis hit US president Donald Trump yesterday when a US federal trade court in New York ruled that most of his...
Queen’s Speech leaked as axe set to fall on public sector and business grants!
THE leaking of the Queen’s budget speech is unprecedented, and is an expression of the depth of the split and the cynicism in the...
EU was ready to risk scrapping Good Friday Agreement to get ahead in the...
THAT the Covid-19 pandemic world crisis has sharpened the contradictions of the capitalist system to the point of vaccine wars and revolutionary explosions is...
Time for the working class to bury British capitalism
Sir Gus O’Donnell, the most senior civil servant in the country, has broken cover with the public admission that the crisis of the capitalist...
Truss And The Bosses Declare War On The Workers While Leading Labourites Seek To...
PM TRUSS, with her new team in place after clearing out the discredited Johnson gang, is now seeking to save British capitalism from its...
Eu Bosses Rocked By Papandreou Collapse!
A REFERENDUM has been called by the Pasok Prime Minister, Papandreou, on the austerity programme that the EU bosses and bankers have been seeking...
Bush loses US Congress votes
THE Senate of the United States Congress, which has a Republican majority, fired a shot across the bows of President George Bush’s administration over...
UNISON must act to secure British withdrawal from Iraq
DELEGATES at the UNISON national delegate conference last Thursday passed a motion demanding the withdrawal of all British troops from Iraq by the end...
Unite Leader Graham Condemns Lammy For Refusing To Support BA Striking Workers
THE leader of the Unite trade union has hit back at comments by David Lammy MP, Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary, on Sunday, that he...
No sackings, or wage ‘holidays’ for bankrupt banks and councils
YESTERDAY the Brown government was emphasising that it had no interest in running the three banks that it was ‘part-nationalising’ (rescuing) with £37bn of...
Build Fourth International Throughout Africa
THE victory of the strike of the Lonmim miners will inspire not just the workers of South Africa and Africa as a whole, but...
French publisher arrested in UK under anti-terror laws as ruling classes unite against workers
ON Monday, Ernest Moret, who works at the Paris based publisher Editions La Fabrique, was stopped by Metropolitan Police officers after travelling to London...
On tenth anniversary of world banking collapse – Forward to Socialism!
ON THE eve of the tenth anniversary of collapse into bankruptcy of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, which brought the world’s capitalist banking...
The working class will refuse to bail out the banks – only socialist ...
LLOYDS Bank, Britain’s biggest high street lender, yesterday announced that its profits for the first half of 2020 had been wiped out and that...
Trade unions must take action to boycott Israel, and halt all arms supplies!
ISRAELI warplanes struck multiple targets across the Gaza Strip on Friday after a 72-hour ceasefire agreement ended at 8am, killing a child and injuring...
UN Security Council is to vote today on the State of Palestine’s admission...
THE UN Security Council is to vote on Palestine’s UN membership application draft today, prepared by Algeria, recommending the state of Palestine’s admission as...
MPs damn Cameron for Libya but support ‘organised’ regime change in Middle East
FIVE years after US imperialism, aided by their stooges in Britain and France, launched their bombing campaign against Libya and its leader Colonel Muammar...
Sunak’s Spring Statement reinforces Tory war to make workers pay for crisis
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak opened his Spring budget statement with a naked appeal for the nation to ‘pull together’ and that the nation should...
Lloyd’s pulls the plug on Europe
NOT just Greece but the Eurozone and, by extension, the whole of Europe is a financial basket case that is heading inexorably towards a...
May Government ‘Hanging By A Thread’ – Cme Rings The Alarm Bells For World...
THE WORLD’S capitalists are ringing the alarm bells at the prospect that the May government will fall. The US CME Group that owns and operates...
Gaza has 45.2 % unemployment – Greek youth unemployment is 45%!
GAZA’S unemployment rate is among the world’s highest, at 45.2%, the UN has found. The territory continues to be blockaded by Israel, while the...
End all collaboration between TUC and Tories – build a new leadership to call...
TRADES Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Frances O’Grady’s speech to its annual conference contained no call for action from the unions to fight Tory...
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...
Unite plays ‘vital’ role for bosses in selling out fight for jobs!
UNITE yesterday launched a ‘learning hub, to improve employability’ for its members at Heathrow airport. Announcing the launching of this ‘learning hub@heathrow’, Unite stated that...
Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson quits – Now drive the rest of the right...
YESTERDAY morning, Labour’s deputy leader and leading right winger Tom Watson announced that he was quitting his post and would be standing down as...
Cabinet Office Leads Fight To Smash Royal Mail
FOLLOWING instructions from the government’s Cabinet Office to government departments to put their mail out to tender to get the best cutthroat deal, ...
Trade unions must bring down crisis-ridden Tories, break with the EU and bring in...
THE TORY leadership is now in complete disarray, with PM May repeatedly refusing on Tuesday to say how she would vote if there was...
Respond to the death agony of imperialism by organising the victory of the worldwide...
ON FRIDAY, June 21, The Republic of Armenia officially recognised the State of Palestine, raising the number of countries that recognise Palestinian statehood to...
Stock markets crash as US supremacy in AI technology shattered by small Chinese company
ON MONDAY, $1 trillion was wiped off the value of America’s leading tech companies in a share crash caused by the tiny Chinese company DeepSeek. DeepSeek...
Johnson wants Labour to junk the unions!
LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor has declared that it is time for the Labour Party to completely dump the union bloc vote in future leadership elections. Johnson,...
Unions Must Dump Blair, Brown And Beckett
THE decision of up to 40 members of Foreign Secretary Beckett’s local Labour Party branch, Derby South, to quit the party, concretely proves that...
The British government is the real criminal
DEFENCE Secretary John Reid yesterday appealed to people to be very slow to condemn British troops for the atrocities being committed in...
Make TUC day of workplace action the first day of a general strike across...
ISRAELI troops crossed the border into southern Lebanon yesterday in what they described as ‘limited, localised and targeted ground raids’ after approval was given...
End herd immunity capitalist barbarism with a socialist revolution!
THE DEMAND for capitalism to ‘reopen’ under the umbrella of the discredited theory that herd immunity is the only way to combat coronavirus has...
CIA Using Diego Garcia As A Torture Centre
NO WONDER both the British and US governments are absolutely determined that none of the Chagos Islanders be allowed to return to their...
Tories aiming for a national government
LENIN’S definition of a revolutionary situation was one in which the ruling class could not rule in the old way, and was riven with...
US Trade Unions Ready To Take Action To Bring Down Trump!
IN AN unprecedented move, the American trade union AFL-CIO federation (the US equivalent of the TUC) issued a statement last Friday warning that the...
Desperate UK and French imperialism begins new ‘Grab for Africa’
EARLIER this week French aircraft bombed the positions of the anti-imperialist forces in the Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) led by Laurent Gbagbo, while French...
US closes Yemen embassy
THE US emphasised that it had gone to war on the territory of the Yemen yesterday, by closing its embassy in the Yemeni...
Nut Warns Over Free Schools And Academies
COMMENTING on the latest Education at a Glance report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Christine Blower, General Secretary of the...
Nationalise The Motor Car Industry
US and European car employers yesterday warned that ‘their’ industry faced wipeout, ‘victims’ of the slump in the motor car industry and the financial...