Tories to wield privatisation axe!
AFTER years of promising that the NHS is ‘safe in our hands’ accompanied by pledges that budgets would be protected with a ring fence...
May Called And Lost ‘Snap Election’ – Now Drive Her Out Of Office!
THE Tory Party has now suffered its second self-inflicted disaster in just under a year. On June 23 2016, it lost the EU referendum that...
BA Strike Ballot Result Today
TODAY Unite is announcing the result of its second strike ballot in three months for 13,000 BA cabin crew, which is expected to show...
Blair backs Israel’s blitz on Lebanon
PRIME Minister Blair made clear yesterday that the Labour government is not calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war on the Lebanon. Instead, Blair...
French youth revolution will set Europe ablaze!
NEITHER the Gendarmerie, nor troops or even the fatwas of the ‘holy men’ can stop the French youth rebellion, which is the product of...
Hague, Cameron are responsible for Linda Norgrove’s death
US special forces in Afghanistan mounted an attempt to rescue Linda Norgrove after the British government in the persons of Foreign Secretary Hague and...
British Army Handed 300 Over To Afghan Torturers
AFTER the killing and torture of Baha Mousa in Iraq was supplemented by a court martial that refused to convict those responsible for his...
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...
Israel is preparing a massive ground attack on Gaza – the TUC must be...
AFTER 21 days of political paralysis, the US House of Representatives finally elected Mike Johnson, a fervent Donald Trump supporter, as its Speaker. Johnson’s first...
Taliban Wins The War!
THE news that the United States and Britain are going to the United Nations security council to push for UN sanctions against 18 top...
TUC must call a general strike to defend Palestinians and support the State of...
THERE is no doubt that the recent massive demonstrations where hundreds of thousands of UK youth marched, with many chanting for a State of...
Wages still being slashed by price rises!
THE CPI rate of inflation fell to 1.5% in the year to May 2014, down from 1.8% in April, according to the Office of...
Blair’s great pensions robbery
LABOUR’S ‘pensions revolution’ is a major attack on the working class, the elderly and the youth. The origin of the ‘revolution’ is not that the...
Wolf in sheep’s clothing at the TUC
THE ‘Wolf’, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, at yesterday’s TUC Congress, sought to explain to the ‘sheep’, the working class,...
University lecturers start fresh mass strike action
THE THIRD wave of a countrywide strike by members of the University and College Union (UCU) began yesterday with a five-day walkout at 38...
brown proposes to rob the workers to rescue the bankers
YESTERDAY saw the big international push get under way to try to rescue the bankers of the world from the crisis of their capitalist...
A socialist government and a socialist foreign policy needed to defeat terrorism!
NEWS LINE sends its condolences to the families and friends of the 22 people, including children, who were killed and the 59 who were...
US, UK, Karzai Drive To Bribe The Taleban
ON the eve of the Afghan conference in London this week, UK and other Nato troops are to launch an offensive to take control...
Low Paid prevented from having a Family Life
A CASE brought before the Supreme Court yesterday spotlights the extent to which British capitalism inflicts not just indignity but the denial of the...
Irish Union Votes To Repudiate Bank Debt!
The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union is to contact ‘like-minded unions’ to seek ‘international legal opinion regarding the possibility of mounting a successful legal...
Europe Is Rising Up!
YESTERDAY millions of workers across Europe took strike action against the austerity programmes of ‘their’ bosses, bankers and governments. These programmes are creating millions...
Down With US Plan For Middle East Nato – Forward With Struggle For...
JORDAN’S King Abdullah II told CNBC television news network last week that he supports the formation of a NATO-style military alliance in the Middle...
Gm And Magna Reach Agreement In Principle
GENERAL Motors and Magna and its Russian partner Sberbank (which includes the Gaz carmaker) have reached an agreement in principle over the contract...
TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defend the NHS
TODAY junior doctors launch four days of strike action throughout the NHS in England over the demand for a 35% pay increase to make...
Call national strike action to defeat Royal Mail and Brown
AFTER weeks of secret talks, which were extended by a further week and were conducted behind the backs of the CWU membership, the Royal...
Tory Government Is Making War On The Rail Trade Unions – TUC Must Be...
THE RMT has revealed that the private rail companies war on the rail trade unions is being financed by the UK government, who are...
Irish workers reject the Catholic Church’s State and demand abortion rights!
THE Catholic Church-dominated state of the Irish Republic was rocked to its foundations on Saturday when the results came through after the referendum on...
Bush fails to get Iraqi puppets to agree ‘constitution’
OVER the weekend, President Bush made personal phone calls to both the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in...
French government collapses
ON Monday the French government effectively collapsed as a direct result of a massive split in the leading ranks of the ruling Socialist Party...
Bill launched to stamp down on protests! Fight war on workers with all out...
ON TUESDAY, the Tories unveiled The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill to stamp down on protests and give the police, courts and the...
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...
Cwu Leaders Must Call Indefinite Strike Action
HALF WAY through the CWU’s two weeks of rolling strike action it is perfectly clear that well over 90 per cent of the CWU’s...
AA sold to Saga, Permira and CVC bosses pocket £300m
TRUE to form the private equity capitalist groups Permira and CVC having acquired the prestigious AA motoring group with the help of huge borrowings...
Balls reveals intense ruling class fear
ED BALLS, the Schools Minister, and the former economics advisor to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, over the weekend dropped his political master right...
BMA demands STPs be ‘abandoned’! Now all trade unions must follow their lead and...
ON MONDAY, the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting took a giant step forward when, after a struggle over the issue of STPs, it passed a...
Tories refuse to negotiate – opt for a fight to the finish. Junior doctors...
YESTERDAY the BMA junior doctors’ leader Dr Johann Malawana said, referring to the forthcoming strike actions: ‘No junior doctor wants to take this action,...
EU crisis bringing the union to the brink of the socialist revolution!
THE EU is still reeling from Friday’s decision by Standard and Poor’s rating agency to downgrade France’s triple-A status, at the same time as...
Tory war on two fronts – against the working class at home and...
LAST week Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the Tory offensive against the rights, conditions and wages of every worker. This is the strategy behind the...
Bank of England – people will just have to accept poverty as the price...
HUW PILL, the chief economist at the Bank of England, has made the official position of the bankers crystal clear when he insisted that...
British Capitalism Is Bankrupt – TUC Must Defend Wages And Jobs With A General...
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is expected to mount a billion pound rescue operation to postpone energy-intensive British basic industries from going under, as gas...
Prevent new ‘Catastrophe’ for Negev Bedouins!
THOUSANDS of protesters participated in large demonstrations in Haifa, Jerusalem and in the Negev on Saturday against the Israeli Prawer Plan to drive the...
The CWU leaders are refusing to fight for their membership
THE unsolicited public display of pacifism yesterday by the CWU leadership, in the face of the most vicious daily attacks on their membership...
Turn the imperialist war against Russia into a civil war to smash British Capitalism
THE BRITISH ruling class has now made it crystal clear that it favours a class war on two interconnected fronts. On the home front it...
Palestinian prime minister Abbas in London this week for official meeting with Starmer!
Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, arrived in London on Sunday night for an official three-day state visit at the invitation of Keir...
Labour leaks its Fabian draft programme for keeping capitalism and the EU!
THE leaked draft of Labour’s election manifesto yesterday brought out the predictable headlines in the press warning of the dangerous ‘socialist’ Jeremy Corbyn. But a...