French workers confront Macron’s Thatcherite assault
TRAIN drivers and other workers at the French state railway SNFC began three months of rolling stoppages on Monday evening, as trade unions push...
Defend jobs, wages and rights – bring down Brown government
PRIME Minister Brown’s alliance with the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party has paid off with the passage by nine votes of his amendment to the...
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...
Oecd Warns That World Economy Faces Deeper Slump
GLOBAL growth for 2013 and 2014 has been downgraded ‘significantly’ by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), because of the crisis in...
Zionist Friedman appointed US ambassador to Israel!
BY appointing David Friedman as the US ambassador to Israel, President Trump has unceremoniously stomped on any remaining illusions that he will restore genuine...
No State Control Of The Media!
THE OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), the political cloak for NATO, has issued a warning about the agreement to establish an...
Bloomberg Flops! Sanders Must Stand For President – US Unions Must Form Labour Party!
BILLIONAIRE Michael Bloomberg, whose wealth amounts to $64bn, has seen his bid to purchase first of all the Democratic nomination to be its presidential...
Forward To Jerusalem!
THE Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday that eight Security Council members are guaranteed to vote in favour of the Palestinian bid for full...
Demoralised Davos surveys the debacle of the world capitalist crisis!
THE World Economic Forum meeting in Davos to celebrate capitalism finds the assembled chief executives, politicians and would-be prophets much more pessimistic and frightened...
G20 talks dominated by world crisis, and the fear of world revolution!
THE initial stages of the G20 talks in China were yesterday dominated by the world crisis of capitalism, the sharpening antagonisms that this crisis...
Tax Bonanza for NHS Privateers
The private health companies, that are circling the NHS and salivating at the prospect of making billions of pounds profit out of the sick...
Trump Denounces The ‘Marxists’ As The Crisis Of US Capitalism Reaches Explosion Point!
IN HIS FOURTH of July speech on Saturday US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claimed were...
Syrian opposition demands a no-fly zone!
THE announcement that the western and Saudi-Qatari backed ‘opposition’ in Syria is no longer committed to the UN Security Council-backed Annan ceasefire comes as...
Coalition launches Royal Mail ‘Blitzkrieg’ – Recall CWU conference!
A ‘blitzkrieg strategy’ was how the bourgeois press dubbed last Monday’s announcement by business minister, Michael Fallon, that he was starting the process 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...
Anti-union laws to launch open Tory dictatorship over workers!
JUST days after Chancellor Osborne unveiled his second budget plans to put the whole burden of the capitalist crisis onto the backs of the...
Class war sharpening – unions need new leaders
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister, Cameron, was warning the BAA Unite workers that they must not strike. This was at least six hours before the result...
UK loses AAA credit rating
Late last Friday, Moody’s Investors Service, one of the world’s three main credit rating agencies, downgraded the sovereign credit rating of the UK and...
Defend the Royal Mail – Form a public sector alliance – Bring down the...
FOLLOWING the publication of the coalition’s Postal Services Bill, Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, said: ‘The government has wasted no time in flogging...
Send ex-Goldman Sachs Carney packing
YESTERDAY the new head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, officially took up the reins from the outgoing Sir Mervyn King. Carney, formerly head...
Labour gives support to Tories’ austerity cuts
Two reports this week bring home that the reality facing millions of workers and their families under this rotten, bankrupt British capitalist system is...
NOVEMBER 30TH STRIKE ACTION THE BEGINNING OF A CLASS SHOWDOWN in UK!
ON the very day that the public sector union Unison announced a massive vote in favour of strike action to defend pensions, the leadership...
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...
Unemployment and slave labour – the bourgeois future for youth
‘UK unemployment falls to 2.56 million’, is the fraudulent headline, with Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith declaring: ‘It’s the private sector...
Stop The Council Cuts – Bring Down The Coalition!
COUNCILS all over the UK are poised to make the most savage cuts ever that will wreck and destroy local communities by destroying all...
Australian workers defeat Abbott government over GP tax
AUSTRALIA’S biggest health union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), is celebrating the defeat of the Tory Abbott government, which has had...
TUC leaders plead while workers starve
IN advance of the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, announcing to parliament on Wednesday his spending review, which will detail exactly how he intends to...
Three months to save the NHS! Trade unions must call industrial action now!
YESTERDAY, the Labour Party leader Miliband wrote in the Observer that ‘Everyone who loves the NHS must fight to defeat this health bill. This...
Hunt trying to assassinate the NHS!
JEREMY HUNT, who did a stint as a very pro-Murdoch Culture Secretary, was reshuffled out of that job and became Health Secretary as a...
Please help us – Hague appeals to Russia & China!
SPEAKING at the Royal United Services Institute on Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Hague reported that: ‘On January 16th, a terrorist group linked to Al...
US Ruling Class Split At Home And Abroad
PRESIDENT Obama attacked the Republicans on Monday over an incendiary letter, sent by them to Iran’s leaders, seeking to sabotage his foreign policy...
Fatah calls for a general strike and ‘Day of Rage’ – UK workers must...
AT LEAST 40 Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prison of ‘Megiddo’ have joined the prisoners’ open-ended mass hunger strike, said the strikers Media Committee...
BofE house price warning!
SIR Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, is a very worried man – with good reason. What is keeping him awake...
Now is the time to build the world Trotskyist movement!
ON Wednesday, the general secretary of the TUC, Frances O’Grady, penned another begging letter to the Tory government, this time to the Secretary of...
South African socialist revolution underway!
THOUSANDS of mine workers have downed tools at South Africa’s Marikana Lonmin mine after an AMCU union leader, Mawethu Steven, was shot dead at...
French youth rise up over death of 24 year-old after police attack music festival
THE GOVERNMENT of French president Emmanuel Macron went into a full blown crisis this week with riots in Nantes on Saturday where thousands of...
Trade union leaders should resign as well!
IN a statement on Friday, the day after the general election disaster for reformism, the TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady showed just what a...
Ukrainian Stalinists giving way to EU-backed regime-change attempt
THE Ukrainian Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov, of the Stalinist Party of the Regions resigned on Tuesday in an attempt to draw the EU-backed right-wing...
Coalition putting over-65s to work!
UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen by 65,000 in the three months to May, while the number of newly unemployed in receipt of the JobSeekers Allowance, for...
Stop All Arms Supplies To Israel – Impose Worldwide Trade Boycott
HAMAS has accused Israel of violating the temporary ceasefire on Tuesday. It’s spokesman Moussa Abu Marzouq said on Wednesday that Israel ‘ended the truce...
Saudi air strikes in Yemen as it mobilises 150,000 troops
SAUDI Arabian forces, joined by nine other countries, have launched a military operation in Yemen against Shi’ite Houthi rebels, the Saudi ambassador to the...
Project Fear Gives Way To Pledges Of Retribution
SPEAKING with Labour’s former Chancellor Lord Darling by his side, in full support, the Tory Chancellor Osborne yesterday pledged violent retribution against the electorate...
Coalition Policy Is To Financially Collapse Local Authorities
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that ‘multiple’ local authorities are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts. The...
EU leaders took one minute to agree measures to discipline British workers!
THE leaders of the EU took just one minute of discussion last Saturday to agree on imposing measures designed to beat the Tory government...
4.5m on the housing waiting list!
THE National Housing Federation (NHF) complains that the government has missed its home-building target for the last seven years and that the housing crisis...