Cameron and Osborne’s Waterloo
AFTER the Tories’ defeat at the hands of a defector to UKIP in the recent Clacton by-election, David Cameron vowed that he would ‘throw...
Trade unions and the Labour government
AT the Labour Party conference, the trade unions and a large minority of Labour constituency parties defeated the Labour government on at least five...
Workers across the world support call for a ‘Strike for Gaza’
HOSPITALS in the Gaza Strip are ‘stretched to breaking point’ and infections are ‘exploding’ the UN reported yesterday. The United Nations Office for the Coordination...
Families told to ‘Look after your parents as well as your children!’
WITH home care for the elderly in a huge crisis as private companies go broke and councils declare that they cannot afford to meet...
West London Council of Action shows the way – Occupy to defend NHS from...
LAST Friday’s mass picket of Ealing Hospital called by the West London Council of Action has shown the way forward for defending the NHS...
For A Nuclear Bomb Free Middle East
IRAN took a calculated risk yesterday when it reached an agreement with the US and its allies that it would allow extensive and exhaustive...
The slump deepens as Labour steps up attacks on the poorest
UK Gross Domestic Product fell in the three months from April to June by 0.7% confirming that the slump is deepening and that the...
Housing crisis: socialism the only solution
THE proposal to blow up five blocks of flats in Glasgow’s Red Road, as part of the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games, has...
INDICATIVE VOTES ARE REJECTED FOR A SECOND TIME – UK MUST LEAVE EU ON...
THE PLAN for a parliamentary coup against the 2016 Referendum result, that instructed the government to leave the EU, by forcing through the House...
Full Support For The Doctors’ Strike
EVERY TRADE UNION and all trade unionists must support today’s 24 hour strike action by the BMA doctors’ trade union, and must be demanding...
Yellen signs up to Gordon Brown’s ‘no more boom or bust’ on the brink...
IN A SPEECH in London last Tuesday, the chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Janet Yellen, announced to a disbelieving world that the...
Israel launches ground attack on Gaza City as UN inquiry finds Israeli State officially...
YESTERDAY, the Israeli Zionist state started its ground attack on Gaza City following weeks of heavy bombardment that has reduced it to rubble accompanied...
Bank of England to ‘crucify the consumer’
NOT ONLY has the world crisis of capitalism now been accepted as the reality by even the most sceptical of the bourgeoisie, its different...
Labour echoes Trump and Musk in demanding slashing jobs and workers rights to rescue...
LAST week, TUC general secretary Paul Nowak along with trade union leaders from across the world attended a two-day conference organised by the World...
TUC must call a general strike to bring in a workers government and socialism
THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) will be holding its annual conference in Brighton from Sunday 7th September to Wednesday 10th September. It is taking place...
TGWU leaders and TUC committed to 675 Gate Gourmet redundancies
YESTERDAY morning Gate Gourmet strikers were dismissing and rubbishing the letters that they have been receiving from the company. These offered them a minimum pittance...
Irish banks ‘death spiral’ – forward to socialist revolution
THE latest stage in the complete disintegration of the Irish banking system was described by one analyst of the capitalist market as a ‘death...
Labour and the bosses knifing pensions and pensioners
A SURVEY from pensions advisers Origen published yesterday shows that companies are continuing to either close their final salary pensions schemes or end admission...
Cameron and NATO mobilise to send refugees back!
BRITAIN is sending ‘vital military assets’ (in Cameron’s words) to be part of the NATO force that will be intercepting refugee boats seeking to...
Big Business Demands Billi0Ns More To Save Their Bankrupt Economy!
BIG BUSINESS warned yesterday that, with the return of the lockdown by PM Johnson, thousands of firms will go to the wall. They demanded...
Tories want to gag the trade unions as well as chain them!
STRIKING unions are to be gagged as well as chained, the TUC’s general secretary Frances O’Grady has said, referring to a consultation document linked...
BMA & RCEM demand urgent action to end NHS winter crisis! TUC must call...
DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has demanded ‘urgent action this winter to stop the National Health Service derailing entirely’. This stark warning came in a new report...
Milburn makes his move for the Labour leadership
TWO former Cabinet ministers have e-mailed all Labour MPs, calling for an ‘open debate’ on the party’s future. The two are Charles Clarke, the ex-Home...
Grenfell Tower Inquiry Ends This Week
THE FIVE years-long inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed the lives of 72 people entered its final stage this week with closing...
IMF warns stock markets on verge of collapse – socialist revolution the only answer...
IN THE LATEST update of its Global Financial Stability Report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that ‘complacent’ financial markets are facing a...
Met ‘rotten from top to bottom’ – disband it now!
THE CONVICTION and life sentence of Metropolitan police officer Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard was most certainly not the case of...
British Capitalism Gets The Shakes Over Eu Crisis!
UK Chancellor George Osborne lashed out at Germany’s ‘Iron Chancellor’ Merkel before the meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels yesterday. He attacked Merkel...
No Sell-Out Deal With Eu! Forward To Socialism In The UK And To The...
THE government of Boris Johnson has reached decision point over the EU. It is to be made under conditions of a growing and terrible...
Kick out trade union leaders collaborating to impose job and wage cuts
THE ENGINEERING giant Rolls-Royce which manufactures jet engines this week confirmed that it will slash 3,000 jobs across the UK. Already Rolls-Royce has begun the...
The Bully State and forced labour is to replace the Welfare State
TWO hundred thousand young people aged between 16 and 18, 11 per cent of that total age group, who are unemployed with no...
Shell Suspends All Red Sea Oil Shipments As US-UK Heads For Gulf War And...
BRITISH oil giant Shell has halted its Red Sea shipments after US-UK strikes in the Yemen against the Houthis. The UK-based energy giant Shell has...
ICC prosecutor ‘equates the victim with the executioner’ in proposing arrest warrants for Israeli...
YESTERDAY, Karim Khan KC, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), issued a statement proposing that arrest warrants be issued for Israeli...
Defend the NHS by expropriating the drug companies and banks under socialism
AUDIT Scotland, the public spending watchdog for Scotland, has issued a damning report on the NHS funding crisis, which it states is in a...
New York Times Urges Biden To Quit At Once As US ‘Democracy’ Crashes
THE New York Times is just the first US newspaper to urge the incumbent Democratic Party president Joe Biden to quit the 2024 presidential...
Smash the anti-union laws with a general strike
LAST Sunday fifty Tory MPs demanded the government bring in even more draconian laws aimed at breaking the growing strike movement that is gaining...
May offers to pay for two-year implementation period! Break with the EU now! Forward...
IN her speech in Florence, Tory PM May called for a two-year implementation period, after Britain leaves the EU in March 2019. Up to that...
Only Revolution Can Solve The Housing Crisis
THE Tory/LibDem coalition cuts to housing benefit come into effect today with devastating consequences for all unemployed or low paid workers who rely on...
Palestine suspends recognition of the state of Israel!
THE PALESTINIAN Central Council met in Ramallah on Sunday and Monday and, after deliberations on important matters for the Palestinian people, it made a...
Nationalise oil and energy industries under workers management and without compensation now!
Yesterday, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) published its plan to cut energy bills by re-nationalising energy retail companies. The plan, issued in advance of next...
PNA leaders bankrupt – unions must boycott Israel
The leak of confidential documents covering the ‘peace’ negotiations between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel reveals starkly the bankruptcy and futility of...
UK government must answer war crimes charges in both Iraq and Yemen!
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has condemned UK war crimes in both the Yemen and in Iraq. In the Yemen UK-supplied weaponry to Saudi Arabia has been...
World Dollar Debt Crisis!
YET another authoritative report detailing the developing world banking crisis has surfaced – a report which if shorn of its dry academic language paints...
UK workers will not go the way of Greece and Syriza – Quit the...
THE G20 has concluded with the imperialist powers at each others’ throats after being under permanent siege by tens of thousands of anti-capitalist youth. The...
Take action to stop the bosses closing factories and Tories privatising services!
WITH the crisis of capitalism deepening, the UK bosses and bankers are using the US trade war, the developing banking collapse and slump (on...
Bosses planning to incite youth against pensioners!
A £10,000 PAYMENT should be given to the young, while pensioners are taxed more, a new report by the Resolution Foundation into inter-generational fairness...