Short-term contracts driving teachers out of the profession
THE EIS (Educational Institute of Scotland) has warned that the increasing use of short-term contracts in Scottish schools is driving many newly qualified teachers...
Answer Labour plans to drive youth off benefits with a general strike to kick...
UNEMPLOYED youth are once again the number-one target for a Labour government, determined to slash the UK’s benefit spending. A year ago, Labour unveiled its...
Free the Chagos Islands – Britain’s own Guantánamo Bay!
ON WEDNESDAY the General Assembly of the United Nations delivered a stunning vote which overwhelmingly condemned the continuing occupation of the Chagos Islands. By 116...
The TUC must give its full support to the State of Palestine at once!
THE International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to unveil an online electronic platform to allow the Palestinians to sue Israelis who commit war crimes. A...
NHS more popular than ever despite Tory propaganda campaign
A SURVEY by the polling company Ipsos MORI has revealed that the NHS is more popular amongst workers and the middle classes than those...
Labour government rotting from within – time for a general strike to bring it...
THE SHOCK resignation of MP Rosie Duffield from the Labour Party has revealed the bankruptcy of the Keir Starmer regime that is literally rotting...
Oil Price Rises Driving Up Inflati0N
RISING crude oil prices are driving up the price of petrol at the pumps. Petrol is now at around 92 pence a litre, an increase...
US seeking to destroy Venezuela – UK workers must take action
AFTER the failure at the Guri hydroelectric power plant left much of Venezuela without power last Thursday night, Venezuelan authorities, after a huge effort,...
Greek students defeat privatisation attack
THE Greek right-wing government has been forced to withdraw its plans to push through the Greek parliament, an Education Bill, and a revision of...
A bankers budget from a bankers government
DESPITE all the government statements against leaking government information before it is to go before the House of Commons, the Treasury was at it...
Workers Reject Tories And Lib-Dems, Now Take Action To Get The Coalition Out!
THE Tories and the LibDems were whipped around the country in the council elections, with Labour retaking Liverpool and numerous cities and towns, as...
Sri Lanka Tea Workers Battle For £2 A Day
SRI LANKAN tea workers, some 400,000 strong, are mainly Tamil women workers, who work for around £1 a day and live, along with their...
French elections ‘shaken’ by surge in working class support for socialist policies
THIS WEEK has seen a dramatic upsurge of support amongst workers and youth in France for the outsider left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in the...
Coalition To Take The Axe To Council Spending And End ‘Ring-Fencing’
COUNCILS in England face a 10% cut in funding from central government as part of the coalition’s spending plans for 2015/16. As well, there...
Economic Crisis Is Smashing Up Europe!
YESTERDAY official statistics for France show that core inflation had actually fallen into negative figures, - 0.2%, for the first time in recorded history...
Tory donor scandal reveals not just the racism but the massive profits leeched from...
When The Guardian newspaper on Monday reported the racist comments made by Frank Hester, the owner and sole shareholder of the Pheonix Partnership (TPP),...
Holbrooke, Blair, Thaci, mafia wars and organ theft
THE Council of Europe has named the Kosovo Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, as a mafia leader who organised the sale of drugs and weapons...
Labour Plans New Pensions Robbery
EX-CBI boss, Lord Turner’s plans for pensions are just the means chosen by the Blair government to make the working class pay for the...
World debt crisis can only be resolved through world socialist revolution
JEROME Powell the new chairman of the US central Bank, the Fed, will be pushing for an increase in interest rates this week with...
Brown and Blair’s grab for Africa
BEFORE our eyes, the Live Aid movement has been transformed into a Live 8 movement, whose purpose has become to support the British Prime...
Starmer embraces ‘harsh light of fiscal reality’ as he demands working class pays for...
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to ‘embrace the harsh light of fiscal reality’ in a speech delivered in Birmingham yesterday, in what was...
BoE chief: British capitalism ‘turning clock back’ to 18th century!
THE SPLIT in the leading bodies of the Bank of England over whether or not to raise interest rates has emerged just shortly after...
Defend NHS with occupations and a general strike to bring down the government
Yesterday saw the second reading of the Tory-led coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill in Parliament, a bill designed to facilitate the wholesale closure...
Blair listens only to the bosses
PRIME Minister Blair, despite all his vows about listening to the people – made outside 10 Downing Street on the day after the general...
Tory war on refugees is a class issue for the working class
IN THEIR latest attack on refugees the Tories are preparing to use nets to disable boats and dinghies attempting the dangerous Channel crossing. This tactic...
Tories go from class war at home to war preparations abroad!
THE Tory class war at home means permanent austerity for the working class, with anti-union laws brought in to further chain up trade unions,...
Darling Robs The Poor To Prop Up The Bankers
CHANCELLOR Darling yesterday admitted that the Labour government, cold-bloodedly, in the last budget, abolished the 10p tax rate for the lower paid, knowing that...
Class struggle sharpens – Organise general strike!
900 construction workers were sacked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, north Lincolnshire yesterday in what the GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny called ‘a case...
End CWU paralysis – reinstate strike actions!
KARL MARX wrote in his masterpiece ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’ that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur,...
Trade unions must fight zero hours contracts
THE news that over one million workers now have ‘zero hours contracts’ and work only when their employer wants them, have no holidays or...
Chinese and Russian Stalinists are getting burnt by the crisis
THE Chinese Stalinists are now paying an enormous price for linking their fate with that of US capitalism. First of all they declared parts of...
Hamas responds to Abbas’ speech at the United Nations!
THE Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, responded Thursday to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly, affirming that Palestinian resistance...
French riot police attack workers and youth on May Day
MAY DAY in France erupted into state-organised violence when riot police attacked workers and youth in what was a blatant attempt to crack down...
Dump ‘Reform’ into the nearest dustbin – Forward to the British Socialist Revolution!
REFORM UK, a right-wing and ‘anti-working class’ party winning the Runcorn and Helsby parliamentary by-Election on Thursday, was only possible because of the treachery...
Starmer announces creation of a ‘standing army’ as the Labour government moves to impose...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer emerged from an emergency COBRA meeting of ministers on Monday to announce the formation of a new ‘standing army’...
Sunak pledges limitless billions of pounds to prolong war on Russia – nothing for...
TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak, in his first major policy speech last night, pledged to maintain and even increase military aid to Ukraine to...
Smash anti-union bill!
YESTERDAY thousands of trade union members attended a rally and mass lobby of parliament called by the TUC in an attempt to – in...
Diane Abbott ‘culled’ by Starmer and the Labour Party right wing!
LONG-standing Labour MP Diane Abbott accused the right wing Labour leadership, led by Keir Starmer, of carrying out a ‘cull of left wingers’ in...
Desperate US and UK warmongers play the lying WMD card
IN March 2003, the US-UK axis led by warmongers Bush and Blair – after claiming that there was irrefutable evidence that Iraq possessed weapons...
West condemned to ‘irreversible decline’ – put it out of its misery with world...
THE DECISIVE defeat of world imperialism at the hands of the Afghan people has caused a complete breakdown amongst the most ardent defenders of...
Trump Wants Military Action To Seize Greenland! Trade Unions Must Call General Strikes...
THE White House has announced that US President Donald Trump is considering using the US military to grab Greenland as a ‘national security priority...
Time For The TUC To Call A General Strike – ‘Losing The Right...
THE TUC, the Equality Trust, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and Runnymede Trust on Tuesday warned that the Strikes Bill,...
The Tory ‘NHS Road to Recovery’ is their plan to privatise the NHS!
ON TUESDAY, Tory health secretary Savid Javid outlined his ‘new vision for NHS reform’ which turned out to be just a repetition of the...
Stop the pensions sell-out! Sack Barber and Prentis! Call a general strike!
THE Trade union bureaucracy, led by TUC leader Barber and Unison leader Prentis, have shown clearly, with their position that the trade unions have...
Re-nationalise the Railways
Yesterday’s announcement that the Tory-led coalition government’s much heralded investment in the railways is to be financed solely through fare increases is a catastrophe...