Gripped with crisis UK, US & French leaders abandon World Economic Forum
THE ANNUAL get-together of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos has been hit by a number of notable absences...
There Will Be No Labour Leadership Election Says Tony Woodley
TONY Woodley, the Unite joint general secretary, has stepped into the row over the demand for a Labour Party leadership debate and a leadership...
Iran proposes ‘trilateral mechanism’ to coordinate on security in Iraq
THE first bilateral talks between the US and Iran since 1980 took place yesterday and were described by the leader of the US delegation...
Austerity and Universal Credit to continue!
TORY chancellor Philip Hammond made a climb down in his budget speech yesterday to Theresa May, but there was no climb down over continuing...
Stop BA & Stop Baa Airports, To Win Cabin Crew Struggle!
BA cabin crew yesterday rejected the latest offer from BA with a massive 67 per cent voting to throw out by 3,419 votes to...
UK must follow Ireland’s lead and organise general strike action in support of Palestine!
RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, announced on Thursday that Ireland will not take part in next year’s Eurovision song contest if Israel is a contestant,...
Public Sector Disaster F0R British Capitalism
THE UK’s public sector net deficit for October reached £11.4bn and is the highest monthly deficit since records began. The national debt at...
Orange Counter-Revolution Defeated!
THE OPPOSITION leader Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Party of the Regions, has won the Ukrainian presidential election, and has defeated Prime Minister...
AS THE CAPITALIST CRISIS DEEPENS, MPs WANT A DICTATORSHIP OVER THE INTERNET!
THE UK faces a ‘democratic crisis’ with voters being targeted with ‘pernicious views’ and data being manipulated, a parliamentary MPs committee warns. According to...
Unions Must Take Action To Defend The NHS!
HOSPITAL managers are to shut an NHS accident and emergency department down at night in order to combat a staffing crisis, caused by the...
Blunkett quits against Blair’s wishes
YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair made it clear to the House of Commons during Question Time, that he had urged his Cabinet colleague, Blunkett,...
Woodley Refuses To Call For Nati0Nalisation
TONY WOODLEY the TGWU leader and co-leader of the new UNITE trade union has already presided over the closure of a large chunk of...
Demoralised Tory leaders are demanding a national government
THE prospects for the 2015 May 7 general election – taking place after more than five years of savage austerity measures that have...
Junior Doctors Are Defending The NHS – They Must Not Fight Alone!
AS the April 26th-27th strike action of the junior doctors approaches, the chorus of reproaches from the likes of Dame Sally Davies, Sir Bruce...
Blair Refuses To Name The Date
TONY Blair yesterday took advantage of the refusal of his political rivals, such as his policy co-thinker Gordon Brown and the trade unions, to...
More anti-union laws, no rights at work, the elderly being abused in their homes...
THE Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has said the danger for the UK from the economic crisis, particularly the crisis in the...
Us Capitalism Is On The Rocks! The US Working Class Is Faced With...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump yesterday unveiled his three-phase plan for opening up businesses in America proclaiming, ‘We’re starting our life again. We’re starting rejuvenation...
Italy on the edge of the abyss – the UK is next
THE European Union is being broken on the rocks of the deepening crisis of the world capitalist order. The leaders of France and Germany are...
Blair Conversion Seals His Counter-Revolutionary Role
TONY BLAIR, his hands still dripping with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and with financial scandals swirling all round...
There will be no ‘Maidan-style counter-revolution’ in Belarus declares President Lukashenko
CONGRATULATIONS to President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus. He received over 80 per cent of the vote in the Belarus presidential election and saw off...
Workers will demand Unite’s national action against fire and rehire be stepped up to...
YESTERDAY the Unite union announced it is launching a campaign to end fire and rehire with ‘coordinated strikes and actions across the country’. In a...
Sack the RBS bankers! Workers management of the nationalised banks!
CITY Minister Lord Myners yesterday said shareholders should take action to stop million pound bonuses after Royal Bank of Scotland directors threatened to resign...
After Brexit, Forward To The European Socialist Revolution!
PRIME Minister May in her letter to EU President Tusk has described the invoking of Article 50 to begin the UK’s withdrawal from the...
Middle Class Faces Mass Unemployment. It Must Unite With The The Working Class To...
THE CRISIS engulfing British capitalism has drawn the organised working class, along with youth and entire sections of the middle class, into the struggle...
Trade unions must take general strike action in support of Palestinian masses!
THE UN’s World Food Programme has warned that Palestinians in Gaza are facing starvation after Israel launched a brutal aggression on Gaza last month....
Defend state university education against the coalition barbarians!
LORD Browne’s review of university funding is to recommend a threefold increase in tuition fees. Lord Browne (former head of BP) is proposing to raise...
Shut Kensington council down! Form a Council of Action to run the Borough!
'THE COUNCIL needs to be shut down … Workers should take over and workers' unions should defend them,' Zoe Bernard from Ladbroke Grove, said...
Barclays Vice Chair On NHS Commissioning Board
YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Health told the House of Commons that the government will be taking a step back from the...
Labour Party Conference Opens With ‘God Save The King’ Instead Of A Minute’s Silence...
THE opening of the Labour Party conference took a new turn yesterday when the Labour Party leader Starmer, who has played a key part...
Employment figures mask the real crisis of British capitalism
THE BIG lie of this minority Tory government is that British capitalism is thriving, its economy is in vigorous good health and that workers...
Qe Tapering Leading To A Crash
WHAT started last week as a crisis in the international capitalist stock markets is turning into a full-scale crash with Wednesday’s decision by the...
BA senses weakness of Woodley leadership
BA yesterday threw the TGWU’s attempt at a compromise out of the window when it announced that all of its planes will be grounded...
Biden adds $4tn to the US’ already unsustainable debt!
YESTERDAY, US president Joe Biden announced to a joint session of Congress his plans to unleash a massive round of government spending amounting to...
Chile – workers and youth vote to smash Pinochet-era constitution
TENS of thousands of Chilean workers and youth flooded the main square of the capital Santiago on Sunday celebrating the result of the referendum...
Pensioners and workers will unite to demand a general strike to end Tory attack...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak this week put every pensioner in the country on notice that along with workers they will be forced to pay...
MASS MURDER CONTINUES IN PALESTINE WHILE THE UK’s TRADE UNION LEADERS DO NOTHING!
THE HAMAS Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Sunday that 47 Palestinians were martyred and 139 injured in six Israeli massacres in the...
Answer the Lindsey provocation with a general strike!
THE provocative sacking of over 650 workers at the Lindsey Oil Refinery – who walked out to demand that a recently negotiated trade union...
Latest UN report finds Israel guilty of deliberately killing Palestinian children and Burnham won’t...
ON TUESDAY the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel, issued a damning report that...
The strike wave sweeping Britain demands a new leadership in trade unions, come to...
THE STRIKE wave sweeping across Britain has a revolutionary content. Since the capitalist crisis first burst into the open with the banking collapse of 2008...
Geneva Conference Must Not Impose ‘Transitional Regime’ On Syria
THE Syrian people and their supporters worldwide must be on the alert to see that the victories the Syrian masses and their army have...
Starmer Congratulated By Union Leaders, Now Awaits His National Service Government Call-Up!
THE election of Starmer as Labour leader has been cheered to the rooftops by both the trade union bureaucracy and the Tory Party-supporting media. His...
IMF predicts ‘worst economic fallout since the Great Depression’ – Only way out of...
INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund’s (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday: ‘We anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.’ ‘Just three months ago, we...
Unions Must Fight Savage Bbc Job Cuts
THE BBC backed up by the Brown government is set to ride roughshod over its workforce pushing through 2,700 job cuts, with up...
Henley New Labour Disaster – Less Votes Than The Bnp!
LABOUR’s fifth place at Henley, shamefully behind the fascist BNP, will go down in history as an example of a party being thrust into...
UK universities attack staff and students as crisis in higher education spirals out of...
LAST month the Parliamentary Education Committee was warned by the Office for Students (OfS), the higher education regulator for England, that it fears 24...