TGWU full-time officer OLIVER RICHARDSON addressing the Gate Gourmet mass picket yesterday morning

Public sector pensions battle set to erupt

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THE working class continues to pay a massive price for its reformist trade union leadership. This is completely committed to supporting the capitalist...

Hamas urges workers of the world to take action and salutes the growing mass...

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IN A statement issued on Friday to mark International Jerusalem Day, Hamas declared that the occasion arrives this year as the Palestinian people steadfastly...

TUC leaders must bin Johnson’s empty pledges and call a general strike to bring...

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PM JOHNSON’S Tory conference speech was completely empty bombast that sought to cover over the economic catastrophe that is developing throughout the capitalist system...

Demagogue Brown ‘names and shames’ the public sector

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THE PCS trade union yesterday accused the bankers’ Prime Minister, Gordon Brown of ‘beginning a bidding war on who can cut the most.’ The...

Food prices surge will drive revolution!

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GLOBAL food prices rose sharply in July. The wild swings in weather conditions are responsible says the UN food and agricultural body. The July...

Trade union leaders abandon members – build a revolutionary leadership in the unions

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A STUDY published yesterday revealed that as many as six million workers in Britain live in fear of losing their jobs in the next...

Blair Wants Government Control Of Judges

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THE Blair government announced yesterday through its Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, that it was going to bring in legislation that will tell judges how...

Saudi Arabia issues its demands to Qatar – submit or be crushed

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YESTERDAY, Saudi Arabia issued a set of 13 wide-ranging demands to Qatar which it insists have to be met before the sanctions imposed on...

Schools being asset-stripped by academy trusts

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THE HOUSE of Commons education committee has written to the Tory academies minister, Lord Agnew, expressing MPs’ concern about a ‘lack of transparency and...

Israel Joins Al Qaeda In Attacking Syria

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IN LINE with Obama’s policy of ‘leading from the rear’ (a tactic learnt after receiving some very, very harsh lessons in Iraq and Afghanistan),...

Cameron Touches Off Tory Leadership Dog Fight!

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CAMERON is now going into the May 7th general election with a declaration that he does not intend to serve a third term, that...

Bank of England has no tools to prevent capitalism crashing – socialist revolution is...

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ANDREW Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, used an interview on the BBC yesterday to once again insist that British capitalism is...

Cameron At War At Home And Abroad

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CAMERON’S Monday ‘European Council’ statement to parliament was all about the crisis of imperialism, its wars abroad, and dictatorship at home. He managed to discuss...

London Bus Workers To Strike – Fighting Against Massive Wage Cuts And Zero Hours...

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LONDON bus passengers should give their full support to London bus workers as they prepare for massive strike actions in the capital called by...

Labour’s plan to demolish the public sector

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LABOUR’S Minister for Communities and Local Government, David Milliband, yesterday addressed the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) Annual Conference called ‘Empowerment not abandonment’. He...

Universal Credit = war on benefits

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YESTERDAY the Tory-led coalition launched its ‘pathfinder’ trial of the new Universal Credit System at a job centre in Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester. From here the government...

Right wing Labour puts Corbyn and McDonnell on a very short Leash!

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SIR Keir Starmer, Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary speaking at a Chatham House conference, has said that Labour will not support any Brexit deal negotiated...

Cotton Goes, But Savage Fire Cuts Continue – Workers Councils Of Action Must Impose...

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YESTERDAY, the London Fire Brigade’s (LFB) commissioner, Dany Cotton, announced that she was resigning from her post four months early. Cotton came under sustained criticism...

Morales pledges to rule for the oppressed

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EVO MORALES is the first Indian to become the President of Bolivia ending decades of rule by a white ruling class elite which presided...

UK planning for war right across the Mediterranean!

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THE imperialist powers are now working overtime to explode the Mediterranean region, from Libya to Turkey, into one huge raging fire. The UN Security Council...

STPs are an agency of international capitalism, a Trojan Horse for the privatisation...

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THE TORY Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) have been shrouded in secrecy right from the start as the Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, did...

TIME TO FIGHT FOR THE NHS – the Junior Doctors have shown the way!

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THE official figures for NHS trusts in England for the first three months of the financial year (April to June) have just been released...

Ben-Gvir The ‘Hangman Of The Century!’

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A HUMAN rights group has described Israel’s so-called security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, as the ‘hangman of the century’ over his efforts to advance a...

Gourmet locked-out workers smash Woodley-Barber ‘compromise’ deal

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THE Gate Gourmet catering company was forced to admit on Saturday that the ‘sweetheart’ deal, which the leaders of the TGWU and the ...

Arab bourgeoisie – an agency of imperialism

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THE Viva Palestina convoy has found out that, when it comes to preventing aid reaching the much-battered and besieged Gaza Strip, the Mubarak...

Defend living standards! Nationalise the oil and gas companies!

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JUST a few months ago the UNISON leadership accepted the government’s below inflation wage cutting deal over three years. Now the union has had...

US-UK rescues ISIS fighters from Raqqa – no doubt they will now be sent...

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PM MAY made crystal clear yesterday that Russia is the main enemy of crisis-wracked UK imperialism. In fact, Tory newspapers have been making it...

Capitalist State Is Preparing For Seven-Day Blackouts In UK!

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THE UK CAPITALIST STATE is currently engaged in a war on two fronts. The first is to aid the right wing Ukrainian regime with hundreds...

Braverman’s instruction to police to ‘ramp up’ stop-and-search inspired by fear of youth as...

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ON MONDAY, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced that she is instructing all 43 police forces in England and Wales to ‘ramp up’ the...

Desperate Blair dashes to Baghdad

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WITH British troops in the south of Iraq in danger of taking heavy casualties at the hands of an insurgency that has taken over...

Defend the NHS with a general strike to bring the Tories down and bring...

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EVERY day brings a new savage attack by this Tory government on the NHS. At the beginning of the week the shock announcement broke that...

28th anniversary of declaration of Palestinian independence!

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SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saed Erekat said yesterday that the international community has failed in its responsibility to correct the...

Grenfell survivors want jail sentences for those responsible for the fire!

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LAWYERS for victims of the Grenfell fire have indicted the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea council, which owned the Grenfell tower block, and...

US-UK-EU are fighting a war on two fronts – against Russia and against their...

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SWEDEN AND FINLAND are expected to apply for NATO membership on May 17th, and no doubt they will be welcomed with ‘open arms’ since...

Anti-Brexit Coup Underway – Workers Must Take Action To Force UK Out Of Eu...

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ON FRIDAY PM MAY let it be known that if she did not think that her EU deal would be agreed by parliament she...

Unemployment is soaring! Defending the ‘right to work’ means getting rid of capitalism!

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UNEMPLOYMENT is set to soar to levels not seen since The Great Depression, the ‘Hungry 1930s’, when workers starved. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)...

Murdoch Empire Still Remains To Be Broken

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PRIME Minister Cameron used his usual tactic at prime minister’s questions yesterday, when asked why he brought a criminal into 10 Downing Street...

Unemployment and inflation rising, as British capitalism crumbles!

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THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 43,000 to 2.5 million during the three months to February, the highest figure since...

BA, car output and production crashes!

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BRITISH Airways has just announced a loss before tax of £401m for the year to 31 March, a collapse from a profit of £922m...

Johnson Treats ‘Doormat’ Starmer With Complete Contempt

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ON MONDAY night, prime minister Boris Johnson decreed that England’s third national lockdown would legally come into force on Tuesday night with parliament called...

UK has not offered to take in a single Syrian refugee!

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THE fact that the UK ruling coalition is involved up to its neck in organising the war in Syria, and is also keeping it...

US Secretary of State Blinken rushes to Kiev as Ukraine faces defeat by Russia

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US secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise unannounced visit to Ukraine yesterday morning, as the war to weaken Russia suffers yet another...

Time The TUC Organised General Strike Action To Aid The Establishment Of Palestinian State!

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THE TUC has just published a statement condemning Israel and stating that ‘The illegal occupation of Palestine means that Palestinians face violations of their...

Victory To The Palestinian Revolution!

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THE LATEST statistics produced by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics show clearly that Israeli domination of the occupied Palestinian territories has lead to...

NHS privatisation in London could ‘cost lives’

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THE government’s Healthcare Commission published a report yesterday which called for National Health Service (NHS) hospital trusts to ‘do more to ensure they consistently...