Council election results weaken Labour in a self-inflicted wound and strengthen May!
LABOUR’S hopes crashed to earth in the just-concluded council elections. The eve of poll predictions of the Tories losing Wandsworth, Westminster and then Kensington...
Smash anti-strike law by forcing TUC to call a general strike to kick out...
ON MONDAY, with the Tory anti-strikes Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill, back in the House of Commons for its final reading before passing into...
Unite must hit back and defend its members, with full TUC support
THE petrochemical plant at the giant Grangemouth complex in central Scotland is to close with the loss of over 800 jobs, owner Ineos announced...
BA struggle coming to a head
EXTENSIVE talks have been taking place over the last seven weeks under the Chairmanship of TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber between Unite and BA,...
New Labour Is Proposing 24-Hour Courts And Fast-Track Sentencing Of Workers And Youth!
COURTS ARE now to sit for 24 hours in order to impose fast-track sentencing under New Labour Emergency Government plans to crack down on...
TUC Special Congress must call a general strike to smash the Tories and support...
IN A dramatic move the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter to urge the UN Security...
US troops to fight in Iraq and Syria!
THE US has changed policy on Iraq and Syria overnight, and will now allow US ground troops to assault targets in both countries and...
UN Chief warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’ of Zionist regime’s plan for complete military occupation...
THE United Nations assistant secretary general Miroslav Janca issued a chilling warning in response to reports that the Israeli regime was pushing for a...
‘New Leader – Old Agenda’
IN a motion for next month’s Trades Union Congress, UNISON correctly says the use of private firms in public services is ‘harmful, wasteful, and...
Occupy Corus! No Sackings! Renationalise Now!
THERE were oceans of tears yesterday for the 1,700 workers who are to be sacked when Corus mothballs the greater part of its plant...
Raising the white flag over Basra airfield
THE rotting reality behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s spin concerning the ‘reconfiguration’ of British troops in southern Iraq is the complete demoralisation of the...
Brown demands police-state detention law
AHEAD of MPs considering the Second Reading of the new Counter-Terrorism Bill in Parliament yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for extension of...
Capitalist collapse continues while Brown vows ‘to save the system’
YESTERDAY two major banks had to be nationalised to prevent a run on the UK and EU banking system. They were the Bradford and...
British capitalism is on the rocks of the capitalist crisis – the only way...
IN THE Daily Telegraph of January 1st one Robert Tombs writes under a headline: ‘As in 1914 and 1939, we may be sleepwalking towards...
A&E closures cost lives
For the first time since the process of closing accident and emergency units in hospitals up and down the country was started by the...
Junior doctors and student nurses lead the way Now call a general strike!
THE decision by the BMA on Monday to walk away from the negotiations over the imposition of new contracts for junior doctors and to...
Ten Million Households Are Suffering
TEN million households are suffering from the financial and political crisis says Which? as it calls on the coalition government, ahead of its Autumn...
Bosses predict massive shocks after UK general election!
TO say that the international banking system and the world stock markets are in a state described as ‘nervous’ is to do great injustice...
Foxconn to replace its Chinese workers with a million robots
TAIWANESE electronics manufacturer Foxconn, which assembles products for Apple, plans to have a million robots, by the next three years, in operation in its...
To stop Tories axing the NHS, TUC must call a general strike!
SECRET plans have been uncovered to cut £23bn from the NHS. Such a cut, if it is allowed to proceed would mean the closure...
Tory conference splits as preparations for an extra-parliamentary party emerge!
THE Tory Party annual conference opened on Monday and was immediately defined by ministers speaking to a near empty hall, as delegates couldn’t be...
US–UK organising Palestinian civil war
THERE is no doubt that the US and UK ruling classes are hard at work seeking to organise a Palestinian civil war. The object is...
Tories refuse any measures to limit Covid deaths – Kick them out, and bring...
COVID restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid ‘stumbling into a winter crisis’ Matthew Taylor, head of the NHS Confederation, has...
US credit experts warn a crash is coming
NEWS IS quietly emerging from the top of the US banking fraternity that, despite the wild euphoria that has gripped the world financial centres...
Crisis Ridden Capitalism Is Trying To Make The Working Class Pay The Full Bill...
UK CAPITALISM is in crisis. After the falls in sterling, and the rampant oil, gas and food inflation, the ruling class is desperate and...
End privatisation – dump the big business donors
THE selling of peerages is an old tradition in England that goes well back before the days of Lloyd George. He had an established...
Grenfell crisis – many millions are living in unsafe buildings eight years after the...
NEW research has found that 136 firefighters who were exposed to toxic smoke at Grenfell are now suffering from occupational diseases. 1 in 4...
Brics Challenge To Almighty Dollar!
MOSCOW believes that the US capitalists are targeting it with sanctions ‘because the events in Ukraine have not developed the way Washington scripted them,’...
As Capitalism reels Corbyn ‘suggests’ a very minimal Fabian programme
LAST week saw the ruling classes of the capitalist world reeling at the prospect of another huge banking crash, with its high priests, the...
General Strike Needed To Defend The NHS!
DR MARK Porter, Chair of the British Medical Association Council, opened their annual representatives meeting with a speech that tore into the policies of...
Demoralised Tories face an economic crash – put them out of their misery with...
THE COMPLETE demoralisation of the Tories has dominated the front pages of the bourgeois press, with reports that PM Boris Johnson is facing a...
BIS warning of global financial crash!
GLOBAL financial markets are dangerously stretched and may unwind with shock force as liquidity dries up, the Bank of International Settlements has warned. BIS boss...
Western-Backed Syrian Opposition Committing War Crimes!
THE US, UK, French, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari-backed ‘Syrian rebels’, who have been armed, equipped, financed and recognised as the representatives of the Syrian...
Tuc Must Call General Strike To Kick Out Starmer’s Government
THE continuing collapse of the Starmer-led Labour government was on public display on Wednesday when in a pathetic attempt to reassert his absolute control,...
World crisis of capitalism places socialist revolution on immediate agenda
ON FRIDAY the global stock markets reached a record increase with shares values shooting up by over £5 billion in what is being hailed...
A fighting Public Sector Alliance to defend wages and jobs
THE Communication Workers Union yesterday announced its latest plans for strike action after the first national strike for a decade last week, which was...
Occupy to stop hospital closures – trade unions must bring down the Coalition with...
IN THE UK at the moment there are dozens of District General Hospitals – some of the best in the world – set for...
Ukrainian coup under way!
UKRAINE’S President Viktor Yanukovych announced early yesterday the terms of the agreement that he had made with the Ukrainian pro-EU, pro-US opposition during talks...
Hunt throws down the gauntlet – the trade unions must pick it up!
THE Department of Health, headed by Health Secretary Hunt, has said that a proposed 1% increase in NHS staff pay was unaffordable, and is...
Pompeo Pledges To Prevent Anti-Tory Regime Change In The UK By Smashing Corbyn Labour...
WITH THE Tories in what is being called an ‘existential crisis’ over breaking with the European Union, the British ruling class and its allies...
Hospitals and schools are being hit by uncapped energy bills
THE SKYROCKETING increase in energy bills is driving the health and education services to the wall, with leaders in both these vital services warning...
World debt is leading to hyper-inflation and a socialist revolution!
AN ARTICLE in Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph by its chief economics commentator, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, highlighted the inevitable consequences following the massive amount of borrowing carried...
Liz Truss speech calls for ‘new’ party to wage class war against working class!
IT was almost exactly one year ago that the then Tory prime minister Liz Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered a mini-budget that...
Pound falls after Rachel Reeves reduced to tears in Parliament
DURING PM’s Question Time in Parliament on Wednesday Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves broke down in tears as Prime Minster Keir Starmer dodged a question...
Capitalism reaches end of the road – time to overthrow it with a socialist...
YESTERDAY, US president Donald Trump performed another humiliating retreat when he accused Ukrainian president Zelensky of being responsible for the war on Russia continuing. When...