Anti-union laws to launch open Tory dictatorship over workers!
JUST days after Chancellor Osborne unveiled his second budget plans to put the whole burden of the capitalist crisis onto the backs of the...
40% cuts will drive workers to rise up to get rid of capitalism!
THE new diktat of the Tories and the Liberals, that there will be cuts in government departmental spending of 40 per cent, means that...
Macron Beats The War Drums As Capitalist Crisis Deepens!
A FINANCIAL TIMES report says a senior European defence official has acknowledged that ‘Western special forces’ are unofficially present in Ukraine, despite US-led NATO’s...
UNRWA’s Gaza famine warning must be met by the TUC calling a general strike...
Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), has warned of...
Class issues in Zimbabwe’s elections
AS IS to be expected the imperialists, with Britain in the lead, are engaging in an economic blockade, black propaganda, etc to get rid...
UK police state spying on MPs is legal says IPT!
NOTHING is being allowed to halt or even get in the way of the all-powerful GCHQ spy machine that has been long established as...
Clinton, Netanyahu make a bloc on settlements
PALESTINE Authority President Mahmud Abbas has been completely undermined by the latest declaration of US Secretary of State Clinton. In it she supported the Israeli...
NHS cuts and closures hitting millions while NHS England hands out goodies to the...
PULSE, the GPs’ magazine, has done a great service for all NHS users by using the Freedom of Information Act to find out how...
Stop children and immigrants being used as ‘cash cows’
EVIDENCE is emerging about the extent to which the Tory policy of creating a ‘hostile climate’ for immigrant workers is being used by the...
Gove’s new ‘extremism definition’ prepares way for crackdown on all opposition to Israeli genocide
COMMUNITIES secretary Michael Gove in Parliament yesterday made a short statement introducing the Tories new definition of extremism which now encompasses ‘non-violent extremism’. Almost all...
No Obama Recovery Plan
A VERY hard pressed Obama, right at the start of his state of the Union message, was forced to summon the ‘God of Battles’...
The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Bring Down Tories!
THE UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories says the Israeli military has ‘intentionally killed’ the aid...
Hamas Urges Free Nations To Intervene To Stop Israel Weaponising Food! Act To Break...
THE Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza has confirmed that the Israeli occupation has utterly failed in its attempt to distribute aid within ‘racial...
Gangster capitalism emerges at House of Commons committee!
THE ex-chief executive of British Home Stores (BHS), Darren Topp, told a parliamentary committee yesterday morning that the former owner of BHS, Dominic Chappell,...
UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to defend their wages...
AS WORKERS well know, the coming winter is going to be a desperate affair with sky-high inflation and food and energy rationing, leaving families...
Bma Oppose Health Rationing
‘We are not against improving patient referral standards, but we are opposed to referral management to cut costs and ration treatment,’ British Medical Association...
Unions fight EU’s privatisation & cheap-labour Directive
THOUSANDS of workers marched to the European Parliament in opposition to the infamous Bolkestein Directive, to lobby a four-day debate of MEPs, in Strasbourg...
Gold Shooting Upwards As The Dollar Plunges!
THE price of gold hit a record of 1,111.20 dollars an ounce in trading in London on Monday, as the dollar weakened after a...
Smash imperialism and Zionism! Victory to Hamas and all Palestinian resistance!
TWENTY THREE bodies were recovered from destroyed buildings in Gaza City yesterday in the wake of the latest bombardment by the Israel Defence Force...
Iran warns the imperialist powers!
IRAN on Tuesday fired a shot across the bows of the imperialist powers when it threatened to halt the vital oil transport route from...
‘No strategy to deal with crisis’ – ruling class
‘WE HAVE no ability to turn the economy around. When the next recession comes it is going to be deeper and last longer than...
Cable Urges Privatised Unis, A Graduate Tax, 2-Year Degree Courses And Part-Time Students
TWENTY FIVE per cent funding cuts will mean 33,844 jobs being destroyed in English colleges. This news comes just a week after an analysis...
War crimes are OK, as long as they are British!
CORPORAL Donald Payne has just got a minor one year sentence for a war crime after pleading guilty to inhumane treatment of civilian detainees...
Full speed ahead for a slave labour UK economy
COALITION leader Cameron is considering calls to freeze the minimum wage, with the British Chambers of Commerce advising that ‘Britain cannot afford to price...
Take Strike Action To Defend The NHS
THE Royal College of Nursing, the nurses trade union, yesterday announced that it is seeking a judicial review to force the Blair government to...
Three Defeats For Tory Welfare Bill
THE Tory/LibDem coalition suffered three defeats on Wednesday; in the House of Lords over their plans to slash £1.6 billion from the benefits of...
Johnson refuses to resign – organise a general strike to kick him and the...
BORIS Johnson opened prime minister’s question time yesterday by apologising for giving the impression that lockdown rules, imposed by his Tory government, had not...
Sack the privateers and their patron Brown not NHS staff
THE first thing about the McKinsey and Company report was that it was commissioned by the Brown government, at a great cost, and was...
The Bank Prints More Money While M&s Insists That The UK Is Skint
THE Bank of England yesterday maintained its interest rate at 0.5 per cent and decided to step up its money printing programme to give...
Hamas’ statement on the ceasefire. Millions of British workers support Hamas – so must...
HAMAS and Israel have expressed in statements their readiness to resume hostilities after they agreed to a Qatar-mediated pause in fighting. The deal includes the...
Rescue us from Syrian quagmire! US–UK call out to Putin!
THE US and UK are stuck deep into the Syrian quagmire – a quagmire of their own making. They have achieved a situation where millions...
Youth Are Showing The Way! Now The Trade Unions Must Call A General Strike...
THE Israeli occupation army is continuing its aggression against the city of Jenin in Occupied Palestine for the second day in a row, leaving...
No safe zones in Gaza as Israel steps up war in the south
SINCE the start of the Israeli genocidal war in Gaza, the Israeli regime has ordered the forced evacuation of Palestinians from the north of...
Mossad’s prints all over Gaza bombing!
YESTERDAY in the aftermath of the bombing in Gaza that killed five leading Hamas fighters, and a five-year-old girl, accusations and counter-accusations were being...
All trade unions must come out with the nurses to bring down the Tories...
THE 10,000 workers and youth who took part in the ‘Britain is Broken’ march in London on Saturday were marching for action to bring...
Tories’ education ‘tsar’ quits after schools offered just £50 per pupil per year
THE TORIES’ Education Recovery Commissioner for England, Sir Kevan Collins quit last week after 6.7 million school children were starved of the funds they...
Furious Hague threatens to recognise the Syrian opposition as the government!
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Syria for talks with President Bashar al-Assad. He was cheered by tens of thousands of pro-Assad...
French election results directly pose the issue of working class taking power
THE SECOND and final round of voting for the French Parliament ended on Sunday night with the fascist National Rally (RN) party suffering a...
Tories Vote To Keep Blair In Office!
IN Tuesday night’s vote in the House of Commons on the Blair government’s Education Bill, 67 Labour MPs voted against, wiping out the government’s...
Euro crisis hits youth hardest – forward with European socialist revolution
THERE is no more pathetic sight than that of European bourgeois politicians and economists manically trying to convince both themselves and the world at...
Sharon unleashes bombing raids and assassinations on the Palestinians
THE Israeli government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has launched a new war on Palestinians living in territories under Zionist occupation less than three...
Russian Military Chief Warns Don’t Attack Iran
AN Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday that the Iranian government hopes that the International Atomic Energy Agency will produce an unbiased report on...
Public services face privatisation catastrophe! Renationalise the lot under workers’ control!
THE COLLAPSES of Carillion, of East Coast Rail, of academy chain after academy chain, and now with the NAO report that private outsourcing giant...
THE TUC leaders who have deserted junior doctors and the NHS must be kicked...
YESTERDAY the Tory offensive against not just junior doctors but the entire foundation of the National Health Service reached a ‘watershed moment for the...
Palestinian Factions Meet To Decide On The Way Forward To The State Of Palestine!
THE Palestinian factions and forces held a meeting in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Saturday, to discuss the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement...