Royal Mail getting ready for New Year war!
BRENDAN Barber has won another battle honour from the employers. His first was at Gate Gourmet, which publicly congratulated him on its website for the...
No recovery in the US, EU or UK – socialism the only way forward
THE UK’S Bank of England yesterday followed the lead of the US Federal Reserve Bank whose Chairman Bernanke had on Tuesday said that...
US Casualties Mount In Iraq
US forces in Iraq suffered 24 deaths in Iraq in May, more than any month since September 2008. The total number of US casualties since...
Macron only scrapes a win thanks to abstentions and anti-Le Pen votes!
THE RESULT of the French presidential election on Sunday saw the right-wing Emmanuel Macron winning with 58.54% of the vote, beating the leader of...
Banks teeter on edge of collapse – Official
THE European Central Bank (ECB) published the results of its latest stress tests carried out on 123 European banks on Sunday, results which showed...
Only socialist revolution can stop industrial collapse
THE BALLYMENA-based Wrightbus company went bust yesterday, throwing 1,200 workers out of a job with immediate effect. On top of this, 1,700 jobs in the...
‘It’s the concern, the fear, the sheer uncertainty’ says BoE’s King
THE chief of the Federal Reserve Bank, Bernanke, has hinted heavily that the developing slow down of the US economy will be met with...
Defend All Jobs And Services And Send The Bailiffs Packing!
HARD PRESSED councils facing the threat of bankruptcy at the hands of the Tory government, and facing the prospect of having government commissioners imposed...
Duncan Smith’s ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Peddles Lies!
THE Department for Work and Pensions has admitted lying to the public by making up stories from fictional claimants, and passing them off as...
Karzai dashes to bring Taleban into the government
WHILE hundreds of Afghan civilians are being killed in General Petraeus’ Afghan surge, and British and US casualties escalate upwards despite the ‘victories’ being...
Maude-Miliband Unite To Condemn Pension Strikers
YESTERDAY’S stoppage in defence of pensions saw 90 per cent of PCS members stopping work, the biggest turn-out for strike action in the union’s...
US and UK workers must bring down Trump and the Tories and go forward...
DONALD TRUMP has arrived in the UK to try his hand at regime change. He is treating the UK ruling class with supreme contempt, as...
Union leaders go easy on Brown’s bosses’ budget
CHANCELLOR Brown’s budget yesterday outlined savage attacks on the working class, particularly low paid workers. His decision to abolish the 10 pence tax rate...
Occupy BMW Cowley – reinstate the sacked 850 agency workers
IN August 2005 800 Gate Gourmet workers were sacked by megaphone in the car park of the Heathrow company. The TGWU, led by Tony...
Renationalise railways or regime change says ASLEF
ASLEF is the first trade union to call for ‘regime change’, a change in the leadership of the Labour government if it continues to...
Bring down the Cameron-Murdoch police state
YESTERDAY’S parliamentary committee sessions saw News International stand brazenly in denial of any knowledge of the phone hacking that took place at the News...
General Strike from October 10th to support Palestine and go forward to a UK...
THIS year’s British TUC Congress in Brighton from 8-11 September took key decisions to align trade unions with the pro-Palestine, pro-peace and anti-war movements,...
Amnesty exposes deadly US air attacks on Syria!
AS IS well known, the Clinton-led Democratic Party has pledged that if and when she is elected as President of the USA, she will...
Go forward to socialism – only way to avoid threatening catastrophe!
JAPAN is the second biggest power in the capitalist industrial world, behind the United States. It has just announced that its industrial output dropped...
UK and US trade unions must support the Palestinian socialist revolution!
WHILE the US and UK backed Israeli murder machine, both civil and military is at work on a daily basis killing Palestinian men women...
Hunt tells workers to let their families freeze to support the war on Russia!
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has issued the call for workers to go without heating this winter to support the imperialist war on Russia. Appearing before...
Brown’s empty words cannot hide he is the bankers’ man
‘I want to talk to you about a new settlement for new times. A fair Britain for the new age. . . my unwavering...
Workers, the poor and pensioners are being starved to pay for the Tory crisis....
A LANDMARK research study by the Trussel Trust has revealed the excruciating extent of food poverty across Britain as the working class, the middle...
Revolution is the only way forwards!
THE working class of Europe is rising up to fight the savage spending cuts now being imposed by governments across the Continent. When the UK...
Labour And Its Supporters Are Getting Ready For Actions Against The Trade Unions!
PROVIDED you are an ex-Taleban fighter who now supports the British government, you are very welcome to enter and stay in the UK, and...
Workers of the world unite to fight for the victory of Palestine!
ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’, heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza,...
Imperialism is on the point of defeat as the world’s financial institutions panic!
DESPITE seven days of devastating non-stop aerial bombardment by the US-Israeli aggressor and their huge war machine, the defiant defence of Iran to protect...
Blair favours more repression and more privatisation
THE Prime Minister with his grip on office weakening fast, yesterday through the Queen’s speech brought forward his familiar and well known programme...
PM Sunak heaps sanctions on Russia as US, EU and UK workers pay the...
PM SUNAK HAS LOST NO TIME in announcing a series of fresh sanctions against Russia that include a ban on imports of aluminium, diamonds,...
Starmer Is Ready To Form A National Government To Save Capitalism – Forward To...
EARLY results in local council elections in England have seen Labour and the Liberal Democrats gain key councils at the expense of the Conservatives. Labour...
Osborne to make £11.5bn spending review cuts!
ON a day during which it was announced by German bankers that Cyprus’ banks may never open again, and by the ONS that UK...
NHS not living with Covid but dying from it
‘THE GOVERNMENT must be honest about the threat the pandemic still poses,’ the editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and Health Service Journal...
‘The Final Demise Of The Two State Solution’ Says Ashrawi!
THE Palestinian National Council (PNC), the Palestinian parliament in exile, said on Monday that the decision of the Israeli ruling Likud party to impose...
Greek austerity is set to continue! Only way out is through the European...
GREECE has completed a three-year eurozone emergency loan programme worth 61.9bn euros (£55bn; $70.8bn). This was part of the biggest bailout in global financial...
International Criminal Court Has Jurisdiction Over Israeli War Crimes In Palestine!
THE International Criminal Court ruled on Friday that it has jurisdiction over war crimes and atrocities committed in the Palestinian territories and can thus...
Second Unite ‘Pause For Peace’ Equals Surrender Attempt!
THE Unite trade union leaders have declared their second ‘Pause for Peace’ in less than a week, in two fiercely fought industrial disputes –...
China shows the way to defeat the coronavirus plague – while the British ruling...
THE creator of the Universal Credit onslaught against the working class and the poor, Iain Duncan Smith has launched an attack on China in...
Trump pledges to make US capitalism great again by pauperising the US workers and...
ALARM is spreading among US imperialism’s imperialist rivals at incoming US president Donald Trump’s pledge to make ‘America Great Again’ by pauperising the whole...
May Day uprising: in France and across Europe workers rise up against capitalist crisis
THOUSANDS of workers and young people took to the streets throughout France on Sunday sending a clear ‘message’ that workers are preparing a massive...
Bring down the Irish government to smash the Water Tax!
OVER 150,000 people took part in nationwide protests last Saturday against the introduction of savage water charges throughout the Republic of Ireland. Up to 100...
Italian Workers And Youth Throw A Giant Spanner Into The Eu Works!
THE Italian general election results have shaken the European Union after the governing ‘Centre Left’ pro-EU coalition, led by Matteo Renzi, got just 22.8%...
Sunak promises bankers unlimited profits while Haldane warns of economic collapse!
ON WEDNESDAY Andy Haldane, outgoing chief economist at the Bank of England (BoE), delivered a message of doom for the British economy in a...
Sinn Fein Takes Its Seat On Six Counties Policing Board
DAITHI McKay, Martina Anderson and Alex Maskey of Sinn Fein have just taken their seats on the Policing Board of the PSNI, the...
London Midland drivers fight wage cut
LONDON MIDLAND drivers have refused to work voluntary overtime on Sundays after the company cut their pay for the day to single time. The rail...
Celebrate the first 70 years by bringing down the Tories and ending the cuts
THE NHS was the product of war and revolution, namely the slaughter of soldiers and civilians fighting fascism in World War 2, and...