Public sector unions must take strike action over pensions
THE Fire Brigades Union said yesterday that it will consider industrial action over government plans to ‘reform’ its members’ pensions by dramatically extending the...
McDonnell writes ‘Dear John’ letter to Osborne!
THE TORY plan to cut Working and Child Tax Credits has succeeded in splitting the Tory party and creating divisions even in the Tory...
French Government Passes Pensions ‘Reforms’ Without A Vote!
THE French government has chosen the moment – when France, Europe and the world is obsessed by the coronavirus crisis – to launch a...
Hamas defiant over Trump’s threat to unleash hell on Gaza
HAMAS was defiant in its response yesterday to the threats by US president Donald Trump that he would cancel the ceasefire agreement in Gaza...
50 years since Chile coup – vital lessons for the working class today
MONDAY 11th September will be the 50th anniversary of the seizure of power by the Chilean military, led by general Augusto Pinochet, backed by...
Cameron’s beat, beat, and beat again ruling class morality!
THE Tory-led coalition's savage attack on welfare claimants and the inevitable poverty and destitution they have caused for millions of working class families ...
Osborne tax credits retreat but savage assault on Welfare State is stepped up!
CHANCELLOR Osborne was forced to make a humiliating retreat over working tax credits in the House of Commons yesterday after facing massive resistance to...
Youth unemployment hits record levels – socialist revolution the only answer
YOUTH unemployment in the UK has shot up over the past year according to the latest research carried out by the Resolution Foundation think...
Union leaders are fiddling while the NHS burns! General Strike now to win...
THE BURNING issue of NHS workers’ pay is so explosive that the Tories left it to the very last day that Parliament sits before...
Workers begin to occupy their plants and demand nationalisation!
BRITISH capitalism is on the rocks and has started to break apart! This is the significance of the total outstanding government debt of the...
Reply to the US-UK attacks on the Palestinians by making October 10th the first...
THE Hamas movement has condemned the Israeli occupation’s brutal aerial attacks on Hezbollah and the Lebanon as a ‘dangerous escalation’ and ‘part of the...
Snap General Election Farce!
LABOUR Prime Minister Brown, a cautious and bumbling, conservative politician, is due to decide this weekend whether to take a big gamble and call...
Tories defy court ruling and keep asylum seekers detained at Napier Barracks
IT HAS been confirmed that the Home Office is determined to keep the dilapidated and dangerous Napier Barracks open for a further four years. The...
Working class must take decisive action as UK heads for gigantic crash
STARMER’S Labour government is in a state of complete meltdown, with the prime minister himself struggling to keep his job under the impact of...
Blair hits out at ‘black crime’ – calls to ‘take out’ black youth
BLAIR in his Callaghan Memorial lecture in Cardiff came out as an admirer of the right wing Labour premier, who he says ‘had neither...
Turkish Masses Serve Notice On Erdogan
THE uprising of the Turkish masses, which began over the future of a park in European Turkey and rapidly spread across the country, including...
Tories’ Enabling Act Brings In Open Bourgeois Dictatorship
THE UK government in alliance with the Labour Party has over a three-day period pushed through an emergency law, the Data Retention and Investigatory...
Labour sells out on state education
THE Labour shadow education minister, Stephen Twigg, made a speech yesterday that was billed as ‘wresting’ the initiative on education from the Tories –...
Afghan crisis – more combat troops to be sent
THE British government’s Defence Secretary, Des Browne, said yesterday that he would be making a statement to the House of Commons as soon as...
Coalition plans Royal Mail sell-off at knock-down price
News broke yesterday that the long expected attempt by the coalition to sell off and privatise Royal Mail is set to occur this autumn. What...
Starmer pledges billions for military while doctors and nurses are hired to work in...
LABOUR Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Washington yesterday for a first meeting with President Trump since his inauguration last month. The situation in Ukraine...
The Essence Of The Easter Rising!
THE bourgeois media has been awash this weekend with coverage of the centenary celebrations of the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin, with reports on...
Permanent wage-cutting and zero-hour contracts are all that capitalism has to offer
THE Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate has fallen to 6.4%, down from 6.5% in May, with the number of people unemployed...
Interest repayments on national debts surge to ‘multi-decade highs’
GOVERNMENT borrowing across the most advanced capitalist nations in the world has been hit with the highest interest rate increases in decades, as the...
No to school reopening and a forced return to work – for a general...
WHILE the Tories were hailing the relaxation of the lockdown rules that came into effect yesterday in England as a giant step forward, senior...
UN Forces Quit Mitrovica
THE divided town of Mitrovica was in turmoil yesterday morning, after UNMIK police and KFOR troops, in a major provocation, stormed a local court...
World crisis deepening to explosion point!
JAPANESE stocks led big falls across Asia on Tuesday, posting their biggest drop in nearly 10 months, as investors became hysterical about falling oil...
Brown hints about withdrawal from Basra
PRIME Minister Brown was yesterday midway to giving up his ‘there is no timetable for a withdrawal from Iraq’ line – imposed on him...
Welcome all Refugees! Bankrupt EU spreads racist poison!
THE Danish parliament has just voted to rob asylum seekers of their valuables – so that they pay for their upkeep. This policy immediately brings...
NHS staffing crisis – only solution kick out the Tories!
THE shortage of NHS staff in England has reached the point where patients are being warned that they will have to get used to...
The Tories are planning to smash the trade unions – To defend the right...
THE General Council of the TUC is set to meet on Tuesday, in a meeting that has been kept a secret, lest large numbers...
Tory war on refugees is a class issue for the working class
IN THEIR latest attack on refugees the Tories are preparing to use nets to disable boats and dinghies attempting the dangerous Channel crossing. This tactic...
US insists on direct talks as Israel refuses to halt settlement building
PRESIDENT Obama has summoned the Palestinian Authority leader, Abbas, and Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu to Washington for talks beginning on September 2, to resolve...
Imperialist illusions of reshaping the Middle East are shattered – forward to the world...
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Wednesday hailed the ceasefire agreement forced on the Israeli regime, saying that it has shattered prime minister Benjamin...
Miliband will do everything that is necessary to defend capitalism
YESTERDAY the main trade union leaders were full of praise for Miliband’s conference speech. This was no doubt an expression of relief that he...
Forward with the Iranian Workers Revolution!
SINCE the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran began, US President Donald Trump has claimed Iran’s military has been ‘degraded’ and that the war...
Boycott All Israeli Goods – Forward To The Palestinian State!
THE TUC CONGRESS yesterday managed to avoid an open split over the issue of Palestine, by allowing two motions to be debated, voted on,...
Parliament Votes Lords Resolution Banning Any UK ‘No Deal’ Into Law!
THE HOUSE of Commons on Monday night voted by 390 votes to 81 to turn a House of Lords resolution into legislation that bans...
EU is going up in flames! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
THE European Union is like a huge powder magazine that started to smoulder even before the Brexit vote in the UK on June 23rd,...
After The Care Homes Massacre – Kick The Tories Out Now!
THE damning report released yesterday by the Public Accounts Committee on the effect of Tory policies towards the elderly in care homes came as...
Action not words required to win Gate Gourmet struggle
LAST Thursday afternoon, at a meeting attended by TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, TGWU leader Tony Woodley told the Gate Gourmet shop stewards that...
UK ‘control orders’ are illegal says EU rights body
EVEN the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Alvaro Gil-Robles has condemned the issuing of control orders by the British Home Secretary as...
Tories’ attempt to recreate the British Empire demands a revolutionary response
TORY Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s speech yesterday called for the UK to be ‘realistic about our global position’, insisting that this means recognising that...
Biden administration in crisis over Israeli failure to defeat Hamas
CHUCK SCHUMER, the Democratic Senate majority leader, described as the highest ranking Jewish official in the United States and top ally of president Joe...
Defend Council Housing – Bring Down The Brown Government
FOR SOME time Labour has been promoting the theme that the very idea of a job for life is reactionary, and has been glorifying...