Scandal-hit government steps up attack on unions
IN her speech to the annual Tolpuddle Martyr’s rally held last Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady lambasted the coalition government over the Transparency...
Greece Can’t Pay – Workers Won’t Pay!
ACCORDING to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office, Greece has a much bigger budget deficit than that reported by the Greek government last year....
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...
Union leaders must call action now over NHS pay or resign!
THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Labour government has declared all-out war on all NHS staff with its decision to impose a...
Chagossians must have the right to return – the US base on Diego Garcia...
A BIG delegation of the 2,000 Chagossians who are living in Crawley, plus delegations from the FBU, GMB and POA trade unions will be...
New Axis Of Evil Threatens War With Syria!
THE new axis of evil, the leaders of the US, France and the UK, have come together to threaten Syria with war, with US...
Ashrawi condemns Israeli onslaught and urges EU and US to stop rewarding Israel
PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) EC member Hanan Ashrawi has strongly condemned Israel’s escalation of its illegal and inhumane measures in and around Jerusalem and...
Build The Wrp In 2008!
THE TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, in his New Year’s message said that his two fears for 2008 were the dangers of a banking...
Bank of England issues warning as pound crashes
DITCHING his opposition to a new third runway at Heathrow airport on Thursday, Ed Miliband, the UK Energy Secretary, not only cravenly abandoned his...
Sudanese Masses Resistance Forces Junta To Agree To Murder Trial For Military Officers!
EIGHT SENIOR military officers are to be charged in Sudan with crimes against humanity over their part in the mass killing of over 150...
Banking parasites still riding high off of the public purse
THE Committee of Public Accounts today publishes a report which reveals in the words of its chair Margaret Hodge that: ‘The peak of the...
Obama Puts British Imperialism In Its Place
WITH more than 100 million gallons of oil already freed to spew all over the US Gulf coast, the ‘special relationship’ between the US...
Fitch strips UK of triple-A rating
LAST Friday, Fitch ratings agency became the second of the world’s three big credit agencies to strip Britain of its top notch triple-A credit...
As Johnson gets May mark-2 ready – workers must take action to take the...
AS THE date for leaving the EU, October 31st comes closer and closer, all of the vultures are desperately gathering over the corpse of...
Form public sector alliance to defend the NHS – Forward to a workers government!
THE just published survey of the NHS, carried out for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) trade union, found that 90 per cent of...
Tories refuse to negotiate – opt for a fight to the finish. Junior doctors...
YESTERDAY the BMA junior doctors’ leader Dr Johann Malawana said, referring to the forthcoming strike actions: ‘No junior doctor wants to take this action,...
Osborne out to grind workers and youth into the ground
IN HIS speech to the Tory faithful yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, made it absolutely clear that he is going to grind the...
120,540 children live in temporary accommodation!
THE scale of the housing crisis today is revealed in a report issued by the Local Government Authority (LGA) which exposes the scandal that...
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...
Working class will smash Johnson’s fantasies with socialist revolution
TORY prime minster Boris Johnson yesterday delivered a speech composed entirely of wishful thinking from which reality was completely excluded. In Johnson’s fairy-tale world British...
Bush fails to get Iraqi puppets to agree ‘constitution’
OVER the weekend, President Bush made personal phone calls to both the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in...
Workers must lobby parliament on October 19th and call general strike to leave the...
THE Supreme Court in Scotland yesterday delayed its decision on whether it would be necessary for the courts to intervene and force PM Johnson...
Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ equals US imperialism making war on workers of the world
PRESIDENT TRUMP has launched his ‘Liberation Day’ offensive against the working class of the world, including the workers of the USA. Trump, in retaliation for...
Scotland Yard refuses to back down as the capitalist state gives up on bourgeois...
TORY leadership rivals Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have found themselves leading the condemnation of Scotland Yard after a senior officer threatened to prosecute...
MPs defend council housing – report condemns government plans
The House of Commons Council Housing Group of MPs from all parties yesterday launched its report Support for the Fourth Option for Council Housing. This...
The Death Agony Of The Blair Government
THE Blair government is now under attack from all sides, after its Prime Minister turned yellow and refused to attend the House of Commons...
No ‘windfall tax’ – nationalise the energy companies
TORY ministers are in a state of despair over the complete inability of the Johnson government to come up with any measures to ‘help’...
Heading For A Housing Crash!
ON MONDAY trading on the Wall Street stock market in New Century Financial shares was halted, as the second largest US sub-prime mortgage lender...
Frost Quits Cabinet As Tory Party Crisis Deepens And Police Clash With Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Lockdown...
LORD FROST has delivered a heavy blow at the John- son government with his resignation letter of last Saturday. He wrote: ‘You know my concerns...
UK workers must support the struggle for Palestinian state!
EARLY on Wednesday morning Israeli occupation forces shot and killed two Palestinian youth, a 17-year-old and a 20-year-old, and injured at least two others...
IDS’ war to starve and break the poor!
JUST how ruthlessly Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is conducting the ruling class’ war on the poor can be seen in...
Witch-Hunter Healey Hits Out At Russia As British Capitalism Struggles To Survive!
DEFENCE SECRETARY John Healey has said that three Russian submarines have carried out a ‘covert’ operation in the Atlantic, north of the UK, lasting...
Imperialist war against Syria escalated – answer with socialist revolution
THE past few days have seen an escalation of the imperialist war against Syria and the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today the Turkish government is...
Israeli withdrawal from Gaza a victory for Hamas and for the workers of the...
ISRAEL on Tuesday completed the withdrawal of its troops from Gaza, as a 72-hour humanitarian truce took effect, and made preparations to take part...
Tory attack on migrants is an attack on the working class!
MIGRANT workers who work illegally in England and Wales are to face up to six months in prison under especially vindictive anti-migrant proposals to...
Blair an imperialist from head to foot
YESTERDAY in Australia, Blair, for all he was worth, was pushing the George Bush imperialist line that ‘we’ have a duty to liberate the...
French workers and youth out to bring down Macron through a general strike!
YESTERDAY, French workers and youth took to the streets in a massive confrontation with the government of Emmanuel Macron and his plans to privatise...
The world crisis is driving forward world
THE world crisis of the capitalist system is deepening rapidly, and is creating a political and revolutionary crisis in the major capitalist states, where...
Royal Mail is preparing mass sackings!
POSTAL workers throughout the country face crunch time in defence of their jobs and the very existence of their union, the CWU. This was spelt...
Sack CWU collaborators!
THE drive by the leadership of the postal workers union (CWU) to transform it from an independent union fighting for the interests of its...
Government overruled – Mau Mau legal action is to go forward
THE High Court yesterday rejected the disgraceful British government attempt to strike out the claims of Kenyan victims of British Colonial torture and terror...
Kerry Calls In Stalinist Bureaucracy To ‘Resolve’ Syrian Crisis
IN its hour of need – with Syria resisting massively the attempt at ‘regime change’ organised by the US-UK-Turkey axis, and carried out by...
Revolution and counter- revolution in the Middle East
EGYPTIAN workers and youth have reoccupied Tahrir Square in Cairo, and are keeping the military and the police at bay, following Saturday’s deadly clashes...
Israeli land robbery continues as Human Rights Watch condemns Hamas!
ISRAEL has ordered Palestinian landowners to evacuate their land in the town of Tuqu’ in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli authorities...
MPs’ Committee fears new mortgage bubble!
A VERY nervous House of Commons Treasury Select Committee has just asked the Bank of England to clarify its role in ensuring that the...