Afghan crisis deepens as deadline nears
AFGHANISTAN’S finance minister has said deadlock over the disputed presidential election has cost the economy $5bn, so far. Omar Zakhilwal has said he will have...
Recall The Tuc Congress To Call General Strike To Support The Junior Doctors
THE latest two-day strike action of the junior doctors has been a resounding success with massive picket lines, and huge public support, while the...
General Strike To Smash Fees And Bring Down The Coalition
TENS of thousands of students and youth are marching today in central London to denounce the tripling of tuition fees to £9,000, and to...
Israel is preparing a massive ground attack on Gaza – the TUC must be...
AFTER 21 days of political paralysis, the US House of Representatives finally elected Mike Johnson, a fervent Donald Trump supporter, as its Speaker. Johnson’s first...
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...
Unions Must Fight And Defeat Local Pay Plans
THE Tory LibDem coalition, despite all its problems and weaknesses, waged a war to bring its Health and Social Care privatising bill into law. They...
Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
ON TUESDAY over three million French workers took to the streets with massive demonstrations in Paris and Marseilles to make sure that Sarkozy got...
Gordon Brown wheeled out to save capitalism
Former Labour chancellor and prime minister Gordon Brown has stepped forward to offer himself up as the saviour of bankrupt British capitalism. Brown made his...
May survives Party conference – but will need Labour’s help to sell-out Brexit!
THE sight of PM May ‘dancing’ onto the Tory Party conference podium’ no doubt celebrating that she had survived the Tory Party conference thus...
Brown Speaks To His Cbi Constituency
YESTERDAY Gordon Brown attempted to revive his political credibility, severely damaged after the Northern Rock and Child Benefit details crises by delivering a speech...
Greek contagion hits Italy and the US
Today the leaders of the Eurozone will be meeting once again in a desperate attempt to try and stop the collapse of the euro...
General Council must be made to resign for refusing to fight anti-union Bill!
YESTERDAY morning, the TUC commented on the vote in the House of Commons on the third reading of the Trade Union Bill, which is...
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...
Pensioners and workers will unite to demand a general strike to end Tory attack...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak this week put every pensioner in the country on notice that along with workers they will be forced to pay...
Royal Mail workers must set the date for their all out strike action!
ON TUESDAY, postal workers delivered a massive 94.5% YES vote to strike in defence of their jobs, pay and conditions and the very existence...
PLO chief warns Trump don’t move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem!
AS WE approach the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration in which British imperialism pledged to hand over somebody else’s country to conquest and...
Israeli Police Cancel Settlers March! Trade Unions Must Take Action Now To Establish Palestinian...
ISRAELI police yesterday cancelled tomorrow’s annual massive settlers’ march through Jerusalem. The march celebrates the occupation of the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967 and...
Socialist Revolution To Put Bankrupt Bankers Out Of Their Misery
IN its latest annual report, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the ‘central bank of central banks’, has warned that capitalism is ‘defenceless’ against...
Action needed to stop them smashing the NHS
NHS England warned yesterday that by 2020-21 the gap between the NHS budget and rising costs could reach £30bn, meaning that when the current...
8-day war games: US military train up Syrian terrorists! Workers of France, UK &...
US MILITARY forces have just held eight days of exercises with Syrian terrorists in the south of the country around the US military base...
UK and US have lost the war and now they want to steal any...
AFTER a tortuous series of talks in Geneva the Russian Foreign minister Lavrov has announced the signing of five documents which include agreements reached...
Coalition To Use Prisoners To Cut Wages
PRISONERS will be forced to work 40 hours a week, Thatcherite veteran Clarke told the Tory Party conference yesterday. The Justice Minister...
It’s a Labour heaven for bankers but a hell for workers, youth and immigrants!
THE class message of the Labour government is clear. It is that if you’re a banker, you can do no wrong and are...
Carney tells banks to find £11.4 billion to save them going bust
DESPITE all the recent words from Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, about the underlying health of British capitalism, his actions yesterday...
House prices rise by 10.2% – as rate rise nears
UK house prices in July were up 10.2% from a year earlier – the biggest annual change since September 2007. Halifax said that property prices...
Children starve in Britain while bankers reap billions
IN the same week that the capitalist banking system was exposed as a centre of criminal venality, lying and cheating in order to secure...
War Fever Against Russia
THE US and the EU are set to stiffen and widen their sanctions against Russia. Their intention is to target its finances, energy...
May assumes dictatorial powers over Parliament – time to bring her down with a...
TORY Prime Minister Theresa May was determined on Monday to avoid a substantive vote in Parliament on ‘her right’ to go to war and...
Israeli-American war on Palestine and Iran paves the way for the victory of the...
THE current Israeli-American ruling class war on Iran and Palestine is continuing for the twentieth consecutive day, amid a marked escalation in the pace,...
Israel To Cut Off Gaza Power
ISRAEL’S defence minister is once again preparing to approve cuts in the supply of electricity and fuel to Gaza, to try once again to...
Israel attacks Gaza and Abbas cancels visit
YESTERDAY an Israeli aircraft bombed a building of the Hamas-run Executive Force in Gaza, killing at least one person and injuring about 45 others....
Unison Leaders Betray Their Members!
AT the September Labour Party and TUC conferences the trade union leaders, amongst them the leaders of the UNISON trade union, made out that...
CWU nationwide industrial action deadline on July 2
THE CWU Conference last Wednesday backed two emergency motions from the postal executive calling on the government to remove the threat of privatisation, facilitate...
Half a million children of public servants condemned to poverty by wage and benefit...
550,000 CHILDREN (1 in 7) with a parent working in the public sector will be forced to live in poverty by the end of...
The Firefighters are the heroes of Grenfell! Jail the real culprits – big business...
A LEAKED report by the chairman of the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry, Martin Moore-Bick, has found a scapegoat for the fire – they are...
Demand TUC call a general strike to defeat anti-union laws
LAST November, the Tories were confidently predicting that when their anti-strike ‘Minimum Service Levels’ law was finally passed before Christmas, around 40% of rail...
Adam Smith rubbishes the Bank of England and its fake stress testing!
THE Adam Smith Institute has just ‘lampooned’ the Bank of England stress tests – which sought to show that the UK’s banking system is...
Sunak Wants A War With Russia And A Class War Against The Working Class...
THE British ruling class has decided that there is only one way out of the historic crisis of British capitalism, and that is to...
Student uprising spreads from US to UK and Europe – It is the spark...
THE explosive eruption of students in America against the genocidal war being waged by Israel in Gaza, with the full support of the capitalist...
Nationalise the major industries to defend jobs
GERMANY, the world’s biggest exporter of commodities, and the strong man of the EU, has begun to slump with government figures showing that its...
Israeli unions are striking for a Gaza ceasefire! The UK TUC must call a...
A NATIONWIDE strike swept across Israel yesterday, intensifying the mass pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree an immediate cease-fire and a prisoner...
Basic Rights To Be Dumped In The Bin!
IN the wake of the French terror attacks PM Cameron has promised a ‘comprehensive piece of legislation’ to close the ‘safe spaces’ used by...
Shias And Sunnis Must Form Revolutionary Government In Iraq
THE Kurdistan Region intelligence chief, Lahur Jangi, has said that according to his estimates there were 400 to 450 British nationals in the ranks...
Tory government a ‘dying administration’ – put it out of its misery with a...
YESTERDAY, NHS England was due to publish the Tory blueprint for dealing with the huge NHS backlog and reducing the record six million patients...
TUC Leader Nowak Urges The Tories To Compromise With The Trade Unions Just As...
IN THE understatement of the year, the new leader of the TUC Paul Nowak warned yesterday that further strikes could lie ahead in 2023...