Bourgeois democracy conceals cabinet diktat
THE Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor Straw, on Tuesday, told the House of Commons that he had, as Minister, taken the...
Blair’s ‘legacy’– Student debts set to soar!
THIS week, as college and school students receive their A level examination results and consider going to university, the latest survey by the NatWest...
Blair using EU to attack workers’ wages and conditions
THE Blair government has only one real use for the EU, and that is as a tool for cutting the wages and increasing the...
National Guard ‘armed, locked and loaded’ in New Orleans
LOUISIANA State Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin have deployed 300 heavily-armed National Guard troops and 60 state police on the streets of...
The answer to ‘Fat Cat Thursday’ – Socialist Revolution
THE MASSIVE gap in wealth between workers and the bosses has once again been highlighted in a new report which shows that the chief...
Israeli Terrorists Are Being Given A Free Hand To Blind Palestinian Journalists!
THE Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh showed solidarity with photojournalist Moath Amarneh during the Palestinian cabinet meeting yesterday in the occupied West Bank city...
Cameron and Tories in crisis
THE understanding that in times of acute capitalist crisis the ruling class can no longer rule in the old way is being borne out...
Brown targets European workers’ rights and benefits
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown published a pamphlet Global Europe-Full Employment and penned a special article in the Financial Times yesterday, lecturing the leaders of European...
Blair Refuses To Name The Date
TONY Blair yesterday took advantage of the refusal of his political rivals, such as his policy co-thinker Gordon Brown and the trade unions, to...
Join the YS lobby of the TUC on September 11 to call a general...
THE GRENFELL Tower disaster was a turning point for the working class where the callous and ruthless nature of the ruling class was exposed...
Multinational companies who supplied cladding and insulation on Grenfell Tower making super-profits!
Yesterday’s Observer newspaper revealed that manufacturers of the insulation installed on Grenfell Tower – cladding that led to the inferno that killed 72 people...
Brown planned troops on the streets after Lehman collapse
IN 2008, the then-Labour prime minister, Gordon Brown, actively considered ordering armed troops onto the streets of Britain as his response to the collapse...
G20 debt pile reaches $135 trillion – Capitalism is breaking apart – forward with...
THIS WEEK the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another warning that the world capitalist financial system is on the verge of a gigantic...
Quit Afghanistan now says Ashdown – as Cameron and Hague plan new wars in...
EX-Special Boat Service operative Ashdown can recognise a major defeat when it stares him in the face, and refuses to go away. He has called...
Italian workers show the way with massive strikes in support of Gaza – demand...
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth took action throughout Italy on Monday after Italian trade unions called a nationwide strike in support of Palestinians in Gaza and...
LOW PAY – TUC Commission shows the problem, but runs away from a solution
YESTERDAY the TUC revealed in its ‘Commission on Vulnerable Employment’ report what everybody already knows. This is that low pay and slave labour...
General strike to defend the NHS
NHS trade unions have slammed the ‘poverty’ 3.3 per cent NHS pay ‘deal’ which was imposed on NHS workers by the government on Thursday,...
March ban aimed at trade unions, youth and students
THE news that the Tory Home Secretary, Theresa May, has issued a blanket ban on all marches and rallies in five London boroughs represents...
Chagos Islanders To Lobby 10 Downing Street
A DELEGATION of Chagos Islanders from Crawley will be delivering a letter to the new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street this...
Starmer announces creation of a ‘standing army’ as the Labour government moves to impose...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer emerged from an emergency COBRA meeting of ministers on Monday to announce the formation of a new ‘standing army’...
Johnson’s new attack to break up the NHS
LABOUR’S Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced plans yesterday to allow well-off patients to make so-called ‘co-payments’ for drugs and extra treatments, while still receiving...
Bosses planning to incite youth against pensioners!
A £10,000 PAYMENT should be given to the young, while pensioners are taxed more, a new report by the Resolution Foundation into inter-generational fairness...
Johnson Has Been Forced Out – Now The TUC Must Act To Bring Down...
BORIS Johnson finally resigned as Prime Minister early yesterday after more than 50 Tory ministers and aides jumped ship and left him floundering to...
BA struggle coming to a head
EXTENSIVE talks have been taking place over the last seven weeks under the Chairmanship of TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber between Unite and BA,...
May Loses Support Of Both The Remainers And Leavers – Looks To Labour To...
THAT BANKRUPT British capitalism and imperialism is unable to stand on its own two feet anymore is obvious. It faces the prospect of the...
Hamas fighters deal heavy blows against Israel, while Gaza masses remain undefeated!
MORE than 700 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry...
Tories tell May she must bring in strike ban law!
SUNDAY saw the Tory Telegraph accuse PM May of ‘refusing to curb the power of striking trade unions despite a growing backlash from...
NO reconstruction, only destruction in Afghanistan
THE top NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Jones, has just apologised for the death of up to 80 Afghan civilians in a series...
Defend NHS health care – stop the NHS becoming a business
‘ONE million NHS patients have been the victims of appalling care in hospitals across Britain, according to a major report,’ screamed the capitalist press...
Capitalism can’t afford common retirement age or decent pensions
CAPITALIST Britain is being driven backwards, not forwards by the deepening crisis of capitalism and the policies of the Blair-Brown Labour government, dedicated to...
Coalition putting over-65s to work!
UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen by 65,000 in the three months to May, while the number of newly unemployed in receipt of the JobSeekers Allowance, for...
Coalition building a landlords’ paradise – bring back Council Housing! Now!
THE Coalition government is busily building a paradise for the landlords, the latest Shelter Rent Report shows. In this paradise, private tenants, who can no...
People forced into debt to pay for private treatment as Tories slash the NHS!
69,000 PEOPLE were forced to pay for private medical treatment in the final three months of last year, according to figures from the Private...
PLO Executive Committee says the Palestinian leadership will take key political and legal steps...
THE Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has said that, in light of Israel’s continued aggressive policies, the Palestinian leadership will take...
Defend state education, stop privatisation!
TODAY'S joint strike by two unions at Middlesex University must be the start of action to defend jobs and the very existence of a...
Tory split deepens as demand to end ‘health and safety authoritarianism’ grows
THE CRISIS gripping the British ruling class is being directly reflected in the splits that are tearing the Tory Party apart over how to...
Labour slashing 100,000 NHS jobs as recession drives war to make working class pay...
YESTERDAY, the Guardian newspaper revealed that 100,000 jobs in the NHS could be wiped out because of the brutal cost-cutting regime imposed by Labour...
US-Led Coalition Conducted 34,573 Air Strikes In Iraq And Syria Between August 2014 And...
THE US-UK-led military coalition reported on September 26 that it had conducted a total of 34,573 airstrikes in both Iraq and Syria between August...
Bring down the Tories to stop the destruction of the NHS!
ON FRIDAY the GMB trade union declared that ‘Tory Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt must resign,’ and warned that that the ‘NHS is tailspinning into...
McDonnell refuses to even whisper the word ‘socialism’
A FEW short weeks ago at the Labour Party conference, the ‘left’ shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, proudly announced that the party would no longer...
Workers across the world support call for a ‘Strike for Gaza’
HOSPITALS in the Gaza Strip are ‘stretched to breaking point’ and infections are ‘exploding’ the UN reported yesterday. The United Nations Office for the Coordination...
US economy slumps as Obama proposes huge budget debts
THE American economy contracted by 6.2 per cent in the last three months of last year, as consumer spending dropped by 4.3 per cent...
Heseltine joins Blair’s campaign for an anti-Brexit uprising!
LORD Heseltine is notorious for his closure of the mining industry in 1993, as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in the Major...
IMF says banks stuck in ‘Doom Loop’ – Socialist revolution the only way to...
TEN YEARS on from the banking crash that brought the world’s financial system to the very edge of going over the fiscal cliff, the...
With The Tories At Their Weakest Now Is The Time For A General Strike...
SATURDAY’S massive turnout for the trade union sponsored mass demonstration with its lead banner declaring ‘Not One Day More – Tories out’ has spread...