Defend the right to strike by forcing the TUC to call a general strike...
THE Tories wasted no time in placing their anti-strike laws before parliament yesterday in their determination to break the trade unions and inflict the...
UK banks fail stress test while manufacturing collapses
LAST Friday the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the results of its stress test on 51 of the biggest banks throughout Europe and Britain. Fearful...
Desperate Blair dashes to Baghdad
WITH British troops in the south of Iraq in danger of taking heavy casualties at the hands of an insurgency that has taken over...
Tory government in massive crisis – make TUC call a general strike to kick...
AT THE weekend, the Tory-supporting Telegraph newspaper published an article by its economics expert Jeremy Warner which carried the dire headline: ‘Few have woken...
Now is the time to build the world Trotskyist movement!
ON Wednesday, the general secretary of the TUC, Frances O’Grady, penned another begging letter to the Tory government, this time to the Secretary of...
US Torture Flights – Questions Go Unanswered
LIBERTY has written letters to the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, and to British police chiefs about the US’ ‘extraordinary rendition’ programme and the use...
Straw’s cover up for illegal MI6 actions in Greece exposed
Greek newspaper Proto Thema has named the MI6 chief at the British embassy in Athens, after he was accused of organising British and Greek...
‘Moderate anti-extremist’ seeks talks with US
HASSAN Rouhani has hailed his election as Iran’s president as a ‘victory of moderation over extremism’. The cleric won just over 50 per cent of...
US Closes Its Embassy In Kiev As It Hands Over Missiles To Ukraine To...
THE likelihood of an escalation in the Ukraine conflict could significantly increase in the next two months, as long as the just-defeated US President...
Defend the Tamil people! Unite the Sri Lankan workers! Bring down the Rajipakse...
THERE is a war taking place in Sri Lanka, in which the government of President Rajipakse, armed, equipped, trained and financially supported by the...
Action needed now to establish Palestinian state and defeat Zionism
The Central Committee of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) has held a meeting, chaired by Deputy Chairman Hussein al-Sheikh, to discuss Israel’s ongoing...
Forward to a public sector general strike to smash Brown’s wage cutting policies
GMB members working in the NHS yesterday voted by over 96% to reject the 2008 pay offer in a consultative ballot on the government’s...
Sanctions war against Russia is driving forward revolution in the EU and UK!
THE CAPITALIST powers of the EU, US and UK are growing fearful that the prosecution of their war against Russia, is actually unleashing a...
Israel war cabinet agrees plan for indefinite military occupation of Gaza
ON SUNDAY Israel’s army chief, Eyal Zamir, announced that tens of thousands of Israeli reservists will be called up in a planned military occupation...
No Performance-Related Pay In The Classroom!
THE House of Commons Education Select Committee yesterday tried to deliver a blow against the national pay agreements established by the teaching trade unions....
Restore the NHS! Bring down Blair
PRIME Minister Tony Blair made clear yesterday that the government is determined to force through the cuts and closures, privatisation and destruction of...
Down With The US ‘Proximity Talks’
US VICE-PRESIDENT Joe Biden is in Israel where he has declared that the just agreed ‘proximity talks’, which will see US envoy George Mitchell...
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,...
Palestinian prime minister Abbas in London this week for official meeting with Starmer!
Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, arrived in London on Sunday night for an official three-day state visit at the invitation of Keir...
British workers face massive crisis as capitalism lurches into the abyss – time for...
THE wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth by the bourgeois media, and the way that the TUC has used this massive wave...
Soros financing Pro-EU campaign in UK – Workers must demand that the UK quits...
US-HUNGARIAN billionaire George Soros has denounced Brexit as an ‘immensely damaging process’ for both the United Kingdom and the European Union, and has arrived...
British capitalism crashing into bankruptcy – Unions must organise a general strike to...
THE UK’s largest car maker, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), yesterday announced a massive pre-tax loss of £354 million for the six months to September...
Johnson moves to put the skids under Prescott
THE Blairite cabinet, faced with the working class rejecting Blair, his war on Iraq, his onslaught on the Welfare State, and with popular revulsion...
Inflation Now Out Of Control!
ACCORDING to the latest figures, factory input inflation – that is the increase in raw materials paid for by manufacturers – rose by a...
Build the 4th International in the US
THE decision of the United Steelworkers of America trade union to follow the lead of the just-failed Democratic contender, John Edwards, whom the steelworkers...
World Crisis Is Ripping Eu Apart
THE crisis of the European Union’s attempts to overcome the contradictions of European capitalism has landed the Tory Party into the gravest crisis of...
Brown and Darling saving the bosses by savaging the workers
AS is his way, the Prime Minister addressed the CBI bosses organisation yesterday, just hours before his Chancellor was due to declare to the...
Demoralised Tories face an economic crash – put them out of their misery with...
THE COMPLETE demoralisation of the Tories has dominated the front pages of the bourgeois press, with reports that PM Boris Johnson is facing a...
Re-nationalise the water companies
The Guardian paper has published an exclusive report that revealed that Thames Water, the UK’s biggest water company, diverted cash meant to clean up...
Maude and Cameron seek the support of parliament for law-breaking
THE Tory-led coalition is rushing through parliamentary legislation to impose on the Civil Service trade unions savage changes to their redundancy agreement (Civil Service...
The UK ruling class is split, unable to rule, and frightened by the mass...
YESTERDAY Tory PM May pledged that she would not allow the British people’s vote for Brexit to be sabotaged. The would-be sabatoeurs are the majority...
Running Scared Of Youth And Revolution!
THE German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned a Paris conference of French, German and Italian leaders on Tuesday that youth unemployment of almost 25%...
Unions to call for London-wide strike action to defeat Tory attack on TfL workers
RAIL unions have pledged mass industrial action in response to the Tory attacks on the jobs, pay and pensions of workers at TfL (Transport...
Eurozone Crisis Spirals Out Of Control
THE EUROZONE crisis was finally, officially recognised as the time bomb that will bring down the entire capitalist banking system at last weekend’s meeting...
As workers boil with anger Obama and Republicans vow ‘no deal’
THE USA is set to hit its debt ceiling by 17 October, if the Houses of Congress are unable to agree a massive cuts...
Car industry collapses in UK and Europe under impact of capitalist crisis
THE BRITISH car industry is steadily collapsing as a result of the world economic crisis, figures produced yesterday highlighted. According to the Society of Motor...
Three months to save the NHS! Trade unions must call industrial action now!
YESTERDAY, the Labour Party leader Miliband wrote in the Observer that ‘Everyone who loves the NHS must fight to defeat this health bill. This...
TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and nationalise Thames...
FACED with an £18 billion debt mountain, the privatised Thames Water company yesterday set out its survival plans that involve increasing bills to £627...
‘Let them go bust’ says Bank of England chief
THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, in a letter to the House of Commons Treasury select committee has warned that efforts...
Israel Poised For Gaza Attack!
ISRAEL is gearing up for another major attack on the Gaza Strip to try and drive back the revolutionary forces in the area. At the...
Irish enforced bail-out will bring EU to breaking point!
IRISH Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, and the Irish government, are being forced onto their knees by the EU and the European Central Bank...
STOP the war say MPs and bring the Taleban into government
MPs on the House of Commons foreign affairs committee ran up the white flag yesterday when they declared in their report that peace talks...
Heathrow class struggle sharpens as Terminal 5 looms
THE closer we get to the new Terminal Five, the more intense the class struggle becomes between the bosses of the BAA (British Airports...
Hands off Palestine – no annexations! Arab workers must remove ‘recognition’ regimes!
FOLLOWING the refusal of the Arab League to condemn the UAE for its recognition of the state of Israel, Bahrain has now followed the...
Unemployment and inflation surges as Cameron threatens immigrants’ benefits
THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 80,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to July, official figures have shown....