NHS privatisation can seriously damage your health!
NOBODY knows the number of botched or mismanaged operations being carried out by the private Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) businesses, funded by the...
28th anniversary of declaration of Palestinian independence!
SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saed Erekat said yesterday that the international community has failed in its responsibility to correct the...
UK ‘pirates’ are doing the USA’s dirty work policing the Med to keep out...
IRAN has summoned the UK ambassador after UK marines illegally seized an Iranian oil tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar. British Royal Marines swooped in...
Greece heralds a capitalist collapse and the European socialist revolution
THE Standard and Poor (S&P) credit rating agency downgraded Greek government bonds on Wednesday sending government stocks and share prices on the Athens Stock...
Right wing Labour wants to make sure that the UK never leaves the European...
IN LAST Friday’s letter to EU President Donald Tusk the Prime Minister, Theresa May, made it very clear that she had surrendered to the...
Russia Under Attack!
RUSSIA IS UNDER FULL SCALE ATTACK with oil prices now down to $60 a barrel and the Saudis and the Gulf states saying that...
Trade Unions Must Dump Starmer And Labour’s Right Wing And Call A General Strike...
THE general secretary of the Unite union Len McCluskey has responded to Labour’s massive council election defeats and its disastrous loss in the Hartlepool...
Deepening world capitalist crisis is creating wars and revolutions
NATO and Russia held ‘frank and serious’ talks despite ‘profound disagreements’ as their ambassadors met on Wednesday for the first time since 2014, alliance...
Unite Helps Bosses Cut Workers’ Wages
THE UNITE trade union leaders yesterday were in full flight praising Toyota workers for taking their advice and assisting the bosses by accepting a...
Syria counter-revolutionary alliance
THE counter-revolutionary alliance between US imperialism and the Stalinist bureaucracy emerged into the light of day last Saturday with the joint framework agreement between...
Bank of England Governor warns of ‘apocalyptic’ food crisis and admits Bank powerless to...
ANDREW Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, bluntly spelt out to MPs that the world faces an ‘apocalyptic’ food crisis that will have...
Workers defeat Labour Party coupists with increased majority for Corbyn
313,209 Labour Party members and supporters with their leadership vote for Jeremy Corbyn, have driven back the right wing coup attempt that was underway,...
Labour strikebreakers back BA’s anti-union drive
British Airways cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March. The Unite union has...
TUC must be forced to call a general strike to defeat anti-union laws!
Following the passing of the Strikes (Minimum Service Level) Act in July, the Tories on Friday launched a six week ‘consultation on the reasonable...
British capitalism remains on the floor with wages falling and part-time working booming
THE number of people estimated to be out of work in the UK fell by 133,000 to a ‘five-year low’ of 2.2 million in...
‘Big Society’ – wholesale destruction of the Welfare State
TORY prime minister, David Cameron, launched a desperate attempt yesterday to try and convince an incredulous public that his ‘Big Society’ policy is something...
US workers bracing themselves for ‘fiscal cliff’
THE US labour movement is now bracing itself for a last minute ‘deal’ on the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ with the Republican Party, in which the...
New Health Act must be smashed along with the government that has brought it...
THE Tory-led coalition will now be able to close all of the hospitals on its hit list, and more as it wishes, to ‘save’...
It Is Time For The UK, EU And US Trade Unions To Recognise And...
A SENIOR member of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has said that there is no real will on the part of the United States...
Forward to a national strike and a national demonstration on July 17
DAY one of the London CWU’s three-day strike action was a massive success, after the move by the Royal Mail and the government...
Cutting deposit rates below zero is a gigantic gamble!
AN ‘historic gamble’, a giant ‘leap into the unknown’ – these were just two of the headlines that greeted the news that last Thursday...
Blair’s call for an ‘alliance’ to attack Iran
PRIME Minister Tony Blair told businessmen from Britain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dubai yesterday: ‘We must mobilise our alliance of moderation...
Scrap the Public Private Partnership on the tube
METRONET, the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) within London Underground, has collapsed financially after years of failure to provide services required by the capital’s transport system. It...
The Treasury and the Banks are in a panic over the Metro crash!
UK Treasury officials are locked in talks with the Bank of England after Metro Bank’s shares plunged by more than 31%. The bank is now...
British Commander Demands Tro0P Numbers In Helmand Be Doubled
A FEW WEEKS ago the US Secretary of Defence, Gates, was accused of trying to corral the British government into sending more troops...
‘Bully’ Hunt thinks that he can dictate to the doctors
FIRST they came for the working poor and the youth with their massive and continuing austerity cuts; then they came for the trade unions...
Work till you drop! – Capitalism’s programme for the elderly
CAPITALISM is truly on the rocks! Unemployment is already heading for three million, of which the majority of the unemployed will be aged between 16...
Trade Unions Must Name The Date For The General Strike To Free Palestine And...
OVER 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of London on Saturday, protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. The protest, organised by the...
The strike wave sweeping Britain demands a new leadership in trade unions, come to...
THE STRIKE wave sweeping across Britain has a revolutionary content. Since the capitalist crisis first burst into the open with the banking collapse of 2008...
One word ‘strike’ sends the TUC into a spin
EARLIER this week the News Line stated that it would not be enough to adopt a programme at the current TUC Congress, but that...
BMA Junior Doctors reject Tory-imposed contract!
THE decision by the British Medical Association (BMA) to refuse to re-enter contract negotiations for doctors in training will be welcomed by every trade...
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...
EU rights court sends UK citizens to US ‘supermax’ prisons!
THE European Court of Human Rights has backed the extradition of five men from the UK to the US which intends to put them...
German workers join European strike wave
MORE than 20,000 German doctors are taking strike action all this week demanding a cut in working hours and a 30-per-cent pay rise. The...
Defend the NHS! Come to NE London Council of Action Conference!
EARLIER this week Chancellor Alistair Darling promised the most draconian cuts in public spending for 20 years as a result of the Labour government’s...
Benefit cap to be lowered by £6,000 say Treasury officials
CHANCELLOR George Osborne, the hammer of the poor, is so determined not to increase the taxes of the rich that he is about to...
Spooks fear revolution
THE Tory foreign secretary, William Hague, appeared on television yesterday morning to give a less than convincing pledge that ‘law abiding citizens’ have ‘nothing...
Halt the NHS race to the bottom
AT a time when the privately owned treatment centres are being handed billions of pounds of the NHS Budget, without any investigation of just...
Smash Labour’s right wing coup attempt – Leave the EU at once!
THE Labour Party leadership has moved to sell out and stab the Brexit referendum result and the working class in the back. Keir Starmer, Labour’s...
Defend jobs, pay & services: Lobby the TUC! Build councils of action!
THE Bank of England (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee decided yesterday to make no change in its base interest rate and to leave it at...
Balls and the ‘Little Englanders’ adopt racism as their policy
‘WE were wrong to allow so many eastern Europeans into Britain,’ says Ed Balls, referring to the large number of migrants from Poland and...
The Real Tory Voice Speaks Out
THE declaration by Tory grandee, Lord Young – a key member of the Thatcher and Major governments that fought the NUM and supported Murdoch’s...
Don’t let Cameron bomb Syria – Forward to the victory of Syria and the...
THE capitalist media and its Tory masters are working around the clock to drum up a majority for Cameron, made up of Tories and...
Defeat Imperialist war with Socialist revolution
THE TRUMP administration imposed its long threatened sanctions against Iran yesterday – a move that was greeted with dire warnings from market analysts that...
Sunak in crisis over Rwanda judgement while Starmer stands with Tories and US imperialism...
PRIME minister Rishi Sunak saw the Tory plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda shredded by the Supreme Court ruling them unlawful on Wednesday. Five...