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...
Crisis hit Osborne pledges ruthless class war on workers, pensioners and youth
CHANCELLOR Osborne began his Autumn Statement yesterday ‘We will do whatever it takes to protect Britain from this debt storm . ....
Trade Unions Must Take Action Over Gaza
FORTY-THREE Palestinians were killed by Israeli tanks and rocket fire on UN-run schools late on Monday night and during Tuesday. The schools were well...
Capitalist collapse continues while Brown vows ‘to save the system’
YESTERDAY two major banks had to be nationalised to prevent a run on the UK and EU banking system. They were the Bradford and...
Workers Of The World Unite To Smash Capitalism And Imperialism!
THE MURDER of Keenan Anderson, the cousin of a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, Patrisse Cullors, after he was repeatedly tasered by police officers...
Good Riddance To Campbell – Now Chuck Out All The ‘Lib Dem Lovers’ Before...
THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Labour Party was absolutely correct to expel Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former ‘spin doctor’, for voting...
Vote WRP, forward to the socialist revolution!
PM Brown yesterday announced that the general election will be held on 6 May and told voters Labour will take the ‘big decisions’ that...
End education privatisation
The complete privatisation of public services has taken a massive step forward with the announcement that a further education college in Luton is to...
US Worldwide Torture Network
THE Council of Europe has announced it is investigating 31 reports of unmarked executive aircraft being used by the CIA to transport ‘suspected terrorists’...
The revolution in Nepal – part of the world revolution
LEON Trotsky’s theory of the Permanent Revolution shows how ‘the democratic tasks of the backward bourgeois nations lead directly, in our epoch, to the...
Universal Credit = war on benefits
YESTERDAY the Tory-led coalition launched its ‘pathfinder’ trial of the new Universal Credit System at a job centre in Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester. From here the government...
More fare rises! Re-nationalise the railways!
YESTERDAY the main rail unions held a series of protests at rail stations which involved the handing out of postcards to commuters detailing the...
Ireland’s ‘mother and baby’ homes report – Church and state complicit in 9,000...
NINE thousand children died in Irish ‘mother and baby’ homes run by the Catholic Church throughout the 20th century, a long awaited report has...
Bring Blair before a tribunal says General Rose
THE call by retired General, Sir Michael Rose, for the Prime Minister to be impeached by the Privy Council over the invasion of Iraq...
EU tearing itself apart while British capitalism collapses under a sovereign debt crisis
On Friday EU leaders gathered for a three-day summit to agree on a proposed £1.6 trillion financial plan to bail out the national states...
Cameron, Sarkozy poised to send ground troops into Libya!
SARKOZY and Cameron visited Tripoli yesterday, not to celebrate any illusory ‘victory’, but to shore up the NTC counter-revolutionaries, who are already fighting amongst...
10.3% For Everybody! – Ipsa Shows The Way
EMBARRASSED MPs are appealing to Downing Street to make a new appeal to the IPSA body that sets MPs’ pay to abandon plans for...
‘WE ARE AT WAR’ says Greek PM as workers prepare to storm parliament
THE Greek Socialist Party Prime Minister, Yiorghos Papandreou, told his party’s parliamentary deputies last Saturday that ‘no one likes emergency procedures but we are...
Thousands Of NHS Redundancies Are To Go Ahead – Trade Unions Must Take Action...
THOUSANDS of NHS staff redundancies in England are now to be forced through after a deal was reached with the Treasury to allow the...
French workers’ refusal to vote for austerity puts socialist revolution on immediate agenda
IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote...
Times Rich List shows that austerity UK has become a paradise for the...
THE just-published Sunday Times rich list shows that in austerity-hit UK – where millions of workers have not had a rise in the ten...
FBU pensions victory sets precedent for all public service workers
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) won a massive victory not only for their members but for all public service workers when the employment tribunal...
Blair and Brown threaten the trade unions
THE message from the Blair-Brown leadership to the trade unions and their leaders is ‘face up to globalisation or cease to exist’. Even the two’s...
Police chief rejects Orwellian Britain
THE deputy chief constable of Hampshire Ian Readhead said yesterday that Britain could become a surveillance society with cameras on every street corner. As...
The bosses are dumping their crisis onto the backs of workers. It is time...
YESTERDAY nine members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase the interest rate from 1.25% to 1.75%. This is the sixth...
Tories Want To Bomb Syria!
TORY Defence Minister, Michael Fallon, with the full support of Cameron and leading members of the Labour Party, is calling for Britain to start...
Tories call junior doctors pay demands unaffordable while bosses gouge huge profits from workers...
THE CLAIM that last week 196,000 hospital appointments were cancelled has been used by the Tories and their supporters in the media to put...
Syria goes to the polls – a great victory for the Syrian people and...
YESTERDAY, millions of Syrians were casting their votes in record numbers in parliamentary elections against the backdrop of a ceasefire that is generally holding,...
Us Capitalism Is On The Rocks! The US Working Class Is Faced With...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump yesterday unveiled his three-phase plan for opening up businesses in America proclaiming, ‘We’re starting our life again. We’re starting rejuvenation...
Russian workers having overthrown capitalism must carry out a political revolution against the...
THE degeneration of the Russian Stalinist bureaucracy has been revealed for all to see with its hiring of a mercenary army of criminals to...
Bush Kicks Blair In The Crutch
IT has long been Prime Minister Blair’s contention that the strategic interests of the British ruling class demand 100 per cent support for the...
Stop the Afghan slaughter – withdraw troops now
TODAY the British ruling class is in mourning for the 100 British soldiers that they have sent to their deaths in Afghanistan, no mind...
Bank for International Settlements warns of full-blown banking crash
THE Bank for International Settlements, the central bank of central bankers, in its latest quarterly review of the world banking system has just issued...
EU law being used to slash wages and attack unions
THE wave of ‘wildcat strikes’ that are taking place in power stations and oil terminals throughout the UK have the full support of the...
Stop Cameron’s counter-revolution at home and abroad!
CAMERON told the House of Commons on Monday afternoon in his statement on national security strategy that: ‘On Thursday I will make the case for Britain...
Sunak admits ‘borrowing will have to end’ and prepares for war against the working...
IN THE Spectator magazine this week, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak broke ranks with the official Tory line that British capitalism could survive by indefinitely...
World debt is leading to hyper-inflation and a socialist revolution!
AN ARTICLE in Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph by its chief economics commentator, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, highlighted the inevitable consequences following the massive amount of borrowing carried...
EU using rubber bullets and stun grenades against refugees!
AT the Idomeni crossing from Greece into Macedonia refugees are clashing with Macedonian soldiers and police, as they try to reopen the border near...
Massive strike wave as wages fall and prices soar – time for a general...
On the eve of Tory chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn budget tomorrow, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published figures revealing that the number of...
British imperialism being cut down to size by the crisis
BRITISH imperialism, at the height of its power and even up to the 1930s, had at its heart the dictum of sea power, that...
Smash Labour’s Class War Budget!
ARGUABLY the most damning indictment of Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget on Wednesday was the glowing endorsement the International Monetary Fund (IMF) greeted it...
Royal Mail steps up closure plan – CWU must act
Postal workers were hit last week with the announcement by Royal Mail that it is stepping up its closure plan for half of the...
Arab League sells out the Palestinians yet again
THE Arab League, the organisation of the Arab bourgeoisie, last Saturday gave its backing to the indirect Palestinian-Israeli peace talks being pushed by President...
Re-call TUC conference! Sack the traitors! – We need a leadership that will...
THE NHS crisis is ‘like being in a war,’ Patrick Carter, who advises Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, told the Royal College of Anaesthetists’...
Live8 won’t comment on ‘don’t attack Bush’ line
YESTERDAY the PR company representing Live8, LD Publicity, refused to deny media allegations that Bob Geldof, the Live8 movement’s leader, had a soft spot...