TUC organises a day of inaction against Tory union-busting laws!
IT was with much fanfare that the TUC announced on the 10th January that it would hold a national ‘protect the right to strike’...
Defend every job, occupy to stop closures, and nationalise the major industries
YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics produced figures showing the record breaking numbers of unemployed and the record breaking growth of unemployment. UK unemployment...
Darling’s plan to make workers pay for crisis
CHANCELLOR Darling made his pre-budget speech to the House of Commons yesterday afternoon in the form of a Labour general election manifesto. His line was...
US Imperialism organised botched plot to overthrow Venezuela’s President!
ON WEDNESDAY, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo emphatically denied to reporters that the US had any involvement in the failed attempt by...
Revolution Emerging All Over Europe
THE Portuguese government has agreed to look for alternatives to th social security tax rise, just one week after huge anti-austerity street protests shook...
Poverty under capitalism is ‘killing people on a grand scale’
‘SOCIAL injustice is killing people on a grand scale.’ This is the conclusion of the World Health Organisation’s Commission on Social Determinants of...
Working Class Must Bring Split And Divided Tories Down!
THE EU crisis of the Tory party has really reached the point of no return when the US President, Donald Trump, is...
Trade unions face fresh attacks
AN OPINION piece in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph pointed to yet further attacks on the trade unions’ rights to organise and represent their members. According to...
Grenfell Towers are everywhere! Capitalism cannot be regulated, it must be overthrown!
THE TORY government is pushing its Building Safety Bill that it says addresses the big issue of fire safety raised by the horrific Grenfell...
Tories Bringing In New Police State Powers For Use Against Workers And The Trade...
THE LAW Courts are to get new police state powers to be used against striking trade unionists and protesting workers. The powers will stop the...
UK Ruling Class To Proscribe Wagner Group And Harass Supporters Of The Ukrainian...
THE Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner Group, which was being cheered to the rafters when its members were said to be marching on...
Huge food inflation as bosses and unions agree on wage cuts and job cuts
WORKERS in Britain are now feeling the ‘benefits’ of the British government’s policy of printing money to rescue the banks while allowing the pound...
Lift the ban from the Gaza Under-19 team!
THE banning of the Under-19 Gaza football team from coming to play in Britain after they had been invited to play against Chester...
GPs under the heel of Labour’s NHS ‘reforms’
THE Brown government has bullied NHS GPs in the most brutal and cowardly fashion, and has given them an offer that they could not...
Rout The Tories With A General Strike – Forward To A Workers Government!
THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Tories, headed by Cameron, Osborne and Hunt, have picked their quarrel with the junior doctors. It is...
Clinton threatens ‘catastrophic assault’ on the Syrian state!
THE ‘Friends of Syria’ meeting in Paris on Friday saw the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, frantically beating the war drums against Syria,...
MPs want a secret inquiry into the Afghan debacle and defeat!
THE UK government should set up an inquiry into ‘lessons learned’ after troops withdraw from Afghanistan at the end of this year, the MPs...
NHS being bankrupted, to keep crisis-ridden capitalism going!
THE message from the government over the proposed dissolving of the South London Healthcare Trust and the closure of its major hospitals is...
UK continuing to stab the Chagossians in the back
THE WikiLeaks revelations prove once again that British imperialism, although greatly weakened, remains just as poisonous and rotten as ever. This comes out clearly in...
Postal workers want indefinite strike action NOW!
CWU members have voted, in a 67 per cent turnout, a much bigger turnout than in a British general election, for strike action, with...
Campbell Defends Every Word Of The Dodgy Dossier!
BLAIR’S spin-master, Alastair Campbell, told the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry yesterday, that he ‘defends every single word’ of the 2002 dodgy dossier on Iraq’s non-existent...
Salafist Provocateurs Playing Israel’s Game!
A SALAFIST group yesterday claimed responsibility for a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip towards the Israeli town of Ashkelon on Saturday night, as...
How to win the firefighters struggle!
THE six-hour strike by firefighters on New Year’s Eve was a demonstration of the solidarity and determination of FBU members across the country to...
US, UK And Eu Workers Must Act To Support Venezuelan Revolution!
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that he will not betray his country by yielding to Washington’s plan for regime change in Caracas, adding...
British capitalism is stuck in the mire of slump!
THE UK’s public sector net borrowing hit a record high of £20.3 billion in November, official figures show. The figure was the highest for any...
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...
Workers do Battle All Over Europe!
GREEK riot police fired tear gas and beat Ministry of Culture workers yesterday morning after the workers had occupied the Acropolis in Athens demanding...
TUC must immediately act to stop Clarence House staff sackings by the monarchy and...
THE PCS trade union has called for the proposed staff redundancies at Clarence House to be halted and pledged to support every member of...
Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova heading for huge upheavals!
THE Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, travelled to Brussels yesterday morning to sign, along with Georgia and Moldova, the ‘partnership’ agreement with the European Union. It...
THE TUC leaders who have deserted junior doctors and the NHS must be kicked...
YESTERDAY the Tory offensive against not just junior doctors but the entire foundation of the National Health Service reached a ‘watershed moment for the...
Trade Unions And The Tuc Must Take Action With The Nurses To Bring Down...
NURSING STAFF have voted to strike in the majority of NHS hospitals across the UK, and the nurses union, the RCN, has called on...
Abolish the monarchy – forward to a workers’ republic and socialism!
DETAILS of the settlement between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre to end her claim that she was forced to have sex with the Duke...
TUC must call a general strike at once to defend the Palestinian people from...
THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said yesterday that the number of Palestinians who have been driven from their...
Britain to be one big prison!
THE coalition government has published its plans to turn Britain into one big prison with its own version of the US’ two strikes and...
Greece For Sale – Lock Stock And Barrel!
AT the end of August the EU-imposed Greek prime minister, Antonis Sameras, announced to a disbelieving populace that the £9.3 billion cuts imposed on...
Smash Labour’s capitalist police state plans! TUC must call general strike!
STARMER'S Labour government’s move to turn Britain into a police state has taken a dramatic step forward this week with its announcement of plans...
Blair’s generation of imperialist war
After President Bush has informed the world that 20,000 more US troops are to be sent to Iraq, and his Secretary of State, Rice...
Scotland Yard refuses to back down as the capitalist state gives up on bourgeois...
TORY leadership rivals Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have found themselves leading the condemnation of Scotland Yard after a senior officer threatened to prosecute...
Time for the trade unions to take action to remove broken coalition
The Sunday Mirror/ComRes survey of 2,002 voters has rattled the cages of the major political parties. It shows that Labour is leading with the support...
Trade unions must take action NOW to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange!
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange, the man who dared to expose imperialist war crimes, must be immediately released from Belmarsh high security prison where he...
Western-Backed Syrian Opposition Committing War Crimes!
THE US, UK, French, Turkish, Saudi and Qatari-backed ‘Syrian rebels’, who have been armed, equipped, financed and recognised as the representatives of the Syrian...
Bush Desperate ‘To Aid Burma’ But Watches Palestinians Starve!
THERE is an obvious contradiction in the fact that while the US and the UK are considering fighting their way into Burma to ‘bring...
Smash Trump’s ‘deal of the century’! Forward to the independent state of Palestine!
THE US-sponsored three-day conference held this week in the Gulf state of Bahrain to unveil the first stage of Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the...
Don’t go to A&E, ‘walking wounded’ told!
CONFRONTED with the appalling crisis in NHS hospitals’ A&E emergency services, the Labour government plans to restrict access to emergency departments, to save money...
New right-wing party to replace Tories being organised as spectre of revolution haunts British...
AS THE Tory Party continues to disintegrate by the hour, demands from the ruling class for a new right-wing party to emerge from the...