CWU leaders capitulate to Royal Mail bosses – Time to build a new leadership...
LAST Friday, the leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) finally revealed to their members in Royal Mail (RM), details of the treacherous sell-out...
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...
The Brown Government Is The Enemy Of The People
PREMIER BROWN told his monthly news briefing yesterday of the war that he is waging on the country’s youth and the 110,000 ‘problem families’...
The housing crisis intensifies as police and bailiffs clear estates for the benefit of...
THE housing crisis in the UK has reached explosion point. There is no new council housing being built, rents are being driven sky-high, while housing...
Thousands Driven Out Of Their Homes!
AFTER the initial declarations of the British and other NATO forces that they were going to Afghanistan to win ‘hearts and minds’ through engaging...
Tories declare war on the teachers! The TUC must join with the BMA to...
THE HEADLINE of The Sunday Telegraph’s editorial yesterday is very much to the point. It insists: ‘The teaching unions must be defeated,’ and continues,...
Blunkett quits against Blair’s wishes
YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair made it clear to the House of Commons during Question Time, that he had urged his Cabinet colleague, Blunkett,...
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...
Businesses threaten to relocate before Brexit! Nationalise them and put them under workers’ management!
RESEARCH for the Institute of Directors showed yesterday that a third of UK businesses are considering moving abroad after Brexit. The IoD said that...
Cameron Touches Off Tory Leadership Dog Fight!
CAMERON is now going into the May 7th general election with a declaration that he does not intend to serve a third term, that...
Soaring oil prices and the banking collapse mean class conflict on the airports!
ON SATURDAY more than 1,000 British Airways pilots marched on BA’s Heathrow headquarters over plans by BA to use non-BA pilots, in its new...
All unions must take action to support the postal workers!
POSTAL workers, members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are on strike today in north-east and south-east London against Royal Mail’s plans to axe...
Labour crisis deepens in face of collapsing economy!
PM Keir Starmer’s Labour government, still reeling from its major retreats over the welfare cuts to incapacity PIP benefits and the winter fuel payments,...
Biden calls for regime change in Russia – workers prepare for regime change through...
IN AN unscripted departure from his speech in Poland on Sunday, US president Joe Biden blurted out that the real aim of the war...
Labour ready for an emergency coalition
ON the eve of the Labour Party conference, Ed Miliband has sought to win the support of the middle classes, and also drive a...
Restore Student Grants – Smash All Fees
Students’ expenditure has gone up 44 per cent in real terms under the three Labour governments, an official Student Income and Expenditure survey has...
Tory leader Badenoch wants to deport 150,000 workers a year using a Trump-style terrorist...
TORY Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged that she will deport 150,000 workers a year using Trump-style immigration squads in raids on working class...
Public sector pensions battle set to erupt
THE working class continues to pay a massive price for its reformist trade union leadership. This is completely committed to supporting the capitalist...
Time to put imperialism out of its death agony with victory of world socialist...
LAST FRIDAY, Labour’s armed forces minister, Al Carns, was ramping up the increasingly strident calls for the whole country to step up and prepare...
Tory Big Brother will be spying on everybody!
THE News International empire’s phone hacking and spying, and the way that it sought to regulate the government and bend the police force to...
Congress Must Sack O’Grady And Mobilise To Bring Down The Tories!
THE ‘leader’ of the Trade Union Congress, Frances O’Grady yesterday stabbed millions of workers in the back when she declared on The Andrew Marr...
Innocent Until Proven Guilty To Be Binned!
DRACONIAN repressive measures are now being proposed, off the cuff, thick and fast, as the Blair government races to put an end to the...
NHS crisis can only be resolved by kicking out the Tories and going forward...
THE Commons Health and Social Care Committee of MPs yesterday published a report calling on the Tory government to come up with a ‘long...
Labour must pledge to nationalise Bombardier to defend 14,000 jobs!
PM May is said to be ‘bitterly disappointed’ that the US Department of Commerce and her friend President Trump have opted to impose a...
US workers must form a Labour Party
THE Republican Party has won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, and now controls both Houses of Congress, turning the final...
Defend the right to strike with a general strike to bring down the Tory...
YESTERDAY the RMT rail workers trade union warned that an all-out assault on workers’ rights was taking place as BA used the Network Rail...
Defend The Post Office! Stop Royal Mail Privatisation!
THE CWU revealed yesterday that 9,360 post offices will close once Royal Mail is privatised and the inter-business agreement with the Post Office is...
Crisis Deepening Rapidly – Socialism The Only Answer
IN ‘going-broke Britain’ the number of people becoming insolvent in England and Wales in 2009 was 134,142, according to official data from the Insolvency...
Blair – Bush’s Servant To The Bitter End
THE knives were out for disgraced Deputy Prime Minister Prescott yesterday. He is the man who was important to the Prime Minister because he...
French Government Passes Pensions ‘Reforms’ Without A Vote!
THE French government has chosen the moment – when France, Europe and the world is obsessed by the coronavirus crisis – to launch a...
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...
Trump is set to impose the death agony of the US capitalist system onto...
THREATS, demands and bullying aimed at the whole world from US President Donald Trump, dominated the Davos Economic Forum in a video call on...
French workers are battling a Macron dictatorship while workers are now taking strike action...
THOUSANDS of French workers have blocked a key highway around Paris and have stepped up strike action at oil refineries in a new massive...
The issue is the shoot to kill policy says de Menezes campaign
THE family of Jean Charles de Menezes, murdered by police on the Tube on July 22, have called for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir...
Chagos Islanders are determined to return to their homes!
NEXT week the British government will be hauled kicking and screaming before judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague over...
Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism!
CHANCELLOR Darling flew to the US yesterday to meet with fellow finance ministers, and Federal Treasury Secretary Paulson, for the IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting. Yesterday...
Crisis Forces Osborne To Re-Write His Budget!
LAST November 25th in his Autumn Statement Chancellor Osborne was full of praise for the way that allegedly the UK was now full set...
Middle East On The Brink As Mad Dog Israel Attacks Beirut, Baghdad & Damascus!
LEBANON’s president, Michel Aoun, on Monday condemned an Israeli drone attack on Beirut at the weekend as a ‘declaration of war’ that justifies a...
Cameron increases police powers for war on Welfare State
THE Tory-Lib Dem coalition government launched its White Paper Policing in the 21st century: reconnecting police and the people, on Monday. Home Secretary Theresa...
No To Imperialist War In West Africa!
SUFFERING a decisive and humiliating defeat at the hands of the Afghan people has in no way diminished British imperialism’s appetite for military adventures...
Diane Abbott ‘culled’ by Starmer and the Labour Party right wing!
LONG-standing Labour MP Diane Abbott accused the right wing Labour leadership, led by Keir Starmer, of carrying out a ‘cull of left wingers’ in...
Sanders concedes but ‘political revolution’ will continue!
‘HILLARY Clinton must become the next president of the United States,’ Bernie Sanders told the Democratic Convention on Monday. These words touched off huge...
UK trade unions must fight PM Johnson’s decision to oppose Israel going before the...
PALESTINE has called upon the international community as well as signatories to the Geneva Conventions to take on their responsibilities concerning protection of Palestinian...
Massive doctors vote for strike action over pensions!
THE BMA LEADERSHIP has now called a 24-hour day of action on Thursday 21 June, during which only emergency or urgent care will be...
Royal Mail declares war but CWU carries on talking
ROYAL Mail has announced that it has brought the ‘period of calm’ in the Royal Mail to an end, and that it will be...