Lecturers 76% ‘Yes’ for strike – 37 Universities to come out! All unions must...
UNIVERSITY lecturers and staff across the country have voted for strike action with an overwhelming 76% ‘YES’ vote. It means 37 universities will join...
Disband the EU – forward to a Socialist United States of Europe
THE latest attempt to advance, by sleight of hand, to a united capitalist state of the European Union for the benefit of the...
TUC must call a general strike in support of Junior Doctors and steel workers
A 45 strong delegation of Tata steel workers from Port Talbot were at the Trade Union Congress in Brighton yesterday. They had come...
Labour plans to use the state’s OBR to hold down workers’ wages and benefits!
LABOUR has promised to hand more powers to Britain’s capitalist state, and to the OBR, the Office for Budget Responsibility, to hold down wages...
OFT have never fined a single payday lender!
PUBLIC Accounts Committee chairwoman Margaret Hodge has revealed that the Office For Fair Trading (OFT) ‘have never fined a lender for exploiting individual clients’. In...
Stock Markets crash and the bosses panic after Trump pledges 50% tariffs on Canadian...
FEAR gripped the stockmarkets yesterday after Donald Trump first of all threatened to double tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium from Canada to...
Tories want to gag the trade unions as well as chain them!
STRIKING unions are to be gagged as well as chained, the TUC’s general secretary Frances O’Grady has said, referring to a consultation document linked...
Working class turns on the Blair-Brown gang
LABOUR suffered a net loss of 331 seats in local elections in England and Wales on 1 May. It also lost out to Tory...
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...
Bosses demand Labour government wages all-out austerity war on workers as UK capitalism collapses...
THE UK’s main bosses’ organisation, the CBI, has turned on the Labour government with a vengeance over the increase in employers’ National Insurance Contribution...
Truss government is in a huge crisis. Make the TUC call a general strike...
THE Tory Party is now in Conference and in the biggest crisis in its history, after its ‘mini budget’ caned the poor and the...
Brown’s empty words cannot hide he is the bankers’ man
‘I want to talk to you about a new settlement for new times. A fair Britain for the new age. . . my unwavering...
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...
Queen Dumps Cameron And Ready To do The Same For The UK
BRITISH CAPITALISM is on the rocks economically and politically, there is not the slightest doubt about that. The leaders of the three major parties have...
Dont Talk To Israeli Leaders Say Palestinian Youth
OVER the past two days, Palestine National Authority security forces have been using force to try to prevent peaceful demonstrations of Palestinian youth opposing...
World capitalism at risk from imperialist war, bankers and IMF warn
JAMIE Dimon, boss of America’s largest bank JP Morgan Chase, has issued a stark warning to his investors that the world may be facing...
Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any attack on the country
THE commander of Iran’s armed forces Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard said on Tuesday that Iran has a strong military deterrent and will defeat any...
New Syria War Planned Using Old ‘Wmd’ Lies!
THE war drums are beating with increasing intensity for armed intervention by imperialism into Syria to effect the smashing up of the Assad regime, the...
Ten Million Households Are Suffering
TEN million households are suffering from the financial and political crisis says Which? as it calls on the coalition government, ahead of its Autumn...
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...
Inflation Letting Rip As Darling Fiddles
CONSUMER Prices Index (CPI) inflation has been driven up to 3.5 per cent in January by, amongst other factors, VAT returning to 17.5...
Lecturers & students must strike to end all university fees and restore grants!
THE LATEST increase in university tuition fees in England to £9,250 by the Tory government has been launched without any announcement from the Department...
No to a Barber sell-out – It’s trade union action that’s required!
THE TUC announced on Saturday that ‘Royal Mail and the CWU have in recent days been in contact with the TUC over the current...
Inflation rising – slashing wages and threatening jobs! Trade unions must take action to...
INFLATION rose to 3.1% in November, the highest in nearly six years, as the squeeze on households continued and prices rose, slashing further into...
US ruling class split with Biden calling Trump an insurrectionist while Trump declares he...
THE United States of America, the most powerful capitalist country in the world and the leading imperialist nation across the globe, is gripped by...
Judges Take Just 5 Minutes To Reject Hunt’s Appeal
THE Court of Appeal’s ruling yesterday that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt did not have legal power to implement cuts at Lewisham Hospital in south-east...
Pick Up The Tory Libdem Gauntlet And Call A General Strike
THE RMT’s Bob Crow yesterday issued a ‘call to arms’ to the entire Labour and Trade Union movement and to all the communities under...
North Korea Does Not Want To Go The Way Of Libya!
NORTH Korea has said it may pull out of a summit with US President Donald Trump that was due to take place on June...
BARACK OBAMA: ‘Change has come to America!’
BARACK Obama, the Democratic Party candidate, was elected the 44th President of the United States of America on Tuesday, with an overwhelming vote giving...
Half of England owned by less than 1% of the population! Expropriate the...
THIS YEAR an estimated 4,677 people a night are sleeping rough on the streets of Britain, a figure that has increased for the past...
One Year Of The Egyptian Revolution!
HUNDREDS of thousands of Egyptian workers and youth gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square yesterday to mark one year since the start of the revolution...
Bond market shock risks bankrupting the UK – It’s time to nationalise banks
FIVE WEEKS ago, falling interest rates seemed a certainty after Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, had signalled that lower borrowing...
Cameron wants to create an army of the homeless
TORY LEADER Cameron yesterday unveiled the spectre of workers sleeping on the streets with his new diktat that council housing should no longer be...
UK cluster bombs used by Saudi Arabia in Yemen war crimes
THE NEWS yesterday that analysis by UK government officials that British-made cluster bombs are being used by the Saudi-led coalition in its war against...
Time For Labour To Sack Starmer And To Start Supporting Palestine And Workers...
WITH the Tory Party in its greatest crisis ever – as the capitalist world crisis intensifies and the Tory party brings in new savage...
Starmer urges send British jets to the Ukraine to combat Russia!
Dispatching British fighter jets to Ukraine ‘to police the skies against Russia above the Ukraine’, emerged as a planning proposal at Sir Keir Starmer’s...
Unite campaign for ‘Workers Economy’ is a campaign for a Starmer-led win in 2025!
THE Unite trade union has issued a press release that dangles before its members and the working class the pledge that the union would...
RCN to ballot for strike action
THE announcement that the ruling body of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will meet on Friday to decide on balloting their members on...
Bank of England demands wage cuts to keep businesses and the government from going...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released figures yesterday on the average pay across the UK, which they claimed saw an increase of 6.2%...
Trade union bureaucrats put two fingers up to May Day
TRUE to form, the voice of the trade union bureaucracy, the Stalinist Morning Star counted tens of thousands of marchers on the TUC’s May...
Ireland – hurtling towards a socialist revolution
THE right-wing Fine Gael party is set to form a coalition with its traditional partner, the right-wing Labour party, after a ‘political revolution’ which...
Private equity group to ‘cut and slash’ Chrysler
DAIMLERCHRYSLER is selling a 80.1 per cent share in its crisis-hit American Chrysler division to the private equity group Cerberus for $7.4bn. President George...
Israel Remains Putin’s ‘Partner!’
THE RESPONSE of Russia’s political leadership, led by Vladimir Putin, to the Israeli raid on Syria that led to the death of 15 Russian...
SOUTH AFRICA: Legacy of the revolution betrayed
THE fighting in Johannesburg and its surrounding black townships, over the past week – with more than 23 people being killed, pitched battles with...
US assembles imperialist navy in Red Sea to attack Yemen
ON MONDAY, the US Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin, announced the creation of a ‘multinational security initiative’ – including the UK and major imperialist...