NATO warmongers meet in Brussels
NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the ‘long-term security implications’ of Russia’s response to the US-UK-EU inspired coup in Kiev, and...
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...
Mass arrests in Pakistan – general elections ‘postponed’
GENERAL Pervez Musharraf has carried out his second military coup. The first made him president, and last weekend’s, in his own words, ‘prevented the...
Working Class Doesn’t Want The Tories
TO the shock and horror of the Tory Party, the latest YouGov poll shows that its lead over Labour has fallen to just two...
UK Trade Unions And Unions Worldwide Must Take Action Against Israel!
229 Arab and international human rights organisations and networks have strongly condemned the assassination of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, after she...
Growing fears over another bank crash
THERE were renewed calls yesterday by Barack Obama, Gordon Brown and other political leaders of major capitalist countries for international cooperation to tackle the...
No State Control Of The Media!
THE OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), the political cloak for NATO, has issued a warning about the agreement to establish an...
Keep out the Tories – bring down the Blair-Brown government! Forward to socialism!
LABOUR was routed in Thursday’s regional and council elections losing by late yesterday afternoon 454 councillors and eight councils in England, while it lost...
Crown won’t prosecute police killers
AT a briefing on their investigation into the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station on July 22, the Independent Police...
Iranian diplomat was tortured after kidnap by CIA agents
WHILE the 15 British sailors were being held in comfortable and well fed custody by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, there was another captive, just...
Labour can only offer youth police state repression
THE Labour government is bringing in additional legislation under which children as young as 14 years old will be banned from wearing hoods or...
Myanmar working class intervene with powerful general strike to bring down Military Junta!
MYANMAR (formerly called Burma) was brought to a halt yesterday as hundreds of thousands of workers and youth answered the call for a general...
US workers taking action to drive up wages and defend their jobs
THE once-mighty US economy is facing a wave of strikes by powerful sections of the working class who are determined to drive up their...
Workers shake Labour to its foundations with their vote for Brexit!
THE EU elections have shattered both the Labour and the Tory parties. With a national turnout of 37%, Labour got 13.6 of the vote, the...
Kick The Israeli Troops Out Of Gaza!
YESTERDAY the US barred the way in the United Nations Security Council to a resolution condemning the Israeli assault on Gaza, calling for all...
Nurses and doctors strike to defend NHS while Starmer joins with Tories to denounce...
YESTERDAY, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) opened the ballot for strike action by nurses in response to the Tory pay offer of a...
1.72 million jobless! End of furloughing on April 21 will see millions more...
1.72 MILLION are now jobless! The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said yesterday it is the highest level in five years. Workers aged between 25...
Trade union leaders should resign as well!
IN a statement on Friday, the day after the general election disaster for reformism, the TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady showed just what a...
Lobbying Bill A Conscious Attack On The Working Class
THE Tory-led coalition’s proposed new Lobbying Bill is sending shock waves throughout the leadership of the TUC, as its full import becomes known. This bill,...
Labour Right Wing Moves To Split Lp On Behalf Of The Tories!
WITH his tale that Unite leader McCluskey (currently up for re-election) intends to pay the union’s political cash over to the pro-Corbyn grass roots...
New York Times Urges Biden To Quit At Once As US ‘Democracy’ Crashes
THE New York Times is just the first US newspaper to urge the incumbent Democratic Party president Joe Biden to quit the 2024 presidential...
150,000 Deaths – Tories Put The Bosses First – They Refuse To Lock Down...
THE BMA yesterday condemned the 150,000 Covid deaths, so far, since the start of the pandemic. The reason for the mountain of corpses is...
Baha Mousa – British Army Torture Inquiry Opens
was kept with other Iraqis under the control of British troops, and with the knowledge of their officers and various intelligence officials. They were systematically...
Union leaders offer to save capitalism
BORIS JOHNSON’S address to the nation on Sunday night about ‘relaxing’ the lockdown rules has been widely criticised by the leaders of the Labour...
Smash imperialism and Zionism! Victory to Hamas and all Palestinian resistance!
TWENTY THREE bodies were recovered from destroyed buildings in Gaza City yesterday in the wake of the latest bombardment by the Israel Defence Force...
US pilots confronted Boeing over safety before Ethiopia crash and were ignored!
SECRET recordings have revealed that the American pilots union confronted US aircraft manufacturer Boeing about the safety of their bestselling 737 Max 8 plane...
Labour is driving youth out of universities!
THE education policies imposed by Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government are depriving many young people of the opportunity of going into Higher Education and...
Renationalise the Royal Mail – new leadership required for CWU
THE full price for the capitulation of the CWU leadership over the privatisation of Royal Mail is now rapidly emerging. The union, which halted...
Cameron Poses As The Soldiers’ Friend
THE government is to write into law for the first time the principles of a ‘military covenant’, which will give members of the navy,...
The Palestinian people have been robbed of $50bn by Israel since 2020 – TUC...
THE PALESTINIAN people paid a heavy cumulative cost, estimated at $50 billion, between 2000 and 2020 due to the additional restrictions imposed by Israel...
Labour told British capitalism needs its own ‘Elon Musk’ to avoid disaster
Last week, The Daily Telegraph newspaper published an article that clearly set out the dangers of a revolutionary upsurge by workers and youth resulting...
Tory arrogance only possible because of TUC servility
THE past week has been dominated by the sheer arrogance of the Tory-led coalition as it prepares to implement its plans for the wholesale...
Time to take the Gourmet struggle forward to victory
THE intervention at the TUC Congress last Monday by the Gate Gourmet locked out workers was an outstanding success. It let every delegate of...
Full Support For The Doctors’ Strike
EVERY TRADE UNION and all trade unionists must support today’s 24 hour strike action by the BMA doctors’ trade union, and must be demanding...
From Low Wage To No Wage Economy – Tories Plan Chain Gangs For Youth
CRISPIN Blunt, the justice minister, announced yesterday that instructions were being issued to the courts to the effect that unemployed offenders sentenced to the...
Pope Benedict Pours Fuel On The Fire Then Says Sorry
EX SS soldier Pope Benedict XVI yesterday apologised in person for causing offence to Muslims in a speech in Bavaria last week. In his...
Trump’s ‘war on two fronts’ against ‘millions of illegal immigrants’ at home...
THE US military is sending an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East as it builds up war tensions to try to intimidate Iran...
Labour must call to free Palestinian hunger strikers and recognise State of Palestine!
THE Head of the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee Issa Qaraqe said on Friday afternoon, the 26th day of the prisoners’ hunger strike, that negotiations could...
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...
French crisis directly poses issue of the working class taking power!
On Sunday, France went to the polls in the first round of parliamentary elections, with the far-right, neo-fascist National Rally (RN) of Marine Le...
Labour leaders split over increasing income tax and abolishing welfare state!
YESTERDAY’S ‘bombshell U-turn’ over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget plans not to increase income tax has exposed the civil war in...
TUC delegates vote unanimously to fight Tory anti-union laws while TUC general secretary insists...
DELEGATES to the TUC Congress unanimously passed Composite Motion 1 – the Campaign against the Minimum Service Levels (MSL) legislation – which instructs the...
Tory government acted illegally! It has no right to rule and must be...
THE Supreme Court yesterday dealt a death blow to the Tory strategy to make it financially impossible for workers to take their employers...
US death toll rockets in Iraq
FIVE more American troops were killed and three were captured near Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, in a pre-dawn attack on Saturday. The...
Make Turkey general strike indefinite to kick Erdogan out
THE Turkish trade unions called a two-day general strike for yesterday and today to express their outrage at the bombing on Saturday of the...