Irish Trade Unions Put The Tuc To Shame
LAST Friday, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions called a 100,000 strong national demonstration in Dublin, with demonstrations in many other Irish cities and...
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...
End imperialist war through world socialist revolution
EIGHT hundred British troops, with tanks, armoured vehicles and drones are to be sent to Estonia in the Spring, on the border with Russia. The...
Nato Meets Behind Steel Barriers, Under No Fly Zone!
THE NATO warlords are meeting in Newport today. That they are not the most popular people on the planet is proven by the...
Trade Union Bureaucracy Resumes Its Full Support For Pension Busting!
ON December 20th the major local government trade unions, after coming under massive attack from their local government members, suspended their support, agreed on...
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...
France on the brink as government imposes anti-union laws!
THE French Socialist government’s cabinet has opted for a dictatorship over the working class by agreeing to force through its anti-trade union legislation, invoking...
As crisis engulfs Starmer – time for a general strike in the UK
THE political crisis engulfed Labour PM Keir Starmer yesterday over ‘being incompetent, gullible or a liar’, and misleading parliament over the appointment of Peter...
Renegade Field joins Cameron – while Milibands search for a ‘new opportunism’
FRANK Field, the notorious Labour party right winger has joined the Tory coalition and is to be its ‘Poverty Tsar’, no doubt bringing back...
TUC leaders must bin Johnson’s empty pledges and call a general strike to bring...
PM JOHNSON’S Tory conference speech was completely empty bombast that sought to cover over the economic catastrophe that is developing throughout the capitalist system...
The TUC supports the UK and US war plan for the Ukraine, and demands...
THE TUC has stabbed all Ukrainian anti-fascists in the back, and its own members along with them, with its letter to the UK Chancellor...
Johnson Calls A National Lockdown ‘The Nuclear Option’ As Far As Capitalism Is...
PM BORIS JOHNSON in an interview in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph stated that the Tories were determined that there would be no further national lockdown...
Iranian Foreign Minister Condemns Usa For Killing Dozens Of Sailors!
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has vowed that the United States will ‘bitterly regret’ sinking Iran’s Frigate Dena in international waters that led to...
Socialist revolution the answer to capitalist crisis
ONE SURE SIGN that capitalism is rapidly heading for an economic crash of historic proportions is the regularity in which increasingly desperate articles are...
New universities going bust as education becomes a commodity
FORTY-SIX universities, mainly but not entirely made up of ex-Polytechnics, were put on a list by the Labour government, after the introduction of tuition...
Markets calling time on Labour government – time for working class to call time...
Yesterday, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported that one of the biggest investors in UK government debt has sold off ‘fragile’ UK bonds in what...
Blair looks to the ‘Axis of Evil’ for rescue
THE killing of four British soldiers in Basra on Sunday with at least three seriously injured, and the killing of six US soldiers in...
Occupy to fight mass sackings! Nationalise the motor car industry!
GENERAL Motors yesterday presented the United States Department of Treasury with its restructuring plan to re-establish the bankrupt company through massive sackings of over...
Carney urges united action by the bourgeoisie of Europe
IN his speech in Dublin on Wednesday, Bank of England Governor Carney delivered a warning to the EU – as Greek shares collapsed on...
Any attempt to ban Rail and Post strikes must be met with a general...
THE DECEMBER 12 general election will take place in the middle of an unprecedented wave of strikes as workers show their revolutionary determination to...
Homelessness in rural England rises by a third in a year! Socialist revolution to...
HOMELESSNESS in rural England has soared by as much as a third between 2012 and 2018, new figures released yesterday have shown. As rich...
Public sector unions must take strike action over pensions
THE Fire Brigades Union said yesterday that it will consider industrial action over government plans to ‘reform’ its members’ pensions by dramatically extending the...
200,000 Local Authority Workers Face The Axe
AS the regime of savage cuts gets under way, in the run-up to the general election, it is no surprise that the local government...
Coalition plan to beat the poorest to aid the richest
SO FAR trillions of pounds have been spent by the state, using taxpayers’ money, to rescue, prop up and save bankrupt banks and...
TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and nationalise Thames...
FACED with an £18 billion debt mountain, the privatised Thames Water company yesterday set out its survival plans that involve increasing bills to £627...
Pakistan PM forced to condemn US raid
THE Pakistani Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, yesterday spelt out that Pakistan cannot accept actions like the recent US cross-border air strike on a village...
Hunt’s Autumn budget – brings in the open dictatorship of the bankers!
YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Autumn budget – the second budget from the government in under two months. The first was the disastrous...
Brown prepared to impose ‘unpopular measures’
PRIME MINISTER Brown said yesterday that he will not be diverted from taking ‘unpopular’ decisions to ensure Britain gets through the global credit crunch....
Labour echoes Trump and Musk in demanding slashing jobs and workers rights to rescue...
LAST week, TUC general secretary Paul Nowak along with trade union leaders from across the world attended a two-day conference organised by the World...
Reject Tory fake pledges on NHS funding – Only Socialism will guarantee the NHS
THE SURPRISE announcement by Theresa May on Sunday that the Tories had plans to put £20 billion of extra funding into the NHS over...
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...
US capitalism in crisis, UK capitalism near collapse
US interest rates have now been increased to five per cent, with last Wednesday’s 16th monthly increase in a row. In fact, the new chief...
UK trade unions must support the Palestinian people and assist them to establish their...
PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi told European diplomats on Tuesday that relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to...
Suicide guidelines for Jobcentres
THE leaking of new guidelines to staff working with the unemployed exposes the barbarity of the coalition government’s onslaught on the sick, vulnerable and...
Coalition building a landlords’ paradise – bring back Council Housing! Now!
THE Coalition government is busily building a paradise for the landlords, the latest Shelter Rent Report shows. In this paradise, private tenants, who can no...
Hamas defiant after Israel’s ‘unilateral ceasefire’
PALESTINIAN resistance movements and their fighters remained defiant after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared on Saturday that the Israeli War Cabinet had decided to...
Massive strike action greeted by Tory coalition threats!
AS millions of public sector workers, teachers, firefighters, local government workers and many other sections took strike action yesterday, Prime Minister Cameron pledged to...
Tories plan to govern without the support of the people or of parliament
IN RECENT days, especially after the Tories recognised that they would not have an overall parliamentary majority, we have heard many words about the...
Palestinians throw shoes at UN chief Ban!
DOZENS of people threw shoes and stones at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s convoy as it entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Many of those...
NATO under the hammer – as Tories refuse to serve in Kandahar
THE surge organised by President Obama and General Petraeus in Afghanistan has been turned into its opposite by the Taleban. The Taleban have now organised...
US ‘Defence Cutbacks’ are a cynical fraud!
WHEN the gullible read the headline paragraph, that US Defence Secretary, Chuck Hagel, has unveiled plans to ‘shrink’ the US Army to its smallest...
Revolution in Ireland and Britain!
IRELAND this week has erupted in a confrontation between workers and the Irish government over soaring diesel and petrol prices resulting from the US-Israeli...
Answer attacks on welfare state with a general strike
THE LOCAL Government Association (LGA) yesterday warned that the increase in council tax bills by 5% will do absolutely nothing to halt the continued...
Finland joins NATO as imperialism ramps up war drive
YESTERDAY Finland formally joined NATO, becoming the 31st member of the US-led imperialist military bloc in what NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, described as ‘The...
No ‘windfall tax’ – nationalise the energy companies
TORY ministers are in a state of despair over the complete inability of the Johnson government to come up with any measures to ‘help’...