General Council must support locked out Gate Gourmet workers
ON Monday September 12 the TUC Annual Congress was lobbied by 300 of the over 700 locked out Gate Gourmet workers. The Congress then passed...
308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla 308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla blockade busters
ON May 31 this year, Israeli commandos abseiled onto the deck of the ‘Mavi Marmara’, which was sailing in international waters on its way...
Hammond on the rocks of bankrupt British capitalism!
CHANCELLOR Hammond began his Autumn statement yesterday by saying, ‘Our task now is to prepare our economy to be resilient as we exit the...
Bring Down Crisis-Ridden Tories – Quit The Eu Now!
THE PATHETIC political collapse of PM May is the result of the massive hostility of the UK working class to her ripping up the...
Unemployment, Slump, And Savage Cuts Driving Revolution Throughout Europe!
THE Office for National Statistics said yesterday that UK unemployment rose by 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December,...
Ttip Is Dead Says German Economy Minister!
BLURTING out the truth, the German economy minister, Sigmar Gabriel, has pronounced the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a free trade deal long...
Euro crisis hits youth hardest – forward with European socialist revolution
THERE is no more pathetic sight than that of European bourgeois politicians and economists manically trying to convince both themselves and the world at...
Tories ‘sidelining NHS’ is the cause of testing crisis – time to bring them...
WITH coronavirus cases continuing to rapidly increase day on day as a result of the Tories’ campaign to drive the reopening of workplaces, schools...
End all complicity with Zionist genocide – demand TUC call a general strike to...
ON THURSDAY, Palestinians commemorated the 77th anniversary of Nakba, the Catastrophe, when the unarmed population of Palestine was forcibly driven from their land by...
German Ruling Class Gets Ready For Another War With Russia!
‘WE are witnessing a turning point … the world is not the same anymore,’ said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a speech last Sunday,...
Capitalism Is In Its Greatest Ever Crisis. Now Is The Time To Organise The...
DURING stock market trading last Friday more than £12.8bn was wiped off the value of the UK’s bank stocks as the rumours of ‘bad...
‘WE ARE AT WAR’ says Greek PM as workers prepare to storm parliament
THE Greek Socialist Party Prime Minister, Yiorghos Papandreou, told his party’s parliamentary deputies last Saturday that ‘no one likes emergency procedures but we are...
Scandal-hit government steps up attack on unions
IN her speech to the annual Tolpuddle Martyr’s rally held last Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady lambasted the coalition government over the Transparency...
World Crisis Driving Capitalism Into Wars And Revolutions – Time To Carry Out The...
WITH the US, EU and the UK capitalist economies and regimes in a growing and desperate economic and political crisis, the imperialist powers are...
No war with Syria – answer the £20bn of cuts by kicking out the...
PM Cameron is due to drive forward Tory war plans both at home and abroad this week. Today, he is meeting President Hollande to prepare...
Brown Answers Nato Call
A BATTALION of 600 British troops will be sent to Kosovo, Defence Secretary Des Browne announced yesterday, after NATO requested extra soldiers...
All councils, student unions and trade unions must boycott Israel – Edelstein visit must...
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation has condemned the new Tory ‘guidance’ banning councils, NHS trusts and all publicly funded organisations from boycotting goods and services...
Youth forced to work for nothing as unemployment set to rocket!
The findings of a survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development confirm what every worker and young person in the country already...
Greece On The Brink!
THE Greek working class has been pushed right to the brink of revolution this week with the passage of a bill in the Vouli...
Brown’s compromise encourages Catholic reaction
GORDON Brown says Labour MPs will have a free vote on three ‘controversial parts’ of his embryo research Bill, thus giving way to the...
Fight for jobs, and against evictions and benefit cuts!
THOUSANDS more working-class families are going to their local Citizen Advice Bureau because of the effects of unemployment, debts, threatened loss of homes and...
Trump caves in over tariff war as US capitalism faces collapse. It’s time for...
US president Donald Trump caved in on Wednesday, after the financial world reacted in fear and dread over the rapidly unfolding collapse of the...
Bring Down The Tories To Stop The Drive To A New Imperialist World War!...
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned of the ‘real’ danger of World War III breaking out, as 40 capitalist states met in Germany...
World banking system faces melt-down
THE world crisis of capitalism has sharpened to the extent that even the staid Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has been forced to express...
Students defy Starmer and give full support to the Palestinian Revolution!
TUESDAY’S demonstration saw more than 10,000 students march through central London on the 2nd anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation which broke the siege...
The strike wave sweeping Britain demands a new leadership in trade unions, come to...
THE STRIKE wave sweeping across Britain has a revolutionary content. Since the capitalist crisis first burst into the open with the banking collapse of 2008...
A billionaires’ paradise – the UK under Blair and Brown
IN the last 12 months the working class and the vast majority of the middle class have desperately struggled under a huge and...
Revolution is the only way out of capitalist debt crisis
THE COLLAPSE of the popular discount high street retailer Wilko, with 12,500 of its workers facing being thrown out of a job, has thrown...
Israel Is Targeting Protection Teams In Gaza As Part Of Its Genocidal Slaughter...
WITH the number of Palestinian dead in Gaza rising to nearly 45,000 due to the US-backed Israeli genocide campaign, the Israeli occupation army’s appetite...
Maliki Objects To US-Puppet Army Raid On Sadr City
YESTERDAY was the first day after the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad announced that he had given the Iraqi puppet government a timetable...
US bosses handed $1.5 trillion by Trump – Forward to the US socialist revolution!
THE US Senate has approved by 51 votes to 48 a measure slashing the taxes of the rich and the major banks and companies...
Greek vote provokes revolutionary crisis
YESTERDAY''S Greek presidential vote heralds the start of a fresh eurozone crisis that threatens to bring down the Eurozone and with it the whole...
As world crisis deepens the UK working class needs to take power and bring...
THE working class of the world faces a revolutionary autumn and winter, as the major imperialist powers step up their war in the Ukraine...
Staffing cuts causing ‘avoidable’ maternal deaths
AN independent inquiry into the unusually large number of maternal deaths in London over the past two years has confirmed that the government policy of...
Starmer out! General strike from Oct 7th to defend winter fuel payments!
FRESH from his defeat at the Labour Party Conference by the successful vote against his policy to scrap the winter fuel payment to pensioners,...
Zero-hours contracts and below legal minimum wages dominate in private care agencies
ANALYSIS by the GMB union of figures in the national Skills for Care database reveals that care workers employed in the private sector are...
Unite members elect Sharon Graham as General Secretary to take on employers and Tories
SHARON Graham yesterday was elected as general secretary of the Unite union to replace Len McCluskey securing 37.6% of the vote. Graham, who was considered...
Cameron dreams on while stock markets collapse
IN a radio interview yesterday morning the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, pronounced that the UK economy was seeing a ‘balanced economic recovery.’ All this...
Workers must use their power to smash capitalism and put an end to the...
SINCE the onset of Israel’s brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip, the Israeli military’s use of live ammunition to kill and wound Palestinian...
Now is the time to build the Workers Revolutionary Party
THE deeper the crisis of the capitalist system gets, the more desperate the measures that it takes to sustain the bosses and bankers’ system,...
Corbyn is just another Remainer – Build the new leadership in the Labour movement...
IN HIS address last week at the TUC annual congress, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn informed delegates that Labour’s priority was to stop a No-Deal...
LGA Warns ‘Extreme Cost-Cutting’ Is Destroying All Services!
THE LOCAL Government Association’s (LGA) Richard Watts has written to Tory Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick (of the two houses) warning against ‘extreme cost-cutting’...
Sunak’s Spring Statement reinforces Tory war to make workers pay for crisis
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak opened his Spring budget statement with a naked appeal for the nation to ‘pull together’ and that the nation should...
Tuc General Council Must Meet To Defend Right To Strike!
COMMENTING on yesterday’s decision in the High Court banning the BA cabin crew strikes, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘This is a desperately...
Build the Fourth International – the world party of the socialist revolution!
ON Thursday, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, issued the starkest warning yet that the debt crisis gripping the eurozone...