UK manufacturing wiped out admits EEF while BIS warns of debt time bomb
THE Engineering Employers Federation (EEF), the body that represents the manufacturing industry in Britain, has produced its latest forecast which spells out how the...
Defend the NHS! defend the Welfare state! Bring down the Coalition!
IN his recent budget speech Chancellor Osborne stated his objective is: ‘Building a modern reformed state we can afford.’ The truth of the matter is...
Benefit Sanctions Are Starving Children!
100,000 children were left to starve last year as a direct result of the Tory-led coalition’s drive to cut benefit payments to the unemployed...
Bankrupt British capitalism – down but not yet out! Forward to socialist revolution!
FEARS over the alleged ‘fiddling’ of government debt figures by Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of Wednesday’s budget panicked the money markets yesterday as interest...
Tory-Lib Dem Budget hitting the poor hardest – IFS report
WORKING class families and pensioners are being hit hardest by Chancellor George Osborne’s Emergency Budget. This is the key finding from a study by the...
As Johnson gets May mark-2 ready – workers must take action to take the...
AS THE date for leaving the EU, October 31st comes closer and closer, all of the vultures are desperately gathering over the corpse of...
Chuck out the TUC leaders who are incapable of defending jobs and wages!
UNITE, the largest union in Britain and Ireland, reacted to the news that Sheffield University has decided to sack over 8,000 of its employees...
Starmer’s latest U-turn as Labour government reels from another crisis – time to bring...
Labour prime minister Keir Starmer performed yet another abrupt U-turn yesterday when he was forced to abandon plans to cancel 30 local government elections in...
24.4% (5.64m) of Spanish workers are unemployed!
THE number of unemployed people in Spain reached 5,639,500 at the end of March, with the unemployment rate hitting 24.4%, with youth unemployment at...
Defeat May’s rotten deal! Forward to a ‘No Deal’ on March 29 and a...
PM May has now created a massive political crisis in the UK by revealing her real position on Brexit. For over a year...
Care Home Big Five Demand A State Subsidy!
THE National Living Wage could result in a ‘catastrophic collapse’ in the number of care homes, according to the five biggest private providers, Four...
‘Cameron ‘wouldn’t last 30 seconds’ if voters back leaving EU
PM Cameron earlier last week insisted he would remain Prime Minister even if he lost the June 23 referendum. This position has been challenged in...
Sack the Hayes-Ward CWU leadership!
LAST Wednesday postal workers delivered a massive vote in favour of strike action to defend their jobs, terms and conditions, and for a pay...
HSBC new ‘dirty money’ laundering allegations
THE HSBC bank, the biggest bank in Europe, says it is looking into allegations that it has set up a large number of offshore...
US workers deal Bush, Blair and Olmert a heavy blow
WHAT is being called in the US a ‘voter uprising’ has driven Bush’s Republicans out of their control of the House of Representatives, and...
Ernst And Young Calls To Lower Interest Rates!
WITH interest rates at their lowest ever at 0.5%, the UK economy is at a dangerous junction, warns the Ernst and Young Item Club. Its...
Stock markets crash as ‘contagion’ from Turkish currency collapse spreads to world banks
Last Friday the Turkish currency, the lira, crashed spectacularly, dropping as much as 16% relative to the dollar – it lost a third of...
3,000+ refugees have been on hunger strike in detention centres since 2015! Shut them...
THE HOME Office itself has produced figures showing that more than 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers have been on hunger strike in the last...
UK workers must organise political and industrial action to make sure the UK leaves...
TORY PRIME minister Theresa May suffered another humiliating defeat in parliament on Tuesday when the latest version of her ‘deal’ with the EU was...
UN Special Rapporteur on Gaza says it is ‘first genocide to awaken the world’
THE UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, described the situation there as ‘apocalyptic’ saying it is the first genocide that...
To defend jobs and pensions bring down the coalition!
UNIVERSITY STAFF and students are under massive attacks from the Tory-led coalition. Coalition ministers are pressing ahead with 25% funding cuts, and the UCU trade...
Labour right-wing removes whip from Corbyn
BY A UNANIMOUS vote on Tuesday the disciplinary panel of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee overturned the suspension of former leader Jeremy Corbyn...
Trump steps up his war against China! However the enemy of the US workers...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has stepped up his war against China. Trump said on Thursday the United States ‘would react strongly if China imposes...
New Curriculum abolishes childhood
THIS week, children and young people return to school in England where they face being subjected to a new education curriculum devised by the...
Defend the NHS! Stop the wholly-owned subsidiaries in their tracks!
THERE are Unite and Unison trade union protests in York and Chesterfield today against moves by two NHS trusts to set up wholly-owned subsidiaries...
Arm Ukrainian workers! Red Army must chase the junta out of Kiev!
THE UK-US-EU backed counter-revolution is now in full swing in eastern Ukraine, where no deed is too foul for their stormtroopers of the Right...
Johnson’s answer to recession – sell off social housing!
TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared in Blackpool yesterday to deliver what was billed as his great ‘reset speech’, to shore up his leadership...
Clashes In Israel While President Biden Fears That Netanyahu Will Address Congress!
CLASHES have broken out between the Israeli police and anti-regime protesters in Tel Aviv and across the occupied territories, with demonstrators demanding new elections...
Only the banks matter for Mandelson
MANDELSON began his speech to the City of London magnates at the Mansion House last Wednesday night by declaring his continuing support for the...
Capitalism is crashing and must be replaced by a socialist revolution!
THE only way that bankrupt capitalism can survive is through making the working people of the world pay for its crisis with their jobs,...
The 1% NHS pay award is a slap in the face for all trade...
THE trade unions are unanimous in their condemnation of the 1% pay award for NHS workers. Even the TUC, which considers PM May to be...
Go forward to socialism – only way to avoid threatening catastrophe!
JAPAN is the second biggest power in the capitalist industrial world, behind the United States. It has just announced that its industrial output dropped...
Hezbollah And Hamas Stand Fast As Israel Seeks To Provoke New War To Try...
THE secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has met with a delegation of senior Hamas officials in Beirut, as tensions explode across the...
Axing free TV licences: the spark to unite pensioners, youth and workers to kick...
THE Tory government has now launched war on the elderly, the youth and the working class simultaneously! There is a war on the youth, with...
Scottish Power – huge profits and huge price rises
SCOTTISH Power has just reported a 95 per cent leap in its profits. It also warned its 5.2 million customers to prepare for a...
Middle East gripped by revolutionary crisis
THE crisis in Palestine and the crisis in the Middle East is deepening rapidly to the point where its contradictions are sharpening to the...
84,7000 Yemeni children have starved to death! UK workers must bring down the May...
A UK-BASED charity says more than 84,700 children under the age of five have starved to death in Yemen since the Saudi regime and...
Tottenham Uprising – The First Of Many
THE uprising that took place in Tottenham on Saturday night came 48 hours after the police shooting of a local man, Mark Duggan, and...
British capitalism so bankrupt it can’t provide for energy demands
THE ANNOUNCEMENT yesterday that the Japanese company Hitachi is pulling the plug on plans to build a nuclear power station in Wales has blown...
Coalition lies on NHS privatisation exposed – trade unions must act
THE oft repeated claim by Tory prime minister Cameron that the coalition will not privatise the National Health Service has finally been exposed for...
Tories Want To Turn Trade Unions Into Labour Fronts For The Bosses With Their...
THE TORIES are proposing to turn free and independent trade unions into ‘Labour Fronts’ run by the bosses with their new anti-trade union legislation. Under...
Firefighters, postal workers, teachers must unite to smash privatisation!
THE TORY-led coalition is working overtime to privatise the public sector and turn it into a bonanza, a big killing for the big business...
Greek workers and Palestinian masses are allies
THE Greek Pasok capitalist government, that is using its state forces to bludgeon and gas tens of thousands of workers protesting against its sell-off...
US Trade Gap Widens As Banks Get Ready For Economic Storm
THE US trade gap widened in January to $44.45bn (£29.53bn) from December’s figure of $38.14bn, the US Commerce Department has reported. Much of the rise...
The PM’s wife can speak out on rights – but the TUC cannot!
THE scale of the crisis that has hit capitalist Britain is now so great that it has forced the Prime Minister’s wife, Cherie...