Smash the Bedroom Tax with a general strike!
A GRANDMOTHER, who because of the Bedroom Tax, had to pay an extra £20 a week, has thrown herself in front of a...
TUC calls on Sunak for a ‘workers’ budget’! Trade Union & Labour leaders need...
THE LEADERSHIP of the Trade Union Congress, a body which includes 6.4 million workers and has the power to shut the entire country down...
Grenfell Tower Inquiry Ends This Week
THE FIVE years-long inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire that claimed the lives of 72 people entered its final stage this week with closing...
Desperate Situation In Gaza!
THE situation in Gaza has deteriorated to its worst ever level, just one year after a truce that ended fighting between Israel and Hamas...
Tories Plan Huge Increase In Military Spend While The Masses Go Hungry!
PROFESSOR Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director general of the Royal United Services Institute, has authored an analysis of the plans necessary for a major war...
Tories and Labour unite to bar Bulgars and Romanians
THE Tory Party yesterday called for restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania when these countries shortly join the EU. The Tory Party immigration...
Kabul Taking The Place Of Saigon In The Pantheon Of US Imperialist Disasters
THE Taleban yesterday carried out another daring attack in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, with gun and shellfire taking place near to...
Unite Leaders, As In The BA Dispute, Postpone Action Yet Again!
LAST Wednesday afternoon, the Unite trade union reps for its tanker driver membership rejected the employers’ offer, and the union was due to present...
Police demand sources for Dowler leak
THE Metropolitan police are seeking a court order to force Guardian journalists to reveal their sources for the information that Milly Dowler’s ...
US agreed Turkish air raids on northern Iraq
DOZENS of Turkish planes bombed supposed PKK bases in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing villagers, damaging infrastructure and forcing villagers to flee, local Iraqi...
British capitalism is breaking apart
THE one clear message that emerged from Cameron’s speech yesterday was that the political representatives of the capitalist class in Britain have given up...
UK CPI rate increase only the start of inflation spiral
YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that the UK inflation rate had more than doubled in April this year as energy costs...
Unite leaders beg the Tories for permanent furlough! New leadership required in trade...
UNITE, with a membership of 1.4 million, wielding the power to strike and shut down vast proportions of industry, has reduced itself to begging...
Rescue us from Syrian quagmire! US–UK call out to Putin!
THE US and UK are stuck deep into the Syrian quagmire – a quagmire of their own making. They have achieved a situation where millions...
Reid goes into opposition to a Brown government
IT MUST be a grave crisis indeed when Reid the Home Secretary – who only a week ago was posing as carrying the entire...
Gm And Capitalism Go Bust, As Parliament Is Discredited
LENIN’S definition of a revolutionary situation is one in which the ruling class is unable to rule in the old way – and has...
Police want to use water cannon and rubber bullets
THE Metropolitan Police is considering its tactics after the failure of its containment and ‘kettling’ policies in Parliament square last Thursday, when...
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...
Davis resignation shatters Tories as May goes looking for Labour votes
TORY Brexit Secretary David Davis exploded a bomb under the leadership of PM Theresa May on Sunday with his resignation from the cabinet. May had...
One Day General Strike On April 24Th!
OVER 100,000 Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), will be on strike at the same time as the NUT teachers and...
Greek ‘bailout’ derailed
The Chairman of the EU group of finance ministers, Jean-Claude Junker, spelt out at the weekend exactly what the EU and IMF ‘bailout’ of...
Johnson Declares War On Youth With ‘Chain Gang’ Threat
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson has declared war on youth in the UK with his ‘Beating Crime Plan’ which labels youth as ‘criminal’ and targets...
UK stage deliberate provocation in the Black Sea as part of its imperialist war...
ON WEDNESDAY, Britain staged a deliberate provocation when it sent the warship HMS Defender steaming through Russian territorial waters in the Black Sea. The Defender...
Privatisation of roads and Royal Mail
The leadership of the postal workers union (CWU) delivered a treacherous blow to their members when they hailed the announcement that the government is...
Geneva Report Issues Dire Warning!
JUST six years after the beginning of the 2008 financial collapse – at a time when Cameron and Co. are talking about a recovery,...
Israel uses facial recognition in drive to turn West Bank into a concentration camp
ISRAEL has escalated its campaign of total surveillance of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank utilising a mass programme of facial recognition to build...
BA CRISIS – no to sackings and wage cuts – Renationalise!
BRITISH Airways has decided to cut 1,700 jobs and introduce a two-year pay freeze for cabin crew. It also intends to discuss wage cuts...
Oil Heading For $200 A Barrel
OIL reached a new record price above 120 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, with New York’s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for...
OECD predicts economic disaster as UK chief of staff predicts war with Russia!
WILLIAM WHITE, the head of the OECD’s review body, warned before the Davos Summit on Monday that: ‘All the market indicators right now look...
British Capitalism Is On The Rocks! All Life Support Attempts Are Failing As The...
SUCH is the crisis of British capitalism more than half of the adult population, 27 million people, have had to be financially assisted by...
Police officer who attacked Tomlinson will not even be charged with assault!
HARRY STANLEY was shot dead by armed police in Hackney in September 1999. They said that they thought that he was carrying a shotgun...
Royal Mail steps up closure plan – CWU must act
Postal workers were hit last week with the announcement by Royal Mail that it is stepping up its closure plan for half of the...
Racist laws must be smashed!
The uprising at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow has badly shaken the crisis-ridden, reactionary Blair government. It began last Tuesday night and continued into Wednesday,...
10,000 Jobs Threatened As Starmer Spends Billions On The UK Military!
CUTS to infrastructure projects like roads and school repairs threaten 10,000 UK jobs following outgoing PM Keir Starmer’s decision to cut billions of pounds...
Slump ‘deepening at an alarming pace’
THE British Chambers of Commerce yesterday published its Fourth Quarter Economic Survey of nearly 6,000 businesses. It highlights what it called ‘a...
US–UK demands war while Karzai calls for peace with Taleban
US Defence Secretary Gates, and the new US military commander in Afghanistan, General Petraeus have recently been canvassing in London for a doubling of...
Make the TUC take action to defend the NHS
YESTERDAY both Blair and Hewitt mocked NHS workers insulting their intelligence with the Hewitt line that this year was the best ever year for...
BMA launch ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into Pandemic
DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has launched its own ‘Lessons Learned’ inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic. This is ahead of the Tory...
Robertson’s call to murder Chavez is US policy
EX-US presidential candidate Pat Robertson, an ultra religious leader of the US’ ‘moral majority’ has just called for the US state to murder...
Gaza children face death from starvation – the UK trade unions must act to...
THE Government Media Office (GMO) in the Gaza Strip has renewed its warning of an imminent humanitarian disaster in the enclave due to the...
World Crisis Can Only Be Resolved By World Revolution!
THE DEEPENING of the world crisis of capitalism is driving forward massive job cuts for workers across the world, as manufacturing industry globally faces...
Tory austerity hits poorest the hardest, time to kick them out!
A STUDY produced yesterday by the Centre for Cities think tank highlights the reality of Tory austerity cuts that have fallen on the backs...
Workers Must Occupy Gm Luton And Ellesmere Port And Demand Their Nationalisation
NEXT MONDAY June 1 GM will seek Section 11 Bankruptcy, cutting off GM Europe with less cash than is required to see the week...
China’s Historic Space Achievement demonstrates the strength of a planned economy
YESTERDAY, a Chinese spacecraft made a giant leap forward in human exploration of space when it became the first ever to land on the...
Ed Balls ending Universal Benefit
YESTERDAY the Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, announced that the Labour Party has officially abandoned the principle of universal benefits in the interests of...