Scottish court rules prorogation ‘unlawful’
WE ARE of the opinion that the advice given by the government to Her Majesty the Queen to prorogue Parliament was unlawful and that...
DOWN WITH GOVERNMENT OF MURDERERS! – shout 50,000 Greek workers and youth!
‘DOWN with the government of murderers’ shouted over 50,000 enraged workers and students last Thursday in Athens in a most militant march on the...
No limits Stop and Search! Youth chain gangs! – Sweeping police powers ‘discriminatory’ –...
THE TORY government yesterday put forward proposals for even more sweeping police powers. They include taking off all restrictions on Stop and Search. Under the...
‘Unite has aided mass sackings!’ – BA workers demand recall Unite conference to sack...
BRITISH Airways workers yesterday accused their union leaders of ‘aiding and abetting’ BA in its mass sackings and contract-busting plans, and demanded the Unite...
Fire and Rescue cuts puts flood victims lives at risk
VICIOUS Tory cuts to the tune of £140 million mean that fire and rescue services are fighting with one hand tied behind their back....
‘NO CREDIBLE OFFER!’ – striking doctors slam Tories
TENS of thousands of junior doctors in England begin an unprecedented six days of strike action at 7am this morning, with an 8am-10am mass...
THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS STILL TRAPPED IN DANGEROUS BUILDINGS says the Fire Brigades Union
FIREFIGHTERS yesterday slammed the government and building owners as an HCLG Committee cladding survey highlighted widespread safety failings. The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG)...
Tories in a crisis over state attack on Corbyn
THE REVELATION that senior British civil servants have been briefing the capitalist press that Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is too sick and unfit to...
Johnson Faces Calls To Resign
‘I REPEAT that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no Covid rules were broken,’...
Starmer Trashes Labour Renationalisation Policy
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves trashed the party’s renationalisation policy yesterday. In a speech in Liverpool, with a back-drop bedecked...
BAME PPE crisis is continuing!
BLACK, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) nursing staff are still more likely to have problems accessing protective equipment, according to latest UK-wide member survey...
The whole world rages at the persecution of the Palestinians yet the TUC still...
PALESTINE’S UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the UN Security Council to ensure ‘protection’ for Palestinians, who have increasingly come under deadly attacks...
Palestinian fury over Israeli flight to UAE!
PALESTINIAN political factions have reacted with fury to the first official visit by an Israeli delegation to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to finalise...
Get out of the EU now! – RMT’s Cash tells May Day rally
‘GET OUT of the EU now,’ RMT general secretary Mick Cash told the May Day rally in Trafalgar Square at the end of the...
TORIES CONDEMN NHS WORKERS PAY CLAIMS – ‘unreasonable’ says Cabinet Secretary Dowden
THE ARMED forces are being mobilised to break NHS workers’ picket lines this week, Dowden, the Tory minister in charge of the capitalist state’s...
BANK OF ENGLAND BUYS GOVERNMENT BONDS! – to try to restore orderly market conditions
THE Bank of England (BoE) launched a huge intervention in government bond markets yesterday, as the UK financial crisis spiralled out of control following...
Starmer Joins Hammond For Anti-Brexit Coup!
LABOUR’S Shadow Brexit Secretary, Keir Starmer, yesterday welcomed Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond’s announcement on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that he will resign on...
US BEGINS NEW ARMS RACE! – as Senate agrees to spend £1.37 trillion next...
THE US has begun a new arms race with President Trump’s announcement of the US’ formal withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). This...
PROSECUTIONS NOW! – demand Grenfell survivors
GRENFELL survivors and supporters marched in North Kensington on Tuesday evening demanding ‘Prosecutions now!’ ‘Today we are changing our tone, we are demanding change, enough...
‘We’ll step up our struggle!’ – vow Iraqi protesters after 5 killed
AT LEAST five demonstrators have been killed in Baghdad, Karbala and Baqubah in Iraq as security forces opened fire on the mass protest of...
Speaker Vows To Block ‘No-Deal’!
THE SPEAKER of the House of Commons has said that he will not allow it to be closed down so that the UK can...
ASLEF Strike Action Today
TRAIN drivers belonging to ASLEF – the train drivers’ trade union which represents 96% of the train drivers in England, Scotland, and Wales –...
Israeli army turns Nasser Hospital into a military base!
ISRAELI occupation forces yesterday raided the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza and turned it into a military base. Medical sources reported that Israeli forces further...
‘Sleeping at night in Gaza is like lying in a coffin’
‘SLEEPING at night in Gaza is like lying in a coffin,’ said the UNICEF spokesperson, James Elder. While addressing the UN from Rafah on Tuesday,...
US CIVIL WAR! – Trump vows to send federal officers into NY, Chicago and...
US PRESIDENT Trump announced yesterday that he is sending ‘a surge of federal security forces to US cities in a crackdown on crime’. Chicago, New...
Anger erupts outside Chauvin murder trial!
AS THE murder trial of officer Derek Chauvin continued for the killing of George Floyd, anger erupted outside the Court House where masses of...
1,800 will spend Christmas in an immigration detention centre!
UK GOVERNMENT figures show that over 1,800 people in Britain will spend the Christmas holiday incarcerated in immigration detention centres, prompting calls to end...
Ukraine’s bombardment of nuclear plant is ‘suicidal’ – warns Russia
THE Ukrainian army’s continued bombardment of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is destructive, dangerous and even suicidal, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova...
Balham PCS Strike Ballot Is Called!
STAFF at Balham benefit centre are being balloted for strike action having been told that their office is due to close on 31 December. This...
TORIES SET TO USE ANTI-STRIKE LAWS! – against NHS and rail workers
THE TORIES are set to mobilise their new anti-strikes law against railway workers and their unions as further strike action takes place during the...
Emergency debate on Parliamentary sleaze
‘LAST WEEK was a very dark week for Parliament,’ speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle said in an extraordinary interview with...
Workers Revolutionary League statement – Soviet section of the International Committee of the Fourth...
STATEMENT of the Workers Revolutionary League – the Soviet section of the International Committee of the Fourth International: During this time we’re facing the new...
Three weeks of Goldsmiths University strike underway
THREE weeks of strikes at Goldsmith’s University in south London began yesterday morning and continue today by members of the University and College Union...
Ring before going to A&E! Dangerous triage system launched in Wales tomorrow! –...
A DANGEROUS phone triage scheme for A&E at Wales’ largest hospital is to be launched tomorrow in which patients are expected to ring before...
‘Any movement of NATO to the East is unacceptable’ says President Putin
‘OUR actions will not depend on negotiations they will depend on the unconditional compliance with the Russian security demands in a historic context. ‘We have...
Rail Unions Taking Strike Action!
TRAIN drivers at more than a dozen companies will strike on Friday, 1 September and refuse to work overtime on Saturday, 2 September, their...
Ambulance Workers Call For A General Strike!
PICKET lines outside ambulance stations around the country received a cacophony of support from passing vehicles as 23,000 ambulance worker members of Unison, the...
13-year-old Palestinian boy killed for letting off fireworks!
THE ISRAELI Occupation Forces (IOF) continued their genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank overnight on Tuesday and throughout yesterday. In...
TUC must act to free Assange says father
JOHN SHIPTON yesterday called for the TUC to take up the fight for the release of his son, Julian Assange, and prevent his extradition...
Tory PM Johnson to prorogue Parliament
THE QUEEN has been asked by Tory PM Boris Johnson to prorogue Parliament days after MPs return from the Summer break, which will mean...
£12bn NI RISE MUST GO AHEAD! – say Johnson and Sunak
THE £12bn rise in National Insurance Contributions (NIC) from April is ‘the right plan’ and ‘must go ahead’, Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak...
Police surround the Mexican Embassy in Bolivia to try & seize Morales’ ministers!
Last Sunday night in Bolivia around 10pm, 220 police, armed and accompanied by trained dogs, surrounded Mexico’s Embassy in La Paz. According to a statement...
Greek hospital stoppage
GREEK state hospitals workers and doctors are fighting back against a government vaccination law which has led to unpaid ‘suspension from work’ of some...
Thousands of doctors march on Downing St – Kick the Tories out now!
THERE was massive support for the hundreds of picket lines outside hospitals all around the country yesterday morning as 47,600 junior doctors began their...
London Transport Strikes Escalating!
LONDON transport strikes are escalating with 1,100 TfL and Tube Unite members joining the planned August 19th strike, said Unite the union yesterday. A pay...