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‘WE MUST work to control immigration and put Britian first,’ Tory Home Secretary Theresa May said yesterday, stepping up her war on refugees. The economic...

THERESA May, at the Tory Party conference yesterday, knocked any notion that there could be a caring Tory Britain on the head as she...

THE conference called tomorrow by the West London Council of Action and the All Trades Unions Alliance has come at a critical time. This week...

THE housing crisis in the UK has reached explosion point. There is no new council housing being built, rents are being driven sky-high, while housing...

THE TORIES ‘are declaring war on organised Labour in this country’ Jeremy Corbyn, newly elected leader of the Labour Party, told delegates at the...

THE TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday passed motions calling for the public ownership of transport services, action on the housing crisis and...

US school teachers are on strike in Washington state, defying a strike ban. Pasco Association of Educators have been on strike for two weeks. The...

IN A speech yesterday, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, promised to privatise every public service in the country, to ‘open up’ public services...

‘THE most vicious attack on the rights of British workers for a generation, to create state-sponsored victimisation of trade unionists.’ This is how construction workers’...

A PICKETING president? Independent senator Bernie Sanders said it could be him. ‘Yeah, I might. That’s right. Why not?’ Sanders said when asked about the...

A VERY young toddler was washed up on a Turkish beach on Wednesday, while his mother was also among those drowned at sea trying...

The United Nations is to launch an inquiry into whether Tory attacks on the disabled have led to ‘grave or systematic violations’ of their...

TEN years of uneven recovery have exacerbated the economic inequalities that predated Hurricane Katrina, says Louisiana SEIU local 21LA. Without a doubt, the economic progress...

THE deepening worldwide capitalist crisis is driving forward revolution with seven-league boots. The crisis is threatening a new banking and industrial crash at any moment...

THE Department for Work and Pensions yesterday released shocking mortality figures in response to a number of Freedom of Information requests concerning ‘the number...

CHARITIES expressed concerns yesterday after Tory plans to force a million more sick and disabled people into work were floated by Work and Pensions...

THE number of GPs having to refer patients to food banks is increasing, with more than one in five having to take drastic action...

THE Department for Work and Pensions has admitted lying to the public by making up stories from fictional claimants, and passing them off as...

PARENTS working on the minimum wage are on the brink of a new crisis in family finances that will leave many close to destitution,...

UNEMPLOYED youth are to be conscripted into ‘boot camps’ or face being thrown off benefits and onto the streets, in a ‘vindictive’ new Tory...

HUMAN rights group Amnesty International says President Jacob Zuma must suspend all police officers implicated in the Marikana shooting. Sunday marked exactly three years since...

THE Tory attacks on youth have reached a fever pitch over the past week with the announcement of more measures to be taken by...

THE AFL-CIO’s executive council meeting is this week, which means visits from presidential candidates: Martin O''Malley, Bernie Sanders, Jim Webb, and, of course, Hillary...

IT is definitely no fun being young under the Tories! As is well known, the Tories are absolutely desperate to be the party that hammers...

SOME major strike actions are taking place in the USA. In Tucson, Arizona the collective bargaining agreement covering more than 530 Teamster represented employees of...

‘HISTORICALLY and contemporarily, police unions serve the interests of police forces as an arm of the state, and not the interests of police as...

PEOPLE who do not speak fluent English will be barred from public sector jobs which involve working directly with the public, the government has...

LAST Wednesday, Dave Prentis, general secretary of the country’s second largest union, Unison, made a speech urging a ‘popular uprising in defence of the...

LAST week the right-wing of the Labour Party showed their desperation over the snowballing support for the Jeremy Corbyn leadership campaign by trotting out...

US president Barak Obama has issued his sternest warning yet to the Tory government of the dangers of Britain leaving the European Union. In an...

ONE YEAR since unarmed American black man Eric Garner died at the hands of the police, hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of...

IRAN took a calculated risk yesterday when it reached an agreement with the US and its allies that it would allow extensive and exhaustive...

THE announcement by the acting Labour leader, Harriet Harman, during an interview with the BBC on Sunday, that the Labour Party would be fully...

UNIONS in the US like the Teamsters have made big strides forward in the fight for higher wages for the US working class, however...

THIRTEEN million families will lose an average of £260 each year because of Osborne’s cuts to working-age benefits, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)...

CHANCELLOR Osborne launched his vicious class war budget yesterday, signalling massive Tory attacks on the working class, with the young and the poor his...

CHANCELLOR Osborne’s first Tory government budget hammers the poor, the youth and the working class while lowering Corporation Tax and pledging to NATO an...

ON Sunday the Greek working class, youth and rural poor delivered a hammer blow to bankers and the capitalist system when it defied all...

CHANCELLOR Osborne’s second budget this year will be his first for a Tory government with an overall majority and he intends to use it...

IN its latest annual report, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the ‘central bank of central banks’, has warned that capitalism is ‘defenceless’ against...

TEACHERS’ unions and charities joined the condemnation of the Tory policies that have driven over two million children into poverty. Office for National Statistics figures...

THE number of children living in poverty in the UK remains 2.3 million, government figures show. This situation has seen thousands of families depending on...

THE BATTLE for a living wage is escalating, with Southampton Solent University and Norwich City Football Club, being the latest employers who have now...

PM Cameron was yesterday pledging ‘action on welfare’ to ensure, as he put it, that ‘work is always a better option’ – not by...

YESTERDAY, Tory leader David Cameron hosted a breakfast meeting with the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, as part of his campaign to...