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HAYES AND WARD OUT! REJECT THIS SELL-OUT TO ROYAL MAIL! Letter...

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Postal Workers are to be balloted soon on the new deal negotiated by their Union leaders. This Agreement called Business Transformation 2010 and Beyond, has...

270,000 Civil Servants Out

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OVER a quarter of a million civil servants will walk out at the start of a 48-hour national strike today against the government’s decision...

270,000 civil servants to strike!

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UP to 270,000 civil and public servants from across the UK are set to launch a month of industrial action, with a 48 hour...

The British government continues to cover up evidence of torture

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‘THE Government today asked two High Court Judges to allow them to cover up evidence of torture even more thoroughly than they did in...

Dubai Police Seek The Arrest Of Netanyahu

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Israeli officials remained silent in the wake of a Dubai police decision to seek the arrest of the Israeli prime minister and the head...

Free Joe Glenton! End criminal occupation!

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DEMONSTRATIONS will be staged in eight different countries today, from Britain and the United States to Poland and Italy, demanding the release of British...

AN EPIDEMIC OF THE GREATEST EVIL – Fallujah bombings condemned

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‘It’s not only in Fallujah, but all over Iraq that there are child deformities. ‘I’ve been in the medical profession for 30 years, I’ve...

GET READY TO STOP THE AIRPORTS – Walsh mobilises 6000 strikebreakers

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British Airways boss Walsh boasted at a meeting of selected staff at BA headquarters yesterday that he has 6,000 staff signed up to break...

More redundancies required at Vauxhall UK plants

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UNDER the cover of a Voluntary Separation Programme GM is seeking to push through more redundancies at GM Vauxhall including a number at Ellesmere...

Greece headed for revolution!

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THE situation for Greek capitalism has become so serious that Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos has demanded that Germany returns the Greek gold that...

Brown Beats Law And Order Drum!

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After boasting that the number of crimes was falling by six million each year, PM Brown announced an even bigger...

Working Class Doesn’t Want The Tories

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TO the shock and horror of the Tory Party, the latest YouGov poll shows that its lead over Labour has fallen to just two...

POLLS BLOW TO TORIES! – Labour expected to call election in...

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THE Tories’ lead over the Labour Party has narrowed to just two per cent, according to an opinion poll published yesterday. The poll of more...

‘WE WON’T LET THE NHS BE BUTCHERED’ – doctors tell BMA...

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‘I WANT to see you all out on April 10,’ London doctors’ leader Kevin O’Kane said on Thursday night, calling for a massive march...

MI5 deceived parliament – the judges decide

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‘ONLY a full public inquiry will answer the public’s concerns about what has been done in our name,’ said the Reprieve organisation yesterday, following...

Gaza Youth Trials Picket

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‘MY BROTHER is a political prisoner. He was due to go to university this year, but instead he’s been jailed for protesting outside the...

British capitalism’s crisis of rule

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THE inability of the Tories to pull ahead in the opinion polls, proves that 13 years of Labour rule has not been enough to...

Chagossians Lobby Mauritian Embassy

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OVER 60 Chagossians lobbied the Mauritian Embassy in London yesterday to ask what had happened to all of the compensation paid by the British...

Stop Attacking Costa Rican Banana Workers – Catholic Church Is Urged

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‘Trade union members are threatened, victimised, sacked and blacklisted by employers who pay sums of money to the Catholic Church which coordinates anti-union activities,’...

£105 profit a customer – energy companies on the make

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Almost 10p in every pound of a gas or electricity bill is now going directly into the coffers of the privatised energy companies. Gas and...

King admits no recovery in sight

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THE Bank of England governor, Mervyn King got ready for a somersault in economic policy yesterday, when he told the Treasury Select Committee that...

Challenge To Labour’s Torture Policies

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TODAY Reprieve will begin legal proceedings to challenge the British government’s infamous series of ‘torture policies’: official guidance for agents interviewing prisoners held abroad. Under...

US and UK cannot win Afghan hearts and minds!

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THE massacres of the Afghan civilian population by air and missile attacks continue, proving that imperialist armies are in the business of mass murder,...

BA Strike Ballot Result Today

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TODAY Unite is announcing the result of its second strike ballot in three months for 13,000 BA cabin crew, which is expected to show...

Time For Britain To Hold Israel To Account

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BRITISH Middle East policy in the human rights arena has long been suspect. It is time for Britain to hold Israel to account Evidence of this...

COMPLICITY IN TORTURE! –Commission demands inquiry

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BRITAIN’S Equalities and Human Rights Commission called last Saturday for an urgent independent probe into claims that the security services were complicit in...

Youth jailed for protesting against Israeli atrocities

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IN DECEMBER 2008, hundreds of thousands of workers and youth marched to the Israeli embassy, in a number of demonstrations, denouncing the Israeli onslaught...

Shame On Brown Say Corus Workers

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Hundreds of angry steelworkers and their families demonstrated outside the Corus steel plant in Redcar on Teesside yesterday, as the GMB and Community unions...

STOP HINCHINGBROOKE PRIVATE TAKE-OVER – defend NHS demands Unison

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UNISON, the biggest health service trade union, yesterday called for Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire to remain in the public sector. The union condemned plans to...

Russian Military Chief Warns Don’t Attack Iran

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AN Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday that the Iranian government hopes that the International Atomic Energy Agency will produce an unbiased report on...

‘stiff Resistance And Bombs Everywhere’ In Marjah

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DESPITE the military claims of US and NATO-led occupation troops, progress remains slow because of the stiff resistance and homemade bombs ‘everywhere’. However, the...

ILLEGAL! – Milford Haven oil terminal strike banned by judge

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UNITE, the transport workers’ union, yesterday said it was calling a 12-hour strike at the Milford Haven oil terminal next Tuesday, after...

Unemployment Crisis Deepening

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TOTAL unemployment stood at 2.46 million for the three months to December, down 3,000 on the figure for the previous three months. However, long-term...

CORUS INDUSTRIAL ACTION POSSIBLE say steel union leaders

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‘WE don’t rule out industrial action,’ Michael J Leahy, General Secretary of Community, the steelworkers’ union said yesterday. This was after the Tata...

Inflation Letting Rip As Darling Fiddles

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CONSUMER Prices Index (CPI) inflation has been driven up to 3.5 per cent in January by, amongst other factors, VAT returning to 17.5...

CHAGOS ISLANDERS MAY WIN BACK THE RIGHT TO RETURN says Royal...

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The Foreign Secretary was asked to consider alternative options when deciding the best strategy for the protection of the Chagos Archipelago, and the return...

Defend Public Sector Jobs!

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Public sector union Unison, yesterday warned that predicted huge job losses in the public sector could wipe out vital local services such as day...

Clinton Beats The War Drums

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SPEAKING to students at a Qatar university during a tour of the Gulf region designed to whip up anti-Iran feeling, US Secretary of State...

Workers Must Take Action To Put An End To Capitalism

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THE TIME is here when workers must respond to the growing chorus from the professional servants of the bourgeoisie for savage, and even more...

MI5 and labour witch-hunters attack torture exposers

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HOME Secretary Johnson and MI5 director general, Evans, yesterday launched a hysterical witch-hunt against the exposers of the fact that both MI5 and the...

LABOUR’S COLLUSION WITH TORTURE CONDEMNED –as Johnson, Miliband and MI5 chief...

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Legal charity Reprieve and rights group Amnesty, yesterday hit back at attacks by MI5 and the government on the Appeal Court judgement that revealed...

KIDNAP & TORTURE – British government knew say judges

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Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday lost an Appeal Court bid to stop the disclosure of secret information relating to the torture of UK resident...

Fonseka arrest deepens crisis of Sri Lankan ruling class

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THE split in the Sri Lankan ruling class has deepened with the arrest of General Fonseka who led the military campaign which killed tens...

Labour supports and covers up for torturers

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THE Court of Appeal yesterday forced the British Labour government and its Foreign Secretary, Miliband to publish seven paragraphs concerning the torture of a...

GM-Opel-Vauxhall crisis deepening

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NICK REILLY, the GM executive who closed down Vauxhall Motors in 2002, unveiled, yesterday in Frankfurt, the GM plan for Opel...