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Tuc Must Call General Strike To Kick Out Starmer’s Government
THE continuing collapse of the Starmer-led Labour government was on public display on Wednesday when in a pathetic attempt to reassert his absolute control,...
Unite suspends Angela Rayner – now is the time for the...
LAST FRIDAY, the Unite union’s annual policy conference overwhelmingly passed an emergency motion condemning both the local Labour-controlled council and the Labour government over...
Healthworkers pay tribute to Gaza medics
THE COMMUNITY Camp4Palestine opposite the US embassy in Battersea on Tuesday night hosted an event to honour paramedics in Gaza. Opening the proceedings, Elina, a...
The developing capitalist crisis demands the organisation of the socialist revolution
SHRINKING UK trade figures released yesterday of a decline of 0.1 per cent of GDP in May, following a 0.3 per cent fall in...
Forward To The Victory Of The World Socialist Revolution – Smash...
IT really is ‘scoundrel time’ when the bosses of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) admit that Britain’s economy is increasingly vulnerable if not...
British capitalism ‘heading for disaster’ as Labour government fails to impose...
THE HUMILIATION heaped on prime minister Keir Starmer and his chancellor Rachel Reeves by the rebellion of backbench Labour MPs over their plans to ‘save’...
Tories to axe benefits starting off with barring ‘foreigners’!
THE Tory Party has launched its campaign to force the working class to pay the bill for the worldwide capitalist crisis of the bosses,...
Join the WRP to organise a general strike and a socialist...
PM KeIr Starmer’s humiliating retreat on Tuesday, over his plans to drastically cut the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) benefits for disabled workers has opened...
Pound falls after Rachel Reeves reduced to tears in Parliament
DURING PM’s Question Time in Parliament on Wednesday Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves broke down in tears as Prime Minster Keir Starmer dodged a question...
High Court rejects legal challenge to Labour arming Zionist genocide –...
ON MONDAY, the High Court in London rejected a legal challenge brought by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq against the decision of...
‘This is Labour’s Poll Tax – No Labour MP who backs...
OVER 400 disabled people gathered in Parliament Square on Monday 30th June to oppose the bill being put to Parliament yesterday by the Labour...
Labour Government votes for disability cuts!
THE WELFARE Bill, slashing benefits from the disabled and mentally ill, was passed by 335 votes to 260 in the House of Commons yesterday...
‘Medieval’ levels of health inequality have devastating effects on NHS
On Sunday, the Guardian newspaper published part of the results from its months-long investigation into the effects of poverty on the NHS. Included in the...
Fury at Labour’s attack on disabled
DEMONSTRATIONS are taking place outside Parliament from 1.00pm today, and in towns and cities around the country, as the Labour government seeks to pass...
The time has come to organise the British Socialist Revolution!
PM Keir Starmer’s humiliating defeat and capitulation to the rebellion of 127 Labour MPs, over his proposed welfare cuts on Thursday night, has thrown...
‘No’ to Labour’s ‘two-tier welfare!’
Starmer has announced hurried alterations to the Labour welfare bill after more than 120 Labour MPs signalled their intention to vote against it, threatening...
Labour in revolt against Starmer
DOWNING Street has signalled it is preparing compromises in a bid to quell a major rebellion by Labour MPs over welfare reforms, with more...
Time for regime change in Labour Party – kick out Starmer!
Up to Wednesday, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer was in a state of complete denial about the depth of the rebellion amongst his own...
Labour Party leadership ‘will never be forgiven for cuts’ – says...
THE LABOUR Party leadership will ‘never be forgiven’ if it goes ahead with its benefit cuts plans next Tuesday, the Fire Brigades Union leader...
Labour MPs rebel and threaten to bring down Starmer
WHAT was described as a ‘fiery’ meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, addressed by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, took place on Monday...
Israel ‘getting a taste of its own medicine’
BY AVIGAIL ARBANEL THE damage on the ground in Israel is far more extensive than people realise. The Israeli population is less interested in the...
Starmer to face down rebel Labour MPs and rely on support...
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer rounded on Labour MPs who are threatening to rebel and vote against the welfare cuts being forced through Parliament, insisting...
Budget cuts of up to £5bn a year are provoking a...
WORK AND PENSIONS Secretary Liz Kendall is making changes to her package of welfare reforms in a desperate attempt to reassure Labour MPs who...
‘We will make Britain a defence industrial superpower’ says Reeves ...
‘WE WILL make Britain a defence industrial superpower,’ Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves declared in the House of Commons yesterday, as she revealed that military...
‘We want welfare not warfare 20,00-strong march tells Starmer
AS the ‘Welfare not Warfare’ March was getting ready to leave the BBC and head for Downing Street, Margaret Mills, a Unison member from...
Israeli airstrikes set out to destroy Yemen’s Sana’a Airport
HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an urgent investigation into the Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Sana’a International Airport, which happened on May 28,...
US vetoes UN resolution on Gaza as it openly ‘stands with...
ON WEDNESDAY, the US vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution demanding ‘an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’ in Gaza. The draft resolution also...
Labour government splitting apart as ministers prepare for a national government!
YESTERDAY, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that splits had erupted in the heart of Keir Starmer’s Cabinet between deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and...
‘FAIR PAY NOW! BRING US BACK IN HOUSE AT ONCE!’ –...
‘FAIR pay now! Bring us back in-house!’ demanded hundreds of Heathrow Airport workers as they marched to the Compass Centre headquarters of Heathrow Airport Limited...
Starmer plans to use racism to split working class in an...
THERE has been an outpouring of rage over the speech by Labour prime minister Keir Starmer on Monday unveiling the government’s immigration White Paper...
UK-US CRISIS – Washington to challenge Chinese investment in UK
A CLAUSE in the newly signed UK-US trade agreement has provoked fierce criticism after it was revealed that Washington will be granted powers to...
Labour’s cuts to disability benefits hit 700,000 families – time to...
THIS week, The Guardian newspaper, using the Freedom of Information Act, published the Labour government’s own internal assessment of the impact of the planned...
Bank cuts rate to 4.25% – its second cut this year
THE BANK of England has reduced interest rates to 4.25 per cent, marking its second cut this year, as it warned that escalating global...
Labour MPs rebelling against Starmer’s brutal austerity cuts programme
LABOUR’S top brass is facing a mounting backlash against its campaign of intimidation aimed at forcing MPs to fall in line behind a brutal...
Forward to a Workers Government in both the UK and Palestine!
HAMAS has commented on the statements of the Zionist War Minister Katz that blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza ‘is a pressure method’. The Hamas...
Massive price increases for millions of workers yesterday while giant energy...
YESTERDAY was dubbed ‘Awful April’ in the press, as millions of households throughout the UK were hit by massive price increases across the board...
Labour launches jobs massacre – savage benefit cuts and tax rises...
JUST two days after the Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spring mini-budget ‘to grow the economy’ out of economic collapse, thousands and thousands of job losses...
More than 30 Labour MPs oppose Starmer’s assault on benefits...
KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...
More than 30 Labour MPs oppose Starmer’s assault on benefits...
KEIR Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing the most significant internal revolt since taking office, as more than 30 Labour backbenchers prepare to oppose...
Reeves budget drives split in party as Labour MPs fear anger...
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves denied that Wednesday’s Budget was anything other than a massive austerity attack on workers with the sick and disabled deliberately...
Over 10,000 workers and youth join Al Quds-Jerusalem Day!
OVER ten thousand workers students and youth joined the Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day demonstration in central London yesterday. The demonstration assembled outside Marble Arch Station...
Labour splits emerging as Starmer faces ‘mother of all rebellions’
FOLLOWING Prime Minister’s Questions session in Parliament on Wednesday left wing Labour MP Richard Burgon went on social media warning that Keir Starmer will...
Labour Taking Action To Make The Workers And The Poor Pay...
THERE is no doubt that Labour’s proposed benefit cuts are a ‘violation of workers rights’ which will harm ill, disabled and poorer workers in...
Labour targets disabled with £5bn cuts
LABOUR’S announcement of £5 billion a year benefits cuts to be snatched from one million disabled and mentally ill workers were denounced by trade...
620,000 sick and disabled will lose £675 a month under Labour’s...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer is prepared to defy the growing anger of workers by pushing through welfare cuts that will impoverish over 600,000...