Tag: labour party

‘THE new cap on local housing allowance goes against the government’s whole rationale for introducing it,’ Child Poverty Action Group Chief Executive Kate Green...

‘ONE million NHS patients have been the victims of appalling care in hospitals across Britain, according to a major report,’ screamed the capitalist press...

THE Detroit board of US carmaker General Motors last Friday postponed making a decision on who should acquire its Opel division, including the two...

THE Putin regime has been hit hard by the world capitalist crisis, especially by the fall in oil prices, and the effect that the...

No national elections will be held without a unity agreement between Hamas and Fatah and the release of political prisoners from West Bank jails,...

THE Scottish Nationalist government has defended its decision to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi amid a mounting and frenzied counter-attack directed...

With just five weeks until the German elections, Chancellor Merkel yesterday expressed her anger and frustration at the failure last Friday of General Motors...

A WEEK ago the Chairman of the Bank of England, King, suggested that those who said they were seeing the ‘green shoots of recovery’...

‘This is an important fight, it will define the future of our members, whether we stay full or part time, or even employed at...

THE German government yesterday made its move to try and secure GM Europe for Magna, the Canadian car parts manufacturer that wants to sack...

Legal charity Reprieve on Monday warned the Brown government that it is suing it to obtain the necessary information in order to identify two...

RECORD numbers of young people, 835,000 18-24 year-olds, are not in school, college or work in England, official figures are showing. This is an increase...

1381 was the historic year when the peasantry rose up against the imposition of the Poll Tax in a revolt that speeded up the...

Despite Tory leader Cameron’s protestations that he supports the NHS, it emerged yesterday that several leading Tory shadow cabinet members put their names to...

THE WITCHHUNT that the Republican Party has organised against President Obama for having the temerity to propose some relatively benign measures to allow...

Political leaders should ‘abandon pro-market policies’ and not just ‘love the NHS’, but look after it, said doctors’ leaders yesterday. The Chairman of the British...

GENERAL Motors and Magna and its Russian partner Sberbank (which includes the Gaz carmaker) have reached an agreement in principle over the contract...

CWU leaders Billy Hayes and Dave Ward announced the timetable for a national postal strike ballot to a meeting of 500 Communication Workers Union...

‘Vale Inco should get back to the bargaining table if it wants to start delivering nickel to its customers again’, according to Wayne Fraser,...

ALL London postal districts are taking 24-hour strike action today, as the CWU (Communication Workers Union) fights the Royal Mail/Labour government onslaught on postal...

THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has said it does not intend to launch a criminal investigation into the collapse of carmaker MG Rover. It was...

THE Serious Fraud Office announced yesterday that there will be no criminal charges brought over the sale and subsequent collapse of MG Rover. Bert Hill,...

THE Vestas occupation clearly shocked the employer and weakened the Labour government to the point where a mass struggle has to be launched by...

Hundreds of South Korean riot police on Tuesday clashed with laid-off workers who have occupied part of Ssangyong Motor Co’s only assembly plant for...

UNIVERSITIES are being hit hard by the capitalist crisis with thousands of jobs and courses going, and with students facing a lifting of the...

SIXTEEN workers, eight trade union representatives and the partner of one of the staff who were brought before the High Court after they refused...

SPECULATIVE casino banking, without risk for the bankers, thanks to the Brown government’s pledge to never let a big bank fail, is the way...

Legal charity Reprieve yesterday demanded the British government reveal details of the secret illegal detention of ‘ghost’ prisoner Mustafa Setmariam Naser on Diego Garcia...

JUST imagine the furore there would be if British migrants to India were told that they would have to be conversant in Hindi, be...

‘FANTASTIC,’ was how Vestas factory occupier Chris Ash responded to the decision at Newport Magistrates Court yesterday to adjourn the wind turbine company’s attempt...

‘We’re here to stay,’ was the message from the 25 Vestas workers occupying the wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight on Friday. It...

THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday condemned the decision by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to reduce funding for university...

THE capitalist crisis and the massive indebtedness of British capitalism, with its national debt closing fast on its GDP of £1.4...

PICKETS were out at Hornsey Road sorting office in north London yesterday, as angry Royal Mail workers across the capital and in many towns...

Over four hundred striking Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) postal workers yesterday heard calls for a national strike at a rally in Central Hall, Westminster....

The University and College Union (UCU) said yesterday it was furious at the response from the university employers’ organisation over the figures for job...

OVER 12,000 postal workers are taking strike action today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and the executive dictatorship by Royal Mail, while...

THE deepening capitalist crisis is creating the conditions for a showdown between Labour and Capital – over who runs this country, and for whose...

AT THE Mail Centre in East London pickets were out in force yesterday along with a marquee and a barbecue. Jon Ayres, the drivers’...

Striking electricians vowed to keep up their all-out stoppage on its third day, Wednesday, as union leaders re-entered talks with employers regarding a pay...

METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has ordered a senior officer to ‘establish the facts’ – concerning the knowledge that the police had –...

PICKETS were out in force at Stoke Newington N16 Delivery Office in Hackney on Wednesday, day one of the London postal workers three day...

‘Raiding public service pay and pensions is a fundamentally flawed strategy,’ said the NASUWT teachers union yesterday. It was responding to calls for pay freezes...

THE moment of truth is fast approaching for British capitalism. The British capitalist economy is in its death agony with falls in production taking place...

Business Secretary Peter Mandelson is due at the GM Luton plant, Gate 2, at 9.30am this morning. He has been invited by the local Unite...