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£16.5bn for the military as Tories plan a war on public...
THE TORIES have exceeded all previous borrowing records, taking the British bosses’ national debt to its highest level ever since records began, reaching £2.3tn....
Kick the Tories out and stop the disaster of the second...
BECAUSE the government waited so long before imposing a national lockdown on 31 October, large numbers of people will continue to die of coronavirus...
World capitalism facing ‘attack of the debt tsunami’ warn global financial...
A REPORT on Wednesday by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) warned that the world is drowning under an unprecedented and increasing amount of...
Trade unions must take action to restore the whip to Corbyn
TWENTY seven Labour MPs have signed a statement from the Socialist Campaign Group describing Labour leader Keir Starmer’s decision not to readmit Jeremy Corbyn...
Labour right-wing removes whip from Corbyn
BY A UNANIMOUS vote on Tuesday the disciplinary panel of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee overturned the suspension of former leader Jeremy Corbyn...
Corbyn will not have the whip restored! – now not officially...
FORMER Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will not have the party’s whip restored, his successor as Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer has announced. The shock...
Unions Must Be Made To Take Action To Secure The Nationalisation...
THE Unite and GMB trade unions have issued calls for the Johnson Tory government to take action to save 8,000 Tata workers jobs in...
IRUSA gives aid boost to orphaned and disabled Palestinian children
AS COVID-19 continues to fuel increased hardship among the two million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, thousands of vulnerable and orphaned refugee children living...
Police spies inquiry reveals the capitalist state conspiracy against the working...
IN HIS opening statements to the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the lawyer acting for the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence condemned the inquiry for...
French Teaching Unions Nationwide Day Of Action
TEACHERS’ unions in France held a nationwide day of protests and strikes on Tuesday to call for stricter sanitary measures in schools as coronavirus...
314,000 Sackings In Three Months As Tories And Bosses Blitz Workers’...
THE UK’s unemployment rate has risen to 4.8% in the three months to September, up from 4.5%, as the coronavirus continues to blitz workers’...
4,000 Colombian miners enter third month of strike!
OVER 4,000 miners, members of the Sintracarbón union, have entered the third month of a bitter strike at the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia. The...
US trade unions must evict Trump and break with Democrats to...
PRESIDENT TRUMP has stated that he has no intention of leaving the White House and the presidency voluntarily. He said on Saturday: ‘We all know...
Manchester students tear down the fences. UK workers and youth are...
STUDENTS have torn down prison-like fencing erected around their campus on the first day of the new nationwide lockdown. As the Tories allowed the second...
South African Public Works Programme workers demand permanent jobs
AROUND 80 Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers protested outside the Port Elizabeth City Hall on Tuesday, demanding that the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality...
Sunak Extends Furlough
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed that he will extend the furlough scheme across the UK until the end of March. Sunak said the scheme...
Bankrupt Democrats unable to smash Trump – US trade unions must...
THE US presidential election is on a knife edge as Donald Trump confounded all the polls that predicted a landslide for his Democratic Party...
Police Spies Infiltrated 1,000 Groups
The public inquiry into the actions of police spies over several decades got underway on Monday and is expected to last for three years. Members...
2nd wave more deadly than first! Labour pledges to push through...
DEATHS from coronavirus will be twice as high this winter than in the first wave of the pandemic, Tory PM Boris Johnson told Parliament...
UK’s economic, political and health crisis is reaching breaking point! Only...
THE EDITORIALS in Friday’s and Saturday’s Daily Telegraph scream out for action to be taken by Labour leader Starmer to throw Corbyn and his...
Starmer Volunteers To Work In The National Interest!
LABOUR Party leader Sir Keir Starmer volunteered yesterday to ‘work with the Prime Minister in the national interest.’ Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show,...
Labour Party leaders knife Corbyn to prepare way for ...
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party over his remarks on Thursday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn’s...
CORBYN SUSPENDED! – He vows to fight this ‘political intervention’
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer has suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the party over his remarks yesterday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn was...
‘Black, Asian & minority ethnic people have been over-exposed and under-protected...
Covid-19 has ‘thrived’ among black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) communities because of structural race discrimination, a new Labour Party report from Baroness Doreen...
Capitalist crisis will lead to all out war with China regardless...
THE DRUMS are beating ever louder for an all-out war against China as world capitalism plunges into recession while the economy of the deformed...
Barrett appointed to US Supreme Court in drive to declare a...
WITH JUST eight days to go before the US presidential election the right wing judge Amy Coney Barrett was appointed to the American Supreme...
Youth from poor backgrounds hit hardest by coronavirus pandemic
YOUNG people, particularly those from deprived backgrounds, have had their earnings and job prospects hit the hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, adding to fears...
Fourteen delivery drivers in South Korea dead from overwork this year
Fourteen delivery workers in South Korea have died of overwork this year because they had to handle a sharply higher volume of packages due...
Tory split deepens as demand to end ‘health and safety authoritarianism’...
THE CRISIS gripping the British ruling class is being directly reflected in the splits that are tearing the Tory Party apart over how to...
Thousands denied benefits now driven to food banks!
THOUSANDS deemed ineligible to receive Universal Credit have been driven to food banks to survive. The new study published yesterday by the Economic and Social...
UK capitalism is being torn apart politically and economically
THE CRISIS restrictions on Greater Manchester by the Tories reveal that the collapse of British capitalism has reached such a point that the unity...
SA broadcasting workers to strike against ‘jobs bloodbath’
SOUTH AFRICA’s CWU (Communication Workers Union) and BEMAWU (Broadcasting, Electronic, Media & Allied Workers Union) are organising for a full blown strike against the...
US trade unions organising for a general strike if Trump refuses...
WITH LESS than two weeks to go before the US presidential election on November 3rd, president Donald Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton...
Nigeria Mass Protests Against Police Violence
AS MASS protests against police violence continued across several cities in Nigeria for the eighth straight day last Friday, the Nigerian army issued a...
Johnson Imposes Tier 3 On Manchester
TORY PM Johnson announced yesterday the government will impose the strictest measures – a Tier 3 lockdown – on Manchester, despite Greater Manchester Mayor...
Unite leaders betray airport workers – for an emergency conference ...
THE BETRAYAL by the leadership of the Unite union plunged to new depths last week in the negotiations between the union and the management...
Police and MI5 granted licence to kill by the Tories &...
POLICE spies and MI5 operatives have been given the green light to commit crimes with impunity after an extremely controversial law was passed on...
London, Essex and York tough restrictions imposed – while Liverpool intensive...
MILLIONS of people in London, Essex, York and other areas face tougher Tier 2 Covid measures from Saturday, Tory Health Secretary Matt Hancock said...
SA National strike against wage cutting
ON WORLD Day For Decent Work, trade union federations in South Africa declared a national strike against ‘the winds of austerity blowing out the...
ANOTHER LOCKDOWN IS POSSIBLE! – says Professor Peter Horby
IN A statement to Parliament today Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce a new three-tier lockdown system where each region in...
Tory Crisis Deepens As Economy Crashes And Coronavirus Surges!
‘WE WERE hoping for a V: a rapid economic bounceback. We would have probably settled for a W: a wobbly recovery, with dips along...
California’s Health Staff 5-Day Strike
WORKERS at eight campuses of the Alameda Health System (AHS) in California’s East Bay – 3,200 members of the SEIU union local 1021 –...
Workers to get 67% of wages – bosses to get free...
TORY CHANCELLOR Sunak set out yesterday more massive support for businesses forced to close by law, with much tighter virus rules expected in England...
End herd immunity capitalist barbarism with a socialist revolution!
THE DEMAND for capitalism to ‘reopen’ under the umbrella of the discredited theory that herd immunity is the only way to combat coronavirus has...
General Strike In South Africa
BOTH COSATU (the Confederation of South African Trade Unions) and the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) have vowed to bring the country...