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Tories Stepping Up The Class War While The Tuc Is Calling...
THE TORY government has made it crystal clear that its current reorganisation is being made in order to carry out a very serious assault...
Uprising In Tunisian Capital Against Kais Saied Coup
Protesters clashed with police in the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Saturday, October 15, for the second night running. Riot police fired tear gas to...
US struggling to keep up with Ukraine’s demand for weapons!
PENTAGON chief Lloyd Austin has signalled that the United States and its Western allies are having trouble keeping up with Ukraine’s demand for advanced...
TUC must call a General Strike to kick the Tories out...
Tory Chancellor Hunt declared that the entire cost of British capitalism’s crisis is to be dumped onto the backs of the working class yesterday. Hunt...
Hunt shreds Truss and Kwarteng budget and prepares for massive austerity...
NEWLY-INSTALLED Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt yesterday completely shredded the mini-budget announced just a few weeks ago by Kwasi Kwarteng. Kwarteng was unceremoniously sacked on Friday...
Tories Are Split And Divided – Now Is The Time To...
IT WAS ‘sackcloth and ashes day’ at The Sunday Telegraph yesterday as it surveyed the collapse of the Truss regime. It wrote that: ‘Jeremy Hunt,...
French refinery workers extend strike for 10% increase
FRENCH refinery workers have continued their strikes as a petrol crisis drags on across the country, with authorities threatening to resort to force to...
‘THERE COULD BE A MILLION PEOPLE ON STRIKE VERY SOON!’ –...
‘THERE could be up to a million people on strike very, very soon,’ Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said yesterday morning. On the eve of...
Kwarteng Sacked – Truss On Borrowed Time – Working Class Must...
KWASI Kwarteng was sacked yesterday afternoon as Tory Chancellor, just weeks after he announced huge unfunded tax cuts that triggered a financial crisis by...
The Tory Party is blowing apart! TUC must call a general...
Liz Truss was only installed as Prime Minister little more than 4 weeks ago but yesterday a senior Tory minister, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly,...
Postal Workers Call To ‘Bring Down Tories’
ROYAL MAIL Communication Workers Union (CWU) postal workers were in a determined mood during their latest pay strike yesterday. At Jubilee Mail Centre in Hounslow,...
Bank Of England Dumps The Pound To Make The Working Class...
THE Bank of England on Tuesday insisted that it was dumping the pound and would proceed with its decision to stop supporting the bond...
US unions sit-in, strike and recruit!
Amazon workers at JFK8, the company’s Staten Island warehouse that voted to unionise earlier this year, held a sit-in, strike on Monday after a...
UK economy speeds into bankruptcy – demand TUC call a general...
THE SPEED of the UK economy crashing into complete bankruptcy is breathtaking, as it leaves the Tory government along with the Bank of England...
Coffey Tells Nurses 3% Is All You Are Getting!
THE RCN (Royal College of Nursing) responded with fury to Tory Health Secretary Therese Coffey’s declaration on TV yesterday morning that, regardless of whether...
Tory government in massive crisis – make TUC call a general...
AT THE weekend, the Tory-supporting Telegraph newspaper published an article by its economics expert Jeremy Warner which carried the dire headline: ‘Few have woken...
Rail workers striking in Scotland, across the UK & around the...
Railway workers in Scotland took 24-hour strike action on ScotRail yesterday after the RMT union rejected a real-terms pay cut. ScotRail bosses have offered 5%...
Capitalism facing the biggest crash in its history – Time to...
CABINET ministers are urging fellow Conservatives to get behind Prime Minister Liz Truss, after a week of open disagreement and back-stabbing within the Tory...
‘US-UK Hands Off Assange’ – say human chain protesters
‘US-UK Hands off Assange!’ said demonstators in Parliament Square before several thousand made a human chain around the Houses of Parliament on Saturday. ‘There’s only...
‘A nurses strike is long overdue’
NURSES at Lewisham hospital spoke up in favour of going on strike, on the day the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) strongly called for...
As world crisis deepens the UK working class needs to take...
THE working class of the world faces a revolutionary autumn and winter, as the major imperialist powers step up their war in the Ukraine...
Workers strikes and demonstrations are gaining momentum throughout Europe!’ – says...
THROUGHOUT Europe, strikes and demonstrations are gaining momentum, notes France’s CGT trade union federation. Faced with inflation and the energy crisis, demonstrators demand wage increases...
TUC remains silent on Truss’s class war preparations – Join the...
TORY prime minister Liz Truss didn’t waste time. She fled the country immediately after the meltdown of her government at the Tory Party conference. Yesterday...
‘Make Your Mark On History’ By Voting For Strike Action!
MORE than 300,000 members are receiving ballot papers in the post from yesterday launching the RCN’s biggest strike ballot in its 106-year history. You can...
Truss makes it clear that ‘trade unions’ are the main enemy...
TORY prime minster Liz Truss closed the Tory Party conference yesterday with a speech designed to convince the party faithful that, despite performing a...
23 years since Ladbroke Grove disaster
TWENTY-THREE YEARS after 31 lives were lost in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster, RMT says that government policy is in danger of dragging the...
Truss Must Go And The Tory Government And Her Cronies With...
Monday’s Daily Telegraph had in its editorial an early celebration of a PM Truss ‘victory’ in getting her Tory party to accept the abolition...
Tory Party in meltdown – force TUC to call a general...
TO DESCRIBE the forced decision by Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng to abandon his plans to end the 45% top rate of income tax to...
Kwarteng declares war on the working class – after humiliating turnaround
FOLLOWING his humiliating U-Turn in the small hours of yesterday morning, when Chancellor Kwazi Kwarteng’s announced the abolition of the 45p rate of tax...
Truss government is in a huge crisis. Make the TUC call...
THE Tory Party is now in Conference and in the biggest crisis in its history, after its ‘mini budget’ caned the poor and the...
CWU pickets demand the TUC calls a general strike – as...
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) took strike action on Friday and Saturday and explained the reasons for doing so. In a letter to all its...
TUC Leaders Waste Time Writing To Truss For ‘A Cast-Iron Assurance’!
YESTERDAY’S capitalist press was full of dire warnings of the massive increases in taxation that the Truss government is planning, and with it the...
Over 40,000 nurses have quit the NHS in the past year...
A RECORD over 40,000 nurses have quit the NHS in the past year – one in nine of the workforce, an analysis by the...
TUC must call a General Strike! – the message from CWU...
THE TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!' was the message from the CWU picket...
Truss insists no retreat as she prepares to split Tories and...
TORY Prime Minister Liz Truss finally emerged from Downing Street yesterday to make her first public statement on the economic crisis that has brought...
South African trade union members bar ANC chairman Gwede Mantashe from...
African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members barred ANC Chairman Gwede Mantashe from speaking at their 14th national congress on Monday. ‘Hamba Gwede’ (Go Gwede) and ‘asinamali’...
TUC must be made to call a general strike to put...
THE International Monetary Fund has openly condemned the UK government over its tax cuts that handed billions to the rich, warning that the measures...
US National Nurses United condemn TRAPs schemes as the means for...
THE AMERICAN National Nurses United (NNU) applauds the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) efforts to investigate the exploitative and coercive employment-related Training Repayment Agreement...
Starmer – the Labour Party ‘fit to govern’ for bosses...
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer, in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday, pledged that he is ‘not just pro-business’ but wants to...
Pound crashes against every currency in the world – time to...
THE pound crashed to its lowest level ever against the dollar yesterday morning threatening that it will soon reach parity with the US currency. Sterling...
Labour Party Conference Opens With ‘God Save The King’ Instead Of...
THE opening of the Labour Party conference took a new turn yesterday when the Labour Party leader Starmer, who has played a key part...
US war games plan to intimidate North Korea
AN US aircraft carrier and warships from its strike group arrived in South Korea on Friday for the first time in nearly five years...
Labour Party Conference sings ‘God save the King’
THE LABOUR Party Conference in Liverpool opened yesterday with a minute’s silence, followed by leader Sir Keir Starmer leading the hall in singing God...
Desperate Tories Turn To Fracking
IN ITS first acts of desperation, the new government of Prime Minister Liz Truss has decided to announce that the moratorium on fracking has...
Crisis Ridden Capitalism Is Trying To Make The Working Class Pay...
UK CAPITALISM is in crisis. After the falls in sterling, and the rampant oil, gas and food inflation, the ruling class is desperate and...