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Make the TUC call a general strike to Bring down the...
TODAY at 9am the TUC General Council is discussing a motion from the Prison Officers Association (who have no right to strike) that urges...
Hunt’s appointment – a declaration of war on the NHS!
THE appointment of Jeremy Hunt as Secretary of State (SoS) for Health, is a declaration of war on the NHS. Hunt is a right winger...
£20bn of NHS cuts are – Turning nurses into cleaners
THE Tory-LibDem Coalition’s £20 billion NHS budget cuts are leading to nurses having to clean toilets and mop hospital floors it emerged yesterday. A survey...
Lansley sacked – Hunt in charge of NHS
ARCHITECT of the hated Health and Social Care Act, Andrew Lansley was sacked as Health Secretary and replaced by Murdoch acolyte and former Arts...
Murdoch’s Poodle Hunt Gets Health Privatisation Job
HEALTH Secretary Andrew Lansley has been demoted to the role of Leader of the House of Commons. This is after his health goose was cooked...
Burston School Strike Anniversary March And Rally
TRADES unionists, their families and supporters gathered in Burston village near Diss in Norfolk on Sunday for the annual rally and march to commemorate...
Massive run on Spanish banks shakes the EU and the euro
THE European Central Bank has reported that outflows from the Spanish banks reached 74bn euros (£59bn) in the month of July,...
‘Hit squads’ being sent into seven NHS Trusts!
‘HIT SQUADS’ are being sent by the government into hospitals to identify and implement savage cuts, ‘savings’ and closures so that spiralling PFI debts...
STALINISTS AND REFORMERS BETRAY STEEL AND BANK WORKERS – Build the...
Statement by the Revolutionary Marxist League Greek Section of the International Committee of the Fourth International The only road for all workers is to build...
Tories planning to close hundreds of schools
HUNDREDS of state-run schools in England are facing closure as a direct result of the Tory-led coalition’s war against free state education, it emerged...
July deficit alarms City!
THE UK government borrowed £600 million in July to cover the gap between spending and revenue, the ONS reported yesterday. The city is aghast...
Neither savage deflation or massive inflation but socialism!
LABOUR’S last Chancellor, Alistair Darling, has urged the Tories to set about printing or borrowing even more money to finance growth. It must be remembered...
Put Cameron, Hague and Obama on trial, and free Assange!
ACCORDING to William Hague, the Tory Foreign Minister and Acting Prime Minister, Britain has a ‘legal obligation’ to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to...
RAIL FARES SOARING BY 6.2 PER CENT – ‘a massive kicking...
Rail unions, transport campaigners and passenger groups held a national day of action on Tuesday to protest against massive hikes in rail fares, widespread...
Ward Closure Storm At Sidcup Hospital
HEALTH workers have angrily condemned the decision by administrators now running the bankrupt South London Healthcare Trust to close the gynaecology ward at...
GREEK BANK WORKERS TO CONTINUE THEIR NATIONAL STRIKE -while armed police...
GREEK bank workers at the ATE Bank (Agrarian bank) decided last Monday in a mass meeting to continue their national strike against the sell...
Disgusting Libdems Squeal Betrayal!
THE LibDems, who sealed the coalition by stabbing millions of youth in the back by agreeing to tuition fees of up to £9,000 a...
TUC CONCERNED ABOUT MASSIVE YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT – but has no...
SAVAGE ‘austerity’ cuts to prop up bankrupt capitalism and its banks are being met with a revolutionary response from workers and youth throughout Europe. In...
PENTONVILLE SPIRIT REQUIRED TO FIGHT THE ANTI-UNION LAWS –but precious little...
JULY 31 marked the 40th anniversary of a great working class victory, the release of the jailed Pentonville Five dockers in 1972. The TUC was...
TUC CONGRESS CALLS FOR AN ‘ALTERNATIVE TO AUSTERITY’ – but refuses...
THIS year’s TUC Congress next month is meeting at a time when all of the basic rights and gains of the working class are...
World Crisis Of Capitalism Is Driving A World Revolution For...
THIS week the ‘big guns’ of the capitalist world banking system will each be holding their regular monthly meetings with only one question on...
PENTONVILLE 5 VICTORY – 40 years on
TODAY is the 40th anniversary of the release of the Pentonville 5 dockers when the TUC was forced to call a general strike and...
Cuts Plunging Education Into Massive Crisis
GOVERNMENT education cuts are depriving many young people and adults of the chance to contribute fully to society, Unison has warned. A new freedom of...
Renationalise Energy Companies And Abolish Tuition Fees!
AT A time of a desperate economic crisis of capitalism, when millions of families fear that they will not be able to pay their...
STRIKES WILL PROCEED DURING OLYMPICS – say unions
UNIONS reacted angrily yesterday to threats by Arts, Media and Sports Secretary Hunt that public sector workers who strike during the Olympics should face...
Right To Strike Under Attack
The announcement by the Tory media, culture and sport secretary, Jeremy Hunt, that cabinet ministers are actively discussing the introduction of Ronald Reagan style...
PCS Stands Fast Against Tory Strike Sack Threat
THE Tories are threatening emergency action to either ban the official strike action next Thursday by Home Office PCS union members, including Border Agency...
Contradictions of UK capitalism sharpening to explosion point!
TORY PM Cameron has declared, in the last few days, that he will be pushing through austerity measures until the end of the next...
Austerity Forever Pledges Cameron
IN an interview given to the Daily Telegraph, the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, declared that ‘austerity’ will be forever as far as he...
Re-nationalise the Railways
Yesterday’s announcement that the Tory-led coalition government’s much heralded investment in the railways is to be financed solely through fare increases is a catastrophe...
Sack the government not doctors and nurses
A REPORT leaked this weekend spells out exactly how the Tory-led coalition means to destroy completely the National Health Service and is preparing to...
100,000 Turn Out At Durham Miners Gala
UP to 100,000 workers and youth gathered at the 128th Durham Miners Gala on Saturday. Pride of place on the platform after the march through...
Occupy to stop NHS closures! Bring down Coalition to defend the...
THE Tory Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, announced yesterday that, following the legal period required for consultation, he was implementing the threat made last month...
As Coalition stumbles – bring it down!
THE Coalition regime is in big trouble after it faced defeat in the House of Commons last night over its measure to reorganise the...
Nationalise the Banks!
As the scandal engulfing the banks accelerates daily, so the attempts by both Labour and coalition party leaders to pretend they can stop future crises...
UNISON CONDEMNS PAYING FOR NHS TREATMENT –but has no plans for...
UNISON has responded to the Institute for Fiscal Studies review into NHS funding, and warnings that in future, patients may have to pay for...
Barclays Vice Chair On NHS Commissioning Board
YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Health told the House of Commons that the government will be taking a step back from the...
Save Elliot playing fields!
THE GMB trade union is staging a protest demonstration outside Wandsworth Town Hall from from 6.45pm on Wednesday 4th July 2012, where the borough’s...
More London bus strikes
THOUSANDS of London bus workers will take strike action next Thursday 5th July followed by action on Tuesday 24 July in a dispute over...
BMA condemns Coalition’s local pay drive
THE BMA ARM has condemned the Tory-led drive to impose local pay deals on the public sector – which would mean the end of...
Tory police state plans alive and well!
PLANS for more secret court hearings, in the Justice and Security Bill, will create a ‘statutory straitjacket’ for judges, Martin Chamberlain, one of the...
‘We need to push them to repeal Health Act!’
THERE was a lively fringe meeting on the first evening of the BMA Conference in Bournemouth on Monday, organised by the All Trades Unions...
NHS being bankrupted, to keep crisis-ridden capitalism going!
THE message from the government over the proposed dissolving of the South London Healthcare Trust and the closure of its major hospitals is...
Cameron Declares War On The Youth!
THE PM has said that people under the age of 25 are to lose their right to housing benefit, as part of moves to...
LEON TROTSKY’S ‘WHITHER FRANCE’ TODAY – 1. European capitalism gripped by...
A REVOLUTIONARY situation exists in Europe today as a result of the world capitalist crisis. Social Democratic/Labour and Stalinist reformists, and revisionists, may scoff at...