Tag: tory party
Afghan war not worth fighting, say British workers
SIR Jock Stirrup, the British army commander, has admitted that the great majority of the British people are opposed to the imperialist war in...
‘STRIKES WILL END’ says CWU leader Hayes
Postal workers in delivery and collection offices around the country were out solid again on Saturday in defence of their union, the Communication Workers’...
SLUMP DEEPENS – only one way out – REVOLUTION!
THE bourgeois propaganda machine was all set yesterday to spin an expected 0.04 per cent increase in GDP into a ‘the slump is over’...
Postal workers say: ‘WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE’ – ‘All workers...
THOUSANDS of striking delivery staff took to picket lines in London and across the country yesterday, on the second day of the national postal...
With capitalism in crisis the BBC gives a hand up to...
THE News Line is opposed to the BNP or any fascist party being given time to spread its propaganda in any of the media...
Savage cuts causing ‘chaos’ at london met university – warn UCU
‘THE chaotic scenes during enrolment say it all: we lost over 350 jobs last year and you can already see the difference,’ said the...
The CWU leaders are refusing to fight for their membership
THE unsolicited public display of pacifism yesterday by the CWU leadership, in the face of the most vicious daily attacks on their membership...
Brown is hungry for cash – sell off the palaces and...
THE Prime Minister began yesterday to sell off anything and everything that can be used to raise much needed cash, £16bn in fact, to...
The first step towards a government of generals
GENERAL Sir Richard Dannatt is to become Defence Minister if there is another Tory government. He will do so, not by becoming a Tory MP...
Postal workers want indefinite strike action NOW!
CWU members have voted, in a 67 per cent turnout, a much bigger turnout than in a British general election, for strike action, with...
Greek Workers & Youth Will Fight New Bourgeois Regime Of Papandreou!
The Greek working class and youth have delivered a deadly blow against the conservative government of Kostas Karamanlis and his neo-liberal policies in Sunday’s...
CUTS AND FORCED LABOUR! – UNISON slams Tory and Labour reforms
PUBLIC sector union Unison yesterday slammed the latest Tory and Labour attacks on disabled people and the unemployed. Tory leader Cameron announced a ‘big bold’...
Southwark Council Prepared To Evict Heygate Estate Tenants
SOUTHWARK Council says it is prepared to take action to evict remaining tenants from the Heygate Estate, if they refuse ‘reasonable’ offers to leave...
Occupy And Nationalise UK Gm Plants Now!
BOTH Spain and the UK have refused to sign the Memorandum of Understanding that binds together the Magna-Sberbank-GM deal under which there are...
‘STOP THE BULLYING, THE HARASSMENT AND THE CUTS’ – Postal workers...
‘royal Mail – not for sale! Mandy, Mandy, Mandy – Out Out Out!’ chanted over 200 postal workers as they lobbied the heavily-fortified...
STOP THE CUTS! – Postal workers tell Labour Party Conference
over 200 postal workers lobbied the heavily-fortified Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday, to demand the Labour government keeps the Royal Mail public and...
Brown pledges to bring morality to the bankers!
AT yesterday’s Labour Party conference Premier Brown focused on the ‘wrong choices’ that the Tories had made over policies to deal with the...
No Pledge From Mandelson – Over Gm-Magna Jobs!
BUSINESS Secretary Lord Mandelson yesterday refused to give any guarantees to keep open the GM Luton and Ellesmere Port car plants and prevent mass...
LABOUR CRISIS! – as Business Secretary Mandelson offers his services to...
PRIME MINISTER Brown was fighting for his political life yesterday, as well as for a future for his right-wing ‘bankers’ government. Having saved the...
Rats Starting To Quit Sinking Ship!
PRIME MINISTER Brown was yesterday under full scale attack from the bourgeois media. He faced the humiliation of appearing on the Andrew Marr...
Pre-empt savage cuts with a general strike!
LIB DEM leader Nick Clegg has reiterated his original claim there will need to be ‘savage’ spending cuts. Clegg put forward the same...
‘WE WILL NOT GIVE UP TILL WE WIN’ – sacked Gate...
The sacked Gate Gourmet workers marked the fourth anniversary of their struggle with a 200-plus strong rally and an evening of thrilling entertainment at...
Teachers Reject Savage Cuts
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) hit back yesterday at Education Secretary Ed Balls over his call to sack thousands of school heads and...
Opening The Archives On The Miners’ Strike
Part of the British Film Institute season: ‘On the Face of It: A Century of Coalmining on Screen’ (Also plays this month at the Showroom in Sheffield) ‘OPENING the Archives on...
COOL RECEPTION FOR BROWN – at the TUC Congress
GORDON BROWN had a very cool reception at the TUC yesterday. The mood was set by the PCS delegation, which held up placards saying ‘No...
WE WILL FIGHT TO DEFEND PENSIONS – union leaders tell TUC...
THE TUC delegates in Liverpool at the 2009 Congress on Monday voted unanimously to defend public services. Composite Motion C21 Public Services and the Economy...
Tuc Leaders Fear That Massive Cuts Will Bring Strikes And Disorder!
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown laid down the gauntlet at the weekend to the TUC Congress, being held in Liverpool. Downing Street has released...
Tuc To Reactivate NHS Together Campaign
THE TUC Congress in Liverpool yesterday unanimously voted for Composite Motion 16: Defending the NHS. The motion calls on ‘the General Council to reactivate the...
Support the firefighters and the postal workers
FIRE chiefs in Warwickshire are planning to close seven fire stations and axe a third of fire appliances with the loss of one hundred...
UNIONS MUST TAKE ‘JOINT INDUSTRIAL ACTION’ – PCS leader Serwotka...
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown laid down the gauntlet at the weekend to this week’s TUC Congress, being held in Liverpool. Downing Street has released excerpts...
Bring down Brown-Mandelson regime – forward to a workers’ government
YESTERDAY afternoon the PM’s office was leaking the speech that Brown is due to give to the TUC Congress on Tuesday. It stressed that if...
Tuc Leaders Dine With Pm Brown
Prime Minister Brown met 15 union leaders at his country residence Chequers for three hours yesterday afternoon, to discuss spending cuts ahead of next...
TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers
THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...
‘All over the country our members sick and tired of...
CWU members are standing fast at Royal Mail delivery offices across London, in their fight to defend jobs and basic trade union rights. Strike action...
London Midland drivers fight wage cut
LONDON MIDLAND drivers have refused to work voluntary overtime on Sundays after the company cut their pay for the day to single time. The rail...
‘WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NATIONAL STRIKE’ – say CWU pickets
Postmen and women were out in force on picket lines at 5.30am on Saturday all over London discussing the progress of their dispute against...
Tuc Congress Must Demand All British Troops Out Of Afghanistan!
WITH ten British troops killed in Helmand province so that just hundreds of people could vote – and after five per cent turned out...
The slump deepens as Labour steps up attacks on the poorest
UK Gross Domestic Product fell in the three months from April to June by 0.7% confirming that the slump is deepening and that the...
Defend NHS health care – stop the NHS becoming a business
‘ONE million NHS patients have been the victims of appalling care in hospitals across Britain, according to a major report,’ screamed the capitalist press...
FBI attacks Scottish government over Megrahi release
THE Scottish Nationalist government has defended its decision to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi amid a mounting and frenzied counter-attack directed...
Taxation Slump Hits Labour!
A WEEK ago the Chairman of the Bank of England, King, suggested that those who said they were seeing the ‘green shoots of recovery’...
CWU members challenge Hayes – at London meeting
‘This is an important fight, it will define the future of our members, whether we stay full or part time, or even employed at...
KEEP PROFITEERS OUT OF THE NHS – says BMA and Unison
The British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday condemned moves to allow a private company to take over the running of Hinchingbrooke NHS hospital in Huntingdon,...
‘take Action To Defend NHS’
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...
Now Act To Defend The NHS!
THE WITCHHUNT that the Republican Party has organised against President Obama for having the temerity to propose some relatively benign measures to allow...