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THE PCS TRADE UNION last Saturday issued a statement to its members announcing that it was the victim of a government plot to destroy...

THE cuts to local government funding will ‘push councils to breaking point’ according to council leaders. On Thursday the Tory Communities and Local Government minister, Kris Hopkins,...

THE Greek coalition government’s presidential candidate right-winger Stavros Dimas received the votes of just 160 parliamentary deputies last Wednesday night in the first round...

PROPOSALS for English Laws for an English parliament were set out yesterday by Tory cabinet member William Hague, Leader of the House of...

AFTER years of promising that the NHS is ‘safe in our hands’ accompanied by pledges that budgets would be protected with a ring fence...

HOSPITALS and fire services will be run ‘outside the public sector’ Francis Maude, Tory Cabinet Office minister revealed yesterday, speaking to the Daily Telegraph. Firefighters...

THE House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee is to request that the US hands over any material documenting the UK’s role in the...

THE Athens Stock Exchange collapsed again by 7.35 per cent on Thursday wiping 13 billion euros off shares. In the last three days it has...

LABOUR leader Miliband’s speech of yesterday was a pre-election attempt to bolster up support from workers by arguing that Labour will be...

OVER 2,000 striking firefighters marched through Aylesbury on Tuesday chanting ‘Reinstate Ricky Matthews!’ The national demonstration took place during the Fire Brigades Union’s (FBU) national...

A HIGH Court Judge in London ruled yesterday that the government’s decision to close the Independent Living Fund (ILF) is lawful. The Tories plan to...

SIR Peter Fahy, Greater Manchester Chief Constable and vice-chair of the National Counter-Terrorism Committee, has warned that the fight against ‘extremism’ is leading to...

THE Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, was described in the bourgeois press as being ‘rattled’ by the news coverage of his Autumn Statement. In fact, ‘rattled’...

IN HIS Autumn Statement on the economy, Chancellor Osborne outlined many more years of severe austerity with billions more in welfare cuts to be...

CHANCELLOR Osborne delivered a class war Autumn Statement yesterday which revealed Tory plans to completely smash up the Welfare State. Starting with a gloomy assessment...

LABOUR Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has said, if elected, a Labour government would match the Tories cut for cut. He said that Labour would be...

PRIME Minister Cameron yesterday announced plans for a new raft of savage attacks on migrant workers. In a widely publicised speech given in a...

BLACK Friday came to the UK yesterday with scenes of chaos and mayhem in supermarkets up and down the country, scenes that came close...

THE SMITH Commission has announced recommendations that devolution be strengthened, with new powers for the Scottish Parliament to set income tax rates, benefits and...

THE Smith Commission has proposed, with the support of all the major parties, that the Scottish Parliament should have the power to set income...

DAVID Anderson QC, the government’s ‘independent reviewer’ of terrorism legislation, asked a basic question about the powers that Home Secretary May’s will acquire if...

THE official inquiry into the killing of Lee Rigby in 2013 has highlighted the contacts that MI5 and MI6 had with the two attackers Michael...

HUNDREDS of thousands of NHS workers in England and the north of Ireland went on a four-hour strike on Monday morning. Nurses, cleaners, porters, midwives,...

ON the day that up to 400,000 health workers in England came out on a second four-hour strike over the refusal of the government...

WE already know that new legislation to be put forward by the government has as one of its features ‘internal relocation’ for British passport...

UKIP has its second elected MP at Westminster after Mark Reckless won the Rochester and Strood by-election yesterday. Reckless took 16,867 votes, 2,920 more than...

AFTER the Tories’ defeat at the hands of a defector to UKIP in the recent Clacton by-election, David Cameron vowed that he would ‘throw...

HEALTH unions have agreed a separate deal on pay for NHS workers in Wales, meaning they will not be taking part in Monday’s four-hour...

THE full price for the capitulation of the CWU leadership over the privatisation of Royal Mail is now rapidly emerging. The union, which halted...

SPENDING on Welfare over this Parliamentary term has fallen by just £2.5bn despite the Tory-led coalition aiming to slash spending by £19bn. The Institute for...

WRITING in the Guardian yesterday, David Cameron announced that, following his meeting with world leaders at the G20 conference in Brisbane, he has suddenly...

TENANTS on the New Era estate in Hoxton, Hackney, east London, face eviction ‘ASAP’ after a promise not to impose huge rent increases had...

MORE than 200 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through Whitechapel to Bethnal Green in central London on Saturday to the News Line...

DAVID Cameron chose the G20 meeting in Australia to unveil the latest coalition plans to strip British passport holders of their citizenship if they...

THE UK Treasury has told senior Whitehall officials that a post-2015 election government will have to make £25bn-£30bn worth of spending cuts. Cuts are being...

THE bosses organisation, the CBI, yesterday unveiled a report entitled ‘Better Off Britain’ which it claimed offered a radical blueprint to raise living standards...

HEAD of the midwives union RCM slammed the Tory government’s attack on NHS workers’ pay in her speech to the RCM conference that...

THE bourgeois press is awash with the news that Labour leader, Ed Miliband, is facing calls from within his own shadow cabinet for him...

THE TORY coalition government has rejected demands that it hold an urgent review into the student loan system, despite the system reaching...

TRANSPORT workers in three unions descend on the Tory Mayor Boris Johnson’s Office this morning to fight the ‘all-out savage attack’ on their pay...

A GMB union survey has found that the majority of Remploy workers did not get another job, one year on from the last of...

MICHAEL Fallon, Tory defence secretary, did an Enoch Powell (he made his anti-immigrant ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech in 1968) when he claimed on Sunday...

THE crisis of the European Union’s attempts to overcome the contradictions of European capitalism has landed the Tory Party into the gravest crisis of...

THE new NHS report released yesterday has revealed a further £30bn of NHS cuts by 2020. The report entitled the ‘Five Year Forward View’ ...

NEO-fascist movements in Ukraine are operating with the connivance of the Kiev authorities, which is absolutely unacceptable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on...