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Hamas Denounces Netanyahu-Pompeo Saudi Mission!
PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas has denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s secret flight to Saudi Arabia, where he reportedly met with Saudi Crown Prince...
Johnson-Sunak Are Preparing A Winter War Against The British Working Class!
THE UK working class is heading into the greatest ever winter struggle in its history, much greater than any of the ‘winters of discontent’...
£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....
Public Sector pay freeze ‘A kick in the teeth for millions!’...
PUBLIC SECTOR employees, many of whom are essential Covid-19 workers, should not be subject to a continuing pay freeze from a government that has...
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...
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...
Sunak extends furlough as Bank of England prints another £50 billion...
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the furlough scheme will be extended until the end of March next year, with the government continuing...
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...
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...
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...
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...
‘We will balance the books’ Tory Chancellor indicates tax hikes &...
YESTERDAY, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak, speaking at the Tory Party conference, assured the party that his main objective is to get the debt under...
Tory contempt for working class as Sunak offers ‘work coaches’ to...
YESTERDAY Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his new Job Entry Targeted Scheme (JETS) that he claimed will ‘provide fresh opportunities to those that have...
Unemployment is soaring! Defending the ‘right to work’ means getting rid...
UNEMPLOYMENT is set to soar to levels not seen since The Great Depression, the ‘Hungry 1930s’, when workers starved.
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)...
US Trade Unions Ready To Take Action To Bring Down Trump!
IN AN unprecedented move, the American trade union AFL-CIO federation (the US equivalent of the TUC) issued a statement last Friday warning that the...
Greek School Pupils Rise Up
SEVERAL hundreds of secondary schools throughout Greece remain shut as school students refused to attend classes considering the Covid-19 government guidelines to be ineffective.
Last...
Hamas & Fatah agree to Palestinian elections to form government to...
A NEW unity between all Palestinian factions against the common enemy – Israel and the US – is rapidly developing. The leadership of the...
TUC line up with CBI and Tory Chancellor Sunak to impose...
ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...
TUC gives its full support to Sunak
ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...
Unite urges BA staff to accept pay cut
THE UNITE union has sent a ‘GSS UPDATE 17 SEPT’ to its below-wing ground staff members working at Heathrow to try and persuade them...
Attack on WikiLeaks countered – day 11 of hearing
DURING DAY 11 of the hearing yesterday at the Old Bailey, in which the prosecution is attempting to get WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange extradited...
TUC must act to free Assange says father
JOHN SHIPTON yesterday called for the TUC to take up the fight for the release of his son, Julian Assange, and prevent his extradition...
Quit the EU now – defend jobs, forward to socialism!
A PROPOSED law giving PM Johnson’s government the power to reject parts of the Brexit agreement with the EU passed its first reading in...
‘Trump is behind drive to extradite Assange’ – says US lawyer...
US PRESIDENT Trump is behind the politically motivated prosecution of Julian Assange who he said should receive the death penalty, it was alleged by...
Kick out TUC leaders who warn of a tsunami of job...
NEW ANALYSIS by the research group the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) has shown that unemployment in the UK will be a massive increase...
Trade unions must take action for 15% – demand NHS staff
‘WHAT DO we want? 15%! When do we want it? Now!’ rang out on the Nurses March through London on Saturday afternoon.
More than 1,000...
All Out Strike To Defend NHS! Nurses Must Get 15%!
NURSES, midwives and NHS workers around the country take to the streets again today to demand a 15% pay rise and they are extremely...
NHS backlog putting patients’ health at risk!
NHS PERFORMANCE stats reveal the ‘devastating extent of patient suffering’ amid a ‘daunting’ backlog, says the BMA.
In his response to the latest NHS performance...
Free Julian Assange! Imperialists are the real war criminals!
JULIAN Assange’s extradition hearing resumed in London yesterday with the US government once again throwing in new charges at the last moment.
According to reports,...
Unite Pleads With Tories To Extend Job Retention Scheme!
UNITE and over 100 MPs have joined forces to plead with Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend the job retention scheme (JRS) for the aviation...
Tories responsible for deaths in care homes and amongst NHS workers...
THIS week, the Tories’ criminal liability for the deaths of thousands of health care workers, the elderly and the disabled was revealed in two...
UK Is £2 Trillion In Debt – Tories Are Ringing The...
UK GOVERNMENT debt has risen above £2 trillion and hit £2.004 trillion for July. The debt is £227.6bn more than last year. It is...
Unite must call BA strike now! All TUC trade unions must...
AT A THOUSAND-strong mass meeting of British Airways workers at Bedfont Football Ground on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport on Thursday, workers voted unanimously...
‘Industrial action inevitable’ – Unite
‘LEGAL and industrial action is inevitable,’ Unite said yesterday, the day a mass meeting took place at the grounds of Bedfont FC in Feltham,...
UAE & Israel ‘normalise’ relations! The UK must NOW recognise the...
US PRESIDENT Trump announced on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel will ‘normalise’ relations. UAE is the first Arab nation to...
JOBS COLLAPSE – worst unemployment since crash
THE NUMBER of jobs collapsed by 220,000 on the quarter, said the Office for National Statistics yesterday – the largest quarterly decrease since May...
Stop BA Jobs Massacre
HILLINGDON TUC is holding a ‘Stop the BA Jobs Massacre’ Rally in Defence of Jobs at 12 noon in Cranford Park, near Heathrow Airport...
Trade Unions Must Act To Secure Nurses’ & Doctors’ Pay Rise!
PM BORIS JOHNSON has said that there is a ‘moral duty’ to get all children back into schools in England next month. Writing in...
‘Nurses gave their all – only to be greeted with a...
MORE THAN 10,000 nurses, other NHS workers, trade unionists and supporters marched from St James’s Park to Parliament Square on Saturday on a demonstration...
Socialist revolution is the only answer to unemployment of ‘biblical proportions’
AS THE END of the Tory furlough scheme looms, the reality of millions of workers being thrown on the scrapheap in the coming months...
42,000 BA Workers Are Being Threatened With New Contracts Today!
THE LEADER of the Unite trade union, Len McCluskey, said on Monday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to...
BA Sellout!
THE UNION Unite claimed yesterday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to tens of thousands of its cabin crew...
WALSH SLAPS DOWN UNITE AND McCLUSKEY – Trade unions must call...
THE Unite general secretary Len McCluskey has urged BA to step back from its ‘opportunistic fire and rehire’ plans, which will send thousands of...
US economy shrinks by 32.9% as Trump tries to call off...
THE US GROSS domestic product (GDP) in the biggest economy in the capitalist world, has plunged by a titanic 32.9% in the second quarter,...
Sack Starmer Not Corbyn – No National Government!
FORMER LABOUR PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the Labour Party’s ‘political’ decision to apologise and pay damages of over £500,000 to so-called party...