Tag: tuc
Youth and workers in global strike against climate change – Time...
TODAY, a week of action across the world starts with a Global Climate Strike in at least 137 countries.
This follows mass action in every...
Corbyn is just another Remainer – Build the new leadership in...
N HIS address last week at the TUC annual congress, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn informed delegates that Labour’s priority was to stop a No-Deal...
TUC backs September 20 global school strike – workers vote to...
THE TRADES Union Congress (TUC) has backed the global school strike on 20 September and pledged to support the efforts of school youth striking...
Scottish court rules prorogation ‘unlawful’
WE ARE of the opinion that the advice given by the government to Her Majesty the Queen to prorogue Parliament was unlawful and that...
Only Socialist Revolution can resolve the political and economic crisis and...
YESTERDAY, Scottish appeal court judges ruled that the decision by the Tory government to suspend parliament for five weeks in the run-up to the...
Corbyn Attacks ‘No Deal’ Brexit At Tuc Conference!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn made a ‘project fear’ speech at the TUC in Brighton yesterday, in which he described a No-Deal Brexit as a...
Corbyn Displays The Bankruptcy Of Reformism At The TUC!
WHAT has emerged out of the bankruptcy of Parliament this week is that the Labour leadership, along with the other opposition parties and rebel...
‘Overthrow the EU – Replace it with the Socialist United States...
‘TROTSKY wrote about the prospects of the European capitalists uniting Europe,’ Dave Wiltshire, National Secretary of the All Trades Union Alliance told the YS/WRP...
‘WE MUST GET ON WITH BREXIT’ – TUC delegates tell WRP-YS...
LARGE numbers of TUC delegates in Brighton yesterday stopped at the 60-strong WRP and Young Socialists lobby to say that they want the TUC...
Words Are Not Enough! The TUC Must Take Action To Prevent...
WITH 21 TORY MPS having the whip removed from them, now being joined by more Tory defectors like Amber Rudd, and while Labour makes...
TUC leaders back Remainers to keep the working class tied to...
WITH THE annual conference of the TUC opening on Monday the leadership of the trade unions have produced a report detailing the catastrophic effects...
The Bankers Are Warming To Jeremy Corbyn – Now That He...
BORIS Johnson’s Tory government suffered a massive defeat in the House of Commons on Tuesday night when 21 of its MPs rebelled and voted...
Workers must organise unions to take the UK out of the...
THE EU’s Brexit negotiator Barnier has set the scene for this week’s ‘Brexit showdown’ in the House of Commons by rejecting out-of-hand PM Johnson’s...
Lobby TUC Sept 9 to demand break from EU now and...
THE REMAINER MPs have been dealt a minor blow by the Scottish courts. A Scottish judge has refused to order an immediate halt to...
Car industry collapses in UK and Europe under impact of capitalist...
THE BRITISH car industry is steadily collapsing as a result of the world economic crisis, figures produced yesterday highlighted.
According to the Society of Motor...
Johnson suspends Parliament. Leave the EU on 31 October & forward...
YESTERDAY, the Tory government asked the Queen to suspend Parliament from 10 September, just days after MPs return, for 23 working days until 14...
‘No extradition – free Julian Assange!’ – says Julian Assange Defence...
‘THERE is only one decision: No extradition! – free Julian Assange’ chanted a demonstration of over 50 supporters of the jailed Wikileaks founder Julian...
‘Bleak Houses’ and desperate living conditions for workers and youth in...
THE REPORT by Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, ‘Bleak houses: Tackling the crisis of family homelessness in England’, reveals the ‘terrible reality’...
NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT PLAN AWAKENS MEMORIES OF THE 1960s and ’70s...
THERE IS VERY great resistance to the proposal of Labour leader Corbyn that he should put down a motion of no confidence in PM...
Corbyn calls for a National Government – Workers must demand a...
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday wrote a letter to leaders of the LibDems, the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party along with selected...
2.8% Rail Fares Rise – ‘A Kick In The Teeth For...
THERE is to be a 2.8% rail fares rise for 2020.
The increase will be based on the Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation measure of...
Tory hostile environment alive and well and making a profit for...
A NEWSPAPER investigation has revealed that the Home Office has been making huge profits out of the human misery of the Tories’ ‘hostile environment’...
All Trade Unions And The Tuc Must Take Action To Support...
HARLAND AND WOLFF shipyard has been occupied by the workforce to prevent its closure.
However on Monday, the unions involved revealed that staff had already...
Harland & Wolff in administration
WORKERS vowed to continue their occupation and stop the closure of Harland and Wolff shipbuilding industry in Belfast, after the yard went into administration...
Johnson reveals his feet of clay with his two-year transition plan...
AFTER ALL the bluster from Boris Johnson about delivering Brexit and that leaving the EU by October 31st was a ‘do or die’ issue,...
Occupy UK Car Plants! Call General Strike To Bring In Workers...
THE UNITE union, representing car workers, said yesterday that its members will fight ‘tooth and nail’ to safeguard Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant, and urged...
Remainer MPs attempt to block no deal! Workers must take strike...
Commons on Thursday to try to ensure that Parliament is able to block any attempt by the expected Johnson-led Tory government to shut Parliament...
Anti-Semitic slander against Corbyn – state-orchestrated attempt to destroy Labour Party
WEDNESDAY night’s Panorama programme ‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic?’ marks a new and increasingly desperate stage in the state-orchestrated witch-hunt of Jeremy Corbyn with the aim...
Major warns Johnson of the fate of Charles I as fear...
IN AN interview yesterday morning ex-Tory prime minister John Major stated that he would personally take Boris Johnson to court if he attempts to...
British Ruling Class Is Split – Forward With The British Socialist...
THE FACT that a section of the capitalist state leaked the UK ambassador Darroch’s damning estimation of the abilities of President Trump and his...
HAMMOND AND McDONNELL READY FOR A MacDONALD-STYLE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT!
DURING Tuesday’s questions and answers on Treasury matters in the Commons, the Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond informed MPs that he would block any attempt...
The ‘gig economy’ is spreading throughout bankrupt British capitalism – time...
4.7 MILLION workers are now employed in the gig economy, twice as many as in 2016 with nearly one in 10 working age adults...
Union must end all ‘positive engagement’ with the employers – only...
A STORM has erupted over the revelations that a taskforce set up in 2017, with the object of protecting the future of the Ford...
Zane Gbangbola–tragically killed by Hydrogen Cyanide – implications for Grenfell toxicity...
News Line is pleased to reproduce a heartbreaking and moving account of a single family’s call for justice and their support for the families...
Tories Are Split, Divided And Fighting Each Other – Time...
THE TORY PARTY and its leadership are thrashing around in their death agony.
The Tory crisis has reached the stage where Tory ministers have been...
35 years since Battle of Orgreave!
THOUSANDS of trade unionists and their families will today mark the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike 35th Anniversary at the Annual Orgreave Rally in Sheffield.
June 18...
Health privateer takes NHS to court over right to profit from...
PRIVATEER Circle Health is once again taking legal action to overturn the decision to cancel its contract to run the Nottingham NHS Treatment Centre.
Rushcliffe...
Occupy to stop car plant closures – nationalise the motor...
YESTERDAY, US carmaker Ford announced it will close the car engine plant in Bridgend, South Wales, throwing all 1,700 workers out of a job...
UN expert slams group of democratic states for ‘psychological torture’ of...
The United Nations expert on torture has condemned the psychological torture inflicted on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying: ‘In 20 years of work with...
Greek Bankworkers Fight Sackings
GREEK bankworkers at the Piraeus Bank went on a national strike last Friday against mass sackings. On the orders of the EU all Greek...
Free the Chagos Islands – Britain’s own Guantánamo Bay!
ON WEDNESDAY the General Assembly of the United Nations delivered a stunning vote which overwhelmingly condemned the continuing occupation of the Chagos Islands.
By 116...
Occupy Honda, Call A General Strike To Bring Down The Tories,...
THE Unite trade union has described Honda’s decision to press ahead with the closure of its Swindon plant by 2021 as a ‘body-blow of...
Tories & Labour are punished in council elections for refusing to...
BOTH the Tories and Labour suffered huge defeats in the council elections yesterday for their cowardly refusal to implement the 2016 EU referendum result.
Polls...
Primary schools are cutting teaching assistants
‘ALMOST a decade of Conservative education cuts has left our children’s future in a perilous state,’ says the GMB trade union.
It has responded to...
Free Assange and Manning! The imperialists must be put on trial...
BRITISH police entered the Ecuadorian embassy in central London on Thursday, which is technically Ecuadorian territory, arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Australian who...
‘If Iran is attacked it will be all-out war!’ – warns...
IRAN’S foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned yesterday that any attack on his country after a series of missile strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil...
