Tag: tuc
British capitalism is going down, the working class must defend its...
ON MONDAY shock figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showed that Britain is £490 billion poorer than it was thought to be...
Trade unions must bring down crisis-ridden Tories, break with the EU...
THE TORY leadership is now in complete disarray, with PM May repeatedly refusing on Tuesday to say how she would vote if there was...
End the ‘gig economy’ and all cheap labour! Kick the Tories...
THE DRIVE by the bosses to force every worker in Britain into the so-called ‘gig economy’ has hit the headlines again this week with...
May Government In Its Death Agony – Labour Must Act To...
PM MAY is battling for her survival and the survival of her government with the big bosses and bankers desperate to prevent her fall...
May is broken, as is the Tory party and the capitalist...
WHEN the Tory Daily Telegraph runs on its front page a headline that Theresa May is ‘limping into oblivion’ it couldn’t be a clearer...
Bosses & Tories In Crisis – Time To Bring Both Down!
THE TORY Party conference opened in Manchester on Sunday to scenes that reflected the terminal splits and divisions that dominate the minority government of...
Big Bike Ride to save Ealing Hospital greeted with cheers and...
THE WEST London Council of Action Big Bike Ride to Save Ealing Hospital on Sunday was a great success. More than two dozen riders with...
Wind of Change blows through Labour Party conference as UK faces...
THIS Labour Party conference has been different in that the members of the Party and the trade unions have taken it over, and turned...
EU ripped apart by crisis – time to bring it down...
WITH the Labour right-wing openly organising at the party conference in Brighton this week to bind the party firmly to a campaign to remain in...
Right wing Labour tosses its bomb into the Labour Party conference!
RIGHT WING Labour threw its bomb into the Labour Party conference yesterday when it penned an open letter suggesting that the UK should remain...
Renationalise the steel industry – the only way forward for steel...
ON Wednesday, it was announced that the lengthy negotiations between Tata Steel and the German steel conglomerate, Thyssen-Krupp, have been concluded and that a...
Workers and the trade unions must take action to bring down...
ON Friday 15th September 14 trade unions representing over a million nurses and NHS staff wrote to Tory Chancellor Hammond, to demand a 3.9%...
Health unions in head-on collision with the government over pay!...
UNIONS representing NHS workers have written directly to the Tory government over their pay. The fourteen unions represent over a million NHS workers. The...
Huber Ballesteros, Freed Colombian Trade Union Leader Addresses Tuc!
COLOMBIAN trade union leader, Huber Ballesteros, was finally able to address the TUC Congress in Brighton on Wednesday. Weeks before he was due to fly...
Unions Must Bring Down Tories To End Parliamentary Farce!
THE TORY government suffered two defeats in Parliament on Wednesday after the £1 billion bribe paid out by Theresa May to the Democratic Unionist...
Corbyn addresses the TUC–no call for a general election!
TUC DELEGATES in Brighton gave a standing ovation to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday afternoon despite the fact that he failed...
Corbyn has no answer for the Tory onslaught on workers...
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday at the TUC conference had no answer to the Tory onslaught on the trade unions. In particular, he ignored the...
Tories throw down gauntlet! – separate pay awards for police &...
IN A SLAP in the face for the TUC Congress, the Tory government yesterday announced pay rises for police and prison officers, while leaving...
‘NO MORE PRESSING ISSUE THAN PAY’ says Prentis – Unite, Unison...
OPENING the public sector pay debate at the 149th Trades Union Congress in Brighton on Monday afternoon, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis moved composite...
RMT Opposes General Council’s Statement On The Single Market
THE first session of the TUC Congress, on Sunday afternoon in Brighton saw a division over the General Council statement on Brexit and Composite...
Time To Put The Tories Out As Dup Payment Hits The...
THE ultra fragility of the May government has been underlined by the fact that its attempts to stay in office via a £1bn payment...
Youth demand a future–no zero hours contracts
‘YOUTH demand a future! No Zero hour contracts!’ shouted the fifty-strong Young Socialists and Workers Revolutionary Party lobby of the Trades Union Congress in...
Grenfell–Never Again!
THE TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady yesterday welcomed six emergency workers to Congress who had been involved in the Manchester, Westminster and Finsbury...
Congress must call general strike to bring down the Tories and...
THE TUC meets in Brighton this week for its most vital Congress in living memory. It meets at a time when the working class...
No single market! No Customs Union! TUC call a...
THE DIVISIONS within the Tory Party are rapidly sharpening, with an ever widening gulf between those who want to remain in the EU and...
The bosses refuse to back May! Now is the time for...
A PLAN by the Tories to demonstrate that the bosses of Britain’s leading companies are firmly behind the chaotic Brexit negotiations blew up in...
TUC must stand up for the disabled against the Tory government!
THE UN has slammed the UK, which it says has violated the Convention on Disabled People’s Rights. A damning UN report released yesterday states that...
Reject Eu Diktat Attempt – Leave The Eu At Once !
THE GIGANTIC farce of the Brexit negotiations hit a brick wall this week with EU officials accusing the British of failing to reveal its...
PATIENTS MUST NOT BE BARRED FROM HOSPITAL CARE BY ‘INCENTIVISED’ GPs!
THE FACT that the Tories are cutting closing and privatising the NHS is no secret. Neither is the fact that those who are engaged...
Erdogan urges Israel to end occupation while the UK celebrates Balfour...
THE Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Israel must stop its occupation of the Palestinian territories, which he says undermines any two-state...
Private midwifery company operating within the NHS!
A PRIVATE midwifery company now has a contract with ten NHS trusts, with up to 300 women a year using a private midwife during...
Starmer Mounts Labour Anti-Brexit Coup
LABOUR’S shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer yesterday announced a major policy shift, supporting continued membership of the single market and customs union during an...
Smash Labour’s right wing coup attempt – Leave the EU at...
THE Labour Party leadership has moved to sell out and stab the Brexit referendum result and the working class in the back. Keir Starmer, Labour’s...
Second Unite ‘Pause For Peace’ Equals Surrender Attempt!
THE Unite trade union leaders have declared their second ‘Pause for Peace’ in less than a week, in two fiercely fought industrial disputes –...
900,000 still working on zero-hour contracts
THE TUC has reported: ‘The Office of National Statistics (ONS) release this week on the number of zero-hours contracts showed that there has a been...
Trump And Allies Plan To Attack And Loot Afghanistan!
PRESIDENT Trump has told the US people he has changed his mind about Afghanistan being a futile conflict, and that now the US, and...
Stephen Hawking defends the NHS – and exposes the Tories –...
THE FAMOUS Cambridge University scientist Stephen Hawking has spoken up to defend the NHS and has publicly exposed the Tory plan to privatise it...
Join the YS lobby of the TUC on September 11 to...
THE GRENFELL Tower disaster was a turning point for the working class where the callous and ruthless nature of the ruling class was exposed...
Stop The Police Chiefs Taking Over The Fire Service!
JUST a few weeks ago the Grenfell Tower inferno burnt men, women and children to death, because the fire was able to take...
Capitalism living on ‘borrowed time and borrowed money’ – put an...
OFFICIAL figures released today by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show what every working person in the country knows, that prices in all...
Unite Takes Action Against Serco BA And The Bank Of England!
YESTERDAY striking Serco workers from Bart’s NHS Trust, striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew, and striking Bank of England workers marched and picketed the...
Trade unions must form a Council of Action in Kensington to...
THE HORROR felt by millions of workers after the Grenfell Tower inferno which claimed the lives of many men, women and children...
EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL FEES JUDGED ILLEGAL! – ‘a brilliant and groundbreaking...
THE SUPREME Court ruling on Wednesday that the Tory-LibDem introduction of employment tribunal fees in 2013 was illegal is a shattering blow to the...
TRIBUNAL FEES RULED ILLEGAL – Unison court victory
EMPLOYMENT tribunal fees will be scrapped after Unison won a landmark court victory against a government policy yesterday morning that was found to be...