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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer, in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday, pledged that he is ‘not just pro-business’ but wants to...

‘MAKE October 1st the start of a general strike,’ said All Trades Unions Alliance (ATUA) National Secretary Dave Wiltshire yesterday, after the ASLEF and...

IT didn’t take long for the working class to move into action following the funeral of Elizabeth II with hundreds of dock workers at...

THE new Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is reported to be preparing to scrap the cap on the multi-million pound bonuses bankers award themselves. Originally the...

THE UK’s job market, which the Tories and their supporters have long held to be evidence of the ability of British capitalism to ‘bounce...

SATURDAY’S demonstration of over 3,000 workers and youth following last Monday’s police killing of young black rapper Chris Kaba assembled at 11.30am at Parliament...

THE wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth by the bourgeois media, and the way that the TUC has used this massive wave...

STOCK markets in the US ended the week sharply down following tough comments by Jerome Powell, head of the country’s central bank, the Federal...

WITH food banks running out of food, the poor are being condemned, not just to poverty but to a starvation existence, of begging on...

OVER 100,000 Royal Mail workers are striking again today. 30,000 BT Openreach engineers, along with 10,000 BT call centre workers are also on strike,...

THE SKYROCKETING increase in energy bills is driving the health and education services to the wall, with leaders in both these vital services warning...

STOCK markets in the US ended last week sharply down following tough comments by the head of the country’s central bank, the Federal Reserve,...

TORY PARTY leadership contender Truss has defended the billions of profits being made by the energy companies amid the soaring price rises that are...

THE SENSE of alarm and downright terror mixed with a sense of helplessness amongst the British ruling class saturates the bourgeois press today as...

IN a ‘blunt message’ to the BBC the Bank of England governor yesterday warned that interest rates may have to rise even higher, saying...

THE sacking by Keir Starmer of Labour MP Sam Tarry from his post as shadow transport minister has sent shock waves throughout the Labour...

BRITISH capitalism has plunged even deeper into debt! It was revealed yesterday that interest payments on the massive £2.4 trillion national debt have more...

THE purchasing power of workers’ pay packets is falling at the fastest rate since 2001. Between March and May, pay, excluding bonuses, was down 2.8%...

SATURDAY’S Daily Telegraph gave the Tory leadership candidates some advice. This was: ‘It is no good pretending to be Mrs Thatcher – and the...

LENIN in his book Left Wing Communism an Infantile Disorder writes about the ‘fundamental law of revolution.’ He states: ‘For a revolution to take...

BORIS Johnson finally resigned as Prime Minister early yesterday after more than 50 Tory ministers and aides jumped ship and left him floundering to...

ON WEDNESDAY, the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, speaking at the European Central Bank’s annual policy forum, warned that soaring inflation...

‘A GENERAL STRIKE to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!’ was the main demand on the 100,000-strong TUC march from the...

A great night was had by all at the Young Socialists Benefit Concert in North Kensington, west London on Saturday night. It was held at...

CHANCELLOR Sunak received Labour cheers for his statement in parliament on Thursday, as the Tories fought to regain some popularity after the continuing exposure...

OVER 15,000 workers and youth demonstrated in London on Saturday to mark the 74th anniversary of Nakba Day, marching from BBC Broadcasting House near...

OVER 3,000 workers and youth were on the TUC May Day March from Clerkenwell Green in Islington to Trafalgar Square in Central London on...

PM JOHNSON made it clear on Tuesday night that he has no intention of resigning despite the fact that he has become the first...

THE General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Frances O’Grady, is to step down after nine inglorious years at the helm of the...

ONE Liam Halligan in The Sunday Telegraph has just announced: ‘Get ready for 1970s-style mass strikes.’ He writes: ‘So don’t be surprised if workers increasingly...

THE TUC has called a national demonstration to London’s Parliament Square on Saturday 18th June. Announcing the demonstration the TUC said: ‘On Saturday 18th June,...

THOUSANDS of people took to the streets across Britain on Saturday, demonstrating against the massive increase in energy prices and a cost of living...

IN THE last 48-hours energy bills have risen by over 50%. The pensioners triple lock guarantee has been smashed. Students repayments on their loans...

TODAY British workers and their families face the biggest attack on their living standards since records of cost of living increases were first recorded...

IN AN unscripted departure from his speech in Poland on Sunday, US president Joe Biden blurted out that the real aim of the war...

THE CHIEF Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor, in his ninth and final annual review, has warned that Tory PM Johnson’s promise to hire 20,000...

ON TUESDAY, the TUC abruptly announced that it was cancelling a planned cost of living demonstration and march due to take place in Blackpool...

WORLD capitalism was reeling yesterday as the economic sanctions, imposed to strangle the Russian economy and pave the way for regime change in Russia,...

YESTERDAY, the energy regulator Ofgem announced the amount by which charges for gas and electricity will shoot up in April as it raised the...

PM JOHNSON’S decision to bloc with Chancellor Sunak to see that National Insurance Contributions are raised in April by £12.9 billion has widened the...

THE LATEST Tory onslaught on the unemployed was revealed by Boris Johnson at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday when he praised the ‘Way...

THE TORY government is being ripped apart from top to bottom, with every day bringing new reports of ministers fighting amongst themselves in a...

THE CONSERVATIVE Party is tearing itself apart this week as Tory MPs await with trepidation the result of the inquiry by Sue Gray into...

MORE than 10,000 workers, students and youth marched against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill from Lincoln Inn Fields to Parliament on Saturday...

BORIS Johnson opened prime minister’s question time yesterday by apologising for giving the impression that lockdown rules, imposed by his Tory government, had not...