ONS figures announced today (Tuesday) show inflation (2.9% in May) continues to far outstrip wage growth (2.1% in March). TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said: “The election showed that working…Read more…
Isle of Wight Care Home Closure:
Residents and staff devastated at Isle of Wight care home closure plan Staff, residents and families are shocked and devastated at news that Polars Care Home is to close in September. With 29…Read more…
Naylor, the NHS and the Isle of Wight.
During the election, Theresa May was asked about the Conservative manifesto pledge on health that it claims it would implement, “the most ambitious programme of investment in buildings and…Read more…
MI5 implicated….claim Abedi, “acted alone” part of cover-up”…he was allowed to “slip through the net … useful tool of foreign policy…he was a “protected asset”
Police claim Manchester suicide bomber was a “lone wolf” after all By Robert Stevens World Socialist Website 1 June 2017 The latest claim by Greater Manchester Police that suicide bomber Salman Abedi…Read more…
The Voice Of The Community Nurse
Morning Star DANIELLE TIPLADY is a community nurse in London. She shot to prominence when she organised the Bursary or Bust demonstration in January 2016 opposing government plans to axe the NHS…Read more…
Days lost to strike action almost doubled last year.
Strikes Double In Spite Of Tory Union Busting Peter Lazenby Morning Star WORKERS are increasingly fighting back against attacks by bosses and the government as new figures revealed yesterday that the…Read more…
The Working Class, with its Independent Politics and Role, is the essential factor of modern life.
Isn’t it amazing that when we have terror attacks like Manchester and the essential work that workers do, to clean up the mess, when such things as the floods, which occurred a few years back, there…Read more…
Election Campaign 2017:
Opposing the Irrationality of the May Campaign with the Independent Politics of the Working Class The election campaign of Theresa May and the Conservative Party has been one where total…Read more…
Unite Condemns Mears Beard Ban Decree
Unite, the UK’s largest construction union has condemned a decree by outsourced housing maintenance company Mears, which bars workers from having beards as ‘penny pinching stupidity’. Members of…Read more…
Centenary of Lenin’s April Theses:
100th Anniversary Year of the Great October Revolution On the 100th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution Lenin delivering April Theses at meeting of the Bolshevik Party held in the…Read more…
Greatest NHS Property Sell-off Ever!
Theresa May’s Manifesto Pledge that Means the Greatest NHS Property Sell-off Ever Save South Tyneside Hospital Campaign opposing the visit of Theresa May to the North East in May On Monday, May…Read more…
Successful Meeting to Organise “Save our NHS” on the Isle of Wight.
Isle of Wight Save Our NHS group gains momentum Christine Lightbody (Report for onthewight} The Group say if planned STP is allowed to continue unchallenged, we could be witness to complete…Read more…
Argos loses High Court bid as warehouse strikes continue
A High Court judgement thwarting a further attempt by the retail giant Argos to stop a two week strike was hailed as a ‘significant’ victory by Britain’s largest union, Unite today (Friday 26 May),…Read more…
Why we are organising a meeting to safeguard the NHS now on the Isle of Wight.
Ken Knapman It would appear that the NHS is on its way to becoming a most significant issue in this election. This why we are organising the meeting in Ryde tomorrow night at the Aspire at 6.30pm….Read more…
U.S. Steel Faces Historic Necessity for Change
– K.C. Adams – Ruling oligarchy blocks resolution of economic problems and continues on failed path U.S. Steel considers the amount it does not spend on renewing its productive force as…Read more…
Workers Consider BMW’s ‘final offer’
Crunch talks to be held next week WORKERS at Oxford’s Mini Plant will be given details of BMW’s ‘final offer’ through a series of meetings next week after union bosses suspended strike action over…Read more…
TUC responds to Conservative Party manifesto
Commenting on the Conservative manifesto, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said: “The Prime Minister has said repeatedly that she wants to protect and enhance workers’ rights after Brexit. “But…Read more…
Tribute to Lifelong Communist Charles Boylan
The Role of the Communists as the Greatest Defenders of the Human Right to Conscience Charles Boylan speaks at Federation of Post Secondary Educators 2016 AGM. The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the…Read more…
Workers at BMW’s Cowley struck work
Workers at BMW’s Cowley Mini Plant strike for fourth time Michael Race Oxford Mail BMW workers have again taken to the picket line to protest over proposals to scrap their final salary pension…Read more…
Huge demonstration against merger of Sandown Bay Academy.
Parents, school children and teachers along with various political leaders have waged a large demonstration outside of Sandown Bay Academy. Many of the placards denounced Academies and in particular,…Read more…