Paper tiger union leaders ‘pause for peace’ at Grangemouth
THE just concluded 48-hour strike by the Grangemouth oil refinery workers was a magnificent success and showed to the entire world the power that...
British capitalism about ‘to fall off a cliff’ – Lobby the TUC on Monday...
The Daily Telegraph has in recent months published a number of articles that have questioned not just the continued existence of the Tory government...
IMF says banks stuck in ‘Doom Loop’ – Socialist revolution the only way to...
TEN YEARS on from the banking crash that brought the world’s financial system to the very edge of going over the fiscal cliff, the...
Essential relationship = master and servant
US President Barak Obama, in his speech to both houses of parliament last Wednesday, did little more than restate the old George Bush doctrine...
Smash capitalism to end hire and fire at will and poverty pay
WHAT kind of future capitalism has in store for the entire working class was forcibly brought home this week – a future where workers...
UK workers must support the Hamas call for action against genocide!
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in a statement on Wednesday, called on the ‘free people of the world to escalate popular protest’ against the...
NEC declares war on Labour Party members with the support of the Law Courts
THE Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Labour Party right wing and against Labour Party democracy last Friday afternoon, when it banned...
Brown champions more police powers and public sector pay cuts
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told police chiefs yesterday that he will do ‘everything to give you the resources’ and ‘we will not shirk from giving...
Tories are the party of the bankers, the bosses and the landlords! Tenants beware!
THE south-east London borough of Newham achieved the dubious record of having the biggest rise in house prices in the whole of the UK...
Tories and LibDems routed – now bring down the coalition
THE result of the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election points to one thing, that the working class and large sections of the middle class...
TUC must call a general strike to ensure all ‘independent contractors’ have workers’...
THE TORY plan to reduce Britain to a slave labour, hire-and-fire, zero-hours economy is now being challenged powerfully by groups of young workers. With the...
Unions Must Call Action To Halt Tory Law Equating Journalism With Terrorism! They Must...
THE NUJ is warning that Home Office plans to ‘reform’ The Official Secrets Act ‘are a severe threat to journalism’. It is calling on...
Get ready to defend the NHS with occupations and a general strike
LORD Crisp, who was NHS chief executive in England from 2000 to 2006, has said there is over-capacity in the ‘hospital sector’ and that...
Brown is hungry for cash – sell off the palaces and the Duchy of...
THE Prime Minister began yesterday to sell off anything and everything that can be used to raise much needed cash, £16bn in fact, to...
State ownership brings MG Rover back from the dead!
THE state-owned Nanjing Automobile company, which bought MG Rover for a knock down price of £53 million and then transferred and reassembled 10,000 tonnes...
Starmer’s ‘No’ to ban on arms to Israel must be met with a general...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer, in the House of Commons on Monday, defended Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’ while lamenting ‘the region cannot endure...
Capitalism living on ‘borrowed time and borrowed money’ – put an end to it...
OFFICIAL figures released today by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show what every working person in the country knows, that prices in all...
Bring down Blair; bring in a workers’ government
THE crisis of the Blair government has intensified to the point where the government is now more deeply split and divided than ever, while...
Karzai talks with the Taleban as US policy comes unstuck
THE situation in Afghanistan has gone from bad to worse as far as the imperialist powers and their plans for the region are concerned. Last...
ECB takes desperate measures to try and stop EU economic collapse
LAST Thursday the European Central Bank (ECB) abandoned its previously proclaimed policy of ending free money handouts to the banks through quantitative easing (QE)...
US-UK stand by as Israel prepares Gaza ground attack
YESTERDAY morning Israel allowed about 450 foreign passport holders to leave the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing near Beit Hanoun, after refusing to...
Starmer Pledges A ‘Blairite On Steroids Government’ To Smash The Unions For...
FORMER State Prosecutor Starmer, who has worked tirelessly to keep whistleblower Julian Assange in jail, has given advance warning of just what he intends...
Murdoch admirer Gove loves liberty and freedom
IT HAS emerged that Leveson, whose current inquiry was brought into being by Prime Minister Cameron, complained to the UK’s top civil servant after...
Students and universities under savage coalition attack
IN ORDER that the universities can have their budgets slashed and be privatised or closed, students are to be charged up to £9,000 a...
Remainer MPs attempt to block no deal! Workers must take strike action to drive...
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...
Trump lauds huge tax cuts, slams migrants, keeps G Bay open and plans war...
PRESIDENT Trump began his ‘State of the Union’ speech on Tuesday night by repeatedly congratulating himself, saying, ‘Less than one year has passed since...
Kerry Calls In Stalinist Bureaucracy To ‘Resolve’ Syrian Crisis
IN its hour of need – with Syria resisting massively the attempt at ‘regime change’ organised by the US-UK-Turkey axis, and carried out by...
You Can’t Reform The Capitalist State – It Must Be Overthrown!
NEVILLE LAWRENCE, the father of Stephen Lawrence, the teenager who was murdered by a racist gang in 1993, said yesterday that he was very...
Answer Royal Mail’s war on trade unions with a general strike
THE POSTAL workers union, CWU, is now in a headlong collision with a Royal Mail management openly moving to destroy the union as an...
Clinton, Hague beat war drums over Syria
YESTERDAY US and UK diplomats were foaming at the mouth over an alleged massacre by the Syrian armed forces of men women and...
Unite cuts funding to Labour. All unions must break with Labour and call an...
YESTERDAY Unite, the trade union with 1.4 million members, announced it will cut political donations to the Labour party and divert the money to...
Time For The UK Trade Unions To Take Strike Action In Support Of Palestine!
THE top United Nations human rights official has warned of the worsening situation for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the ‘unconscionable death...
Cbi Tells Tories – Impose Two Year Wage Freeze And Privatise!
THE CBI BOSSES organisation yesterday called for an immediate freeze in the public sector pay bill for two years and a ‘re-engineering’ (destruction) ‘of...
Hands off Syria – its people must decide its future
THE Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has reiterated that the sole way to resolve Syria’s current crisis is through a ‘national model’. He added: ‘What...
Bush’s ‘Defining Hour’ Or When The Bell Tolls For Imperialism
BUSH opened his 2007 State of the Union speech with an open admission that his regime is facing defeat both at home and abroad....
Trade Unions Must Fight Alongside The Students!
THE News Line fully supports the call by the secretary of the Young Socialists Student Society for next week’s lobby and rally by the...
UK trade unions must take action to stop Israel shooting and gassing Palestinians!
IN FOUR weeks of Friday protests at the Gaza ‘border’ more than 32 Palestinians have been killed and over 5,000 injured by Israeli snipers...
US and UK end aid funding to Palestinians in support of Zionist starvation of...
THE United States, along with other Western countries, has pitched in to accelerate Israel’s war on Palestinians through a campaign of deliberate starvation to...
Tories crushed in by-elections – TUC must take action now to bring them down!
THE TORIES have been smashed by two huge by-election defeats, in a couple of their ‘safe’ seats, Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, where their large...
Reject Labour’s racist points system!
A NEW points-based immigration system for workers who want to come to the UK from outside the EU was unveiled by Home Secretary Charles...
‘Do Or Die’ Johnson Has Already Faced An Attempt To Remove Him!
THE JUST-elected Tory leader Boris Johnson has already faced an attempt to remove him by Tory Minister of State for Europe Sir Alan Duncan,...
After Iraq Debacle – Bush Plans To Attack Iran
THE US President, George W Bush said on Friday: ‘All options are on the table,’ adding that he had not ruled out the option...
Inflation Now Out Of Control!
ACCORDING to the latest figures, factory input inflation – that is the increase in raw materials paid for by manufacturers – rose by a...
Down With US Plan For Middle East Nato – Forward With Struggle For...
JORDAN’S King Abdullah II told CNBC television news network last week that he supports the formation of a NATO-style military alliance in the Middle...
Israel calls for the US to take action against Syria
SYRIA yesterday condemned the UN report into the assassination of the former Lebanese Premier, Hariri – a report which pointed the finger of blame...