UK cannot fight the IS movement that it helped to create!
THE UK’s role in fighting the Islamic State is ‘strikingly modest’ and should be stepped up, the House of Commons Defence Select Committee has...
Arab League sells out the Palestinians yet again
THE Arab League, the organisation of the Arab bourgeoisie, last Saturday gave its backing to the indirect Palestinian-Israeli peace talks being pushed by President...
Socialist revolution only solution to capitalist crisis
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer returned from holiday at the weekend to announce his new ‘robust’ plan to freeze the cap on electricity and gas...
Hamas Responds To Israeli Massacres With Bold Strikes Against Israel!
THE movements of Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Sunday gave their full support to the Tel Aviv operation that targeted Israeli soldiers working for...
CETA collapse – now workers must end all capitalist trade agreements through a general...
LAST Friday the much delayed CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) between the EU and Canada hit a brick wall when the Belgium region...
Wages rising fast – a sick Tory joke!
THE food bank charity, the Trussell Trust says it has handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the...
Council of Action takes up the challenge to defend NHS
THE News Line congratulates the North East London Council of Action for its march through Enfield on Saturday and its occupation of Chase Farm...
200,000 Israeli settlers have fled occupied Palestinian territories since 2023
THE Israeli regime is facing an unprecedented wave of negative migration of around 200,000 settlers leaving the occupied territories since October 2023 posing an...
Only solution to world crisis of capitalism – World Socialist Revolution
TODAY we are living in the period of the death agony of the world capitalist system. Everywhere the crisis is ripping apart nation states,...
Tories to make hundreds of thousands homeless – only socialism can solve housing crisis
THE policy of the Tory-led coalition to slash housing benefit for the unemployed and low income families will result in hundreds of thousands being...
Nationalise All The Banks To Bring In A Planned Socialist Economy!
THE Tory Party has been driven to the brink of hysteria by the fact that the capitalist world banking system is on the brink...
US Supreme Court ruling destroys myth of bourgeois democracy and imposes dictatorship on US...
On Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled that ex-President Donald Trump enjoys ‘absolute immunity’ for ‘official acts’ as president, a ruling that at a...
Coalition launches Royal Mail ‘Blitzkrieg’ – Recall CWU conference!
A ‘blitzkrieg strategy’ was how the bourgeois press dubbed last Monday’s announcement by business minister, Michael Fallon, that he was starting the process of...
Cbi Demands Huge Cuts To Save The Bosses
THE employers organisation, the CBI, yesterday demanded that the Tory coalition government go even further than it has pledged, in destroying benefits and...
Slump ‘deepening at an alarming pace’
THE British Chambers of Commerce yesterday published its Fourth Quarter Economic Survey of nearly 6,000 businesses. It highlights what it called ‘a...
US Fed’s third emergency programme in 2 days fails to stop capitalist crash
THE US Federal Reserve announced late on Wednesday the third emergency programme in two days in an increasingly desperate and futile attempt to avoid...
Murdoch’s Man, Hunt Savages The NHS With A View To Privatise
Local AFL-CIO leaders and trade unionists from across the United States were in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday to ask members of Congress to...
Libyan Counter- Revolutionaries Being Showered With Cash!
WESTERN and Arab countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia have pledged $1bn for the right-wing stooges of imperialism in Benghazi, at the latest...
TUC must call a general strike to kick out Starmer’s Labour government and go...
Prime minister Keir Starmer delivered what was described as a make-or-break speech yesterday morning in an increasingly desperate attempt to cling on to power...
Imperialist aggression is the roots of terrorism
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday said that there is to be more new repressive legislation, on top of the huge powers that the government and...
The TUC Must Give Full Support To The Palestinian Freedom Fighters And Ban All...
THE Arab League Council yesterday condemned Israeli crimes and massacres of Palestinians and demanded the provision of international protection to the Palestinian people. The Council...
Libyan Land War Looms!
FIRST of all they embraced Gadaffi like a long lost brother in 2004, just one year after the mass slaughter in Iraq. The...
Greek workers and youth erupt in fury over deadly rail crash
THOUSANDS of Greek workers, students and youth took to the streets at the weekend in a further extension of the anger that has erupted...
The only way to really defend Venezuela is for the working class to smash...
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech last Tuesday night that a coup attempt by a small group of the military had...
UK capitalism crashes under impact of energy crisis – put it out of its...
TORY ministers were locked in crisis talks with energy suppliers yesterday as the threat of gas shortages in Britain are so huge that they...
Gate Gourmet Locked Out Workers Refused Entry To Tuc Congress
YESTERDAY the leadership of the TGWU refused entry, as visitors, to the TUC Congress to some 20 locked out Gate Gourmet workers who have...
Millions of children face hunger under Tory austerity – TUC must act!
A SHOCKING study carried out by the GMB union released yesterday showed that almost one in ten school staff bring in their own food...
British capitalism, backward, parasitic, and ripe for revolution
A REPORT by business research firm Datamonitor says that people in the UK are borrowing on average almost twice that of citizens in other...
Johnson ditches Plan B – Time for working class to kick Tories out and...
THE TORIES have pledged to dump all existing Covid restrictions in the next few weeks in England and ‘get life completely back to normal’. On...
Coalition Aiming To Cut The Mentally Ill!
THE government is planning to strip mentally ill people of their state benefits if they do not agree to undergo treatment for anxiety and...
US unions being driven to historic break with Democrats
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said last Friday that US workers want an ‘independent’ labour movement designed to help the working class, not a specific...
Egypt – Revolution In Permanence!
MUBARAK has gone, while the revolution that removed him, at the cost of hundreds of dead, is continuing to develop. Workers and the middle...
Westminster Council demands unemployed do ‘voluntary work’
The Tory ‘flagship’ council, Westminster, yesterday unveiled its blueprint for dumping the savage cuts in local government finances squarely on the backs of the...
NHS to become part of leisure industry!
It’s now official – NHS hospitals under the Tory-dominated coalition government are set to become little more than a franchise of the leisure and...
A desperate Trump resorts to blockades of the Strait of Hormuz
On Monday, US imperialism ordered a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in a desperate attempt to crush Iran through economic sanctions. This is the...
French troops pay price for Sarkozy opportunism
TEN French soldiers were killed in an ambush by Taleban fighters east of the Afghan capital, Kabul, and 21 were wounded yesterday. This followed Sarkozy’s...
British capitalism crashing into bankruptcy – Unions must organise a general strike to...
THE UK’s largest car maker, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), yesterday announced a massive pre-tax loss of £354 million for the six months to September...
Stock markets are in crisis – capitalism is reeling! Forward to the socialist revolution!
THE carnage in overvalued US stock markets on Thursday saw billions of dollars lopped off share prices just days after president Donald Trump paused...
Starmer crisis deepens – TUC must be forced to call a general strike to...
BELEAGUERED Labour prime minister Keir Starmer is chairing an emergency meeting of the COBRA committee today, where he will warn that the impact on...
Government By Police Chiefs
AT his monthly press conference last Monday, the Prime Minister admitted that the source of his proposal, that the police should be allowed to...
IMF: World faces £9.5tn Covid bill as capitalism crashes into bankruptcy
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned yesterday that the Covid-19 crisis could cost the global economy a staggering £9.5 trillion in the biggest hit...
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...
Staffing cuts causing ‘avoidable’ maternal deaths
AN independent inquiry into the unusually large number of maternal deaths in London over the past two years has confirmed that the government policy of...
‘No Kings’ mass movement emerging in the USA to smash Trump’s policies!
MILLIONS of demonstrators took to the streets in cities across the United States on Saturday, taking part in the ‘No Kings’ protest movement against...
Brown To Support US Air Strikes On Iran
YESTERDAY the bourgeois media reported that Britain’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who came to office pledging that the UK would cease to be Bush’s...