Rail fares and inflation are let rip – as wages and benefits are frozen...
RAIL commuters were protesting at Waterloo Station in London yesterday after they heard that ticket price rises of between 8% and 13% are to...
PM Johnson signs up for US President Biden’s anti-China crusade!
DURING a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday, US President Biden proposed that Johnson adopt and join his anti-China crusade, to...
Workers And Students Must Organise General Strikes To Smash Tories & Support Gaza!
NEARLY three dozen Palestinian civilians, including women and children, have already been murdered by Israeli military forces bombing various neighbourhoods in Rafah in the...
State Defends Its Right To Execute Innocents!
YESTERDAY, Lord Stevens, the ex-Metropolitan Police commissioner, urged that there should be no change in the policy of the state, after a completely innocent...
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...
Defend the NHS – kick the government out!
THE coalition’s much-vaunted consultation period over its proposals to smash up the NHS and privatise it out of existence finally came to an end...
Banking ‘reforms’ won’t stop them collapsing
Yesterday in parliament the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, announced that the coalition government intended to accept ‘in full’ the proposals on reforming the banks...
Inflation Running Riot – Time To Put An End To Capitalism And Bring In...
THE TORY government is now presiding over huge increases in prices, the biggest increases in 40 years. A massive inflation is under way with...
Blair listens only to the bosses
PRIME Minister Blair, despite all his vows about listening to the people – made outside 10 Downing Street on the day after the general...
Smash all fees – build a new leadership in the NUS!
TODAY will see the second wave of student anger against the Tory government’s decision to treble tuition fees from around £3,000 to £9,000 a...
Welsh government plans to implement Tory drive to close hospitals and destroy the NHS
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the Welsh government yesterday that it was embarking on a strategy to ensure patients only go to hospital when it is...
Brown bringing private managers into NHS
THE announcement by the Brown government that it is going to bring private managers in to run NHS hospitals is a concrete example of...
Iran Is Not The Villain Of The ‘Nuclear Threat’
PRESIDENT Obama made it crystal clear in his 11.45pm Saturday night address, over the just-signed six-month interim nuclear agreement with Iran, that he is...
Desperate UK and French imperialism begins new ‘Grab for Africa’
EARLIER this week French aircraft bombed the positions of the anti-imperialist forces in the Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) led by Laurent Gbagbo, while French...
Rashid Rauf Freed – ‘Bomb Plot’ Collapses
A PAKISTANI judge yesterday ruled that there was no evidence to try Rashid Rauf on terrorist charges, or that he was a member...
Eu Bosses Rocked By Papandreou Collapse!
A REFERENDUM has been called by the Pasok Prime Minister, Papandreou, on the austerity programme that the EU bosses and bankers have been seeking...
Labour under Starmer, and UK capitalism are heading for state bankruptcy!
THE capitalist press is currently trumpeting the latest news from Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves, that she is set to unveil a £19bn black hole...
Hundreds of thousands of UK firms ‘looking down the barrel’ of bankruptcy
BRITISH capitalism enters 2022 with experts and business owners predicting a massive surge in bankruptcies amongst SMEs (small to medium sized enterprises with no...
End CWU paralysis – reinstate strike actions!
KARL MARX wrote in his masterpiece ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’ that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur,...
DECISIVE ACTION NEEDED TO DEfEND THE NHS AND WELFARE STATE
On Tuesday, NHS North West London announced that it would close A&E departments at Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Central Middlesex and Ealing Hospitals. Two million west...
Abbas – Sharon Summit Cancelled!
PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas’ summit with the Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, which was due today, has been cancelled after Abbas said he was opposed to...
Expropriate the bankers and bosses!
IT WAS asserted by economists long ago that labour is the source of all wealth, and Federick Engels – the lifelong friend and collaborator...
Abolish The Gangmasters!
THE scandal of the gangmasters has caused uproar in the working class, but the leaders of the trade union movement are helping to cover...
Macron Set To Lose His Majority As French Workers Vote Socialist!
PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron is set to lose his outright majority after a strong challenge from a coalition of left-wing parties in National Assembly elections....
Overthrow of Niger’s pro-imperialist government a massive blow to imperialism
THE OUSTING of Niger president Mohamed Bazoum by the military has sent shock waves across the imperialist world, with France and the United States...
Right wing Labour wants to make sure that the UK never leaves the European...
IN LAST Friday’s letter to EU President Donald Tusk the Prime Minister, Theresa May, made it very clear that she had surrendered to the...
World debt is leading to hyper-inflation and a socialist revolution!
AN ARTICLE in Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph by its chief economics commentator, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, highlighted the inevitable consequences following the massive amount of borrowing carried...
The strike wave sweeping Britain demands a new leadership in trade unions, come to...
THE STRIKE wave sweeping across Britain has a revolutionary content. Since the capitalist crisis first burst into the open with the banking collapse of 2008...
Foreign Secretary Hunt prostrates himself before the USA and President Trump!
FOREIGN Secretary Hunt’s debut in the USA saw him prostrate himself in front of US imperialism in the most fawning and sychophantic manner. He...
Coalition Bringing In The Men To Butcher The NHS!
THE House of Commons Health Committee on October 18th discussed who was to fill the post of being chair of the NHS Commissioning...
Law lords rule for US imperialism to keep the Chagossians in exile
THE House of Lords appeal court yesterday reversed the three decisions taken by seven senior judges, in previous court hearings, that the Chagos Islanders...
Political Revolution In Kyrgyzstan
THE Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, spoke by phone Thursday with the new interim leader in Kyrgyzstan whose ‘peoples government’ has been placed in...
Trade unions must unite to defend bursaries and stop hospital closures!
TWO very important NHS trade union conferences are currently taking place this week, the RCN, nurses union, and the BMA doctors. Already the RCN supported...
Obama hosts Afghanistan and Pakistan war summit
ON THE eve of a meeting between US President Barack Obama, the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari in...
General strike to defend the NHS
AMBULANCE crews in south-east Wales are staging a four-week, unofficial overtime ban to highlight how much the ambulance service now relies on their willingness...
Support the Shell-HOYER tanker workers!
IN the last few weeks we have seen the road hauliers take to the streets against the massive increases in petrol and diesel prices...
Kick out the yellow trade union leaders
THE GATE GOURMET bosses were cock-a-hoop yesterday, and no wonder – after the leader of the TUC, Barber, and the leaders of the...
Finland joins NATO as imperialism ramps up war drive
YESTERDAY Finland formally joined NATO, becoming the 31st member of the US-led imperialist military bloc in what NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, described as ‘The...
One year after the massive Beirut port explosion the families of the victims are...
A YEAR after the massive explosion at Beirut Port devastated the Lebanese capital, the victims’ grieving families are still waiting for answers, accountability and...
Governor of BoE blames workers for inflation – Only a sliding scale of wages...
WITH INFLATION in the UK running at over 7% and gas and electricity bills shooting up by 54%, millions of workers face being driven...
Brown pledges all to the CBI
‘Let me start by thanking you – directors, executives, managers representing companies from all over the UK – for the contribution you are making...
Defend North Korea Against Imperialist Attack!
THE US and its South Korean puppets are set to begin their largest ever joint military exercises amid the high tensions that they have...
Tories Plan To Bomb Syria And Send Troops To Libya
NEWS LINE congratulates the German workers who have given a big welcome to the Syrian and other refugees who have shown such an indomitable...
Trump caves in over tariff war as US capitalism faces collapse. It’s time for...
US president Donald Trump caved in on Wednesday, after the financial world reacted in fear and dread over the rapidly unfolding collapse of the...
No Free Ride For The Tories
THE terrorist atrocity in Manchester last Monday night which killed 22 young people at a pop concert has been seized upon by the Tories...