PCS strike – No compromise with Tories possible. A general strike to kick them...
OVER 500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) came out on strike this...
TUC Leader O’Grady To Quit – TUC Must Organise General Strike For June 18th!
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...
Defend NHS with occupations and a general strike to bring down the government
Yesterday saw the second reading of the Tory-led coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill in Parliament, a bill designed to facilitate the wholesale closure...
Close down the Murdoch press – forward to a workers government
LABOUR leader Miliband, true to form, has spoken up for new media ownership rules to limit Rupert Murdoch’s ‘dangerous’ and ‘unhealthy’ concentration of power. He...
US raises the stakes by signing missile deal with Poland
THE US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tbilisi yesterday for talks with the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. Her mission was to get...
Tory Party Turns On Cameron Over Syria
PRIME Minister Cameron said last Thursday night that he would respect the defeat of his ‘strike Syria’ government motion by 285-272 in the House...
The Freedom Flotilla is approaching the shores of Gaza – Trade unions must take...
THE Madleen ship, part of the Freedom Flotilla launched from Italy, is approaching the shores of Gaza amid concerns that the Israeli occupation army...
The slump deepens as Labour steps up attacks on the poorest
UK Gross Domestic Product fell in the three months from April to June by 0.7% confirming that the slump is deepening and that the...
Bedroom Tax – a savage assault on the poor and vulnerable
Nothing typifies the vicious war against the poorest and most vulnerable sections of the working class more than the introduction next month of...
Obama, Biden look to Putin!
VICE-PRESIDENT BIDEN took the stage at the 45th Munich Security Conference on Saturday to spell out that the US understood that it now needed...
Boeing shares crash – company stands accused of cost cutting that risked air safety
THE US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has been brought to its knees following two catastrophic crashes of its bestselling aircraft, the short haul 737 Max...
Billionaire steps in to bail out the Labour Party
LAKSHMI Mittal, the Indian-born billionaire has donated £2m to the Labour Party, it was revealed yesterday. The fifth richest man in the world, who owns...
Trump considers plans to dump a million Palestinians in Libya
Last Friday, the American national broadcaster NBC News reported that White House sources had told it that the Donald Trump administration is actively considering...
UK politicians send letter urging Starmer to ‘act now’ over Gaza – time for...
A JOINT letter signed by leading politicians in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales was sent to Labour prime minister Keir Starmer yesterday calling for...
Build the WRP to deal with the TUC right wing
AT the Trades Union Congress in Brighton this week, delegates have given a relatively timid expression of the determination of millions of workers to...
Resolve Crisis Of Leadership In Working Class
THERE is nothing like the crisis of the capitalist system to bring out the essence of the Labour and trade union leaders, as labour...
Capitalist state kept quiet about illegal phone tapping
METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, has ordered a senior officer to ‘establish the facts’ – concerning the knowledge that the police had –...
TUC Trade Unions Must Support A Palestinian State By Imposing A Boycott Of Israel!
HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on April 27: ‘The oppression of Palestinians has reached a threshold and a permanence that meets...
Blair and Brown threaten the trade unions
THE message from the Blair-Brown leadership to the trade unions and their leaders is ‘face up to globalisation or cease to exist’. Even the two’s...
Trade Union Bureaucracy Resumes Its Full Support For Pension Busting!
ON December 20th the major local government trade unions, after coming under massive attack from their local government members, suspended their support, agreed on...
Crisis Forces Osborne To Re-Write His Budget!
LAST November 25th in his Autumn Statement Chancellor Osborne was full of praise for the way that allegedly the UK was now full set...
SNP join Tories in refusing any pay negotiations with nurses
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Scotland has voted overwhelmingly to reject the final pay offer from the nationalist SNP government, meaning Scottish...
Capitalism Is Set To Destroy Small Business And Then Turn The UK Into The...
A FIFTH of all UK small and medium sized businesses are set to close permanently over the next four weeks as they run out...
Sharon’s deception at the United Nations
ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tried to cut a figure as the liberator of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip at the United...
Sack Gove, May and Cameron! TUC must call a general strike to bring down...
EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove, who has carried forward the privatisation battle against the teaching trade unions, and driven forward the Free School-Academy agenda,...
Revolutionary crisis in France
The first round of voting in the French presidential election, held last Sunday, produced an unprecedented defeat for the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and his...
Workers must call general strikes to break the Israeli siege of Palestine
THE Hamas Ministry of Health said on Wednesday that 102 Palestinian citizens were martyred and 287 others injured in 5 Israeli massacres in Gaza...
Troika poised to show Greece the door
GREEK PM Antonis Samaras is meeting the organisation of Greece’s international creditors, the Troika (IMF, EU, ECB), to try to persuade it to give...
Israel is stepping up its war on Lebanon & Palestine – The UK trade...
THE Israeli army yesterday continued its bloody war on Lebanon for the 20th consecutive day, launching dozens of airstrikes, bombing homes and gatherings, and...
Eu Meltdown
CREDIT ratings agency Moody’s yesterday reflected the rapidly developing EU meltdown by doing the unthinkable – warning the EU’s strongman, Germany, that...
After the BA battle ‘pirate Walsh’ seeks to shut down Iberia, sacking 3,800!
IAG chairman Walsh plans to axe 3,800 jobs – a fifth of the Spanish Iberia airline’s workforce – in a country where unemployment is...
All out action needed to defend pensions and jobs
THE CWU is warning that 40,000 jobs will go as a result of increased mechanisation of the Royal Mail system. It is also objecting...
EU in crisis – forward with the European socialist revolution
The crisis of European capitalism is so severe that it has driven the bourgeoisie to tear at each other’s throats in a frenzy of...
Tories have driven NHS to breaking point! The trade unions must call a general...
THE NHS is at breaking point! This is the warning from doctors, nurses and NHS staff, furious that the Tories did absolutely nothing to...
Berezovskiy calls for the violent overthrow of Putin
FOR some time the Blair government has been bringing in draconian anti-terrorist legislation, such as the Terrorism Act 2000. It has been boldly ‘identifying’ terrorism...
BA workers reject wage cuts! Renationalise BA Now!
A MASS meeting of more than 3,000 British Airways cabin crew workers yesterday threw out by a massive majority the airline’s plans to slash...
After A Decade Of Savage Austerity The Tories Propose A Massive Inflation!
THE NEW Tory chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak, yesterday painted a picture of British capitalism as fundamentally ‘robust’ while the NHS was ‘sound’...
We Are Approachng A Moment Of Truth Says Osborne
KARL MARX was able to show that one of the fundamental contradictions of the capitalist system was the conflict between the need of the...
North Korea Does Not Want To Go The Way Of Libya!
NORTH Korea has said it may pull out of a summit with US President Donald Trump that was due to take place on June...
After November 5th rout build new leadership in the FBU
THE News Line salutes the London FBU membership which has stood firm in its defence of terms and conditions against a pre-planned massive onslaught...
US and South Korea ‘pour gasoline onto the fire’ says North Korea
THE US and South Korea have begun conducting annual military drills, ignoring North Korean appeals to halt the exercises. Last week North Korea appeared to...
Suicide guidelines for Jobcentres
THE leaking of new guidelines to staff working with the unemployed exposes the barbarity of the coalition government’s onslaught on the sick, vulnerable and...
Patients assessed, treated & sent home on same day! The Tories ‘Long Term ...
THE TORY government, using their NHS Long Term Plan have stepped up their war against the health service, attempting to drive through measures that...
Gm-Fiat Shock For World’s Motor Workers
GENERAL Motors is about to end its ‘honeymoon’ relations with the US motor workers’ trade union, the UAW. Up till now the UAW leaders have...
‘Big Society’ – wholesale destruction of the Welfare State
TORY prime minister, David Cameron, launched a desperate attempt yesterday to try and convince an incredulous public that his ‘Big Society’ policy is something...