Balls and the ‘Little Englanders’ adopt racism as their policy
‘WE were wrong to allow so many eastern Europeans into Britain,’ says Ed Balls, referring to the large number of migrants from Poland and...
Capitalist crash drives HBOS into the arms of Lloyds TSB
THE Federal Reserve Bank’s $85bn ‘rescue’ of AIG was carried out to stave off an immediate international financial and business collapse. It has turned...
Bankers’ bonuses are a diversion
The headline news throughout the bourgeois media yesterday was that Stephen Hester, Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, had magnanimously bowed to...
Bedroom Taxes Leading To Mass Evictions!
THE full effects of the coalition’s bedroom tax, which was introduced last April, have been highlighted in two reports published on Wednesday and revealed...
All Trade Unions And The Tuc Must Take Action To Support The Occupation Of...
HARLAND AND WOLFF shipyard has been occupied by the workforce to prevent its closure. However on Monday, the unions involved revealed that staff had already...
Capitalism is ‘At War’ – answer Cameron with general strike
BRITISH capitalism is ‘at war’ Cameron told the bosses yesterday, an ‘economic war’ which requires the state to rip up the rule book, strip off...
Turkish army invades northern Iraq while US planes bomb Syrian army
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called talks on Syria in New York for December 18-19. Kerry said that the United States and its...
Britain’s Third Afghan War Heads For Disaster
NINE UK soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in nine days, making 178 UK troops killed since 2001. The official propaganda line is that...
Answer corruption with socialist revolution!
WHEN Shakespeare had his character Marcellus observe in the play Hamlet that ‘something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ he had in mind...
Labour’Shuts Out Black And Asian Masses
THE ‘biggest shake-up of the immigration system in 45 years’ got underway yesterday, according to the Brown government. The ‘shake-up’ is that the British ruling...
Motor industry crisis deepens – nationalisation the only way
THE US administration has let it be known that it intends to force GM, formerly the world’s number one motor car manufacturer, into bankruptcy...
Tory plans to put troops on the streets
IT EMERGED in the bourgeois press at the weekend that the army has been drawing up plans for troops to be sent onto the...
Permanent wage-cutting and zero-hour contracts are all that capitalism has to offer
THE Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate has fallen to 6.4%, down from 6.5% in May, with the number of people unemployed...
Ukraine Attacks Belgorod – As China Warns Of Pacific War!
THE Belgorod governor has said shelling and strikes by imperialist supported Ukrainian forces continued on Saturday night after two residents were killed and thousands...
Unions Must Put The Labour Party House In Order
THE main trade union leaders are determined that the crisis of the Labour government should be kept out of the TUC Congress in Brighton. They...
US Closes Its Embassy In Kiev As It Hands Over Missiles To Ukraine To...
THE likelihood of an escalation in the Ukraine conflict could significantly increase in the next two months, as long as the just-defeated US President...
Fortress Israel, armed by the USA, brings in new anti-Palestinian laws and cuts West...
THE US and Israel have been engaged in intense negotiations for many months to outline America’s military aid to Israel for the next decade. Washington...
Renationalise Energy Companies And Abolish Tuition Fees!
AT A time of a desperate economic crisis of capitalism, when millions of families fear that they will not be able to pay their...
Bank of England pushes up interest rates as inflation spirals out of control!
THE BANK of England Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and decided to increase the interest rate by 0.25% to 0.75% in a futile attempt...
General strike to defend the NHS
NHS trade unions have slammed the ‘poverty’ 3.3 per cent NHS pay ‘deal’ which was imposed on NHS workers by the government on Thursday,...
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...
Darling can’t explain the crisis and he cannot resolve it
YESTERDAY at the Labour Party conference the leaders who not so long ago announced to the world that they had conquered the essential tendency...
Scrap the Public Private Partnership on the tube
METRONET, the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) within London Underground, has collapsed financially after years of failure to provide services required by the capital’s transport system. It...
Starmer to face down rebel Labour MPs and rely on support of Tories to...
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer rounded on Labour MPs who are threatening to rebel and vote against the welfare cuts being forced through Parliament, insisting...
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...
Corbyn has no answer for the Tory onslaught on workers and trade unions!
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday at the TUC conference had no answer to the Tory onslaught on the trade unions. In particular, he ignored the...
Brown prepared to impose ‘unpopular measures’
PRIME MINISTER Brown said yesterday that he will not be diverted from taking ‘unpopular’ decisions to ensure Britain gets through the global credit crunch....
Smash The Anti-Union Laws!
THE RMT has called off its Network Rail strike action of signal workers after the judiciary declared it to be illegal, using the ruling...
Socialist Revolution is the only real answer to the capitalist crisis!
NEARLY one million people in Britain are just £10 away from falling into poverty according to the new analysis from the leading poverty charity,...
314,000 Sackings In Three Months As Tories And Bosses Blitz Workers’ Jobs!
THE UK’s unemployment rate has risen to 4.8% in the three months to September, up from 4.5%, as the coronavirus continues to blitz workers’...
Following renationalisation of Southeastern, the trade unions must call a general strike to bring...
SOUTHEASTERN rail collapsed into public ownership yesterday with the RMT revealing the true cost of the government’s slavish devotion to subsidising private profit capitalism. In...
Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan to end terrorism
NEWS LINE sends its condolences to the families of those who were killed in Thursday’s terrorist attacks on London, and its best wishes for...
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...
Moment of truth for Greece!
GREECE’S Syriza government delayed yesterday’s 300m euros (£216m) debt repayment to the IMF, saying that it will pay over to the Troika (the...
Chilcot won’t rule on Iraq war legality
CHILCOT opened his report of his inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war yesterday by stating that it was not the job of his very...
French Workers Force Macron Back – Now They Will Bring Him Down!
OH HOW the mighty have fallen! ‘Emperor Macron’, in the tradition of Napoleon III, has made no secret that he considers himself the master...
Lessons of 1926 are vital for today!
THIS year there is great interest in the 80th anniversary of the general strike of 1926. It is not hard to work out why....
Budget Day strikes – demand TUC calls a general strike to kick out the...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will be delivering his Budget speech today in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up...
Capitalism makes billions out of coronavirus – time to get rid of it!
THE CAPITALIST contempt for the health and safety of workers in the pursuit of profit has been highlighted this week by the giant on-line...
Post Office scandal piles pressure on all main political parties
On Monday, the House of Commons was treated to the sight of MPs from all the political parties united in an orchestrated show of...
Basic Rights To Be Dumped In The Bin!
IN the wake of the French terror attacks PM Cameron has promised a ‘comprehensive piece of legislation’ to close the ‘safe spaces’ used by...
PM Johnson In ‘Intensive Care’ And Labour Is Ready For A National Government
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is now in intensive care at St Thomas’ hospital, laid low by the coronovirus, perfectly reflecting the state of British...
Israeli Terrorists Are Being Given A Free Hand To Blind Palestinian Journalists!
THE Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh showed solidarity with photojournalist Moath Amarneh during the Palestinian cabinet meeting yesterday in the occupied West Bank city...
GMB condemns Sedgefield council house privatisation
THE GMB Annual Congress has condemned the decision of the Labour government to privatise the council house stock in Prime Minister Blair’s own constituency,...
Record numbers miss out on first choice secondary schools – Bring all schools back...
NATIONAL Offer Day was yesterday, with record numbers of children missing out on their first choice of secondary school. More than half a million...