Afghan Fall Out – Gates Attacks UK Defeatists
US Defence Secretary Gates has condemned as ‘defeatist’ a comment by the British commander in Afghanistan that the war there cannot be won. Speaking...
‘Oppressed will rise all over the world’ – says Iranian president
Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad has hailed his election win as a new Islamic revolution which he said he hoped would now spread its way...
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...
Obama Commission sets out a plan for massive attacks on working class
AFTER President Obama’s announcement that he intends to impose a two-year wage freeze on Federal workers, the Obama appointed US deficit commission has called...
Gate Gourmet workers defend the right to picket – now TGWU must make strike...
YESTERDAY, the determination and militancy of the 670 Gate Gourmet locked-out workers forced the High Court judiciary to acknowledge that they did indeed have...
Expropriate The Venture Capitalists
WE are living in the period of the death agony of the capitalist system. It is only natural then, that out of the shadows should...
Bush threatens war with Iran and demands the support of his reluctant feudal allies
US PRESIDENT George W Bush yesterday warned of the ‘Iranian threat’ during his speech in Abu Dhabi. While speaking about the role of the United...
President Obama is heading for a fall
SPEAKING before the NATO summit President Obama made clear that his business in Europe was to raise a war party for Afghanistan, when...
TAKE ACTION to stop Chase Farm closure!
THE Independent Reconfiguration Panel, set up to cut and close the NHS, has once again recommended to Health Secretary Lansley that the closure of...
Police demand sources for Dowler leak
THE Metropolitan police are seeking a court order to force Guardian journalists to reveal their sources for the information that Milly Dowler’s ...
Unions must pull the plug on the BNP!
THE BNP, a fascist movement, is to be promoted by the BBC with an invitation about to be sent to it to appear on...
US debt deal increases economic crisis and puts the US on the road to...
THE National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare says the following about Obama’s debt deal that savages the poor and leaves the rich...
Revolution and counter-revolution in Bahrain and Libya
THE US State Department urged US citizens on Tuesday not to travel to Bahrain and suggested Americans there should leave at once due ...
French government collapses
ON Monday the French government effectively collapsed as a direct result of a massive split in the leading ranks of the ruling Socialist Party...
Sharon unleashes bombing raids and assassinations on the Palestinians
THE Israeli government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has launched a new war on Palestinians living in territories under Zionist occupation less than three...
US at centre of world capitalist collapses
‘THERE is a real sense in markets today of the economy falling off a cliff.’ That was the verdict of Michael Saunders, the chief...
Bourgeois Lunacy At Rbs
YESTERDAY the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced the largest annual loss in UK corporate history of £24.1bn, made up of a £7.9bn trading...
Youth slave labour plan by Osborne and Co
THE Tory Prime Minister Cameron and his LibDem Deputy Clegg visited the Olympic site in Stratford yesterday to spell out that the only future...
UNISON ‘ready to strike’ while Brown is bringing bosses into his cabinet
‘I SEND this message to Gordon Brown. We are prepared to fight. We are prepared to strike. And we are going to win,’ General...
US Ex-Soldier Diplomat Resigns In Protest At Afghan War
WHILE President Obama remains undecided and continues to dither about what the US strategy should be in Afghanistan, his diplomats are making their...
GERMAN ELECTIONS: Workers deliver a blow to free market ‘reforms’
AFTER Sunday’s General Election, Germany did not have a Chancellor, or a government yesterday. This plunged the country into a huge economic and political...
US Opening Up Second Front In Africa
MILLIONS of Africans will understandably be fearful at the latest strategic initiative that US President George Bush has just announced. The president has instructed his...
No Sackings! Re–Nationalise Steel Industry!
STEEL firm Corus, a subsidiary of India’s Tata Steel cut 3,500 jobs yesterday, 2,500 in the UK out of its 24,000 employees here. ...
Chancellor Brown prudently bends his ‘golden rule’
CHANCELLOR Brown, in testimony to the Treasury Select Committee, has announced that he is bending his much vaunted ‘golden rule’ – that the government...
Victory To The Gate Gourmet Workers
THE News Line sends greetings to the striking German and the locked-out British Gate Gourmet workers, who are today marching through Hounslow. The German workers...
MANIFESTO FOR 2015 – The Year for World Revolution
THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings, as we enter the new year of 2015, to the working people of the world. We...
US-UK officially warn Iran about interfering in Iraq
BRITAIN and the United States had the gall to officially protest, last Wednesday, to the Iranian government about Iranian interference into the internal affairs...
Make Capitalism History! The Way To End Poverty
TODAY’S Edinburgh march to ‘Make Poverty History’ will be led by Bishops, Cardinals and boss class politicians, in other words, by the religious and...
Ukrainian Right Wing Draws Closer To Nato
THE decision by the Ukrainian government to offer joint use of missile attack and space early warning systems to the Western powers...
Abolish PFI and contract cleaners to stop NHS bugs deaths
THE number of deaths linked to the hospital bug Clostridium difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA. Deaths involving Clostridium difficile rose by 69 per...
World crisis of capitalism dominates
The world crisis of capitalism is asserting itself with a vengeance, defying every attempt by governments and the world financial system to bring it...
Under Brown They Don’t Pay Any Any Taxes
GORDON Brown in his budget got rid of the lowest rate of tax, 10p in the pound, thereby setting out to further punish the...
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...
Brown’s bonanza for City speculators
ALMOST a third of Britain’s 700 biggest businesses paid no corporation tax in 2005-2006, according to a study carried out by the official National...
Full support for the Gate Gourmet sacked workers demonstration
THIS Sunday December 4th the Gate Gourmet sacked workers will be marching through Southall to demand that every one of the 700 locked out...
Crown won’t prosecute police killers
AT a briefing on their investigation into the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station on July 22, the Independent Police...
UNISON condemns Blair for breaking NHS promise
UNISON Head of Health, Karen Jennings, has condemned Labour government plans to allow private treatment centres to poach NHS staff, breaking a Labour government...
Law cannot be allowed to get in the way of profiteering
THE Attorney General – the same official who ruled after much equivocation that the war with Iraq was legal – on Thursday told the...
Northern Ireland – Massive NHS Cuts On The Agenda
MORE THAN 700 nursing posts are under threat in Northern Ireland as part of wider plans to cut almost 2,500 health service jobs over...
Cameron shows his contempt for parliament
TORY leader Cameron was allowed to bluff his way through yesterday’s debate, on his special statement on the Murdoch-Coulson scandal, held after it caused...
Contradictions of UK capitalism sharpening to explosion point!
TORY PM Cameron has declared, in the last few days, that he will be pushing through austerity measures until the end of the next...
YELTSIN – the hero of western capitalism, a corrupt and criminal Stalinist
THE bourgeois media and bourgeois political leaders have made it perfectly clear in the last few days that Boris Yeltsin, the...
World capitalist crisis driving forward Arab socialist revolutions!
THE ARAB leaders meeting on Wednesday at an economic summit in Egypt’s resort of Sharm el-Sheikh expressed ‘fears’ that poverty, unemployment and recession, coupled...
Iraqis Hail The Shoe Thrower As Their Hero
YESTERDAY Iraqis of all of the different sects and persuasions were united and marching and demonstrating in Baghdad, Basra, Najaf, Kerbala, Tikrit, Fallujah, Mosul...
Capitalism On The Rocks – Forward To Socialism
THE number out of work in the UK rose by 137,000 to 1.86 million in the three months to October – the highest level...