Brown justifies anti-union action and pay cuts
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown insisted yesterday that meagre pay rises, that are phased in and amount to a pay cut, will be imposed by...
The US and UK are letting Israel do its worst! Now is the time...
THE US ruling class, Israel’s chief backer, supplying it with the most modern weaponry and a blank cheque to do its worse to the...
Atos & Capita to be paid £700m to throw disabled off benefits! Kick Atos,...
THE TORY government have turned their fire against one of the most vulnerable sections of society: disabled people. The government has launched a three-pronged attack:...
Rumsfeld Raves About Nuclear ‘Bunker Bombs’
THE US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has defended, at an Asia-Pacific conference of regional defence ministers and military chiefs, the US drive to develop...
Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the fire
YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...
Take mass action on September 21 to stop NHS privatisation
UNISON members working for NHS Logistics will take two 24-hour strikes over the next two weeks to fight the Labour plan to privatise the...
The Banking Standards Commission selects three scapegoats for the capitalist crisis
THE farcically misnamed Banking Standards Commission (as if the banks had any standards) was created to try and prevent an even bigger banking collapse...
Workers of the world unite in the struggle for socialism
OVER 600,000 workers have come to work in the UK from the eight nations which joined the European Union in 2004, said Home Office...
Taleban inflict serious reverse on US–UK forces in Camp Bastion!
IT HAS emerged that the US-UK forces lost six Harrier jump jets – completely destroyed with two more badly damaged – in the highly...
Forward To The British Socialist Revolution!
THE DAILY Telegraph has been speculating on: ‘What would a 21st century British coup look like?’ in an opinion piece written by Paul...
France on the brink as government imposes anti-union laws!
THE French Socialist government’s cabinet has opted for a dictatorship over the working class by agreeing to force through its anti-trade union legislation, invoking...
Blair And Cameron – Tweedleedum And Tweedledee!
YESTERDAY the new leader of the Tory Party, David Cameron publicly disowned the Tory Party manifesto, written for the last general election, just seven...
The TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and start...
UNTIL NOW ISRAEL has been able to kill an average of 100 children every day in its relentless bombing campaign on the besieged Gaza...
Tories out to destroy free speech
THE full extent of the Tory plans to smash up the right to free speech was revealed yesterday by an unlikely source, the new...
Trump escalates trade war with China and prepares for a shooting war – only...
THE TRUMP administration has ratcheted up the confrontation with China with an escalation of its economic trade war, coupled with a provocative military build-up...
Pakistan PM forced to condemn US raid
THE Pakistani Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, yesterday spelt out that Pakistan cannot accept actions like the recent US cross-border air strike on a village...
The Chagos Islanders Must Be Returned To Their Homes
YESTERDAY the Court of Appeal ruled that the Blair government had carried out an Abuse of Power when it overruled the assurance given by...
Britain’s national debt has tripled – as the UK economy breaks down – nationalisation...
THE British National Debt has almost tripled in the period between 2005 and 2025, outpacing all the other major capitalist states. Britain now has a...
Labour has no answer to the problems that the working class and middle class...
MILIBAND’S Labour Party yesterday said that if it was the government it would offer the long-term unemployed a guarantee of a six-month job. This...
HSBC a repeat offender that will never change
IN September 2014 HSBC settled claims that it made false representations in selling mortgage bonds to the giant US mortgage companies Fannie Mae and...
Lonmin forced to withdraw their sack threat!
UK-OWNED platinum mining giant Lonmin (the world’s third largest platinum producer) has been forced by the strength and defiance of the miners, supported by...
Iran – a choreographed crisis at the G20!
Iran informed the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in a letter last Monday that it has a second uranium enrichment plant under...
With capitalism in crisis the BBC gives a hand up to the BNP
THE News Line is opposed to the BNP or any fascist party being given time to spread its propaganda in any of the media...
Trade Unions Must Bring Labour Down And Go Forward To A Workers Government And...
THE Labour government is incapable of resolving the massive economic catastrophe that is building up under British and world capitalism. This requires massive nationalisation...
New Orleans war zone – 20,000 National Guards, and US army helicopter fired on
THE United States ruling class, running the world’s number one super-power and presiding over the richest nation on Earth, was yesterday shown to be...
The whole world rages at the persecution of the Palestinians yet the TUC still...
PALESTINE’S UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the UN Security Council to ensure ‘protection’ for Palestinians, who have increasingly come under deadly attacks...
Take the PCS civil servants up on ‘full support’ offer
LAST THURSDAY at 2pm as the postal workers came out on their 48-hour strike, the PCS civil service union sent a special message to...
Trade unions must take action to defend the NHS
AS far as the NHS is concerned the vultures are now gathering for the kill. On Monday, News Line publicised a leaked e-mail ...
Unions Must Fight Savage Bbc Job Cuts
THE BBC backed up by the Brown government is set to ride roughshod over its workforce pushing through 2,700 job cuts, with up...
Smash the surveillance society – smash the capitalist state!
HARD on the heels of the revelations last June from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden that American and British spy agencies can access all...
Tories wiped out in North Shropshire by-election. Now is the time for the TUC...
THE VOTE came in at 4am on Friday morning for the North Shropshire by-election. The Liberal Democrats won, taking a seat the Tories have...
Obama Pledges To ‘Eliminate’ Threat Posed By Iran
YESTERDAY Hillary Clinton revealed that she will formally end her campaign for the White House on Saturday, and throw her full support behind her...
Tory War On Teachers
THE Tory conference this week stepped up its vicious attack on teachers and their unions with education secretary Michael Gove treating them, as befits...
The April Wall Street crash ‘worst since 1932’ as recession hits the US
‘TRUMP rout is taking on historic dimensions’ was how American financial paper, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), described the news yesterday that the Dow...
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...
Jobs For Youth – Smash The Cheap Labour Economy
Youth unemployment is now higher than it was in 1997, with 702,000 young people aged 16-24 jobless, according to official figures released just before...
Tories attacking youth again – answer them with socialist revolution
THE Tory-led coalition have launched an unprecedented attack on youth after endorsing a Transport Research paper that proposes that young drivers under the age...
Blair’s ‘summary power’ for war on the working class
PRIME Minister Tony Blair launched the Labour government’s new ‘Respect Action Plan’ yesterday, declaring that he was setting out to overthrow basic democratic rights...
Manchester Arena bombing Inquiry condemns MI5, police & private security but lets the Tories...
POLICE and private security failed to apprehend the Manchester bomber, the damning report published by the public inquiry has concluded. Inquiry chairman Sir John...
STOP the war say MPs and bring the Taleban into government
MPs on the House of Commons foreign affairs committee ran up the white flag yesterday when they declared in their report that peace talks...
End Tory racist deportation by demanding a general strike to kick them out
YET ANOTHER attempt by the Tory government to deport over 50 people to Jamaica on Wednesday came unstuck with the Home Office forced to...
Brown Speeding Up The Privatisation Programme
THE reaction of the Brown government to the eruption of the capitalist crisis has been to champion the interests of the banks, pledging to...
Free Joe Glenton! End criminal occupation!
DEMONSTRATIONS will be staged in eight different countries today, from Britain and the United States to Poland and Italy, demanding the release of British...
Smash Universal Credit by smashing the Tories
ON WEDNESDAY this week, the Tory government whipped its MPs to vote down a motion from the Labour Party calling for the release of...
NHS 2007: Pull your own teeth out!
EVERY day Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Health Secretary Alan Johnson churn out propaganda about ‘improving’ the National Health Service (NHS) and people’s...