Workers of the world must follow the lead of the students and take general...
THE Geneva-based rights group, Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) says Israel is ‘intentionally’ demolishing schools and medical facilities, including those run by the UN agency...
Victory to Syria – down with imperialism and Stalinism!
THE Syrian war has reached a ‘stalemate’ and President Bashar al-Assad’s government will call for a ceasefire at the Geneva conference on the state’s...
A Revolutionary May Day
THE News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers and the oppressed peoples of the world on this historic May Day. The world...
Meet Tories’ brutal attacks on workers with a general strike
THE Tory party conference greeted with rapturous applause the pledge by George Osborne that any future Tory government would drive the working class into...
LOBBY THE TUC ON MONDAY 12th SEPTEMBER – Demand it calls a general strike...
STOCK markets in the US ended the week sharply down following tough comments by Jerome Powell, head of the country’s central bank, the Federal...
Prosecute bosses that do not pay the minimum wage! Overthrow capitalism!
‘NAMING and shaming’ bosses who refuse to pay workers even the minimum wage is not enough, trade union GMB correctly insisted yesterday, demanding...
Workers across the UK erupt against cuts to wages, pensions and conditions – demand...
MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at 58 universities across the UK have come out on a three day strike, starting today,...
Tories prepare for civil war against the working class
IN HIS closing speech to the Tory conference, Cameron pledged that a future Tory government would scrap the Human Rights Act, a position that was...
Benefits slashed while bankers prosper
Today Parliament votes on the Tory coalition bill to place a 1% cap on all benefits and tax credits for the next three years...
Tories getting ready for class war! Time for the trade unions to put them...
EVERYBODY knows that the Tory government was completely unprepared for the Covid-19 crisis that erupted in the UK in December 2020. The Operation Cygnus exercise...
Bring Down The UK-French-US War Lords
BRITISH IMPERIALISM was run out of Basra and Iraq, and is about to be run out of Afghanistan. However, it is still organising new...
UNIONS must purge Labour Party of Brown and the Blairites
AFTER the Labour party defeat at Glasgow East, one of the safest Labour seats in the country, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stated...
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...
The Occupation Is Responsible For All Of The Killings In Palestine
A PALESTINIAN teenager from occupied East Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early on Wednesday in revenge for the killing of three Israeli settler youth...
Smash Royal Mail privatisation!
THE arrogant Tories have announced that the sell-off of Royal Mail is to begin in just weeks. The announcement comes days after the ending of...
Barclays Vice Chair On NHS Commissioning Board
YESTERDAY the Secretary of State for Health told the House of Commons that the government will be taking a step back from the...
Trade unions must take action to defend state pension!
ON WEDNESDAY the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, David Gauke, cynically used the fact that parliament was closing down for the holidays to announce...
UK heading for ‘no deal crisis’ – Only answer is a socialist revolution!
THE MAY government on Tuesday defeated an attempt by 12 pro-EU Conservative MPs, supported by Labour EU Remainers, to destroy its revised post-Brexit trade...
Only socialist revolution can stop imperialist war
LAST Friday’s attack by US planes on the Syrian airfield of al-Shayrat was not a one-off military exercise to teach the Syrians a lesson,...
Bush Bail Out Plan Attacked By The Working Class And By The Republican Right
REPUBLICAN representatives walked out of the crisis talks with President Bush on Thursday night, denouncing him as a socialist for launching his $700 bn...
Judges and lawyers demand end to UK arms to Israel. It’s time the TUC...
OVER 600 UK lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including three former supreme court justices, have written to Rishi Sunak warning that the UK...
Reformists and Stalinists seek to break Greek teachers’ struggle
THE confrontation between Greek teachers and the Greek state and its EU masters has erupted this week after all teachers were served at the...
Forward to the Zimbabwe socialist revolution!
THE resolution of the United Nations Security Council condemning violence in Zimbabwe, carried with both China and Russia voting for the motion, ...
Lessons from the 1984-85 miners strike
THE government papers released under the 30-year rule concerning the 1984-85 miners strike confirm that Thatcher and the Tories, despite their considerable preparations over...
US at the Security Council traces the crisis back to Lenin and Trotsky
SAMANTHA Power, the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, did not waste any time in attacking the Russian veto of the imperialists’ ...
UK living standards ‘to fall behind Malta’ as UK capitalism crashes under debt
ON Monday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its latest updated figures which showed that the average person now has £38 less to...
Rice Visit Is To Stir Up Wars And Civil Wars
US Secretary of State Rice’s visit to the Middle East is to organise the conditions for US attacks on both Iran and...
‘The Next Global Shock Will Be Like An Earthquake!’
EUROZONE manufacturing activity has hit a three-year low at the same time as the banking crisis is reaching explosion point. Greece has run out...
Minimum 3-month wait for operations! NHS must be defended with a general strike!
PATIENTS suffering from serious conditions, requiring hip or knee replacements, hernias repaired and cataracts removed, all considered ‘non-urgent surgery’, have been told that they...
it’s your money for your life says NICE
IF NICE and the ‘NHS health reformers’ have their way, free health care at the point of need is destined for the dustbin of...
Nato Meets Behind Steel Barriers, Under No Fly Zone!
THE NATO warlords are meeting in Newport today. That they are not the most popular people on the planet is proven by the...
Put Blair and Brown in the dock over C.difficile deaths
THE blood price paid by the public for the running of the NHS as a business, with the private sector at its centre and...
News International, Parliament and the state
THE revelation yesterday that the News of the World (NoW) newspaper had quietly suspended its assistant editor (news), Ian Edmondson, just before Christmas, has...
Desperate Situation In Gaza!
THE situation in Gaza has deteriorated to its worst ever level, just one year after a truce that ended fighting between Israel and Hamas...
Obama and Cameron take just 40 minutes to dispose of the fate of...
IN JUST 40 minutes of telephone conversation, imperialist leaders Obama and Cameron, on Saturday, decided the fate of millions of people in the...
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...
Spooks fear revolution
THE Tory foreign secretary, William Hague, appeared on television yesterday morning to give a less than convincing pledge that ‘law abiding citizens’ have ‘nothing...
Workers must support Russia and China as Biden threatens new war!
AS THE world crisis of the capitalist system deepens, the US under President Joe Biden is preparing for a new world war. Biden is...
Cameron declares war on public sector – unions must answer with general strike
Tory prime minister, David Cameron, has finally come clean about the coalition plans for destroying the welfare state and the entire public sector. Yesterday, he...
Council election results weaken Labour in a self-inflicted wound and strengthen May!
LABOUR’S hopes crashed to earth in the just-concluded council elections. The eve of poll predictions of the Tories losing Wandsworth, Westminster and then Kensington...
Scrapping of Public Health England part of Tory plan to force through privatisation...
The lead story in last weekend’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper announced: ‘Hancock axes failing public health body,’ adding ‘PHE (Public Health England) to be scrapped...
Yemen defiant in face of imperialist onslaught – Forward to victory of World Socialist...
ON SUNDAY, thousands of Yemenis marched through the streets of the capital Sana’a against the US/Saudi blockade of their country and holding American imperialism...
UNISON leaders buy a little time for Brown
THE UNISON leaders who originally accepted the three year sub-inflation pay deal for NHS workers, along with the RCN, without going to ballot, yesterday...
The Stalinist theory of one country with two social systems has encouraged the...
THE EVENTS in Hong Kong over the past month have seen thousands of people storming the Hong Kong parliament and raising the Union Jack...
Smash the capitalist state, sack the chief constables, no to police commissioners!
THE Tory-LibDem coalition is set to introduce a ‘reform programme’ for the police that will establish regimes of elected police commissioners, who will have...