Tories aiming for a national government
LENIN’S definition of a revolutionary situation was one in which the ruling class could not rule in the old way, and was riven with...
Build millions of council homes to solve housing crisis
CRISIS, the national charity for single homeless people, correctly fears that a massive surge in homelessness is ahead, as it opens its nine Crisis...
Cameron wants to create an army of the homeless
TORY LEADER Cameron yesterday unveiled the spectre of workers sleeping on the streets with his new diktat that council housing should no longer be...
Tories Use State Against Health Workers
TRADE UNION leaders are angry that the government has organised police and army scabbing on today’s four-hour NHS strike over the refusal of the...
Tory Class War Budget!
CHANCELLOR Osborne yesterday moved his ‘emergency budget’. He outlined the gravity of the situation by saying that ‘Questions that were asked about...
Teachers must not fight alone – TUC must call a general strike
The annual conferences of the two largest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, meeting at the weekend heard that the unions and the...
Rajapakse And His Backers Will Not Defeat The Tamil People
YESTERDAY the imperialist-backed Rajapakse regime was claiming to have killed the LTTE leadership, including Velupillai Prabakaran, and that the struggle is now over. Its...
100,000 march as trade union leaders fiddle while Tories burn NHS!
SATURDAY’S 100,000-strong march to defend the NHS from the accelerating Tory drive to destroy it showed once again that the masses are ready to...
Tanks enter West Bank as Zionist regime escalates genocidal war
ON SUNDAY, Israeli military forces deployed tanks into the northern West Bank refuge camp at Jenin, a move denounced by the Hamas resistance movement as...
TUC must stand up for the disabled against the Tory government!
THE UN has slammed the UK, which it says has violated the Convention on Disabled People’s Rights. A damning UN report released yesterday states that...
Lobby the TUC on 27 April to demand they take action to support the...
THE lobby of the TUC general council meeting tomorrow is crucial for the fight, not just in defence of the junior doctors, but to...
Students To Fight Closure Of University Of London Union!
SENIOR academics confirmed yesterday that they are set to shut down the University of London Union, recommending that ‘ULU in its current form ceases’...
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...
Japan withdraws troops from Iraq. A blow to Bush & Blair!
PRIME Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced yesterday the withdrawal of the 600 Japanese troops from Iraq by the end of next month. These ‘non combatant’...
SHADOW OF 1930s HANGS OVER BROWN-MERKEL SPLIT
GERMANY’S Finance Minister Steinbruck yesterday attacked the Gordon Brown policy for saving the bankers and capitalists from the crisis, as recklessness itself. He described Labour’s...
Sudanese Masses Resistance Forces Junta To Agree To Murder Trial For Military Officers!
EIGHT SENIOR military officers are to be charged in Sudan with crimes against humanity over their part in the mass killing of over 150...
Parliament Votes Lords Resolution Banning Any UK ‘No Deal’ Into Law!
THE HOUSE of Commons on Monday night voted by 390 votes to 81 to turn a House of Lords resolution into legislation that bans...
Bring Down The Tories To Stop The Drive To A New Imperialist World War!...
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned of the ‘real’ danger of World War III breaking out, as 40 capitalist states met in Germany...
Russian & Chinese Stalinists support US threats against Iran
THE Chinese and Russian representatives at a meeting of the five permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council and Germany on...
Capitalism is a broken system – nationalise the banks and the car industry
British Banks have been recapitalised by the working class, who were not consulted by the government before the Prime Minister took the decision...
Israel’s murderous attacks on Palestinian children
LAST Friday saw the opening moves by the Palestinian Authority to bring the state of Israel before the international courts to answer for its...
UK capitalism running out of time as Cameron demands strong government
AS THE failure of the Tory attempt to become the government emerged on Thursday night and in the early hours of Friday, it combined...
Nurses determined to fight the Tories – all trade unions must strike with them...
The annual conference of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Brighton this week is taking place at a time when the entire NHS...
Labour plan to drive sick back to work or off benefits with weight-loss injections
PRESENT at Labour’s International Investment Summit on Monday were representatives from Lilly – the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. This coincided with an announcement from the...
First the UK, now Italy – Forward to the European Socialist Revolution!
THE RAPIDLY unfolding crash of the EU drove the ruling class to take unprecedented action on Sunday to overturn the Italian election result...
Defend the NHS with a general strike! Nationalise the pharmaceutical industry!
ONE in five new drugs will be rationed on the NHS under new plans to ‘save the health service money.’ This is the latest...
Greek workers and youth erupt in fury over deadly rail crash
THOUSANDS of Greek workers, students and youth took to the streets at the weekend in a further extension of the anger that has erupted...
Kick out TUC leaders who refuse to fight and are begging Tories to extend...
FROM TODAY the Tory furlough scheme starts to unwind with businesses forced to contribute 10% of furloughed workers’ wages, rising to 20% in August...
The majority of Russians want the return of the USSR
THE LATEST poll of Russian people has revealed that the number who want a return of the USSR has set a new record. The Levada-Centre...
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...
Labour to let multi-nationals take over NHS Primary Care Trusts
THE government is set to turn the screws of further NHS privatisation on the NHS with its plans to invite private health insurance...
Blair fans anti-youth hysteria – while capitalist state gunmen return to work
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, joined in the hysterical attack that the state and bosses are launching on Britain’s youth. Millions of young people...
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...
Cameron and Osborne’s Waterloo
AFTER the Tories’ defeat at the hands of a defector to UKIP in the recent Clacton by-election, David Cameron vowed that he would ‘throw...
King warns Carney and Coalition – don’t open inflationary floodgates
BANK of England Governor King is going into retirement a worried man – that his successor, the Canadian banker Carney in alliance with a...
Putin defies Trump – Time to Build 4th International – Forward with World Socialist...
THE peace talks between Russia and the Western powers represented by Donald Trump have hit the buffers with an almighty bang after Russia refused...
Inflation here to stay and global banking system faces collapse
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday produced its latest report on the state of the world capitalist financial system, in which it warned that...
Met chief Cressida Dick quits! Unions must call a general strike to disband the...
METROPOLITAN Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick has quit! Millions will be cheering the news, and demanding that the whole Met Police force be disbanded...
Children Going To School Hungry!
THE survey by the ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) into child poverty has exposed what the reality of bankrupt capitalism means for millions...
The Death Penalty For Breivik – No Platform For Fascists!
THE fascist who killed 77 people, the majority of them at a youth school of the Norwegian Young Socialists, in bomb and gun attacks...
Defeat the Education Bill – no to an education market
THE government has published its Education Bill, with up to 100 Labour MPs still opposed to it. The Education and Inspection Bill allows schools in...
EUROPE IN CRISIS! Build the 4th International!
IT was no accident that last Thursday’s storming of the Greek state broadcasting (ERT) building by riot police and the brutal eviction of the...
Johnson’s Visit To Sweden And Finland Is To Expand The War Against Russia!
PM BORIS Johnson is visiting Sweden and Finland to expand the war in Ukraine, and specifically to urge both nations to join the NATO...
Bank shares fall while AIG and HBOS live on borrowed time!
SHARE price collapses continued yesterday after the bankrupting of the fourth largest US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, and the ‘rescue’ of Merrill Lynch by...
The battle for public opinion has been won – now take action to win...
THE postal workers have the support of the mass of the British people, the public sector trade unions and the other trade unions making...