Blair stands by 90 days internment as Clarke negotiates its defeat
PRIME Minister Blair stands convinced that 90-days internment without charge is not just desirable but is absolutely indispensable for satisfying the Metropolitan Police’s minimum...
Hunt and Bailey will ‘do whatever is necessary’ to save bankrupt capitalism. Time to...
ON MONDAY night, 400 leading figures from the world of high finance and corporate business gathered at the Mansion House in London to hear...
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...
The Bankers Are Warming To Jeremy Corbyn – Now That He Is Changing His...
BORIS Johnson’s Tory government suffered a massive defeat in the House of Commons on Tuesday night when 21 of its MPs rebelled and voted...
Labour must move to stop war, and force the May government to resign!
WHILE Trump and US Defence Secretary, General ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis were blowing hot and cold over whether they were going to attack Syria or...
Time For Labour To Sack Starmer And To Start Supporting Palestine And Workers...
WITH the Tory Party in its greatest crisis ever – as the capitalist world crisis intensifies and the Tory party brings in new savage...
Palestinian masses break the blockade and start tearing down the walls
THE Palestinian revolution has shown the way forward by blowing a massive hole in the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, so that hundreds of...
Stock markets crash as US supremacy in AI technology shattered by small Chinese company
ON MONDAY, $1 trillion was wiped off the value of America’s leading tech companies in a share crash caused by the tiny Chinese company DeepSeek. DeepSeek...
Record Breaking Inflation!
RECORD BREAKING UK inflation rate statistics were reported by the ONS (Office for National Statistics) yesterday. Inflation rose at its fastest annual pace for nine...
RCN to ballot for strike action
THE announcement that the ruling body of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will meet on Friday to decide on balloting their members on...
Working class will smash Johnson’s fantasies with socialist revolution
TORY prime minster Boris Johnson yesterday delivered a speech composed entirely of wishful thinking from which reality was completely excluded. In Johnson’s fairy-tale world British...
Bosses share bonanza
THE ages old reformist illusion that the worst excesses of capitalism can be curbed through a mixture of indignation and moral outrage received yet...
Tory ‘Orwellian’ attempts to cover Grenfell Tower atrocities in secrecy
THE CAMPAIGN group ‘openDemocracy’ has revealed evidence of a concerted campaign by a secretive government Freedom of Information (FOI) screening unit to interfere with...
US vetos Ukraine ceasefire – tells Poroshenko to make war!
ON MONDAY evening Russia invited Ukrainian border guards and international observers to oversee the Russian side of the border with Ukraine, in an 11th-hour...
‘Perfidious Albion’ betrays Palestine again!
THE British ruling class has played a special role as far as Palestine in concerned. In the Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917, the United...
Tory Party stuck with broken May as leaders fear the mass movement driving Labour...
IN NORMAL times a Tory party that had been taken into an ‘unnecessary’ snap election with its leader demanding that the electorate return it...
Truss declares war on Russia and China in her Mansion House speech
IN HER speech on Wednesday night at the Lord Mayor’s banquet, Tory Foreign Secretary Liz Truss declared that Britain is in a state of...
pass Bill or face financial panic, bank closures and ruin – Bush tells Senate...
THE US president George Bush has been so frightened at the prospect of a 1929 collapse and a 1930s depression gripping the US that...
Baa And Virgin Air Industry Workers Are Ready For Action
NEWS LINE sends its greetings and full support to the British Airports Authority workers who have decided to take strike action at seven major...
Latest inflation figures spur Tories and Bank of England to ramp up attack on...
INFLATION figures yesterday, that recorded a drop in the inflation rate to 6.8% in July, have been greeted by the Tories and the Bank...
Rescue US – The Eu Bosses Plead With Chinese Stalinists
AS details emerge of the desperate measures hammered out in Europe on Wednesday night in an attempt to save the eurozone from collapse and...
Forward to the end of the occupation of Iraq
BOTH American generals and ex-British ambassadors have been predicting that Iraq is either on the brink of civil war or that it has already...
The great betrayal – NHS union leaders call off strike action!
NHS trade unions have called off (‘suspended’) today’s strike and betrayed their members by accepting the government’s decision not to pay the...
TUC Gen Sec Nowak wants workers to march in support of Ukrainian fascists!
IN THE case of the UK trade union leadership, it is very much a case of what Lenin termed as ‘One Step Forward and...
Britain Is Aiding US Torture Machine
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice refused to answer questions yesterday as to whether the United States government operates CIA secret prisons outside of...
US mass murder in western Mosul is aiding, abetting and strengthening ISIS – and...
AFTER over a month of silence, the western media have had to acknowledge that hundreds of civilians are being killed in western Mosul by...
NATO backs Turkish attack on Syria and the Kurds
NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels yesterday to support Turkey’s military campaign, nominally against the IS, but in fact against the Kurds and...
Israel responds to UN resolution calling for ‘sustainable ceasefire’ by ramping up genocide!
ISRAEL intensified its bombardment of Gaza over the weekend hitting 200 targets in a single 24-hour period on Friday and Saturday. Just one of these...
Coalition Aiming To Cut The Mentally Ill!
THE government is planning to strip mentally ill people of their state benefits if they do not agree to undergo treatment for anxiety and...
STPs are an agency of international capitalism, a Trojan Horse for the privatisation...
THE TORY Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) have been shrouded in secrecy right from the start as the Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, did...
The biggest fall in living standards since 1931!
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that living costs have risen 25% in the past five years and placed an ‘unprecedented’ financial burden on...
Labour votes against Manzoor motion to scrap tax credits bill!
THE government has been dealt a blow in the House of Lords after the Lords voted to delay tax credit cuts, until an independent...
Bar the way to Greece coup with socialist revolution
THE crisis in Greece has reached breaking point this week with the unelected European Commission threatening to declare a ‘state of emergency’ in the...
Tory-Lib Dem Budget hitting the poor hardest – IFS report
WORKING class families and pensioners are being hit hardest by Chancellor George Osborne’s Emergency Budget. This is the key finding from a study by the...
IDS’ war to starve and break the poor!
JUST how ruthlessly Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is conducting the ruling class’ war on the poor can be seen in...
World capitalism is set to crash – It must be replaced with the World...
JUST five months after being elected with a landslide majority, a life or death political and economic crisis has engulfed British capitalism. Labour PM Sir...
Starmer wants British boots on ground in Ukraine and to force workers to pay...
IN ADVANCE of yesterday’s panic meeting of EU and UK leaders in Paris, Labour prime minister Keir Starmer announced that he is prepared to...
BA sacks 12,000 workers while Unite and the GMB register their ‘shock’ and nothing...
THE GIANT Unite and GMB trade unions have greeted the news that British Airways is to make 12,000 workers redundant with shock, dismay and...
To End The Covid-19 Crisis The Trade Unions Must Bring Down The Tories And...
TORY HEALTH SECRETARY Hancock yesterday said of the Covid-19 crisis that Britain was facing a ‘tipping point’ and ‘we have a choice’. It turns...
Turkey and Israel are set to announce ‘normalisation’
TURKEY and Israel are to announce an agreement on the normalisation of bilateral ties, ending six years of a freeze in relations, after a...
UK Opts For Syria Regime Change
WITH its recognition of the Syrian ‘opposition’ as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, the UK has joined France, Saudi Arabia and...
All Out On May 1!
PRIME Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown have declared war on the public services and their staff, with closures, cuts, redundancies and pay...
10 million workers will be hit by tax increases as Labour ‘picks the side’...
LOWEST paid workers will be hit the hardest by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves budget’s ‘stealth tax’ unveiled on Wednesday. Reeves desperate to avoid accusations of...
The Palestinian leadership calls for international intervention. The workers of the world must respond!
THE PALESTINIAN Presidential spokesman Abu Rudeineh yesterday morning called for urgent international intervention after Israeli police broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the...
Private equity companies make millions from public services
THE GUARDIAN newspaper on Sunday reported in an exclusive analysis of the extent of private equity companies takeover of UK public services found that...