Trade Unions Must Fight Alongside The Students!
THE News Line fully supports the call by the secretary of the Young Socialists Student Society for next week’s lobby and rally by the...
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...
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...
Workers and youth forward to the Socialist revolution!
LAST Sunday the president of the National Union of Students (NUS), Aaron Porter, made a surprise visit to a meeting of students occupying University...
WikiLeaks reveals US gangster diplomacy
THE latest WikiLeaks release of US documents reveals the essence of US diplomacy, and it stinks to high heaven with its intense imperialist antagonism...
Miliband is a fraud!
ED Miliband’s speech to the National Policy Forum was devoted to the theme that Labour, while ‘going beyond’ the completely discredited open worship of...
Israel to build rail link into West Bank
IT IS well known that the desire of the Zionist ruling class in Israel to expand the area under its rule is unquenchable, and...
McCluskey must meet with Gate Gourmet sacked workers!
LEN McCluskey, winner of the election for the post of Unite general secretary, said on Wednesday that ‘I have a huge agenda in front...
Coalition Government announces plan to end council housing
Earlier this week the Coalition government’s Housing Minister, Grant Shapps, unveiled the government’s plans to destroy the last vestige of affordable social housing. In what...
Smash all fees – build a new leadership in the NUS!
TODAY will see the second wave of student anger against the Tory government’s decision to treble tuition fees from around £3,000 to £9,000 a...
Revolutionary generation will lead British socialist revolution
LAST Sunday’s News Line Anniversary meeting, which greeted the Young Socialists’ March for Jobs and Free Education, was a historic moment in the history...
Irish trade unions must call a general strike!
IRISH TUC leader David Begg said on Saturday ‘It appears that the day of reckoning has arrived. The barbarians are at the gates.’ ...
The Real Tory Voice Speaks Out
THE declaration by Tory grandee, Lord Young – a key member of the Thatcher and Major governments that fought the NUM and supported Murdoch’s...
Johnson wants Labour to junk the unions!
LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor has declared that it is time for the Labour Party to completely dump the union bloc vote in future leadership elections. Johnson,...
Irish enforced bail-out will bring EU to breaking point!
IRISH Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, and the Irish government, are being forced onto their knees by the EU and the European Central Bank...
Torturers must pay for their crimes!
YESTERDAY’S announcement by the coalition government that it has agreed to make huge payments to former detainees at the notorious Guantanamo Bay concentration camp...
Eu To Throw Irish Workers To The Wolves
PRESSURE is being piled onto the Irish government to accept a further EU bail-out of between 60bn to 80bn euros, which will mean handing...
‘The war against terror’ – a war that cannot be won!
IT’S official. The western imperialist states are engaged in a ‘war against terror’, which they have been waging since the Bush-Blair axis was formed...
‘Currency wars’ will lead to imperialist war
THE meeting of the G20 group – the 20 leading countries in the world – concluded in Seoul yesterday with the usual empty claims of...
Trade unions must reject Coalition attack on the unemployed and the poor
EX-ARMY officer Duncan Smith, the Coalition’s Work and Pensions Secretary, yesterday announced a Universal Credit to replace all benefits, and also ...
UK – At The Mercy Of The World Crisis Of Capitalism
BANK OF ENGLAND Governor King looked into his teacup yesterday morning at his press conference and all he could see was leaves, leaving him...
General Strike To Smash Fees And Bring Down The Coalition
TENS of thousands of students and youth are marching today in central London to denounce the tripling of tuition fees to £9,000, and to...
NHS in crisis – bring down the Coalition
THE long awaited public inquiry into the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust opened yesterday. It was in Mid-Staffs hospital that between 2005 and 2008 an estimated 400 patients...
Duncan Smith – Coalition Slave Master
THE Coalition’s Duncan Smith, an ex-army officer, is proposing to discipline the unemployed with forced slave labour, as part of the Coalition’s plan to...
After November 5th rout build new leadership in the FBU
THE News Line salutes the London FBU membership which has stood firm in its defence of terms and conditions against a pre-planned massive onslaught...
‘Education not Emigration’ needs a socialist revolution in Ireland
IRISH government plans to increase university fees from 1,500 euros to 2,500 euros led to Wednesday’s 40,000 strong students march in Dublin, and to...
Leaving university £70,000 in debt!
MEDICAL students will be left almost £70,000 in debt under Government plans to allow universities to charge up to £9,000 in tuition fees, the...
Down with the Anglo- French imperialist war plans!
ON August 31 the Labour Party called on the Coalition to end the speculation that Britain is considering sharing its aircraft carrier capability with...
Take strike action to support the firefighters and trade unionism
THE use of police dogs to ‘protect’ scabs at a south London fire station during yesterday’s one day strike by London FBU members shows...
Royal Mail’s Privatisation Bill includes the end of the daily delivery
THE Coalition’s Business Secretary, Cable, told MPs last week in the House of Commons that the Bill to privatise the Royal Mail ‘will maintain...
Expropriate the landlords, build millions of council homes
WHEN the Tory Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, starts accusing his coalition government of ‘Kosovo-style social cleansing’ in the capital over the plans to...
Bankers fumble in the dark
‘THE recession has. . . certainly presented us with plenty of puzzles,’ says the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Charles Bean. Addressing the...
Take strike action to support FBU!
THE London Firefighters one day strike last Saturday has drawn a swift response from the capitalist state, via their mouthpieces in the bourgeois press. Commenting...
Coalition ready for Mumbai-style heavy weapons battles in cities
UK security chiefs have ordered an acceleration in police heavy weapons training so that they can hold the line against Mumbai-style attacks in UK...
308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla 308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla blockade busters
ON May 31 this year, Israeli commandos abseiled onto the deck of the ‘Mavi Marmara’, which was sailing in international waters on its way...
US-UK war unleashed licenced mass murder onto the Iraqi people!
LAST Friday night, Wikileaks published the secret US field reports and war logs from the battlefield that is Iraq, detailing recorded civilian deaths, torture...
All out behind the firefighters
Today, the London FBU are staging the first of two eight hour strikes against the plans to sack the entire workforce of over 5,000...
Organise a general strike to kick out the Tory-LibDem regime
EVERYONE has had the chance to work out what the Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition government’s Comprehensive Spending Review means, with £81bn in cuts hitting jobs...
Fight Tory class war programme – bring down the Coalition!
OSBORNE began his spending review speech yesterday by saying that: ‘Today’s the day when Britain steps back from the brink’. In fact, his speech represented...
Make It ‘Doomsday’ For The Coalition Not For Council Housing
THE ‘social housing’ budget in England is to be slashed by more than 50 per cent. Up to 90 per cent of the market rent...
One day FBU strikes must pave the way for a general strike!
LAST Friday the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced that it would kick off its defence of jobs and conditions with two days of strike...
Tories savage poor but grovel to Clinton and US
THE bankers coalition has set the scene for next Wednesday’s cuts announcements in true Bullingham Club style, by declaring that ‘welfare cheats’ equal muggers,...
Death while under ‘restraint’
THE death of a 46-year-old family man being deported from Heathrow has thrown the spotlight on the entire racist immigration policy and its private...
Workers do Battle All Over Europe!
GREEK riot police fired tear gas and beat Ministry of Culture workers yesterday morning after the workers had occupied the Acropolis in Athens demanding...
Defend the Royal Mail – Form a public sector alliance – Bring down the...
FOLLOWING the publication of the coalition’s Postal Services Bill, Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, said: ‘The government has wasted no time in flogging...