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Patients & staff paying price of £1bn NHS under-spend

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LABOUR ministers are boasting that the projected £983m under-spend in the National Health Service are evidence that it has regained its ‘financial footing’. Health Secretary...

The US raises its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling as capitalism races towards the precipice!

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THE US House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill to raise the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, while also attaching sweeping, massive...

Time for a general strike to stop the war!

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‘THIS is a tremendous demonstration of the anger of the British people against what Blair has done in Iraq and is threatening to do...

Gate Gourmet Workers Lead The Way!

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ON SUNDAY, hundreds of workers from Gate Gourmet, who were locked out and sacked by the company on August 10, 2005, are marching with...

Mass Electoral Abstentions Show That French Capitalism Is Rotten! It Must Be Overthrown...

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FRENCH bourgeois democracy, and with it French capitalism, is ‘sick’, and both are in a huge existential crisis. On Sunday, a record two-thirds of...
Two gem miners working knee deep in water with a sieve – are paid no wages and get only meals

Kick out the yellow trade union leaders

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THE GATE GOURMET bosses were cock-a-hoop yesterday, and no wonder – after the leader of the TUC, Barber, and the leaders of the...

Britain Is Ripe For Socialist Revolution

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THE British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) quarterly report has just discovered a situation that every worker and every shopper has been acquainted with for...

Labour has no answer to the problems that the working class and middle class...

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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...

Irish trade unions must call a general strike!

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IRISH TUC leader David Begg said on Saturday ‘It appears that the day of reckoning has arrived. The barbarians are at the gates.’ ...

‘History at a turning point’ – forward to victory of world socialist revolution

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THE ANNUAL meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos started yesterday on the theme of ‘history at a...

Afghanistan bound or out of the frying pan into the fire

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YESTERDAY the Italian Prime Minister, Prodi in his first speech to the Senate as Prime Minister said that the war in Iraq had been...

Abbas to meet Kerry for decisive talks

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas is to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris today to discuss the peace talks with Israeli, US and...

IMF warns of impending capitalist crash – world revolution the only answer

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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday warned that the massive surge in US inflation driving the Central Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) to push up...

Chagossians must have the right to return – the US base on Diego Garcia...

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A BIG delegation of the 2,000 Chagossians who are living in Crawley, plus delegations from the FBU, GMB and POA trade unions will be...
Mass demonstration by locked out Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow earlier in their struggle

TERRORISM BILL: Defeat Blair’s police-state measures!

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THE Labour government’s new Terrorism Bill, published yesterday, will be debated by MPs in the House of Commons today. For the past few days, Prime...

Turkish Masses Serve Notice On Erdogan

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THE uprising of the Turkish masses, which began over the future of a park in European Turkey and rapidly spread across the country, including...

Trade Unions Must Fight Alongside The Students!

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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...

Build The Wrp And The Ys – Forward To The British Socialist Revolution

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NOW is the time to build the WRP and the Young Socialists into the leadership of the working class and the student youth...

Iraqi masses to march today to end the US-UK occupation

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ON THE eve of today’s expected one million strong march in Baghdad, called by Moqtada al-Sadr, against the US-UK occupation of Iraq, US tanks...

Bank of England & US Fed continue to pump out free money to attempt...

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England announced that it will be keeping interest rates on hold at the historical low of 0.1%. This was the unanimous...

Tories Want To Bomb Syria!

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TORY Defence Minister, Michael Fallon, with the full support of Cameron and leading members of the Labour Party, is calling for Britain to start...

Johnson Will Use His Dictatorial Powers Against The Working Class!

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THE DEBATE on the adjournment of Parliament for a month until April 21 took place immediately after the Tory emergency legislation passed though the...

Britain hardest hit by world capitalist crisis

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YESTERDAY’S reports on the state of the economy reveal more about the catastrophe gripping British capitalism, part of the world crisis. • The Bank of...

Make May apologise for 100 years of the Balfour Declaration!

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PM May has gone out of her way to insult the Palestinian people by declaring her pride in the 100th anniversary of the Balfour...

Government plans to smash up health and safety laws

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THE Tory-led coalition is pushing full steam ahead with its plans to completely smash up the health and safety legislation and leave hundreds of...

Now is the time to build the world Trotskyist movement!

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ON Wednesday, the general secretary of the TUC, Frances O’Grady, penned another begging letter to the Tory government, this time to the Secretary of...

Bank of England follows US Fed in driving up interest rates to ‘save’ capitalism!

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England (BofE) hiked up the interest rate by 0.25% to 1.25%, its highest level in 13 years – the first...

Occupy And Nationalise Vauxhall Plants

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THREE companies have bid to take over GM Europe from the crisis-stricken US giant. They are Italian carmaker Fiat, Canadian parts maker Magna and...

By 278 votes to 0 MPs vote for extending the Universal Credit top-up beyond...

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THE TORY government was delivered a massive blow on Monday evening when it was defeated by 278 votes to 0 when MPs voted for...

Decade of Tory NHS cuts has disabled the NHS! 4.6m now wait for operations....

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THE SURGE in coronavirus cases in January hit key services including cancer and even routine surgery, NHS England figures released on Thursday exposed. Over the...

Victory to Gate Gourmet locked-out workers

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TEXAS PACIFIC and its Gate Gourmet protege are not renowned for making apologies. In fact the opposite is the case. They are renowned for...

Aviation is going into the abyss! Nationalise the entire industry through a socialist revolution!

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RYANAIR is to cut 3,000 jobs representing 15% of its workforce, it was announced yesterday. British Airways is to cut up to 12,000 jobs and...

State to give bankrupt bankers cash in exchange for their paper rubbish

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PRIME Minister Brown has made an appeal to the Wall Street bankers to be honest, surely a contradiction in terms. He wants them to publicly...

Charge Harry Stanley’s Killers!

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THE uncovering of ‘new’ forensic evidence by the Surrey constabulary has led to the arrest of the two police officers who shot dead Harry...

A Case Of Strange Bedfellows

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THE Attorney General Lord Goldsmith has come back from the US convinced that the Labour government must change its position against the use...

Labour splits apart as Starmer fights for survival

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THE civil war that has been simmering within the Labour Party erupted this weekend following the decision by Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC)...

Brown and Darling saving the bosses by savaging the workers

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AS is his way, the Prime Minister addressed the CBI bosses organisation yesterday, just hours before his Chancellor was due to declare to the...

A First For The Labour Party – A Leader Who Was A Key Official...

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SIR KEIR Starmer, the ex-Director of Public Prosecutions, and currently the leader of the Labour Party, has just engaged in a second key mission...

Southern Cross collapse– true face of privatisation

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On Monday Tory prime minister, David Cameron, unveiled the long awaited White Paper that will enshrine in law the ‘presumption’ that public services should...

Free Julian Assange! Imperialists are the real war criminals!

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JULIAN Assange’s extradition hearing resumed in London yesterday with the US government once again throwing in new charges at the last moment. According to reports,...

‘Let them eat cake!’ Brown turns his back on the workers!

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ADDRESSING the bosses of the Scottish CBI, Prime Minister Gordon Brown assured them that his government will not be giving workers, the poor and...
The WRP’s rally on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution on November 12th. Its main slogan ‘Forward to the World  October!’is very relevent for this new year, 2018. Palestinian ambassador MANUEL HASSASSIAN is addressing the rally

2018 – The Year For World Revolution!

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New Year Manifesto by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary greetings for 2018 to all our readers,...

Public Sector Disaster F0R British Capitalism

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THE UK’s public sector net deficit for October reached £11.4bn and is the highest monthly deficit since records began. The national debt at...

Clarke staggers on as Tories hold back from resignation call

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The ex-Home Secretary Blunkett was forced to resign after interfering to get his lover’s nanny special treatment from the passport office, and then seeking...

Establish the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital in 2017!

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THE Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saeb Erekat has denounced the ongoing escalation by the Israeli government against its Palestinian citizens as...