Brown In Blinkers Ignores The Economic Crisis
BROWN’S ‘big’ budget speech yesterday was an anti-climax, since it was an obvious attempt to ignore the worldwide capitalist economic crisis, and the completely...
TUC must end its shameful silence on Palestine and be forced to call a...
Last Saturday, over 170,000 workers, students and youth marched through London in support of the struggle of the Palestinians against the occupation of their...
British Army To Brown – ‘Stand And Deliver’
THE armed forces chiefs have entered politics and are to present the government with a shopping list of purchases that it must make, or...
Socialist Revolution is the only real answer to the capitalist crisis!
NEARLY one million people in Britain are just £10 away from falling into poverty according to the new analysis from the leading poverty charity,...
Bankers gripped by fear are relying on ‘hope’!
THE new Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), Charles Bean said yesterday that when the so-called ‘credit crunch’ began last August central...
Furious Hague threatens to recognise the Syrian opposition as the government!
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Syria for talks with President Bashar al-Assad. He was cheered by tens of thousands of pro-Assad...
Take action to stop the bosses closing factories and Tories privatising services!
WITH the crisis of capitalism deepening, the UK bosses and bankers are using the US trade war, the developing banking collapse and slump (on...
Brown lambasts Tube strikers and public sector workers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown mounted an outspoken attack on members of the RMT railworkers’ union on strike at the London Underground bankrupt maintenance company...
Lagarde admits crisis as deep as five years ago!
IMF CHIEF Christine Lagarde opened her speech of last Monday in Washington with a dose of false optimism. She said: ‘Let me begin by saying...
Inflation Running Riot – Time To Put An End To Capitalism And Bring In...
THE TORY government is now presiding over huge increases in prices, the biggest increases in 40 years. A massive inflation is under way with...
Pakistan resisting US demands for new offensives
PAKISTAN’S army has just announced that it will launch no new offensives on its territory in 2010. At the same time the US Defence...
Saudis oil war is deepening the world crisis
SAUDI Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, has said the oil producers’ cartel, Opec, will not cut production even if the price falls to $20...
Deal Aimed At Strangling Cwu Branches
THE CWU trade union has agreed a ‘landmark’ agreement with Royal Mail. CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward said: ‘The agreement breaks new ground in...
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...
Words Are Not Enough! The TUC Must Take Action To Prevent Workers Being Driven...
WITH 21 TORY MPS having the whip removed from them, now being joined by more Tory defectors like Amber Rudd, and while Labour makes...
Union leaders go easy on Brown’s bosses’ budget
CHANCELLOR Brown’s budget yesterday outlined savage attacks on the working class, particularly low paid workers. His decision to abolish the 10 pence tax rate...
Stagnant Eu Heading For A Crash!
EUROZONE inflation has fallen to its lowest level since the height of the 2008 financial collapse, sliding further into what the European Central Bank...
Johnson Treats ‘Doormat’ Starmer With Complete Contempt
ON MONDAY night, prime minister Boris Johnson decreed that England’s third national lockdown would legally come into force on Tuesday night with parliament called...
Build Councils of Action – Forward to the General Strike!
500 WORKERS and youth, men, women and children marched yesterday through Southall to Ealing to defend Ealing hospital whose closure has begun with...
Bush, Blair, Obama, And Cameron Are The War Criminals!
THAT the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants against Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, his son and his brother-in-law, on...
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...
Brics Challenge To Almighty Dollar!
MOSCOW believes that the US capitalists are targeting it with sanctions ‘because the events in Ukraine have not developed the way Washington scripted them,’...
Mass Unemployment And Poverty Is All Capitalism Has To Offer Workers And Youth!
THE NUMBER of people claiming unemployment benefit in the UK soared to 2.1 million in April – the first full month of the coronavirus...
Tories plan to axe half a million hospital appointments each year in drive to...
HEALTH Secretary Steve Barclay did the rounds of the TV studios on Sunday to declare an all-out war on doctors, nurses and patients, as...
The Chief Banker Condemns The Banks
THE governor of the bank of England, Mervyn King, has launched a scathing attack on the major UK banks, accusing them of trying to...
Israel In A Desperate Crisis As Fitch Downgrades Israel To An ‘A’ Outlook Negative!
THE FITCH ratings agency’s downgrading of Israel to ‘A’ reflects the impact of the continuation of the war in Gaza, heightened geopolitical risks and...
May Day Manifesto 2015 Organise the Revolution!
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world at a time when the historic crisis...
US vetoes UN resolution on Gaza as it openly ‘stands with Israel’ in imperialism’s...
ON WEDNESDAY, the US vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution demanding ‘an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire’ in Gaza. The draft resolution also...
Brown Remains The Bankers’ Man!
GORDON Brown was putting on a show of humbleness last night when he admitted on TV that he was not perfect but had made...
98 deaths in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan
ON the brink of the third anniversary of the Anglo-US invasion of Iraq, the US based Human Rights First organisation has released a report...
Wal-Mart Asda Blinks First To Avoid Costly Five Day Strike Action
‘GMB members win the right to collective bargaining in the UK, Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots’, is what the GMB trade union optimistically labelled the...
Forward to the Greek Socialist Revolution!
AFTER the failure of the major Greek political parties to form a government, Greece’s top Supreme Court judge, Vassiliki Thanou, has been appointed caretaker...
Forward to the Third Intifada
THE US SPECIAL envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, who negotiated the basis of the power sharing agreement in the north of Ireland,...
Bosses predict massive shocks after UK general election!
TO say that the international banking system and the world stock markets are in a state described as ‘nervous’ is to do great injustice...
NEC declares war on Labour Party members with the support of the Law Courts
THE Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Labour Party right wing and against Labour Party democracy last Friday afternoon, when it banned...
‘Remainer’ May gives the UK parliament the final say!
PM MAY yesterday told a Lancaster House press conference of her government’s plan to quit the dictatorial EU and its Single Market. Harkening back to...
End the Israeli occupation of Palestine!
IT IS 40 years since Israeli warplanes destroyed the Egyptian airforce on the ground and Israeli troops occupied the Sinai peninsula, occupied Syria’s Golan...
Defending US ‘strategic interests’ leads directly to imperialist war
IT WAS CLAUSEWITZ who said that war is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means. In unveiling a large number of...
Tories’ Enabling Act Brings In Open Bourgeois Dictatorship
THE UK government in alliance with the Labour Party has over a three-day period pushed through an emergency law, the Data Retention and Investigatory...
Mass strikes required to fight sackings and wage cuts
THE jobs crisis in the UK is sharpening to boiling point in the motor car industry and in the power construction industry, affecting...
Overthrow of Niger’s pro-imperialist government a massive blow to imperialism
THE OUSTING of Niger president Mohamed Bazoum by the military has sent shock waves across the imperialist world, with France and the United States...
Disband the Met Police – forward to a workers state and socialism
WHEN Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel is forced to say that she is ‘appalled and sickened’ by the behaviour of Metropolitan Police officers, then...
British capitalism is in its death agony – time for the British Socialist revolution!
DISASTROUS financial data released yesterday showed UK public sector borrowing hitting £24.3bn in April, dealing another body-blow to the beleaguered and split Labour government. The...
Benefits cuts frenzy grips coalition
THE New Year has kicked off with a frenzied attack by both Tory and their LibDem coalition partners on the low paid, unemployed, the...
Only a socialist revolution can win the Tamils’ right to self-determination
THE News Line salutes the heroic self-sacrifice of the Tamil Tigers and the Tamil people as a whole. They have fought and are fighting not...