Unions must purge Brown cabinet!
THE defeat of the Labour Party in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election – by 7,860 votes, making a 17.6% swing to the Tories from...
Congress Must Sack O’Grady And Mobilise To Bring Down The Tories!
THE ‘leader’ of the Trade Union Congress, Frances O’Grady yesterday stabbed millions of workers in the back when she declared on The Andrew Marr...
Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe
THE EU IS IN DESPERATE CRISIS with the established political order breaking apart in country after country, from Ireland and the UK to Austria, Greece...
US-UK strikes at Syrian army on eve of Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia –...
LAST Monday, the US-led coalition airforce in the Middle East, that includes the UK, attacked and bombed Al-Bukamal near the Syrian border with Iraq...
Labour must call to free Palestinian hunger strikers and recognise State of Palestine!
THE Head of the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee Issa Qaraqe said on Friday afternoon, the 26th day of the prisoners’ hunger strike, that negotiations could...
Tory split deepens as demand to end ‘health and safety authoritarianism’ grows
THE CRISIS gripping the British ruling class is being directly reflected in the splits that are tearing the Tory Party apart over how to...
Build councils of action to support the postal workers
‘THIS has been the best-supported strike I’ve ever seen,’ CWU General Secretary, Billy Hayes told striking postal workers in Peckham yesterday. This was after the...
Corbyn must start fighting for Brexit or the right wing will bin him, and...
IN their latest manoeuvre to dump the 2016 referendum result to leave the EU, the right-wing of the Labour Party are now manoeuvring to...
UK Economy Gripped By Slump And Inflation
UK economic growth ground to a halt between April and June, according to the latest official data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
Vote ‘Leave’ on June 23 to get rid of Cameron and the Tory government!...
IT is rapidly becoming crystal clear how important it is to vote ‘Leave’ in the June 23rd referendum on the EU. A ‘Leave’ vote will...
Defend All Jobs And Services And Send The Bailiffs Packing!
HARD PRESSED councils facing the threat of bankruptcy at the hands of the Tory government, and facing the prospect of having government commissioners imposed...
Tory government acted illegally! It has no right to rule and must be...
THE Supreme Court yesterday dealt a death blow to the Tory strategy to make it financially impossible for workers to take their employers...
Obama recognises the limits of US power
PRESIDENT Obama yesterday gave the go-ahead for a massive attack on the Afghan people in which tens of thousands of men, women and children...
World banking system faces melt-down
THE world crisis of capitalism has sharpened to the extent that even the staid Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has been forced to express...
First the 2016 referendum defeat for the ruling class, now May is being ...
THE LAST week has seen the Tory drive to have PM May crowned as Empress, via a runaway election victory and a huge majority,...
Salute the struggling Visteon workers – replace their treacherous national leadership!
THE News Line gives its full support to the workers at the Belfast, Enfield and Basildon Visteon plants who are fighting Visteon’s decision to...
Royal Mail – The Way Forward To Victory
THE announcement by the CWU of a programme of two 48-hour national strikes across all sections of Royal Mail, along with a programme of...
Lagarde Calls For ‘Brave Action’ To Inflate Economies
IMF Managing Director Lagarde has warned that the world economy is ‘too weak for comfort’, and that it could be heading for years of...
Greek workers must build their revolutionary leadership
THE fact that the Greek working class brought Syriza from nothing to power, in the course of one general election, has been correctly taken...
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...
EU 750 billion euros ‘Recovery Fund’ nothing more than a Trojan Horse for...
LAST Tuesday the emergency summit of leaders of the EU 27 member states finally agreed to a 750 billion euros pandemic recovery fund after...
Sterling disaster – it crashes against the $ and the €
BANK of England governor King’s report, on the immediate prospects for British capitalism has produced a run on the pound – so precarious is...
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...
After the Peace Prize – let battle commence!
AT the same moment as France and Germany were being given a Nobel prize for keeping the peace in Europe, ie not going to...
Labour is selling off school playing fields
SCHOOLS Secretary Ed Balls and his predecessor Alan Johnson have given the go-head to the sell-off of 19 school playing fields over the past...
Cameron abuses Corbyn, pledges to end social housing and announces an end to ‘passive...
AFTER Theresa May’s vintage Tory beat-and-beat-again speech on Tuesday to the Tory Party conference, treating migrants as the enemy and rating their contribution...
Coalition Plans To Smash Workers’ Rights
THE REPORT outlining government proposals to smash up any rights workers have to secure employment and legal protection from unfair dismissal finally saw the...
African workers must unite for socialist revolution
THE violence against foreigners accused of taking jobs and working as cheap labour that has swept the South African townships has its source in...
Defend jobs & pay! Nationalise the car industry!
FIAT, the multinational car monopoly based in Italy, is in talks with the German government and the Works Council at Opel, the subsidiary of...
Trades unions must fight for jobs for youth!
NEARLY half of all employers (45 per cent) will not be offering jobs to 16-year-old school-leavers and graduates this year. The Chartered Institute of Personnel...
Workers must apply ‘French tactics’ against a parliament that is trying to steal Brexit!
BRITISH parliamentary democracy was exposed as nothing more than a chaotic and rapidly collapsing sham on Tuesday when, for the first time in history,...
Capitalism Facing ‘Debt Annihilation’ While Its Supporters Panic And Prepare A New World...
OPTIMISM is in very short supply in the UK ruling class when it examines the state of British capitalism. The Business Comment in The Sunday...
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...
Ukraine faces more savage austerity and cuts to qualify for IMF ‘aid’!
UKRAINE’S central bank has sharply raised interest rates from 19.5% to 30% in an effort to curb inflation and prop up its beleaguered currency...
AA sold to Saga, Permira and CVC bosses pocket £300m
TRUE to form the private equity capitalist groups Permira and CVC having acquired the prestigious AA motoring group with the help of huge borrowings...
Nationalise the Pharmaceutical Industry
AT last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, 100 pharmaceutical companies and private health care companies issued a statement demanding that governments around the...
Shell bites the dust – forward to the political revolution
THE massive Royal Shell energy giant, which purchased the Sakhalin-2 concession for a song from Boris Yeltsin, was yesterday brought down to earth with...
British capitalism remains on the floor with wages falling and part-time working booming
THE number of people estimated to be out of work in the UK fell by 133,000 to a ‘five-year low’ of 2.2 million in...
Imperialism responsible for Libyan detention centre bombing atrocity
THE BOMBING of a detention centre holding 600 refugees in the Libyan capital Tripoli last Wednesday killed at least 44 people and wounded over...
UK recession ‘inevitable’ – only socialist revolution can end capitalist crisis
THE FICTION of a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ for British capitalism is now firmly rejected by even the most loyal of...
Send ex-Goldman Sachs Carney packing
YESTERDAY the new head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, officially took up the reins from the outgoing Sir Mervyn King. Carney, formerly head...
After 100 days – Cameron pledges to step up class war!
PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...
End free movement in EU urges May as Tory crisis deepens!
THE deepening worldwide capitalist crisis is driving forward revolution with seven-league boots. The crisis is threatening a new banking and industrial crash at any moment...
No Charges For The NHS – Kick The Coalition Out
THE savage Tory-led coalition’s cuts programme to smash the NHS is now well under way! Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...
Bring the airports out in support of Ryanair and BA strikers! Nationalise the...
THE BRITISH AIRWAYS pilots strike is on for both Monday and Tuesday in an escalating battle over pay. British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) BA...