Clarke Tells Blair It’s Time To Go
TONY BLAIR may not be able to recover his authority and leadership after recent damaging events, former Blair Home Secretary, Clarke has said. Charles...
Make the TUC take action to defend the NHS
YESTERDAY both Blair and Hewitt mocked NHS workers insulting their intelligence with the Hewitt line that this year was the best ever year for...
Saab goes bust as GM’s Opel-Vauxhall crisis deepens
GM’S crisis has deepened with the collapse of its deal to sell Saab, and as the EU states do battle over whose plants are...
Universal Credit can’t be fixed: Abolish it along with the Tories!
THE TORY government suffered a defeat in the courts this week when the court of appeal dismissed a challenge by the Department for Work...
LOW PAY – TUC Commission shows the problem, but runs away from a solution
YESTERDAY the TUC revealed in its ‘Commission on Vulnerable Employment’ report what everybody already knows. This is that low pay and slave labour...
Tunisian Revolution Brings Down Interior Minister
TUNISIAN President Ben Ali has dismissed his interior minister and ordered the release of most of those detained during the current clashes over food...
Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan to end terrorism
NEWS LINE sends its condolences to the families of those who were killed in Thursday’s terrorist attacks on London, and its best wishes for...
Enough is Enough! – With no time to lose lobby the TUC and demand...
THE ACCUSATION that the Tory government is paralysed waiting on the outcome of the leadership battle between Truss and Sunak is very wide of...
Starmer announces creation of a ‘standing army’ as the Labour government moves to impose...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer emerged from an emergency COBRA meeting of ministers on Monday to announce the formation of a new ‘standing army’...
The only way out of the growing and desperate capitalist crisis is through organising...
STOCK markets in the US ended last week sharply down following tough comments by the head of the country’s central bank, the Federal Reserve,...
Imperialists and their puppets defeated in Aleppo – Now forward to the Palestinian state!
ON Tuesday evening there was dancing in the streets of Aleppo as residents celebrated the defeat of the Islamist factions that had been armed,...
Met chief demands police be beyond the law
IT emerged yesterday that the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir Paul Stephenson, has been lobbying the Tory home secretary for changes in the...
Osborne to make £11.5bn spending review cuts!
ON a day during which it was announced by German bankers that Cyprus’ banks may never open again, and by the ONS that UK...
Labour government is splitting apart – Remove it and go forward to a Workers...
THE civil war in the top leadership of the Labour government erupted in public this week after briefings to the press from Prime Minister...
Trump gears up for war against Iran – defeat imperialist war with socialist revolution
US IMPERIALISM launched an unprovoked wave of airstrikes against targets in both Syria and Iraq on Sunday, targeting bases controlled by Iraqi Popular Mobilisation...
May appeals to Labour Right-Wing to save her
THE TOTTERING Tory government of Theresa May was dealt another massive blow on Wednesday night when the ten Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MPs abstained...
Dictatorial powers for Home Secretary
DAVID Anderson QC, the government’s ‘independent reviewer’ of terrorism legislation, asked a basic question about the powers that Home Secretary May’s will acquire if...
Coup Against Corbyn Underway As Head Rabbi Announces He Is ‘Not Fit For High...
WITH just over two weeks to go before the general election, the campaign by the Tories and their right-wing supporters in the Labour Party...
China triggers a stock market rout as US supremacy in AI technology is shattered
Shares in high tech stocks took a severe hit this week when China announced that the state-owned company, Shanghai Yuliangsheng, was about to begin...
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...
NHS Executives back away from imposition – Unions must take strike action
HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s contract imposition has already begun to hit the rocks with 10 of the 20 NHS executives who signed the Dalton letter...
Yates Demands A Heavily Armed Paramilitary Police Force!
BRITAIN’S top counter-terrorism officer, Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner Yates, has demanded that paramilitary police forces be established in the UK, and insists that they...
Tory ‘crackdown’ on youth inspired by fear of young people as a revolutionary force
TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak yesterday launched a ‘crackdown’ on anti-social behaviour and begging, as the centrepiece of government policies in what is a...
World’s Stock Markets Set For Financial Crash!
IT was reported yesterday that a survey of the top professional ‘money managers’ revealed that these investment experts believe that the world’s leading stock...
New Orleans and Baghdad, twin cities destroyed by US capitalism
NEW ORLEANS was allowed to be destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. US capitalism and its Bush administration had on the top of their agendas massive tax...
Bush loses US Congress votes
THE Senate of the United States Congress, which has a Republican majority, fired a shot across the bows of President George Bush’s administration over...
Expropriate out of control banks!
THE giant international bank HSBC is ‘cast-iron certain’ to break the regulatory rules, the laws which are supposed to govern banking practices, again. These were...
Ten-hour day for schoolkids!
AT ONE time it used to be said that British workers were working such long hours that they did not have an opportunity to...
Britain’s household debt time-bomb
DESPITE all the propaganda pumped out by Osborne in his budget speech last week, about UK capitalism ‘walking tall’ and well on the way...
To stop Tories axing the NHS, TUC must call a general strike!
SECRET plans have been uncovered to cut £23bn from the NHS. Such a cut, if it is allowed to proceed would mean the closure...
US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis and NATO to organise a war with...
PM Boris Johnson said yesterday that Ukrainians are ‘fighting heroically’ and with ‘great success’ in some places against Russian troops who have intervened to...
Coulson, Cameron tools of the Murdoch empire
THE resignation of Coulson yesterday as Prime Minister David Cameron’s Director of Communications, follows on, almost immediately, from the police being forced to re-open...
Greek blood money debt bonds for sale!
BANKRUPTED Greece, still up to its neck in debt, is to sell five-year bonds, in the country’s first long-term debt sale since its international...
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...
Tory Chairman Quits While Johnson Skulks In Rwanda Hoping That Something Will Turn Up
THE TORY wipe-out in the two by-elections has left the great leader skulking in Rwanda, while his Tory Party chairman Dowden has resigned, writing...
RMT victory in ScotRail dispute shows the way forward for working class
ON WEDNESDAY, the RMT transport union members won a massive victory in their fight against the ‘pitiful’ pay offer from ScotRail. RMT members at ScotRail,...
Ten trade union leaders write to Burnham demanding he ends UK support for US...
At the weekend, Labour’s new prime minister Andy Burnham announced he would be undertaking a ‘national tour’ of the country to improve the government’s...
Israelis Bomb Gaza And Shell The Lebanon
FOUR Lebanese soldiers were killed and at least four wounded when Israeli tanks opened fire at Lebanese positions on the border with Israel shortly...
Trump Wants The Whole World To Pay For The Crisis And Death Agony Of...
DEEP splits among the imperialist powers emerged this week over the rapidly growing support for a Palestinian state, at the same time as Trump...
Unions to call for London-wide strike action to defeat Tory attack on TfL workers
RAIL unions have pledged mass industrial action in response to the Tory attacks on the jobs, pay and pensions of workers at TfL (Transport...
Call national strike action! Form a public sector alliance!
OVER 12,000 postal workers are taking strike action today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and the executive dictatorship by Royal Mail, while...
Capitalism’s Historical Crisis Demands Socialist Revolution
THE historic crisis of world capitalism has come to a head with a vengeance, with both the once mighty US economy and the European...
Nationalise the drug companies and end agency staffing to save NHS
THE NHS is today fighting for its life, with even more savage cuts to come after the election. The Tories are actively planning to regionalise...
Working class rising up in massive strike wave – time for unions to call...
THE OFFICE for National Statistics (ONS) revealed yesterday that the number of days lost due to strikes last year was the highest since 1989. In...
Miliband’s ‘national interest’ is an ‘imperialist interest’
FOREIGN Secretary Miliband declared to his audience, right at the start of his Oxford College speech last Tuesday evening, that ‘we’ must not let...