Kelly forges ahead with schools’ privatisation
AMID media speculation that Blair’s government is willing to compromise on plans for independent ‘trust schools’, contained in next month’s Education Bill, the reality...
Paper tiger union leaders ‘pause for peace’ at Grangemouth
THE just concluded 48-hour strike by the Grangemouth oil refinery workers was a magnificent success and showed to the entire world the power that...
Tories to wield privatisation axe!
AFTER years of promising that the NHS is ‘safe in our hands’ accompanied by pledges that budgets would be protected with a ring fence...
TUC leaders must bin Johnson’s empty pledges and call a general strike to bring...
PM JOHNSON’S Tory conference speech was completely empty bombast that sought to cover over the economic catastrophe that is developing throughout the capitalist system...
Victory To Syria – Smash Is, The Nusra Front And Their Western Backers –...
AT THE same time as the Nusra Front and the remnants of IS were shelling Damascus, and the Turkish imperialists were killing Kurds in...
Gaza Residents Are Hit By Aid Strike!
THERE has been a very bitter winter in Palestine especially in the war ravaged Gaza Strip where tens of thousands of Gazans’ homes were...
Eurozone on brink of collapse – forward to Socialist United States of Europe
The news yesterday that the cost of borrowing for Spain has jumped to over 6% will inevitably mean that for the country to stagger...
Iraq – Time For Britain To Cut And Run
SATURDAY’S engagement in Basra was a serious one for British imperialism. One Lynx helicopter was lost, shot down by a Strella missile and five British...
Afghan civilians being slaughtered while poppy production is booming
MASSIVE NATO firepower is killing hundreds of Afghan civilians, as British forces in Helmand province battle with Taleban fighters seeking to bring back to...
As Israel implodes – forward to the Palestinian State where Palestinian and Jewish workers...
AFTER 27 weeks of mass Israeli and Palestinian protests, Israel’s legislature has approved the first reading of a racist and divisive plan drawn up...
Bankrupt McCluskey won’t take action to bring down the Tories!
IN A statement passed overwhelmingly by Unite’s policy conference in Brighton, the union stressed that its priority is to push for a general election...
Working Class In UK Requires A New And Revolutionary Leadership!
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak dropped any pretence that British capitalism would stage a miraculous ‘bounce back’ when he confessed that the country faces ‘a...
Starmer must be sacked now – TUC must call a general strike to bring...
If Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer believed that sacking Peter Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to the United States would provide him with some...
Just What The Doctor Ordered!
EARLY yesterday morning 21 people were arrested and charged under the various terrorism acts, while Scotland Yard said that the 21 were engaged in...
NATO massacres Libyan civilians to loot the country’s oil
THE bloody massacre of 85 Libyan men, women and children by NATO in the town of Zlitan exposes once and for all that when...
Resolve the world crisis of capitalism with the victory of the World Socialist Revolution
The world crisis of capitalism dominated the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. The splits between US imperialism and its...
Hamas salutes the victory of the Syrian people which points the way forward for...
THE head of Hamas’ foreign political bureau Khaled Mishaal, said yesterday that the victory of the Syrian people heralds the victory for the Islamic...
Anti-Brexit Coup Underway – Workers Must Take Action To Force UK Out Of Eu...
ON FRIDAY PM MAY let it be known that if she did not think that her EU deal would be agreed by parliament she...
Sudanese workers force PM Hamdok to quit – now the working class and the...
THE NEWS Line Editorial Board sent its revolutionary New Year greetings on January 1st to the workers and youth in Sudan who are continuing...
World Crisis driving world revolution – Build the Fourth International!
LAST week it was the turn of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to issue its latest warning that world capitalism is on the point...
Labour seeking state control of inquests
THE parliamentary Human Rights Committee report on the government’s latest Counter-Terrorism Bill, before its second reading in the House of Commons, records just...
Labour demands students foot the bill to bail out bankrupt universities
ON Monday, Labour education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced that university tuition fees will be increased for the first time in eight years. Phillipson’s increase means...
No ‘trade-off’ for the NHS: Kick out the Tories instead!
THE HEAD of NHS England, Simon Stevens, yesterday released the report ‘Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View’, a report that makes...
End all collaboration between TUC and Tories – build a new leadership to call...
TRADES Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Frances O’Grady’s speech to its annual conference contained no call for action from the unions to fight Tory...
Leaked documents reveal a failed mass-murder machine
THE leaked 90,000 US Afghan war documents once again show – as did the My Lai mass killings of the Vietnamese people – the...
Bank of England boss warns of global economic collapse as AI risks destabilising...
ANDREW BAILEY, governor of the Bank of England, has issued his strongest warning yet about the danger to the capitalist world financial system posed...
US escalates war on Iran – TUC must be forced to call general strike...
ON SUNDAY, US president Donald Trump issued his latest threat that American military forces would force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Dubbed ‘Project...
Sack Starmer Not Corbyn – No National Government!
FORMER LABOUR PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the Labour Party’s ‘political’ decision to apologise and pay damages of over £500,000 to so-called party...
Capitalism’s biggest crisis since 1706, warns BofE! Make it its last with a socialist...
THE BANK of England’s latest report, released on Thursday, has revealed the full extent of the catastrophic crisis of capitalism, now writhing around in...
Solidarity action over Lineker sacking causes Tories to crumble – now is time to...
BOTH the BBC and the Tories were in a state of meltdown over the weekend following the decision of the BBC bosses, urged on...
Police don’t serve the public–they oppress it
ON the eve of yesterday’s 15,000 strong Police Federation demonstration through London, against the staging of their 2.6 per cent pay award, reducing it...
Victory To Gadaffi – Defeat The Nato Gangsters!
ON Saturday, Colonel Gadaffi stated that the counter-revolutionary groups that had tried to rise up in a number of areas in Tripoli had been...
Only solution to world crisis of capitalism – World Socialist Revolution
TODAY we are living in the period of the death agony of the world capitalist system. Everywhere the crisis is ripping apart nation states,...
Chancellor’s Budget for starving the working class
OSBORNE’S BUDGET speech was devoid of any attempt to analyse the world crisis that is gripping capitalism and which is deepening by the hour,...
North Korea condemns Trump’s threats and issues its own warning!
THE North Korean government has rejected claims by President Trump that a combination of threats and sanctions have brought Pyongyang to the negotiating table....
Imperialism is on the point of defeat as the world’s financial institutions panic!
DESPITE seven days of devastating non-stop aerial bombardment by the US-Israeli aggressor and their huge war machine, the defiant defence of Iran to protect...
Cameron wants to intervene in Syria!
AT the same time as Foreign Secretary Hague has been insisting publicly that the UK will not supply arms and ammunition to their Syrian...
Replace Starmer’s anti-worker Labour regime with a workers government and socialism!
THE TUC yesterday published a poll of over 3,000 voters which showed conclusively overwhelming support for workers rights and pay increases to match the...
It’s The Afghans Who Will Have To Retake Musa Qala
CURRENTLY a great deal of propaganda hot air is being expended hailing the action that British forces are taking to ‘liberate’ the town of...
Trade unions must fight zero hours contracts
THE news that over one million workers now have ‘zero hours contracts’ and work only when their employer wants them, have no holidays or...
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...
Youth unemployment driving world socialist revolution
This weekend, the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos debated the issue of youth unemployment worldwide, a debate that exposed the mortal terror being...
UN Chief warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’ of Zionist regime’s plan for complete military occupation...
THE United Nations assistant secretary general Miroslav Janca issued a chilling warning in response to reports that the Israeli regime was pushing for a...
Bush and Blair’s war against democratic rights
IN the United States it has just been revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has been secretly collecting the internal documents of...
Demand TUC call a General Strike!
The leaders of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have refused to condemn Labour right-winger Alan Milburn for accepting a position with the Tory-led coalition...