Rajapakse, the UK and the US will never crush the Tigers and the Tamil...
CURRENTLY the UK and US supported Sri Lankan army is mounting an all-out assault on the besieged Tamil Tiger forces and the over 100,000...
National strike action to defend the Royal Mail and its workforce
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday warned that Royal Mail were planning sacking between eight and twenty per cent of the workforce, with London...
Lord Jones and Sir Richard Branson turn on Brown
TWO of the Brown government’s big business backers Lord Digby Jones, the ex-CBI boss and Richard Branson, the Thatcherite businessman have unsurprisingly turned-coat. No doubt...
France And Germany On The Brink Of Explosion
THE German and French ruling classes are aghast that the worldwide financial collapse and deepening slump has resulted in an eruption of the class...
Taleban at the gates of Islamabad, says Clinton
US IMPERIALISM is now beating the war drums as far as military intervention into Pakistan is concerned, with its leading officials ‘warning the world’...
Darling can’t look the capitalist crisis in the face
CHANCELLOR Darling began his budget speech yesterday on a note of contrived optimism saying that ‘today’s budget will take Britain through the most serious...
Bankrupt Barber won’t fight for workers!
ADDRESSING the Scottish TUC yesterday, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber was desperate to show that the addition of another million unemployed in the next...
A bankers budget from a bankers government
DESPITE all the government statements against leaking government information before it is to go before the House of Commons, the Treasury was at it...
Prentis appeals to Brown in vain
‘OUR time and patience is running out. The country is in a mess and we look to the Government to come up with serious...
Obama’s Amnesty For Torturers – ‘They Were Just Obeying Orders’
CENTRAL Intelligence Agency employees who tortured people in the Guantanamo Bay and Bagram Bay US concentration camps as terrorist suspects held without charge or...
Motor industry crisis deepens – nationalisation the only way
THE US administration has let it be known that it intends to force GM, formerly the world’s number one motor car manufacturer, into bankruptcy...
Data bases and electronic spying won’t save the bourgeoisie
THE inventor of the genetic technology behind the national DNA database has said that the database’s unlimited expansion to include millions of people who...
Brown Wants To Introduce Youth Conscription
PRIME Minister Brown on Sunday promised that bringing in a compulsory community service programme for youth will be a part of his next general...
Brown boasts that he has assured the future of the banks
THE Prime Minister revealed once again on BBC Radio 2 just what his priorities are and just what he is working night, noon and...
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...
Police cover-up over military-style operation against City protests
IAN TOMLINSON, a 47-year-old news vendor in the City of London, collapsed at 7.25pm on April 1 on his way home from work during...
Cowen making workers pay for capitalism’s crisis in Ireland
IN A third attempt within six months to save bankrupt Irish capitalism, Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s Fianna Fail government unveiled a draconian budget on Tuesday,...
Trade unions must take action to support the Tamil people
THOUSANDS of Tamils demonstrated on Westminster Bridge on Monday evening against the failure of the Brown government to lift a finger to save the...
Wage freezing, wage cutting, redundancies and revolution ahead for workers!
THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says that if there is a capitalist government in office in 2016 it will have to find an...
President Obama is for unilateralism, but not in his lifetime
PRESIDENT Obama, now in eastern Europe, has announced his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, but has added that he does not...
President Obama is heading for a fall
SPEAKING before the NATO summit President Obama made clear that his business in Europe was to raise a war party for Afghanistan, when...
G20 bankrupts meet protected by 10,000 riot police batons
LEADERS of the major capitalist states, and the leaders of Russia and China, who have linked their fate to the future of the crisis...
Visteon Workers Show The Way – Occupy To Defend Jobs!
THE Visteon plants in Belfast, Enfield, and Basildon, formerly owned by the Ford Motor Company, but now supplying parts to the motor car industry,...
Forward to the socialist revolution – not the two-day week
IT IS now accepted that the capitalist system is in its greatest crisis ever, bigger than the crisis created by the First World War,...
Bailing out banks and sacking public sector workers splits the unions
THE UNISON and Unite trade unions have split. The former has formed an alliance with the EU public sector trade unions ver.di and CGIL and...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Defend Jobs, Homes, Basic Rights And Deal With Climate...
THE TUC’s ‘Put People First’ march on Saturday brought 50,000 workers and youth onto the streets marching behind powerful contingents from the GMB and...
Obama Declares War On The Pakistani People!
PRESIDENT OBAMA yesterday announced a ‘comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan Pakistan’. He deliberately linked the two countries together, to try to show that there could...
Crisis-ridden US capitalism driven towards war
US capitalism really has got its back to the wall, and has somewhat lost its balance, when its Treasury Secretary, Geithner, says that he...
Brown And King Split As British Capitalism Founders
PM Brown has reacted to the Bank of England chief’s public admonition that the next Budget must not plunge the UK into another flood...
Huge food inflation as bosses and unions agree on wage cuts and job cuts
WORKERS in Britain are now feeling the ‘benefits’ of the British government’s policy of printing money to rescue the banks while allowing the pound...
Unions must take industrial action to defend the NHS
THE Labour government is continuing to pressurise NHS Trusts to become Foundation Trust businesses, and is continuing to force through the privatisation process. To...
Obama woos the Iranian bourgeoisie
IRAN’S supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has welcomed President Obama’s change of rhetoric in relation to Iran but has however stated that what...
Gaza war crimes exposed – unions must call worldwide boycott of Israel
ISRAELI soldiers at a military academy have exposed the essence of the cold-blooded and murderous nature of the recent Israeli army onslaught into the...
The battle for public opinion has been won – now take action to win...
THE postal workers have the support of the mass of the British people, the public sector trade unions and the other trade unions making...
Labour’s drive for Foundation Trusts and privatisation kills!
The Royal College of Nursing has described the Healthcare Commission’s investigation into emergency care at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust as ‘shocking’ and said that...
No Fees Or Loans And Restore Student Grants For All!
AFTER Blair and Brown abolished students’ grants and introduced a regime of fee paying for university education – putting an end to free university...
Chinese and Russian Stalinists are getting burnt by the crisis
THE Chinese Stalinists are now paying an enormous price for linking their fate with that of US capitalism. First of all they declared parts of...
Tory Davies wants to lock up anti-imperialists
TORY MP David Davies has called on ‘abusive protests’ against serving military personnel to be outlawed and intends to amend a parliamentary bill to...
Mandelson’s Secret Business Interests!
PETER Mandelson is one of five Labour government cabinet ministers who insists on his business interests being a secret and for that purpose has...
Revolution emerging in Pakistan!
EX-PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF has not been lying in his political grave for six months and already the lawyers are marching against the new regime of...
Unite Helps Bosses Cut Workers’ Wages
THE UNITE trade union leaders yesterday were in full flight praising Toyota workers for taking their advice and assisting the bosses by accepting a...
Social Revolution Is The Issue Not Terrorism!
THE Continuity IRA and the Real IRA have opened fire and killed and wounded soldiers and policemen in the north of Ireland, breaking open...
Get rid of bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism
EVERYWHERE capitalism is crashing! Yesterday the FTSE 100 index fell to 3472.68 points making a 50 per cent crash from the FTSE’s...
Obama seeks wider support for central Asian war
PRESIDENT Obama has shaken his supporters with his admission that the war in Afghanistan is not being won, and that he is willing to...
British shoot to kill forces return to the North
THEY were withdrawn from the north of Ireland because there could not be a ‘peace process’ and a power-sharing regime while they were there,...