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...
Imperialism Playing With Syrian Fire
SYRIA’S Ba’athist leader Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western action against his country will cause an ‘earthquake’ that will ‘burn the whole region’, and...
Afghan Fall Out – Gates Attacks UK Defeatists
US Defence Secretary Gates has condemned as ‘defeatist’ a comment by the British commander in Afghanistan that the war there cannot be won. Speaking...
UK economy is crashing into bankruptcy under the impact of the world capitalist crisis!
ONLY two weeks into 2025 and the capitalist world is reeling from an economic crisis of historic proportions – a crisis that has completely...
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...
Stop the war against Syria – smash austerity at home
THE humiliating climb-down by David Cameron over Syria on Wednesday night exposes for all to see the weakness of British imperialism, the coalition government...
Simpson And Woodley Are Betraying The Working Class!
THE joint general secretaries of Unite, Britain’s biggest union, met with Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling at Number 11 on Thursday for crisis talks on...
Billions Being Laundered Through The City Of London – Nationalise The Banks!
HOME SECRETARY Amber Rudd has warned that billions of pounds have been laundered through the City of London. She has plans for a new...
Junior doctors’ strike piles pressure on Sunak and the Tories!
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is already reeling under the pressure from day one of the historic six-day strike by junior doctors. The Tories have...
South African masses taking action against the ANC government
THE ANC government of South Africa has said that it intends to crack down on the township riots and strikes that are sweeping...
3,000 new settler homes planned! Trade unions must take action to end Israeli...
ISRAEL has approved more than 3,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank. Settlers have spent the last weeks engaging in a reign of...
Benefit Sanctions Are Starving Children!
100,000 children were left to starve last year as a direct result of the Tory-led coalition’s drive to cut benefit payments to the unemployed...
Crisis-Ridden Bosses And Tories Fear The Election
THE Tory Party, its media wing and the boss class as a whole are getting very worried about the election, and what is to...
UK must completely leave EU on March 29, 2019 – with or without a...
NEGOTIATIONS over the UK’s departure from the EU are ‘now in the endgame’, according to PM May, with both sides ‘working through the night...
Israel has brought record unemployment and mass starvation to the Gaza Strip – Revolution...
MAHMOUD Radwan sits among the ruins of his destroyed home, contemplating an uncertain future amidst a labour crisis unlike any he has seen before,...
UK capitalism is heading for a crash. Socialist revolution is the only solution!
PANIC has erupted in the UK government after economic data released on Thursday revealed that UK production crashed to just 0.1 per cent of...
Brown, Cameron & Clegg unite to rescue bankrupt capitalism
THE manufacturing sector of the British economy shrank last month at the fastest rate for 17 years, that is since 1992, according to figures...
US Ruling Class Forced To Nationalise Bankrupt Mortgage Giants
THE nationalisation of the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac mortgage finance companies by the ultra right wing Bush administration is a forced admission of...
42,000 BA Workers Are Being Threatened With New Contracts Today!
THE LEADER of the Unite trade union, Len McCluskey, said on Monday that the deal offered to British Airways’ pilots would be acceptable to...
Brown brings back Mandelson to fight the trade unions
WITH the financial storm clouds starting to burst around him, Prime Minister Brown has established with his cabinet reshuffle that he means every word...
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...
Nationalise oil and energy industries under workers management and without compensation now!
Yesterday, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) published its plan to cut energy bills by re-nationalising energy retail companies. The plan, issued in advance of next...
The US raises its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling as capitalism races towards the precipice!
THE US House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill to raise the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, while also attaching sweeping, massive...
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...
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...
Full Support For The RMT And Tssa Strikers!
THE RMT began the first of its two 48-hour strikes on Tuesday night against the plan of London Mayor Boris Johnson to close all...
Sajid Javid, the bankers’ man, put in to wage war on NHS and reopen...
FORMER Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid has been installed as Health Secretary to replace the disgraced Matt Hancock, with a remit to...
Airbus Workers Take To The Streets!
STRIKES and protest marches are taking place at Airbus plants in France and Germany for a third day after it was announced that over...
Bankers’ Man Brown Wants Three Years Of Wage Cuts
PREMIER Brown says he wants three-year pay deals for public sector workers, rather than the traditional annual deals, to help keep UK inflation low. ...
From Low Wage To No Wage Economy – Tories Plan Chain Gangs For Youth
CRISPIN Blunt, the justice minister, announced yesterday that instructions were being issued to the courts to the effect that unemployed offenders sentenced to the...
Tory contempt for working class as Sunak offers ‘work coaches’ to solve mass unemployment
YESTERDAY Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his new Job Entry Targeted Scheme (JETS) that he claimed will ‘provide fresh opportunities to those that have...
Spectre of Revolution hangs over World Economic Forum
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, held at Davos in Switzerland, started this week with the spectre of the world socialist revolution...
Irish Trade Unions Put The Tuc To Shame
LAST Friday, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions called a 100,000 strong national demonstration in Dublin, with demonstrations in many other Irish cities and...
Production down, inflation up, pensioners savings destroyed – the ‘recovery’ so far!
INFLATION may stay above 3% during the rest of this year, according to Paul Tucker, a deputy governor of the Bank of England. He...
Occupy to fight mass sackings! Nationalise the motor car industry!
GENERAL Motors yesterday presented the United States Department of Treasury with its restructuring plan to re-establish the bankrupt company through massive sackings of over...
Putin driving Belarus into the arms of the EU
‘IT is of utmost importance for us to establish good relations with the West,’ said President Lukashenka of Belarus on Tuesday. This statement is a...
German and UK military chiefs say ‘we must rearm’ and prepare for war with...
BRITAIN and Germany’s highest ranking military chiefs have just made an unprecedented joint appeal to the workers of Europe to accept the ‘moral case’...
Millions denied NHS dental care under Labour
IT IS estimated that 7.4 million people in England and Wales have not been to a National Health Service dentist since April 2006, because...
Corbyn appeases Labour’s right wing – the UK must leave the EU, as decided...
THE UK was changed forever when the over-confident Tory leadership of Cameron and Osborne got the House of Commons to agree a resolution...
Time For Action To Defend The NHS!
YESTERDAY both the RCN nurses and the Royal College of Physicians made it perfectly clear that the time has arrived when action to defend...
UK bans Chinese ambassador to step foot in Parliament! The enemy is at home...
THE UK government stepped up its war with China this week when it took the decision to ban the Chinese ambassador to the UK...
US-UK-EU are fighting a war on two fronts – against Russia and against their...
SWEDEN AND FINLAND are expected to apply for NATO membership on May 17th, and no doubt they will be welcomed with ‘open arms’ since...
Force the TUC to call general strike to bring down Tories!
THE working class is being left with no alternative by the government than to take general strike action to prevent all of its gains...
US Military Chief Undermines The President Over US Troops In Iraq
THE US’ top military commander General Dempsey has broken ranks with President Obama by telling the Senate Armed Services Committee that US...
Take strike action to support the firefighters and trade unionism
THE use of police dogs to ‘protect’ scabs at a south London fire station during yesterday’s one day strike by London FBU members shows...