Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes UK into recession!
THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...
Time To Put The Tory Libdem Coalition Out!
WHEN the leaders of the Coalition are forced to pledge publicly that it will go the distance and will not split apart, the...
Chilcot won’t rule on Iraq war legality
CHILCOT opened his report of his inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war yesterday by stating that it was not the job of his very...
US workers must form a Labour Party
THE Republican Party has won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, and now controls both Houses of Congress, turning the final...
Labour leaders split over increasing income tax and abolishing welfare state!
YESTERDAY’S ‘bombshell U-turn’ over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget plans not to increase income tax has exposed the civil war in...
Israeli withdrawal from Gaza a victory for Hamas and for the workers of the...
ISRAEL on Tuesday completed the withdrawal of its troops from Gaza, as a 72-hour humanitarian truce took effect, and made preparations to take part...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei murdered in a bombing raid by Israel and the...
IRAN’S Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been killed and in fact murdered in a major assault on Iran by Israel and the United States,...
Socialist revolution is the only answer to the ‘economic tsunami’ swamping capitalism!
THIS week, forecasts for the increase in household energy bills were dramatically increased to over £4,200 for an average UK household in January next...
French elections ‘shaken’ by surge in working class support for socialist policies
THIS WEEK has seen a dramatic upsurge of support amongst workers and youth in France for the outsider left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in the...
Household Debt Now At £1.47 Trillion!
HOUSEHOLD debt has grown for the 26th consecutive month, reaching £1.47 trillion according to the Radical Centre for Social Justice (RCSJ). Household debt has soared...
Labour Pushes For Pensions War
MORE than half a million civil servants are to be told that they will have to pay a lot more towards their pensions. This is...
Irish workers reject the Catholic Church’s State and demand abortion rights!
THE Catholic Church-dominated state of the Irish Republic was rocked to its foundations on Saturday when the results came through after the referendum on...
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...
Trade unions must take strike action to free the 9,400 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli...
MORE than 9,400 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are marking Eid al-Adha under suffocating restrictions, dire conditions, and an unprecedented rise in abuse and...
US-UK imperialist forces must be driven out of Syria and the Middle East!
THE United States might have lost control over the situation in Syria and cannot fulfill their pledge to separate the opposition from the terrorists,...
Tories seeking to bust the CWU and all of NHS trade unions. Time to...
THE CWU trade union representing postal workers says Royal Mail’s chief executive Simon Thompson is to blame for a round of strikes in the...
Tory-led coalition singles out young families for special treatment
THE Tory-led coalition has got working class and middle class families with young children in its sights for savage cuts as it seeks to...
Charles pushes confrontation with Russia
PRINCE Charles’s comparison of President Putin with Hitler, and Putin’s actions in the Ukraine as comparable with Hitler’s treatment of the peoples of...
Shut Kensington council down! Form a Council of Action to run the Borough!
'THE COUNCIL needs to be shut down … Workers should take over and workers' unions should defend them,' Zoe Bernard from Ladbroke Grove, said...
Stagnant Eu Heading For A Crash!
EUROZONE inflation has fallen to its lowest level since the height of the 2008 financial collapse, sliding further into what the European Central Bank...
Labour’s left leadership is paralysed as Blair and Co move in for second referendum!
PM May yesterday attacked former Labour PM Tony Blair accusing him of ‘undermining’ her Brexit talks by calling for a second referendum. In fact Blair’s...
Build The Wrp And The Ys – Forward To The British Socialist Revolution
NOW is the time to build the WRP and the Young Socialists into the leadership of the working class and the student youth...
Unemployment at 7.7 per cent – food banks facing huge demand
UK jobless officially fell to 2.49m in the latest government figures, for the three months to August, showing a slight fall of 18,000, not...
Tories plan poverty and austerity for workers to bail out bankrupt capitalism!
LAST week, the outgoing chief economist at the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, bluntly warned that the rapid increase in inflation would make the...
Forward To Jerusalem!
THE Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday that eight Security Council members are guaranteed to vote in favour of the Palestinian bid for full...
Nationalise Land Rover and Jaguar to defend wages and jobs
THE Alchemy Partners gang of asset-strippers have got Land Rover and Jaguar in their sights, now that cash-strapped Ford is ready to sell off...
Italian Workers And Youth Throw A Giant Spanner Into The Eu Works!
THE Italian general election results have shaken the European Union after the governing ‘Centre Left’ pro-EU coalition, led by Matteo Renzi, got just 22.8%...
Well Done – The Syrian Delegation In Geneva!
ALL workers must support the stand of the Syrian delegation at the Geneva 2 Conference. This stand was that there had to be a full...
‘Relentless’ rise in public debt unsustainable world bankers warn as capitalism dives into the...
THE head of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) issued the gravest warning yet to the governments and central banks of the capitalist world...
Tory austerity hits poorest the hardest, time to kick them out!
A STUDY produced yesterday by the Centre for Cities think tank highlights the reality of Tory austerity cuts that have fallen on the backs...
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...
Bankers’ bonuses are a diversion
The headline news throughout the bourgeois media yesterday was that Stephen Hester, Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, had magnanimously bowed to...
Support the Junior Doctors with a general strike!
20,000 junior doctors, medical students, health workers and supporters marched in central London yesterday. As well there were well attended marches in Belfast and...
Ukrainian Workers Reject Putin Plea To Accept Kiev Coup Regime
PRESIDENT Putin on Wednesday urged Ukrainian workers to postpone their referenda on self-determination. He said: ‘We are calling on representatives of regions in southeastern...
200,000 Israeli settlers have fled occupied Palestinian territories since 2023
THE Israeli regime is facing an unprecedented wave of negative migration of around 200,000 settlers leaving the occupied territories since October 2023 posing an...
Vote WRP Today To Carry Forward The Fight For Socialism!
NEWS LINE urges all of our readers and all workers and youth who are living in the five constituencies that the WRP is standing...
Revolution the only way out of capitalism’s debt crisis
NEXT week, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, will be announcing the results of his spending review to parliament, outlining £20 billion of austerity cuts...
Britain must recognise the state of Palestine and the TUC must take general...
THE co-ordinated action by the governments of Ireland, Norway and Spain to announce that next week they would formally recognise the state of Palestine...
Police killers escape prosecution – and are exonerated by the CPS
YESTERDAY the capitalist state looked after its own, and decided that the two armed police officers who shot dead an unarmed man, Harry Stanley,...
US not winning in Afghanistan admits US military chief
ADMIRAL Mullen the US chief of the general staff has stated that he is not convinced that the US is winning the war in...
Imperialist illusions of reshaping the Middle East are shattered – forward to the world...
THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on Wednesday hailed the ceasefire agreement forced on the Israeli regime, saying that it has shattered prime minister Benjamin...
FBU Warns Tory PM And London’s Labour Mayor ‘Not To Impose Unthinkable Cuts!’
THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has vowed to fight ‘unthinkable’ proposals to cut the budget for the London Fire Brigade by £25m over two...
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...
New Leadership Needed In Cwu
YESTERDAY the number two CWU leader Dave Ward was boasting that the super-flexibility deal that the leadership put to the membership and which over...
McCluskey denounces Labour’s right wing who worked for a Tory victory!
THE general secretary of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, has reacted with fury over the revelations contained in the leaked internal report by the...