Portuguese bailout accelerates EU disintegration
THURSDAY’S announcement that Portugal had finally been forced into asking for a massive 90 billion euro (£79 bn) bailout from the European Central Bank...
General Sanders Says That The UK Army Must Be Ready For A War To...
THE new Chief of the General staff, Sir Patrick Sanders, yesterday urged that Britain must be ready to fight Putin, comparing the present situation...
Brown champions more police powers and public sector pay cuts
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told police chiefs yesterday that he will do ‘everything to give you the resources’ and ‘we will not shirk from giving...
The UK ruling class is in a desperate crisis – forward to the socialist...
EX-PRINCE Andrew’s public disgrace has rocked the British ruling class, with the King stripping his younger brother of his ‘prince’ title and evicting him...
Council of Action takes up the challenge to defend NHS
THE News Line congratulates the North East London Council of Action for its march through Enfield on Saturday and its occupation of Chase Farm...
Fitch strips UK of triple-A rating
LAST Friday, Fitch ratings agency became the second of the world’s three big credit agencies to strip Britain of its top notch triple-A credit...
US Fed’s third emergency programme in 2 days fails to stop capitalist crash
THE US Federal Reserve announced late on Wednesday the third emergency programme in two days in an increasingly desperate and futile attempt to avoid...
British banks hit by Dubai collapse
AFTER the Abu Dhabi stockmarket experienced a record one-day fall of 8.3 per cent, and Dubai’s Financial Market Index fell 7.3 per cent yesterday,...
US Supreme Court ruling destroys myth of bourgeois democracy and imposes dictatorship on US...
On Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled that ex-President Donald Trump enjoys ‘absolute immunity’ for ‘official acts’ as president, a ruling that at a...
The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Bring Down Tories!
THE UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories says the Israeli military has ‘intentionally killed’ the aid...
The lawyers have forced the government to retreat and put the trade union...
THE news that the coalition government has been forced to retreat over its proposed cuts to legal aid fees by the decisive actions of...
Tories Greet NHS 70Th Annniversary With More NHS Cuts!
WHILE 70,000 NHS workers were marching through London on Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Tory-appointed bosses of NHS England were...
US warns Pakistan over gas pipeline link with Iran
THE Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on Monday officially inaugurated the final construction phase of the Iran-Pakistan gas...
STOP the Tory drive for 20,000 more police! Smash the capitalist state with a...
THE CHIEF Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor, in his ninth and final annual review, has warned that Tory PM Johnson’s promise to hire 20,000...
Braverman’s instruction to police to ‘ramp up’ stop-and-search inspired by fear of youth as...
ON MONDAY, Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced that she is instructing all 43 police forces in England and Wales to ‘ramp up’ the...
Pfi Robbers Are On The Job! Expropriate Them Now!
THE PRIVATE Finance Initiative (PFI) that Gordon Brown introduced during the Brown-Blair Labour governments has provided a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions for...
French youth revolution will set Europe ablaze!
NEITHER the Gendarmerie, nor troops or even the fatwas of the ‘holy men’ can stop the French youth rebellion, which is the product of...
Brown, Mitchell and Obama threaten Palestinians with a dirty deal
PALESTINIANS are once again being threatened with a dirty deal after the Netanyahu-Brown meeting in London. After a Brown declaration that Britain is Israel’s ‘true...
Capitalism Is On Its Knees – Time To Organise World Socialist Revolution!
THE UK’s Oxfam said yesterday that Israel has already destroyed more than 80% of the water and sewerage networks in the Gaza Strip, leading...
No To Imperialist War In West Africa!
SUFFERING a decisive and humiliating defeat at the hands of the Afghan people has in no way diminished British imperialism’s appetite for military adventures...
Sinn Fein joins the UK capitalist state
‘THE time is now right to support the PSNI’ (Police Service of Northern Ireland), Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams told delegates at the Sinn...
Occupy GM plants to defend jobs! Nationalise the car industry!
GENERAL MOTORS European operations, which include Opel plants in Germany, the Ellesmere Port Vauxhall car plant and Luton’s IBC van plant in Britain, have...
King wanted to print even more paper money!
WHEN the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided two weeks ago to print £50 billion more for its stimulus programme binge, the City, which was...
Dempsey’s Five Deadly Options
THE US chief of staff, General Dempsey, has written an Open Letter to the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, Carl Levin, about the...
No Sackings! Re–Nationalise Steel Industry!
STEEL firm Corus, a subsidiary of India’s Tata Steel cut 3,500 jobs yesterday, 2,500 in the UK out of its 24,000 employees here. ...
Hunt blames the working class for capitalist crisis as Tories prepare a class war...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been in Washington this week attending the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF, the main economic...
Brown hints about withdrawal from Basra
PRIME Minister Brown was yesterday midway to giving up his ‘there is no timetable for a withdrawal from Iraq’ line – imposed on him...
Oil Price Rises Driving Up Inflati0N
RISING crude oil prices are driving up the price of petrol at the pumps. Petrol is now at around 92 pence a litre, an increase...
Afghan defeat for UK imperialism – now smash them at home
AN influential group of MPs have finally admitted publicly what everyone already knows – that the invasion of Afghanistan by NATO troops, led by...
Stop The Brutal Crime Of Mass Starvation – Hold The War Criminals Responsible...
HAMAS has called on the Arab countries and the United Nations to take urgent action to stop the brutal crime of starvation and siege...
Replace Bankrupt Capitalism With World Socialism!
THERE is not the slightest doubt that capitalism worldwide is in its greatest crisis ever. The US-UK failed attempt to occupy Iraq and...
Israeli War Criminals Must Now Face Arrest, Detention, And Trial By A War Crimes...
THE US, Israel’s major backer and armer, has condemned the International Criminal Court (ICC) decision to launch a full investigation into Israeli war crimes. In...
Capitalist state steps back from the brink!
BRITISH Airways cabin crew cheered and danced and celebrated yesterday morning. They sang ‘We are the Champions’ after their strength forced a panel...
A&E closures cost lives
For the first time since the process of closing accident and emergency units in hospitals up and down the country was started by the...
The TUC and the public sector must support the postal workers’ struggle
WITH the result of the CWU Royal Mail industrial action ballot due on Thursday, the bosses are getting ready for action, while the position...
World Capitalist Crisis Hits China!
THE world crisis of capitalism has now erupted once again and has the deformed workers’ state of China in its sights, and no doubt...
French workers move to bring down Sarkozy regime!
YESTERDAY, the French railworkers’ trade unions began their indefinite strike action, to defeat the attempts of the Sarkozy regime to destroy their pension agreements,...
Tories plan to replace national pay bargaining for public sector workers with performance-related pay...
THE TORIES are determined to put an end to trade union-negotiated across the board pay increases for all public sector workers and replace national...
Under Brown They Don’t Pay Any Any Taxes
GORDON Brown in his budget got rid of the lowest rate of tax, 10p in the pound, thereby setting out to further punish the...
Tackling cost of living crisis means tackling capitalism
LABOUR leader Miliband yesterday lashed out at the payday lenders and the way that these vulture capitalists are preying on the poor, making life...
Overthrow the ‘Big Brother’ bosses & surveillance society with socialist revolution!
THE TRADE Union Congress has conducted a survey which indicates that more than half of workers in the UK, some 56%, are being monitored...
Brown outlines new attack on teachers and state education!
‘IN the past those who had the raw material – the coal, the oil and the basic commodities, or the infrastructure – the ports...
Israel imitates the Nazis with its murderous attacks on Palestinians!
ISRAELI forces on Thursday evening sealed off the main entrance to Duma village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to...
Blair, Thatcher lavish praise on fellow Tory Heath
IN THESE days, when capitalist Britain is being rocked by the world economic crisis and the disaster of its imperialist policies in Iraq and...
Defend The Post Office! Stop Royal Mail Privatisation!
THE CWU revealed yesterday that 9,360 post offices will close once Royal Mail is privatised and the inter-business agreement with the Post Office is...