UK loses AAA credit rating
Late last Friday, Moody’s Investors Service, one of the world’s three main credit rating agencies, downgraded the sovereign credit rating of the UK and...
Labour believes that the elderly must be made to pay
IT has emerged that it is a question of principle for the Labour government that elderly people who are now living in nursing and...
Moroccan leaders stab Palestine in the back with another ‘normalisation’ deal with Israel!
ISRAEL and Morocco announced they are to ‘normalise ties’ in another US-brokered deal. On Thursday, Morocco became the fourth Arab country since August to strike...
Starmer Warns Of The Risk Of A New World War!
PM Keir Starmer has warned of a ‘risk of escalation’ beyond the Middle East to the rest of the world i.e. a new World...
Hamas Calls For The Working People Of The World To Take Part In Massive...
THE Hamas Movement has called on the world’s free people and the Arab and Islamic nations to actively participate in massive and angry rallies...
The blind Chancellor who cannot see the crisis
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown yesterday could not see and would not even hear of a crisis in the British capitalist economy that he has presided...
MPs’ Committee fears new mortgage bubble!
A VERY nervous House of Commons Treasury Select Committee has just asked the Bank of England to clarify its role in ensuring that the...
Maude-Miliband Unite To Condemn Pension Strikers
YESTERDAY’S stoppage in defence of pensions saw 90 per cent of PCS members stopping work, the biggest turn-out for strike action in the union’s...
Wealth redistribution in UK requires socialist revolution
UK child poverty levels are double those of 1979, after 27 years of the Thatcher, Major and Blair, Tory and Labour governments, while Brown...
US Senate agrees $1.2tn ‘coronavirus stimulus’ – US and world capitalism heading for an...
THE US Senate finally agreed on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. This huge sum was in fact just half of what Biden wanted –...
Brown & Mandelson are not talking down the pound, they are planning to scrap...
THE EU Commission’s President Barroso has been told by the ‘people who matter’, ie by members of the Labour government, that they now...
Bma Calls For Independent Inquiry Into NHS Crisis
A WOMAN died yesterday in an ambulance while waiting in a queue of around 15 emergency vehicles outside the A&E at Morriston Hospital in...
EU 750 billion euros ‘Recovery Fund’ nothing more than a Trojan Horse for...
LAST Tuesday the emergency summit of leaders of the EU 27 member states finally agreed to a 750 billion euros pandemic recovery fund after...
Laws’ resignation holes the coalition!
ON Monday May 25th, David Laws, the new Chief Secretary of the Treasury, standing next to his master Chancellor Osborne, announced that the £6.2...
Forward to the victory of Syria – no deal with Kerry and Obama
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry arrived in Moscow yesterday to see Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov and also President Putin. His mission, during which he...
Israeli leaders call to annex West Bank to create a new Naqba!
ISRAEL’S Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Uri Ariel speaking in Moscow, where he travelled with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, has...
Oligarchs Go Bust As World Crisis Hits Home
Russia’s super-rich oligarchs, who made their fortunes by stealing or purchasing for a pittance chunks of the Soviet nationalised and planned economy under the...
Nationalise LDV and GM Vauxhall – no Royal Mail privatisation!
WITH even more right-wing forces seeking to bring down the Brown government from the right, trade unions now have an opportunity to show their...
Build the Fourth International all over the EU – Forward with the European Socialist...
THE Greek Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) has announced that unemployment reached 27% last February, while youth unemployment (15-24 years old) reached 64.2%, from 54.1% in...
Stock Markets Crashing Worldwide!
THE sharp rises followed almost immediately by even bigger losses on the international stock markets over the past few days, point in only one...
Bankers Are Caught Like Rats In A Trap
FACED with loud and strident demands to slash its lending rate, to try and avoid a housing crash and a depression by crashing the...
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...
Increased sanctions on Russia drive the bosses’ war against the working class at home!
THE MOVE by the US, the UK and EU ruling classes to cut off all oil and gas supplies from Russia is now ‘unstoppable’...
Youth are being hit the hardest by bankrupt capitalism!
SKY-ROCKETING youth unemployment figures just released reveal that nearly one million young people in the UK are not in employment, up from 500,000 in...
National strike action for jobs and union agreements!
LEADERS of the Unite and GMB trade unions are recommending a new jobs offer to a mass meeting at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, Lincolnshire,...
Johnson Now Speaking Out Of Both Sides Of His Mouth At The Same Time!
LAST FRIDAY, evidence from Boris Johnson assured a Scottish court, in his own name, that he would send a letter to the EU, as...
UN Forces Quit Mitrovica
THE divided town of Mitrovica was in turmoil yesterday morning, after UNMIK police and KFOR troops, in a major provocation, stormed a local court...
Netanyahu Forced Into An Election – Israelis Must Dump Him And Vote For Peace...
THE RULING coalition government of Israel this week collapsed in chaos after just seven months, forcing an unprecedented fourth general election in four years. The...
As Capitalism Shuts Down Workers Must Be Mobilised To Fight For Socialism!
THE SCENE has been set for today’s budget by the crash of the stockmarkets on Monday March 9th when trillions of pounds were wiped...
Make Turkey general strike indefinite to kick Erdogan out
THE Turkish trade unions called a two-day general strike for yesterday and today to express their outrage at the bombing on Saturday of the...
Capitalism is pauperising workers – forward to the British socialist revolution!
BRITONS have the most mental health problems of any rich country, figures have revealed, as ministers battle a surge in benefit claims linked to...
TUC must immediately act to stop Clarence House staff sackings by the monarchy and...
THE PCS trade union has called for the proposed staff redundancies at Clarence House to be halted and pledged to support every member of...
Passchendaele – where imperialism murdered hundreds of thousands of British & German workers
THE BATTLE of Passchendaele saw 275,000 British soldiers, workers in uniform, killed or wounded alongside 220,000 German workers in uniform. This was a great imperialist...
OECD warns of a global property prices crash
THE Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has sent out a New Year warning that global property prices have increased so dramatically that...
Truss And Co Are Planning To Attack The Rail Unions! Bring Tories Down With...
TORY PM Truss told MPs yesterday, during her parliamentary questions crisis statement, of the way that she intends to get out of the crisis...
Labour Nec Gives In To Tory-Zionist Witch-Hunt!
THE Labour Party’s NEC on Tuesday gave way to the Tory-Zionist witch-hunt and agreed to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of...
UK, US and EU workers must organise the World Socialist Revolution!
HIGHWAYMAN Trump has spelt it out that a 10% tariff is to be imposed on all UK goods sent to the USA from Britain...
Tories and LibDems routed – now bring down the coalition
THE result of the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election points to one thing, that the working class and large sections of the middle class...
‘Recovery’ Rests On Bed Of Nitroglycerine
THE 0.1 per cent ‘recovery’, the ‘work’ of Gordon Brown and Chancellor Darling has caused laughter and incredulity throughout the planet. It is a...
Lloyd’s pulls the plug on Europe
NOT just Greece but the Eurozone and, by extension, the whole of Europe is a financial basket case that is heading inexorably towards a...
Emergency Action needed to win Gate Gourmet dispute
THE Gate Gourmet strikers are fighting in the most determined fashion to win back their jobs in the face of a hostile union busting...
Mass sackings on way in bankrupt Britain
IT’S ‘make or break’ time for UK manufacturing, according to the authoritative Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), an organisation not noted for...
Greek Government Starts A Pogrom!
GREECE is currently having its books and the success of its austerity measures examined by the EU Troika, made up of the representatives...
Nationalise British Gas! Bosses Are Making Billions Out Of The Crisis As Millions Go...
BRITISH Gas’ owner Centrica has posted huge profits after oil and gas prices soared last year as the US and the UK stoked up...
The Desperate Housing Crisis!
IT WAS Frederick Engels who said that the housing problem and capitalism were inseparable, and that to get rid of the former you would...