After Corbyn’s victory TUC delegates must call a general strike
THE left wing backbench MP, Jeremy Corbyn, won a stunning victory in the Labour Party leadership contest on Saturday, as the working class gave...
Blair advocates Thatcherism throughout Europe
BLAIR’S call for Thatcherism throughout Europe has won him the immediate support of all Tories and right wingers, even those who had been portraying...
To fight mass unemployment bring down Brown government
The number of UK unemployed rose by 164,000 between June and August, to 1.79 million, taking the official unemployment rate to 5.7% from...
Mossad’s prints all over Gaza bombing!
YESTERDAY in the aftermath of the bombing in Gaza that killed five leading Hamas fighters, and a five-year-old girl, accusations and counter-accusations were being...
Imf Gives Its Full Support To The Tories
AT its Spring Meeting in Washington this week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) made a direct intervention in the general election with an undisguised...
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...
Coalition Plans To Smash Workers’ Rights
THE REPORT outlining government proposals to smash up any rights workers have to secure employment and legal protection from unfair dismissal finally saw the...
Workers, the poor and pensioners are being starved to pay for the Tory crisis....
A LANDMARK research study by the Trussel Trust has revealed the excruciating extent of food poverty across Britain as the working class, the middle...
Judges and lawyers demand end to UK arms to Israel. It’s time the TUC...
OVER 600 UK lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including three former supreme court justices, have written to Rishi Sunak warning that the UK...
Austerity and Universal Credit to continue!
TORY chancellor Philip Hammond made a climb down in his budget speech yesterday to Theresa May, but there was no climb down over continuing...
CETA collapse – now workers must end all capitalist trade agreements through a general...
LAST Friday the much delayed CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) between the EU and Canada hit a brick wall when the Belgium region...
Cancel Pfi Contracts To Defend The NHS
THAT NHS hospitals cannot pay back the huge multi-million Private Finance Initiative (PFI) ‘debt’ to the banks is well known. The coalition government and its...
Obama Dumps Two-State Solution!
PROPONENTS of the two-state solution to Palestine, that is the creation of two separate states, Israel and Palestine through peaceful negotiations, with East Jerusalem...
Time For The US Working Class To Dump The Republicans And Democrats And Fight...
FORMER US President Donald Trump has been charged with illegal plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat. He is accused of four counts including...
Sunak calls for ‘British homes for British workers’ in a backward attempt to save...
THE Guardian newspaper yesterday revealed that the Tory government is preparing to launch a consultation in the coming weeks on implementing a ‘British homes...
620,000 sick and disabled will lose £675 a month under Labour’s attack on benefits...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer is prepared to defy the growing anger of workers by pushing through welfare cuts that will impoverish over 600,000...
Defend the PCS and all trade unions with a general strike
THE PCS TRADE UNION last Saturday issued a statement to its members announcing that it was the victim of a government plot to destroy...
Trade unions in the US and UK must support Palestinian hunger strikers
SEVENTY-FIVE Palestinian inmates have gone on hunger strike in support of two of their fellow prisoners, who have been on hunger strike for several...
Israeli government forced to remove metal detectors from Al Aqsa Mosque!
THE ISRAELI security cabinet decided on Monday night, after massive Palestinian demonstrations and international protests, to remove the metal detectors which had been installed...
The bosses are dumping their crisis onto the backs of workers. It is time...
YESTERDAY nine members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase the interest rate from 1.25% to 1.75%. This is the sixth...
RCN declares ‘national emergency’ in the NHS over ‘corridor care’!
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) acting general secretary, Professor Nicola Ranger, opened the union’s annual conference yesterday declaring a ‘national emergency’ in the...
Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson quits – Now drive the rest of the right...
YESTERDAY morning, Labour’s deputy leader and leading right winger Tom Watson announced that he was quitting his post and would be standing down as...
NHS pharmacy services under threat – warn unions
Unite is seeking an urgent meeting with Health Secretary, Andy Burnham ‘as NHS pharmacy services are threatened by a government decision’. Burnham is being asked to...
Israelis wound hundreds in attack on Kitziot prisoners
WHILE Olmert and Bush have been, and are, posing as peacemakers with their forthcoming fraud of a peace conference, a most violent and vicious...
March ban aimed at trade unions, youth and students
THE news that the Tory Home Secretary, Theresa May, has issued a blanket ban on all marches and rallies in five London boroughs represents...
Bankrupt Britain Is On The Rocks! Now Is The Time To Go Forward To...
JUST 50 days after being elected with an unassailable landslide 141-seat majority, the Labour government has replaced the hated Tory austerity cuts with Labour...
Only a general strike can defeat Tory anti-union strike breakers law
IN ADVANCE of last night’s vote in parliament on the Tory bill waging war on the right to strike by allowing employers to bring...
DEFEND THE NHS – DOWN WITH TORY ANTI-UNION LAWS – MAKE TUC CALL A...
NURSES will ‘absolutely not’ pause a 48-hour strike in England on May 1st, said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday – and it...
Imperialist war against Syria escalated – answer with socialist revolution
THE past few days have seen an escalation of the imperialist war against Syria and the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today the Turkish government is...
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...
Ecuador pulls the plug on Assange to help out Clinton!
ECUADOR has admitted that it ‘partly restricted’ the internet access for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is taking refuge at its London embassy...
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...
Iraq and Afghanistan – imperialists coming under the hammer
US CASUALTIES are now mounting in both Afghanistan and Iraq, while at home the anti-war and anti-Bush movement is growing by leaps and bounds,...
Palestine at boiling point – take action now to establish the Palestinian state!
THE victory of the people of Gaza in the 51 day war, imposed on them by Israel’s attempt to completely destroy Gaza has changed...
Defend every job! Bring down coalition! Expropriate the bosses!
UK unemployment rose by 49,000 to almost 2.5 million in the three months to the end of November, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
Pound drops and inflation rises as recession grows
THE pound fell to an exchange rate of $1.77 yesterday, its lowest level for two-and-a-half years. In June sterling was trading at $2, but...
Grenfell Tower survivors treated with contempt by Tories – time to kick the government...
THE contemptuous treatment of the survivors of the fire that killed 80 people at least has been sickening. Last week it emerged that those who...
Labour’s plan to demolish the public sector
LABOUR’S Minister for Communities and Local Government, David Milliband, yesterday addressed the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) Annual Conference called ‘Empowerment not abandonment’. He...
Recall TUC Congress to elect a new leadership prepared to defeat Starmer & Co
PM Starmer’s latest policy U-turn, of abandoning the protection against unfair dismissal from day-one for new employees in the Employment Rights Bill, created a...
Deutsche Bank warning capitalism ‘sitting on a time bomb’ – socialist revolution only answer...
ECONOMISTS at the German Deutsche Bank have issued a report about the inevitable consequence of the US Federal Reserve policy of printing worthless paper...
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...
Workers action shakes Rajapakse
A FIERCE struggle has erupted in Sri Lanka between the military-police dictatorship of Mahinda Rajapakse and over a hundred thousand garment workers in the...
Brazil erupts as social revolution hits South America
THE Brazilian government is deploying heavily armed troops to five main urban centres that are the driving force of the present uprising by the...
Trump’s war on Venezuela draws condemnation from China and Russia
Russia and China have both expressed their support for Venezuela as it confronts a US blockade of oil tankers entering or leaving the country...
Tories crushed in by-elections – TUC must take action now to bring them down!
THE TORIES have been smashed by two huge by-election defeats, in a couple of their ‘safe’ seats, Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, where their large...