Workers’ rights can only be secured by revolution
YESTERDAY the former ‘hammer’ of the teachers trade unions, Michael Gove, the new Justice Secretary who wants to abolish the Human Rights Act, was...
UK and US trade unions must take general strike action to smash Israel’s genocide...
PALESTINIAN trade unions have issued a call on US labour to take concrete action against Israel’s genocidal attempt to smash the Palestinian people. In a...
Trump champions the police and launches his war against communism and socialism!
US PRESIDENT Trump, in his desperate attempt to win the November presidential election, has stepped up his war against the working class, branding all...
World capitalist crisis driving forward Arab socialist revolutions!
THE ARAB leaders meeting on Wednesday at an economic summit in Egypt’s resort of Sharm el-Sheikh expressed ‘fears’ that poverty, unemployment and recession, coupled...
Renegade Field joins Cameron – while Milibands search for a ‘new opportunism’
FRANK Field, the notorious Labour party right winger has joined the Tory coalition and is to be its ‘Poverty Tsar’, no doubt bringing back...
Carillion pension fund looted to pay billions to shareholders and bosses
THE collapse of the construction company Carillion has again thrown a spotlight on the systematic theft and looting of billions of pounds from workers’...
The UK Army Drive To Recruit Youth Is Stepped Up As The Crisis Of...
THE BRITISH armed forces, especially the army, are making a big turn to recruit youth, with military colleges springing up everywhere. More than one-in-10 new...
Elderly Care Is Disintegrating – The Only Remedy Is To Get The Tories...
A LETTER to Chancellor Osborne and Health Secretary Hunt signed by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, the Care Provider Alliance, which...
Coalition opts for new anti-union laws and dictatorship
CIVIL SERVANTS are angry that Cabinet Office minister, and head of the Star Chamber to force through government policy, Francis Maude, is going...
Tory-Lib Dem Budget hitting the poor hardest – IFS report
WORKING class families and pensioners are being hit hardest by Chancellor George Osborne’s Emergency Budget. This is the key finding from a study by the...
Trade unions must take action to defend the NHS
AS far as the NHS is concerned the vultures are now gathering for the kill. On Monday, News Line publicised a leaked e-mail ...
Myanmar – working class intervene with national strikes to bring down military dictatorship
WORKERS across Myanmar (formally Burma) came out on a nationwide general strike yesterday demanding the overthrow of the military dictatorship which was imposed last...
Defending the NHS means sacking the BMA leadership
THE BMA leadership yesterday came out in favour of NHS rationing. It also supported the NHS having a written constitution, and being run by...
May Refuses To Sack Hunt And Commits Herself To Class War Not ‘One Nation’!
PM MAY, under the guise of adopting a ‘one nation’ policy which treasures the poor and the needy much more than the rich, has...
The April Wall Street crash ‘worst since 1932’ as recession hits the US
‘TRUMP rout is taking on historic dimensions’ was how American financial paper, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), described the news yesterday that the Dow...
Socialist revolution only answer to capitalist debt crisis
RACHEL Reeves is due to deliver her first Autumn Budget as Labour Chancellor next Wednesday, and is already promising ‘tough decisions’ on cuts and...
Red Cross confirms that the Afghan ‘Black Hole’ does exist
THE Red Cross has confirmed that the US airbase at Bagram does contain a prison within a prison, complete with a torture chamber, that...
Deepening crisis means revolution in the UK and Ireland
THE amount of new public sector borrowing in the UK hit a record of £15.9bn for August. This is £1.8 billion higher than in...
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,...
Japan withdraws troops from Iraq. A blow to Bush & Blair!
PRIME Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced yesterday the withdrawal of the 600 Japanese troops from Iraq by the end of next month. These ‘non combatant’...
Greek workers and Palestinian masses are allies
THE Greek Pasok capitalist government, that is using its state forces to bludgeon and gas tens of thousands of workers protesting against its sell-off...
Liz Truss speech calls for ‘new’ party to wage class war against working class!
IT was almost exactly one year ago that the then Tory prime minister Liz Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered a mini-budget that...
Strike wave intensifies this week – now is the time to call a general...
Today, over 40,000 workers across Network Rail and 14 train operating companies are continuing national strike action called by the RMT union over pay,...
Labour must pledge to nationalise Bombardier to defend 14,000 jobs!
PM May is said to be ‘bitterly disappointed’ that the US Department of Commerce and her friend President Trump have opted to impose a...
Capitalism’s Historical Crisis Demands Socialist Revolution
THE historic crisis of world capitalism has come to a head with a vengeance, with both the once mighty US economy and the European...
UN Security Council passes resolution to put Trump in supreme control of Gaza
ON MONDAY, the United Nations Security Council voted by 13 to 0 to pass a US-drafted resolution that effectively puts president Donald Trump in...
US And Iraqi Puppets Massacre A Thousand In Sadr City
IRAQI deputies to the puppet parliament, who are Iraqi nationalists and who support Moqtada al-Sadr have denounced the US puppet government of Premier...
Labour is rushing to Johnson’s defence. Make the TUC call a general strike...
THE TORIES have launched the most vicious attack on the working class since they came to power in 2010. After ten years of austerity,...
Bush Desperate ‘To Aid Burma’ But Watches Palestinians Starve!
THERE is an obvious contradiction in the fact that while the US and the UK are considering fighting their way into Burma to ‘bring...
Westminster Council demands unemployed do ‘voluntary work’
The Tory ‘flagship’ council, Westminster, yesterday unveiled its blueprint for dumping the savage cuts in local government finances squarely on the backs of the...
Motor industry crisis deepens – nationalisation the only way
THE US administration has let it be known that it intends to force GM, formerly the world’s number one motor car manufacturer, into bankruptcy...
Spain follows Greece with mass strikes against austerity
SPANISH Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialist Party government scraped through Parliament its 15bn euro (£13bn) austerity package, by 169 votes to 168,...
Obama opens up class war front against US workers!
LAST WEEK President Obama, speaking at the Pentagon, told the American people that he was going to open up a new front for the...
Imperialist ‘vulture funds’ plundering Africa
THE High Court in London was due to rule yesterday in the case of an American-owned investment fund suing the Zambian government to repay,...
Workers Must Tell Tuc And Starmer ‘Don’t Prop Up Johnson Bring Him Down!’
IN HIS speech outside Downing Street on Monday PM Johnson made it crystal clear that the Tory Party, presiding over the greatest ever crisis...
Obama recognises the limits of US power
PRESIDENT Obama yesterday gave the go-ahead for a massive attack on the Afghan people in which tens of thousands of men, women and children...
Labour Pledges More Austerity!
POLITICAL ‘role reversal’ is the phrase being bandied about by bourgeois political commentators as they scratch their heads trying to make comparisons between the...
Housing crash on the way!
THE latest Bank of England figures show that the number of new mortgages being given to house buyers has fallen by 20 per cent...
Revolutionary generation will lead British socialist revolution
LAST Sunday’s News Line Anniversary meeting, which greeted the Young Socialists’ March for Jobs and Free Education, was a historic moment in the history...
Prentis appeals to Brown in vain
‘OUR time and patience is running out. The country is in a mess and we look to the Government to come up with serious...
A bankrupt Tory budget for a bankrupt Britain!
CHANCELLOR Hammond outlined a bankrupt policy for a bankrupt Britain yesterday in the House of Commons. The paper-thin disguise for this bankruptcy was Hammond’s...
Johnson’s ‘Defiance’ Of The EU Will Not Fool Workers – He Voted For May’s...
THE NEW Tory PM, Boris Johnson, now has a cabinet dominated by ‘Leavers’ after his massive clear-out of ‘Remainer’ ministers, following his victory in...
Eu Abyss Opens As Irish Decide On Referendum
THE Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos was in Brussels yesterday seeking final approval from Germany and France for Greece’s second bailout deal. Greece is continuing...
Spies Who Fooled the World
ON the eve of the tenth anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq by British and US forces the BBC’s Panorama programme last night...
Motor City Goes Bankrupt – Unions Denounce Orr Power Grab!
DETROIT, once the motor car capital of the USA where hundreds of thousands of workers used to flock looking for good jobs in the...