Working Class Is On The March – Tuc Must Call A General Strike To...
DRIVEN forward by the shock of capitalism’s energy catastrophe the working class is now on the march. Unite Wales union NHS members have voted to...
Take Action To Win The Winter War
ON FRIDAY, the Health Secretary Hewitt announced that the NHS is heading for a £623 million deficit by the end of March. This deficit is...
March this Saturday to free Palestine, and to end Israeli imposed apartheid. 11AM at...
WHILE the British government remains as silent as the grave over the continuing slaughter of Palestinians by the racist Israeli government, and while the...
SACK Police Commissioner Dick! Disband the Met Police force and bring in a...
WITH its dispersal of the vigil at Clapham Common Bandstand on Saturday, where thousands of people were peacefully paying their last respects to the...
Jamaican High Commissioner demands halt deportations! End May’s hostile environment by kicking the Tories...
‘WE MAY very well be deporting people who are entitled to be here,’ the Jamaican High Commissioner said, calling on the UK government to...
Pharmaceutical companies exploit the sick for profit – expropriate them now!
THE LATEST scandal over the obscene profits of giant pharmaceutical companies emerged this week with the news that campaigners are demanding that the Tory...
UK military torn apart by ‘internal warfare’
THE ARMED wing of the British capitalist state is being torn apart by ‘internal warfare’, according to a report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph. This major...
GM-Magna workers unite! Occupy and nationalise to save jobs!
GM WORKERS are rising up all over Europe against the GM-Magna deal, under which plants in Spain and the UK and Belgium are to...
Workers Worldwide Must Take General Strike Action To See That Palestine Wins!
THE ARROGANT Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has outlined his proposals for the future Israeli governance of Gaza ‘once the war between Israel and...
Palestinian PM calls on UN to act against Israeli apartheid, while Hamas insists that...
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on United Nations bodies, particularly the Children’s Fund (UNICEF), to follow up on the recent Human Rights...
Blair’s police state demonising Muslims
ABU Bakr, the 27 year old English teacher, and one of the nine Muslim men arrested by the police, and put under the media...
‘New Leader – Old Agenda’
IN a motion for next month’s Trades Union Congress, UNISON correctly says the use of private firms in public services is ‘harmful, wasteful, and...
Desperate UK and French imperialism begins new ‘Grab for Africa’
EARLIER this week French aircraft bombed the positions of the anti-imperialist forces in the Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) led by Laurent Gbagbo, while French...
War against Taleban spreads into Pakistan
THE centre of Mingora as well as large parts of the provincial capital of Swat have been destroyed and are rubble after five weeks...
Blears Speaks With Forked Tongue
HOME Office minister Blears has had a strenuous week. On the one hand she has been working to support British Transport Police Chief Johnston....
TUC must support doctors strike and NHS by calling a general strike to kick...
Resident doctors began five days of strike action yesterday following the overwhelming rejection, 83% to 17%, of Labour health secretary Wes Streeting’s latest pathetic...
US and Israel step up the war against the Palestinian masses!
PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi, on Monday, condemned the decision of the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation to strip the High Court of...
Workers Of The World Unite To Smash Racism And To Win Socialism!
MICHAEL Fallon, Tory defence secretary, did an Enoch Powell (he made his anti-immigrant ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech in 1968) when he claimed on Sunday...
Wall Street heading for a crash
THE US Wall Street is fast heading for a crash according to the Bank of America (BoA) as the huge speculative bubble on the...
Trade unions must fight zero hours contracts
THE news that over one million workers now have ‘zero hours contracts’ and work only when their employer wants them, have no holidays or...
Corus must be nationalised to defend jobs and living standards!
LAST Saturday thousands of steel workers and their families marched in the North-East to stop the closure of the Redcar Corus plant. The closure...
Israel responds to UN resolution calling for ‘sustainable ceasefire’ by ramping up genocide!
ISRAEL intensified its bombardment of Gaza over the weekend hitting 200 targets in a single 24-hour period on Friday and Saturday. Just one of these...
QUEEN’S SPEECH:Making the poor pay & more police powers
THE Queen’s Speech yesterday was dominated by the unprecedented world financial crisis and deepening slump, and its impact on decrepit British imperialism. It opened: ‘My...
Macron’s response promising permanent austerity will drive revolution forward
ON THURSDAY evening French president Emmanuel Macron finally made a public address outlining his response to the revolutionary uprising of workers, youth and the...
NHS privateers off-shore tax haven bonanza exposed
WHILE the NHS is being brought to its knees financially through austerity cuts, with hospitals and entire health authorities facing bankruptcy, NHS privateers are...
Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ is a national government
GORDON Brown yesterday launched his campaign to take over the job of Tony Blair as Labour Prime Minister. He spoke about his ‘new ideas and...
After 100 days – Cameron pledges to step up class war!
PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...
it’s your money for your life says NICE
IF NICE and the ‘NHS health reformers’ have their way, free health care at the point of need is destined for the dustbin of...
Hayman gets a CBE while Met chief Blair puts his holidays first
THE ‘shoot to kill’ section of the Metropolitan Police force is proceeding full speed ahead, knowing that it has the complete support of the...
State to give bankrupt bankers cash in exchange for their paper rubbish
PRIME Minister Brown has made an appeal to the Wall Street bankers to be honest, surely a contradiction in terms. He wants them to publicly...
TUC leaders condemn Autumn Statement but refuse to take any action!
THE TUC leaders are unanimous in their condemnation of the latest Tory autumn statement, but yet again refuse to call any action to bring...
Starmer pledges Labour to super-austerity to rescue capitalism
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer delivered a speech in Stratford, east London yesterday setting out Labour’s ‘vision’ for the country under any future Labour government. His...
Unite must hit back and defend its members, with full TUC support
THE petrochemical plant at the giant Grangemouth complex in central Scotland is to close with the loss of over 800 jobs, owner Ineos announced...
Latest IMF report – Corporations in US, Britain and Europe facing bankruptcy
THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) this week produced its latest Global Financial Stability Report, its half-yearly analysis of the state of the world’s banks...
Pensions crisis will revolutionise millions
‘THERE is no obligation on the part of employers to provide pensions’, said the National Association of Pension Funds yesterday. This was its response to...
The Lebanese cease-fire is a truce
DESPITE the recent heavy losses suffered by the Israeli army in trying to penetrate southern Lebanon, the objective of the US administration, its Israeli...
Imperialist Vultures Gather Over Syria
HAVING failed to overthrow President Assad of Syria by force of arms, the imperialist powers are now turning to Russia, and are seeking the...
British capitalism even more bankrupt than the Bank of England admits
LAST week, the Bank of England issued a ‘gloomy’ outlook for the UK economy with its growth forecast cut in half from that made...
Oxfam’s Pleas To The Bankers Will Be Ignored – World Revolution Is The...
‘THE IMF must abandon demands for austerity as the cost-of-living crisis drives up hunger and poverty worldwide’ is the demand being made by Oxfam. Oxfam’s...
Lessons from the 1984-85 miners strike
THE government papers released under the 30-year rule concerning the 1984-85 miners strike confirm that Thatcher and the Tories, despite their considerable preparations over...
Abolish Fees, Restore Grants And Free State Education For All
A REVIEW of university student fees in England has been launched by Business Secretary Mandelson. The object of the review is to increase, perhaps...
Labour’s knives are out for use against the UK’s working class and its youth...
THE future of the youth minimum wage is now under review by the former Health Secretary Alan Milburn. The alleged ‘social mobility’ expert has told...
‘A DIFFICULT TIME AHEAD’ WARNS B of E CHIEF, KING
CPI inflation is expected to hit 5% later this year due to higher energy and other utility bills that will continue rising by up...
US in political crisis as Biden faces growing calls to quit!
A ‘PERVASIVE sense of fear and uncertainty’ hangs over the US Democratic party as 81-year-old president Joe Biden faces increasingly strident calls for him...
News Line Editorial Board New Year Statement
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary New Year greetings for 2026 to the Palestinian people whose intransigence and resistance against Zionism...