The crisis is leaving the working class no alternative to revolution
A FURTHER nail was driven into the coffin of British capitalism this week with the release of figures showing that the income from overseas...
100 Million Nigerians live on less than $1 a day – despite Nigeria’s vast...
THE numbers of Nigerians living in poverty, in the midst of vast oil riches, has risen to nearly 61 per cent. Poverty has risen sharply...
Greece heralds a capitalist collapse and the European socialist revolution
THE Standard and Poor (S&P) credit rating agency downgraded Greek government bonds on Wednesday sending government stocks and share prices on the Athens Stock...
A socialist government and a socialist foreign policy needed to defeat terrorism!
NEWS LINE sends its condolences to the families and friends of the 22 people, including children, who were killed and the 59 who were...
Only answer to capitalist crisis – build WRP and sections of 4th International to...
THE CRISIS in the Tory party sharpened over the weekend, as the requirement to dump the economic collapse of British capitalism onto the backs...
Labour says ‘full speed ahead’ with police state measures – The unions must call...
GOVERNMENT plans to expand the use of ‘Orwellian’ live-facial recognition camera surveillance to every town and city in England and Wales will allow dangerous...
Bankrupt Brown speaks to the City of London
GORDON Brown began his Mansion House speech to the City of London on Monday night with a ringing but empty declaration. He said: ‘I want...
Tories Are Down – Now They Must Be Put Out!
THE Tories are down but they are not out! The trade unions must mobilise for action at once to deliver a knock-out blow to...
Forward To The General Strike – Bring Down The Coalition, Stop All The Cuts...
500,000 workers, youth and pensioners marched through London on Saturday. Unlike the Labour leaders they were in total opposition to all of the savage cuts...
Ukraine workers defy imperialism and Stalinism!
THE News Line salutes the bravery and heroism of the Ukrainian working class who defied all the threats, intimidation and murderous attacks by forces...
TUC conference swings to the right – a new leadership must be built!
THIS year’s annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference marked a historic lurch to the right by the leadership of the trade unions. At a time...
Wal-Mart Asda Blinks First To Avoid Costly Five Day Strike Action
‘GMB members win the right to collective bargaining in the UK, Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots’, is what the GMB trade union optimistically labelled the...
Iran nuclear talks at crucial stage as Saudis bomb Yemen
AT THE same time as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf state planes, with US support, are bombing the Yemen and its Houthi Shia rebels,...
Myanmar – bloody military crackdown exposes weakness of the junta!
THE WEEKEND saw the bloodiest crackdown by the Myanmar military dictatorship when police and soldiers opened fire on demonstrators killing at least 18 and...
US workers mobilise in fight for trade unions and unionisation!
STARBUCKS, the world’s largest coffee chain, has been stunned by an explosion of its workers demanding trade union rights across America. Last year, a group...
Tories wage starvation war against children of immigrant families and the entire working...
THE children of immigrant families are being deliberately starved by the Tories as part of their ‘hostile environment’ policy towards immigrant workers. Headteachers and...
General strike shakes the Rajapaksa regime! Forward to workers power!
LAST Thursday, the Sri Lankan capital Colombo was halted as hundreds of thousands of trade unionists and their supporters took to the streets in...
Britain to be one big prison!
THE coalition government has published its plans to turn Britain into one big prison with its own version of the US’ two strikes and...
Now is the time to build revolutionary party in France
Europe is lurching to the left after the revolutionary uprising in France, and the defeat of Berlusconi in Italy. Millions of French workers and youth...
Israel declares UN agency UNRWA a terrorist organisation and bans it from providing any...
The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, on Monday passed a motion banning UNRWA (the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency) from operating inside Israel and occupied...
MPs damn Cameron for Libya but support ‘organised’ regime change in Middle East
FIVE years after US imperialism, aided by their stooges in Britain and France, launched their bombing campaign against Libya and its leader Colonel Muammar...
Occupation of Republic Windows and Doors shows the way to the USA
THE occupation of a relatively small factory in Chicago by its angry workforce, members of the UE trade union, to prevent its closure, has...
Hamas agrees to form a Palestinian national unity government!
MEMBER of Hamas political bureau Osama Hamdan said on Sunday that his movement wants ‘joint Palestinian rule’ if the war comes to a halt...
Labour prepares for war – time to kick them out!
IT was revealed this week that the Labour government is set to introduce changes to a new armed forces bill, due to come before...
Forward with the Egyptian revolution
HUNDREDS of people are reported to have been killed in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities throughout Egypt, and thousands injured after the army leaders...
Bank rate rigging ‘Everyone was at it’
The crisis resulting from the bank rate rigging scandal that has engulfed Barclays took a dramatic turn over the weekend with the revelation that...
Unions must call a general strike to support Gaza and put an end to...
THE Bureau of the UN General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People reaffirmed last Wednesday night its...
US-UK bullies threaten war with Iran!
THE Tory Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, declared the UK’s readiness to go to war with Iran last Thursday when he threatened that UK and...
Palestinians rising up against Israeli drive to ethnically cleanse them from Jerusalem
ISRAELI forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday morning, firing rubber-coated bullets, tear gas and sound bombs at Palestinian worshippers, wounding hundreds in a...
Labour Traitors Dance To Billionaire George Soros’ Tune!
AFTER their defeat in the House of Commons last Wednesday over the EU Withdrawal Bill, the billionaire George Soros’ ‘Best for Britain’ movement ...
Knives Out Inside The Tory Party– Time For The Working Class To Bring Them...
AS THE Tory party implodes, and the lynch mob search mounts for the author or authors of the ‘Dirty Dossier’ that named 40MPs and...
Tories aiming for a national government
LENIN’S definition of a revolutionary situation was one in which the ruling class could not rule in the old way, and was riven with...
Johnson ditches Plan B – Time for working class to kick Tories out and...
THE TORIES have pledged to dump all existing Covid restrictions in the next few weeks in England and ‘get life completely back to normal’. On...
Anti-Russian war alliance begins to crumble as head of German navy quits!
GERMANY’S navy chief has resigned from his post after drawing criticism from the German government and Ukraine over his remarks in support of Russian...
Workers And Students Must Organise General Strikes To Smash Tories & Support Gaza!
NEARLY three dozen Palestinian civilians, including women and children, have already been murdered by Israeli military forces bombing various neighbourhoods in Rafah in the...
Stop The Police Chiefs Taking Over The Fire Service!
JUST a few weeks ago the Grenfell Tower inferno burnt men, women and children to death, because the fire was able to take...
British capitalism hits the rocks!
IN THE early hours of last Friday, a seismic crash in the value of the pound against the dollar caused panic amongst the world’s...
Worst NHS winter crisis ever! NHS unions must join health strike in the north...
A&Es axed, children’s hospitals closed, nurses driven out because of overwork and under-pay, junior doctors at the point of exhaustion, GP surgeries shut down,...
Vote For Livingstone! Get The Tories Out!
NEWS LINE urges all of its readers and supporters to vote for Ken Livingstone in the London Mayoral elections today, and to vote Labour...
Victory To The Gate Gourmet Workers
THE News Line sends greetings to the striking German and the locked-out British Gate Gourmet workers, who are today marching through Hounslow. The German workers...
Economic and political collapse of British capitalism – socialist revolution the only answer
THE KNIVES are out for Tory prime minister Boris Johnson after his disastrous performance over sleaze, U-turns over social care and now his bizarre...
Disband the EU – forward to a Socialist United States of Europe
THE latest attempt to advance, by sleight of hand, to a united capitalist state of the European Union for the benefit of the...
Bankrupt UK economy plunges deeper into slump
There was no cheer for the British bourgeoisie on Monday when three separate reports from the Institute of Chartered accountants and the accountancy group...
Tories plan to scrap hospitals and treat people at home
YESTERDAY, the Tories announced their latest ploy to try and convince the country that in the face of all the evidence they actually support...
Cameron wants the army and police to be above the law!
THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...