Care for the Elderly crisis – capitalist barbarism at work
WHEN workers pass the age at which their labour can be exploited for profit they become a useless burden on society as far as...
Tuc Must Reply To Tory Threats And Call A General Strike To Begin On...
THE TUC leaders will be meeting in Blackpool on Wednesday evening June 15th just three days before their huge 100,000 plus ‘March for Change’...
Capitalism cannot solve housing crisis – only socialism can!
IN his emergency budget Chancellor Osborne made it crystal clear that the Housing Benefit of those struggling to exist under crisis-ridden capitalism was one...
Blair’s ‘summary power’ for war on the working class
PRIME Minister Tony Blair launched the Labour government’s new ‘Respect Action Plan’ yesterday, declaring that he was setting out to overthrow basic democratic rights...
A new war on Gaza is ‘not far away’ and will be ‘the bloodiest...
A NEW war between Israel and Palestinian factions in the occupied Gaza Strip ‘is not far away’, and ‘will be deadlier and more destructive...
Labour Intends To Prop Up Capitalism And Continue From Where The Tories Left Off!
KING Charles yesterday outlined his new Labour government’s law-making plans in his speech to Parliament. The Labour Party now has an overall majority over all...
War on Iran expands threatening to crash stock markets and drive inflation
THE US and the Israeli regime ramped up their war against Iran and the people of the Middle East yesterday with an increased bombardment...
No single market! No Customs Union! TUC call a general strike to...
THE DIVISIONS within the Tory Party are rapidly sharpening, with an ever widening gulf between those who want to remain in the EU and...
Putin wants to collaborate with imperialism, not overthrow it
THE New York Times has just printed a letter from the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, which he described as a direct address to the...
Miliband’s ‘national interest’ is an ‘imperialist interest’
FOREIGN Secretary Miliband declared to his audience, right at the start of his Oxford College speech last Tuesday evening, that ‘we’ must not let...
UK must follow Ireland’s lead and organise general strike action in support of Palestine!
RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, announced on Thursday that Ireland will not take part in next year’s Eurovision song contest if Israel is a contestant,...
Revolution Emerging All Over Europe
THE Portuguese government has agreed to look for alternatives to th social security tax rise, just one week after huge anti-austerity street protests shook...
Support the Shell-HOYER tanker workers!
IN the last few weeks we have seen the road hauliers take to the streets against the massive increases in petrol and diesel prices...
British capitalism bankrupt, backward and stuck at the bottom!
UK unemployment fell by 57,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to May, leaving the unemployed rate stuck at 7.8% in the UK,...
Tories have blood on their hands over Channel drownings
TWENTY-SEVEN people, including a pregnant woman and three children, were drowned attempting to cross the Channel in an inflatable boat on Wednesday – the...
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...
Revolution and counter- revolution in the Middle East
EGYPTIAN workers and youth have reoccupied Tahrir Square in Cairo, and are keeping the military and the police at bay, following Saturday’s deadly clashes...
Abbas surrenders to Israel and the US over the right to return
THE Palestine National Authority President, Mahmud Abbas has just been warmly greeted as a true friend and ‘partner for peace’ by the Israeli...
Police Have No Regrets And No Remorse Say de Menezes Family
THE Metropolitan Police chief, Blair, has already gone, his going made inevitable by the disgraceful attitude that he took to the police murder of...
Vote WRP, forward to the socialist revolution!
PM Brown yesterday announced that the general election will be held on 6 May and told voters Labour will take the ‘big decisions’ that...
NHS held to ransom by Cyber terrorists – Hunt must resign and the...
ON FRIDAY afternoon a terrorist cyber attack was launched on the NHS in England and Scotland that brought it to a standstill in many...
Support Palestinian General Strike
TEACHERS, hospital workers and other government workers have come out on general strike in the West Bank and Gaza Strip following the non-payment of...
Defend the NHS with a general strike to bring the Tories down and bring...
EVERY day brings a new savage attack by this Tory government on the NHS. At the beginning of the week the shock announcement broke that...
Nationalise The Banking System To Put An End To Capitalism
THE credit ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded 15 global banks and financial institutions. The UK banks downgraded were Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, HSBC and...
Build up pensions battle against Blair government
AFTER the disgraceful sell out of final salary pensions by union leaders of the NHS, civil service and local government trade unions, the basic...
Call a national postal strike and bring out all the public sector
ROYAL Mail chairman Allan Leighton reiterated yesterday that the organisation cannot afford to improve its 2.5 per cent pay offer, despite staff voting 77...
Two State Solution Was A Trap For Palestinians
ISRAEL’S tactic in the ongoing ‘peace talks’ with the Palestine National Authority has been to carry on stalling, for the last ten years, agreeing...
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,...
House of Commons recognises Palestine!
‘THAT this House believes that the Government should recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel, as a contribution to securing a...
Out with Hunt, out with the rotten coalition!
LABOUR is to demand a parliamentary vote over Culture Secretary Hunt’s breaching of the ministerial code, by refusing to take responsibility for the actions...
The whole world rages at the persecution of the Palestinians yet the TUC still...
PALESTINE’S UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour has called on the UN Security Council to ensure ‘protection’ for Palestinians, who have increasingly come under deadly attacks...
Davis resignation shatters Tories as May goes looking for Labour votes
TORY Brexit Secretary David Davis exploded a bomb under the leadership of PM Theresa May on Sunday with his resignation from the cabinet. May had...
Refugees Must Be Welcomed – The Bosses Must Be Sent Packing!
FOLLOWING the successes of the Syrian army’s drive into Idlib province, President Erdogan of Turkey has begun to carry out his revenge policy. Since the...
Tory contempt for working class as Sunak offers ‘work coaches’ to solve mass unemployment
YESTERDAY Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his new Job Entry Targeted Scheme (JETS) that he claimed will ‘provide fresh opportunities to those that have...
Putting The Trade Union Leaders To Shame
SEVEN people were arrested at Prestwick Airport yesterday, after appointing themselves as ‘citizen weapons inspectors’, and forcing themselves onto a US cargo flight to...
Labour Party heads for a split
THE announcement by the acting Labour leader, Harriet Harman, during an interview with the BBC on Sunday, that the Labour Party would be fully...
Trump sends in US military
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Monday said he would deploy the US military to US states that don’t use the National Guard in sufficient...
US military targeting Iran and Hezbollah
YESTERDAY the US military was linking Iran directly to attacks on their troops, including an attack at Karbala in which five US troops were...
UK trade unions must give full support to the Palestinian mass uprising that Israel...
EMBOLDENED by the inauguration of President Trump, and awaiting his decision to go ahead with moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,...
Poroshenko crushed in elections – forward to Ukrainian workers taking back power and returning...
THE WORKERS and small farmers of Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to the right-wing oligarchs and to the EU and US imperialism when they...
Bank of England warning that world stock markets on the verge of crash!
The Bank of England yesterday warned that the capitalist financial markets are at risk of ‘sharp correction’. In its latest financial stability report the Bank...
Trade Unions Must Fight Alongside The Students!
THE News Line fully supports the call by the secretary of the Young Socialists Student Society for next week’s lobby and rally by the...
Hague Beats The War Drums Against Syria
YESTERDAY saw the spectacle of Foreign Secretary Hague complaining that every Jihadist on the planet was heading for Syria, after both he and his...
Corbyn comes out for a second referendum to sell-out Brexit
YESTERDAY Jeremy Corbyn launched the Labour Party manifesto for the upcoming elections to the EU parliament: ‘Transforming Britain and Europe: for the many not...
Even the right-wing bourgeois press is being threatened by the state!
THE furore in the bourgeois press about the lenient treatment handed out to the Tory culture secretary, Maria Miller, who was found guilty of...