British capitalism, backward, parasitic, and ripe for revolution
A REPORT by business research firm Datamonitor says that people in the UK are borrowing on average almost twice that of citizens in other...
Bolton Blaze Shows That Tackling Cladding Is A Life And Death Issue That Is...
THE CLADDING (HPL) that encased the Bolton students’ accommodation block that was engulfed in flames last week was found, after examination by scientists, to...
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...
Unions at court to fight pensions rip-off
Yesterday six trade unions appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice to appeal against a High Court decision that the coalition government will slash...
Massive price increases for millions of workers yesterday while giant energy companies make billions...
YESTERDAY was dubbed ‘Awful April’ in the press, as millions of households throughout the UK were hit by massive price increases across the board...
IMF says banks stuck in ‘Doom Loop’ – Socialist revolution the only way to...
TEN YEARS on from the banking crash that brought the world’s financial system to the very edge of going over the fiscal cliff, the...
US getting ready to attack Iran! It has warned its allies if you buy...
US DEFENCE Secretary James Mattis has said that the United States will have no cooperation with the Russian military in Syria, at least...
After Johnson Refused To Sack Hancock, The Capitalist State Did The Job For Him!
BRITISH capitalism is in a desperate economic and political crisis that calls for truly desperate measures by the ruling class. The use of the capitalist...
There can be no return to Bretton Woods – world socialist revolution is the...
AN ARTICLE in the Business section of the Daily Telegraph yesterday laid bare the historic depth of the crisis of world capitalism today. The article,...
Israeli forces storm al-Aqsa Mosque while its nationals fight alongside the Ukrainian fascists!
ISRAELI military forces stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound yesterday, attacking Palestinian worshippers with sound grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse them and...
LGA Warns ‘Extreme Cost-Cutting’ Is Destroying All Services!
THE LOCAL Government Association’s (LGA) Richard Watts has written to Tory Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick (of the two houses) warning against ‘extreme cost-cutting’...
Workers forced Brexit through! Now bring down Johnson to bring in a workers government...
AT ELEVEN pm last night, Britain officially left the European Union. After a long, hard and determined struggle Brexit has actually happened and the...
Tories increasingly looking to ditch Johnson while Starmer lines up for place in a...
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson jetted off to India yesterday in advance of the vote by MPs on a Labour motion to launch an investigation...
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...
Imperialists step up war preparations against Iran
A report from the director of US national intelligence, James Clapper, issued last Tuesday signalled that imperialism’s war preparations against Iran have reached the...
World capitalism is in its death agony – forward with the world socialist revolution
YESTERDAY’S ‘solution’ to the economic crisis of Cyprus is simply the decision of the EU bankers and the IMF to completely bankrupt the country...
Palestine Faces Starvation! Now Is The Time For The Workers Of The World To...
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued their assault on the city of Jenin and its refugee camp for the 97th consecutive day on Sunday, carrying...
End CWU paralysis – reinstate strike actions!
KARL MARX wrote in his masterpiece ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’ that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur,...
Low Paid UK By Permission Of The Tuc!
THE coalition government has named 70 companies that won’t pay workers the minimum wage. Even the government says that the 100 cases in the care...
Hewitt, Hoon and Cameron fail to shift Brown
ON Wednesday mid-day, ex-ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon sent a text to all Labour MPs asking them to support a call for a...
Syria refuses to give way to imperialism
THE news that the Obama regime is demanding the complete withdrawal of Hezbollah fighters from Syria marks a decisive development in the increasingly desperate...
Tories breaking triple-lock will plunge millions of pensioners into poverty!
MILLIONS of pensioners will be plunged into poverty as the Tories press ahead with ending the triple-lock on state pensions. The triple-lock guarantees the basic...
Trump pushes US and world capitalism into slump and recession
LEADING bourgeois economists are making doom laden predictions about the effect of Donald Trump’s pledges to ‘make America great’ through trade wars and expelling...
Hunt throws down the gauntlet – the trade unions must pick it up!
THE Department of Health, headed by Health Secretary Hunt, has said that a proposed 1% increase in NHS staff pay was unaffordable, and is...
Tuc Must Act Over Cameron’s War!
ON MONDAY the bourgeois press proclaimed the rag-bag of mercenaries and brigands who make up the so-called ‘rebels’ had crushed the forces loyal to...
Massive increases in US military spending as US bosses look to war to...
US IMPERIALISM is currently stoking up a war crisis from Ukraine to the China Seas as it seeks a way out of its economic...
Tories to slash benefits to unemployed & sick
TORY Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government unveiled its plans to target the unemployed and others on benefits, depriving them of their entitlements, or...
Tories prepare for civil war against the working class
IN HIS closing speech to the Tory conference, Cameron pledged that a future Tory government would scrap the Human Rights Act, a position that was...
False start for Psaki in sanctions assault race!
US President Obama has not yet signed a bill clearing the way for more economic sanctions against Russia. The US State Department confirmed ...
Nationalise Land Rover and Jaguar to defend wages and jobs
THE Alchemy Partners gang of asset-strippers have got Land Rover and Jaguar in their sights, now that cash-strapped Ford is ready to sell off...
Unite votes for speed-up and savage cuts at GM Vauxhall
THE Vauxhall-Opel GM bosses statement put out yesterday claimed as its subject: ‘Vauxhall and Opel employees dive into their pockets to support the company...
Hundreds of thousands of UK firms ‘looking down the barrel’ of bankruptcy
BRITISH capitalism enters 2022 with experts and business owners predicting a massive surge in bankruptcies amongst SMEs (small to medium sized enterprises with no...
Tory police state plans alive and well!
PLANS for more secret court hearings, in the Justice and Security Bill, will create a ‘statutory straitjacket’ for judges, Martin Chamberlain, one of the...
Bush, Blair Admit Stupidity And Incompetence
PRESIDENT Bush and Premier Blair have admitted their chronic incompetence over the prosecution of the war in Iraq, and have appealed to the rest...
UK police state spying on MPs is legal says IPT!
NOTHING is being allowed to halt or even get in the way of the all-powerful GCHQ spy machine that has been long established as...
Johnson speech a bombastic cover-up of Tory class war preparations
PM BORIS Johnson delivered a speech to the Tory faithful yesterday that was immediately dismissed by Matthew Lesh, head of the research at the...
The UN must accept Palestinian statehood – Defeat the US-UK governments’ opposition!
MEMBERS of the UN Security Council have failed to reach a consensus on the Palestinian bid to become a full member state of the...
Sinking Deeper Into The Afghan Morass
THE talk by the commander of the British forces in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, that ‘missions by special forces and air strikes by unmanned...
Brown, Cameron & Clegg unite to rescue bankrupt capitalism
THE manufacturing sector of the British economy shrank last month at the fastest rate for 17 years, that is since 1992, according to figures...
Lid lifted on US torture regime while the UK’s role is redacted!
THE REPORT by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) very belatedly exposes the CIA torture regime that was imposed after the 2001...
Hodge tries to stop any condemnation of Israel as a racist, apartheid state
THE ORCHESTRATED witch-hunt against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over scurrilous accusations that he and indeed vast numbers of Labour Party members are in fact...
Gadaffi In Tripoli – Hague In Disarray!
WHILE Cameron is in Kuwait seeking to sell more rubber bullets, poison gas and a variety of war machines to the British-trained Gulf monarchies,...
TUC line up with CBI and Tory Chancellor Sunak to impose wage cuts and...
ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...
Sunak not ‘daunted’ by job of driving through super austerity to rescue British capitalism!
Rishi Sunak delivered his first address to the nation as prime minister yesterday morning. He started by praising Liz Truss and Boris Johnson in a...
French workers’ refusal to vote for austerity puts socialist revolution on immediate agenda
IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote...