Obama’s Second Coming – Full Of Empty Words
OBAMA began his second term on Monday, after four years of office which saw GM and other motor car giants go bust, Lehman Brothers...
Public services face privatisation catastrophe! Renationalise the lot under workers’ control!
THE COLLAPSES of Carillion, of East Coast Rail, of academy chain after academy chain, and now with the NAO report that private outsourcing giant...
Brown Remains The Bankers’ Man!
GORDON Brown was putting on a show of humbleness last night when he admitted on TV that he was not perfect but had made...
Hunt warned by bankers that tax cuts must be funded through savage austerity cuts...
TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is preparing to deliver a Spring budget on Wednesday 6th March which he has signalled will concentrate on tax cuts...
Syriza trying to carry on from where the former government left off!
SYRIZA policy going into the general election, through which it came to office, was to write off most of Greece’s 322bn euro debt. It demanded...
‘At war’ Obama speaks about taking difficult decisions
PRESIDENT Obama’s inaugural address was Churchillian in tone, but lacking in concrete content, limiting itself to spelling out that the US ruling class was...
Army publicly breaks with the Blair government
YESTERDAY’S statement by the army commander in chief, Dannatt, represented a major intervention into politics by a bourgeois officer corps that is supposed to...
King warns the ruling class to tackle the causes of the crisis
ADDRESSING a press conference yesterday afternoon, the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, said that ‘Tackling the symptoms of the crisis without...
Trump declares he will create 10 million new jobs by a trade war...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is stepping up his trade war onslaught on China as his November presidential election date approaches, and the US continues...
US Patriots In Gulf Prepare Way For Israeli Strike At Iran
THE US has moved to prepare the way for an Israeli strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities by deploying missile shields in Qatar, the UAE,...
World crisis reaching explosion point!
AS the US government entered its first full week of shutdown, the ruling class in America and the world are in panic mode as...
Universities in crisis – courses slashed, thousands to be sacked and fees to soar!
UNIVERSITIES are being hit hard by the capitalist crisis with thousands of jobs and courses going, and with students facing a lifting of the...
Another British Retreat From Kabul
PM Cameron has told MPs that 3,800 British troops – almost half of the current force serving in Helmand province – are to be...
Gordon Brown wheeled out to save capitalism
Former Labour chancellor and prime minister Gordon Brown has stepped forward to offer himself up as the saviour of bankrupt British capitalism. Brown made his...
Savage Spanish cuts will stoke a fire that no firewall can keep at bay
THE Spanish government is to cut 27bn euros (£22.5bn) from its budget this year. Among the measures are the freezing of public sector...
A British ‘barbaric act of aggression’ in Basra
THE Labour Government’s Defence Secretary, John Reid, declared yesterday that sending six Warrior tanks to demolish the wall of a prison compound in Basra,...
Grenfell fire and corona pandemic underline that under capitalism life is cheap! Overthrow...
THE GRENFELL inquiry has heard from the bosses of both the insulation and the cladding companies that produced the flammable material installed on the...
Starmer clears out Corbynite Long-Bailey to clear the way for a national government with...
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer has unceremoniously sacked shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. This is the MP who was the main contender standing against...
Abbas-Obama Talks Fail To Reach Agreement!
JUST BEFORE his talks with President Abbas on Monday, President Obama said: ‘I think everybody understands the outlines of what a peace deal would...
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,...
Reeves budget drives split in party as Labour MPs fear anger of workers over...
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves denied that Wednesday’s Budget was anything other than a massive austerity attack on workers with the sick and disabled deliberately...
NHS staffing crisis – only solution kick out the Tories!
THE shortage of NHS staff in England has reached the point where patients are being warned that they will have to get used to...
British Capitalism Is On The Rocks! All Life Support Attempts Are Failing As The...
SUCH is the crisis of British capitalism more than half of the adult population, 27 million people, have had to be financially assisted by...
May Day Manifesto 2015 Organise the Revolution!
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world at a time when the historic crisis...
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...
Trade Unions must call a general strike now to scrap the Tory Health and...
ON TUESDAY the Unite union, which has 100,000 members working in the health sector, wrote to every member of the House of Lords urging...
Sack Commissioner Dick and disband the Met police NOW! Forward to a workers state...
THE METROPOLITAN police officer, PC Wayne Couzens, has been sentenced to life imprisonment after it was proven in court that on March 3, 2021...
All trade unions must come out with the nurses to bring down the Tories...
THE 10,000 workers and youth who took part in the ‘Britain is Broken’ march in London on Saturday were marching for action to bring...
Postal Workers lose money in share crash – Renationalise Royal Mail
AT LAST month’s Labour Party conference, shadow chancellor John McDonnell floated the policy of a future Labour government introducing an ‘inclusive ownership Fund’ under...
Kick out the yellow trade union leaders
THE GATE GOURMET bosses were cock-a-hoop yesterday, and no wonder – after the leader of the TUC, Barber, and the leaders of the...
Kick the Tories out! Get rid of capitalism to prevent a health catastrophe of...
NHS WAITING lists in England could more than double in the coming months, from the current figure of 5.3 million people to around 13...
ALL trade unions must strike with the nurses to bring down the Tories and...
NURSES are to strike on Thursday 15th and Tuesday 20th December. At the same time CWU postal and RMT and ASLEF rail workers are...
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...
Bury bankrupt capitalism – forward to socialism
SUNDAY marked the fifth anniversary of the biggest banking collapse in the history of capitalism to date. On 15 September 2008 Lehman Brothers, a massive...
Hezbollah And Hamas Stand Fast As Israel Seeks To Provoke New War To Try...
THE secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has met with a delegation of senior Hamas officials in Beirut, as tensions explode across the...
French working class must take power to begin the European Socialist revolution!
NEARLY a quarter of a million French workers have taken part in mass rallies across the country against the French fascists, calling on the...
Nationalise BAE to defend jobs!
DEFENCE engineering giant BAE Systems confirmed yesterday that it is cutting a further 3,000 jobs at sites across the country, mainly in its military...
Blair’s call for an ‘alliance’ to attack Iran
PRIME Minister Tony Blair told businessmen from Britain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dubai yesterday: ‘We must mobilise our alliance of moderation...
Right-wing Labour MPs organise to support Tories and overturn ‘Leave’ vote
IT IS NOW becoming crystal clear that a concerted campaign by Labour right wingers to keep the disintegrating Tory minority government of Theresa May...
In US elections Sanders must defy Democrat campaign to stop him and stand for...
THE RACE to become the Democratic Party candidate to face Trump in November’s presidential election has come down to a fight between the democratic...
Israel Poised For Gaza Attack!
ISRAEL is gearing up for another major attack on the Gaza Strip to try and drive back the revolutionary forces in the area. At the...
Two-day Greek General Strike – time for all-out indefinite action!
LAST week the two main Greek trade union organisations representing workers in the public and private sector called a two-day general strike starting today...
India’s Farmers And Workers Are On The March To A Socialist Revolution!
INDIA’S farmers have launched a nationwide general strike against new capitalist laws creating agricultural markets, which they rightly say go against their interests and...
Social care starved of funds – one million without support
A new report, Care in Crisis, issued by Age UK spells out exactly what the Tory-led coalition’s destruction of the welfare state means for...
Capitalism is ‘At War’ – answer Cameron with general strike
BRITISH capitalism is ‘at war’ Cameron told the bosses yesterday, an ‘economic war’ which requires the state to rip up the rule book, strip off...