Answer corruption with socialist revolution!
WHEN Shakespeare had his character Marcellus observe in the play Hamlet that ‘something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ he had in mind...
Iranian diplomat was tortured after kidnap by CIA agents
WHILE the 15 British sailors were being held in comfortable and well fed custody by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, there was another captive, just...
Unions must occupy the steel industry to save thousands of jobs! Bring down the...
GREENSILL Capital, the biggest lender to crisis-ridden steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance, collapsed into administration yesterday. It has gone bust, and 5,000 steel...
British Army Is Defeated In Southern Iraq
US Intelligence officials have told the ‘Washington Post’ that the British army has been defeated in southern Iraq, and specifically in the second city...
Put Musharraf on trial! End the US alliance
THE former military dictator of Pakistan, Musharraf who came to power by a military coup in 1999, and was the main ally in the...
No To Imperialist War In West Africa!
SUFFERING a decisive and humiliating defeat at the hands of the Afghan people has in no way diminished British imperialism’s appetite for military adventures...
UK government must answer war crimes charges in both Iraq and Yemen!
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has condemned UK war crimes in both the Yemen and in Iraq. In the Yemen UK-supplied weaponry to Saudi Arabia has been...
Eurozone crisis drives gold rush
LAST week the Greek Syriza government avoided defaulting on its debt repayment to the IMF by the skin of its teeth. Just before Tuesday’s deadline...
Tories defy court ruling and keep asylum seekers detained at Napier Barracks
IT HAS been confirmed that the Home Office is determined to keep the dilapidated and dangerous Napier Barracks open for a further four years. The...
US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis to organise a new world war –...
PM Boris Johnson is now fighting on two fronts. At home, against the Metropolitan Police inquiry into his law-breaking, and the demand that he be...
Maude signals plan to ban strikes
The Tory cabinet office minister, Francis Maude, made a fantastical offer to the TUC and leaders of the public sector unions last Friday when...
Labour Pledges More Austerity!
POLITICAL ‘role reversal’ is the phrase being bandied about by bourgeois political commentators as they scratch their heads trying to make comparisons between the...
Trade Unions Must Bring Labour Down And Go Forward To A Workers Government And...
THE Labour government is incapable of resolving the massive economic catastrophe that is building up under British and world capitalism. This requires massive nationalisation...
pass Bill or face financial panic, bank closures and ruin – Bush tells Senate...
THE US president George Bush has been so frightened at the prospect of a 1929 collapse and a 1930s depression gripping the US that...
Bedroom Tax – a savage assault on the poor and vulnerable
Nothing typifies the vicious war against the poorest and most vulnerable sections of the working class more than the introduction next month of...
Benefit cap to be lowered by £6,000 say Treasury officials
CHANCELLOR George Osborne, the hammer of the poor, is so determined not to increase the taxes of the rich that he is about to...
UK political crisis emerges over demands for ceasefire in Gaza!
THE House of Commons dived headlong into a political crisis as MPs from both Labour and Tory parties struggled to maintain their support for...
Labour Now A Fifth Column For The Eu! Socialist Revolution Needed To Carry Out...
WEDNESDAY’S humiliating defeat of the Tory government over the EU Withdrawal Bill signalled the emergence of a bloc between the Labour Party, now firmly...
Nationalise The Banks To Resolve The Capitalist Crisis
MORE than $170 billion (£87 billion) has been wiped off the balance sheets of companies worldwide as a result of the collapse of the...
Only A Socialist Revolution Can Resolve The Crisis Of Capitalism!
THE DAY after official figures were released showing that the UK economy was crashing into the deepest depression for 300 years, the governor of...
Charles pushes confrontation with Russia
PRINCE Charles’s comparison of President Putin with Hitler, and Putin’s actions in the Ukraine as comparable with Hitler’s treatment of the peoples of...
UK capitalism is being torn apart politically and economically
THE CRISIS restrictions on Greater Manchester by the Tories reveal that the collapse of British capitalism has reached such a point that the unity...
Bailing out banks and sacking public sector workers splits the unions
THE UNISON and Unite trade unions have split. The former has formed an alliance with the EU public sector trade unions ver.di and CGIL and...
US and UK are being driven to war by the growing capitalist crisis
US SECRETARY of state Mike Pompeo used his speech in Berlin last Friday to threaten nothing short of war against Russia, China and Iran,...
The TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and start...
UNTIL NOW ISRAEL has been able to kill an average of 100 children every day in its relentless bombing campaign on the besieged Gaza...
Nationalise the PFI parasites!
EVERY year the Labour government is handing over £40bn to the consortia of financiers, property developers and construction giants in payments for Private Finance...
Hunt is going to speed up NHS ‘industry’
YESTERDAY Health Secretary Hunt insulted the NHS, and NHS workers, and the intelligence of the working class as a whole, when he labelled the...
US Secretary of State Blinken rushes to Kiev as Ukraine faces defeat by Russia
US secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise unannounced visit to Ukraine yesterday morning, as the war to weaken Russia suffers yet another...
Socialist Revolution Is The Only Alternative Now
UNITE leader Len McCluskey has pointed out correctly some of the immediate implications of the Miliband-Balls line that Labour will honour and continue with...
Obama set to expand the Afghan war
PRESIDENT Obama is set to throw tonnes of petrol onto the Afghan flames. After months of strategic and tactical discussions with his military and political...
Sunak admits ‘borrowing will have to end’ and prepares for war against the working...
IN THE Spectator magazine this week, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak broke ranks with the official Tory line that British capitalism could survive by indefinitely...
Osborne furious over ‘back to the 1930s’ taunt
THE Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, was described in the bourgeois press as being ‘rattled’ by the news coverage of his Autumn Statement. In fact, ‘rattled’...
The fight to free Palestine is inseparable from the British socialist revolution!
IN response to a pledge by US President-elect Donald Trump to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Palestinian ambassador to the United...
Obama Authorises Use Of US Air Power Against Assad!
PRESIDENT Obama has given his authorisation for US air power to be used to support the forces that the US and Turkey are training,...
US piracy forces down Bolivian plane in search for Snowden
THERE is not the slightest doubt that Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have done a huge service to the whole of...
Pm May’s Education Review Is A Fraud – Unions Must Take Action To Abolish...
THE National Union of Students’ verdict on PM May’s review into post-18 education and funding is that ‘she is choosing to move the deckchairs...
BBC reveals how police abuse body cameras – time to disband the police and...
IN 2005, the Metropolitan Police introduced a trial of body-worn cameras for police officers, a move that was quickly rolled out by forces throughout...
May defends capitalism, Corbyn wants it ‘restructured’. It must be overthrown through the socialist...
‘THE FREE market economy,’ in other words capitalism, ‘is unquestionably the best, and indeed the only sustainable, means of increasing the living standards of...
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...
BMA & RCEM demand urgent action to end NHS winter crisis! TUC must call...
DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has demanded ‘urgent action this winter to stop the National Health Service derailing entirely’. This stark warning came in a new report...
Get out of Iraq – British troops get a last warning
THE raid on Iraq’s Finance Ministry compound on Tuesday, by a column of up to 50 heavily armed police officers, in pick-up vehicles, which...
2018 – The Year For World Revolution!
New Year Manifesto by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary greetings for 2018 to all our readers,...
Queen’s Speech Sees Her Government Dodging Big Issues!
WEDNESDAY’S Queen’s Speech began with an evasion that her government would continue to seek a ‘high-wage low-welfare economy’. This was said at a time when...
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...
May begs EU for further delay! Workers must rise for a ‘no deal’ break...
TORY PM Theresa May has written to the President of the European Council Donald Tusk begging for yet another delay to Brexit, this time...