‘Medieval’ levels of health inequality have devastating effects on NHS
On Sunday, the Guardian newspaper published part of the results from its months-long investigation into the effects of poverty on the NHS. Included in the...
Cut in interest rates by the Fed will accelerate capitalism’s world crash
THE US CENTRAL Federal Reserve Bank on Wednesday performed an abrupt U-turn on its policy of attempting to hold back the vast amount of...
Starmer and Streeting declare war on NHS – TUC must be forced to call...
KEIR Starmer and Labour Health Secretary Wes Streeting yesterday launched a ‘public consultation’ on their plans to transform the NHS from ‘analogue to digital’ in...
Right To Strike Under Attack
The announcement by the Tory media, culture and sport secretary, Jeremy Hunt, that cabinet ministers are actively discussing the introduction of Ronald Reagan style...
PM May hammers the poor as 7,585 families receive 50p housing benefit!
PM MAY makes a lot of noise about her concern for the ‘just about managing’, ie the middle classes in crisis-ridden Britain. In fact,...
Expel Hutton And Field From The Lab0Ur Party!
EX-LABOUR cabinet minister John Hutton, a 100 per cent Blairite, has joined the Tory-LibDem coalition, and been appointed by it to head a commission...
Corbyn must start fighting for Brexit or the right wing will bin him, and...
IN their latest manoeuvre to dump the 2016 referendum result to leave the EU, the right-wing of the Labour Party are now manoeuvring to...
Panic reigns supreme under bankrupt capitalism
THE sense of panic and of impending doom is running wild amongst the international banks and the world bourgeoisie as they are forced to...
After November 5th rout build new leadership in the FBU
THE News Line salutes the London FBU membership which has stood firm in its defence of terms and conditions against a pre-planned massive onslaught...
French workers move to bring down Sarkozy regime!
YESTERDAY, the French railworkers’ trade unions began their indefinite strike action, to defeat the attempts of the Sarkozy regime to destroy their pension agreements,...
Brown justifies anti-union action and pay cuts
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown insisted yesterday that meagre pay rises, that are phased in and amount to a pay cut, will be imposed by...
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...
The BoE and Brown gamble with workers wages jobs, homes and pensions
THE Bank of England yesterday launched its government-backed scheme to allow the major banks to swap their dodgy mortgages for UK Treasury Bonds, in...
Irish TUC mass demo puts Barber and Woodley to shame!
120,000 trade unionists and their supporters, including over a hundred workers who are part of the occupation of the Waterford Crystal plant, marched through...
Defeat The May-Corbyn Pact To Knife Brexit – No To A National Government!
TORY Prime Minister May emerged from her meeting with her cabinet on Tuesday and immediately issued a letter to every Tory MP calculated to...
New Syria War Planned Using Old ‘Wmd’ Lies!
THE war drums are beating with increasing intensity for armed intervention by imperialism into Syria to effect the smashing up of the Assad regime, the...
Israeli Army Rehearsing The Taking Of Gaza City!
BESIEGED GAZA is under a heavy non-stop Israeli siege and onslaught. The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has warned Israel of ‘dangerous consequences’ as the...
Israel Remains Putin’s ‘Partner!’
THE RESPONSE of Russia’s political leadership, led by Vladimir Putin, to the Israeli raid on Syria that led to the death of 15 Russian...
Grenfell Tower – Tories tore up health and safety rules then invited cladding companies...
AN INVESTIGATION by Sky News into the role of the firms that produce the plastic used to cover the exterior of Grenfell Tower has...
One day general strike to defend the NHS
IN the last two months the trade union movement and NHS professional organisations have been forced to take serious notice of the deepening crisis...
Israel attacks Gaza and Abbas cancels visit
YESTERDAY an Israeli aircraft bombed a building of the Hamas-run Executive Force in Gaza, killing at least one person and injuring about 45 others....
Tories turn their fire on the elderly! Kick them out – a workers government...
IT IS often said that a society is judged by how it treats its elderly and its youth. Young people, as we know, are...
Johnson Treats ‘Doormat’ Starmer With Complete Contempt
ON MONDAY night, prime minister Boris Johnson decreed that England’s third national lockdown would legally come into force on Tuesday night with parliament called...
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...
US not winning in Afghanistan admits US military chief
ADMIRAL Mullen the US chief of the general staff has stated that he is not convinced that the US is winning the war in...
Send ex-Goldman Sachs Carney packing
YESTERDAY the new head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, officially took up the reins from the outgoing Sir Mervyn King. Carney, formerly head...
Judge Dismisses CWU Appeal In A Few Minutes – Time For A General Strike...
IT TOOK just minutes yesterday for three High Court judges to hear and dismiss an appeal by the postal workers union (CWU) against an...
Reeves’ pre-budget speech a message that the Labour government is ready to carry out...
YESTERDAY morning Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves gave an unprecedented pre-budget speech designed, she said, to address ‘speculation’ about what she would be announcing in...
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...
Revolutionary crisis shaking regimes all over Europe
GERMAN Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy on Saturday decreed that the preservation of the euro required a 70bn euro currency reserve fund and...
World Economic Forum declares capitalist ‘global order’ destabilised by imperialist war and political crisis
THE WORLD Economic Forum (WEF) opened its meeting at the Swiss resort of Davos this week under the storm clouds of an economic and...
Majority of world banks ‘not economically viable’ according to report
THE INTERNATIONAL management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company has published a global banking review which found that the majority of banks worldwide ‘may not...
Israel is an ‘apartheid regime of Jewish supremacy!’ says Israeli human rights group B’Tselem
THE Israeli Human Rights group B’Tselem has issued a paper stating that Israel is not a democracy but an ‘apartheid regime’ that systematically oppresses...
British capitalism faces a financial disaster and economic collapse
INTERNATIONAL financiers, hedge-funds and speculators took just one day to savage Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first budget on Wednesday with interest rates on UK...
UK and US trade unions must support the Palestinian socialist revolution!
WHILE the US and UK backed Israeli murder machine, both civil and military is at work on a daily basis killing Palestinian men women...
Tory split emerges with demands on Johnson for a budget that makes war on...
IN ADVANCE of the budget next week, former Tory chancellor Philip Hammond delivered a shot across the bows of the Tory government with a...
Blair, Thatcher lavish praise on fellow Tory Heath
IN THESE days, when capitalist Britain is being rocked by the world economic crisis and the disaster of its imperialist policies in Iraq and...
Low Paid prevented from having a Family Life
A CASE brought before the Supreme Court yesterday spotlights the extent to which British capitalism inflicts not just indignity but the denial of the...
Capitalism”s Global Financial Ice Age
THIS week saw a series of announcements from banks and economists about impending doom for capitalism. On Wednesday, the RBS bank advised all its clients...
Imperialist War Equals Massacre And Dehumanisation
A US SOLDIER in Afghanistan has killed at least 16 civilians and wounded five men, women and children. Nato said it was investigating...
Bush Bail Out Plan Attacked By The Working Class And By The Republican Right
REPUBLICAN representatives walked out of the crisis talks with President Bush on Thursday night, denouncing him as a socialist for launching his $700 bn...
Lebanon rises up after government ‘negligence’ kills 154! Socialist revolution is the...
THE LEBANESE bankers’ state has collapsed, undermined by the worldwide capitalist crisis which has plunged the country into a desperate situation of bankruptcy, mass...
TUC must call a general strike in support of the RMT and to bring...
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch joined the picket line at London’s Euston Station yesterday morning after pay talks with the Tories collapsed on Monday. Earlier,...
To defend the NHS, bring down the Brown government and bring in a workers...
TODAY’S Senior Consultants BMA conference is due to hear a warning from Doctor Jonathan Fielden to Premier-elect Gordon Brown that he...
TUC and Labour leaders call for ‘unity’ with Tory plan to make working...
WORLD capitalism was reeling yesterday as the economic sanctions, imposed to strangle the Russian economy and pave the way for regime change in Russia,...