Osborne decrees huge wage and benefit cuts for the public sector and the poor
CHANCELLOR George Osborne in his Autumn statement was forced to admit failure, that his policies were not working and that he had been forced...
Revolution At Home And Abroad – Victory To Hamas And To The UK Workers...
THE appointment of Yahya Sinwar as the new political leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, after the Israeli assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, has...
Votes scrapped at Labour Party conferences
THE leaders of big trade unions lined up behind Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth on Sunday to ensure...
Yemen defiant in face of imperialist onslaught – Forward to victory of World Socialist...
ON SUNDAY, thousands of Yemenis marched through the streets of the capital Sana’a against the US/Saudi blockade of their country and holding American imperialism...
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...
TUC Must Smash The ‘Minimum Service Levels’ Anti-Union Laws!
The TUC has responded to the Tory government's 'Minimum Service Levels: issuing work notices’ document outlining how a trade union should operate as a...
A Royal Commission to privatise the NHS!
THE right-wing think tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), which promotes free-market capitalism, has just produced a report entitled ‘An NHS Royal...
West condemned to ‘irreversible decline’ – put it out of its misery with world...
THE DECISIVE defeat of world imperialism at the hands of the Afghan people has caused a complete breakdown amongst the most ardent defenders of...
Obama is encouraging Japanese nationalism and militarism
THE new Japanese Premier, Shinzo Abe, is now in Washington in talks with President Obama, who declared last year that confronting China in the...
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...
Obama opens up class war front against US workers!
LAST WEEK President Obama, speaking at the Pentagon, told the American people that he was going to open up a new front for the...
The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Stop Israel’s Mass Murder!
AN international human rights organisation says Israel is pressing ahead with a ‘systematic policy of targeting civilians’ in the Gaza Strip, including bombardment of...
Programme of action needed to prevent capitalist catastrophe
YESTERDAY Adams Childrenswear announced that it had closed down 111 of its stores throughout the UK, and that its remaining 160 shops would stay...
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...
Follow Holby City Equity Take Strike Action With Junior Doctors
THE Equity trade union members who play the doctors and medical staff in the BBC medical drama Holby City have offered their full support...
US to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist movement
THE US yesterday raised tensions considerably between itself and Iran by declaring that the main body of armed men maintained by the Iranian...
Israel is stepping up its war on Lebanon & Palestine – The UK trade...
THE Israeli army yesterday continued its bloody war on Lebanon for the 20th consecutive day, launching dozens of airstrikes, bombing homes and gatherings, and...
Draghi proposes Central Bank dictatorship – while the German bankers warn of hyper-inflation
SPANISH 10-year bond yields fell yesterday to 5.77%, below 6% for the first time since May, while yields on the equivalent Italian bonds fell...
EUROPE IN CRISIS! Build the 4th International!
IT was no accident that last Thursday’s storming of the Greek state broadcasting (ERT) building by riot police and the brutal eviction of the...
Contradictions of UK capitalism sharpening to explosion point!
TORY PM Cameron has declared, in the last few days, that he will be pushing through austerity measures until the end of the next...
BMA Junior Doctors Unite With The RMT To Demand Action Against Privatisation And Anti-Union...
THE sight of the junior doctors of the British Medical Association and the RMT union beginning to form an alliance in order to defend...
Workers begin to occupy their plants and demand nationalisation!
BRITISH capitalism is on the rocks and has started to break apart! This is the significance of the total outstanding government debt of the...
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...
952,000 16-24 year olds out of work!
COMMENTING on the rise in unemployment figures, Dave Prentis, General Secretary of Unison said: ‘Being out of work at Christmas is particularly tough, especially...
Darling’s forecasts ‘too optimistic’, says Treasury Committee
THE British capitalist economy and government finances are in a worse state than Chancellor Alistair Darling led everyone to believe when he delivered his...
Forward to a workers and small farmers government in Sri Lanka
AFTER an exhausting, genocidal war, hugely costly in lives and resources, and in the face of a working class movement that is now demanding...
Workers Must Support Corbyn Against The Tory And Labour Witch-Hunters!
THE BOURGEOIS media and Labour’s right wing pro-Zionists have no shame, as their attempts to label Labour leader Corbyn an anti-Semite show – otherwise...
Afghan crisis – more combat troops to be sent
THE British government’s Defence Secretary, Des Browne, said yesterday that he would be making a statement to the House of Commons as soon as...
The raging coronavirus crisis is smashing up the worldwide capitalist economy!
ON FRIDAY £60 billion was wiped off the UK’s leading companies. The FTSE 100 plunged by 3.62%. In the US a rate cut saw...
British capitalism crashing into bankruptcy – Unions must organise a general strike to...
THE UK’s largest car maker, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), yesterday announced a massive pre-tax loss of £354 million for the six months to September...
UK, US And EU Workers And Youth Must Support Iranian Revolution – The Enemy...
FRESH from his failure to grab Greenland US President Donald Trump has turned his attention to the Iranian Revolution and issued his warning to...
Cameron Touches Off Tory Leadership Dog Fight!
CAMERON is now going into the May 7th general election with a declaration that he does not intend to serve a third term, that...
UK Workers Must Continue To Welcome Refugees And Organise To Smash Bankrupt Capitalism!
SINCE September, homeless people, including homeless asylum seekers and refugees, have been unceremoniously dumped back onto the streets of the UK. A study published in...
No war with Syria – answer the £20bn of cuts by kicking out the...
PM Cameron is due to drive forward Tory war plans both at home and abroad this week. Today, he is meeting President Hollande to prepare...
Tuc Must Call A General Strike Now To Support The Palestinian Masses By Bringing...
THE United Nations says the ongoing Israeli war in Palestine has left the Gaza Strip ‘uninhabitable’ and that the destruction in the Palestinian territory...
EU split and breaking up – Forward to the United Socialist States of Europe
LAST THURSDAY, the 27 heads of the European Union held a video conference call to decide the EU’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic. The...
Working class will smash Johnson’s fantasies with socialist revolution
TORY prime minster Boris Johnson yesterday delivered a speech composed entirely of wishful thinking from which reality was completely excluded. In Johnson’s fairy-tale world British...
Only a socialist revolution can win the Tamils’ right to self-determination
THE News Line salutes the heroic self-sacrifice of the Tamil Tigers and the Tamil people as a whole. They have fought and are fighting not...
Running Scared Of Youth And Revolution!
THE German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned a Paris conference of French, German and Italian leaders on Tuesday that youth unemployment of almost 25%...
Defend the NHS with a general strike to bring down Tories
TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been told in a letter from NHS bosses that the NHS is ‘no longer able to meet the...
Bank of England – workers must pay for capitalist inflation – Only socialist revolution...
NOT TO WORRY about spiralling inflation, MPs were told on Monday by senior members of the Bank of England, as the soaring cost of...
The working people of the world must NOW take action to establish the...
THE Palestinian presidency on Wednesday expressed its great thanks and appreciation for the strong and clear Saudi position expressed in the Saudi statement issued...
Middle East On The Brink As Mad Dog Israel Attacks Beirut, Baghdad & Damascus!
LEBANON’s president, Michel Aoun, on Monday condemned an Israeli drone attack on Beirut at the weekend as a ‘declaration of war’ that justifies a...
US capital Washington DC in recession as unemployment soars
LAST week, Mark Zandi, the chief economic analyst at the giant investment bank Moody’s, described the US as being ‘on the precipice of recession’. The...
Labour Set To Drive Workers Off The Roads
ALISTAIR Darling, the Labour government transport minister, yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to drive millions of working class drivers off the roads with a...