Clinton declares war on Putin and on Russia
THE Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US Secretary of State, Clinton, of giving the Russian right wing – many of them...
Manufacturing contracts in October for sixth successive month
AFTER all of the Tory propaganda chatter about the ‘recovery has begun’ the reality is that the slump is deepening. The UK’s manufacturing sector,...
UK heading for ‘no deal crisis’ – Only answer is a socialist revolution!
THE MAY government on Tuesday defeated an attempt by 12 pro-EU Conservative MPs, supported by Labour EU Remainers, to destroy its revised post-Brexit trade...
‘Cowardly Johnson’ dodges responsibility for the ‘Great Care Home Massacre!’
PM BORIS Johnson was condemned yesterday after trying to pin the 20,000 plus coronavirus deaths in care homes on care home staff saying: ‘Too...
The TUC must give its full support to the State of Palestine at once!
THE International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to unveil an online electronic platform to allow the Palestinians to sue Israelis who commit war crimes. A...
No Parliamentary Road to Socialism – General Strike now!
VOTERS in Thursday’s Makerfield by-election elected Labour’s Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, with a majority of 9,231 (55 per cent), doubling Labour’s previous...
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...
No Prosecutions – Let Off For Those Who Destroyed 6500 Mg Rover Jobs
THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has said it does not intend to launch a criminal investigation into the collapse of carmaker MG Rover. It was...
Unite suspends Angela Rayner – now is the time for the working class to...
LAST FRIDAY, the Unite union’s annual policy conference overwhelmingly passed an emergency motion condemning both the local Labour-controlled council and the Labour government over...
Central Bankers Are Condemned As ‘Useful Idiots’! Bosses Propagandist Borrows Lenin’s Phrase
PRESIDENT Trump has described the new ‘utopia’ that the UK faces once it breaks with the EU, and the UK ruling class switches its...
Well Done The Sri Lankan Workers! Now Establish A Workers Government!
THE Sri Lankan workers and youth have shown the way forward to the workers of the world, and to the workers of the UK...
Brown Won’t Retreat From Blair Agenda
PREMIER Blair got his well deserved come-uppance at the TUC Congress on Tuesday, while the co-author of his policies Gordon Brown was welcomed like...
Socialist revolution the answer to capitalist crisis
ONE SURE SIGN that capitalism is rapidly heading for an economic crash of historic proportions is the regularity in which increasingly desperate articles are...
Hunt urges NHS to ‘Sign up for Safety’ while he cuts the service to...
HEALTH Secretary Hunt is urging the NHS in England to reduce the number of serious mistakes being made and save 6,000 lives over the...
No British Troops For Iraq!
ON April 30th 2009 the British army left Basra in Iraq for Afghanistan. This was after negotiating their retreat from Iraq’s second city with...
Italy, Spain and Greece erupting against EU austerity
ITALIAN car giant Fiat has shut down five of its plants as the Italian ruling class struggles against a transport workers strike directed against...
With capitalism in crisis the BBC gives a hand up to the BNP
THE News Line is opposed to the BNP or any fascist party being given time to spread its propaganda in any of the media...
Sack Gove, May and Cameron! TUC must call a general strike to bring down...
EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove, who has carried forward the privatisation battle against the teaching trade unions, and driven forward the Free School-Academy agenda,...
Trump hails his economic miracle – and reveals his fear of the US and...
ON TUESDAY, president Donald Trump delivered his much-delayed annual State of the Union speech to the US Congress, held up by the longest-ever shutdown...
Afghanistan A Graveyard For The British Army
BRITISH forces in Afghanistan have, just this month, suffered their highest injury rate since they invaded in 2001, new Ministry of Defence figures show. A...
British Army To Brown – ‘Stand And Deliver’
THE armed forces chiefs have entered politics and are to present the government with a shopping list of purchases that it must make, or...
Egyptian Army Mobilises For Military Coup
GENERAL Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s army chief, whose force is paid for by the United States, has warned that the current political crisis ‘could...
Britain Has Been, Is, And Will Continue Talking With The Taleban
PRIME Minister Brown told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that British forces are ‘winning the battle against the insurgency’ in Afghanistan. Using...
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...
The US and UK bosses are planning major attacks on Russia and China! ...
AT A summit last Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned his American counterpart Joe Biden that US support for Taiwanese independence is ‘playing with...
Decisive Action Needed To Defend Welfare State!
THE working class is rising up to defend the Welfare State. On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of workers and members of the public took...
Congress must call general strike to bring down the Tories and bring in a...
THE TUC meets in Brighton this week for its most vital Congress in living memory. It meets at a time when the working class...
Working class is more powerful than right wing mobs and the state police –...
WEDNESDAY night was promoted as the night the right-wing mobs would take over the streets of Britain, burning Mosques and hotels that have housed...
Turkey Invades Northern Iraq
THOUSANDS of Turkish soldiers, backing a number of tank led armoured columns, crossed into northern Iraq on Thursday evening, after a massive artillery bombardment...
Fed raises rates, as US bankers resolve to make the world pay for their...
THE US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by 0.25 of a percentage point – its first increase since 2006. This is after years of...
The ruling class are above the law – decides Law Lords
THE House of Lords Court of Appeal has ruled that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acted lawfully when it rolled over in front of...
TIME TO FIGHT FOR THE NHS – the Junior Doctors have shown the way!
THE official figures for NHS trusts in England for the first three months of the financial year (April to June) have just been released...
Second wave drives deaths up by 98%! Get rid of capitalism now … it’s...
THE SECOND wave of coronavirus has hit the UK with devastating consequences, and the Tory government’s efforts at bringing in measures to curb the...
Lesson of the Shrewsbury Appeal victory and Mittings inquiry – capitalist state must...
ON WEDNESDAY the leaders of 12 of the largest and most prominent trade unions issued a letter demanding immediate action to ensure transparency in...
Occupy The Steel Industry – Organise General Strike To Defend Jobs
THE world capitalist crisis as well as shattering the energy industries – oil, coal and gas – is also decimating world steel production and...
Only Socialist Revolution can achieve Brexit
TORY prime minister Theresa May is this week teetering on the brink of political annihilation as it emerged that her Brexit secretary, David Davis,...
Nationalise Bankrupt Companies – Under Workers’ Control And Management
THE Labour government, after handing tens of billions of pounds to the Northern Rock and the other major banks, in an attempt to save...
North Korea Has The Right To Self Defence
YESTERDAY the British Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, condemned North Korea’s testing of an intercontinental missile that when developed will have the capacity to deliver...
Israel Joins Al Qaeda In Attacking Syria
IN LINE with Obama’s policy of ‘leading from the rear’ (a tactic learnt after receiving some very, very harsh lessons in Iraq and Afghanistan),...
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...
Schools being asset-stripped by academy trusts
THE HOUSE of Commons education committee has written to the Tory academies minister, Lord Agnew, expressing MPs’ concern about a ‘lack of transparency and...
Rajapakse, the UK and the US will never crush the Tigers and the Tamil...
CURRENTLY the UK and US supported Sri Lankan army is mounting an all-out assault on the besieged Tamil Tiger forces and the over 100,000...
To The Hague With The Israeli Leadership
AN inquiry ordered by the UN Human Rights Council said on Wednesday that Israel violated human rights law and international humanitarian law when its...
CWU leaders embrace privatisation!
A BALLOT of CWU members announced this week showed a vote of 94% in favour of a ‘legally binding contract’ between the leadership of...
Osborne’s ‘city states’ are part of the break-up of British capitalism
OSBORNE’S plans for English cities to have mayors and combined authorities with powers over housing, health care, transport, planning and policing mean that London,...