Stop the A&E closures! End the £50bn of NHS cuts! Defend the NHS by...
GROWING demand on A&E departments will make them unsustainable if effective action is not taken quickly, according to MPs on the Health Committee. Launching a...
Salute the struggling Visteon workers – replace their treacherous national leadership!
THE News Line gives its full support to the workers at the Belfast, Enfield and Basildon Visteon plants who are fighting Visteon’s decision to...
Clinton, Netanyahu make a bloc on settlements
PALESTINE Authority President Mahmud Abbas has been completely undermined by the latest declaration of US Secretary of State Clinton. In it she supported the Israeli...
EU leaders installing a Greek puppet government
A SUMMIT of all European Union members planned yesterday was cancelled to allow the Eurozone Finance Ministers to resume their talks held to ...
Millions of UK households and children driven into poverty by bankrupt capitalism – socialist...
THE NUMBER of people living in poverty in the UK has shot up to 16 million – the highest level since records began in...
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...
The ‘gig economy’ is spreading throughout bankrupt British capitalism – time to advance to...
4.7 MILLION workers are now employed in the gig economy, twice as many as in 2016 with nearly one in 10 working age adults...
Hero Mandela dies – Forward to socialism in South Africa
NELSON Mandela, one of the great heroes of the anti-Apartheid struggle who was jailed for 27 years on Robben Island for his opposition to...
The slump deepens as Labour steps up attacks on the poorest
UK Gross Domestic Product fell in the three months from April to June by 0.7% confirming that the slump is deepening and that the...
BIS predicts deflation and depression
LAST year the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was alone amongst banks in warning that the situation had similarities to that at the time...
Nationalise The Banking System To Put An End To Capitalism
THE credit ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded 15 global banks and financial institutions. The UK banks downgraded were Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, HSBC and...
Balls and Miliband argue for a permanent cuts regime
LABOUR leader Miliband’s speech of yesterday was a pre-election attempt to bolster up support from workers by arguing that Labour will be...
Hamas urges workers of the world to march on the first anniversary of the...
THE Hamas revolutionary leadership yesterday called for organising mass marches and broad solidarity events in all cities and capitals of the world on the...
The working class faces the threat of state terrorism!
TWO videos, one by the FBI and one by the British police, have just been issued giving advice to people about actions they should...
Cameron’s ‘Chain Gangs’ For The Unemployed
THE PCS civil servants trade union yesterday rightly condemned the coalition government’s plans to force the long-term unemployed, and unemployed youth, to do manual...
Stop Tory drive to war in Libya with a general strike
THE imperialist war drums are beating with a vengeance as advanced preparations for a direct military intervention into Libya by Britain, Italy, France and...
100,000 march as trade union leaders fiddle while Tories burn NHS!
SATURDAY’S 100,000-strong march to defend the NHS from the accelerating Tory drive to destroy it showed once again that the masses are ready to...
20 years since 9/11 and imperialism has been driven out of Afghanistan! Shut down...
TODAY is exactly two decades after the terror attacks on the United States on 11 September, 2001. That morning, Al-Qaeda-affiliated hijackers flew two Boeing...
Bourgeois Lunacy At Rbs
YESTERDAY the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announced the largest annual loss in UK corporate history of £24.1bn, made up of a £7.9bn trading...
The first step towards a government of generals
GENERAL Sir Richard Dannatt is to become Defence Minister if there is another Tory government. He will do so, not by becoming a Tory MP...
One word ‘strike’ sends the TUC into a spin
EARLIER this week the News Line stated that it would not be enough to adopt a programme at the current TUC Congress, but that...
‘Dozens Of Conspiracies’ But ‘Terror Threat Level’ Downgraded
HOME Secretary Reid, who has been making people’s blood run cold with his tales of dozens of conspiracies and thousands of terrorists, has reduced...
Unite cuts funding to Labour – time to force TUC to call a general...
THE UNITE union, the largest union donor to the Labour Party, announced this week that it has voted to cut its Labour affiliation by...
House nuisance neighbours in containers says Field
LABOUR’S war against the working class and the poor continues, with Birkenhead MP Frank Field advocating that nuisance neighbours should be evicted and ‘housed’...
Defend the Royal Mail – bring down the coalition!
The Tory-led coalition’s Business Secretary, Vince Cable, yesterday launched a demagogic attack on ‘spiv’ and ‘gambling’ bankers and their bonuses at the LibDem Conference. This...
Starmer’s ‘national mission’ is to save capitalism and to make workers pay for it!
YESTERDAY, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer delivered what was billed as a keynote speech that would outline once and for all the policies Labour...
Nationalise the motor car industry to defend wages and jobs
THE international banking system has collapsed, the steel industries of the planet are in slump, and the US and Japanese motor car giants...
TUC to lobby Tory Party conference – to change Tory policy
THE TUC General Council statement issued on Saturday constitutes a betrayal of the working class and the trade unions. It seeks to divert...
McCluskey has learnt nothing from the 1970s and 80s except to surrender
IT is clear from Unite leader McCluskey’s article in the Guardian yesterday that he has learnt nothing from the struggles of the 1970s...
Free Assange – Jail the imperialists, the real war criminals
YESTERDAY, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has been unlawfully detained by...
G20 bankrupts meet protected by 10,000 riot police batons
LEADERS of the major capitalist states, and the leaders of Russia and China, who have linked their fate to the future of the crisis...
Nationalise All The Banks And Abolish Mortgage Debt
UP to 1.5 million fixed rate mortgage holders are going to have to renegotiate their mortgages in the New Year. Many of them are already...
Corporatist union leaders are serving the bosses
WITH capitalism in its greatest crisis, and with tens of millions of jobs and tens of millions of people’s lives being destroyed after the...
Stand up to the bullying bosses with a general strike
THE ‘New Local Government Network’ was warning yesterday of a ‘tsunami of a public sector recession’ after the next general election when the just...
Occupy And Nationalise Vauxhall Plants
THREE companies have bid to take over GM Europe from the crisis-stricken US giant. They are Italian carmaker Fiat, Canadian parts maker Magna and...
UK workers will not go the way of Greece and Syriza – Quit the...
THE G20 has concluded with the imperialist powers at each others’ throats after being under permanent siege by tens of thousands of anti-capitalist youth. The...
ECB takes desperate measures to try and stop EU economic collapse
LAST Thursday the European Central Bank (ECB) abandoned its previously proclaimed policy of ending free money handouts to the banks through quantitative easing (QE)...
HSBC says Italy and Germany better off outside the euro
THE HSBC, one of the world’s major banks, has published a paper called ‘European Meltdown’ in the wake of the Dutch and French votes...
Afghan war lost – withdraw British troops now!
THE imperialist invasion of Afghanistan is coming apart at the seams. In fact, the UK troops themselves are now rejecting it, as a legitimate operation,...
NSA Spies on ‘Allies’
THE French interior minister, Manuel Valls, reacted with shock and horror at the revelations in the French newspaper Le Monde that the US spy...
Imperialist ‘vulture funds’ plundering Africa
THE High Court in London was due to rule yesterday in the case of an American-owned investment fund suing the Zambian government to repay,...
The TUC must support the Palestinian march on Gaza with a general strike in...
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of displaced Palestinian citizens resumed on Wednesday morning their march back to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip which Israel...
Consultants, Junior Doctors and rail workers are in struggle. TUC must call a general...
THE Junior Doctors and Consultants in England, faced with a ruling class that is determined to destroy the NHS, have joined forces and will...
Publish and be damned – not as far as the Chilcot report is concerned!
FAMILIES of British soldiers killed in the Anglo-American March 2003 invasion, and then occupation, of Iraq, were yesterday threatening legal action against the chairman...
Palestine Faces Starvation! Now Is The Time For The Workers Of The World To...
ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued their assault on the city of Jenin and its refugee camp for the 97th consecutive day on Sunday, carrying...