Supporting Iraq or Palestine is to be a crime!
RESPONDING immediately to Tory pressure, Prime Minister Blair yesterday launched his programme of draconian attacks on basic rights and liberties, for a reign of...
Bring down the Cameron-Murdoch police state
YESTERDAY’S parliamentary committee sessions saw News International stand brazenly in denial of any knowledge of the phone hacking that took place at the News...
Postal Workers lose money in share crash – Renationalise Royal Mail
AT LAST month’s Labour Party conference, shadow chancellor John McDonnell floated the policy of a future Labour government introducing an ‘inclusive ownership Fund’ under...
Action not words required to win Gate Gourmet struggle
LAST Thursday afternoon, at a meeting attended by TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, TGWU leader Tony Woodley told the Gate Gourmet shop stewards that...
End The UK Support For Rajapakse
THE News Line hails the heroic resistance of the Tamil Tigers to the armed forces of the Rajapakse military dictatorship, which is seeking to...
Defy Tory anti-union laws – TUC must call a general strike in support of...
MEMBERS of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will be angry that the historic vote by the overwhelming majority of nurses throughout the UK...
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...
‘Welfare reforms’ a declaration of war against workers and youth
THE Tory pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, is a man on a mission – a mission to drive the unemployed, low paid and youth...
Greek Austerity Measures Will Drive Socialist Revolution
THE Greek ‘socialist’ Prime Minister George Papandreou has announced austerity measures to attack the country’s working class, youth, urban middle class and small farmers,...
CWU must spread the action to the entire public sector
THE reality of the situation facing postal workers is that after two series of mass strike actions during which they have shown they are...
Massive Protests In Romania And Hungary
MASS protests are erupting in the eastern wing of the EU, in Romania and Hungary, against the austerity programmes of EU governments whose countries...
Build the revolutionary party in Greece
THE daily demonstrations of youth and workers are continuing in Greece, over a week after the assassination of the 15-year-old school boy Alexis Grigoropoulos...
Unions & party members kept out of Labour leadership election
TWO of the largest trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party, unions that pay millions into its funds, said they were ‘looking to the...
Austria mobilising troops and armour at the Brenner Pass against refugees from Italy!
AUSTRIA is ready to deploy troops and armour at the Brenner Pass – the border crossing with Italy – if the influx of refugees...
Workers of the world must follow the lead of the students and take general...
THE Geneva-based rights group, Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) says Israel is ‘intentionally’ demolishing schools and medical facilities, including those run by the UN agency...
Victory To The Arab Socialist Revolution!
THE world capitalist crisis is driving forward the working class and poor of the world to carry through the world socialist revolution, and replace...
Trade unions face fresh attacks
AN OPINION piece in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph pointed to yet further attacks on the trade unions’ rights to organise and represent their members. According to...
Tories crushed in by-elections – TUC must take action now to bring them down!
THE TORIES have been smashed by two huge by-election defeats, in a couple of their ‘safe’ seats, Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, where their large...
Capitalism cannot be reformed – it must be overthrown with Socialist Revolution.
IN HIS speech on Saturday to the Labour Party Policy Forum Jeremy Corbyn proved that left reformism has absolutely no answers to the crisis...
TUC Special Congress must call a general strike to smash the Tories and support...
IN A dramatic move the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter to urge the UN Security...
Capitalism being torn to shreds by coronavirus – forward to world socialist revolution
CORONAVIRUS sent the world’s stock markets crashing when they opened yesterday morning, with £100 billion wiped off the value of London’s top listed companies. Leading...
Labour’s six months of work is no solution to the jobs crisis!
LABOUR has pledged a ‘jobs guarantee’ scheme for young unemployed people, that will last for the whole of next parliament, if it wins the...
British police demand internment camps
AT the same time as leading members of the Bush administration are seeking to shut down the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp after experiencing...
Tahrir Square demonstrators stand fast against army command and secret police attacks
AFTER the dictator Mubarak’s insistence, on Tuesday night, that he will remain president of Egypt until next September, the ‘managed change’ for Egypt, favoured...
‘Currency wars’ will lead to imperialist war
THE meeting of the G20 group – the 20 leading countries in the world – concluded in Seoul yesterday with the usual empty claims of...
Miners charged with murder – ANC stands with the bosses!
THE SOUTH AFRICAN ANC government and its state apparatus have taken a very clear class stand, alongside international capital, with their decision to charge...
Put capitalism out of its misery with the socialist revolution
THE one thing guaranteed by the world economic crisis of the capitalist system, is that all the weakness, greed and corruption of the ruling...
Renationalise the steel industry – the only way forward for steel workers
ON Wednesday, it was announced that the lengthy negotiations between Tata Steel and the German steel conglomerate, Thyssen-Krupp, have been concluded and that a...
Unelected Prince Charles sees cabinet papers before elected ministers!
ON 30 January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded outside the Banqueting House in Whitehall as a man of blood, and an enemy of...
Canada Bans Arms Sales To Israel – UK And US Workers Must Force Their...
A CANADIAN government official said that Canada will stop exporting weapons to Israel due to the continued international criticism of its ongoing war on...
High Court rejects legal challenge to Labour arming Zionist genocide – now workers and...
ON MONDAY, the High Court in London rejected a legal challenge brought by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq against the decision of...
UK cluster bombs used by Saudi Arabia in Yemen war crimes
THE NEWS yesterday that analysis by UK government officials that British-made cluster bombs are being used by the Saudi-led coalition in its war against...
Lobby TUC April 24 – make them call a general strike
THE News Line calls for a massive lobby of the next meeting of the TUC General Council on Wednesday 24th April, to demand the...
Sinn Fein joins the UK capitalist state
‘THE time is now right to support the PSNI’ (Police Service of Northern Ireland), Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams told delegates at the Sinn...
Trade Union Renegade Doing Blair’s Dirty Work
THE former CWU postal workers trade union leader, Alan Johnson, yesterday moved into action at the behest of the Prime Minister to urge that...
Germany dives into deflationary spiral
THE crisis of world capitalism continues to batter the economies of the eurozone into the ground with virtually every day bringing forth yet more...
Two Years Since ‘Operation Protective Edge’
TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack...
Hewitt And Hoon Stab Labour In The Back
HEWITT and Hoon, are two of the Labour Party’s leading Blairites. Hoon was heavily involved in Blair’s criminal Iraq war, and in the...
Israel closes Irish embassy in fury over Ireland’s recognition of Palestine and its support...
THE DECISION by the Israeli regime on Sunday to close its embassy in Dublin brought a swift response from Ireland’s taoiseach (prime minister) Simon...
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...
Corbyn appeases Labour’s right wing – the UK must leave the EU, as decided...
THE UK was changed forever when the over-confident Tory leadership of Cameron and Osborne got the House of Commons to agree a resolution...
Assad warns of new war danger in the Middle East
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad warned yesterday that the Israeli attack on the Gaza humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters, in which nine Turkish citizens...
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...
UK trade unions must support the Palestinian people and assist them to establish their...
PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi told European diplomats on Tuesday that relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to...
Israel receives a warning from Hezbollah!
PALESTINIAN children in Israeli jails are being subjected to torture, and physical and psychological abuse by Israeli officials, says the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’...