Treat the Council Tax as you did the Poll Tax!
THE Council Tax is set to rise by four per cent on average this year, more than double the government’s current rate of inflation...
Rate Rise Shock – Condemned As Panic By Tuc
BIG BUSINESS, the stockmarkets and the TUC were shaken yesterday midday when the Bank of England raised its interest rates by a quarter of...
Russian & Chinese Stalinists support US threats against Iran
THE Chinese and Russian representatives at a meeting of the five permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council and Germany on...
Housing crisis demands revolutionary solution
Yesterday, in a speech delivered in the Hertfordshire town of Stevenage, Labour leader, Ed Miliband, reiterated his pledge that the next Labour government would...
Osborne admits UK capitalism ‘critical’ in 2016-17
IN a speech yesterday and in interviews with the BBC, the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, admitted that, contrary to everything he has said in...
The Tory Party to evict pensioners and criminalise the disabled!
THE Tory crusade has begun to resolve the capitalist crisis by heaping the cost of it onto the poor, the disabled, the elderly, the...
Cameron gets his EU marching orders!
US president Barak Obama has issued his sternest warning yet to the Tory government of the dangers of Britain leaving the European Union. In an...
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...
Close the Israeli embassy and boycott all Israeli goods
ISRAEL, on Saturday evening, committed over 200 tanks and 20,000 troops to an invasion of Gaza, covered by artillery fire and fire from warships...
Police paramilitary rule
TODAY the Police Federation’ annual conference will be addressed by the reappointed Tory Home Secretary, Theresa May, an event that the Federation’s leaders are...
Russia’s response to the EU’s Georgia threats
THE Russian government said yesterday there had been a ‘responsible’ outcome to Monday’s European Union summit called to discuss the recent fighting between Russia...
UK capitalism is heading for a crash. Socialist revolution is the only solution!
PANIC has erupted in the UK government after economic data released on Thursday revealed that UK production crashed to just 0.1 per cent of...
New Leadership Needed In Cwu
YESTERDAY the number two CWU leader Dave Ward was boasting that the super-flexibility deal that the leadership put to the membership and which over...
Stop The Dirty War In The Yemen!
AT PM’s Questions, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Corbyn raised the issue of the UK’s sale of...
Bin Laden killing opens Obama election campaign
When US President, Barack Obama, announced on Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a dawn raid by US special forces...
Smash Privatisation – Renationalise!
THE privatisation of the railways has been a complete disaster and for the families of those killed in rail crashes it is a disaster...
Unite leaders share out the pain among its GM members
THE Unite leaders’ policy that workers must share the pain of the capitalist crisis bore more rotten fruit on Tuesday. This was when Unite’s...
Labour Pledges More Austerity!
POLITICAL ‘role reversal’ is the phrase being bandied about by bourgeois political commentators as they scratch their heads trying to make comparisons between the...
Obama Attempts To Ride The Revolutionary Tiger
IN his speech on Thursday, President Obama made it clear that the United States is currently attempting to ride the tiger of revolution. He said:...
Starmer pledges £3 billion a year to Ukraine paid for by starving kids in...
TWO weeks ago the Labour government’s work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall called the two-child benefit cap ‘a stain on our society’, and this...
Net Closing In On Iraq War Criminals
THE Brown government has been told by the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, to release the minutes of two cabinet meetings, from March 7th and...
The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class – time to...
MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...
Union leaders are refusing to defend jobs in the face of the most vicious...
LAST week it was announced by BAE systems, the private defence company, that the shipbuilding industry was to be closed down in Portsmouth and...
All Asians Are Suspect Says Special Branch
FOLLOWING the remarks of Dannatt, the armed forces chief of staff, about the country having lost its ‘moral compass’ since the ‘anchor of Christian...
Strikes hit hospitals and airports as workers rise up against wage cutting!
WHILE the Tories tear themselves apart awaiting the heavily redacted report by Sue Gray into Boris Johnson and all the parties at Downing Street...
Israel to build rail link into West Bank
IT IS well known that the desire of the Zionist ruling class in Israel to expand the area under its rule is unquenchable, and...
Build the 4th International in the US
THE decision of the United Steelworkers of America trade union to follow the lead of the just-failed Democratic contender, John Edwards, whom the steelworkers...
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...
Kick out the Tories, abolish academies and free schools to defend free state education
TEACHING unions yesterday published a report detailing the effects of the Tory policy of slashing public spending on schools – increased class sizes across...
Don’t go to A&E, ‘walking wounded’ told!
CONFRONTED with the appalling crisis in NHS hospitals’ A&E emergency services, the Labour government plans to restrict access to emergency departments, to save money...
Labour Party breaking apart – now is the time to build the WRP to lead...
THE Labour Party conference yesterday morning opened to boos and jeers from delegates furious at the Labour leadership’s manoeuvres to shunt the crunch vote...
British imperialism stretched to breaking point – forward to the socialist revolution
JUST a week after Prime Minister Gordon Brown assured President George W Bush, that he had fallen into line with the requirements of the...
Vote WRP Today To Carry Forward The Fight For Socialism!
NEWS LINE urges all of our readers and all workers and youth who are living in the five constituencies that the WRP is standing...
Labour under Starmer, and UK capitalism are heading for state bankruptcy!
THE capitalist press is currently trumpeting the latest news from Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves, that she is set to unveil a £19bn black hole...
After Johnson Refused To Sack Hancock, The Capitalist State Did The Job For Him!
BRITISH capitalism is in a desperate economic and political crisis that calls for truly desperate measures by the ruling class. The use of the capitalist...
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...
Sarkozy sentenced to three years for corruption – Cameron still evades justice!
FRENCH ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in jail, two of them suspended, for corruption. He was convicted of trying to...
Portuguese bailout accelerates EU disintegration
THURSDAY’S announcement that Portugal had finally been forced into asking for a massive 90 billion euro (£79 bn) bailout from the European Central Bank...
Arm Ukrainian workers! Red Army must chase the junta out of Kiev!
THE UK-US-EU backed counter-revolution is now in full swing in eastern Ukraine, where no deed is too foul for their stormtroopers of the Right...
Capitalism is facing its biggest ever collapse – time to replace it with the...
THE working class is now facing the fastest and biggest rise in the cost of living for four decades. At the same time, many...
BIS Report – global ‘debt trap’ risk higher than ever and set to crash...
THE SWISS-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in its annual ‘health check’ on the world’s financial system has once again warned about the huge...
Myanmar – working class intervene with national strikes to bring down military dictatorship
WORKERS across Myanmar (formally Burma) came out on a nationwide general strike yesterday demanding the overthrow of the military dictatorship which was imposed last...
‘Israel’s war of annihilation won’t break our will!’
THE President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, has said that the Palestinian people will remain steadfast and adhere to their legitimate rights,...
Gove calls for parents to scab
Over the weekend the Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove issued a call for parents to volunteer to break Thursday’s strike by civil servants and...
Patients & staff paying price of £1bn NHS under-spend
LABOUR ministers are boasting that the projected £983m under-spend in the National Health Service are evidence that it has regained its ‘financial footing’. Health Secretary...