US fears its forces can’t fight war on two fronts
THE scale of the insurgency in both Iraq and Afghanistan has got the Pentagon rattled. It fears that the US strategic requirement, to be...
Blair listens only to the bosses
PRIME Minister Blair, despite all his vows about listening to the people – made outside 10 Downing Street on the day after the general...
Russia Under Attack!
RUSSIA IS UNDER FULL SCALE ATTACK with oil prices now down to $60 a barrel and the Saudis and the Gulf states saying that...
IPCC admits Special Branch acted illegally to assist drawing up ‘blacklist’ for bosses!
‘POLICE, including Special Branches, supplied information that appeared on the blacklist, funded by the country’s major construction firms, the Consulting Association and/or other agencies,...
UN Chief warns of ‘catastrophic consequences’ of Zionist regime’s plan for complete military occupation...
THE United Nations assistant secretary general Miroslav Janca issued a chilling warning in response to reports that the Israeli regime was pushing for a...
BIS warning of global financial crash!
GLOBAL financial markets are dangerously stretched and may unwind with shock force as liquidity dries up, the Bank of International Settlements has warned. BIS boss...
Ukraine workers defy imperialism and Stalinism!
THE News Line salutes the bravery and heroism of the Ukrainian working class who defied all the threats, intimidation and murderous attacks by forces...
Trump’s economic miracle is in fact a mountain of debt that US workers will...
IN HIS State of the Union address last week, US president Donald Trump boasted that under his leadership the American economy had undergone a...
Bedroom Tax – a savage assault on the poor and vulnerable
Nothing typifies the vicious war against the poorest and most vulnerable sections of the working class more than the introduction next month of...
Pope Arrives To Organise Counter-Revolutionaries
THE visit to Britain by Pope Benedict XVI has only one aim, to make a pact with the British ruling class, to help strengthen...
TUC Must Take General Strike Action To Stop The Mass Murder Of Palestinians
WEDNESDAY’S Guardian newspaper admitted that Israel faced intensifying international condemnation for its killing of starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza’ quoting UN Secretary General Antonio...
Tories plan poverty and austerity for workers to bail out bankrupt capitalism!
LAST week, the outgoing chief economist at the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, bluntly warned that the rapid increase in inflation would make the...
Starmer – the Labour Party ‘fit to govern’ for bosses and the bankers...
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer, in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday, pledged that he is ‘not just pro-business’ but wants to...
Putin lays down law to Soviet states
THE Putin regime has infuriated the British bourgeoisie by its strengthening of the state owned gas and oil sectors of the Russian economy, at...
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...
National emergency declared in NHS as waiting lists soar!
Senior NHS doctors declared a state of national emergency in the NHS yesterday as waiting lists soared, with thousands of patients being treated in...
The TUC Must Take Action T0 Defeat Johnson’s Savage Cuts And To Disband The...
PM BORIS Johnson has refused to rule out raising taxes again, on the first day of the Tory Party conference and just three weeks...
US-UK-Eu The Imperialist Split Widens!
AS the world crisis of capitalism develops at breakneck speed, so the splits between the imperialist nations become more open, pitching the US against...
Throw Out Bankrupt Sunak And The Tories With A General Strike!
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak, at a cabinet briefing before unveiling his latest spending review in Parliament yesterday, warned that the forecast for the UK...
Call strike action to defeat Tory plans to destroy university system
YESTERDAY, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published a detailed report into the effects of the Tory higher education bill due to return to...
US Forces Massacred Civilians In Afghanistan
AMERICAN occupation forces carried out a bombing raid on the village of Nawabad in the Shindand district of Herat province last Friday, killing 90...
Bush defends waterboarding and torture
US President, George W Bush, last Saturday revealed the inseparable connection between imperialism and atrocities when he vetoed Congressional legislation that would have...
UK And French Workers Are Taking Action Against The Bosses And The Bankers –...
THE head of the UK’s Unite trade union has accused the government of having a ‘sinister reason’ for ‘not doing a deal’ with nurses...
Trade unions must fight zero hours contracts
THE news that over one million workers now have ‘zero hours contracts’ and work only when their employer wants them, have no holidays or...
Support the Shell-HOYER tanker workers!
IN the last few weeks we have seen the road hauliers take to the streets against the massive increases in petrol and diesel prices...
US-UK ruling classes are using Ukraine crisis and NATO to organise a war with...
PM Boris Johnson said yesterday that Ukrainians are ‘fighting heroically’ and with ‘great success’ in some places against Russian troops who have intervened to...
Sanctions on Russia rebound on US as countries dump the dollar as dominant world...
ONE OF the main consequences of the US-led sanctions designed to strangle the Russian economy and lead to regime change has been to hasten...
Tunisian Revolution Brings Down Interior Minister
TUNISIAN President Ben Ali has dismissed his interior minister and ordered the release of most of those detained during the current clashes over food...
Free first class medical care and accommodation for the sick and elderly
ONCE again PM Gordon Brown and the Labour Party have revealed that while they rushed to handing over £150 billion to the bankers, they...
Tories have insulted NHS workers by ‘rewarding’ them with a 1% ‘pay rise’. ...
NURSES, midwives and NHS workers around the country are enraged by the Tory plan set out in the Chancellor’s budget to ‘reward’ them with...
Bank of England warning that world stock markets on the verge of crash!
The Bank of England yesterday warned that the capitalist financial markets are at risk of ‘sharp correction’. In its latest financial stability report the Bank...
Labour MPs condemn gov. for planning ‘shameful trade deal’ with Israel!
THE Labour government has outraged a large number of Labour MPs and very many Labour Party members and supporters by proceeding with its plan...
US mass murder in western Mosul is aiding, abetting and strengthening ISIS – and...
AFTER over a month of silence, the western media have had to acknowledge that hundreds of civilians are being killed in western Mosul by...
Blair Wants Government Control Of Judges
THE Blair government announced yesterday through its Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, that it was going to bring in legislation that will tell judges how...
Dictatorship in Greece – socialist revolution the only way forward
THE unelected and EU-imposed Greek ‘interim’ PM, Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank who played a major part in getting Greece...
Attack on FBU an attack on every worker – defend the right to strike...
THE TORY move to make strikes illegal and ban trade unions stepped up yesterday with the official annual report on the fire service. The report...
‘Bloodbath’ in Gaza hospitals as Israel ramps up genocidal war
A NEW REPORT by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has indicted Israel for using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. Omar Shakir, HRW’s Israel...
Oil War Looms In The Caucasus!
RUSSIA is recalling its ambassador to Tbilisi after Wednesday’s provocative arrests of four Russian officers on spying charges, and is beginning a partial evacuation...
Health unions in head-on collision with the government over pay! Entire working...
UNIONS representing NHS workers have written directly to the Tory government over their pay. The fourteen unions represent over a million NHS workers. The...
Trade unions must act now and call general strikes to kick out Tories and...
THERE has been no let-up in the murderous bombardment of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a tiny city on the border with Egypt...
One Day General Strike On April 24Th!
OVER 100,000 Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), will be on strike at the same time as the NUT teachers and...
Romney condemned by Solidarity and the Palestinians!
REPUBLICAN presidential nominee Romney won endorsement from former Polish president and former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, only to see the Solidarity...
Tories seeking to bust the CWU and all of NHS trade unions. Time to...
THE CWU trade union representing postal workers says Royal Mail’s chief executive Simon Thompson is to blame for a round of strikes in the...
Only the banks matter for Mandelson
MANDELSON began his speech to the City of London magnates at the Mansion House last Wednesday night by declaring his continuing support for the...
Nationalise the Pharmaceutical Industry
AT last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, 100 pharmaceutical companies and private health care companies issued a statement demanding that governments around the...