Browne echoes Bush on need for bigger army
PRESIDENT Bush, on Wednesday, called for a major expansion of the US army, and yesterday, the British Defence Minister, Browne, slavishly echoed his master’s...
US forced to back down over North Korea and agree talks
IN A DRAMATIC about face, US Vice President Mike Pence stated yesterday that the Trump administration is now looking at holding diplomatic talks with...
Britain hardest hit by world capitalist crisis
YESTERDAY’S reports on the state of the economy reveal more about the catastrophe gripping British capitalism, part of the world crisis. • The Bank of...
EU car & steel industries in crisis – UK must leave EU NOW –...
SHARES in India’s Tata Motors collapsed by almost 30 per cent yesterday after the company reported gigantic losses at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR). On Thursday,...
Tory hostile environment alive and well and making a profit for the government!
A NEWSPAPER investigation has revealed that the Home Office has been making huge profits out of the human misery of the Tories’ ‘hostile environment’...
Biden releases heavily redacted documents to ‘prove’ no Saudi involvement in 9/11 attack
ON THE 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the twin towers in New York the FBI released a newly declassified 16-page document detailing...
American Terrorists Launch Murderous Attack On Syria
SYRIA has protested angrily to both the US and Iraq after a terror raid by four US helicopters inside its territory killed eight Syrian...
Government collapsing but trade union leaders watch and wait
PRIME Minister Blair and former Blair ultra-loyalists spent yesterday slashing away at each others throats. Blair branded Blairite ex-junior minister, Tom Watson ‘disloyal, discourteous...
Labour has no answer to the problems that the working class and middle class...
MILIBAND’S Labour Party yesterday said that if it was the government it would offer the long-term unemployed a guarantee of a six-month job. This...
Student nurses to be forced to pay for training!
THE results of the ‘consultation’ launched by the Tories on the 7th April on the proposal to end NHS funded bursaries for student...
The Palestinians will respond to savage Israeli attacks with a massive Intifada to establish...
ISRAEL’S navy yesterday targeted Palestinian fishermen sailing offshore Rafah city in the southern besieged Gaza Strip and confiscated two boats, according to a WAFA...
TUC must boycott Israel!
IT is a disgrace that at this week’s TUC Congress there are no resolutions on the Middle East and Afghanistan where over...
Forward With The World Socialist Revolution!
ON every front – the economic, the political and the ideological – the capitalist ruling classes and their system are reeling and in desperate...
Smash Capitalist State To End Deaths In Police Custody!
DEATHS in police custody are the ‘highest for five years’, the Independent Police Complaints Commission’s annual report on deaths during or following police contact...
Blair hits out at ‘black crime’ – calls to ‘take out’ black youth
BLAIR in his Callaghan Memorial lecture in Cardiff came out as an admirer of the right wing Labour premier, who he says ‘had neither...
Brown’s compromise encourages Catholic reaction
GORDON Brown says Labour MPs will have a free vote on three ‘controversial parts’ of his embryo research Bill, thus giving way to the...
Occupy to stop car plant closures – nationalise the motor industry to defend...
YESTERDAY, US carmaker Ford announced it will close the car engine plant in Bridgend, South Wales, throwing all 1,700 workers out of a job...
Nationalise The Energy Companies – The TUC Must Call A General Strike To Defend...
MICHAEL Saunders, a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), is warning that households, and million of workers must brace themselves...
TUC must support junior doctors with a general strike!
THE decision by the British Medical Association to authorise fresh strike action by junior doctors over the imposition of a new work contract is...
Nationalise The Banks To Resolve The Capitalist Crisis
MORE than $170 billion (£87 billion) has been wiped off the balance sheets of companies worldwide as a result of the collapse of the...
Poverty under capitalism is ‘killing people on a grand scale’
‘SOCIAL injustice is killing people on a grand scale.’ This is the conclusion of the World Health Organisation’s Commission on Social Determinants of...
Foxconn to replace its Chinese workers with a million robots
TAIWANESE electronics manufacturer Foxconn, which assembles products for Apple, plans to have a million robots, by the next three years, in operation in its...
Business Secretary Reynolds can’t keep blast furnaces going!
THE British Labour government’s business secretary has refused to confirm if the government can get the sufficient raw material supplies in time to keep...
Russia resisting regime change in Syria!
RUSSIA said yesterday that it strongly disagreed with changes to its draft UN Security Council resolution on Syria made by the western imperialist powers. ‘Unfortunately,...
Socialist revolution only answer to capitalist debt crisis
RACHEL Reeves is due to deliver her first Autumn Budget as Labour Chancellor next Wednesday, and is already promising ‘tough decisions’ on cuts and...
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...
There Will Be No Labour Leadership Election Says Tony Woodley
TONY Woodley, the Unite joint general secretary, has stepped into the row over the demand for a Labour Party leadership debate and a leadership...
Labour Party Conference Opens With ‘God Save The King’ Instead Of A Minute’s Silence...
THE opening of the Labour Party conference took a new turn yesterday when the Labour Party leader Starmer, who has played a key part...
Crocodile Tears At The Security Council Over Syria!
THE UN Security Council has condemned the truck bomb attacks that killed at least 55 people and wounded almost 400 in the Syrian capital,...
Workers must apply ‘French tactics’ against a parliament that is trying to steal Brexit!
BRITISH parliamentary democracy was exposed as nothing more than a chaotic and rapidly collapsing sham on Tuesday when, for the first time in history,...
Mark Duggan was assassinated by the police says his mother
A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE was held yesterday to mark a year since the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by the...
‘We’re the insurgents now,’ declares Tony Blair!
EX-LABOUR Premier Blair has summoned the anti-Brexit camp, that is the bosses, the bankers, the majority of Tory and Labour MPs and the majority...
Israel continues with its Gaza massacres
ISRAEL has rejected the UN security council resolution calling for a ceasefire and a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and is determined to carry...
Royal Mail shares frenzy grips bankrupt bosses
TODAY is the official starting day of trading on the stock exchange in Royal Mail shares, a sell-off that has been greeted in the...
Tories Are Returning To Their ‘Starve The Workers’ Tactic!
WITH the capitalist system in its greatest ever crisis, the British Tories are beginning to debate about what is the best way out of...
Trump caves in over Ukraine – now is the time to get rid of...
AMERICA’S junior imperialist allies in the UK and Europe were in a state of shock as details of US president Donald Trump’s climbdown over...
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...
Labour brings 20% interest payments into its health market
NHS trust hospitals and Primary Care Trusts are to be charged 10 per cent interest on money they borrow from their strategic Health Authority...
2018 – The Year For World Revolution!
New Year Manifesto by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary greetings for 2018 to all our readers,...
Tories getting ready for class war! Time for the trade unions to put them...
EVERYBODY knows that the Tory government was completely unprepared for the Covid-19 crisis that erupted in the UK in December 2020. The Operation Cygnus exercise...
Disband the Met and the entire police force that serves only the interests of...
WHILE the TUC and trade union leaders frantically cancelled strikes and conferences as a ‘mark of respect’ over the death of 96-year-old Elizabeth II,...
Tories, LibDems are in crisis – kick them out now!
AS the results of Thursday’s local council elections come in and are poured over by the main political parties and the pundits in the...
After 100 days – Cameron pledges to step up class war!
PM Cameron has celebrated his government’s first 100 days by launching an attack on the enemy within, that is the working class and their...
Labour leadership contenders back Tory cuts
ALL four of the declared candidates for Labour Party leader, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Mary Creagh, have been busy over...
Bank Of England Issues Warning – The UK Is Heading For A...
THE Bank of England has issued a warning that Britain faces a financial crisis that would see households battling against much higher borrowing costs...