Motor City Goes Bankrupt – Unions Denounce Orr Power Grab!
DETROIT, once the motor car capital of the USA where hundreds of thousands of workers used to flock looking for good jobs in the...
Bush Bail Out Plan Attacked By The Working Class And By The Republican Right
REPUBLICAN representatives walked out of the crisis talks with President Bush on Thursday night, denouncing him as a socialist for launching his $700 bn...
Banking parasites still riding high off of the public purse
THE Committee of Public Accounts today publishes a report which reveals in the words of its chair Margaret Hodge that: ‘The peak of the...
‘At war’ Obama speaks about taking difficult decisions
PRESIDENT Obama’s inaugural address was Churchillian in tone, but lacking in concrete content, limiting itself to spelling out that the US ruling class was...
Ferguson Masses Begin To Disband The Police!
AFTER the announcement of the resignation of the chief of police in Ferguson, St Louis, an evening and midnight demonstration and celebration outside the...
Crisis Deepening – Revolution Not Recovery Is On The Agenda
THE CBI bosses organisation yesterday foresaw a ‘recovery’ from the capitalist crisis, but was forced by circumstances beyond its control to admit that, at...
Defend every job, occupy to stop closures, and nationalise the major industries
YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics produced figures showing the record breaking numbers of unemployed and the record breaking growth of unemployment. UK unemployment...
Take strike action to support FBU!
THE London Firefighters one day strike last Saturday has drawn a swift response from the capitalist state, via their mouthpieces in the bourgeois press. Commenting...
Support North Korea Against US Aggression!
WITH the crisis of capitalism deepening and the US economy showing not the slightest signs of recovery, it is only natural that the US...
Robertson’s call to murder Chavez is US policy
EX-US presidential candidate Pat Robertson, an ultra religious leader of the US’ ‘moral majority’ has just called for the US state to murder...
Banks declare record indebtedness as gold and Wall Street shares reach record highs
THE US banks are now having to declare their indebtedness. Citigroup has lost $6 billion in a third quarter of this year write down, as...
State ownership brings MG Rover back from the dead!
THE state-owned Nanjing Automobile company, which bought MG Rover for a knock down price of £53 million and then transferred and reassembled 10,000 tonnes...
Hodge, Blears and Blair say foreigners to the back of the queue
LABOUR Industry Minister Margaret Hodge has won the support of Hazel Blears (Chairman of the Labour Party and a candidate for the deputy leadership...
Occupy Vauxhall/Opel plants – nationalise GM Europe to defend jobs!
General Motors plans to close the Opel plant in Antwerp, Belgium this winter, with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs. Workers in Antwerp...
New Syria War Planned Using Old ‘Wmd’ Lies!
THE war drums are beating with increasing intensity for armed intervention by imperialism into Syria to effect the smashing up of the Assad regime, the...
Organise a general strike over pensions!
ABOUT 1.5 million local council workers are to strike on March 28 to defend their local government pension scheme. It is being described as...
Tgwu Leaders Stop Gate Gourmet Workers Hardship Fund
YESTERDAY the News Line was informed by the London Region Office of the TGWU that the Gate Gourmet hardship fund was closed and that...
Savage Greek property tax provokes mass revolt
In the past few days electricity bills delivered to Greek households have contained a demand for the hated new property tax. This tax, which ranges...
British capitalism is breaking apart
THE one clear message that emerged from Cameron’s speech yesterday was that the political representatives of the capitalist class in Britain have given up...
The great betrayal – NHS union leaders call off strike action!
NHS trade unions have called off (‘suspended’) today’s strike and betrayed their members by accepting the government’s decision not to pay the...
Unions Must Fight And Defeat Local Pay Plans
THE Tory LibDem coalition, despite all its problems and weaknesses, waged a war to bring its Health and Social Care privatising bill into law. They...
Wage Cuts For Workers – Huge Profits For The Bankers
CHANCELLOR Darling yesterday warned Britain’s public sector workers that they must follow what he called the example of the private sector, and...
Iran wants to talk – US–UK want to impose sanctions
THE Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared that he is ready to talk to President Obama and other leaders and have a ‘fair, logical’...
Defend NHS health care – stop the NHS becoming a business
‘ONE million NHS patients have been the victims of appalling care in hospitals across Britain, according to a major report,’ screamed the capitalist press...
Boycott Israel To Demand A Palestinian State
THE Israeli armed forces, under orders from the Israeli government, are continuing to attack defenceless Palestinian women, children and men in the Gaza Strip,...
Cameron supervised the destruction of Guardian hard drives
THE picture painted by Home Secretary May of the police doing their duty in the Snowden affair, as they saw it, without any government...
Trade union leaders trying to manage capitalism
Rising unemployment is a national emergency declared the TUC yesterday after the government revealed that 150,000 workers had lost their jobs in the last...
Shares Crash As Debt Crisis Explodes
IN London yesterday, the FTSE 100 rebounded momentarily, but then fell back into the red, down by 48.5 points by 1pm after a...
Labour supports and covers up for torturers
THE Court of Appeal yesterday forced the British Labour government and its Foreign Secretary, Miliband to publish seven paragraphs concerning the torture of a...
Blair Demands More Police State Measures
AT A TIME when his office is on trial over the state execution of Jean Charles de Menezes, Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair...
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...
Merkel defeated in Berlin
THE economic collapse of the eurozone continues to drive a huge political crisis for bourgeois political parties across Europe as splits on how to...
Thirty Day Countdown To Attack 0N Iran
DOWNING STREET denials that there is a meeting today of top military, state and government officials to discuss the implications of a US attack...
No evidence for ‘street cleaners’ plot’ against Pope
TO ADD to the drama surrounding the visit of the Pope – who set the scene with his, and his associates’ attacks on...
Bush’s and Bernanke’s policies cannot stop the debt debacle
IN A WEEK when billions were wiped off share prices in New York, Tokyo and London, on Friday both United States President George Bush...
Afghanistan – A Graveyard For Imperialist Adventurers
THE debacle of the rigged Afghan elections, held under the guns of the NATO forces in Afghanistan, is just a reflection of an even...
Cameron takes a begging bowl to India
PRIME Minister David Cameron and the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government have decamped from London to New Delhi this week to drum up business, such...
Blair Targets Disabled For Massive Cuts
LABOUR was yesterday mounting a new onslaught on the disabled. The target is the 2.7 million people currently on Incapacity Benefit. The aim is...
Workers hit by inflation leap and huge jobs crisis
THE UK Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate rose sharply to 3.4% in March from 3% the month before, official figures show. The Retail...
Pensions crisis will revolutionise millions
‘THERE is no obligation on the part of employers to provide pensions’, said the National Association of Pension Funds yesterday. This was its response to...
British Imperialism In The Dock!
RETIRED General Frank Kitson is being sued over the Loyalist murder of a Roman Catholic, Eugene Heenan in Northern Ireland in February 1973 and...
Satellite to celebrate 30th anniversary of Iranian Revolution
IRAN launched its first satellite into space powered by its own rocket system, Safir-2, on Monday night. The research and telecommunication satellite was put...
Police don’t serve the public–they oppress it
ON the eve of yesterday’s 15,000 strong Police Federation demonstration through London, against the staging of their 2.6 per cent pay award, reducing it...
Inflation Out Of Control, Rate Rise On The Way
INFLATION is on the rise with the CPI rate increasing from 3.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent, while the RPI rate rose from...
Occupy GM plants to defend jobs! Nationalise the car industry!
GENERAL MOTORS European operations, which include Opel plants in Germany, the Ellesmere Port Vauxhall car plant and Luton’s IBC van plant in Britain, have...