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...
A slap on the wrist for bankers, but it’s to be war on the...
PREMIER Brown’s speech at the Labour Party conference reeked with bourgeois morality and hypocrisy. There is to be a slap on the...
US Fails In Drone Attempt On Life Of Taleban Leader
A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan’s tribal region killed at least 12 persons on Thursday. Drone aircraft fired two missiles on a religious seminary...
Don’t Cross Picket Lines On June 30Th!
MEMBERS of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), National Union of Teachers (NUT), Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and University and College...
Trade Unions must stop the New Year mass sackings with a general strike
UNEMPLOYMENT is set to rocket, over and just after Christmas, when up to 100,000 public sector workers are to get their redundancy notices so...
Public Debt doubles – overthrow bankrupt capitalism
The coalition government will be forced to accept this month that the bank bailout has more than doubled the size of the Public Debt...
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...
Afghan election re-run collapses – US, UK completely discredited!
AFGHANISTAN’S re-run election will be held on November 7th as scheduled, said the Afghan Electoral Commission yesterday. It is to have just one candidate,...
Labour Plans New Pensions Robbery
EX-CBI boss, Lord Turner’s plans for pensions are just the means chosen by the Blair government to make the working class pay for the...
Corporatist union leaders are serving the bosses
WITH capitalism in its greatest crisis, and with tens of millions of jobs and tens of millions of people’s lives being destroyed after the...
Pre-empt savage cuts with a general strike!
LIB DEM leader Nick Clegg has reiterated his original claim there will need to be ‘savage’ spending cuts. Clegg put forward the same...
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...
Nationalise LDV and GM Vauxhall – no Royal Mail privatisation!
WITH even more right-wing forces seeking to bring down the Brown government from the right, trade unions now have an opportunity to show their...
Stop The Afghan War – The Enemy Is At Home
DEMOCRATIC presidents and prime ministers such as Obama and Brown have rushed into the Afghan breach to rubber-stamp their stooge Karzai as the president...
Now Act To Defend The NHS!
THE WITCHHUNT that the Republican Party has organised against President Obama for having the temerity to propose some relatively benign measures to allow...
Two-day Greek General Strike – time for all-out indefinite action!
LAST week the two main Greek trade union organisations representing workers in the public and private sector called a two-day general strike starting today...
Motor industry crisis deepens – nationalisation the only way
THE US administration has let it be known that it intends to force GM, formerly the world’s number one motor car manufacturer, into bankruptcy...
Indefinite united strike action needed by public sector workers
MEMBERS of the 270,000-strong National Union of Teachers (NUT), Britain’s largest teaching union are to take strike action on April 24 over pay. They...
Go forward to socialism – only way to avoid threatening catastrophe!
JAPAN is the second biggest power in the capitalist industrial world, behind the United States. It has just announced that its industrial output dropped...
Build millions of council houses to solve housing crisis
PUBLIC sector workers such as firefighters, teachers, and nurses, cannot afford to buy homes in seven out of 10 UK towns, because of the...
‘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...
Israel steps up brutal attacks on Palestinians
OVER the New Year the killing of Palestinian men women and children has continued unabated and in the most brutal fashion. On Sunday Israeli forces...
Stop the war with a general strike to bring down coalition
ANGLO-US-FRENCH forces have killed over 100 Libyans and wounded hundreds more in their opening onslaught of cruise missiles, launched from the sea, and bombs...
Nati0Nalise Gm Vauxhall And Ellesmere Port!
VAUXHALL factories at Ellesmere Port and Luton will close if GM’s talks with the Labour government for the Treasury to take over the financing...
Police cover-up over military-style operation against City protests
IAN TOMLINSON, a 47-year-old news vendor in the City of London, collapsed at 7.25pm on April 1 on his way home from work during...
Call A General Strike Now!
THE demand for a general strike to bring down the government has been driven by the working class onto the immediate agenda of the...
May Day Manifesto 2015 Organise the Revolution!
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world at a time when the historic crisis...
Gm And Magna Reach Agreement In Principle
GENERAL Motors and Magna and its Russian partner Sberbank (which includes the Gaz carmaker) have reached an agreement in principle over the contract...
Blair threatens to ‘close the book’ on the north
THE British and Irish premiers yesterday outlined their plan to restore direct rule from Westminster, via Dublin, if the Paisleyite DUP does not agree...
IMF Declares UK Economy going bust
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, issued the gravest warning yet on the state of the UK economy on Tuesday,...
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...
Students To Fight Closure Of University Of London Union!
SENIOR academics confirmed yesterday that they are set to shut down the University of London Union, recommending that ‘ULU in its current form ceases’...
Blair’s policies split Labour and aid the Tories
‘IT’S wrong that Downing Street thinks it can run the Labour Party: we are an elected party, a democratic party,’ said the Labour Party...
Greek blood money debt bonds for sale!
BANKRUPTED Greece, still up to its neck in debt, is to sell five-year bonds, in the country’s first long-term debt sale since its international...
No British Troops For Iraq!
ON April 30th 2009 the British army left Basra in Iraq for Afghanistan. This was after negotiating their retreat from Iraq’s second city with...
Simpson And Woodley Are Betraying The Working Class!
THE joint general secretaries of Unite, Britain’s biggest union, met with Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling at Number 11 on Thursday for crisis talks on...
Abuse of elderly inevitable outcome of privatisation
A major study by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the quality of home care for the elderly in England has thrown the...
Vote ‘Leave’ on June 23 to get rid of Cameron and the Tory government!...
IT is rapidly becoming crystal clear how important it is to vote ‘Leave’ in the June 23rd referendum on the EU. A ‘Leave’ vote will...
Long Live The Libyan Revolution
THE forty-year-old Libyan revolution is being celebrated with enthusiasm this week by the Libyan masses in Tripoli. The revolution, led by Colonel Gadaffi, put an...
Postal workers are standing up to management bullies
POSTAL workers in towns and cities all over the UK were forced out on unofficial strike yesterday morning when management sought to impose the...
Blair And Cameron – Tweedleedum And Tweedledee!
YESTERDAY the new leader of the Tory Party, David Cameron publicly disowned the Tory Party manifesto, written for the last general election, just seven...
Coalition forcing in education commodity market
THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday warned that the government was organising an ‘NHS-style crash’ pushing through ‘reforms’ to create an education...
Economic tsunami to hit Japan
‘We have been humbled by nature’ the Japanese ambassador to Britain said of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that has devastated northern Japan with...
Prentis appeals to Brown in vain
‘OUR time and patience is running out. The country is in a mess and we look to the Government to come up with serious...
Oil Prices Set To Soar As Demand Outstrips Supply
THE International Energy Agency has predicted that oil demand is set to leap beyond the capacity to supply, sending oil prices soaring well...