Bush, Blair Admit Stupidity And Incompetence
PRESIDENT Bush and Premier Blair have admitted their chronic incompetence over the prosecution of the war in Iraq, and have appealed to the rest...
Occupy BMW Cowley – reinstate the sacked 850 agency workers
IN August 2005 800 Gate Gourmet workers were sacked by megaphone in the car park of the Heathrow company. The TGWU, led by Tony...
Blair’s call for an ‘alliance’ to attack Iran
PRIME Minister Tony Blair told businessmen from Britain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dubai yesterday: ‘We must mobilise our alliance of moderation...
British Army Is Defeated In Southern Iraq
US Intelligence officials have told the ‘Washington Post’ that the British army has been defeated in southern Iraq, and specifically in the second city...
‘Put an end to capitalism’ to solve the food crisis
WITH another 100 million people no longer able to afford the food they need to live, two international meetings were underway in London and...
Scrap Academies – restore free state education
THE Academy school project – to replace state owned schools, with ‘independent’, millionaire sponsored, and privately run schools, who hire the staff that...
Peugeot, the NHS and pensions
THE crisis of capitalism is now erupting in Britain with massive force. The government has declared that the bankrupt capitalist system cannot afford final salary...
More redundancies required at Vauxhall UK plants
UNDER the cover of a Voluntary Separation Programme GM is seeking to push through more redundancies at GM Vauxhall including a number at Ellesmere...
Never mind the claimants – use lie detectors on the politicians
WORK and Pensions Minister John Hutton said yesterday that lie detectors will be used to help root out benefit cheats in job centres later...
ROYAL MAIL PRIVATISATION WILL BE RESISTED – says postal workers leader
A LONDON postal workers’ leader yesterday warned the government they will face massive opposition, if they go ahead and try to break Labour’s election...
RAF planes bomb Iraq/Syria border areas
ROYAL Air Force Tornado fighter bombers have joined the US air force in bombing raids in Iraq’s western Al Anbar province, particularly in the...
Britain Scuttling Out Of Iraq
DEFENCE Secretary Browne has just visited Baghdad where he declared that the pace of the British rout in Iraq is to be accelerated, with...
Shell bites the dust – forward to the political revolution
THE massive Royal Shell energy giant, which purchased the Sakhalin-2 concession for a song from Boris Yeltsin, was yesterday brought down to earth with...
Coulson, Cameron tools of the Murdoch empire
THE resignation of Coulson yesterday as Prime Minister David Cameron’s Director of Communications, follows on, almost immediately, from the police being forced to re-open...
Baa And Virgin Air Industry Workers Are Ready For Action
NEWS LINE sends its greetings and full support to the British Airports Authority workers who have decided to take strike action at seven major...
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...
Clarke Tells Blair It’s Time To Go
TONY BLAIR may not be able to recover his authority and leadership after recent damaging events, former Blair Home Secretary, Clarke has said. Charles...
Wal-Mart Asda Blinks First To Avoid Costly Five Day Strike Action
‘GMB members win the right to collective bargaining in the UK, Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots’, is what the GMB trade union optimistically labelled the...
Bigot Straw Stirs Up Division Amongst Workers
LABOUR MP Straw has been a Blackburn MP for 27 years and has long been aware that numbers of Muslim women in Blackburn wear...
Blair And Brown Crippling African Health Care!
THE current Blair drive to have Gordon Brown and himself depicted in the media as the saviours of the African continent has hit the...
State Department rubbishes ‘ignorant’ Blair
A POLITICALLY ‘sick’ Prime Minister Blair was yesterday delivered another major blow, this time at the hands of the US State Department, when...
Revolutionary crisis in France
The first round of voting in the French presidential election, held last Sunday, produced an unprecedented defeat for the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and his...
Blair demands end of EU farm subsidies
THE knives are out between the British ruling class and its Franco-German opposite numbers. The press conference at the end of Blair’s visit to Moscow,...
Weak British imperialism heading for a major fall
THE chickens are coming home to roost for British imperialism, as the mounting casualty figures in both Afghanistan and Iraq show. It is a long...
War crimes are OK, as long as they are British!
CORPORAL Donald Payne has just got a minor one year sentence for a war crime after pleading guilty to inhumane treatment of civilian detainees...
Botched intelligence and shoot-to-kill ‘mistakes’ are par for the course says Clarke
THE former Labour Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, yesterday continued with his campaign to restore his alleged political reputation. He says that this was...
From Thatcher to Blair and Cameron – a common determination to smash the Welfare...
THE just-released Thatcher papers confirm that the Tory leader had a very real hatred of the NHS and the Welfare State and, along with...
The US and NATO are behind Georgia’s ‘declaration of war’
AS the Russian government explained yesterday, the attack by Georgia on South Ossetia was expected, was well prepared and was a declaration of war,...
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...
Blair, Thatcher lavish praise on fellow Tory Heath
IN THESE days, when capitalist Britain is being rocked by the world economic crisis and the disaster of its imperialist policies in Iraq and...
Brown’s gold sales lost the Bank of England £3.8bn
A DECADE ago, on May 7, 1999, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced plans to sell off a large part of Britain’s gold reserves. This was...
US closes Yemen embassy
THE US emphasised that it had gone to war on the territory of the Yemen yesterday, by closing its embassy in the Yemeni...
Murdoch withdraws BskyB bid – Now bring down coalition!
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister announced that a judge-led phone hacking inquiry will have powers to call media proprietors, editors and politicians to give evidence,...
New Orleans and Baghdad, twin cities destroyed by US capitalism
NEW ORLEANS was allowed to be destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. US capitalism and its Bush administration had on the top of their agendas massive tax...
Labour Traitors Dance To Billionaire George Soros’ Tune!
AFTER their defeat in the House of Commons last Wednesday over the EU Withdrawal Bill, the billionaire George Soros’ ‘Best for Britain’ movement ...
British imperialism being cut down to size by the crisis
BRITISH imperialism, at the height of its power and even up to the 1930s, had at its heart the dictum of sea power, that...
Nationalise the pharmaceutical corporations!
A REPORT into the expenditure of the National Health Service on drugs, published by the government’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) yesterday, reveals that...
General Strike To Defend The Cwu! Smash The Union Busters! Defeat Privatisation!
POSTAL workers are not surprised at the leak which shows that Royal Mail management, with the support of the Brown government, intends to impose...
Government By Police Chiefs
AT his monthly press conference last Monday, the Prime Minister admitted that the source of his proposal, that the police should be allowed to...
Demoralised Labour has shot its bolt!
TWO ex-Labour government leaders Clarke and Blunkett have now spoken up, true to form, to stab Prime Minister Brown in the back, just as...
Woodley And Barber Know No Shame!
Trade union leaders in Europe have warned that the present ‘spectacular growth’ of the private equity venture capitalist deals is ‘unsustainable’ and ‘stoking up...
Hodge Spreads Subversion In The Fabian Society
THE Labour government is visibly collapsing day by day, with even ministers expressing opposition and saying that they had doubts about Blair’s foreign ...
Rate cuts and printing pound notes – Brown’s recipe for disaster
THE Bank of England yesterday cut interest rates to 1.5 per cent, the lowest level in its 315-year history, since the start of the...
Not a very British revolution – just another attempt at a bourgeois coup
THAT an ex-SAS officer from the 1970s, with current military-police commissioner connections through his succession of security businesses, as well as ‘strong connections to...
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...