General Rose supports the Iraqis right to fight occupiers
GENERAL Rose, who was the commander of the UN forces in Bosnia, has just publicly supported the right of the Iraqi insurgents to fight...
One word ‘strike’ sends the TUC into a spin
EARLIER this week the News Line stated that it would not be enough to adopt a programme at the current TUC Congress, but that...
The TUC Must Give Full Support To The Palestinian Freedom Fighters And Ban All...
THE Arab League Council yesterday condemned Israeli crimes and massacres of Palestinians and demanded the provision of international protection to the Palestinian people. The Council...
EU set to EXPLODE
THE developing world-wide economic crisis is now bringing the contradictions inside the EU together and sharpening them to the point of a massive transformation...
Unions to call for London-wide strike action to defeat Tory attack on TfL workers
RAIL unions have pledged mass industrial action in response to the Tory attacks on the jobs, pay and pensions of workers at TfL (Transport...
Netanyahu’s coalition rips away façade of Israeli ‘democracy’ – trade unions must boycott Israel
OVER 10,000 people took to the streets of the main Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Saturday in protest against the policies unveiled last...
‘The Next Global Shock Will Be Like An Earthquake!’
EUROZONE manufacturing activity has hit a three-year low at the same time as the banking crisis is reaching explosion point. Greece has run out...
Following renationalisation of Southeastern, the trade unions must call a general strike to bring...
SOUTHEASTERN rail collapsed into public ownership yesterday with the RMT revealing the true cost of the government’s slavish devotion to subsidising private profit capitalism. In...
Macron desperate to reassert French imperial rule in Lebanon
FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron stepped up his blatant interference in Lebanon on Sunday when he issued Lebanese politicians an ultimatum that they must form...
Cameron shows his contempt for parliament
TORY leader Cameron was allowed to bluff his way through yesterday’s debate, on his special statement on the Murdoch-Coulson scandal, held after it caused...
UK workers must bring down Trump’s Tories to leave the EU and bring in...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has named three of his Tory candidates to replace May as the prime minister of his choice. All three of Trump’s...
TUC must be made to call mass demonstrations and a general strike to bring...
PM Johnson yesterday fled the country to go to the Ukraine, where he will be able to adopt what he hopes will be a...
Children starve in Britain while bankers reap billions
IN the same week that the capitalist banking system was exposed as a centre of criminal venality, lying and cheating in order to secure...
US to arm Ukrainian coupists
US imperialism has reacted to the breakdown of talks at the weekend of the Contact Group on Ukrainian reconciliation with threats to massively intervene...
Drive Tory rabble out with a general strike to bring in a workers government...
THE House of Commons privileges committee published its report into former prime minister Boris Johnson yesterday and it turned out to be even more...
US Federal Reserve is too scared to raise interest rates!
ON Thursday evening, the US Federal Reserve policy committee decided yet again that it did not dare to raise interest rates by a fraction...
Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill – sky high food prices here...
DURING a public on-line question and answer session on Monday, the Bank of England’s chief economist Huw Pill warned that higher food prices ‘may...
Tory ‘Orwellian’ attempts to cover Grenfell Tower atrocities in secrecy
THE CAMPAIGN group ‘openDemocracy’ has revealed evidence of a concerted campaign by a secretive government Freedom of Information (FOI) screening unit to interfere with...
Libya faces a bloodbath as imperialist stooges fight for control
A BLOODBATH is being predicted in Libya after the leader of the so-called Libyan National Army (LNA), General Khalifa Haftar, launched a military offensive...
Labour splits apart as MPs turn on Starmer
STARMER’S government is splitting apart, as Labour MPs turn on the prime minister, accusing him of creating a ‘toxic culture’, after the latest development...
Breast cancer scandal inevitable outcome of Tory privatisation of NHS – time to...
LAST WEDNESDAY, Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt apologised ‘wholeheartedly and unreservedly for the suffering caused’ to the hundreds of thousands of women who were...
Brown’s Policies Are Helping The Tories To Return
BROWN’S ‘bad night for Labour’ was the direct result of a self-inflicted wound – Brown’s Thatcherite policies – that cost Labour up to...
Turkey Poised To Invade Northern Iraq
THE Turkish army is poised to invade northern Iraq in order to respond to PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) attacks on its troops, which...
Strikes hit hospitals and airports as workers rise up against wage cutting!
WHILE the Tories tear themselves apart awaiting the heavily redacted report by Sue Gray into Boris Johnson and all the parties at Downing Street...
Israel bombs last functioning hospital in Gaza – working class must force TUC to...
THE ISRAELI regime intensified its relentless land and air bombardment of Gaza this weekend, including the bombing of the last functioning hospital in Gaza...
Celebrate the first 70 years by bringing down the Tories and ending the cuts
THE NHS was the product of war and revolution, namely the slaughter of soldiers and civilians fighting fascism in World War 2, and...
Blow the whistle on the Tories by kicking them out
THE TORY health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, yesterday announced that the government is to issue for consultation draft guidelines that, it claims, will end the...
Afghan defeat for UK imperialism – now smash them at home
AN influential group of MPs have finally admitted publicly what everyone already knows – that the invasion of Afghanistan by NATO troops, led by...
Smash The Capitalist Police State – Forward With The Socialist Revolution
THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER yesterday reported that the UK police chiefs have formally asked the government to make it harder to investigate and prosecute officers,...
No Ifs, No Buts – TUC must call an immediate general strike to support...
Over 300,000 workers, students and youth marched on Downing Street last Saturday in a massive demonstration of support for Palestine and demanding an end...
Manning faces long jail sentence as US demands return of Snowden
A US military judge on Tuesday found former US Army intelligence officer Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, but guilty of five...
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...
NO benefits – and NO jobs either – the Duncan Smith plan
WORK and Pensions Secretary, ex-army officer Duncan Smith, yesterday addressed the world about ‘our broken benefits system’, when most people know what has broken,...
Chancellor’s ‘Spring Statement’ to continue austerity – It’s time to bring Tories down!
CHANCELLOR Hammond has rejected calls by Labour and some Conservatives to announce the end of austerity in his ‘Spring Statement’ on Tuesday. Despite unveiling...
Rate Rise Shock – Condemned As Panic By Tuc
BIG BUSINESS, the stockmarkets and the TUC were shaken yesterday midday when the Bank of England raised its interest rates by a quarter of...
Ukraine faces more savage austerity and cuts to qualify for IMF ‘aid’!
UKRAINE’S central bank has sharply raised interest rates from 19.5% to 30% in an effort to curb inflation and prop up its beleaguered currency...
Iraqi Masses To March Against Deal To Extend US Mandate
US defence chief Robert Gates has been briefing US politicians on the proposal to extend the US mandate in Iraq. This expires this December...
The developing capitalist crisis demands the organisation of the socialist revolution
SHRINKING UK trade figures released yesterday of a decline of 0.1 per cent of GDP in May, following a 0.3 per cent fall in...
Decisive Action Needed To Defend Welfare State!
THE working class is rising up to defend the Welfare State. On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of workers and members of the public took...
Sinn Fein joins the UK capitalist state
‘THE time is now right to support the PSNI’ (Police Service of Northern Ireland), Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams told delegates at the Sinn...
‘Vote Leave’ on June 23 to get rid of Cameron and the Tory...
ON Monday Tory PM Cameron warned that if the UK leaves the EU it could trigger off another great European war. What a condemnation...
Brown pledges to bring morality to the bankers!
AT yesterday’s Labour Party conference Premier Brown focused on the ‘wrong choices’ that the Tories had made over policies to deal with the...
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...
‘Remainer’ May gives the UK parliament the final say!
PM MAY yesterday told a Lancaster House press conference of her government’s plan to quit the dictatorial EU and its Single Market. Harkening back to...
Labour will let bankers’ bonuses soar and make the working class pay for capitalist...
LABOUR’S shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves yesterday pledged any future Labour government to be the bankers’ best friend, ready and willing to facilitate awarding massive...