Myanmar workers and youth on the path to armed revolution to overthrow military junta
THE MYANMAR embassy in London was taken over by representatives of the country’s military junta on Wednesday with the previous Ambassador Kyaw Zwar Minn...
Cameron Get Out – follow Harper’s lead!
HARD-LINE Tory immigration minister Mark Harper has just resigned after he admitted that he was employing a cleaner who was not legally entitled to...
Middle Class Faces Mass Unemployment. It Must Unite With The The Working Class To...
THE CRISIS engulfing British capitalism has drawn the organised working class, along with youth and entire sections of the middle class, into the struggle...
The Fire Brigade Is Not To Blame For The Grenfell Inferno!
‘THE whole thing was hell, it was like a war zone,’ fire crew manager Charlie Batterbee, part of the first crew who entered Grenfell...
Starmer’s ‘national mission’ is to save capitalism and to make workers pay for it!
YESTERDAY, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer delivered what was billed as a keynote speech that would outline once and for all the policies Labour...
Labour must condemn any secret talks with the Tories and mobilise to bring them...
‘I GOT us into this mess, and I will get us out of it’ PM May told the massed ranks of Tory backbenchers at...
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...
Inflation rising – slashing wages and threatening jobs! Trade unions must take action to...
INFLATION rose to 3.1% in November, the highest in nearly six years, as the squeeze on households continued and prices rose, slashing further into...
Obama about-turn on war crimes!
PRESIDENT Obama said one thing before his election, and now he is saying something else altogether. During his campaign he stood up against the torture...
French youth rise up over death of 24 year-old after police attack music festival
THE GOVERNMENT of French president Emmanuel Macron went into a full blown crisis this week with riots in Nantes on Saturday where thousands of...
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...
Bank of England increases interest rates as capitalism dives into financial crash and recession
THE BANK of England’s Monetary Policy Committee met yesterday and voted to increase interest rates by 0.25%, pushing the rate up to 4.25% –...
Tories Profiteering Out Of The NHS!
NHS patients from outside the EU are to be charged 150% of the cost of treatment in the NHS. This is part of a ‘crackdown’...
Tory Party Turns On Cameron Over Syria
PRIME Minister Cameron said last Thursday night that he would respect the defeat of his ‘strike Syria’ government motion by 285-272 in the House...
Milburn makes his move for the Labour leadership
TWO former Cabinet ministers have e-mailed all Labour MPs, calling for an ‘open debate’ on the party’s future. The two are Charles Clarke, the ex-Home...
No support for imperialist war in Syria – forward with world socialist revolution
TODAY, the House of Commons is to engage in an emergency debate on Britain joining the US bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria. In this...
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,...
Petrol price rises leading to new fuel blockade
UK petrol and diesel prices are still rising in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with the average cost of petrol now at 95.1 pence...
Bankers Are Caught Like Rats In A Trap
FACED with loud and strident demands to slash its lending rate, to try and avoid a housing crash and a depression by crashing the...
McCluskey and TUC determined to rescue Cameron from EU crisis
WITH the Tory party split and divided, the ruling class in the UK – Cameron, big business and the bankers – are relying on...
Rising Fuel Bills Mean Many More Unnecessary Winter Deaths!
THOUSANDS of people die each year from illnesses linked to fuel poverty. Last year was a very cold winter, and this year’s winter is already...
British workers face massive crisis as capitalism lurches into the abyss – time for...
THE wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth by the bourgeois media, and the way that the TUC has used this massive wave...
Jamaican High Commissioner demands halt deportations! End May’s hostile environment by kicking the Tories...
‘WE MAY very well be deporting people who are entitled to be here,’ the Jamaican High Commissioner said, calling on the UK government to...
Capitalism Is On Its Knees – Time To Organise World Socialist Revolution!
SPEAKING at a poorly attended Scottish Labour Party conference yesterday Sir Keir Starmer said the United States ‘is right’ about the UK and Europe...
Low Paid prevented from having a Family Life
A CASE brought before the Supreme Court yesterday spotlights the extent to which British capitalism inflicts not just indignity but the denial of the...
Johnson condemns Corbyn and beats the war drums against Syria!
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spoke up yesterday to attack Jeremy Corbyn and to announce that it will be very difficult for the UK...
British capitalism hits the rocks!
IN THE early hours of last Friday, a seismic crash in the value of the pound against the dollar caused panic amongst the world’s...
Bourgeoisie In A Panic Over Scotland
POLLS showing that the campaign for Scottish independence could win the referendum, due to take place in nine days time, has caused panic amongst...
Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer foresees a summer of discontent organised by the far right
ASKED yesterday whether the country faced a ‘Summer of Riots’, the Labour Party Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer responded: ‘It’s obvious to me, and...
Oil giants make huge profits off backs of workers – nationalise the oil and...
AS MILLIONS of families face massive increases in their energy bills when the Tories raise the cap on prices by 54% in April, the...
Kick out the Tories, abolish academies and free schools to defend free state education
TEACHING unions yesterday published a report detailing the effects of the Tory policy of slashing public spending on schools – increased class sizes across...
Palestine suspends recognition of the state of Israel!
THE PALESTINIAN Central Council met in Ramallah on Sunday and Monday and, after deliberations on important matters for the Palestinian people, it made a...
No Increase In Military Spending – The Enemy Is At Home!
AFTER over a decade of savage austerity measures, during which wages have been driven down and millions made dependent on food banks, the House...
End Of The Road For The UK-US Afghan War
THE news that the death toll of British soldiers in Afghanistan passed the 400 mark this week has been greeted with outpourings of grief...
Trump Denounces The ‘Marxists’ As The Crisis Of US Capitalism Reaches Explosion Point!
IN HIS FOURTH of July speech on Saturday US president Donald Trump attacked the ‘angry mob’ that opposes him and which he claimed were...
BA Cabin Crew strikers need a strategy to win – demand Unite bring out...
TODAY BA mixed fleet cabin crew start another round of four days of strike action against poverty level wages that has meant them relying...
Labour is selling off school playing fields
SCHOOLS Secretary Ed Balls and his predecessor Alan Johnson have given the go-head to the sell-off of 19 school playing fields over the past...
Right wing coupists routed in Labour NEC elections!
SUPPORTERS of Labour leader Corbyn have swept the board in elections to Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee, routing the right wing and giving it...
Times Rich List shows that austerity UK has become a paradise for the...
THE just-published Sunday Times rich list shows that in austerity-hit UK – where millions of workers have not had a rise in the ten...
Cameron’s Worthless Pledges!
CAMERON’S warning that the NHS must ‘Reform or die’ and his statement that the ‘NHS is in danger’, were clear admissions that there is...
Labour leader Starmer supports the monarchy, opposes strikes and pickets, and writes for...
WORKERS WILL be astonished to learn that Labour leader Keir Starmer, on Saturday, just after the council elections wrote a commentary for the Daily...
Amnesty exposes deadly US air attacks on Syria!
AS IS well known, the Clinton-led Democratic Party has pledged that if and when she is elected as President of the USA, she will...
Ealing A&E saved! Now Maternity & Children’s wards must be re-opened!
THE PLANS to close Ealing and Charing Cross A&Es have been scrapped after a mass campaign by the West London Council of Action secured...
Police demand sources for Dowler leak
THE Metropolitan police are seeking a court order to force Guardian journalists to reveal their sources for the information that Milly Dowler’s ...
Corbyn’s ‘reshuffle’ exposes weakness of left reformism
LABOUR leader, Jeremy Corbyn, completed his first reshuffle of the shadow cabinet after a tortuous round of negotiations designed to keep the right-wing of...