Forward To The British Socialist Revolution!
THE DAILY Telegraph has been speculating on: ‘What would a 21st century British coup look like?’ in an opinion piece written by Paul...
Put Blair On Trial!
THE Fern Britton interview with Tony Blair on the BBC yesterday, squashed all of the notions that are being peddled that Blair was just...
To deal with MRSA – end NHS privatisation!
MRSA is now linked to nearly 1,000 deaths each year in NHS hospitals. There is no doubt that it is a product of the...
Chinese Stalinists Feeling The Anger Of The Masses
THIS week, as part of the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party, the party general secretary and China’s president, Ho...
‘No quick fix’ in the Lebanon says Downing Street
YESTERDAY saw US landing craft from a US aircraft carrier taking off US citizens and others, who had to wade through the sea to...
Israeli land robbery continues as Human Rights Watch condemns Hamas!
ISRAEL has ordered Palestinian landowners to evacuate their land in the town of Tuqu’ in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli authorities...
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...
The Bank of E grapples with the contradictions of the capitalist economy
IN its latest report the Bank of England monetary committee has rejected the line put forward in the budget by the Chancellor of the...
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...
Tories ‘sidelining NHS’ is the cause of testing crisis – time to bring them...
WITH coronavirus cases continuing to rapidly increase day on day as a result of the Tories’ campaign to drive the reopening of workplaces, schools...
Speak English Or Else – Minister Tells The Poor!
UNEMPLOYED people who cannot speak English will have to show they are learning the language or lose benefits, the government has announced. This is...
US & UK bosses supply, train, and equip the Saudi killing machine! UK trade...
SAUDI journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who lived for years in the US, walked into the Saudi embassy in Turkey over a week ago, and did...
Imperialism Drives For A War With Russia And Continues Mass Murder In Gaza!
YESTERDAY’S Daily Telegraph Editorial has called for ‘Supporting the Ukraine whatever it takes’ backing the Ukrainian attack on Russia to the hilt. It observed: ‘Faced...
Banks are crashing while 140,000 repossessions loom at Northern Rock
THE HSBC bank has just declared a 28 per cent, $3.9bn fall in half year profits. It has written off another $3.7 billion...
Bush moves towards intervention with ‘free hostages’ call
PRESIDENT BUSH has laid the basis for military intervention against Iran with his condemnation of Iran’s ‘inexcusable behaviour’ in arresting the 15 British sailors...
Airbus Workers Take To The Streets!
STRIKES and protest marches are taking place at Airbus plants in France and Germany for a third day after it was announced that over...
‘The world is witnessing the false calm before the Middle East Energy Storm’ says...
‘OIL currency and equity markets are treating the all out war between Israel and the revolutionary Iranian regime almost as if it were a...
Tories Greet NHS 70Th Annniversary With More NHS Cuts!
WHILE 70,000 NHS workers were marching through London on Saturday celebrating the 70th anniversary of the NHS, the Tory-appointed bosses of NHS England were...
Make the TUC call a general strike to bring down Labour and to bring...
DESPITE Labour’s election manifesto pledges and repeated promise of ‘No tax increases’ on income, National Insurance or VAT, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning a...
Israel’s murderous attacks on Palestinian children
LAST Friday saw the opening moves by the Palestinian Authority to bring the state of Israel before the international courts to answer for its...
US Rushes Drones And Hellfire Missiles To Iraq
THE US has sent 75 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles to Iraq, with many more on the way. They are to be used to try to...
Severe Child Poverty On The Rise Under Labour
RESEARCH by charity ‘Save the Children’ has found that between 2004 and 2008, an additional 260,000 children were pushed into severe poverty in the...
Heading For A Housing Crash!
ON MONDAY trading on the Wall Street stock market in New Century Financial shares was halted, as the second largest US sub-prime mortgage lender...
Top of the capitalist agenda – raising food prices and starving the world
THE United Nations is warning of disturbances and revolutions in developing countries worldwide as its food price index hits an all-time high. The UN’s food...
Hamas urges workers of the world to take action and salutes the growing mass...
IN A statement issued on Friday to mark International Jerusalem Day, Hamas declared that the occasion arrives this year as the Palestinian people steadfastly...
Unite workers to go forward to socialism
THE two wings of the bourgeoisie are now going at it hammer and tongs to both exploit and abuse workers from the new EU...
TUC must call a general strike to halt Tory drive to runaway inflation and...
US stocks have made huge losses after a major sell-off last Friday on Wall Street. By Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly...
CWU leaders organise a consultative ballot !over pensions
TRUE to form the CWU leadership is declining to give any kind of leadership to its massive membership on the vital issue of the...
Running Scared Of Youth And Revolution!
THE German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned a Paris conference of French, German and Italian leaders on Tuesday that youth unemployment of almost 25%...
Trump To Invite Netanyahu To His Inauguration!
PRESIDENT-ELECT Trump’s advisers are planning to invite Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the president-elect’s inauguration ceremony, so as to publicly stress just...
Pakistan PM forced to condemn US raid
THE Pakistani Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, yesterday spelt out that Pakistan cannot accept actions like the recent US cross-border air strike on a village...
£65bn PFI Nightmare for the NHS!
THE PFI Private Finance Initiative was brought in by the Major Tory government, and while it was opposed by Labour in opposition, it was...
Children Going To School Hungry!
THE survey by the ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers) into child poverty has exposed what the reality of bankrupt capitalism means for millions...
Britain’s Third Afghan War Heads For Disaster
NINE UK soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in nine days, making 178 UK troops killed since 2001. The official propaganda line is that...
Ex-Bank of England boss believes world financial crash is ‘certain’ and ‘sooner rather than...
MERVYN KING, the head of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013, has added his name to the number of the capitalist world’s...
Half a million families will lose their homes if rates are put up, warns...
IN its direst warning to date on the scale of personal debt, the Bank of England has predicted that half a million families will...
Obama attempts to con Irish workers
FOR the second time in two weeks Irish workers and youth have been subjected to a powerful imperialist propaganda assault designed to shore up...
Tata Steel UK’S claim of losing £1.5 million a day to justify jobs massacre...
Last Friday, Tata Steel UK confirmed its devastating plans to axe 2,800 jobs with the closure of two blast furnaces at its Port Talbot...
Sudanese Workers Launch Two-Day General Strike!
THE Sudanese Alliance for Freedom and Change has launched a two-day revolutionary nationwide strike to force the still ruling military council to transfer power...
Brown pledges 150 private NHS hospitals and self treatment by 15 million ‘expert patients’
GORDON Brown made clear yesterday that his intention was to continue with the Blairite NHS counter-revolution. The message was that there were ‘no no-go...
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...
Obama’s Amnesty For Torturers – ‘They Were Just Obeying Orders’
CENTRAL Intelligence Agency employees who tortured people in the Guantanamo Bay and Bagram Bay US concentration camps as terrorist suspects held without charge or...
Arab League sells out the Palestinians yet again
THE Arab League, the organisation of the Arab bourgeoisie, last Saturday gave its backing to the indirect Palestinian-Israeli peace talks being pushed by President...
Blair is speeding up the privatisation drive
ON all fronts the Blair government is speeding up its privatisation offensive, so that his governments can leave as their legacy for big...
The slump deepens as Labour steps up attacks on the poorest
UK Gross Domestic Product fell in the three months from April to June by 0.7% confirming that the slump is deepening and that the...