Close Down The US Base On Diego Garcia!
FOREIGN Secretary Miliband yesterday admitted in the House of Commons that previous government denials that the island of Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands...
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...
Police chiefs demand ‘summary powers’
THE Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) is demanding that their forces be given powers to dispense ‘instant police justice’. This is revealed in...
Trade Unions Must Take Action Over Gaza
FORTY-THREE Palestinians were killed by Israeli tanks and rocket fire on UN-run schools late on Monday night and during Tuesday. The schools were well...
Sunak prepares for war on working class to pay off capitalism’s massive debt
OVER 250,000 small firms and companies are destined to collapse this year according to research carried out by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Nearly...
Greece For Sale – Lock Stock And Barrel!
AT the end of August the EU-imposed Greek prime minister, Antonis Sameras, announced to a disbelieving populace that the £9.3 billion cuts imposed on...
Kerry Calls In Stalinist Bureaucracy To ‘Resolve’ Syrian Crisis
IN its hour of need – with Syria resisting massively the attempt at ‘regime change’ organised by the US-UK-Turkey axis, and carried out by...
TUC must call indefinite general strike to bring down coalition now!
TODAY’S meeting of the TUC general council must get off the fence and call for an immediate all-out, indefinite general strike to bring down...
BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY RIP – FORWARD TO THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!
BOTH THE MAJOR parliamentary parties, Tory and Labour are in turmoil, with splits taking place and more splits to come, as the ruling class...
Blairites and Tories form a counter-revolutionary alliance!
BLAIR, the universally hated and reviled ex-Labour prime minister, was thrown a lifeline in his quest to resurrect his political career as an anti-Brexit...
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...
Class war sharpening – unions need new leaders
YESTERDAY the Prime Minister, Cameron, was warning the BAA Unite workers that they must not strike. This was at least six hours before the result...
As capitalist inflation lets rip, Sunak turns to the Ukraine’s war with Russia as...
INFLATION was at 8.7% in the year to May, the same rate as it was in April, creating hundreds of thousands of hungry families...
Call a General Strike!
THE Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have submitted a motion to next week’s TUC congress calling for the TUC to organise a co-ordinated...
Restore the NHS! Bring down Blair
PRIME Minister Tony Blair made clear yesterday that the government is determined to force through the cuts and closures, privatisation and destruction of...
US, UK, Karzai Drive To Bribe The Taleban
ON the eve of the Afghan conference in London this week, UK and other Nato troops are to launch an offensive to take control...
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...
Trade Unions Must Answer The Hamas Call By Taking General Strike Action...
HAMAS has called for a worldwide mobilisation against the genocide and mass starvation in Gaza, urging people everywhere to take to the streets on...
Forward with the Egyptian revolution
HUNDREDS of people are reported to have been killed in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities throughout Egypt, and thousands injured after the army leaders...
Labour holds seat – Tories just beat BNP and are as popular as swine...
THE working class saw the Tories, and the Scottish Tories of the SNP, off in Thursday’s by-election in Glasgow North East. On...
News International, Parliament and the state
THE revelation yesterday that the News of the World (NoW) newspaper had quietly suspended its assistant editor (news), Ian Edmondson, just before Christmas, has...
Barber’s two ‘big worries’, the crisis of capitalism and workers’ anger!
BRENDAN Barber the TUC general secretary in his New Year message confesses that he has two ‘big worries’ for the year 2008. He...
Israel continues with its Gaza massacres
ISRAEL has rejected the UN security council resolution calling for a ceasefire and a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and is determined to carry...
Scrap the US-EU free trade TTIP treaty!
EU-US talks aimed at clinching a comprehensive free trade deal, that will allow the US to economically and politically dominate Europe and defy EU...
Tories Breaking Apart Along With Their Bankrupt Economy While The Tuc Refuses To Take...
UK capitalism is now the sick man of the capitalist world. Its economy is going broke while the Tories openly discuss knifing the NHS,...
Coalition launches Royal Mail ‘Blitzkrieg’ – Recall CWU conference!
A ‘blitzkrieg strategy’ was how the bourgeois press dubbed last Monday’s announcement by business minister, Michael Fallon, that he was starting the process of...
US workers need revolutionary leadership
A CRISIS, with the most revolutionary implications for the working class, is erupting in the US, with GM, the world’s biggest motorcar producer announcing...
Royal Mail’s Privatisation Bill includes the end of the daily delivery
THE Coalition’s Business Secretary, Cable, told MPs last week in the House of Commons that the Bill to privatise the Royal Mail ‘will maintain...
Brown Speaks To His Cbi Constituency
YESTERDAY Gordon Brown attempted to revive his political credibility, severely damaged after the Northern Rock and Child Benefit details crises by delivering a speech...
Palestinians Set To March On Gaza! The UK And US Trade Unions Must Take...
ON the day the Palestinian death toll in the Gaza genocide reached 40,000, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas defiantly announced he will visit Gaza, the...
The battle for public opinion has been won – now take action to win...
THE postal workers have the support of the mass of the British people, the public sector trade unions and the other trade unions making...
End the regime of forced prepayment meters – nationalise British Gas and all...
IN THE WEEK when the giant oil and gas company Shell announced record profits of £32.2 billion, on the back of the soaring cost...
Johnson’s answer to recession – sell off social housing!
TORY Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared in Blackpool yesterday to deliver what was billed as his great ‘reset speech’, to shore up his leadership...
TUC must call a general strike in support of the RMT and to bring...
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch joined the picket line at London’s Euston Station yesterday morning after pay talks with the Tories collapsed on Monday. Earlier,...
EU split and breaking up – Forward to the United Socialist States of Europe
LAST THURSDAY, the 27 heads of the European Union held a video conference call to decide the EU’s economic response to the coronavirus pandemic. The...
Ireland, Spain and Norway have opened floodgates in recognising the state of Palestine –...
THE unity of western governments over previous unconditional support for the state of Israel and its illegal occupation of Palestine was blown apart yesterday...
Unite Takes Action Against Serco BA And The Bank Of England!
YESTERDAY striking Serco workers from Bart’s NHS Trust, striking BA mixed fleet cabin crew, and striking Bank of England workers marched and picketed the...
Just What The Doctor Ordered!
EARLY yesterday morning 21 people were arrested and charged under the various terrorism acts, while Scotland Yard said that the 21 were engaged in...
War of words between puppet Karzai and US
THE Afghan puppet president, Karzai, has gone to Washington and been forced, by rising Afghan anger, to publicly complain about the actions of the...
Keogh creating a two-tier inferior NHS and proud of it
THE BIG push is on to destroy the national network of A&Es that millions of people depend on, and to convert at least 100...
Brown’s worthless apology for imperialist child trafficking
FOR centuries British capitalism has sought to export its surplus populations and its trouble makers to the rest of the world. Rebellious trade unionists such...
Bush Gives Go-Ahead F0R Iraqi Regime Change
US President George W Bush on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to the US occupation army in Iraq and all those who support the...
Rate Rises Will Lead To Banking Collapse
ON Thursday night, the captains of British capitalism assembled for a sumptuous banquet at London’s Mansion House to listen to the latest economic plans...
Tories target workers, disabled and children to pay the bankers’ debts!
OSBORNE said of his emergency Budget yesterday; ‘Yes it is tough; but it is also fair.’ Further on in his speech he allowed just...
MPs’ Committee blames councils over homeless and dodges government!
THE MPs’ Communities and Local Government Select Committee has said that homelessness is ‘undoubtedly increasing’ and that the scale is greater than statistics suggest. The...