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...
Europe’s energy bill hit $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the start...
THE SOARING price of energy has cost Europe $1 trillion in 2022 and this is just the beginning of the biggest, deepest economic crisis...
Pakistan – US threatens military intervention
Al-QAEDA founder Osama bin Laden is alive and sheltering in ‘lawless parts of Pakistan’ on the border with Afghanistan, according to US Director of...
TGWU stops BAA strike while Virgin says get other jobs!
THE TGWU leadership, (now sheltering under the Unite label) has once again dropped a decision by its members to take strike action to...
Production down, inflation up, pensioners savings destroyed – the ‘recovery’ so far!
INFLATION may stay above 3% during the rest of this year, according to Paul Tucker, a deputy governor of the Bank of England. He...
Brown To Nationalise Northern Rock Losses
BROWN and the Treasury have announced that they prefer a private sector ‘solution’ to the Northern Rock bank crisis, while Brown’s spin doctors have...
World crisis hits eurozone
THE announcement by the unelected Italian prime minister, Mario Monti, that he is quitting the job sent the Italian economy into a massive crisis...
Carnage and bloodbath on world stock markets deepens – socialist revolution is the only...
LAST Monday, the American Dow Jones Index, which records the share prices of the top US companies and banks, recorded the biggest drop in...
Tory government responsible for thousands of unnecessary deaths – time to kick them out!
YESTERDAY marked the 10th anniversary of the BBC Panorama programme that exposed the shocking treatment of the patients at Winterbourne View, a private hospital...
Stop imperialist war with the world socialist revolution
YESTERDAY US president Barak Obama finally launched the air and missile strikes he has been threatening inside Syria without the agreement of the Syrian...
Labour Foreign Secretary embraces Netanyahu while Palestinians are massacred in Gaza!
LAST Saturday, at least 88 Palestinians were killed and over 289 injured by Israeli bomb strikes on the displaced peoples camp in Khan Younis,...
Good Riddance To Campbell – Now Chuck Out All The ‘Lib Dem Lovers’ Before...
THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Labour Party was absolutely correct to expel Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former ‘spin doctor’, for voting...
A general strike to kick out the Tories and bring in socialism will end...
THIS WEEK, the boss of British Gas, Chris O’Shea, sent letters to 7,500 of its service engineers informing them that on Wednesday 14 April...
UK capitalism running out of time as Cameron demands strong government
AS THE failure of the Tory attempt to become the government emerged on Thursday night and in the early hours of Friday, it combined...
The only way out of the growing and desperate capitalist crisis is through organising...
STOCK markets in the US ended last week sharply down following tough comments by the head of the country’s central bank, the Federal Reserve,...
Trades unions must fight for jobs for youth!
NEARLY half of all employers (45 per cent) will not be offering jobs to 16-year-old school-leavers and graduates this year. The Chartered Institute of Personnel...
Close the EU’s concentration camps!
THE agreement between the EU and Turkey on dealing with the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist-inspired wars in the Middle East has...
World crisis lays waste Putin’s oligarchs!
HISTORY has played a huge joke on the Stalinist bureaucracy. Under the rule of Gorbachev and Yeltsin it thought that it would be able to...
Turn The November 30Th Strike Into An Indefinite General Strike
THERE can be only one demand for next week’s one-day strike by public sector workers and that must be for the TUC to call...
Mass Hospital Closures On The Way
HEALTH Minister Mike O’Brien has responded to the findings of the government-established Care Quality Commission (CQC). This has just claimed that one in eight of...
Cameron Touches Off Tory Leadership Dog Fight!
CAMERON is now going into the May 7th general election with a declaration that he does not intend to serve a third term, that...
Time For The Tuc To Call General Strike
THE Fire Brigades Union has organised a national demonstration in London on Wednesday 16 October. The FBU is under an all-out attack on the...
Pompeo Seeks To Build Alliance Against The Palestinian And Iranian Revolutions!
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo is currently in the Middle East organising an Israeli-Arab coalition to fight Iran and prevent a Palestinian state. Pompeo...
UK-France Moving To Partition Libya
FOREIGN Secretary William Hague yesterday ordered the Libyan charge d‘affaires out of the UK along with all Libyan diplomats. Hague said: ‘We’re inviting the...
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...
Trump And Netanyahu Meet Today!
PRESIDENT Trump and the Israeli leader Netanyahu are set to meet in Washington today just as hundreds of US rabbis have signed an open...
Johnson Follows On In May’s Footsteps As He Seeks Eu Renegotiation!
AFTER weeks of near silence, Boris Johnson finally emerged yesterday to launch his campaign for the leadership of the Tory party and replace May...
Shooting at the UK’s Afghan Sandhurst!
THE ‘row’ that left an Afghan officer cadet dead and three NATO troops injured at the UK-established ‘Sandhurst in the Sand’ in Helmand province...
Bankers fumble in the dark
‘THE recession has. . . certainly presented us with plenty of puzzles,’ says the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Charles Bean. Addressing the...
World banks on verge of collapse – forward with world socialist revolution
WHEN one of the biggest banks in the world is forced to publish an open letter to staff, investors and depositors that, contrary to...
Capitalism is ‘At War’ – answer Cameron with general strike
BRITISH capitalism is ‘at war’ Cameron told the bosses yesterday, an ‘economic war’ which requires the state to rip up the rule book, strip off...
MI5 and labour witch-hunters attack torture exposers
HOME Secretary Johnson and MI5 director general, Evans, yesterday launched a hysterical witch-hunt against the exposers of the fact that both MI5 and the...
Tories Have Just Borrowed Billions While Doctors Say That They Are Being Treated Like...
PM JOHNSON has put the blame for the coronavirus firmly on the people, when he warned on the TV that the NHS could be...
Knives out in the Labour cabinet mask a crisis of bourgeois rule
JUST three members of the Labour cabinet put out a statement on Saturday supporting their leader Gordon Brown. Chancellor Darling, deputy leader Harman and skills...
General strike now to stop destruction of the NHS!
NHS HOSPITALS are facing an immediate cut of £1.6 billion, with the government ordering NHS Trusts to ‘balance their books’ by making cutbacks and...
Capitalism is facing its biggest ever collapse – time to replace it with the...
THE working class is now facing the fastest and biggest rise in the cost of living for four decades. At the same time, many...
Ireland’s ‘mother and baby’ homes report – Church and state complicit in 9,000...
NINE thousand children died in Irish ‘mother and baby’ homes run by the Catholic Church throughout the 20th century, a long awaited report has...
Workers must respond to developing trade war by getting rid of capitalism!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump launched a world-wide trade war last Friday with his declaration that he will impose a 25 per cent tariff on...
Labour’s first 100 days will see the working class using its power to drive...
LABOUR’S shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, delivered a speech yesterday laying out the priorities for the first 100 days of a Labour government. Within 100 days...
Poverty pay threatens workers as inflation rises and the crisis of capitalism deepens!
WORKERS’ wages will be slashed even more as inflation hits a peak of 3.4% this year, according to an analysis by the National Institute...
Labour must bring Tories down and carry through Brexit – One Ramsay Mac is enough!
ON TUESDAY night prime minister Theresa May suffered the biggest political defeat in British parliamentary history when her Brexit deal, signed and sealed with...
Come to the News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance conference
ON Saturday June 29, the News Line daily newspaper will be having a joint conference with the All Trades Unions Alliance, the body that...
Huge $8.6bn loss at General Motors
GENERAL Motors (GM) bosses admitted on Thursday that their losses for 2005 were $8.6bn, their largest since 1992 when the board of directors was...
Capitalist leaders have lost confidence in the system and are preparing for the worst!
THESE are fearful times for the leaders of EU capitalism. The fear factor is not just present in Brussels. Admiral Alan West, who...
Ex Bank of England boss demands let ‘zombie’ companies crash to save capitalism
FORMER Bank of England governor Mervyn King this week called for heavily indebted ‘zombie’ companies to be allowed to ‘disappear’ taking with them, although...