UNISON ‘ready to strike’ while Brown is bringing bosses into his cabinet
‘I SEND this message to Gordon Brown. We are prepared to fight. We are prepared to strike. And we are going to win,’ General...
Iran defeating US and Israel as world capitalism reels from closure of Hormuz Strait
THE ISRAELI regime claimed yesterday morning that the secretary of Iran’s national security council, Ali Larijani, was murdered in overnight strikes on Tehran. The Iranian...
Unions must call a general strike to support Gaza and put an end to...
THE Bureau of the UN General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People reaffirmed last Wednesday night its...
German workers join European strike wave
MORE than 20,000 German doctors are taking strike action all this week demanding a cut in working hours and a 30-per-cent pay rise. The...
End CWU paralysis – reinstate strike actions!
KARL MARX wrote in his masterpiece ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’ that ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur,...
Obama allies with Clinton and McCain, and ignores the unions
US WORKERS will be asking themselves what the recent presidential election campaign was all about when Obama was fighting for change and saying that...
Chuck Out The New NHS Pay Offer – It’s Divisive, Still Staged And A...
UNISON yesterday told its members that the barely improved health employers offer which has been approved by the Brown government is ‘the best that...
Demoralised Simpson says Cameron rather than Miliband!
ON the eve of the TUC Congress, the TUC leader, Brendan Barber, has issued a call to the Brown government to tax the rich. There...
Mandela mourners boo ANC President Zuma
THE presence of all of the capitalist world’s leaders could not keep the South African masses quiet about their real feelings for the ANC...
The judiciary seeks to bar the way! Open it up with a socialist revolution!
YESTERDAY’S ruling by three High Court judges that the Tory government does not have the right to trigger Article 50 is the latest and...
UK Trade Unions Must Give Full Support To Palestinians!
ONE more Palestinian journalist, along with several members of her family, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s...
Putin draws a line and issues a warning over imperialist war preparations
RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin slammed the Western powers in his annual end-of-year press conference yesterday, telling the assembled journalists that Russia was cheated by...
Grenfell Tower Deaths Were Avoidable – Time To Nationalise The Banks And Building Industry!
THE Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was the result of ‘dishonest companies, successive governments, and a lack of strategy by the fire...
Tory austerity gives workers choice of ‘eat, heat or pay rent’ – Time to...
‘EAT, heat or pay rent’ that is the stark choice facing millions of low paid and unemployed workers living in private rented accommodation in...
Any attempt to ban Rail and Post strikes must be met with a general...
THE DECEMBER 12 general election will take place in the middle of an unprecedented wave of strikes as workers show their revolutionary determination to...
Hands off nurses! Government to blame for cuts
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) started its annual conference this week in the midst of a brutal attack on the nursing profession spearheaded...
British Capitalism Admits Its Bankruptcy
THE final proof that British capitalism is beached on the rocks has arrived. The situation is so grave, and the reputation of UK bankers so...
General strike to defend the NHS
AMBULANCE crews in south-east Wales are staging a four-week, unofficial overtime ban to highlight how much the ambulance service now relies on their willingness...
Forward to the Palestinian state!
ISRAEL’S Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ordered the termination of all non-security related coordination with the Palestinian Authority (PA), in response to the UN...
Defeat imperialist intervention into Syria – NO to war with Iran! Bring down...
THE Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that, ‘Britain has rebuffed US pleas to use military bases in the UK to support the build-up of forces...
Capitalism must be overthrown to resolve its crisis!
The propagandists for the bourgeois order are rushing to try and defend the capitalist system as being blameless as far as the crisis is...
Corbyn lets Labour’s right wing drag him into the ‘Remain’ camp!
LABOUR leader Corbyn was pushed yesterday for convincing reasons for voting to ‘Remain’ in the EU in the forthcoming referendum. He said that EU...
Fatah junta seizes control of the West Bank
YESTERDAY President Abbas decreed the ending of parliamentary rule in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as he appointed an illegal government headed...
Stock Markets crash and the bosses panic after Trump pledges 50% tariffs on Canadian...
FEAR gripped the stockmarkets yesterday after Donald Trump first of all threatened to double tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium from Canada to...
Bush Visit To Form Alliance With ‘Axis Of Evil’
THERE has been a spate of hectic diplomatic activity in the Middle East, since the Israeli defeat in the Lebanon and the Congressional mid-term...
It’s still austerity, more austerity and yet more austerity from Osborne and the Tories
The UK economy grew by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2014, compared to 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the...
The Tory crisis is the source of the Labour ‘racism’ provocations!
THE attempt to frame up Ken Livingstone as a rabid racist, after similar attempts to do the same to Labour leader Corbyn, who was...
Smash the capitalist state, sack the chief constables, no to police commissioners!
THE Tory-LibDem coalition is set to introduce a ‘reform programme’ for the police that will establish regimes of elected police commissioners, who will have...
New right-wing party to replace Tories being organised as spectre of revolution haunts British...
AS THE Tory Party continues to disintegrate by the hour, demands from the ruling class for a new right-wing party to emerge from the...
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...
US credit experts warn a crash is coming
NEWS IS quietly emerging from the top of the US banking fraternity that, despite the wild euphoria that has gripped the world financial centres...
Britain’s national debt has tripled – as the UK economy breaks down – nationalisation...
THE British National Debt has almost tripled in the period between 2005 and 2025, outpacing all the other major capitalist states. Britain now has a...
CBI demands pay cuts in the private and public sectors
The CBI and ‘recruitment experts’ Harvey Nash revealed yesterday that half of all employers are planning to freeze pay altogether, and that only 4%...
EU tears apart as Italy accuses France of provoking civil war in Libyan ‘power...
THOUSANDS of Libyans have been forced out of their homes as fighting rages in the capital Tripoli between the forces of the UN-recognised ‘Government...
Blair, Thatcher lavish praise on fellow Tory Heath
IN THESE days, when capitalist Britain is being rocked by the world economic crisis and the disaster of its imperialist policies in Iraq and...
Blair using EU to attack workers’ wages and conditions
THE Blair government has only one real use for the EU, and that is as a tool for cutting the wages and increasing the...
Bosses fear ‘worst financial crisis since the Second World War’
A JOINT report from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC) yesterday revealed the fears in business circles that the ‘credit...
NHS crisis can only be resolved by kicking out the Tories and going forward...
THE Commons Health and Social Care Committee of MPs yesterday published a report calling on the Tory government to come up with a ‘long...
The TUC and the public sector must support the postal workers’ struggle
WITH the result of the CWU Royal Mail industrial action ballot due on Thursday, the bosses are getting ready for action, while the position...
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...
Iran has inflicted a major defeat on imperialism causing huge crisis for Zionist state
THE HUMILIATING peace deal that US president Donald Trump was forced to accept following the abject failure of the US-Israeli war on Iran has...
Bank of England pushes up interest rates again as it pushes UK into recession!
THE Bank of England yesterday increased the interest rate for the 13th time in a row from 4.5% to 5%, heaping economic catastrophe on...
Youth reject a life in debt!
AFTER almost 10 years of a Labour government under Prime Minister Blair, young people who get jobs after leaving university find they end up...
‘Systematic policy to destroy Gaza’s health system has reached the point of no return!’
DOCTOR Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, has said that the suffering of the wounded in the Strip is...
World Bank chief fears youth and world revolution!
When the President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, concluded a summit of the bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with the statement...