Top bosses paid more in one year than a worker earns in a lifetime
THE ANNUAL pay of FTSE 100 chief executives fell during the pandemic but still equates to more than a key worker would earn in...
Greek austerity is set to continue! Only way out is through the European...
GREECE has completed a three-year eurozone emergency loan programme worth 61.9bn euros (£55bn; $70.8bn). This was part of the biggest bailout in global financial...
The trade unions must follow the example of the ruling class and deal with...
THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...
Israeli Fury At Palestinian Unity!
PALESTINIAN president, Mahmud Abbas, and Hamas leader, Khaled Mishaal, yesterday signed the Palestinian Unity Agreement in Cairo, putting an end to the split in...
TUC line up with CBI and Tory Chancellor Sunak to impose wage cuts and...
ADDRESSING the Labour shadow secretary Anneliese Dodds, the Tory Chancellor Sunak said yesterday in the House of Commons: ‘I do stand ready to work...
The great Labour democrats launch a purge so that they can support the Tories
THE leader of one of the UK’s biggest trade unions has had his vote in the Labour leadership election rejected. His voting paper has...
TUC leaders meet PM Brown at Chequers
THE Prime Minister met 15 trade union leaders at Chequers yesterday. This was an event in itself, since all the earlier Blair-Brown governments had...
EU Warmongers Getting Ready For War – As The Capitalist Crisis Heads For A...
RUSSIAN leader Vladimir Putin said yesterday that ‘Europe is offering proposals for a “peace plan” for Ukraine that are unacceptable to Russia.’ He added that:...
Stock markets around the world crash as the US plunges into recession
STOCK markets in Europe and Asia crashed yesterday morning as the international financial world suddenly woke up to the grim reality that US capitalism...
While NHS workers demand action, Prentis and Barber stay on their knees
YESTERDAY thousands of NHS workers took part in the ‘NHS Together’ Lobby of Parliament to demand an end to NHS privatisation. The lobbying...
Coalition plan to beat the poorest to aid the richest
SO FAR trillions of pounds have been spent by the state, using taxpayers’ money, to rescue, prop up and save bankrupt banks and...
The Trade Unions Must Defend Every Job!
THE London and New York stock markets were in free fall yesterday, losing hundreds of points, with tens of billions of dollars and pounds...
Capitalism Gripped By Historic Crisis
THE world crisis of capitalism is being hit by a convergence of the crisis to which all the central banks, economists and politicians have...
Johnson demands pensioners and workers must suffer poverty to keep inflation down
TORY prime minister Boris Johnson was interviewed yesterday on ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme and announced that there will be no attempt to increase...
The Tories new proposed anti-union laws must be smashed – Defend the right to...
FBU general secretary Matt Wrack has hit out at the government announcement that it will introduce new anti-union laws which will include the following...
End low pay through a general strike to kick out the government
ON the day that NHS workers took strike action for the first time in 30 years, and in the case of midwives the first...
Israel is in its death agony – the US, UK and EU trade unions...
THE ISRAELI war cabinet minister Gantz has threatened to resign and completely split the ruling Israeli group unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets out...
Cameron wants the army and police to be above the law!
THE Tory campaign to give the armed forces of the capitalist state complete immunity from criminal prosecution took another step forward yesterday. PM Cameron issued...
Johnson Will Use His Dictatorial Powers Against The Working Class!
THE DEBATE on the adjournment of Parliament for a month until April 21 took place immediately after the Tory emergency legislation passed though the...
The Eu Crisis Is Exploding!
THE 61 per cent ‘no’ vote in Holland, on a 62 per cent electoral turnout, against the EU constitution was no surprise after the...
Tories insist on ‘gagging orders’ to cover up for their crimes against workers
IT EMERGED this week that the company hired by the Tories to test for flammable cladding on government and other public buildings in the...
Middle East On The Brink As Mad Dog Israel Attacks Beirut, Baghdad & Damascus!
LEBANON’s president, Michel Aoun, on Monday condemned an Israeli drone attack on Beirut at the weekend as a ‘declaration of war’ that justifies a...
Netanyahu turning the screws on Palestinians to the point of revolution!
THE Israeli Netanyahu regime is now working hard at its programme for the ‘final solution’ to the question of Palestine and the Palestinians. The Palestinian...
Stop the NHS being privatised! Defend funds for services – don’t use them for...
The abolition of NHS England by merging it with the Department of Health, announced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday, is the...
Tory lies over ‘Syrian gas attack’ exposed!
THE ENTIRE justification for last Friday’s illegal bombing of Syria by British, US and French forces is falling apart rapidly as the truth emerges. The...
Bank of England boss warns UK finances hit by US war on Iran as...
THE Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, warned on Tuesday that the unprovoked, illegal war on Iran by the US is having...
Trump sends in US military
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Monday said he would deploy the US military to US states that don’t use the National Guard in sufficient...
Capitalism’s ‘Ship Of Fools’ Heading For The Rocks!
WHEN the most right-wing Tory supporting newspaper in the country turns on the Tory government, accusing it of gross incompetence and heading for disaster,...
Backward Britain – Reading shuts Physics Department
THE backwardness of British capitalism was revealed yesterday for all to see when Reading University shut down its Physics Department. As usual, the reality is...
Inflation Persists As Mpc Rate Rise Faction Grows
WITH CPI inflation reaching 3.2 per cent (0.2 per cent down), inflation for June remained 1.2 per cent above the Bank of England target....
Only a socialist revolution can win the Tamils’ right to self-determination
THE News Line salutes the heroic self-sacrifice of the Tamil Tigers and the Tamil people as a whole. They have fought and are fighting not...
US, UK, Turkey Make Sure Syrian Truce Collapses
A POWERFUL car bomb exploded in Damascus on Friday, on the first day of the Syrian cease-fire, killing five people and injuring 32. Thus was...
Time For The Working Class To Consign The Bosses To The Dustbin Of ...
THE US and UK ruling classes are organising Israel to knife the Palestinian people in a desperate attempt to destroy the Palestinian revolution –...
Demoralised Labour has shot its bolt!
TWO ex-Labour government leaders Clarke and Blunkett have now spoken up, true to form, to stab Prime Minister Brown in the back, just as...
Imperialism Is On The Point Of Defeat As The World’s Financial Institutions Panic
THE IRANIAN ambassador in London, Seyed Ali Mousavi, has spoken to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg in a pre-recorded interview in which he correctly warned...
Balls Agrees With The Tories!
THE Labour shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, engaged in a nauseating charade on Wednesday of verbally attacking his Tory opposite number whilst at the same...
Defend the NHS with a general strike to bring down Tories
TORY health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been told in a letter from NHS bosses that the NHS is ‘no longer able to meet the...
Lesson from TUC is build the WRP NOW!
AFTER only two days of the annual TUC Congress the message is startlingly clear, the trade union and the working class movement stands at...
After massive London march for Palestine, the TUC must call a general strike for...
UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell has confirmed that the Israeli army has killed over 50 children in deadly attacks in Jabalia, northern Gaza, during...
NHS is running out of surgeons, nurses and midwives!
ON Thursday midwives handed in a petition to 10 Downing Street condemning the government on the grounds that it was putting the lives of...
Two Years Since ‘Operation Protective Edge’
TWO years after Israel’s devastating invasion of besieged Gaza, human rights groups are expressing alarm over the lack of reconstruction and the lack...
Israel prison service is beating and assaulting female Palestinian detainees inside Damon prison!
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly condemned Israeli forces’ brutal aggression against Palestinian women at Damon Prison in the Palestinian occupied territories. ‘Beating female Palestinian...
Hunt urges NHS to ‘Sign up for Safety’ while he cuts the service to...
HEALTH Secretary Hunt is urging the NHS in England to reduce the number of serious mistakes being made and save 6,000 lives over the...
The Brown government is for the bankers and the bosses!
THOUSANDS of trade unionists will be marching in Manchester today to the Labour Party conference to protest at the ‘breadline wages’ that public sector...
French Socialist government turns on the workers
THE French Socialist government has said it will raise Value Added Tax and cut public spending, kicking the working class and the poor in...