US workers taking action to drive up wages and defend their jobs
THE once-mighty US economy is facing a wave of strikes by powerful sections of the working class who are determined to drive up their...
Gaza has 45.2 % unemployment – Greek youth unemployment is 45%!
GAZA’S unemployment rate is among the world’s highest, at 45.2%, the UN has found. The territory continues to be blockaded by Israel, while the...
Lobby TUC April 24 – make them call a general strike
THE News Line calls for a massive lobby of the next meeting of the TUC General Council on Wednesday 24th April, to demand the...
Free Mohammed al-Qiq
The Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq is close to death according to independent doctors who have visited him in the hospital where he is being...
TUC must carry out decision for £10 Minimum Wage
THE revelation from the accountancy firm KPMG that their research has shown that one in six people, over 5 million, in work earn less...
As Putin, Merkel, Macron And Erdogan Talk Peace In Istanbul, Israel And The...
As Putin, Merkel, Macron and Erdogan were meeting in Istanbul on Saturday evening to discuss the future of Syria, Israeli planes were bombing Gaza...
Biden insists on Israel’s right to commit genocide in Gaza while Tories insist arrest...
US president Joe Biden has defended American imperialism’s Israeli ally and denounced the decision of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, to...
CWU strike is solid
On the picket line at Greenford Mail Centre in west London yesterday morning, CWU member Stephen Byrne told News Line: ‘Today and tomorrow are...
Judges and lawyers demand end to UK arms to Israel. It’s time the TUC...
OVER 600 UK lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including three former supreme court justices, have written to Rishi Sunak warning that the UK...
French revolution stuns EU bosses and political leaders
THE 55 per cent vote, by the working class and the rural population of France against the European Constitution, is a body blow to...
Labour Defence Secretary sends a message to Moscow
THE defence review will send a ‘message to Moscow’ about Britain’s ‘readiness to fight if required’, Defence Secretary John Healey has told the BBC. Ripping...
As The Economic And Political Crisis Of Capitalism Deepens The US And UK...
WORKERS throughout the world have experienced, through massive job losses and huge wage cuts, just how the world crisis of the capitalist system is...
Tories Will Have The Power ‘To Censor The Internet’ To Silence Opposition To Imperialist...
THE TORY government is attempting to assume the absolute power to censor the internet as part of its new Online Safety Bill – a...
Miliband is a fraud!
ED Miliband’s speech to the National Policy Forum was devoted to the theme that Labour, while ‘going beyond’ the completely discredited open worship of...
Assad is ready for a national referendum for Syrians to decide on their...
CURRENTLY parallel with the peace talks in Astana, uninvited Turkish and US forces are operating in Syria in a move to attempt...
Britain’s ‘Black Hundreds’ Seeking State Support
UP to 1,500 English Defence League racists, plus foreign supporters, marched through Luton on Saturday, escorted by police from 27 forces as well as...
Global youth are striking against climate change! To save the planet capitalism must be...
YOUTH in their hundreds of thousands rose up all over the world yesterday in a global strike against climate change. In every continent, and in...
Japan withdraws troops from Iraq. A blow to Bush & Blair!
PRIME Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced yesterday the withdrawal of the 600 Japanese troops from Iraq by the end of next month. These ‘non combatant’...
UK trade unions must support the Palestinian people and assist them to establish their...
PALESTINE Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi told European diplomats on Tuesday that relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to...
Class Relati0Ns Sharpen In The Usa!
POLICE in the US state of Missouri, in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, are continuing to clash with protesters nightly, amid growing anger...
Axing free TV licences: the spark to unite pensioners, youth and workers to kick...
THE Tory government has now launched war on the elderly, the youth and the working class simultaneously! There is a war on the youth, with...
Thousands Of NHS Redundancies Are To Go Ahead – Trade Unions Must Take Action...
THOUSANDS of NHS staff redundancies in England are now to be forced through after a deal was reached with the Treasury to allow the...
The working class will refuse to bail out the banks – only socialist ...
LLOYDS Bank, Britain’s biggest high street lender, yesterday announced that its profits for the first half of 2020 had been wiped out and that...
Congress must call general strike to bring down the Tories and bring in a...
THE TUC meets in Brighton this week for its most vital Congress in living memory. It meets at a time when the working class...
The UN must accept Palestinian statehood – Defeat the US-UK governments’ opposition!
MEMBERS of the UN Security Council have failed to reach a consensus on the Palestinian bid to become a full member state of the...
Tory leader Badenoch offers to ‘work together’ with Starmer to slash benefits
YESTERDAY, in a speech in London, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch made an offer to Keir Starmer to work together on a plan to slash...
French working class must take power to begin the European Socialist revolution!
NEARLY a quarter of a million French workers have taken part in mass rallies across the country against the French fascists, calling on the...
Carney steps up his anti-May war!
THE war between the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, and Tory prime minister Theresa May was stepped up on Wednesday when...
No ‘bounce back’ as UK economy shrinks by further 1.5% in three months
IT SPEAKS volumes for the disastrous state of British capitalism that news that the UK economy has collapsed by a further 1.5% in the...
Tories plan to axe half a million hospital appointments each year in drive to...
HEALTH Secretary Steve Barclay did the rounds of the TV studios on Sunday to declare an all-out war on doctors, nurses and patients, as...
PM May hammers the poor as 7,585 families receive 50p housing benefit!
PM MAY makes a lot of noise about her concern for the ‘just about managing’, ie the middle classes in crisis-ridden Britain. In fact,...
Unite leaders on their knees in front of Walsh!
BRENDAN Gold, Unite’s national secretary for civil air transport, said, after emerging from Monday’s BA Cabin crew rally in Kempton Park, that there would...
Greece headed for revolution!
THE situation for Greek capitalism has become so serious that Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos has demanded that Germany returns the Greek gold that...
Police call for more repression
METROPOLITAN Police Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur has submitted a document to the Labour government’s Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, calling for new laws that would...
Socialist revolution is the answer to capitalist austerity and poverty wages
OVER a million public sector workers across Britain are paid poverty level wages according to a report issued yesterday by the Living Wage Foundation. 1.2...
Reject Eu Diktat Attempt – Leave The Eu At Once !
THE GIGANTIC farce of the Brexit negotiations hit a brick wall this week with EU officials accusing the British of failing to reveal its...
Trump And Allies Plan To Attack And Loot Afghanistan!
PRESIDENT Trump has told the US people he has changed his mind about Afghanistan being a futile conflict, and that now the US, and...
Iran nuclear talks at crucial stage as Saudis bomb Yemen
AT THE same time as Saudi Arabia and other Gulf state planes, with US support, are bombing the Yemen and its Houthi Shia rebels,...
Privateers Clean Up While Unemployed Demonised
THE NEWS that the coalition government has very quietly slipped a clause into the contracts being handed out to private companies to run probation...
Answer Tory racist deportation offensive with a general strike!
THE TORY policy of creating a ‘hostile environment’ for the Windrush Generation – the thousands of men, women and their children that came over...
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...
We should have been the Thatcherites, Blair tells LP
IN his parting speech as Prime Minister to the Labour Party conference, Blair administered his kiss of death to Gordon Brown, telling his Chancellor...
Corbyn must drive out Labour’s Remain right wing – Time to build the WRP
WEDNESDAY’S meeting of the Labour Party’s shadow cabinet saw the deep split in the Labour leadership widen into a chasm as former loyal Corbyn...
Five Tory advisors quit! Finish Johnson and the Tories off with a general strike...
FIVE Tory advisors to Prime Minister Boris Johnson have now resigned. They are leaving the sinking ship while more Tory MPs have handed in...
Northern Rock crisis coming to a head
THE collapse of the US sub-prime market has produced a major banking crisis in the UK, which has seen the Northern Rock bank being...