Follow Holby City Equity Take Strike Action With Junior Doctors
THE Equity trade union members who play the doctors and medical staff in the BBC medical drama Holby City have offered their full support...
US military targeting Iran and Hezbollah
YESTERDAY the US military was linking Iran directly to attacks on their troops, including an attack at Karbala in which five US troops were...
Current crisis will ‘make 1929 seem like a stroll in the park’
THE Ernst and Young Item Club, whose computer model of the economy is the same as the Treasury’s, said last Friday that banking regulations...
Clinton, Netanyahu make a bloc on settlements
PALESTINE Authority President Mahmud Abbas has been completely undermined by the latest declaration of US Secretary of State Clinton. In it she supported the Israeli...
NATO’s arms being exported from Libya to terrorists everywhere
THE NATO armed intervention that supported the Islamist revolt in Libya succeeded in murdering Colonel Gadaffi and smashed up the most advanced and prosperous...
Take action to defeat Labour’s plan to smash the NHS
THE leaking of Department of Health (DoH) documents, including ‘Pay and Workforce Strategy for 2008-11’, reveals the Labour government’s plan to slash NHS...
Obama, Biden look to Putin!
VICE-PRESIDENT BIDEN took the stage at the 45th Munich Security Conference on Saturday to spell out that the US understood that it now needed...
The world must act to defend Palestinians
YESTERDAY morning Israel announced that all the crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel were closed. Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak...
Decisive Action Needed To Defend Welfare State!
THE working class is rising up to defend the Welfare State. On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of workers and members of the public took...
Labour racists seek state dictatorship over immigrants
JUST imagine the furore there would be if British migrants to India were told that they would have to be conversant in Hindi, be...
Build Millions Of Council Homes To House The Homeless
HOMELESS people die thirty years before the national average, says the latest research from Sheffield University commissioned by Crisis, the national charity for single...
Scrap the Public Private Partnership on the tube
METRONET, the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) within London Underground, has collapsed financially after years of failure to provide services required by the capital’s transport system. It...
Turning Mothers Into Informers
WITH the western powers losing their war in Syria, after the British and American workers refused to allow their governments to send troops or...
Cameron increases police powers for war on Welfare State
THE Tory-Lib Dem coalition government launched its White Paper Policing in the 21st century: reconnecting police and the people, on Monday. Home Secretary Theresa...
In the drive to privatise, the Tories are abolishing the NHS!
THE NHS is, in practice, being steadily and consciously abolished by the Tories as they drive relentlessly to the goal of a fully privatised...
New Espionage Act under way to jail journalists and whistleblowers
THE Tory government is set to introduce a new Espionage Act under which its judiciary will be able to jail journalists and ordinary members...
Housing costs soar!
SINCE Labour took office in 1997, house prices have gone up four times more quickly than workers’ pay, according to figures published by the...
Labour NEC says it will take back control over funds
PRIME MINISTER Blair yesterday suffered a setback when the Labour Party’s NEC decided that it was going to take back control over the party’s...
A Revolutionary May Day
THE News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the workers and the oppressed peoples of the world on this historic May Day. The world...
Capitalist State In A Crisis
THE capitalist state establishment was yesterday rushing into the breach to prop up the ailing head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Ian Blair, Britain’s...
Barclays gambles on the Brown safety net while Northern Rock’s losses rise
SPECULATIVE casino banking, without risk for the bankers, thanks to the Brown government’s pledge to never let a big bank fail, is the way...
Record unemployment, record poverty and misery – socialist revolution the only answer
THE number of young people out of work has reached a record high of almost one million, according to the latest unemployment figures. ...
Bank interest rate rise deepens capitalist crisis
THE Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee raised its base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.75 per cent yesterday. This was the first...
Defending the NHS means sacking the BMA leadership
THE BMA leadership yesterday came out in favour of NHS rationing. It also supported the NHS having a written constitution, and being run by...
Bankers’ bonuses are a diversion
The headline news throughout the bourgeois media yesterday was that Stephen Hester, Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, had magnanimously bowed to...
Nationalise BA – Get Rid Of Work-For-Nothing Capitalism
THE Willie Walsh plan for rescuing BA from the capitalist crisis is quite straightforward. He has gone beyond wage cuts, he wants ‘his’ 40,000...
Turkish army invades northern Iraq while US planes bomb Syrian army
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called talks on Syria in New York for December 18-19. Kerry said that the United States and its...
Labour brings 20% interest payments into its health market
NHS trust hospitals and Primary Care Trusts are to be charged 10 per cent interest on money they borrow from their strategic Health Authority...
Blockade the oil refineries and nationalise the oil industry to slash petrol prices
THE Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) has just warned that we are rapidly heading for a petrol price of £7.40 a gallon, a catastrophe that...
TGWU relies on the Sainsbury family to defend its members’ jobs and wages
YESTERDAY the TGWU leaders produced their statement of full support for the Sainsbury family in the battle to keep out the Texas Pacific-backed raiding...
No sackings, or wage ‘holidays’ for bankrupt banks and councils
YESTERDAY the Brown government was emphasising that it had no interest in running the three banks that it was ‘part-nationalising’ (rescuing) with £37bn of...
Record inflation and record borrowing as British capitalism’s crisis worsens
THE UK CPI inflation rate rose to to 4.4% in February from the January figure of 4%, while the RPI inflation rate which includes...
Fight VAT increases with mass actions to bring down coalition
THE increase of VAT from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent today will mean destitution for millions of unemployed and low paid workers...
Labour can only offer youth police state repression
THE Labour government is bringing in additional legislation under which children as young as 14 years old will be banned from wearing hoods or...
Time for the working class to bury British capitalism
Sir Gus O’Donnell, the most senior civil servant in the country, has broken cover with the public admission that the crisis of the capitalist...
Labour to match the Tories cut for cut!
‘BUT my argument starts by recognising that tough times will continue,’ said Labour leader Miliband yesterday on his policy for dealing with the crisis. He...
A police-Fire Service merger is a Tory plan to destroy FBU and reorganise state...
THE news that has emerged that the Tory police and crime commissioner for Northamptonshire, Adam Simmonds, has been in secret talks for twelve weeks...
A fighting Public Sector Alliance to defend wages and jobs
THE Communication Workers Union yesterday announced its latest plans for strike action after the first national strike for a decade last week, which was...
Workers must welcome all refugees and fight alongside them to get rid of capitalism!
THE FRENCH government is to raze the Calais refugee camp to the ground ‘within days’, forcibly removing every man, woman and child. After six months...
Brown must end UK support for Rajapakse – Victory to the Tamil Tigers
THE government of Sri Lanka led by President Rajapakse is currently fighting a war on two fronts, on behalf of US and UK imperialism. On...
Revolutionary generation will lead British socialist revolution
LAST Sunday’s News Line Anniversary meeting, which greeted the Young Socialists’ March for Jobs and Free Education, was a historic moment in the history...
French join anti-Iran war party
FRENCH Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Sunday that in relation to Iran: ‘We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is...
308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla 308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla blockade busters
ON May 31 this year, Israeli commandos abseiled onto the deck of the ‘Mavi Marmara’, which was sailing in international waters on its way...
TUC must call a general strike to stop US-UK war criminals
THE UK ruling class, alongside its US masters, is getting ready to attack Syria in a matter of hours. It is to be struck with...
Tory coalition aims to smash council housing and housing benefit!
IN his Emergency Budget, the Tory Chancellor Osborne said his government’s intention was to eliminate the ‘structural current deficit’ of the government by cutting...