Nuclear India A Key Bush Ally
PRESIDENT Bush yesterday spent five hours in Afghanistan, most of it at the very heavily defended Bagram airport. He could not venture any further...
Cameron Poses As The Soldiers’ Friend
THE government is to write into law for the first time the principles of a ‘military covenant’, which will give members of the navy,...
Defend the NHS – Stop the job cuts – Bring down Blair and Brown
ON Tuesday, at the Prime Minister’s monthly press conference, the NHS chief executive, David Nicholson confessed that he did not know how many jobs...
NHS Already Being Cut And Closed
THAT the Health and Social Care Act is all about privatising the NHS and handing it over to the private sector via the new...
Brown’s Working Together means everybody paying the bill for the bankers
GORDON BROWN’S speech yesterday, at the TUC, was a very poor effort from a politician and a party that have no intention of defending...
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...
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...
Osborne to intensify Tory slave labour drive
LONG-TERM unemployed workers and youth will have to undertake work for no pay in return for their benefits, or else starve, with the government...
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...
Trade unions must strike to defend the NHS!
TOMORROW Central Surrey Health (CSH), a private company set up by nurses and therapists, will find out whether they have won the £22m contract...
Palestine to sue UK over the Balfour Declaration!
MAHMOUD Abbas, the Palestinian president, is to sue Britain over its 1917 Balfour declaration that paved the way for the establishment of Israel in...
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...
US Attention Focuses On China
AT THIS moment all eyes are turned to China. The US government, and worried US trade union leaders are currently talking to the Chinese...
No Compromise in the US – Workers must break with Democrats and establish...
US President Barack Obama has signed in a wave of steep spending cuts that will take $85bn (£56bn) from the US federal budget this...
TOP SECRET – what the Prince of Wales thinks of his subjects
THE COALITION government has intervened to veto a decision by a three-judge tribunal, that 27 letters by the Prince of Wales advocating...
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...
Fight for jobs, and against evictions and benefit cuts!
THOUSANDS more working-class families are going to their local Citizen Advice Bureau because of the effects of unemployment, debts, threatened loss of homes and...
Junior doctors and student nurses lead the way Now call a general strike!
THE decision by the BMA on Monday to walk away from the negotiations over the imposition of new contracts for junior doctors and to...
One country two social systems breeding counter-revolution in China
THE Hong Kong pro-democracy protests have now moved into their second week. The Hong Kong Federation of Students withdrew from planned negotiations on Friday, accusing...
Brown insists on wage cuts for workers & billions for bankers
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown justified pay cuts for workers in the public services and the billions handed over by the Treasury to the bankrupt...
Afghan war aid to be quadrupled as education and jobs are slashed!
BRITISH troops are to to leave Afghanistan by 2014, and a phased withdrawal is due to begin before the end of 2010. This is...
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...
Renationalise gas and electricity to deal with massive price rises
YESTERDAY British Gas raised its gas and electricity prices by a massive 22 per cent, on top of a 14 per cent mark-up imposed...
Arab League – accomplices of imperialism
The leaders of the 22 member Arab League meeting on Saturday came out decisively on the side of imperialism when they issued a call...
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 preparing more police state measures
ON Wednesday, a cabinet level task force set up by Cameron last June to consider proposals for new laws aimed at combating ‘extremism’ published...
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...
Break the siege of Gaza!
TWO boats carrying humanitarian aid breached the Israeli siege of the Palestinian people in Gaza when they arrived at the main port of Gaza...
Afghan crisis deepens as deadline nears
AFGHANISTAN’S finance minister has said deadlock over the disputed presidential election has cost the economy $5bn, so far. Omar Zakhilwal has said he will have...
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...
Programme of action needed to prevent capitalist catastrophe
YESTERDAY Adams Childrenswear announced that it had closed down 111 of its stores throughout the UK, and that its remaining 160 shops would stay...
Tories out to destroy free speech
THE full extent of the Tory plans to smash up the right to free speech was revealed yesterday by an unlikely source, the new...
US planning peace talks while building Gaza’s ‘wall of steel’
IT seems that the United States is preparing the ground to make the Palestinians an offer that they will not be able to refuse...
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...
Unions must take industrial action to defend the NHS
THE Labour government is continuing to pressurise NHS Trusts to become Foundation Trust businesses, and is continuing to force through the privatisation process. To...
General Strike On May 1 ‘Public Service Day’
THE PCS civil servants trade union has confirmed that up to 270,000 civil servants will be stopping work on May 1 against the Blair-Brown...
Rescue US – The Eu Bosses Plead With Chinese Stalinists
AS details emerge of the desperate measures hammered out in Europe on Wednesday night in an attempt to save the eurozone from collapse and...
Thieves fall out in the European Union!
YESTERDAY the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, wielded the British veto over the Franco-German proposals to try and prop up the collapsing euro through...
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...
Miliband Holds Out His Hand To The Hated Libdems!
SO the farce continues. The LibDems, having received a drubbing at the hands of the electorate for their treachery, are now pledging, through their...
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...
US Agent Maliki Turns On Shi’Ite Masses
IN the last days of the Bush presidency, the US military has unleashed the Iraqi puppet army, led by its Prime Minister Maliki, to...
Lift the ban from the Gaza Under-19 team!
THE banning of the Under-19 Gaza football team from coming to play in Britain after they had been invited to play against Chester...
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...
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...