Labour ready for an emergency coalition
ON the eve of the Labour Party conference, Ed Miliband has sought to win the support of the middle classes, and also drive a...
UNISON, TGWU, and GMB leaders all support Brown’s staged pay cuts!
ANYONE who was wondering why, at the TUC Congress, when union leaders were moving resolutions calling for coordinated industrial action against the Brown government’s...
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...
Benefit cap to be lowered by £6,000 say Treasury officials
CHANCELLOR George Osborne, the hammer of the poor, is so determined not to increase the taxes of the rich that he is about to...
Cameron Get Out – follow Harper’s lead!
HARD-LINE Tory immigration minister Mark Harper has just resigned after he admitted that he was employing a cleaner who was not legally entitled to...
Bankrupts On Parade!
THE leaders of Labour, ‘New’ or otherwise, chose to debate their leadership credentials yesterday over the Murdoch-owned Sky TV, the centre of the Murdoch...
Trade Unions Must Take Action Alongside The Junior Doctors!
TODAY’S strike by junior doctors has the support of 100% of workers across the country. They are not fooled by all the Tory propaganda that...
Abbas Ready For Talks And A Deal With Netanyahu!
PALESTINIAN Authority President, Mahmud Abbas on Monday declared his willingness to work with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, adding that he hoped to get...
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...
Claimant count rises as UK economy carries on sinking!
UK unemployment fell by 36,000 in the three months to the end of March, to 2.46 million. However, the number of people receiving...
Bosses seek abolition of trade unions – answer attack with general strike
The Institute of Directors (IoD) has proposed a 24-point plan to the Tory-led coalition government to save British capitalism. Central to their ‘blueprint for growth’ is...
Take the PCS civil servants up on ‘full support’ offer
LAST THURSDAY at 2pm as the postal workers came out on their 48-hour strike, the PCS civil service union sent a special message to...
Class issues in Zimbabwe’s elections
AS IS to be expected the imperialists, with Britain in the lead, are engaging in an economic blockade, black propaganda, etc to get rid...
Victory to Syria – down with imperialism and Stalinism!
THE Syrian war has reached a ‘stalemate’ and President Bashar al-Assad’s government will call for a ceasefire at the Geneva conference on the state’s...
GM BOMBSHELL – Magna out & GM Europe heads for ‘restructuring in earnest’
GM, now owned by the US government, has dropped a bombshell by turning down its deal with Magna and the Russian state-owned Sberbank, at...
Close the EU’s concentration camps!
THE agreement between the EU and Turkey on dealing with the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing imperialist-inspired wars in the Middle East has...
Only Gold Is Money, The Rest Is Paper Masquerading As Money
WEDNESDAY’S announcement by the German central bank (Bundesbank) that it was going to physically repatriate its vast gold holdings from New York and Paris...
‘No quick fix’ in the Lebanon says Downing Street
YESTERDAY saw US landing craft from a US aircraft carrier taking off US citizens and others, who had to wade through the sea to...
Defend the Tamil people! Unite the Sri Lankan workers! Bring down the Rajipakse...
THERE is a war taking place in Sri Lanka, in which the government of President Rajipakse, armed, equipped, trained and financially supported by the...
Pakistani military is beseiged – but nuclear weapons are safe says Clinton
AT her press conference in London yesterday the US Secretary of State, Clinton, volunteered that the Taleban attack on the headquarters of the Pakistani...
The Way Forward – Starve The Working Class Says King!
THE governor of the Bank of England, in his Tuesday night speech detailed the source of the gigantic inflationary rise in living costs that...
Victory to the Syrian army in Idlib! Forward with the Turkish workers revolution...
THE TURKISH government has said it will not hesitate to invade Syria to prevent the Syrian army pressing ahead with its counter-terrorism offensive to...
McCluskey’s surrender not enough for the Tories!
IN his speech to Unite leaders earlier in the week, the union’s general secretary, Len McCluskey, effectively threw in the towel and capitulated to...
Bring down the Tories on June 8th to save the NHS, and end benefit...
ON JUNE 23 2016 the adventurers Cameron and Osborne, the then PM and Chancellor, came unstuck when they lost their EU referendum and were...
Mosul Falls – Imperialist Policy Collapses In Middle East
LARGE numbers of people have been forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants from the ISIS pro-Al Qaeda group effectively...
NHS to be butchered to pay the bankers’ debts
LARGE-scale hospital cuts and closures are now being organised for immediately after the next general election. These cuts have been dictated by the current enormously...
Israel receives a warning from Hezbollah!
PALESTINIAN children in Israeli jails are being subjected to torture, and physical and psychological abuse by Israeli officials, says the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’...
Ukraine workers defy imperialism and Stalinism!
THE News Line salutes the bravery and heroism of the Ukrainian working class who defied all the threats, intimidation and murderous attacks by forces...
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...
Revolutionary crisis shaking regimes all over Europe
GERMAN Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy on Saturday decreed that the preservation of the euro required a 70bn euro currency reserve fund and...
Labour continues NHS privatisation offensive!
LABOUR Health Minister Burnham yesterday officially launched the extended choice network, a new extended list of hospitals and clinics, that include 15 private treatment...
Blair axes cabinet, but policies are the same!
IT WAS all change yesterday in the Blair cabinet and no change at all at the same time, as leading cabinet members were sacked...
‘New Leader – Old Agenda’
IN a motion for next month’s Trades Union Congress, UNISON correctly says the use of private firms in public services is ‘harmful, wasteful, and...
Cameron’s Permanent War On Workers
‘TODAY the biggest challenge we face is economic,’ Cameron told his audience of City of London bosses on Monday night at the Lord Mayor’s...
Unemployment and inflation surges as Cameron threatens immigrants’ benefits
THE number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 80,000 to 2.51 million in the three months to July, official figures have shown....
Nationalise the energy companies to end fuel poverty
PM Brown has rejected out of hand the trade union demand for a Windfall Tax on the oil, gas and energy companies, that are...
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...
Bush’s ‘New Middle East’
BUSH is trying to establish his ‘New Middle East’ on the bones of thousands of dead and injured Lebanese and Palestinian men, women and...
Tories and Labour unite to bar Bulgars and Romanians
THE Tory Party yesterday called for restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania when these countries shortly join the EU. The Tory Party immigration...
French revolution – spreading throughout Europe
FRANCE has been shaken for the past six months by an eruption of anger by the education trade unions and by student and school...
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...
Tories Vote To Keep Blair In Office!
IN Tuesday night’s vote in the House of Commons on the Blair government’s Education Bill, 67 Labour MPs voted against, wiping out the government’s...
Vote Leave – bring down the Tories. For a workers government to defend jobs,...
THE UK Prime Minister, Cameron, has delivered a thinly disguised deadly threat to the UK working class. This is that if it has the...
Russia And China Support Greek Privatisation
THE Greek working class and the youth are suffering under the ‘Iron Heel’ of the Troika (the European Union the European Central Bank and...
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...