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...
‘Red lights flashing’ – Cameron signals more cuts
WRITING in the Guardian yesterday, David Cameron announced that, following his meeting with world leaders at the G20 conference in Brisbane, he has suddenly...
The state is looking to take control
THE capitalist state used to be the mailed fist concealed within the velvet glove in Britain. Its real power was covered by the parliamentary...
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...
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...
Sack Gove, May and Cameron! TUC must call a general strike to bring down...
EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove, who has carried forward the privatisation battle against the teaching trade unions, and driven forward the Free School-Academy agenda,...
China has beaten coronavirus while Tories will allow 60% of the population to be...
CHINA’S Wuhan province reported a zero increase in new coronavirus infections last week. China has beaten the virus and with no new cases, their...
French Stalinists step in to help Sarkozy
OVER a million French civil servants went on strike yesterday, joining the hundreds of thousands of railworkers, busworkers and gas and electricity workers who...
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...
Stop the A&E closure programme by booting out the Tory coalition
JUST days after Health Secretary Hunt was found to be acting unlawfully with his plan to close the A&E and other facilities at Lewisham...
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...
Time for a general strike to stop the war!
‘THIS is a tremendous demonstration of the anger of the British people against what Blair has done in Iraq and is threatening to do...
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...
Tesco Volunteers For The Cobra Strike- Breaking Committee
THE fact that the Civil Contingencies Committee (COBRA) is in session over the implications of the fuel crisis, and more specifically, that the crisis...
No socialist programme for Corbyn!
LABOUR leader Corbyn was full of confidence as he opened his campaign to be re-elected as leader of the Labour Party yesterday. He said:...
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...
St Valentine’s Day Massacre of eurozone economy
OFFICIAL figures released yesterday show that the economy of the 17 nations that comprise the eurozone suffered an overall crash of 0.6% in the...
Labour victimises the unemployed!
INCAPACITY Benefit will be abolished under the Welfare Green Paper just published by Works and Pensions Minister, James Purnell. The 2.7 million people receiving Incapacity...
Brown’s National Economic Council ‘war cabinet’ will be making war on the workers
‘WE have agreed to make a solemn engagement as heads of state and government to support banking and financial institutions faced with the crisis,’...
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...
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...
‘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...
Bankrupt capitalism deserves to perish
THE major British banks want to be able to use a ‘wider range’ of collateral, meaning their very dodgy mortgage portfolios, for the billions...
Chase Farm Closure Kills!
THE death of 2-year-old Muhammad Hashir Maveed last Wednesday is a tragic warning of the cost to human life that must inevitably result from...
HSBC money launderers protected by Osborne and top US officials out of fear of...
A US Congressional report has revealed that US officials refused to prosecute HSBC for money laundering in 2012 because of grave concerns within the...
Cuts will push councils to breaking point!
THE cuts to local government funding will ‘push councils to breaking point’ according to council leaders. On Thursday the Tory Communities and Local Government minister, Kris Hopkins,...
Russian Military Chief Warns Don’t Attack Iran
AN Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday that the Iranian government hopes that the International Atomic Energy Agency will produce an unbiased report on...
Police ‘Yobs’ Bait Home Secretary
THE very well paid police force – loaded up with housing and other benefits, on Wednesday bit the hand that has been feeding...
Defend the PCS and all trade unions with a general strike
THE PCS TRADE UNION last Saturday issued a statement to its members announcing that it was the victim of a government plot to destroy...
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...
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...
Free the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ volunteers! Organise an armada to break the Gaza blockade!Forward to...
NINETEEN members of the six ship ‘Freedom Flotilla’ were yesterday murdered by Israeli special forces in a major war crime, and a larger...
Rail fares and inflation are let rip – as wages and benefits are frozen...
RAIL commuters were protesting at Waterloo Station in London yesterday after they heard that ticket price rises of between 8% and 13% are 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...
Nato Shall Not Pass Vow Soviet Workers
THERE could not be a greater contrast between the policies of the Ukrainian governing parties to join the EU and NATO as rapidly as...
Unions Must Stop Queen Mary’s Closure!
THE news that the Accident and Emergency and maternity units at Queen Mary’s Hospital are to be closed for the coming winter is a...
Workers defeat Labour Party coupists with increased majority for Corbyn
313,209 Labour Party members and supporters with their leadership vote for Jeremy Corbyn, have driven back the right wing coup attempt that was underway,...
Hewitt And Hoon Stab Labour In The Back
HEWITT and Hoon, are two of the Labour Party’s leading Blairites. Hoon was heavily involved in Blair’s criminal Iraq war, and in the...
Nuclear Terrorists Attend Seoul Summit
A WORLD leaders summit in Seoul on nuclear security has called for closer co-operation to tackle the threat of nuclear terrorism. President Obama warned there...
Uneasy Israel threatens Iran, as Egypt and Jordan erupt with food riots
THE Zionist leadership has begun to beat the war drums against Iran, louder than ever, in reaction to the continuing crisis that the US...
It’s a Labour heaven for bankers but a hell for workers, youth and immigrants!
THE class message of the Labour government is clear. It is that if you’re a banker, you can do no wrong and are...
No evidence behind police terror raid
IN the early hours of Friday morning a police raiding party of up to 250 officers broke into a home in Lansdown Road, Forest...
BIS predicts deflation and depression
LAST year the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was alone amongst banks in warning that the situation had similarities to that at the time...
Smash the Bedroom Tax with a general strike!
A GRANDMOTHER, who because of the Bedroom Tax, had to pay an extra £20 a week, has thrown herself in front of a...
Venezuela must not support the Rajapakse regime!
THE Sri Lankan working class, both Tamil and Sinhalese, is suffering under the ‘iron heel’ of the Rajapakse dictatorship. This has killed tens of thousands...