Law cannot be allowed to get in the way of profiteering
THE Attorney General – the same official who ruled after much equivocation that the war with Iraq was legal – on Thursday told the...
Bigot Straw Stirs Up Division Amongst Workers
LABOUR MP Straw has been a Blackburn MP for 27 years and has long been aware that numbers of Muslim women in Blackburn wear...
Trump demands Iran completely ‘gives up’ as imperialism threatens all-out war against Iran!
US president Donald Trump yesterday abruptly left the G7 meeting in Canada, telling reporters he wanted ‘better than a ceasefire’ between Iran and Israel. When...
TUC on its knees – time for a revolutionary leadership!
THE TUC New Year’s message (see page 3) has been delivered with TUC general secretary O’Grady on her knees appealing to the bosses and...
Stock markets crash as ‘contagion’ from Turkish currency collapse spreads to world banks
Last Friday the Turkish currency, the lira, crashed spectacularly, dropping as much as 16% relative to the dollar – it lost a third of...
Tory Party stuck with broken May as leaders fear the mass movement driving Labour...
IN NORMAL times a Tory party that had been taken into an ‘unnecessary’ snap election with its leader demanding that the electorate return it...
World Economic Forum declares capitalist ‘global order’ destabilised by imperialist war and political crisis
THE WORLD Economic Forum (WEF) opened its meeting at the Swiss resort of Davos this week under the storm clouds of an economic and...
‘Small price to pay’ Trump tells US working class as oil prices soar as...
IN a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday night, Donald Trump announced to the US workers and middle class that the spiralling...
Israel lurches further right as Defence Minister Yaalon resigns!
THE resignation yesterday of the Israeli defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, signals a sharp turn to the right by the government of Binyamin Netanyahu. Yaalon announced...
Blair’s Guildhall speech proclaims ‘globalisation’ & war
LABOUR premier Tony Blair spoke about the fight against ‘global terrorism’ and called for free-trade ‘globalisation’ in his foreign policy speech at the City...
Working Class Must Bring Split And Divided Tories Down!
THE EU crisis of the Tory party has really reached the point of no return when the US President, Donald Trump, is...
FOOD BANKS becoming the rule in poverty-stricken UK
THERE are currently 270 food banks across the UK where poverty-stricken workers and youth are directed to get subsistence amounts of food. As the capitalist...
Tesco & Next Make Bryant Run
THE shadow minister for immigration, Bryant, yesterday ran away from confronting Tesco and Next over employing migrant workers at reduced wages in place of...
Nurses demand emergency conference to remove union leaders guilty of pay betrayal
NURSES reacted with fury last week when they received their July pay packets and realised that the 3% pay increase their union, the RCN,...
London Is Now A No-Go Area According To The Met Police!
IN advance of today’s mass demonstrations in support of Palestine, the Tories have launched a campaign to crack down on all opposition to the...
The US’ allies in Egypt are at each other’s throats!
THE bloodbath in Egypt last Wednesday, which saw hundreds of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood cut down in cold blood by the Egyptian army,...
Law lords rule for US imperialism to keep the Chagossians in exile
THE House of Lords appeal court yesterday reversed the three decisions taken by seven senior judges, in previous court hearings, that the Chagos Islanders...
Arrogant Israel changes Arafat street name as Palestinian masses get ready for the Third...
AN Arab town council in Jatt, in Israel (occupied Palestine), has been forced to change a street name called after the former Palestinian leader...
Labour right-wing renegades split, time to kick out the rest and demand a socialist...
AFTER weeks of speculation, seven right-wing Labour MPs announced yesterday that they are resigning from the Labour Party, citing ‘institutional anti-Semitism’ and the ‘shameful’...
Inflation soaring not falling – General Strike now!
MONTHLY figures released yesterday reported that inflation in Britain had fallen from 2.8% in July to 2.7% in August, leading some bourgeois economists to...
Dump May Regime And Her Grammar Schools!
TORY PM May yesterday launched her new offensive attempting to restore ‘secondary moderns’ by allowing every school to become a selective grammar school, and...
Tory-Led Coalition Breaking Apart – Bring It Down!
WHILE the Prime Minister is being hailed by the anti-EU section of the Tory Party as standing up for the UK like a...
Pope Arrives To Organise Counter-Revolutionaries
THE visit to Britain by Pope Benedict XVI has only one aim, to make a pact with the British ruling class, to help strengthen...
Revolution in Zimbabwe – working class must take the power in Zimbabwe and...
TENS OF THOUSANDS of workers and youth have marched to President Mugabe’s office and residence and say that they will stay there till he...
Netanyahu fills new Israeli government with racists and fascists for a pogrom against...
On Wednesday, the recently elected president of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, finally announced that he has assembled a ruling coalition cabinet between his Likud party...
Egyptian Military Shut Down Gaza Power Supply
ALI AL-HAYIK, the head of Gaza’s Federation of Industries and the Palestinian Businessmen Association on the Gaza Strip, warned yesterday that dozens of factories...
BHS workers’ jobs and pensions destroyed as firm is looted!
THE decision on Thursday by the administrators to close all 163 BHS stores and throw 11,000 workers out of a job with immediate effect...
Only a general strike can defeat Tory anti-union strike breakers law
IN ADVANCE of last night’s vote in parliament on the Tory bill waging war on the right to strike by allowing employers to bring...
US Secretary of State Blinken rushes to Kiev as Ukraine faces defeat by Russia
US secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise unannounced visit to Ukraine yesterday morning, as the war to weaken Russia suffers yet another...
Come to the News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance conference
ON Saturday June 29, the News Line daily newspaper will be having a joint conference with the All Trades Unions Alliance, the body that...
170,000 workers marched for Palestine last Saturday. Trade unions must call a general...
THE WHO (World Health Organisation) has joined the United Nations in urging Israel to immediately rescind orders for the imminent invasion of Gaza which...
TAKE ACTION IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE – CALL GENERAL STRIKES IN US, EU and...
NABIL Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, warned on Sunday of the grave consequences of Israel’s threats to carry out what could be...
Gove calls for parents to scab
Over the weekend the Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove issued a call for parents to volunteer to break Thursday’s strike by civil servants and...
Iran defeating US and Israel as world capitalism reels from closure of Hormuz Strait
THE ISRAELI regime claimed yesterday morning that the secretary of Iran’s national security council, Ali Larijani, was murdered in overnight strikes on Tehran. The Iranian...
Cameron abuses Corbyn, pledges to end social housing and announces an end to ‘passive...
AFTER Theresa May’s vintage Tory beat-and-beat-again speech on Tuesday to the Tory Party conference, treating migrants as the enemy and rating their contribution...
MPs’ Committee blames councils over homeless and dodges government!
THE MPs’ Communities and Local Government Select Committee has said that homelessness is ‘undoubtedly increasing’ and that the scale is greater than statistics suggest. The...
US Imperialism organised botched plot to overthrow Venezuela’s President!
ON WEDNESDAY, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo emphatically denied to reporters that the US had any involvement in the failed attempt by...
Labour to hand police the power to ban demonstrations in move to establish a police state...
KEIR STARMER’S Labour government’s plans to ‘tighten’ protest laws were confirmed by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Sunday. The new powers handed to the police...
Russia defies imperialism – Time for the world socialist revolution
YESTERDAY, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that he had ordered the Russian military to carry out a special operation in the Donbass region in...
Tory policies to defund and privatise the NHS responsible for Shrewsbury maternity disaster!
THE INDEPENDENT Ockenden inquiry into maternity provisions at the Shrewsbury NHS Trust has revealed a horrific catalogue of failures contributing to the deaths of...
Respond To The Grenfell Tower Inferno With A Socialist Revolution!
IMMEDIATELY after the damning report on the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people was published the House of Commons was packed with MPs...
UK Workers Must Continue To Welcome Refugees And Organise To Smash Bankrupt Capitalism!
SINCE September, homeless people, including homeless asylum seekers and refugees, have been unceremoniously dumped back onto the streets of the UK. A study published in...
US Steps Up Missile Attacks On Pakistan
WITH the world’s attention focussed on the capitalist crisis, the US military have unleashed a series of massive attacks on the Afghan and Pakistani...
Carney’s ‘forward guidance’ comes a huge cropper!
BANK of England governor Carney has dumped his forward guidance policy under which interest rates would rise once the UK unemployment rate had been...
Bankrupt Brown speaks to the City of London
GORDON Brown began his Mansion House speech to the City of London on Monday night with a ringing but empty declaration. He said: ‘I want...