IFS warns Healey’s budget will be a ‘work of fiction’ if he doesn’t slash...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) yesterday issued a blunt warning that Labour Chancellor John Healey’s budget, due on October 28, will be a...
Hero Mandela dies – Forward to socialism in South Africa
NELSON Mandela, one of the great heroes of the anti-Apartheid struggle who was jailed for 27 years on Robben Island for his opposition to...
Darling can’t look the capitalist crisis in the face
CHANCELLOR Darling began his budget speech yesterday on a note of contrived optimism saying that ‘today’s budget will take Britain through the most serious...
Withdraw all British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan
THE fact that six RAF Harrier GR7 jets are to remain in Afghanistan to support the 4,000 British troops who are being assembled in...
Sunak Budget – tax cuts for banks and corporations – poverty for working people
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled the government’s spending plans in a budget he billed as preparing the country for a new ‘age of...
Take strike action to support FBU!
THE London Firefighters one day strike last Saturday has drawn a swift response from the capitalist state, via their mouthpieces in the bourgeois press. Commenting...
Aviation is going into the abyss! Nationalise the entire industry through a socialist revolution!
RYANAIR is to cut 3,000 jobs representing 15% of its workforce, it was announced yesterday. British Airways is to cut up to 12,000 jobs and...
Johnson blurts out that greed is ‘good’ for capitalism
IN A VIDEO call with Tory backbenchers on Tuesday night, prime minister Boris Johnson boasted that capitalist greed was responsible for the UK’s vaccination...
Israel continues its all-out assault on the rights of the Palestinian people and all...
A PALESTINIAN-FRENCH human rights lawyer whom Israel has stripped of his Jerusalem residency is at imminent risk of deportation, an Israeli group says. The HaMoked...
Build Revolutionary Leadership In The Trade Unions
THE Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spelt out that his answer to the deepening crisis of capitalism is to attempt to rescue the bosses...
Cabinet discussing reign of terror over workers
BIG BUSINESS should be given the right to dismiss unproductive workers without explanation or warning, declares a leaked report to the coalition government by...
Mossad’s prints all over Gaza bombing!
YESTERDAY in the aftermath of the bombing in Gaza that killed five leading Hamas fighters, and a five-year-old girl, accusations and counter-accusations were being...
Lobby TUC Sept 7th to demand they call a general strike now for a...
THE September strikes by RMT union members on London’s underground system are just the latest challenge to the super-austerity policies of PM Keir Starmer’s...
A socialist government and a socialist foreign policy needed to defeat terrorism!
NEWS LINE sends its condolences to the families and friends of the 22 people, including children, who were killed and the 59 who were...
US bars Palestinian president from attending UN General Assembly!
For the second year running, the US has banned Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas from attending the UN General Assembly meeting due to be held...
Tenants face mass evictions
TENANTS receiving housing benefit have been issued with eviction notices by the largest ‘buy-to-let’ private landlord in the country. Fergus Wilson, who owns 1,000 properties...
The bankers’ man who is admired by Ms Le Pen!
LORD Oakeshott is the senior Liberal Democrat who quit their front bench in protest at the Tory-LibDem coalition’s decision to allow the bankers to...
Tory donor to head Ofsted
WHEN the Tory education minister, Michael Gove, dumped the Labour peer Sally Morgan from her post as Chair of Ofsted, last January, his action...
Deutsche Bank collapse will crash the world’s banking system!
DEUTSCHE Bank, the largest and most important bank in Europe, sacked its British born chief executive John Cryan after just three years in the...
Sa Police Massacre Platinum Miners
SOUTH AFRICAN workers have been shocked by the ANC government’s police force shooting dead over 30 miners at the Lonmin UK-owned platinum mine. Fifty...
Labour Pushes For Pensions War
MORE than half a million civil servants are to be told that they will have to pay a lot more towards their pensions. This is...
The TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and start...
UNTIL NOW ISRAEL has been able to kill an average of 100 children every day in its relentless bombing campaign on the besieged Gaza...
Irish banks ‘death spiral’ – forward to socialist revolution
THE latest stage in the complete disintegration of the Irish banking system was described by one analyst of the capitalist market as a ‘death...
Build the Fourth International! Victory to the World Socialist Revolution!
YESTERDAY, millions of Egyptian workers and youth, from Alexandria to Cairo’s Tahrir Square and the city of Luxor and Ports Said and Suez, marched...
Massive debt crisis reaches breaking point!
OVER the past few months there has been an increasing concern being expressed in the pages of the financial press about the huge bubble...
Labour’s Banker Kicks The Disabled!
INVESTMENT banker David Freud is the adviser behind Prime Minister Brown’s plans to slash the benefits of the sick and the disabled. This is at...
Fatah junta seizes control of the West Bank
YESTERDAY President Abbas decreed the ending of parliamentary rule in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as he appointed an illegal government headed...
Anti-union laws and wage cuts will stay – Brown tells trade unions
Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday gave a fitting reply to all those trade union bureaucrats who were saying that he could be forced to...
Discontented generals enter into politics
THE formation of the United Kingdom National Defence Association (UKNDA) led by ex-chiefs of the general staff and politicians such as David Owen is...
Pm May’s Education Review Is A Fraud – Unions Must Take Action To Abolish...
THE National Union of Students’ verdict on PM May’s review into post-18 education and funding is that ‘she is choosing to move the deckchairs...
More ‘breadline poor’ after 10 years of Labour governments
The gap between the rich and poor has widened in recent years and is greater than at any time in the past 40 years,...
AA sold to Saga, Permira and CVC bosses pocket £300m
TRUE to form the private equity capitalist groups Permira and CVC having acquired the prestigious AA motoring group with the help of huge borrowings...
World capitalism is set to crash – It must be replaced with the World...
JUST five months after being elected with a landslide majority, a life or death political and economic crisis has engulfed British capitalism. Labour PM Sir...
Obama Ready To Step Up Intervention Into Syria
THE just re-elected US President, Barack Obama, yesterday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to use chemical weapons against the NATO-supported opposition forces, saying...
Tories Want To Turn Trade Unions Into Labour Fronts For The Bosses With Their...
THE TORIES are proposing to turn free and independent trade unions into ‘Labour Fronts’ run by the bosses with their new anti-trade union legislation. Under...
Tory new definition of terrorism in a crackdown on all opposition to Zionist...
MICHAEL Gove, the Tory Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, is due this week to unveil plans to ban individuals and...
Gaza Rises From The Rubble And Celebrates Its Real Heroes!
N a moment where the pain of siege merged with tears of joy and victory, Gaza emerged on Monday from beneath the rubble to...
Sack the Hayes-Ward CWU leadership!
LAST Wednesday postal workers delivered a massive vote in favour of strike action to defend their jobs, terms and conditions, and for a pay...
TUC begs for partnership
TOMORROW the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, will be presenting before parliament his last budget before the general election on May 7 – a budget...
Defend The NHS, The Fire Service & The Welfare State By Bringing Down The...
THE response of the Tory-LibDem government to the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system has been to try to force the working class,...
Put Cameron, Hague and Obama on trial, and free Assange!
ACCORDING to William Hague, the Tory Foreign Minister and Acting Prime Minister, Britain has a ‘legal obligation’ to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to...
World Bank Predicts Widespread Economic Destruction Ahead!
THE WORLD Bank stated yesterday that 90% of the world’s economies have been plunged into a slump by the coronavirus pandemic, inflicting global carnage...
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...
Netanyahu Forced Into An Election – Israelis Must Dump Him And Vote For Peace...
THE RULING coalition government of Israel this week collapsed in chaos after just seven months, forcing an unprecedented fourth general election in four years. The...
Johnson launches a class war against UK workers and youth – Forward to Socialist...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for a speedy end to ‘dependence’ on Russian oil and gas, comparing it to ‘addiction,’ in his...