NHS cuts and closures hitting millions while NHS England hands out goodies to the...
PULSE, the GPs’ magazine, has done a great service for all NHS users by using the Freedom of Information Act to find out how...
Imperialist ‘surge’ in Iraq and Afghanistan = mass slaughter
SIX Iraqi primary schoolchildren have been slaughtered by a US helicopter spraying al-Nedawat village with machine gun fire and hitting a primary school, in...
TUC must take action to stop the extradition of Julian Assange and to release...
JULIAN ASSANGE, who has lost his latest legal appeal, is ‘dangerously close’ to being extradited to the US, his family and observers of his...
Trump’s tax cuts for corporations will lead to the ‘mother of all crashes’
LAST Wednesday US president Donald Trump unveiled what he called the ‘biggest tax cuts in history’ – tax cuts only for the giant corporations...
UK economy is crashing into bankruptcy under the impact of the world capitalist crisis!
ONLY two weeks into 2025 and the capitalist world is reeling from an economic crisis of historic proportions – a crisis that has completely...
Blair Defies Labour Over Education Privatisation
LABOUR Prime Minister Blair has ruled out changes to his education reform (privatisation) plans despite a challenge by more than 50 Labour MPs,...
Gripped with crisis UK, US & French leaders abandon World Economic Forum
THE ANNUAL get-together of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the Swiss resort of Davos has been hit by a number of notable absences...
EU in crisis – forward with the European socialist revolution
The crisis of European capitalism is so severe that it has driven the bourgeoisie to tear at each other’s throats in a frenzy of...
European workers moving inexorably to revolution
THE CALL for European-wide, co-ordinated strike action to defeat the EU ‘austerity’ measures made by the leader of the Greek TUC is a sure...
Re-call TUC conference! Sack the traitors! – We need a leadership that will...
THE NHS crisis is ‘like being in a war,’ Patrick Carter, who advises Tory health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, told the Royal College of Anaesthetists’...
Tories want to criminalise anyone ‘undermining’ capitalism
ON SATURDAY, the Guardian reported that the Tories are working towards a new definition of ‘extremism’ that includes anyone who ‘undermines British institutions or...
Horizon scandal piles more pressure on Tories as they face accusations of demanding compensation...
The Horizon IT scandal of the hounding of over 900 completely innocent Post Office managers by the Post Office leading to multiple prosecutions for...
Hands Off Syria – Forward to World Revolution
THE imperialist military alliance, NATO, meets today at the request of Turkey which will be invoking Article 4 of its treaty which covers threats...
Right wing Labour puts Corbyn and McDonnell on a very short Leash!
SIR Keir Starmer, Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary speaking at a Chatham House conference, has said that Labour will not support any Brexit deal negotiated...
US workers reject Obama’s rescue of bankers and bosses
SCOTT Brown’s victory for the Republican Party, in the Massachusetts election for the US Senate, does not mean that US workers can’t wait to...
US insists on direct talks as Israel refuses to halt settlement building
PRESIDENT Obama has summoned the Palestinian Authority leader, Abbas, and Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu to Washington for talks beginning on September 2, to resolve...
Maude-Miliband Unite To Condemn Pension Strikers
YESTERDAY’S stoppage in defence of pensions saw 90 per cent of PCS members stopping work, the biggest turn-out for strike action in the union’s...
New imperialist war being prepared in the Balkans!
NATO yesterday confirmed that it will maintain its troop contingent in Kosovo to deter the violence that will follow the expected collapse of talks...
FBU must fight against a Police Commissioner controlled ‘Fire Service’
THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...
Tories must be made to withdraw junior doctors’ contract and abandon contract imposition!
THE proposal, made by 22 medical colleges and faculties for a five-day pause in the drive to impose new junior doctors’ contracts in England,...
Bush & Brown move in to exploit protests in Myanmar
UNITED States President George Bush declared at the end of last week: ‘I call on all nations that have influence with the (Myanmar) regime...
US economy slumps as Obama proposes huge budget debts
THE American economy contracted by 6.2 per cent in the last three months of last year, as consumer spending dropped by 4.3 per cent...
Unite and the major trade unions must defend jobs with occupations and a general...
THE UK government is considering intervening in large UK companies through ‘Project Birch’ to ‘save’ the firms that are going bust by more government...
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...
Mass Electoral Abstentions Show That French Capitalism Is Rotten! It Must Be Overthrown...
FRENCH bourgeois democracy, and with it French capitalism, is ‘sick’, and both are in a huge existential crisis. On Sunday, a record two-thirds of...
Trade Unions Must Dump Starmer And Labour’s Right Wing And Call A General Strike...
THE general secretary of the Unite union Len McCluskey has responded to Labour’s massive council election defeats and its disastrous loss in the Hartlepool...
Tory Ambulance Privatisation Drive!
FIGURES extracted this week by Freedom of Information requests prove conclusively that the privatisation of the ambulance service is being pushed through by the...
Forward with the Greek socialist revolution
THE Greek working class remains undefeated as the clashes between teachers and students with the riot police in Salonica on Thursday have proven. The source...
Charge Harry Stanley’s Killers!
THE uncovering of ‘new’ forensic evidence by the Surrey constabulary has led to the arrest of the two police officers who shot dead Harry...
Sharp increase in unemployment as bankers and bosses demand sick and disabled be driven...
YESTERDAY the latest unemployment figures were released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealing that UK unemployment had shot up by 85,000 in...
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...
Capitalism in its greatest financial crisis, says Brown
THE Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, who once boasted that he had resolved the crisis of capitalism and its tendency to go from boom to...
Starmer’s ‘No’ to ban on arms to Israel must be met with a general...
LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer, in the House of Commons on Monday, defended Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’ while lamenting ‘the region cannot endure...
UAE & Israel ‘normalise’ relations! The UK must NOW recognise the Palestinian state with...
US PRESIDENT Trump announced on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel will ‘normalise’ relations. UAE is the first Arab nation to...
Tories’ massive cuts of flood defences and Fire and Rescue Services have led...
THE Army has been called out in York, Leeds, and parts of Lancashire after flood defences failed. In the case of York the...
Milburn makes his move for the Labour leadership
TWO former Cabinet ministers have e-mailed all Labour MPs, calling for an ‘open debate’ on the party’s future. The two are Charles Clarke, the ex-Home...
Trade unions must act now to defend living standards!
BANK of England Governor Mervyn King sent a letter to Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday because inflation has taken off. Under statutory obligations put in place...
African workers must unite for socialist revolution
THE violence against foreigners accused of taking jobs and working as cheap labour that has swept the South African townships has its source in...
Majority of world banks ‘not economically viable’ according to report
THE INTERNATIONAL management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company has published a global banking review which found that the majority of banks worldwide ‘may not...
Socialist Revolution Is The Only Alternative Now
UNITE leader Len McCluskey has pointed out correctly some of the immediate implications of the Miliband-Balls line that Labour will honour and continue with...
Pantomime In Parliament – Corbyn Refuses To Move No Confidence In May Government!
IT IS NOW crystal clear that PM May continues to rule the UK because the Labour opposition, led by Jeremy Corbyn, refuses to put...
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...
The Israeli Army Burned Down Kamal Adwan Hospital. It Must Be Forced Out Of...
THE Palestinian Ministry of Health said yesterday that the Israeli occupation army had burned Kamal Adwan Hospital – the last operating hospital in northern...
Johnson wants Labour to junk the unions!
LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor has declared that it is time for the Labour Party to completely dump the union bloc vote in future leadership elections. Johnson,...
No let-up in NHS crisis – trade unions must act
WITH the dust barely settled on both the Labour and Tory Party conferences, the brutal reality of the economic crisis gripping British capitalism is...