Cutting deposit rates below zero is a gigantic gamble!
AN ‘historic gamble’, a giant ‘leap into the unknown’ – these were just two of the headlines that greeted the news that last Thursday...
Arrogant Crisis-Ridden Imperialists Threaten Russia!
THE President of the crisis-ridden EU Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso yesterday told the BBC that the inclusion of Russia in any future...
Palestine Unity Government Formed – Now The World Must End Occupation!
THE Palestinian unity government has been sworn in, and has the backing of both the Fatah and Hamas movements. The defiant formation of the national...
NATO warmongers meet in Brussels
NATO defence ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss the ‘long-term security implications’ of Russia’s response to the US-UK-EU inspired coup in Kiev, and...
Housing bubble set to burst!
LAST week saw a concerted effort by the Tory-led coalition, aided by their friends in the bourgeois press, to deny that a catastrophic housing...
Cameron Threatens Eu With Bringing Forward Referendum
THE German magazine Der Spiegel says British PM David Cameron warned EU leaders that the UK could leave the EU if Luxembourg’s ex-PM Jean-Claude...
Enemy Well And Truly Inside The Gates!
SIMON Stevens the new Chief Executive of NHS England is no stranger to the NHS and the struggle to privatise it. He was chief...
Eurasian Economic Union, and the China-Russia gas plan, a double blow against imperialism!
RUSSIA, Belarus and Kazakhstan have just signed the historic Eurasian Economic Union. It comes into effect in January 2015, and will get rid of...
Conference On ‘Inclusive Capitalism’ Fears The Worst For The System!
ON Tuesday the world’s major investors, plus celebrities such as ex-President Clinton, confirmed admirers, and even relics of feudal society such as Prince Charles,...
Russia must intervene to drive Kiev junta out!
FOLLOWING the illegal Ukrainian presidential election – called to try and legitimise the imperialist-inspired coup – the billionaire, Petro Poroshenko, wasted no time in...
Reactionary Gove wants a pro-imperialist syllabus
THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has advanced his plan to rid the GCSE English exam of classic books and plays he considers to...
Putin Frantically Looking For Imperialist Partners
AT the St Petersburg Economic Forum, President Putin has revealed the basis for both his domestic and foreign policies. It is to seek to...
Tories, LibDems are in crisis – kick them out now!
AS the results of Thursday’s local council elections come in and are poured over by the main political parties and the pundits in the...
‘Our greatest allies are our patients’ – GP conference told
OPENING the BMA GPs Conference in York, Doctor Nagpaul correctly pointed out that ‘Today, nearly a million patients will visit their GP surgery, that’s...
Charles pushes confrontation with Russia
PRINCE Charles’s comparison of President Putin with Hitler, and Putin’s actions in the Ukraine as comparable with Hitler’s treatment of the peoples of...
US-Egyptian Coup Under Way In Libya!
THE drive by General Khalifa Haftat to overthrow the remnants of the Libyan government, and take on and defeat the Al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood...
World’s Stock Markets Set For Financial Crash!
IT was reported yesterday that a survey of the top professional ‘money managers’ revealed that these investment experts believe that the world’s leading stock...
The rich are much richer and the poor are much poorer under 21st century...
BRITAIN’S richest people have never been richer having cornered £520bn between them, says the Sunday Times Rich List. The 26th annual Sunday Times Rich...
Chilcott Inquiry Findings Must Be Published At Once!
THIS week the chairman of the influential Public Administration Committee urged ministers to ‘sort out’ the delay in publishing the official inquiry into the...
Turkish Workers Rise Against Erdogan!
RELATIVES of around 150 miners, missing after the deadly mine explosion at the privatised Soma mine in western Turkey, are maintaining a permanent vigil...
British capitalism remains on the floor with wages falling and part-time working booming
THE number of people estimated to be out of work in the UK fell by 133,000 to a ‘five-year low’ of 2.2 million in...
MPs want a secret inquiry into the Afghan debacle and defeat!
THE UK government should set up an inquiry into ‘lessons learned’ after troops withdraw from Afghanistan at the end of this year, the MPs...
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...
Tories To Ban Right To Strike!
THE next Tory government will introduce a threshold on union ballots for strike action. PM Cameron has said: ‘I want a Conservative government to...
NHS more popular than ever despite Tory propaganda campaign
A SURVEY by the polling company Ipsos MORI has revealed that the NHS is more popular amongst workers and the middle classes than those...
Ukrainian Workers Reject Putin Plea To Accept Kiev Coup Regime
PRESIDENT Putin on Wednesday urged Ukrainian workers to postpone their referenda on self-determination. He said: ‘We are calling on representatives of regions in southeastern...
Panic And Alarm Over Housing Bubble
THE OECD has in effect, accused the Bank of England and the Coalition government of blindly organising another banking disaster, under the cover of...
Down with all zero-hours contracts!
‘JOBSEEKERS’ will lose their benefits, or their Universal Credit when it is introduced, if they turn down zero-hours contracts, the government has said. This new...
Asian-US Axis Against China!
US President, Barak Obama, returned last week from a tour of Asian countries designed to put military flesh on US imperialism’s ‘Asian Pivot’. This military...
Arm Ukrainian workers! Red Army must chase the junta out of Kiev!
THE UK-US-EU backed counter-revolution is now in full swing in eastern Ukraine, where no deed is too foul for their stormtroopers of the Right...
BofE house price warning!
SIR Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, is a very worried man – with good reason. What is keeping him awake...
Force the TUC to call general strike to bring down Tories!
THE working class is being left with no alternative by the government than to take general strike action to prevent all of its gains...
It’s still austerity, more austerity and yet more austerity from Osborne and the Tories
The UK economy grew by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2014, compared to 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the...
Come to ATUA Conference! Build a new leadership inside the unions
ON Saturday 10th May, the News Line and the All Trades Union Alliance – the industrial arm of the Workers Revolutionary Party – will...
15,000 troops ready for Slavyansk assault!
THERE are now more than 15,000 Ukrainian military servicemen plus reserve forces and the Right Sector movement, with around 160 tanks, 230 infantry combat...
Unions must strike for a 10% wage rise!
The results of a consultative ballot of 600,000 local government and school members of the Unison union recorded a massive 70% rejection of the...
Turning Mothers Into Informers
WITH the western powers losing their war in Syria, after the British and American workers refused to allow their governments to send troops or...
Obama cementing anti-China alliance
JUST ahead of his arrival in Japan yesterday, US President Barack Obama assured Japan that islands at the centre of its territorial disputes with...
Biden in Kiev trying to shore up coupist regime
US Vice-President Joe Biden told the assembled right wingers at the Ukraine parliament yesterday that the US stands with the country’s new leaders in...
Starving The Poor!
AS hard evidence emerges about how the ‘local welfare assistance’ scheme is operating in practice across England, it is quite clear that deliberately starving...
Ukrainian workers refuse to end occupations!
THE agreement, styled as a ‘de-escalation roadmap’, reached at Geneva last Thursday by representatives from Russia, US, EU and the Ukraine coupist government, represents...
No Charges For The NHS – Kick The Coalition Out
THE savage Tory-led coalition’s cuts programme to smash the NHS is now well under way! Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...
Wages rising fast – a sick Tory joke!
THE food bank charity, the Trussell Trust says it has handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the...
King’s Fund Warning Must Be Acted On!
THE Quarterly Monitoring Report of the King’s Fund does not pull any punches about the future that the Tory-led coalition has planned out for...
Housing crisis: socialism the only solution
THE proposal to blow up five blocks of flats in Glasgow’s Red Road, as part of the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games, has...