Obama Looking For ‘Partners’
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S annual State of the Union speech was dominated by the internal situation of US capitalism, and his search for Republican partners...
Drive to bring local performance-related pay into the NHS must be defeated
THE chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) Chris Hopson, representing more than 200 NHS trusts across England, has called for the ripping...
Horsemeat Scandal
What started off last month as news, that traces of horsemeat DNA had been discovered by the Irish Food Standards agency in some supermarket beefburgers,...
Hunt trying to assassinate the NHS!
JEREMY HUNT, who did a stint as a very pro-Murdoch Culture Secretary, was reshuffled out of that job and became Health Secretary as a...
The madness of NHS and Fire Service privatisation!
STEWART Jackson MP, a senior Member of the Committee of Public Accounts and the Tory MP for Peterborough, yesterday indicted his own government stating:...
Gove humiliated but remains in office
TORY education secretary Michael Gove suffered a humiliating defeat on Thursday when he was forced to drop his flagship proposal to replace GCSEs with the...
Francis report will be used to impose mass hospital closures
NHS staff should face prosecution if they are not open and honest about mistakes, according to the public inquiry into failings at Stafford Hospital. In...
50% rise in SA farmworkers’ wages is just the start!
THE Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) has welcomed, as a ‘short term victory’, an increase in the minimum wage for farmworkers from R69...
Osborne’s capitulation to banks
Yesterday the Tory chancellor, George Osborne, introduced legislation on banking reforms – reforms which he is desperately trying to insist will prevent the continuing...
Council of Action takes up the challenge to defend NHS
THE News Line congratulates the North East London Council of Action for its march through Enfield on Saturday and its occupation of Chase Farm...
Occupy to stop hospital closures – trade unions must bring down the Coalition with...
IN THE UK at the moment there are dozens of District General Hospitals – some of the best in the world – set for...
Victory To Syria – Down With The US, UK And Israel
THE unprovoked air strike by Israeli forces on a scientific research centre on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus is the opening shot...
Petrol Market Working Well, Says The Oft
WITH petrol poised to rise to £7.40 a gallon, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has intervened to rub salt into the gaping wounds...
Egyptian Army Mobilises For Military Coup
GENERAL Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s army chief, whose force is paid for by the United States, has warned that the current political crisis ‘could...
Wild optimism at Davos
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, ended last Saturday. The four days of the forum...
Blockade the oil refineries and nationalise the oil industry to slash petrol prices
THE Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) has just warned that we are rapidly heading for a petrol price of £7.40 a gallon, a catastrophe that...
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,...
Occupy To Stop The Closure Of Hospitals And Fire Stations
A STARK reminder of what the real face of privatisation means for the public services has been provided this week with the revelation that...
King warns Carney and Coalition – don’t open inflationary floodgates
BANK of England Governor King is going into retirement a worried man – that his successor, the Canadian banker Carney in alliance with a...
Obama’s Second Coming – Full Of Empty Words
OBAMA began his second term on Monday, after four years of office which saw GM and other motor car giants go bust, Lehman Brothers...
Imperialism opens gates of hell in North Africa
TORY prime minister David Cameron has promised that British imperialism is prepared to wage a war lasting decades throughout Africa and the Middle East...
Japan under US protection says Clinton
CHINA has condemned the latest comments made by the United States over the disputed Diaoyu Islands in which Hillary Clinton said that Japan is...
Puppet master Obama gives puppet Cameron’s strings a tweak
THE White House on Thursday issued a ‘Readout of the President’s Call with Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom’. The record of the phone...
Only Gold Is Money, The Rest Is Paper Masquerading As Money
WEDNESDAY’S announcement by the German central bank (Bundesbank) that it was going to physically repatriate its vast gold holdings from New York and Paris...
Capitalism Plunging Downwards – Socialist Revolutions Required
ON Monday, President Obama addressed the prospect of the USA going bust saying: ‘So to even entertain the idea of this happening – of...
Geithner-Obama Warn Republicans ‘Don’t Hold Usa To Ransom!’
BOTH US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and President Obama issued warnings to the Republican Party on Monday that, so dire is the world crisis,...
Tax Bonanza for NHS Privateers
The private health companies, that are circling the NHS and salivating at the prospect of making billions of pounds profit out of the sick...
Bring Down The UK-French-US War Lords
BRITISH IMPERIALISM was run out of Basra and Iraq, and is about to be run out of Afghanistan. However, it is still organising new...
Don’t Let Them Close Down Our Hospitals!
THE PLAN to strip Chase Farm Hospital, in Enfield, of its accident and emergency and maternity services is now being implemented with health chiefs...
Master Obama Slaps Down Servant Cameron!
PM CAMERON received an almighty slap in the face on Wednesday when the Obama administration effectively told him to shut up and drop all...
Japan Boosts Its Military Spending!
WHILE the US and the UK have reduced their military spending, under pressure from the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system, the new...
Euro crisis hits youth hardest – forward with European socialist revolution
THERE is no more pathetic sight than that of European bourgeois politicians and economists manically trying to convince both themselves and the world at...
Benefits slashed while bankers prosper
Today Parliament votes on the Tory coalition bill to place a 1% cap on all benefits and tax credits for the next three years...
Defend the NHS – kick the government out
THE final report into the crisis at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Hospital Trust is due to be published in January after a considerable delay. In fact, the...
Labour has no answer to the problems that the working class and middle class...
MILIBAND’S Labour Party yesterday said that if it was the government it would offer the long-term unemployed a guarantee of a six-month job. This...
Benefits cuts frenzy grips coalition
THE New Year has kicked off with a frenzied attack by both Tory and their LibDem coalition partners on the low paid, unemployed, the...
Obama tries to put a sticking plaster over the gaping wounds of US capitalism
US President Barack Obama has hailed the deal reached with the Republican Party to avert a ‘fiscal cliff’ of huge tax rises and spending...
Scabby TUC says it’s powerless and agrees a consensus with Heseltine
AT THE last TUC Congress its leaders were forced by the anger of delegates to accept and agree a resolution that the TUC was...
From Thatcher to Blair and Cameron – a common determination to smash the Welfare...
THE just-released Thatcher papers confirm that the Tory leader had a very real hatred of the NHS and the Welfare State and, along with...
Imperialist Vultures Gather Over Syria
HAVING failed to overthrow President Assad of Syria by force of arms, the imperialist powers are now turning to Russia, and are seeking the...
US workers bracing themselves for ‘fiscal cliff’
THE US labour movement is now bracing itself for a last minute ‘deal’ on the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ with the Republican Party, in which the...
‘Vile police’ and Tory grandees battle it out!
A PETTY incident – the refusal of Downing Street police officers to allow the Tory chief whip to ride his bicycle through the gates...
Only answer to banking crisis is expropriation!
THE COALITION government’s policy to ‘ring-fence’ the banks is at best a cosmetic attempt to appear to be trying to protect retail banking, and...
Greek bourgeoisie organising pogroms
AS the economic crisis continues to tear Greece apart and drives forward a revolutionary surge amongst workers and youth, so it is driving the...
Another British Retreat From Kabul
PM Cameron has told MPs that 3,800 British troops – almost half of the current force serving in Helmand province – are to be...