Smash the zero-hours, agency worker ‘gig economy’ with a general strike to kick the...
ZERO-hours contracts, zero rights, zero future: this is the vision the Tories have for a ‘modern’ hire and fire workforce, where the Uber model...
World banks on verge of collapse – forward with world socialist revolution
WHEN one of the biggest banks in the world is forced to publish an open letter to staff, investors and depositors that, contrary to...
Italian banks are bust, as is the Italian government – the working class must...
A COLLISION between Italy and the European Union over a bailout of Italy’s collapsed banking system is getting closer by the day. It is...
Zionists are on the march in Jerusalem. The UK trade unions must call a...
NABIL Abu Rudeineh, the spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that East Jerusalem, with its Islamic and Christian holy sites, will remain the...
Cameron Get Out – follow Harper’s lead!
HARD-LINE Tory immigration minister Mark Harper has just resigned after he admitted that he was employing a cleaner who was not legally entitled to...
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...
Brics Challenge To Almighty Dollar!
MOSCOW believes that the US capitalists are targeting it with sanctions ‘because the events in Ukraine have not developed the way Washington scripted them,’...
UK-NATO attempt on Gadaffi’s life fails!
THE murderous attack on the home of Saif al Arab, the youngest son of Colonel Gadaffi, killed Saif and three grand children of the...
Working class must break with Labour now, the only prop of the Tory government...
100 TORY MPs voted against Boris Johnson’s ‘Plan B’ Covid restriction on Tuesday night, defying predictions earlier that Johnson had ‘won over’ a large...
Smash imperialism and Zionism! Victory to Hamas and all Palestinian resistance!
TWENTY THREE bodies were recovered from destroyed buildings in Gaza City yesterday in the wake of the latest bombardment by the Israel Defence Force...
UK capitalism is in its death agony – It is time to organise the...
THE Bank of England yesterday raised interest rates by the most in 33 years from 2.25% to 3%, and accompanied its action with a...
Turn war against Russia into war at home to smash capitalism
Russian president Vladimir Putin, in his address to the Russian parliament yesterday, lay the responsibility for the Russian military action in the Ukraine entirely...
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...
Blair puts ‘the country’ before the Labour Party
BLAIR came clean on at least one issue at his monthly press conference and that was where his loyalties lie. They definitely do not lie...
Hunt throws down the gauntlet – the trade unions must pick it up!
THE Department of Health, headed by Health Secretary Hunt, has said that a proposed 1% increase in NHS staff pay was unaffordable, and is...
Ashdown – Not Wanted In Afghanistan
FOLLOWING the recent expulsion by the Afghan puppet government of two British diplomats – they were carrying out secret negotiations with the Taleban in...
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...
Ten trade union leaders write to Burnham demanding he ends UK support for US...
At the weekend, Labour’s new prime minister Andy Burnham announced he would be undertaking a ‘national tour’ of the country to improve the government’s...
US capitalism in crisis – war at home and abroad is its only way...
US CAPITALISM, the most powerful in the world, is teetering on the brink of collapse under a tidal wave of debt. This dire warning was...
PM Johnson In ‘Intensive Care’ And Labour Is Ready For A National Government
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson is now in intensive care at St Thomas’ hospital, laid low by the coronovirus, perfectly reflecting the state of British...
84,7000 Yemeni children have starved to death! UK workers must bring down the May...
A UK-BASED charity says more than 84,700 children under the age of five have starved to death in Yemen since the Saudi regime and...
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...
Stop Hospital Closures – Halt NHS Privatisation
THAT the record £2.1 billion NHS surplus should coincide with press headlines that the NHS is at breaking point is no accident. The winter has...
Blair’s ‘legacy’– Student debts set to soar!
THIS week, as college and school students receive their A level examination results and consider going to university, the latest survey by the NatWest...
Right wingers killing each other in the Ukraine – while their US-EU masters look...
THE reactionary parties that were assisted by the EU and the US to take power by the coup on February 22 2014, that placed...
US assembles imperialist navy in Red Sea to attack Yemen
ON MONDAY, the US Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin, announced the creation of a ‘multinational security initiative’ – including the UK and major imperialist...
Labour leaders split over increasing income tax and abolishing welfare state!
YESTERDAY’S ‘bombshell U-turn’ over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget plans not to increase income tax has exposed the civil war in...
Osborne seeking showdown with unions
ON Thursday the Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, made an emergency statement to parliament on the international economic crisis that is engulfing British capitalism to...
Defending the NHS means sacking the BMA leadership
THE BMA leadership yesterday came out in favour of NHS rationing. It also supported the NHS having a written constitution, and being run by...
Coalition Crisis Deepening By The Hour
WHATEVER the outcome of yesterday’s by-election in Eastleigh, it spells disaster for the Tory-led coalition government. Should the LibDems scrape a win over the Tories...
‘Cameron ‘wouldn’t last 30 seconds’ if voters back leaving EU
PM Cameron earlier last week insisted he would remain Prime Minister even if he lost the June 23 referendum. This position has been challenged in...
Coalition Policy Is To Financially Collapse Local Authorities
THE House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that ‘multiple’ local authorities are facing financial collapse due to government spending cuts. The...
Revolution not bourgeois aid or charity, the future for Africa
ON Saturday, leaders of the capitalist world, from the Pope and his Cardinals to various Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and not a few Chancellors...
All Trade Unions Must Support The Junior Doctors!
THE decision by the Junior Doctors Committee (JDC) of the BMA to ballot for industrial action is a courageous stand against the government’s imposition...
Ferguson battle anticipates US revolution
THE tactics weaponry and ammunition used in the town of Ferguson, St Louis, by the police and Missouri National Guard, have led to...
The Occupation Is Responsible For All Of The Killings In Palestine
A PALESTINIAN teenager from occupied East Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early on Wednesday in revenge for the killing of three Israeli settler youth...
UK steel industry collapse – occupy to defend jobs, nationalise the steel industry
THE slaughter of the British steel industry continued yesterday with the official announcement by Tata Steel that it is to axe a further 1,050...
German coup attempt, a warning to UK workers as the Tories ready the military...
TWENTY-FIVE people have been arrested in raids across Germany on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government. The group of fascists and far right military...
Nato air strikes clear way for counter-revolutionaries
IT is now crystal clear that the Nato airforces are in Libya to blast a way through the Libyan people, both fighters and civilians,...
Trump considers plans to dump a million Palestinians in Libya
Last Friday, the American national broadcaster NBC News reported that White House sources had told it that the Donald Trump administration is actively considering...
Brown champions more police powers and public sector pay cuts
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown told police chiefs yesterday that he will do ‘everything to give you the resources’ and ‘we will not shirk from giving...
US opens missile base in Romania and plans for bases in Poland and Hungary
AS the worldwide crisis of capitalism deepens, the war preparations of the US and the NATO powers are becoming more frantic, with plans to...
Taliban Wins The War!
THE news that the United States and Britain are going to the United Nations security council to push for UN sanctions against 18 top...
General Council must be made to resign for refusing to fight anti-union Bill!
YESTERDAY morning, the TUC commented on the vote in the House of Commons on the third reading of the Trade Union Bill, which is...
May government is Thatcherite says the Resolution Foundation
THE just-published Resolution Foundation’s annual audit of living standards shows that the May government, far from seeking to lighten the load of the poor,...