Smash the Bedroom Tax with a general strike!
A GRANDMOTHER, who because of the Bedroom Tax, had to pay an extra £20 a week, has thrown herself in front of a...
Under Brown They Don’t Pay Any Any Taxes
GORDON Brown in his budget got rid of the lowest rate of tax, 10p in the pound, thereby setting out to further punish the...
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...
US Democrats protest at Israeli attacks on Palestinians – the British TUC does nothing!
ON SUNDAY, thousands of right wing Israeli settlers stormed Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem to mark the so-called flag march in the Old...
Time For The UK Trade Unions To Take Strike Action In Support Of Palestine!
THE top United Nations human rights official has warned of the worsening situation for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the ‘unconscionable death...
Business Secretary Cable Tells Vauxhall Workers: You’Re On Your Own!
LAST MAY the Unite union leaders agreed for their members in the UK that they would provide savings of 106m euros over four years,...
BA seeks to put the boot into Heathrow workers
BA is seeking to put the boot into its workforce at Heathrow to create a climate of intimidation and fear. It has announced in its...
May’s Britain a hostile place for workers and youth – Now is the time...
DESTITUTION under May’s crippled Tory government is soaring to levels not seen since the Victorian times. The roll-out of Universal Credit has created...
Forward to Palestine
HAMAS on Sunday, along with the other Palestinian factions in Gaza, agreed to another 24-hour truce. Hamas’ statement read: ‘In response to the UN’s...
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...
Trade unions must act to defend workers’ standard of living
THE Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King has proclaimed that the crisis of capitalism means huge ongoing cuts in the standard of...
US not winning in Afghanistan admits US military chief
ADMIRAL Mullen the US chief of the general staff has stated that he is not convinced that the US is winning the war in...
Shell bites the dust – forward to the political revolution
THE massive Royal Shell energy giant, which purchased the Sakhalin-2 concession for a song from Boris Yeltsin, was yesterday brought down to earth with...
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...
‘Strongman’ Sunak tells unions there will be no talks and that they must accept...
THE British capitalist class and their government are now up to their necks in a massive crisis, that no attempts at fake bravado, or...
Italian Workers And Youth Throw A Giant Spanner Into The Eu Works!
THE Italian general election results have shaken the European Union after the governing ‘Centre Left’ pro-EU coalition, led by Matteo Renzi, got just 22.8%...
PLO US office victory – Now forward to the independent state of Palestine
THE TRUMP administration performed an abrupt U-turn last week when it reversed a decision made just the week before to close the diplomatic mission...
13,000 children killed in Gaza, while former Israeli general warns the Zionist regime has...
ISRAEL has killed over 13,000 children in Gaza since the start of its genocidal war according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF Executive...
Blair Demands More Police State Measures
AT A TIME when his office is on trial over the state execution of Jean Charles de Menezes, Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair...
UK Opts For Syria Regime Change
WITH its recognition of the Syrian ‘opposition’ as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, the UK has joined France, Saudi Arabia and...
Pharmaceutical companies exploit the sick for profit – expropriate them now!
THE LATEST scandal over the obscene profits of giant pharmaceutical companies emerged this week with the news that campaigners are demanding that the Tory...
Blair’s call for an ‘alliance’ to attack Iran
PRIME Minister Tony Blair told businessmen from Britain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dubai yesterday: ‘We must mobilise our alliance of moderation...
TUC must call a general strike to ensure all ‘independent contractors’ have workers’...
THE TORY plan to reduce Britain to a slave labour, hire-and-fire, zero-hours economy is now being challenged powerfully by groups of young workers. With the...
Only a socialist revolution can win the Tamils’ right to self-determination
THE News Line salutes the heroic self-sacrifice of the Tamil Tigers and the Tamil people as a whole. They have fought and are fighting not...
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...
TUC must call a general strike in support of junior doctors and the NHS
TODAY Emergency Motion E5 is to be heard and voted on at the TUC Congress in Brighton. Despite being called ‘Support for the BMA and...
French working class must take power to begin the European Socialist revolution!
NEARLY a quarter of a million French workers have taken part in mass rallies across the country against the French fascists, calling on the...
Abolish The Gangmasters!
THE scandal of the gangmasters has caused uproar in the working class, but the leaders of the trade union movement are helping to cover...
IMF Declares UK Economy going bust
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, issued the gravest warning yet on the state of the UK economy on Tuesday,...
Foreign Secretary Hunt prostrates himself before the USA and President Trump!
FOREIGN Secretary Hunt’s debut in the USA saw him prostrate himself in front of US imperialism in the most fawning and sychophantic manner. He...
As the Tories sanction Russia, UK workers have to pay the bill with massive...
ENERGY bills are set to rise to an eye-watering £3,000 a year which will undoubtedly plunge millions of families into fuel poverty, where they...
Rates On Hold As Economy Folds!
UK interest rates were kept on hold at 0.5% yesterday, the 26th month in a row that the Bank of England has left interest...
Youth &workers need British socialist revolution as they bear the brunt of the UK...
YOUNG people are bearing the brunt of the jobs crisis. Under 35s accounted for 80% of the 811,000 payroll jobs lost in the UK...
Fed policy of ‘draining liquidity’ will trigger new crash! End bankrupt capitalism with socialist...
WORLD capitalism is on the verge of an even bigger, catastrophic economic collapse and there is absolutely nothing the central banks or governments can...
Form Public Sector Alliance to defeat the Brown government
THE Brown government is showing clearly and conclusively that it stands with the bosses, the bankers, and the employers against the workers and their...
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...
The Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action To Bring Down Tories!
THE UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories says the Israeli military has ‘intentionally killed’ the aid...
Anti-Russian Pogrom At The G20!
PRESIDENT PUTIN has left the G20 summit in Australia early after a relentless attack on Russia was mounted by the USA-UK axis and its...
The ‘Mortgage Bomb’ is about to explode, pauperising the middle class, with inflation shredding...
THE news from the mortgage front is grim. Millions of families are experiencing shocking hikes in mortgage rates of hundreds of pounds per month,...
Hayes & Ward must go! Build a new leadership in the CWU!
AS 2,000 postal workers were gearing up for a 24-hour strike on Friday against Royal Mail’s plans to close mail centres, Dave Ward, the...
230,000 tenants face eviction as ban ends this weekend – Only socialist revolution can...
ON SATURDAY the ban on evicting tenants in England and Wales, introduced by the Tories at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, is due...
98 deaths in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan
ON the brink of the third anniversary of the Anglo-US invasion of Iraq, the US based Human Rights First organisation has released a report...
Two State Solution Was A Trap For Palestinians
ISRAEL’S tactic in the ongoing ‘peace talks’ with the Palestine National Authority has been to carry on stalling, for the last ten years, agreeing...
THE STERN REVIEW: Trust me, I’m a banker!
ON WEDNESDAY Sir Nicholas Stern presented his Review of the Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by Chancellor Gordon Brown. Stern is the Chief Economist...
Stop US-UK terrorism – No war on Syria – Bring down the Tories –...
THE last few days has seen an acceleration in terrorist activity of all types. The first terrorist attack was last Thursday when the US...