Economic tsunami to hit Japan
‘We have been humbled by nature’ the Japanese ambassador to Britain said of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that has devastated northern Japan with...
Al-Aqsa Mosque a ‘flashpoint’ in the fight to end Israeli occupation of Palestine
THE ISRAELI refusal to remove metal detectors from the outside of the Jerusalem compound which contains the al-Aqsa Mosque is fast becoming a flashpoint...
The slump deepens as Labour steps up attacks on the poorest
UK Gross Domestic Product fell in the three months from April to June by 0.7% confirming that the slump is deepening and that the...
Lansley calls to ‘break down the system’
TORY coalition Health Secretary Andrew Lansley addressed the BMA doctors union conference in Brighton yesterday, telling delegates: ‘Every step we take we must take...
Not just European banks but world capitalism is a ‘lost cause’
THE panic gripping the world capitalist class over the impending crash of the banking system reached another new level on Monday with the publication...
Tories and Labour unite to bar Bulgars and Romanians
THE Tory Party yesterday called for restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania when these countries shortly join the EU. The Tory Party immigration...
Scrap Universal Credit and the Tory government with it!
‘THIS IS a time for revolution not patching,’ said Anthony Painter, Director of Action & Research at the Royal Society of Arts, calling for...
British capitalism is bankrupt! Build the WRP and the Fourth International to lead...
AMIDST a crashing pound and the soaring cost of a Labour government that is borrowing billions, Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves fled to China on...
Workers & youth take on the French government
THOUSANDS of students took to the streets in major cities throughout France yesterday in the struggle against Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s First Employment...
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...
Tories Accuse Striking Nurses Of Murder As They Move To Knife NHS With Privatisation!
YESTERDAY Tory Health Secretary Barclay, who is refusing to negotiate with the NHS trade unions over NHS pay, accused striking nurses of putting patients’...
UK planning for war right across the Mediterranean!
THE imperialist powers are now working overtime to explode the Mediterranean region, from Libya to Turkey, into one huge raging fire. The UN Security Council...
Leaving the European Union will require a workers socialist revolution!
PM MAY last Monday afternoon, in her first statement to MPs in parliament since her Florence speech last month and her debacle at the...
A desperate Trump warns ‘clock is ticking’ as US threatens to escalate war on Iran
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump issued his latest threat to Iran on Sunday saying that the ‘clock is ticking’ and telling the Iranians they must...
Sack Ian Blair and disband police death squads
YESTERDAY’S De Menezes family press conference gave its view of the Stockwell 2 document drawn up by the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission). ...
PCS strike – No compromise with Tories possible. A general strike to kick them...
OVER 500 members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) came out on strike this...
Assad is ready for a national referendum for Syrians to decide on their...
CURRENTLY parallel with the peace talks in Astana, uninvited Turkish and US forces are operating in Syria in a move to attempt...
Israel commits mass murder with impunity as the West steps up its campaign for...
THE WEST’S ‘bastion of freedom and democracy’ in the Middle East, Zionist Israel, yesterday launched deadly attacks on a UN school housing hundreds of...
Managers oppose the ‘enormous risk’ of the NHS White Paper
NHS managers have warned in a report from the NHS Confederation that the Lansley NHS White Paper will lead to hospital closures and constitutes...
End the Israeli occupation of Palestine!
IT IS 40 years since Israeli warplanes destroyed the Egyptian airforce on the ground and Israeli troops occupied the Sinai peninsula, occupied Syria’s Golan...
Tories fund campaign of on-line attacks on Corbyn by ‘shadowy’ charity run by ex-military
AT THE WEEKEND the Scottish newspaper the Daily Record published leaked documents that claims to reveal that a small ‘charity’, based in Fife and...
GPs under the heel of Labour’s NHS ‘reforms’
THE Brown government has bullied NHS GPs in the most brutal and cowardly fashion, and has given them an offer that they could not...
‘Dozens Of Conspiracies’ But ‘Terror Threat Level’ Downgraded
HOME Secretary Reid, who has been making people’s blood run cold with his tales of dozens of conspiracies and thousands of terrorists, has reduced...
US imperialism is determined to step up its intervention into Syria
PLANNING for military intervention by the imperialist powers into Syria, to overthrow the regime of president Assad, was stepped up this week with growing...
Times Rich List shows that austerity UK has become a paradise for the...
THE just-published Sunday Times rich list shows that in austerity-hit UK – where millions of workers have not had a rise in the ten...
Build a revolutionary leadership in the unions
THE CRISIS that has erupted this week over the question of the Tory government’s determination to keep schools open in the face of the...
The ‘Peace Process’ is a Fraud!
THE long-serving Palestinian prisoners whom Israel has pledged to release, and whose pledge prepared the way for the Palestinian leader Abbas to reopen the...
Oil giants make huge profits – nationalise oil and energy industries now!
WHILE workers face skyrocketing energy bills forcing millions to go without heat this winter the giant oil and gas company Shell has announced annual...
UK must follow Ireland’s lead and organise general strike action in support of Palestine!
RTE, Ireland’s national broadcaster, announced on Thursday that Ireland will not take part in next year’s Eurovision song contest if Israel is a contestant,...
House nuisance neighbours in containers says Field
LABOUR’S war against the working class and the poor continues, with Birkenhead MP Frank Field advocating that nuisance neighbours should be evicted and ‘housed’...
Stop All Arms Supplies To Israel – Impose Worldwide Trade Boycott
HAMAS has accused Israel of violating the temporary ceasefire on Tuesday. It’s spokesman Moussa Abu Marzouq said on Wednesday that Israel ‘ended the truce...
General Strike to defend the NHS!
On the eve of its annual conference the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has produced damning evidence that explodes the lies that the savage...
Bourgeois Democracy Is A Fraud! Brexit Needs A Socialist Revolution!
ON TUESDAY night prime minister Theresa May suffered a humiliating defeat on a vote on the Tory finance bill - when an amendment which...
The lesson from the tower block fire disaster is stop the fire service cuts!
SIX people have been confirmed dead and many are missing after a huge fire engulfed a 24-storey North Kensington tower block, Grenfell Tower, after...
Panic-stricken Trump lifts embargo on Russian oil and dumps Zelensky
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had agreed a deal with Russian president Vladimir Putin for Russia to supply hundreds of...
Tories refusal to implement fire safety tests puts millions at risk of another Grenfell...
NINE months after the fire at Grenfell Tower that caused the horrific deaths of 71 people, all the Tory pledges that never again would...
Kick out TUC leaders who refuse to fight mass unemployment – build a revolutionary...
INTERVIEWED on Sky’s Sophy Ridge programme on Sunday, TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady appealed for the Tories to unite with the TUC, saying: ‘Let’s...
Tory hostile environment alive and well and making a profit for the government!
A NEWSPAPER investigation has revealed that the Home Office has been making huge profits out of the human misery of the Tories’ ‘hostile environment’...
Gove And May Brazen It Out As Labour Refuses To Demand Resignations
WHAT stood out like a sore thumb when the emergency question was put to Home Secretary May in the House of Commons, on Monday...
Deepening capitalist crisis is driving the US-UK axis to war with Russia!
US DEFENCE Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the US fleet of warships to remain in the Mediterranean Sea, driving up the tensions between the...
Reject ‘unlimited fees’, restore free state education
LORD BROWNE’S Review was published yesterday, recommending unlimited tuition fees for university, with ‘the market’ setting the level. The coalition’s Business, Innovation and Skills Secretary,...
Workers Of The World Unite! UK Workers Must Welcome All Refugees And Bring...
THE Fire Brigades Union is justly proud to have coordinated the following statement, which was passed as a resolution at its Executive Council last...
EU, US and UK rulers are provoking war in the Ukraine! Workers of the...
BRITISH forces arrived yesterday in Ukraine to ‘train up Ukrainian troops’ while the US has sent in weapons, to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to...
Data bases and electronic spying won’t save the bourgeoisie
THE inventor of the genetic technology behind the national DNA database has said that the database’s unlimited expansion to include millions of people who...
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...