Irish Trade Unions Put The Tuc To Shame
LAST Friday, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions called a 100,000 strong national demonstration in Dublin, with demonstrations in many other Irish cities and...
Dictatorship in Greece – socialist revolution the only way forward
THE unelected and EU-imposed Greek ‘interim’ PM, Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank who played a major part in getting Greece...
CBI bosses turn on Labour for not hitting working class harder
LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves turned up at the annual conference of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) yesterday to defend her autumn budget in...
Imperialism In Crisis – As Islamist Clients Turn On Their Masters
IMPERIALISM is in disarray. Tens of thousands of Islamist fighters – initially assisted by western governments, such as the UK government, and their secret...
Kerry Calls In Stalinist Bureaucracy To ‘Resolve’ Syrian Crisis
IN its hour of need – with Syria resisting massively the attempt at ‘regime change’ organised by the US-UK-Turkey axis, and carried out by...
Capitalist state gives support to Walsh’s diktat!
THE decision by a Judge in chambers to rule the BA strike action illegal is a major blow at the legal right to strike. It...
308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla 308 bullets fired at Freedom Flotilla blockade busters
ON May 31 this year, Israeli commandos abseiled onto the deck of the ‘Mavi Marmara’, which was sailing in international waters on its way...
Truss portrays herself as Thatcher’s heir as Tories scheme to make war on the...
ON TUESDAY Tory Foreign Secretary Liz Truss used a photo opportunity to stake out her bid to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. The photo...
Japan withdraws troops from Iraq. A blow to Bush & Blair!
PRIME Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced yesterday the withdrawal of the 600 Japanese troops from Iraq by the end of next month. These ‘non combatant’...
Vote For Livingstone! Get The Tories Out!
NEWS LINE urges all of its readers and supporters to vote for Ken Livingstone in the London Mayoral elections today, and to vote Labour...
Bush arrives in Middle East for war talks
US President George W Bush said he saw a new opportunity for peace in the Holy Land as he arrived in Israel on Wednesday...
As Imperialism Hits The Rocks – Forward To The Victory Of The World Socialist...
US AND UK-backed Islamists are on the run from their last stronghold in Idlib province in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported...
The Workers Of The World do Support Palestine – Now Is The Time...
TENS of thousands marched through central London on Saturday reiterating their calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, for the UK to stop arming...
TUC Leader O’Grady To Quit – TUC Must Organise General Strike For June 18th!
THE General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Frances O’Grady, is to step down after nine inglorious years at the helm of the...
HSBC says Italy and Germany better off outside the euro
THE HSBC, one of the world’s major banks, has published a paper called ‘European Meltdown’ in the wake of the Dutch and French votes...
Defeat US-Saudi war provocations in the Gulf – Victory to Iran!
A SPOKESMAN from Iran’s Foreign Ministry yesterday warned of a ‘conspiracy by ill-wishers’ to blame Iran for an imperialist provocation, the ‘sabotage’ of four...
THE TORIES ARE PILING HUGE PRESSURES ONTO GPs AND THE NHS!
HUGE PRESSURES are being put onto GPs in England and Wales. They are so great that doctors are beginning to feel that they are...
Bankers raise interest rates to deepen the slump, and make workers pay for...
THE Bank of England has raised UK interest rates to their highest level for 14 years as it battles to stem soaring prices, by...
Bosses Declare War On Workers With An 80% Hike In Electricity And Gas Bills...
THE UK’s energy bills are set to jump 80 per cent to an average of £3,549 per year from October, regulator Ofgem announced on...
Renationalise All Of The Energy Companies!
THE super-rich energy companies were yesterday accused by MPs of all parties of ‘ripping off’ the poorest people in the country who cannot afford...
Tories split and turn on each other while TUC Congress refuses to take general...
THE Tory Party is now split and divided as the world- wide capitalist crisis deepens and the weakness of the imperialist powers becomes more...
UNITE denounces TTIP but supports Cameron in EU referendum!
THE Unite trade union leadership specialises in doubletalk. One example is the way that it is verbally 100% opposed to the anti-trade union legislation that...
Bank of England pledges to ride to the rescue of capitalism!
THE BANK of England yesterday vowed that it would ride to the rescue of the world’s financial markets by joining with other central banks...
French workers’ refusal to vote for austerity puts socialist revolution on immediate agenda
IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote...
Turkey and Israel are set to announce ‘normalisation’
TURKEY and Israel are to announce an agreement on the normalisation of bilateral ties, ending six years of a freeze in relations, after a...
Super-rich elite is thumbing its nose at super-exploited workers and commuters!
RESEARCH into FTSE 100 chief executives’ pay packages and the just-published findings have confirmed to angry workers that they have been taken for a...
Victory to Libya Bring down the coalition!
AFTER initial hesitation, and no doubt after a talking to by President Obama, and after President Sarkozy jumped the gun with his announcement, the...
End the legal thievery of the super-rich with expropriation and a socialist revolution!
THE SECRET hidden world of the mega rich, giant corporations, hedge funds, politicians, heads of State and the Queen has had the spotlight thrown...
West London Council of Action shows the way – Occupy to defend NHS from...
LAST Friday’s mass picket of Ealing Hospital called by the West London Council of Action has shown the way forward for defending the NHS...
Trade Unions Must Not Stand By And Watch NHS Being Closed!
ON Thursday evening hundreds of Enfield residents were led by the North East London Council of Action into Chase Farm hospital to protest at...
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...
Miners charged with murder – ANC stands with the bosses!
THE SOUTH AFRICAN ANC government and its state apparatus have taken a very clear class stand, alongside international capital, with their decision to charge...
Trump And Allies Plan To Attack And Loot Afghanistan!
PRESIDENT Trump has told the US people he has changed his mind about Afghanistan being a futile conflict, and that now the US, and...
UK CPI rate increase only the start of inflation spiral
YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that the UK inflation rate had more than doubled in April this year as energy costs...
Bank of England demands wage cuts to keep businesses and the government from going...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released figures yesterday on the average pay across the UK, which they claimed saw an increase of 6.2%...
‘Left’ Tsipras government humiliated as workers abstain in general election
SYRIZA (the coalition of the left) party crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of the right-wing New Democracy (ND) party in the...
The US and UK are making war on asylum seekers! Workers trade unions...
THE Biden administration has imprisoned tens of thousands of asylum seekers in US prisons where they suffer lengthy detention, severe physical and psychological harm...
Imperialism planning new crimes in Syria
The UN mission in Libya has just voiced its ‘deep concern’ over the daily and murderous violence in Libya, where innocent people are now...
Tories routed in Clacton – Labour hangs on in Heywood
THURSDAY’S by-election in Clacton, caused by the defection to UKIP of the sitting Tory MP, Douglas Carswell, saw the Tory party completely routed. Carswell won...
Russia Pledges Its Support For Serbia
DEPUTY Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was in Belgrade yesterday for talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Medvedev is...
Localism Bill a cover for mass sackings and privatisation
YESTERDAY saw the Tory-led coalition finally unveil its so-called ‘Localism Bill’, which is central to its plans to make massive cuts in local government...
Obama seeks bloc with Republicans against unions
THE State of the Union speech by President Obama was all about the theme that the only thing that can save the crisis-ridden US...
The Brown Government Is The Enemy Of The People
PREMIER BROWN told his monthly news briefing yesterday of the war that he is waging on the country’s youth and the 110,000 ‘problem families’...
Cameron drives to war
PM Cameron made it perfectly clear in the House of Commons on Wednesday that he is determined to go to war in Syria to...
US government shuts down as ruling class split widens
THE US government has begun to shut itself down after the two houses of Congress failed to agree a budget by midnight Monday. The Republican-led...