UN Forces Quit Mitrovica
THE divided town of Mitrovica was in turmoil yesterday morning, after UNMIK police and KFOR troops, in a major provocation, stormed a local court...
Nationalise the energy companies to end fuel poverty
PM Brown has rejected out of hand the trade union demand for a Windfall Tax on the oil, gas and energy companies, that are...
Bank rate rigging ‘Everyone was at it’
The crisis resulting from the bank rate rigging scandal that has engulfed Barclays took a dramatic turn over the weekend with the revelation that...
Macron convenes crisis meeting after rushing back to France from EU summit!
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron convened a crisis meeting yesterday amid a wave of working class uprisings that engulfed France after a 17-year-old driver was...
TUC must heed the call from Palestinian trade unions and call a general strike...
THE UN agency for Palestinian refugees yesterday issued the latest dire warning that time is running out for any chance of averting a catastrophic...
Reid rants against foreigners ‘stealing our benefits’
YESTERDAY Home Secretary John Reid showed that patriotism is indeed the last refuge of a scoundrel when he attacked foreigners for ‘stealing our benefits’....
Austerity and Universal Credit to continue!
TORY chancellor Philip Hammond made a climb down in his budget speech yesterday to Theresa May, but there was no climb down over continuing...
UK government must answer war crimes charges in both Iraq and Yemen!
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has condemned UK war crimes in both the Yemen and in Iraq. In the Yemen UK-supplied weaponry to Saudi Arabia has been...
‘Bleak Houses’ and desperate living conditions for workers and youth in the UK –...
THE REPORT by Anne Longfield, the Children’s Commissioner for England, ‘Bleak houses: Tackling the crisis of family homelessness in England’, reveals the ‘terrible reality’...
Forward to the Greek Socialist revolution
SUNDAY’S general election in Greece saw the working class voting for Syriza, because of the lack of any revolutionary alternative, to keep the New...
Nationalise the motor car industry to defend wages and jobs
THE international banking system has collapsed, the steel industries of the planet are in slump, and the US and Japanese motor car giants...
Germany crashes into recession – socialist revolution the only answer to capitalist crisis
THE GERMAN economic recession has deepened, with the number of corporate insolvencies in the country sharply increasing in July. Almost a quarter more companies filed...
Victory to the Palestinian people – British trade unions must strike to stop Israel’s...
NEWS LINE salutes the heroic determination of the Palestinian people in their struggle against the illegal and brutal Israeli occupation of their land. Yesterday, hundreds...
Sunak Budget to prepare for mass unemployment and austerity war on workers
MANY of the measures announced in yesterday’s Budget by Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak had been widely publicised in the run up to his appearance...
Forward to a public sector general strike to smash Brown’s wage cutting policies
GMB members working in the NHS yesterday voted by over 96% to reject the 2008 pay offer in a consultative ballot on the government’s...
Strike to support nurses and defend the NHS!
THE anger of nurses working in the National Health Service (NHS) at having a pay cut imposed upon them this year, by the government...
Unite workers to go forward to socialism
THE two wings of the bourgeoisie are now going at it hammer and tongs to both exploit and abuse workers from the new EU...
Obama Authorises Use Of US Air Power Against Assad!
PRESIDENT Obama has given his authorisation for US air power to be used to support the forces that the US and Turkey are training,...
Israeli regime is in a desperate crisis while the Palestinian masses have emerged stronger...
ISRAEL has emerged out of its failed military attempt to crush Hamas much weaker and much more crisis-ridden, while the Palestinians are now much...
Work till you drop for the working class
LORD Turner, the ex-CBI boss, is proposing that workers work a number of extra years before they take the state pension. Turner says that...
Support Catalan independence! Down with the Spanish and EU ruling classes! Forward to a...
CATALAN leader Carles Puigdemont has called for a ‘democratic opposition’ to the imposition of direct rule from Madrid after the Spanish government terminated his...
Nationalise The Motor Car Industry
US and European car employers yesterday warned that ‘their’ industry faced wipeout, ‘victims’ of the slump in the motor car industry and the financial...
FBU pensions victory sets precedent for all public service workers
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) won a massive victory not only for their members but for all public service workers when the employment tribunal...
The TUC Must Make Its Stand! Now Is The Time To Call A General...
THE annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) that starts this Sunday in Brighton is taking place as British capitalism is crumbling under...
Democrats revolt against Obama!
PRESIDENT Obama’s attempt to establish a cheaper insurance market that would provide full cover for up to 40 million poor Americans is under all-out...
Please help us – Hague appeals to Russia & China!
SPEAKING at the Royal United Services Institute on Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Hague reported that: ‘On January 16th, a terrorist group linked to Al...
Bank and government split as crisis deepens
THE decision of the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King to name and shame the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Darling, as...
Hague Must Resign Over Libyan Debacle
THE latest NATO war crime, the bombing of the Libyan TV station, killing three technicians, was a repeat of a similar war crime,...
Tory MPs demand May resigns while Labour refuses to call for her removal
THERESA May returned from her Easter break to face Tory MPs united in demanding her resignation. Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, met...
An all-out assault on the working class and the poor
TORY attempts to convince the working class, the middle class and the poor that the ‘recovery’ has begun and things are looking better, are...
Starmer’s Labour declares war on refugees!
ON Wednesday, Labour prime minister, and former human rights lawyer, Keir Starmer declared that the Labour government is preparing for a war on asylum...
The Tory attack on Hamas is an attack on all Palestinians and the working...
LAST Friday, the Tory plan to designate the political wing of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas as a ‘terrorist organisation’ was nodded through Parliament...
Pogromist Johnson Speaks Up For The Security Services
BORIS JOHNSON writes in Monday’s Daily Telegraph, in the wake of the Rigby trial, ‘the most important question now is how we prevent other...
Blair skating on the thinnest of thin ice
PRIME Minister Blair has been secretly questioned, for a second time, by police investigating allegations that honours were sold for cash by his government....
More fare rises! Re-nationalise the railways!
YESTERDAY the main rail unions held a series of protests at rail stations which involved the handing out of postcards to commuters detailing the...
As world crisis deepens the UK working class needs to take power and bring...
THE working class of the world faces a revolutionary autumn and winter, as the major imperialist powers step up their war in the Ukraine...
Defend jobs, wages and basic rights – forward to a workers government
JOBS are now going in a huge avalanche. The Lloyds Banking Group, where the government has the major stake, is set to begin a...
Clinton Beats The War Drums
SPEAKING to students at a Qatar university during a tour of the Gulf region designed to whip up anti-Iran feeling, US Secretary of State...
Unite votes for speed-up and savage cuts at GM Vauxhall
THE Vauxhall-Opel GM bosses statement put out yesterday claimed as its subject: ‘Vauxhall and Opel employees dive into their pockets to support the company...
Right Sector Leader Advising The Military
THIS week all pretence that the illegal regime, that took power in an imperialist-inspired and financed coup last year, rests on ‘popular democratic’ support,...
Hamas calls for the ‘criminalisation of the Israeli occupation’ of Palestine!
ON World Humanitarian Day, the Hamas movement called for ‘criminalising the occupation’s violations against humanitarian work, and stopping its escalating terrorism against the Gaza...
Zionist troops leave bombs disguised as toys to kill children in Gaza
THE DIRECTOR General of Health Affairs in the Gaza Strip, Munir Al-Bursh, on Sunday revealed that Israeli Occupation Forces had left behind amongst the...
May has capitulated to the EU and looks to Labour for rescue! Time for...
TORY PM May’s latest capitulation to the European Union over Brexit has been met with furious anger from Brexiteers and others in her own...
US Ex-Soldier Diplomat Resigns In Protest At Afghan War
WHILE President Obama remains undecided and continues to dither about what the US strategy should be in Afghanistan, his diplomats are making their...
Syria’s victory over the imperialist powers will transform Middle East
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad confirmed yesterday that his government will pardon all ‘militants’ who turn in their weapons, stressing that the policy has been...