News Line Editorial Board New Year Statement
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary New Year greetings for 2026 to the Palestinian people whose intransigence and resistance against Zionism...
EU torn apart by Covid pandemic – forward to Socialist United States of...
THE DEADLY third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is ripping the EU apart over vaccinations and lockdowns. In Germany, with 9,549 new cases and 180...
Unite suspends Angela Rayner – now is the time for the working class to...
LAST FRIDAY, the Unite union’s annual policy conference overwhelmingly passed an emergency motion condemning both the local Labour-controlled council and the Labour government over...
Starmer Declares For Thatcher And Confirms He Is An Out And Out Enemy Of...
LABOUR leader Starmer has yet again stabbed the working class in the back, with his praise for Margaret Thatcher, the Tory leader who sought...
Stop Bedroom Tax! End evictions! Unions must act!
THE warning given over the weekend by the head of one of the leading housing associations that the bedroom tax will lead to mass...
One word ‘strike’ sends the TUC into a spin
EARLIER this week the News Line stated that it would not be enough to adopt a programme at the current TUC Congress, but that...
TUC on its knees – time for a revolutionary leadership!
THE TUC New Year’s message (see page 3) has been delivered with TUC general secretary O’Grady on her knees appealing to the bosses and...
Labour plans to criminalise the entire working class
THE government is planning ‘behaviour orders’ for people considered to be at risk of committing a violent crime. Class prejudice, ie racial and working...
Central Bankers warn of new financial crash
THE Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has broken ranks with the IMF and the World Bank and issued a grim warning to the ruling...
Macron desperate to reassert French imperial rule in Lebanon
FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron stepped up his blatant interference in Lebanon on Sunday when he issued Lebanese politicians an ultimatum that they must form...
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...
US troops flee from Afghan fighters – time to quit Afghanistan
US and Afghan troops have quit the village where Taleban fighters fought their way into a US base and killed nine US soldiers wounding...
Lecturers & students must strike to end all university fees and restore grants!
THE LATEST increase in university tuition fees in England to £9,250 by the Tory government has been launched without any announcement from the Department...
‘We are not asking the west to choose our leaders’
THIS was the defiant and revolutionary message that came out of Egypt from demonstrators, and was shown in the western media, in response to...
The ‘Gig Economy’ is capitalism’s only future for the working class – time to...
MINICAB firm Addison Lee is the latest in a long line of gig economy employers to be up in court arguing for their right...
Trump Leaps Into War With Syria – Where He Leads, The UK Ruling Class...
PRESIDENT Trump in his televised statement on Thursday night insisted that launching a 59-strong cruise missile attack on Syria was ‘in the national security...
Kerry threatens Assad with ‘total destruction of the ceasefire – and then back to...
US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that seeking military gains will not end the ‘civil war’. He added there...
‘The Next Global Shock Will Be Like An Earthquake!’
EUROZONE manufacturing activity has hit a three-year low at the same time as the banking crisis is reaching explosion point. Greece has run out...
UK recession ‘inevitable’ – only socialist revolution can end capitalist crisis
THE FICTION of a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ for British capitalism is now firmly rejected by even the most loyal of...
Baker Reveals Iraq Get Out Plan
A PANEL of White House advisers led by a former Secretary of State, James Baker, is reported to be recommending a major shift of...
Force Blair out now! Forward to a workers’ government!
YESTERDAY was a letter writing day for Labour MPs. There were at least three different letters circulating among Labour MPs, including one signed by the...
The working people of the world must NOW take action to establish the...
THE Palestinian presidency on Wednesday expressed its great thanks and appreciation for the strong and clear Saudi position expressed in the Saudi statement issued...
Nationalise BA to defend wages, jobs and pensions
BA managers were yesterday pledging a ‘fight to the death’ with the Unite trade union and its members to force through cuts in wages,...
Grenfell Towers are everywhere! Capitalism cannot be regulated, it must be overthrown!
THE TORY government is pushing its Building Safety Bill that it says addresses the big issue of fire safety raised by the horrific Grenfell...
Capitalism hits end of the road – forward to the World Socialist Revolution!
NEWLY installed Prime Minister Andy Burnham is embarking on a whistlestop tour of the UK in a frantic attempt to ‘reconnect’ with workers across...
Jamaican High Commissioner demands halt deportations! End May’s hostile environment by kicking the Tories...
‘WE MAY very well be deporting people who are entitled to be here,’ the Jamaican High Commissioner said, calling on the UK government to...
More and more repression in Brown’s Queen’s Speech
THE Queen’s Speech yesterday outlined yet more attacks in the coming parliament on workers and youth in Britain by the Brown government, alongside a...
Bigot Straw Stirs Up Division Amongst Workers
LABOUR MP Straw has been a Blackburn MP for 27 years and has long been aware that numbers of Muslim women in Blackburn wear...
The TUC Congress must demand that the State of Palestine is established from the...
THE Palestinian Centre for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared has called on the international community to take serious and effective action to compel Israel...
Revolution in Zimbabwe – working class must take the power in Zimbabwe and...
TENS OF THOUSANDS of workers and youth have marched to President Mugabe’s office and residence and say that they will stay there till he...
Defend state education, stop privatisation!
TODAY'S joint strike by two unions at Middlesex University must be the start of action to defend jobs and the very existence of a...
State Death Squads In The UK
Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan’s investigation began more than three years ago when Belfast welder Raymond McCord claimed that his son, also called Raymond, had...
Tories boost their navy in the Gulf, part of a ‘Maritime Coalition’ against Iran!...
TORY foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to ‘reverse cuts to the size of the Royal Navy’ if he becomes prime minister. Hunt has...
Starmer’s ‘reshuffle’ sidelines Reeves and provokes a financial meltdown of British capitalism
THE UK parliament returned from the summer holidays on Monday and Labour prime minister Keir Starmer immediately caused a meltdown in the economy. The immediate...
Imperialist drive to war with Russia takes leap forward
THE war preparations by the imperialist nations against Russia took a giant leap forward this week with NATO and non-NATO troops massed in north-western...
Build Fourth International Throughout Africa
THE victory of the strike of the Lonmim miners will inspire not just the workers of South Africa and Africa as a whole, but...
Massive price increases for millions of workers yesterday while giant energy companies make billions...
YESTERDAY was dubbed ‘Awful April’ in the press, as millions of households throughout the UK were hit by massive price increases across the board...
The world crisis and the fascist slaughter in Norway
THE fascist, Breivik, who carried out the mass murder of up to 100, mainly youth in Oslo and attempted to murder the Labour Prime...
Right wing Labour puts Corbyn and McDonnell on a very short Leash!
SIR Keir Starmer, Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary speaking at a Chatham House conference, has said that Labour will not support any Brexit deal negotiated...
IMF demands destruction of welfare state to save capitalism from debt crisis Answer bankers...
THE IMF (International Monetary Fund) this week sounded the alarm bells for the world capitalist crisis when it announced the real scale of the...
End The Dirty War In Afghanistan!
THE deaths of two more British soldiers, blown up by IEDs in Afghanistan, has brought the total number of British troops killed in...
Forced Labour schemes in crisis – bring down the coalition
A concerted public relations exercise has been launched to vilify the unemployed and attack critics of its flagship policy of forcing those on Jobseekers...
Palestinians Condemn Trump – Now The UK Trade Unions Must Take General Strike Action...
PALESTINIAN factions have condemned US President Donald Trump’s statements, in which he discussed the possibility of displacing the residents of the Gaza Strip to...
Imperialist War Equals Massacre And Dehumanisation
A US SOLDIER in Afghanistan has killed at least 16 civilians and wounded five men, women and children. Nato said it was investigating...
The April Wall Street crash ‘worst since 1932’ as recession hits the US
‘TRUMP rout is taking on historic dimensions’ was how American financial paper, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), described the news yesterday that the Dow...