Unite members elect Sharon Graham as General Secretary to take on employers and Tories
SHARON Graham yesterday was elected as general secretary of the Unite union to replace Len McCluskey securing 37.6% of the vote. Graham, who was considered...
The PM’s wife can speak out on rights – but the TUC cannot!
THE scale of the crisis that has hit capitalist Britain is now so great that it has forced the Prime Minister’s wife, Cherie...
Syria refuses to give way to imperialism
THE news that the Obama regime is demanding the complete withdrawal of Hezbollah fighters from Syria marks a decisive development in the increasingly desperate...
Bin Laden killing opens Obama election campaign
When US President, Barack Obama, announced on Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a dawn raid by US special forces...
Zionist regime humiliated as Palestinians rise-up – Forward to The State of Palestine
ISRAEL was dealt a massive humiliating blow early Monday morning when six Palestinian prisoners tunnelled their way out of the Gilbao maximum-security jail. Five of...
UK carriers are ready to be deployed against the Houthis. UK workers must kick...
THE UK’s aircraft carriers are ready to be deployed to fight the Houthis, and to threaten war with the Iranian revolution, was the message...
Come to the News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance conference
ON Saturday June 29, the News Line daily newspaper will be having a joint conference with the All Trades Unions Alliance, the body that...
German crisis – the beginning of the end for the EU!
A MONTH of intensive talks designed to cobble together a new coalition government in Germany ended late Sunday night when the pro-business Free Democratic...
Bankrupt capitalism is responsible for 100,000 deaths in UK – Only a socialist revolution...
ON TUESDAY, the UK officially recorded 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 with half of these deaths being recorded since November 2020. Even this terrible number of...
Anger grows against Royal Mail’s pensions onslaught
ROYAL MAIL managers have overwhelmingly rejected changes to their pensions in a ballot. Their union, Unite, revealed yesterday that there was an 85-per-cent vote...
Victory to Assad – Forward to the Palestinian state!
MAKING use of Russian air power, the Syrian army is now pressing forward on all fronts, driving back the Islamists who are now negotiating...
Reject May’s deal! No capitulation! BREAK WITH THE EU NOW! Forward to Socialism!
TORY PM May’s crisis over her Brexit deal, which is a complete capitulation to the EU, is reaching explosion point. She was the...
JOHN KERRY’S LAST STAND! – derided by Netanyahu!
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu damned US Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Wednesday over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict saying that it was biased...
Biden releases heavily redacted documents to ‘prove’ no Saudi involvement in 9/11 attack
ON THE 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the twin towers in New York the FBI released a newly declassified 16-page document detailing...
May begs EU for further delay! Workers must rise for a ‘no deal’ break...
TORY PM Theresa May has written to the President of the European Council Donald Tusk begging for yet another delay to Brexit, this time...
Tory coronavirus inquiry is an attempt to put off reckoning with working class
ON WEDNESDAY, Tory prime minister Boris Johnson announced that there would be ‘a full and independent inquiry’ into the government handling of the coronavirus...
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...
Sarkozy sentenced to three years for corruption – Cameron still evades justice!
FRENCH ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in jail, two of them suspended, for corruption. He was convicted of trying to...
Atos & Capita to be paid £700m to throw disabled off benefits! Kick Atos,...
THE TORY government have turned their fire against one of the most vulnerable sections of society: disabled people. The government has launched a three-pronged attack:...
Tories want to criminalise anyone ‘undermining’ capitalism
ON SATURDAY, the Guardian reported that the Tories are working towards a new definition of ‘extremism’ that includes anyone who ‘undermines British institutions or...
Hamas urges workers of the world to take action and salutes the growing mass...
IN A statement issued on Friday to mark International Jerusalem Day, Hamas declared that the occasion arrives this year as the Palestinian people steadfastly...
Stop The Dirty War In The Yemen!
AT PM’s Questions, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Corbyn raised the issue of the UK’s sale of...
Bank of England implicated in illegal Libor rigging
THE Bank of England, the UKs central bank and guardian of the country’s banking system, along with being responsible for the running of British...
The bosses are dumping their crisis onto the backs of workers. It is time...
YESTERDAY nine members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase the interest rate from 1.25% to 1.75%. This is the sixth...
By-elections spell out depth of the coalition crisis
LABOUR has won three by-elections, holding Croydon North, Middlesbrough and Rotherham, while the coalition governing parties were wiped out. The Tories came behind UKIP, their...
Trade unions must take action to defend state pension!
ON WEDNESDAY the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, David Gauke, cynically used the fact that parliament was closing down for the holidays to announce...
Answer Johnson’s war on the right to strike with a general strike and a...
HOURS after winning the December 12 election, Tory leader Johnson at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in central London announced that ‘We now speak...
Israeli worthless promise to de-escalate violence against Palestinians immediately followed by murderous settler attack
ON SUNDAY, a meeting in Jordan between top Israeli and Palestinian officials, called in a bid to halt the surge in deadly violence by...
Three party leaders make a ‘Vow’ that they cannot carry out!
YESTERDAY saw a LibDem, Tory and Labour Party coalition scrambling to promise anything and everything in a desperate effort to save the UK...
Halt the NHS race to the bottom
AT a time when the privately owned treatment centres are being handed billions of pounds of the NHS Budget, without any investigation of just...
Imperialists step up war preparations against Iran
A report from the director of US national intelligence, James Clapper, issued last Tuesday signalled that imperialism’s war preparations against Iran have reached the...
UN expert slams group of democratic states for ‘psychological torture’ of Julian Assange
The United Nations expert on torture has condemned the psychological torture inflicted on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying: ‘In 20 years of work with...
Warning over High Street ‘recession’
SHOP sales in May were only 1.4 per cent up on the same month in 2005. Comparing the same products and shops, sales were...
Pfi Robbers Are On The Job! Expropriate Them Now!
THE PRIVATE Finance Initiative (PFI) that Gordon Brown introduced during the Brown-Blair Labour governments has provided a cash bonanza of hundreds of billions for...
Starmer Wants To Impose EU Laws Onto The UK Working Class
PM SIR KEIR STARMER has just unveiled legislation that will give the power to the PM to adopt EU legislation without giving MPs a...
Occupy to stop car plant closures – nationalise the motor industry to defend...
YESTERDAY, US carmaker Ford announced it will close the car engine plant in Bridgend, South Wales, throwing all 1,700 workers out of a job...
Coalition putting over-65s to work!
UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen by 65,000 in the three months to May, while the number of newly unemployed in receipt of the JobSeekers Allowance, for...
The Occupation Is Responsible For All Of The Killings In Palestine
A PALESTINIAN teenager from occupied East Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early on Wednesday in revenge for the killing of three Israeli settler youth...
Egypt must keep open Gaza’s Rafah crossing!
THE Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which has been closed for the past five months, was opened for two days at...
Tories ramp up war on unions
LESS than a week before the start of the TUC’s annual conference, the Tory government has unveiled a whole raft of new proposals to...
Break with the EU Now! Forward to the Socialist United States of Europe!
THE publication of the EU’s draft separation treaty with the UK has intensified the conflict between the UK and the EU ruling classes and...
British forces in a crisis in Afghanistan
THE British army went into Helmand province in Afghanistan like lions, with their officers explaining that they were going to take on the Taleban,...
Hamas & Fatah agree to Palestinian elections to form government to defeat Zionism and...
A NEW unity between all Palestinian factions against the common enemy – Israel and the US – is rapidly developing. The leadership of the...
‘It’s the concern, the fear, the sheer uncertainty’ says BoE’s King
THE chief of the Federal Reserve Bank, Bernanke, has hinted heavily that the developing slow down of the US economy will be met with...
McCluskey denounces Labour’s right wing who worked for a Tory victory!
THE general secretary of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, has reacted with fury over the revelations contained in the leaked internal report by the...