End The UK Support For Rajapakse
THE News Line hails the heroic resistance of the Tamil Tigers to the armed forces of the Rajapakse military dictatorship, which is seeking to...
Time For The Tuc To Call General Strike
THE Fire Brigades Union has organised a national demonstration in London on Wednesday 16 October. The FBU is under an all-out attack on the...
Cameron At War At Home And Abroad
CAMERON’S Monday ‘European Council’ statement to parliament was all about the crisis of imperialism, its wars abroad, and dictatorship at home. He managed to discuss...
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...
Big pensions for bosses, poverty for workers
A new report by the Incomes Data Services and the High Pay Commission has thrown the spotlight on the issue of pensions, and the...
Hague, Cameron are responsible for Linda Norgrove’s death
US special forces in Afghanistan mounted an attempt to rescue Linda Norgrove after the British government in the persons of Foreign Secretary Hague and...
Banks tremble at the thought of the end of Quantitative Easing
THE pound fell below $1.49 against the dollar on Friday, close to a three-year low. Sterling traded as low as $1.4858 at one point. The...
Chinese Stalinists’ bid to rescue bankrupt capitalism
CHINESE Stalinist leader President Hu Jintao has sent Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Vice President Xi Jinping on international visits in a vain attempt...
ICJ Hearing on Israeli occupation of Palestine opens – working class must demand general...
Yesterday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened its historic hearings into the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967. The ICJ, the United Nation’s...
Resistance has Obama on the run in the Middle East
UNITED States President Barack Obama made his first trip to Afghanistan on Sunday since he took office 14 months ago. The visit was aimed...
Lagarde says Greek euro exit will ‘probably’ not mean end of euro
THE head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, admitted on Thursday that she could not ‘preclude’ Greece being forced out of the eurozone. This...
Recall TUC to demand an indefinite general strike to kick out the Tories
At its annual conference yesterday, the leaders of the National Education Union (NEU) reported that the latest Tory pay offer was rejected by an...
Sanders concedes – Forward to the American socialist revolution
LAST WEDNESDAY, the US ‘democratic socialist’ Senator Bernie Sanders announced to his supporters that he was quitting the race to become the Democratic candidate...
Workers rise up – Stop the closure of Ealing Maternity Unit!
ON MAY 7 Labour won the Ealing Central and Acton seat from the Tories, with Rupa Huq getting 22,002 votes, a massive 13%...
Sack all pro-bombing Labour MPs
TORY prime minister, David Cameron, is all set to make the biggest gamble of his political life on Wednesday by pushing forward a parliamentary...
Defend Syria – bring down Cameron and Hague
GILLES DE KERCHOVE, the EU’s anti-terror chief yesterday told the BBC that hundreds of Europeans are now fighting with the counter-revolutionary forces in Syria...
Forward to the State of Palestine! The UK trade unions must call a...
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday issued a statement on the occasion of the ‘International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People’, stressing that the...
TGWU relies on the Sainsbury family to defend its members’ jobs and wages
YESTERDAY the TGWU leaders produced their statement of full support for the Sainsbury family in the battle to keep out the Texas Pacific-backed raiding...
The USA Is Determined To Surrender Afghanistan To The Taliban!
A SEVEN-DAY ‘reduction in violence’ between the US and the Afghan Taliban began on February 21, with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying,...
Truss demands war across Europe to crush Russia!
IN A KEYNOTE foreign policy speech at London’s Mansion House last night, Tory foreign secretary Liz Truss dispensed with the fiction of the imperialist...
Irish government disintegrates – forward to a workers and small farmers government
AFTER the resignation of the Foreign Minister and four other members of the Irish cabinet, the Prime Minister, Cowen has resigned as the...
All trade unions must come out with the nurses to bring down the Tories...
THE 10,000 workers and youth who took part in the ‘Britain is Broken’ march in London on Saturday were marching for action to bring...
Trump Setting Out To Impose A Greater Israel On The Palestinians By Force...
WITH his declaration that the Trump Administration no longer recognises that the imposed Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal, US Secretary...
Tory leader Badenoch wants to deport 150,000 workers a year using a Trump-style terrorist...
TORY Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged that she will deport 150,000 workers a year using Trump-style immigration squads in raids on working class...
PM And Chancellor Sunak Forced To Self Isolate As Labour Continues Its Support For...
THE Prime Minister and Chancellor are to ‘now self-isolate as normal’ after both met with Health Secretary Sajid Javid who had tested positively for...
Time To Throw The Rotten Coalition Out!
IT was put to Rupert Murdoch, at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday, that Thatcher could not have done without him and that he could not...
The Deputy Prime Minister resigns, but the May government is allowed to continue!
ON WEDNESDAY PM May was finally forced to sack her Deputy Prime Minister Damian Green following an inquiry by officials from the Cabinet Office...
TUC must call a general strike to stop US-UK war criminals
THE UK ruling class, alongside its US masters, is getting ready to attack Syria in a matter of hours. It is to be struck with...
Stop The Bosses Plan To Smash Trade Unions – Recall The Tuc To...
PM Sunak yesterday accused RMT leader Mick Lynch of causing ‘misery for millions’ with the ‘cruelly timed’ pay rise walk-outs by rail workers. He...
As the Tories sanction Russia, UK workers have to pay the bill with massive...
ENERGY bills are set to rise to an eye-watering £3,000 a year which will undoubtedly plunge millions of families into fuel poverty, where they...
Grenfell Tower – Tories tore up health and safety rules then invited cladding companies...
AN INVESTIGATION by Sky News into the role of the firms that produce the plastic used to cover the exterior of Grenfell Tower has...
Public services face privatisation catastrophe! Renationalise the lot under workers’ control!
THE COLLAPSES of Carillion, of East Coast Rail, of academy chain after academy chain, and now with the NAO report that private outsourcing giant...
11.7 million unemployed as British capitalism collapses – socialist revolution the only answer
AS MANY as 11.7 million people will be thrown out of work – either through being furloughed or simply being sacked – in the...
TUC must back railworkers, and postal workers and call a general strike to bring...
THE EMERGENCY anti-union regulations, passed in the House of Commons by 289 votes to 202 on Monday night, are set to be used to...
Sunak admits ‘borrowing will have to end’ and prepares for war against the working...
IN THE Spectator magazine this week, Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak broke ranks with the official Tory line that British capitalism could survive by indefinitely...
As Putin, Merkel, Macron And Erdogan Talk Peace In Istanbul, Israel And The...
As Putin, Merkel, Macron and Erdogan were meeting in Istanbul on Saturday evening to discuss the future of Syria, Israeli planes were bombing Gaza...
Bankers warn of global debt time bomb. Socialist revolution is the only answer
THIS WEEK, the global banking body, the Institute of International Finance (IIF), revealed that global debt had shot up to an eye-watering $281 trillion...
Bosses Demand Lift The Lockdown While Pensioners Are Locked In At Home!
WITH British capitalism up to its neck in hundreds of billions of debt, and with the middle class small proprietors ruined, the cry is...
Lessons of 1926 are vital for today!
THIS year there is great interest in the 80th anniversary of the general strike of 1926. It is not hard to work out why....
EU was ready to risk scrapping Good Friday Agreement to get ahead in the...
THAT the Covid-19 pandemic world crisis has sharpened the contradictions of the capitalist system to the point of vaccine wars and revolutionary explosions is...
28th anniversary of declaration of Palestinian independence!
SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saed Erekat said yesterday that the international community has failed in its responsibility to correct the...
Local elections being delayed as the crisis of UK capitalism deepens!
A FURIOUS backlash erupted on Thursday against the Labour government’s cancellation of May’s local government elections, which could deprive 10 million citizens of the...
US Working Class At The Crossroads – Break With The Democrats Now!
EVERYWHERE, from the motor car industry to the mines of Appalacia, the US working class is struggling for its jobs and its trade union...
Starmer declares Labour now under ‘new management’ of the bosses – unions must...
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer yesterday threw down the gauntlet to the trade union movement when his office announced that ‘Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is...
UK War Crimes
LAST night’s BBC Panorama programme revealed yet more evidence of unlawful killings of Afghans by members of the Special Air Service (SAS) during the...