Bosses threaten car workers jobs if they vote to leave EU
THE giant German car maker, BMW, has written to every one of its 8,000 employees in Britain making the thinly veiled threat that in...
Turkey Poised To Invade Northern Iraq
THE Turkish army is poised to invade northern Iraq in order to respond to PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) attacks on its troops, which...
SNP join Tories in refusing any pay negotiations with nurses
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Scotland has voted overwhelmingly to reject the final pay offer from the nationalist SNP government, meaning Scottish...
Israel committed war crimes in Gaza, says Amnesty!
‘THERE is strong evidence that Israeli forces committed war crimes in their relentless and massive bombardment of residential areas of Rafah in order to...
Time To Force The Tuc Off Its Knees – Forward To The British Socialist...
AN article in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph delivered a sharp wake up call to the TUC and the trade union leaders who cling to the...
One third of all people in UK have lived in poverty in the past...
ONE in three people in the country have ‘experienced poverty’ in the past four years. According to figures produced by the Office for National Statistics,...
Trump escalates trade war with China and prepares for a shooting war – only...
THE TRUMP administration has ratcheted up the confrontation with China with an escalation of its economic trade war, coupled with a provocative military build-up...
Recall the TUC Congress now to sack the TUC leaders for their refusal to...
LAST month, the TUC unanimously passed an emergency motion headed: ‘Stop the escalation of war in the Middle East’ and committed the TUC ‘to...
No socialist programme for Corbyn!
LABOUR leader Corbyn was full of confidence as he opened his campaign to be re-elected as leader of the Labour Party yesterday. He said:...
Israel is preparing new Lebanese war
ISRAEL’S armed forces commander, Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, speaking to Israeli High School pupils last week, asked and answered a question rooted in the current...
Barbaric anti-homeless spikes scandal
THE picture showing one-inch-long metal spikes driven into the pavement in the doorway of a block of luxury flats in central London in order...
Tories split over reopening – time to bring them down
THE SPLIT within the Tory Party over ending the coronavirus lockdown broke out in the open at the weekend when Tory Foreign Secretary Dominic...
Call General Strike Over Pensions
UNISON leader Dave Prentis yesterday confessed that local government union leaders were unwilling combatants with the Blair government, over its plan to smash their...
Karzai talks with the Taleban as US policy comes unstuck
THE situation in Afghanistan has gone from bad to worse as far as the imperialist powers and their plans for the region are concerned. Last...
Expropriate The Venture Capitalists
WE are living in the period of the death agony of the capitalist system. It is only natural then, that out of the shadows should...
Gove calls for parents to scab
Over the weekend the Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove issued a call for parents to volunteer to break Thursday’s strike by civil servants and...
Obama set to expand the Afghan war
PRESIDENT Obama is set to throw tonnes of petrol onto the Afghan flames. After months of strategic and tactical discussions with his military and political...
Starmer clings on – TUC must call a general strike to bring down the...
Keir Starmer survived as Labour prime minister by the skin of his teeth on Monday night as his cabinet rallied round him, inundating Labour MPs...
LGA Warns ‘Extreme Cost-Cutting’ Is Destroying All Services!
THE LOCAL Government Association’s (LGA) Richard Watts has written to Tory Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick (of the two houses) warning against ‘extreme cost-cutting’...
Revolutionary generation will lead British socialist revolution
LAST Sunday’s News Line Anniversary meeting, which greeted the Young Socialists’ March for Jobs and Free Education, was a historic moment in the history...
‘Blair and Straw have a great deal to answer for,’ says Alex Salmond
SNP foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond spoke up for millions of British people yesterday when he highlighted the role that one-time Labour PM Blair...
Housing crisis: socialism the only solution
THE proposal to blow up five blocks of flats in Glasgow’s Red Road, as part of the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games, has...
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...
Blair Targets Disabled For Massive Cuts
LABOUR was yesterday mounting a new onslaught on the disabled. The target is the 2.7 million people currently on Incapacity Benefit. The aim is...
TUC pledges solidarity with workers in Middle East – time to force TUC to...
ON MONDAY, the General Council of the TUC issued a lengthy ‘interim statement on Iran’ which condemned ‘the dangerous escalation of military actions, precipitated...
Sack the RBS bankers! Workers management of the nationalised banks!
CITY Minister Lord Myners yesterday said shareholders should take action to stop million pound bonuses after Royal Bank of Scotland directors threatened to resign...
Bangladesh: a paradise for the bosses, and a hell for the workers
THE arrest of the owner of the collapsed building in Dakha is just a tiny sop to the massive anger felt by Bangladeshi workers...
Postal workers are standing up to management bullies
POSTAL workers in towns and cities all over the UK were forced out on unofficial strike yesterday morning when management sought to impose the...
Bosses fear ‘worst financial crisis since the Second World War’
A JOINT report from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC) yesterday revealed the fears in business circles that the ‘credit...
New Health Act must be smashed along with the government that has brought it...
THE Tory-led coalition will now be able to close all of the hospitals on its hit list, and more as it wishes, to ‘save’...
IMF says banks stuck in ‘Doom Loop’ – Socialist revolution the only way to...
TEN YEARS on from the banking crash that brought the world’s financial system to the very edge of going over the fiscal cliff, the...
Blair & Brown’s NHS cuts boost the Tories
ONLY those with short memories, or strong stomachs, did not have to stop themselves vomiting when hearing Tory leader David Cameron talk about his...
Bush, Blair, Obama, And Cameron Are The War Criminals!
THAT the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants against Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, his son and his brother-in-law, on...
Sunak in crisis over Rwanda judgement while Starmer stands with Tories and US imperialism...
PRIME minister Rishi Sunak saw the Tory plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda shredded by the Supreme Court ruling them unlawful on Wednesday. Five...
Sunak demands police crack down on all opposition to Zionist genocide.
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has summoned the country’s police chiefs to tell them they must use all the existing and wide-ranging police powers...
Cutting wages is the key says BofE boss
BANK of England chairman Mervyn King’s speech in Winchester on Tuesday night was governed by a central axiom for the survival of British capitalism. He...
UK national debt rises above £3 trillion – It’s time to nationalise the banks!
THE UK’s National Debt has risen to more than £3 trillion after the UK government was forced to borrow much more than it had...
Tory split looms as King warns on new housing disaster
LORD Howe, who is credited with bringing Thatcher down, now seems to be about to perform the same service for PM David Cameron, with...
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...
Abolish the monarchy – forward to a workers’ republic and socialism!
DETAILS of the settlement between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre to end her claim that she was forced to have sex with the Duke...
FBU must fight against a Police Commissioner controlled ‘Fire Service’
THE Fire Brigades Union has appealed to the Home Office, which is now in charge of the fire service, to save the service from...
Trump Can’t Get Rid Of Obamacare – But US Workers Can Get Rid...
PRESIDENT Trump’s efforts to smash ex-President Obama’s healthcare system, which provides cheaper health insurance for the low paid and the poor (Obamacare), have...
UN special rapporteur on Gaza calls for action, not just words, to end Zionist...
IN AN INTERVIEW with the Guardian paper yesterday, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, warned that the moves by...
Gaza human rights centre issues call for international community to intervene to halt...
YESTERDAY marked Human Rights Day, a day observed annually across the world to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by...
Sack Gove not teachers, stop privatisation of schools
TEACHERS in England returned to work this week facing an all-out assault on their jobs, their pay and the very existence of free state...