‘Great democracies’ rule out free Palestinian elections
EVERY time Bush and Blair speak, they trumpet their championing of democracy against the corrupt dictatorships that they say exist everywhere outside their...
Defend General Practice by driving privateers out of the NHS and nationalising the drug...
THE head of the Royal College of GPs yesterday said that the job of full-time GPs was now ‘undoable’ owing to the huge pressures...
Workers must force the UK out of the EU on October 31
ON TUESDAY night, MPs voted by 329 to 299 to pass a motion in principle to back Boris Johnson’s EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill. Almost immediately,...
BIS warns of new banking ‘catastrophe!’
CAPITALISTS are quaking in their boots at the prospect of the next worldwide banking crash. All eyes are on Italy going the same...
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...
IMF predicts ‘worst economic fallout since the Great Depression’ – Only way out of...
INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund’s (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday: ‘We anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.’ ‘Just three months ago, we...
US-EU and UK workers must unite to bring down bankrupt capitalism and go forward...
NEW US trade war tariffs announced yesterday imposed a 10 per cent tariff on 60 trading partners in the latest escalation of the trade...
Rajapakse, the UK and the US will never crush the Tigers and the Tamil...
CURRENTLY the UK and US supported Sri Lankan army is mounting an all-out assault on the besieged Tamil Tiger forces and the over 100,000...
Economic Crisis Deepening! More Austerity And A Banking Crash On The Way!
A LEAKED document obtained by the Labour Party has revealed that the Treasury faces a black hole of up to £16bn in its finances...
Build the Fourth International throughout Europe
YESTERDAY Greece was hit by a massive general strike with tens of thousands of workers marching in Athens demanding that there be an...
Answer Tory plans to use military as strike breakers with a general strike...
With nurses and thousands of NHS workers planning to take national strike action next month over their demands for pay increases to protect them...
ONLY a Socialist revolution can provide a future for workers and youth!
TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled his latest attempt to resuscitate British capitalism in the midst of a crisis that has destroyed the economic...
Iran calls for emergency UN meeting to condemn threats from US and Israel
IRAN has called for the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting over the threats by the US and Israeli regime against the...
The Unity Of The Working Class With The Oppressed Nations Is The Way To...
IRAN launched a multiple missile attack against two bases in Iraq that contain US troops and other coalition forces on Wednesday night in retaliation...
Teachers, parents and students taking action to defend education
OVER the past week, lecturers have been on strike against sackings, parents are occupying schools to stop their closure, and students, angry at high...
Ukraine and imperialists stage provocation in Azov Sea
ON SUNDAY the Ukrainian regime, with the complicity of its EU and US imperialist backers, staged a provocative military action by the illegal incursion...
World bankers meet in Washington as crisis erupts across the capitalist financial system
THE JOINT annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank is taking place in Washington this week under conditions of...
Economic tsunami to hit Japan
‘We have been humbled by nature’ the Japanese ambassador to Britain said of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that has devastated northern Japan with...
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...
Wages rising fast – a sick Tory joke!
THE food bank charity, the Trussell Trust says it has handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the...
Wind of Change blows through Labour Party conference as UK faces revolution!
THIS Labour Party conference has been different in that the members of the Party and the trade unions have taken it over, and turned...
EU using rubber bullets and stun grenades against refugees!
AT the Idomeni crossing from Greece into Macedonia refugees are clashing with Macedonian soldiers and police, as they try to reopen the border near...
Imperialists keep out of Zimbabwe! Forward to a workers and small farmers government
THE MUGABE regime has been beaten in the polls by the trade union backed Movement for Democratic Change and is now considering its options...
Corporatist union leaders are serving the bosses
WITH capitalism in its greatest crisis, and with tens of millions of jobs and tens of millions of people’s lives being destroyed after the...
Asian-US Axis Against China!
US President, Barak Obama, returned last week from a tour of Asian countries designed to put military flesh on US imperialism’s ‘Asian Pivot’. This military...
Scrap the market in the NHS!
IPSWICH Hospital, in Suffolk, has been deprived of £2.5m because it provided much-needed care for its patients too quickly. This was discovered by accountants...
US workers taking action to drive up wages and defend their jobs
THE once-mighty US economy is facing a wave of strikes by powerful sections of the working class who are determined to drive up their...
The working class must force its leaders to call a general strike to bring...
PM Sunak’s new anti-trade union legislation will make the UK one of the most difficult countries in the world to go on strike, a...
UK banks will have to refinance £800bn of debt
JUST days after the Tory-led coalition’s ‘emergency budget’ declared war on the working class, the poor, the middle class, children and pensioners – with...
Nationalise All The Banks And Abolish Mortgage Debt
UP to 1.5 million fixed rate mortgage holders are going to have to renegotiate their mortgages in the New Year. Many of them are already...
Pound drops and inflation rises as recession grows
THE pound fell to an exchange rate of $1.77 yesterday, its lowest level for two-and-a-half years. In June sterling was trading at $2, but...
Pakistan resisting US demands for new offensives
PAKISTAN’S army has just announced that it will launch no new offensives on its territory in 2010. At the same time the US Defence...
The markets panic and crash as capitalism heads for a major catastrophe!
THE stock markets are crashing as the Tory government’s borrowing costs went soaring yesterday to a 15-year high, amid a global shares sell off...
Tories to bail capitalism out, while leaving workers and their families to die of...
GLOBAL stock markets crashed on Thursday, the biggest single day fall in history. This is the historic crisis of capitalism, its death agony. The...
Politically bankrupt Starmer will seek to force the working class to pay for the...
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer’s speech at the TUC Congress yesterday spelt out precisely to delegates that this Labour government is determined to inflict all the pain...
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...
Tories Accuse Striking Nurses Of Murder As They Move To Knife NHS With Privatisation!
YESTERDAY Tory Health Secretary Barclay, who is refusing to negotiate with the NHS trade unions over NHS pay, accused striking nurses of putting patients’...
Ernst And Young Calls To Lower Interest Rates!
WITH interest rates at their lowest ever at 0.5%, the UK economy is at a dangerous junction, warns the Ernst and Young Item Club. Its...
Cluster bombs still killing Lebanese children
The UN’s humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, yesterday described Israel’s use of cluster bombs in south Lebanon during the final three days of the conflict...
Pupils subjected to physical and mental cruelty in school isolation units – unions...
School children in England are being put in ‘physically and mentally cruel’ isolation units for up to 7 hours a day at academy trust...
Kelly forges ahead with schools’ privatisation
AMID media speculation that Blair’s government is willing to compromise on plans for independent ‘trust schools’, contained in next month’s Education Bill, the reality...
Live8 won’t comment on ‘don’t attack Bush’ line
YESTERDAY the PR company representing Live8, LD Publicity, refused to deny media allegations that Bob Geldof, the Live8 movement’s leader, had a soft spot...
Britain’s Criminal War Against The Kenyan Land Freedom Army
BRITISH conscripts were sent out to Kenya in the 1950s, where they were turned into brutes and sadistic killers, in the war of British...
Imperialism In Crisis In Egypt, Syria And The Yemen
THE US State Department has told its citizens and all non-emergency government staff to leave the Yemen ‘immediately’ due to increased threats to their...
Police want to use water cannon and rubber bullets
THE Metropolitan Police is considering its tactics after the failure of its containment and ‘kettling’ policies in Parliament square last Thursday, when...