UNITE leader offers to assist Tory productivity drive
THE immediate response of the leaders of the trade unions representing public sector workers to the wage-cutting programme outlined by Osborne in this week’s...
RMT victory in ScotRail dispute shows the way forward for working class
ON WEDNESDAY, the RMT transport union members won a massive victory in their fight against the ‘pitiful’ pay offer from ScotRail. RMT members at ScotRail,...
TUC MUST demand recognition of the State of Palestine and call for an international...
SPEAKING in Madrid yesterday, the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that the recognition of a Palestinian state is ‘in Europe’s geopolitical interests’. The Spanish...
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...
US Military Chief Undermines The President Over US Troops In Iraq
THE US’ top military commander General Dempsey has broken ranks with President Obama by telling the Senate Armed Services Committee that US...
UK and US trade unions must take general strike action to smash Israel’s genocide...
PALESTINIAN trade unions have issued a call on US labour to take concrete action against Israel’s genocidal attempt to smash the Palestinian people. In a...
Stop US-UK terrorism – No war on Syria – Bring down the Tories –...
THE last few days has seen an acceleration in terrorist activity of all types. The first terrorist attack was last Thursday when the US...
Labour MPs being whipped to keep Tories in power!
LABOUR leader Keir Starmer instructed his party’s MPs to abstain in last night’s vote on the Tories’ new Covid regulations tier system, thus ensuring...
Labour Cabinet Minister Fears For Her Seat
THE Labour government’s policy to cut, close, reconfigure, and privatise the NHS has caught up with a number of senior government ministers, including leading...
Afghan crisis deepens as deadline nears
AFGHANISTAN’S finance minister has said deadlock over the disputed presidential election has cost the economy $5bn, so far. Omar Zakhilwal has said he will have...
SHADOW OF 1930s HANGS OVER BROWN-MERKEL SPLIT
GERMANY’S Finance Minister Steinbruck yesterday attacked the Gordon Brown policy for saving the bankers and capitalists from the crisis, as recklessness itself. He described Labour’s...
Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ equals US imperialism making war on workers of the world
PRESIDENT TRUMP has launched his ‘Liberation Day’ offensive against the working class of the world, including the workers of the USA. Trump, in retaliation for...
TUC must call a general strike in support of the RMT and to bring...
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch joined the picket line at London’s Euston Station yesterday morning after pay talks with the Tories collapsed on Monday. Earlier,...
56 Refugees forced to sleep in a single office! Boot the Tories and their...
REFUGEES are being held in office space in Kent, with as many as 56 women and children crammed into a single room, sleeping together...
Cameron Proposes Britain’s Own Version Of G-Bay
DAVID Cameron chose the G20 meeting in Australia to unveil the latest coalition plans to strip British passport holders of their citizenship if they...
Global debt crisis threatens to bring down governments, the Bank for International Settlements warns....
THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this week issued a warning that governments across the world are at risk of imploding unless they deal...
Labour terrorism against the unemployed
UNEMPLOYED council and housing association tenants must be made to sign a new tenancy agreement under which they will agree to have their skill...
Trade union leaders abandon members – build a revolutionary leadership in the unions
A STUDY published yesterday revealed that as many as six million workers in Britain live in fear of losing their jobs in the next...
After Johnson Refused To Sack Hancock, The Capitalist State Did The Job For Him!
BRITISH capitalism is in a desperate economic and political crisis that calls for truly desperate measures by the ruling class. The use of the capitalist...
GM quits South Africa as car giants go from a credit fuelled boom to...
THE shock decision announced last week that General Motors (GM), the world’s largest car manufacturer, is ending production of vehicles in South Africa is...
Balls reveals intense ruling class fear
ED BALLS, the Schools Minister, and the former economics advisor to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, over the weekend dropped his political master right...
Sanctions on Russia rebound on US as countries dump the dollar as dominant world...
ONE OF the main consequences of the US-led sanctions designed to strangle the Russian economy and lead to regime change has been to hasten...
BIS predicts deflation and depression
LAST year the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) was alone amongst banks in warning that the situation had similarities to that at the time...
Alleged stonethrowers charged with attempted murder or targeted by snipers!
‘JUSTICE’ Israeli-style was displayed to the world on Thursday when five Palestinian teenagers were sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Israeli military...
No to Zuma or Ramaphosa –the South African workers must take the power!
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has noted the shocking testimony given to City Press by police officers who were among those...
Cowen making workers pay for capitalism’s crisis in Ireland
IN A third attempt within six months to save bankrupt Irish capitalism, Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s Fianna Fail government unveiled a draconian budget on Tuesday,...
After the BA battle ‘pirate Walsh’ seeks to shut down Iberia, sacking 3,800!
IAG chairman Walsh plans to axe 3,800 jobs – a fifth of the Spanish Iberia airline’s workforce – in a country where unemployment is...
Seattle Police Chief Quits As Working Class Gears Up To Deal With Trump!
SEATTLE’S chief of police has thrown in the towel and quit on the same day that the city council voted to reduce the police...
Time For Action To Defend The NHS!
YESTERDAY both the RCN nurses and the Royal College of Physicians made it perfectly clear that the time has arrived when action to defend...
Trump turning US into a ‘banana republic’ after threats of criminal charges against boss...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump was accused of turning the US into a banana republic over the threat of legal charges being brought against the...
Capitalism is crashing and must be replaced by a socialist revolution!
THE only way that bankrupt capitalism can survive is through making the working people of the world pay for its crisis with their jobs,...
France sends in more troops to join US forces in Syria
FRANCE, the former colonial power in Syria, has expanded its military presence in the country, supporting the United States which is organising Kurdish...
Unemployment Crisis Deepening
TOTAL unemployment stood at 2.46 million for the three months to December, down 3,000 on the figure for the previous three months. However, long-term...
British capitalism is in its death agony – working class must put it out...
TORY Prime Minister, Liz Truss, unveiled her package of measures to deal with the cost-of-living crisis yesterday. Her ‘bold’ new plan was nothing more...
Iran – a choreographed crisis at the G20!
Iran informed the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in a letter last Monday that it has a second uranium enrichment plant under...
Hutton provocation will result in ‘summer pensions war’
TODAY’S publication of the Hutton Report on public sector pensions will be like a red rag to a bull as far as the membership...
Demand the TUC call a general strike for Palestine
SINCE January, Israel has launched massive attacks on refugee camps in the West Bank killing dozens of Palestinians and forcing at least 40,000 to...
‘Hope’ sets sail despite Israeli-Greek-Moldovan deal to stop it
THE Libyan ship ‘Hope’, a Moldovan-flagged cargo vessel, left a Greek port on Saturday night for Gaza with 2,000 tonnes of supplies, in the...
Tory war on two fronts – against the working class at home and...
LAST week Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the Tory offensive against the rights, conditions and wages of every worker. This is the strategy behind the...
Labour prepares for war – time to kick them out!
IT was revealed this week that the Labour government is set to introduce changes to a new armed forces bill, due to come before...
Salute the struggling Visteon workers – replace their treacherous national leadership!
THE News Line gives its full support to the workers at the Belfast, Enfield and Basildon Visteon plants who are fighting Visteon’s decision to...
We Salute The Heroes Of Paris Who Stood Up To 9,180 Riot Police Who...
IN PARIS, on Saturday, against the advice of the more moderate members of the ‘Yellow Vests’ movement, 10,000 French workers and youth demonstrated their...
Starmer gets pat on the head from Trump for Labour ramping up class war...
THE cringing prostration of Labour prime minster Keir Starmer to US president Donald Trump finally paid off at the weekend when Trump condescended to...
Lobby the TUC Congress on September 9th – demand it calls a...
THE mass of the UK workers support the heroic national liberation struggle of the Palestinian people for their state of Palestine, and the enormous...
Capitalism cannot be reformed – forward to socialist revolution
THIS week sees the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in the Swiss town of Davos, perched high in the Alps, ideally situated for...