No Return To Private Healthcare – It’s Capitalism That Is Broken Not The NHS!
THE NEW Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s first recorded words in office as Labour’s Health Secretary were to condemn the National Health Service, telling the...
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...
US escalates war on Iran – TUC must be forced to call general strike...
ON SUNDAY, US president Donald Trump issued his latest threat that American military forces would force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Dubbed ‘Project...
Crisis splitting Tories, police chiefs, and military
THE Tory leadership publicly lambasted what it termed the police chiefs’ ‘wrong tactics’ for dealing with the youth uprising, during the special sitting of...
Trump splits US ruling class with demand they give up vast profits in China
ON THE eve of the G7 Summit in France over the weekend US president Donald Trump ordered US companies to leave China and move...
US Democrats want Trump impeachment to form basis of bloc with Republican Party!
DONALD Trump became the first president of the United States to be impeached twice when the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to charge...
Hunt urges NHS to ‘Sign up for Safety’ while he cuts the service to...
HEALTH Secretary Hunt is urging the NHS in England to reduce the number of serious mistakes being made and save 6,000 lives over the...
Take Strike Action To Defend The NHS
THE Royal College of Nursing, the nurses trade union, yesterday announced that it is seeking a judicial review to force the Blair government to...
Abolish Fees, Restore Grants And Free State Education For All
A REVIEW of university student fees in England has been launched by Business Secretary Mandelson. The object of the review is to increase, perhaps...
Tories plan poverty and austerity for workers to bail out bankrupt capitalism!
LAST week, the outgoing chief economist at the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, bluntly warned that the rapid increase in inflation would make the...
Demand TUC call a General Strike!
The leaders of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) have refused to condemn Labour right-winger Alan Milburn for accepting a position with the Tory-led coalition...
Workers do Battle All Over Europe!
GREEK riot police fired tear gas and beat Ministry of Culture workers yesterday morning after the workers had occupied the Acropolis in Athens demanding...
Kerry threatens Assad with ‘total destruction of the ceasefire – and then back to...
US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that seeking military gains will not end the ‘civil war’. He added there...
To prevent an economic catastrophe workers must nationalise the banks and industries!
AS EXPECTED, the early results of the local council and Wales and Scotland regional elections yesterday morning showed a total wipeout of the Labour...
Chilcot won’t rule on Iraq war legality
CHILCOT opened his report of his inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war yesterday by stating that it was not the job of his very...
Britain’s Third Afghan War Heads For Disaster
NINE UK soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in nine days, making 178 UK troops killed since 2001. The official propaganda line is that...
US Threatens Syria With War
THE US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, who was recently transferred from Afghanistan, last Monday threatened the Syrian government with war. He accused Syria of...
Unite leaders on their knees in front of Walsh!
BRENDAN Gold, Unite’s national secretary for civil air transport, said, after emerging from Monday’s BA Cabin crew rally in Kempton Park, that there would...
Unions must take action to defend jobs, wages and pensions from rampant inflation
THE rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation in the UK in September, rose to 5.2% from 4.5% the month before. A huge leap in...
Coalition in crisis, bring it down
The disarray, confusion and splits within the Tory/LibDem coalition government were brought out sharply over Monday’s announcement by Tory chancellor, George Osborne, that he...
MANIFESTO FOR 2015 – The Year for World Revolution
THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings, as we enter the new year of 2015, to the working people of the world. We...
Corbyn comes out on top as May is jeered, laughed at and heckled!
THE separate questioning by SKY’s Faisal Islam, Jeremy Paxman and a small audience, of Labour leader Corbyn and PM May showed just how disorientated...
Sack the Hayes-Ward CWU leadership!
LAST Wednesday postal workers delivered a massive vote in favour of strike action to defend their jobs, terms and conditions, and for a pay...
Diane Abbott ‘culled’ by Starmer and the Labour Party right wing!
LONG-standing Labour MP Diane Abbott accused the right wing Labour leadership, led by Keir Starmer, of carrying out a ‘cull of left wingers’ in...
Ukrainian Workers Reject Putin Plea To Accept Kiev Coup Regime
PRESIDENT Putin on Wednesday urged Ukrainian workers to postpone their referenda on self-determination. He said: ‘We are calling on representatives of regions in southeastern...
UK has not offered to take in a single Syrian refugee!
THE fact that the UK ruling coalition is involved up to its neck in organising the war in Syria, and is also keeping it...
Blairites for Cameron – Milburn joins Hutton and Field – with more collaborators ...
THE leading Blairite and Labour party member, Alan Milburn, who was forced to resign as Labour’s Health Secretary for his over-enthusiasm for complete NHS...
US threatens the UK over 5G – while the Tory Party splits over the...
THE BANKRUPTCY of British capitalism is there for all to see. Yesterday the Johnson Tory government was faced with making a serious break with...
Unite leaders beg the Tories for permanent furlough! New leadership required in trade...
UNITE, with a membership of 1.4 million, wielding the power to strike and shut down vast proportions of industry, has reduced itself to begging...
McCluskey and TUC determined to rescue Cameron from EU crisis
WITH the Tory party split and divided, the ruling class in the UK – Cameron, big business and the bankers – are relying on...
The BBC supports starving the people of Gaza
THE BBC is part of the British capitalist state whose job it is to look after the interests of the ruling class. It has...
Unions act now against NHS cuts
A HUGE contract for health services, including end-of-life care in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, is being put out to tender with privateers such as Virgin...
CIA annual Threat Assessment Report reveals panic over failure to defeat Hamas
ON MONDAY, the US intelligence agency, the CIA, published its annual Threat Assessment Report for 2024 which warned that America faces an ‘increasingly fragile world...
General Strike to answer Tory strike ban
ON Friday the Tories finally produced their plans to ban strikes throughout the public sector should they win the next general election. Draconian new legislation...
Stop the pensions sell-out! Sack Barber and Prentis! Call a general strike!
THE Trade union bureaucracy, led by TUC leader Barber and Unison leader Prentis, have shown clearly, with their position that the trade unions have...
Saudis resume Yemen bombing raids!
THE reactionary Saudi regime – the pride and joy of the United States and UK ruling classes that have armed it to the teeth...
Blair Fears Facing War Crimes Tribunal
YESTERDAY it was alleged that ex-Prime Minister Blair made representations to the Prime Minister concerning the ‘independent inquiry’ into the war in Iraq, which...
Labour Struggles – T0Ries Collapse!
ALL talk of a Brown ‘electoral bounce’ is sheer drivel or plain self deception after Labour got the votes of just 45 per cent...
US combat troops quit – Iraqi masses will now deal with the puppets they...
THE last US army combat brigade pulled out of Iraq on Thursday morning, allegedly bringing to an end all US combat operations. These...
‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ created by US and Israel as a tool to drive Palestinians...
LAST Wednesday, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated the Zionist regime’s intention to completely occupy Gaza and announced that a new US-backed aid distribution...
Rates kept down – but inflationary leap and collapse ahead!
INTEREST rates were kept down at one per cent in the EU and at 0.5 per cent in the UK yesterday. The European...
Russian & Chinese Stalinists support US threats against Iran
THE Chinese and Russian representatives at a meeting of the five permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council and Germany on...
Labour Slashes Welfare Benefits To Make The Poorest Pay For The Capitalist Crisis!
LABOUR CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves made further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments in her Spring Statement yesterday. The government announced big welfare spending reductions...
£65bn PFI Nightmare for the NHS!
THE PFI Private Finance Initiative was brought in by the Major Tory government, and while it was opposed by Labour in opposition, it was...
Support Catalonia! Forward With The Spanish Socialist Revolution!
CATALONIA will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region said yesterday following the referendum, which savage...