UK universities attack staff and students as crisis in higher education spirals out of...
LAST month the Parliamentary Education Committee was warned by the Office for Students (OfS), the higher education regulator for England, that it fears 24...
Strike wave hits UK as workers rise up against bankrupt capitalism!
AS CHRISTMAS approaches, the strike wave sweeping Britain is far from abating, in fact it is growing in strength and determination by the day...
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...
Trump victory shatters the Democratic Party and shows the US working class is...
THE Democrats lost the presidential election some time ago, when the party nominated Hillary Clinton for the presidency and pushed Bernie Sanders aside using...
Assange extradition decision Monday! Unions must call industrial action to prevent any attempt...
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange is facing a sentence of up to 175 years in a high-security ‘Supermax’ prison if he is extradited from the...
The unions must call a general strike to bring in a workers government!
ANDY BURNHAM’S bid to challenge PM Keir Starmer for the Labour Party leadership late Thursday, following Wes Streeting’s resignation as Health Secretary, has ignited...
Workers will not get any ‘new deal’ from the Tories! Make the TUC call...
THE WINDRUSH scandal, missiles launched at Syria without even seeking permission from Parliament, the Grenfell fire disaster, the winter NHS meltdown, homelessness and rough...
Zionist genocide and land seizures have killed the fantasy of a two-state solution
ON Wednesday, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres slammed Israel for ‘driving a stake through the heart’ of a two-state solution between Palestinians...
US military is building up in Jordan as US imperialism fears the collapse of...
THE US administration of Joe Biden has deployed a record number of American troops to Jordan, a country that sits at the heart of...
Coalition Plans To Smash Workers’ Rights
THE REPORT outlining government proposals to smash up any rights workers have to secure employment and legal protection from unfair dismissal finally saw the...
Dollar collapse puts bankers into a spin
THE dollar has continued to collapse against the other major capitalist currencies leaving the pound at its highest price against the dollar since Britain...
Austria, Italy and Germany discussing new ‘axis’ against refugees!
ANOTHER boat carrying refugees has sunk attempting the journey across the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Europe, 63 asylum seekers are missing. A Libyan coastguard...
Victory to Assad! Stop bombing Libya – withdraw UK special forces!
ON Monday the US launched air strikes on the Libyan city of Sirte against ISIL, at the request of one of the current Libyan...
Labour reach new depths of treachery over NHS
AT the weekend the new Labour shadow health secretary, Andrew Burnham, delivered a treacherous stab in the back to the NHS with the announcement...
‘One Last Big Push’ To Disaster
PRESIDENT BUSH and his military advisors were yesterday poised to announce ‘one last big push’ for victory in Iraq, and that 20,000 more US...
DEFEND THE NHS – DOWN WITH TORY ANTI-UNION LAWS – MAKE TUC CALL A...
NURSES will ‘absolutely not’ pause a 48-hour strike in England on May 1st, said the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday – and it...
Free the Chagos Islands – Britain’s own Guantánamo Bay!
ON WEDNESDAY the General Assembly of the United Nations delivered a stunning vote which overwhelmingly condemned the continuing occupation of the Chagos Islands. By 116...
Bankrupt airlines need to be nationalised!
YESTERDAY BALPA, the pilots’ union, sounded the alarm at the crisis of the major airlines. This has been immeasurably sharpened by the eruption and continuing...
Break the siege of Gaza!
TWO boats carrying humanitarian aid breached the Israeli siege of the Palestinian people in Gaza when they arrived at the main port of Gaza...
Atos & Capita to be paid £700m to throw disabled off benefits! Kick Atos,...
THE TORY government have turned their fire against one of the most vulnerable sections of society: disabled people. The government has launched a three-pronged attack:...
British capitalism crashing into bankruptcy – Unions must organise a general strike to...
THE UK’s largest car maker, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), yesterday announced a massive pre-tax loss of £354 million for the six months to September...
Call national strike action! Form a public sector alliance!
OVER 12,000 postal workers are taking strike action today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and the executive dictatorship by Royal Mail, while...
End all immigration control!
THE death of a 40-year-old woman at Yarl’s Wood on Sunday has once again thrown the spotlight on the privately-run immigration removal centre. According to...
Hamas calls on all states to follow Colombia’s example and sever all relations with...
HAMAS has condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the failure to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, following two days of talks in...
Government collapsing but trade union leaders watch and wait
PRIME Minister Blair and former Blair ultra-loyalists spent yesterday slashing away at each others throats. Blair branded Blairite ex-junior minister, Tom Watson ‘disloyal, discourteous...
Union leaders go easy on Brown’s bosses’ budget
CHANCELLOR Brown’s budget yesterday outlined savage attacks on the working class, particularly low paid workers. His decision to abolish the 10 pence tax rate...
‘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...
The Rapid Rise Of Joblessness Proves The Need For A UK Workers Revolution!
THE rapid rise in joblessness amongst the UK’s youth has pushed Britain to an unwanted milestone. For the first time in a quarter of...
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...
European Union’s jobless crisis leading to revolution
FRENCH trade unions and student unions have mounted huge general strikes and protest actions in recent months against the massive rise in unemployment. France’s...
Capitalism is pauperising workers – forward to the British socialist revolution!
BRITONS have the most mental health problems of any rich country, figures have revealed, as ministers battle a surge in benefit claims linked to...
Benefit Sanctions Are Starving Children!
100,000 children were left to starve last year as a direct result of the Tory-led coalition’s drive to cut benefit payments to the unemployed...
Take strike action to defend wages and jobs
RAPIDLY rising food, gas, electricity and petrol prices pushed up the cost of living in January, even according to the government’s rigged inflation rate...
Overthrow the ‘Big Brother’ bosses & surveillance society with socialist revolution!
THE TRADE Union Congress has conducted a survey which indicates that more than half of workers in the UK, some 56%, are being monitored...
City Link Closure The Prelude To New Year Class Showdown!
THE Christmas Day announcement that parcel delivery firm City Link had gone into administration was ‘disgraceful’, the RMT said yesterday. Its general secretary Mick...
US unions being driven to historic break with Democrats
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said last Friday that US workers want an ‘independent’ labour movement designed to help the working class, not a specific...
Tories tell May she must bring in strike ban law!
SUNDAY saw the Tory Telegraph accuse PM May of ‘refusing to curb the power of striking trade unions despite a growing backlash from...
Canada Bans Arms Sales To Israel – UK And US Workers Must Force Their...
A CANADIAN government official said that Canada will stop exporting weapons to Israel due to the continued international criticism of its ongoing war on...
Biden releases heavily redacted documents to ‘prove’ no Saudi involvement in 9/11 attack
ON THE 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the twin towers in New York the FBI released a newly declassified 16-page document detailing...
King wanted to print even more paper money!
WHEN the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided two weeks ago to print £50 billion more for its stimulus programme binge, the City, which was...
World Crisis driving world revolution – Build the Fourth International!
LAST week it was the turn of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to issue its latest warning that world capitalism is on the point...
Bring Down The UK-French-US War Lords
BRITISH IMPERIALISM was run out of Basra and Iraq, and is about to be run out of Afghanistan. However, it is still organising new...
One day FBU strikes must pave the way for a general strike!
LAST Friday the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) announced that it would kick off its defence of jobs and conditions with two days of strike...
Tories to make hundreds of thousands homeless – only socialism can solve housing crisis
THE policy of the Tory-led coalition to slash housing benefit for the unemployed and low income families will result in hundreds of thousands being...
Lansley calls to ‘break down the system’
TORY coalition Health Secretary Andrew Lansley addressed the BMA doctors union conference in Brighton yesterday, telling delegates: ‘Every step we take we must take...