European capitalism hits the rocks
THE capitalist EU is being battered senseless this week by an economic crisis that is relentless and a working class that is refusing to...
Australian workers defeat Abbott government over GP tax
AUSTRALIA’S biggest health union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), is celebrating the defeat of the Tory Abbott government, which has had...
Tory Party disintegrating – working class must prepare to seize power now!
THE CONSERVATIVE Party is tearing itself apart this week as Tory MPs await with trepidation the result of the inquiry by Sue Gray into...
Knives Out Inside The Tory Party– Time For The Working Class To Bring Them...
AS THE Tory party implodes, and the lynch mob search mounts for the author or authors of the ‘Dirty Dossier’ that named 40MPs and...
Miners charged with murder – ANC stands with the bosses!
THE SOUTH AFRICAN ANC government and its state apparatus have taken a very clear class stand, alongside international capital, with their decision to charge...
Brown brings back Mandelson to fight the trade unions
WITH the financial storm clouds starting to burst around him, Prime Minister Brown has established with his cabinet reshuffle that he means every word...
Leave The EU Now! Call A General Strike To Defend Jobs! Stop Pleading...
THE UK’s negotiator with the EU, Lord Frost, has said that there is still time for the UK and the EU to agree a...
TUC must call a general strike to defend Palestinians and support the State of...
THERE is no doubt that the recent massive demonstrations where hundreds of thousands of UK youth marched, with many chanting for a State of...
Cowardly Corbyn desperately walks the tightrope over the EU and the single market!
LABOUR’S right wing were furious on Friday after the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party conference blocked a vote on single market membership. Instead,...
Egypt must keep open Gaza’s Rafah crossing!
THE Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, which has been closed for the past five months, was opened for two days at...
Hunt Planning New Blitz On NHS And NHS Workers!
BOTH the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) trade unions yesterday warned that Health Secretary Hunt is planning...
Bosses Declare War On Workers With An 80% Hike In Electricity And Gas Bills...
THE UK’s energy bills are set to jump 80 per cent to an average of £3,549 per year from October, regulator Ofgem announced on...
Make May Day the start of a general strike to smash the capitalist state...
YESTERDAY, the High Court in London ruled that the strike action by nurses on May 2nd was unlawful under existing Tory anti-union laws. Pat Cullen,...
Blair’s Iraq adventure bites the dust
PRIME Minister Blair yesterday had a meeting with the long standing CIA agent and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, who is now posing as the...
Tories move to scrap defence cuts and prepare for war!
ON Monday, the Chief of the UK General Staff, General Sir Nick Carter, said in his speech at the Royal United Services Institute, a...
Tories wage starvation war against children of immigrant families and the entire working...
THE children of immigrant families are being deliberately starved by the Tories as part of their ‘hostile environment’ policy towards immigrant workers. Headteachers and...
Defend All A&E’s – Stop The NHS Cuts And Closures!
THE message from Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of NHS England about the NHS crisis, is ‘what crisis?’ There are just too many...
Pope Benedict Pours Fuel On The Fire Then Says Sorry
EX SS soldier Pope Benedict XVI yesterday apologised in person for causing offence to Muslims in a speech in Bavaria last week. In his...
US-UK Alliance Allowed Massacre Of Tamils
AT the minimum 20,000 Tamil people were massacred on the Mullaitivu beach ‘no fire zone’ by Sri Lanka Army shelling, in the first 19...
Trade unions must take action to boycott Israel, and halt all arms supplies!
ISRAELI warplanes struck multiple targets across the Gaza Strip on Friday after a 72-hour ceasefire agreement ended at 8am, killing a child and injuring...
The US, UK and Israel are ready to try to re-impose imperialism in the...
YESTERDAY, the USA backed Israel unconditionally and along with the UK pushed through its plan for taking over the Gaza Strip, smashing Hamas and...
Queen’s Speech leaked as axe set to fall on public sector and business grants!
THE leaking of the Queen’s budget speech is unprecedented, and is an expression of the depth of the split and the cynicism in the...
Britain Heads For Revolutionary Situation
BRITAIN is now being run by a weakened and discredited Blair government, which is however determined to speed up its right wing course and...
Trade Unions Must Fight Alongside The Students!
THE News Line fully supports the call by the secretary of the Young Socialists Student Society for next week’s lobby and rally by the...
BMA & RCEM demand urgent action to end NHS winter crisis! TUC must call...
DOCTORS’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) has demanded ‘urgent action this winter to stop the National Health Service derailing entirely’. This stark warning came in a new report...
Youth &workers need British socialist revolution as they bear the brunt of the UK...
YOUNG people are bearing the brunt of the jobs crisis. Under 35s accounted for 80% of the 811,000 payroll jobs lost in the UK...
Thousands Of NHS Redundancies Are To Go Ahead – Trade Unions Must Take Action...
THOUSANDS of NHS staff redundancies in England are now to be forced through after a deal was reached with the Treasury to allow the...
Israel warns 250,000 Gazans that they must leave Gaza City at once!
THE Israeli government has told ‘everyone’ in Gaza City, which has over 250,000 inhabitants, that they must leave the city at once so that...
Put Blair On Trial!
THE Fern Britton interview with Tony Blair on the BBC yesterday, squashed all of the notions that are being peddled that Blair was just...
Justice – Just Another Bourgeois Commodity For Sale
THE Coalition’s ‘Justice Secretary’ Chris Grayling plans to make further savage cuts in the £2bn legal aid bill in England and Wales, to...
Starmer Betrays The Working Class By Planning A Massive Rise In Military Spending!
LABOUR PRIME MINISTER Keir Starmer has almost immediately betrayed the massive working class electorate that voted him into office as Prime Minister. His first action...
Trade Union Leaders Are Pulling Their Punches!
IT is a disgrace that the trade union leaders who led the May 10th pensions strike, when 400,000 trade union members stopped work, refused...
Making the country fit for the gangmasters
AT the just concluded TUC Congress, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, openly condemned the description of ‘globalisation’ as ‘a race to the...
Trump sends in National Guard to take over America’s capital city
On Monday, US president Donald Trump declared a ‘crime emergency’ in Washington DC, the capital city of America, using this as a pretext to...
Children starve in Britain while bankers reap billions
IN the same week that the capitalist banking system was exposed as a centre of criminal venality, lying and cheating in order to secure...
Defend benefits! down with ‘universal credit’!
THE announcement yesterday that the work and pensions minister, Iain Duncan Smith, had won his battle with the treasury over bringing in a single ‘universal...
Afghan defeat for UK imperialism – now smash them at home
AN influential group of MPs have finally admitted publicly what everyone already knows – that the invasion of Afghanistan by NATO troops, led by...
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...
Labour Is The Rajapaksa Regime’s Sponsor
ON Tuesday evening President Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan president, was due to address the prestigious Oxford Union in front of an invited audience. He...
Bank calls for public spending to be slashed to protect profits!
THE capitalist class of Britain and Europe have been served with a warning that unless they act quickly to slash all public spending they...
Corbyn sets out to unrig and transform the ‘rigged’ capitalist system
LABOUR Leader Corbyn opened the Labour Party general election campaign yesterday by stating: ‘We have four weeks. Four weeks to take our message to...
Humanitarian imperialists get ready for a bloodbath
DESPITE all of the hurrahs coming from the manic bourgeois media, the imperialist powers have a very big problem with Libya, and the Libyan...
G20 bankrupts meet protected by 10,000 riot police batons
LEADERS of the major capitalist states, and the leaders of Russia and China, who have linked their fate to the future of the crisis...
Egyptian Army Mobilises For Military Coup
GENERAL Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s army chief, whose force is paid for by the United States, has warned that the current political crisis ‘could...
Eu Bosses Strangle Greek Democracy!
MERKEL, Sarkozy and Cameron are all united on one central issue, the Greek workers must not have the slightest ‘democratic’ say over the draconian...