Imperialism responsible for Libyan detention centre bombing atrocity
THE BOMBING of a detention centre holding 600 refugees in the Libyan capital Tripoli last Wednesday killed at least 44 people and wounded over...
Tgwu Leaders Stop Gate Gourmet Workers Hardship Fund
YESTERDAY the News Line was informed by the London Region Office of the TGWU that the Gate Gourmet hardship fund was closed and that...
Major tax rises are on the way. Bring down the Labour government and bring...
‘TAX rises are inevitable’ warned economists yesterday, barely 12 months after Labour’s election pledge of ‘No tax rises’. This is after PM Keir Starmer’s...
Smash anti-strike bill by forcing TUC to call a general strike to kick the...
THE TUC yesterday published an analysis that showed that 5.5 million workers in England, Scotland and Wales would have their right to strike threatened...
THE BANK looks to inflation to pauperise the workers and Middle Class
THE pound fell sharply on Wednesday against both the dollar and the euro as the money markets were shaken to the core by the...
Rudd gone – May government and British capitalism next!
THERE is a growing demoralisation in the ranks of the paid propagandists for British capitalism about the prospects for the British ruling class. Two important...
Answer Tories’ ‘war to finish’ on trade unions by demanding the TUC immediately call...
YESTERDAY, NHS consultants began a 48-hour strike that has propelled a head-on confrontation between doctors and their union, the BMA, and a Tory government...
Germany crashes into recession while EU banks face collapse – socialist revolution the only...
GERMANY, the EU’s biggest economy, has crashed into recession data revealed by the Federal Statistics Office last week showed. This was a blow to the...
Venezuela election blow to imperialist regime change plans
SUNDAY’S general election in Venezuela saw President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela sweeping to victory winning 67% of the votes and control...
Unite must hit back and defend its members, with full TUC support
THE petrochemical plant at the giant Grangemouth complex in central Scotland is to close with the loss of over 800 jobs, owner Ineos announced...
Corbyn Displays The Bankruptcy Of Reformism At The TUC!
WHAT has emerged out of the bankruptcy of Parliament this week is that the Labour leadership, along with the other opposition parties and rebel...
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...
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...
Time to expropriate the banks and jail the bankers
THIS week has seen the essence of the banking fraternity emerge after HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, which was rescued by the UK taxpayers in...
President Obama is heading for a fall
SPEAKING before the NATO summit President Obama made clear that his business in Europe was to raise a war party for Afghanistan, when...
Social Revolution Is The Issue Not Terrorism!
THE Continuity IRA and the Real IRA have opened fire and killed and wounded soldiers and policemen in the north of Ireland, breaking open...
Unions Must Put The Labour Party House In Order
THE main trade union leaders are determined that the crisis of the Labour government should be kept out of the TUC Congress in Brighton. They...
Tata Steel UK’S claim of losing £1.5 million a day to justify jobs massacre...
Last Friday, Tata Steel UK confirmed its devastating plans to axe 2,800 jobs with the closure of two blast furnaces at its Port Talbot...
More cuts planned – despite Buncefield fire!
RESIDENTS whose lives were put at risk, and even the management of devastated businesses near the Buncefield oil storage depot in Hertfordshire have been...
Manchester Arena bombing Inquiry condemns MI5, police & private security but lets the Tories...
POLICE and private security failed to apprehend the Manchester bomber, the damning report published by the public inquiry has concluded. Inquiry chairman Sir John...
Carpetbagger Cable Incites Youth Against The Elderly!
LIBERAL leader Cable yesterday launched a vicious attack on the elderly stating that by voting Brexit they had ‘comprehensively shafted the young’. Writing in...
Rats Starting To Quit Sinking Ship!
PRIME MINISTER Brown was yesterday under full scale attack from the bourgeois media. He faced the humiliation of appearing on the Andrew Marr...
Britain is set to rearm with the working class paying the full bill with...
THE Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he is willing to give up his war with Russia in the Ukraine, and is also...
Ford and GM shutting down in Europe
THE US motorcar giants GM and Ford were rescued from bankruptcy by President Obama who ‘nationalised’ them, so that the US taxpayer could get...
Scrap the Public Private Partnership on the tube
METRONET, the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) within London Underground, has collapsed financially after years of failure to provide services required by the capital’s transport system. It...
French workers’ refusal to vote for austerity puts socialist revolution on immediate agenda
IN A SHARP contrast to last week’s general election in the UK which saw a massive turnout of workers and young people to vote...
UNISON leaders buy a little time for Brown
THE UNISON leaders who originally accepted the three year sub-inflation pay deal for NHS workers, along with the RCN, without going to ballot, yesterday...
Tories to axe benefits starting off with barring ‘foreigners’!
THE Tory Party has launched its campaign to force the working class to pay the bill for the worldwide capitalist crisis of the bosses,...
US Ruling Class Fails To Assassinate Maduro – Workers Must Defend The Venezuelan...
VENEZUELA’S President Nicolas Maduro has survived an assassination attempt during a military parade celebrating the 81st anniversary of the Bolivarian National Guard in the...
Defeat the Education Bill – no to an education market
THE government has published its Education Bill, with up to 100 Labour MPs still opposed to it. The Education and Inspection Bill allows schools in...
Blair ‘comfortable’ with five shots to the head, shoot to kill policy
ON Sunday, Police Commissioner Blair told the world that the policy of shooting to kill ‘terrorist suspects’ was national policy, not just a Metropolitan...
Sack Gove not teachers, stop privatisation of schools
TEACHERS in England returned to work this week facing an all-out assault on their jobs, their pay and the very existence of free state...
Starving The Poor!
AS hard evidence emerges about how the ‘local welfare assistance’ scheme is operating in practice across England, it is quite clear that deliberately starving...
Slump ‘deepening at an alarming pace’
THE British Chambers of Commerce yesterday published its Fourth Quarter Economic Survey of nearly 6,000 businesses. It highlights what it called ‘a...
German workers join European strike wave
MORE than 20,000 German doctors are taking strike action all this week demanding a cut in working hours and a 30-per-cent pay rise. The...
Police ‘Yobs’ Bait Home Secretary
THE very well paid police force – loaded up with housing and other benefits, on Wednesday bit the hand that has been feeding...
All councils, student unions and trade unions must boycott Israel – Edelstein visit must...
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation has condemned the new Tory ‘guidance’ banning councils, NHS trusts and all publicly funded organisations from boycotting goods and services...
Tories driving workers out of London
TWO sets of statistics were issued last Thursday, statistics that prove conclusively what every worker in London and the big cities in England and...
TUC appeal to Osborne – a conscious act of treachery
IN January the European Trades Union Confederation (ETUC) issued the call for trade unionists across the continent to rally on the eve of the...
Capitalist state steps back from the brink!
BRITISH Airways cabin crew cheered and danced and celebrated yesterday morning. They sang ‘We are the Champions’ after their strength forced a panel...
Trade unions must bring down crisis-ridden Tories, break with the EU and bring in...
THE TORY leadership is now in complete disarray, with PM May repeatedly refusing on Tuesday to say how she would vote if there was...
Victory to the Palestinian people – British trade unions must strike to stop Israel’s...
NEWS LINE salutes the heroic determination of the Palestinian people in their struggle against the illegal and brutal Israeli occupation of their land. Yesterday, hundreds...
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...
Imperialists Getting Ready To Attack Iran – It Is Time For Workers To Carry...
A WHITE HOUSE official warned yesterday that the US military is 99 per cent certain to launch a massive military attack on Iran ‘to...
Unite cuts funding to Labour. All unions must break with Labour and call an...
YESTERDAY Unite, the trade union with 1.4 million members, announced it will cut political donations to the Labour party and divert the money to...