Irish Trade Unions Put The Tuc To Shame
LAST Friday, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions called a 100,000 strong national demonstration in Dublin, with demonstrations in many other Irish cities and...
British capitalism in complete economic collapse driven by imperialist war
Yesterday the UK’s energy regulator Ofgem announced that the energy prices for millions of households will increase by 4% on 1st October driven by...
CWU Demands Criminal Investigations Into Persecution Of Postmasters! Workers Must Demand Action To End...
THE CWU postal workers trade union yesterday insisted that criminal investigations must take place ‘into senior Post Office figures who oversaw the criminalisation of...
Irish workers reject the Catholic Church’s State and demand abortion rights!
THE Catholic Church-dominated state of the Irish Republic was rocked to its foundations on Saturday when the results came through after the referendum on...
Disorientated Johnson quotes Lenin to CBI while Starmer tells bosses we will do what...
BOTH Tory prime minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer spoke at the annual conference of the leading bosses’ organisation, the Confederation of...
Workers & youth take on the French government
THOUSANDS of students took to the streets in major cities throughout France yesterday in the struggle against Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s First Employment...
Kelly plans new attacks on council tenants
RUTH Kelly, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has backed proposals to end the long-term secure tenancies of working-class families living in...
TUC must support the railworkers by calling a general strike to bring down the...
WORKERS up and down the country, struggling to feed their families in the face of a massive price inflation that is growing all the...
Obama Declares War On The Pakistani People!
PRESIDENT OBAMA yesterday announced a ‘comprehensive new strategy for Afghanistan Pakistan’. He deliberately linked the two countries together, to try to show that there could...
Tories are unable to beat Covid virus – time to bring them down and...
YESTERDAY, the BMA revealed in a statement that thousands of doctors feared that the NHS would not be able to cope with the ‘incredible...
Another Warning Issued About The Criminal Nature Of The New Anti-Union Laws
LEADING employment lawyers are to issue yet another warning that the Tory government’s new Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill will give ministers ‘unfettered power’...
Third World Britain beaten only by the USA
WOMEN in the UK are more than twice as likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth as those in Poland, Austria or Belarus, according...
Brown’s empty words cannot hide he is the bankers’ man
‘I want to talk to you about a new settlement for new times. A fair Britain for the new age. . . my unwavering...
Imf Predicts A Global Catastrophe
THE European banks are heading at speed into a crash that will bring down not just the economies of the 17-nation Eurozone but the...
Parents Queue At 3Am To Get Their Children Into Breakfast Clubs!
MORE than 130 parents queued outside a school in Cardiff, Wales from 3am Thursday morning to try and get their child a space at...
Rich 1% ‘Hoovering up’ all the wealth!
IN advance of the Tory budget on Wednesday, where chancellor Osborne is due to announce even more savage austerity cuts, the charity Oxfam has...
Parliament Votes Lords Resolution Banning Any UK ‘No Deal’ Into Law!
THE HOUSE of Commons on Monday night voted by 390 votes to 81 to turn a House of Lords resolution into legislation that bans...
US Fed Reserve threatens 2014 end for QE cash supply
THE US Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, gave the clearest indication this week that the Fed is intent on pursuing a policy of ‘tapering...
Defend car jobs! Occupy Vauxhall and Peugeot!
VAUXHALL Chairman Jonathan Browning announced yesterday that the General Motors (GM) subsidiary is to cut about 900 jobs, by the end of August, at...
CWU nationwide industrial action deadline on July 2
THE CWU Conference last Wednesday backed two emergency motions from the postal executive calling on the government to remove the threat of privatisation, facilitate...
Italian Banks on verge of crash following Renzi’s defeat
THE defeat for the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, in Sunday’s referendum to change the Italian constitution and concentrate the political power in his...
Just What The Doctor Ordered!
EARLY yesterday morning 21 people were arrested and charged under the various terrorism acts, while Scotland Yard said that the 21 were engaged in...
£9.2 billion NHS money given to privateers – time to expropriate them
IN JANUARY this year the Tory secretary of state for health, Matt Hancock, told MPs that ‘there is no privatisation on my watch’ of...
Imperialism Playing With Syrian Fire
SYRIA’S Ba’athist leader Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western action against his country will cause an ‘earthquake’ that will ‘burn the whole region’, and...
Obama recognises the limits of US power
PRESIDENT Obama yesterday gave the go-ahead for a massive attack on the Afghan people in which tens of thousands of men, women and children...
Defending US ‘strategic interests’ leads directly to imperialist war
IT WAS CLAUSEWITZ who said that war is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means. In unveiling a large number of...
Revolution On The March In The Eu!
THE working class pushing forward against the EU’s austerity programmes has thrust the Eurozone into crisis, and created the conditions for the collapse of...
Capitalism on the brink of destroying humanity – World Socialist Revolution is the only...
CAPITALISM has dived into the abyss of a world crisis that threatens not simply trade wars but world wars on a scale never seen...
Localism Act 2011 Being Used To Build Up An Army Of Homeless People!
UNDER the Localism Act 2011, councils were granted greater powers to restrict access to social housing. Vulnerable people are now unable to access social...
US Imperialism Is Struggling To Combat Iran And The World Revolution!
THE United States has suspended arms deliveries to NATO ally Estonia as its aggression in Iran has put a major strain on US weapons...
Stock Markets Crashing Worldwide!
THE sharp rises followed almost immediately by even bigger losses on the international stock markets over the past few days, point in only one...
Trump sends 15,000 troops to Mexican border – threatening to open fire on migrants!
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump spat on the Statue of Liberty this week and the revolutionary history of the United States, especially its call from...
Take Action To Stop US-UK-Israel Attack On Iran
WHAT is being termed as a coalition of trade unions (Unison, the GMB and Amicus), charities and faith groups yesterday warned Tony Blair that...
Brown must stop supporting the Rajapaksa government that murders Tamils
THE Brown government rails on about ‘breaches of human rights’ allegedly taking place in Zimbabwe and Burma, and makes all kinds of allegations...
Answer the Lindsey provocation with a general strike!
THE provocative sacking of over 650 workers at the Lindsey Oil Refinery – who walked out to demand that a recently negotiated trade union...
Israel responds to UN resolution calling for ‘sustainable ceasefire’ by ramping up genocide!
ISRAEL intensified its bombardment of Gaza over the weekend hitting 200 targets in a single 24-hour period on Friday and Saturday. Just one of these...
Corbyn lets Labour’s right wing drag him into the ‘Remain’ camp!
LABOUR leader Corbyn was pushed yesterday for convincing reasons for voting to ‘Remain’ in the EU in the forthcoming referendum. He said that EU...
Victory To The Gate Gourmet Workers
THE News Line sends greetings to the striking German and the locked-out British Gate Gourmet workers, who are today marching through Hounslow. The German workers...
Bring down Blair regime from the left
THE Blair government suffered two body-blows yesterday. Blair’s main cabinet ally, Blunkett, was forced to resign, and the government’s 66 majority was reduced to...
UK must completely leave EU on March 29, 2019 – with or without a...
NEGOTIATIONS over the UK’s departure from the EU are ‘now in the endgame’, according to PM May, with both sides ‘working through the night...
Putin Makes An Offer To Africa That The Capitalists Are Incapable Of Making!
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has told a summit of African leaders that Russia will give them tens of thousands of tonnes of grain within...
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...
While FIFA looks the other way Palestinian children are being tortured
IT is a monstrous betrayal of the Palestinian people that the FIFA Congress immersed itself in the corrupt affairs of billionaire, big business soccer,...
Occupy Grangemouth to defend the union, jobs, wages and pensions
UNITE has urged Grangemouth workers not to give in to Ineos’ ‘menacing’ tactics to sign away their rights, saying it was looking to take...
Labour government splits over ‘class war plan’ to raise income tax rates
MAJOR splits have emerged in the Labour government Cabinet over PM Keir Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s class-war plans to raise income tax rates...