News International, Parliament and the state
THE revelation yesterday that the News of the World (NoW) newspaper had quietly suspended its assistant editor (news), Ian Edmondson, just before Christmas, has...
Putin And Lavrov Come To Obama’s Rescue!
OBAMA had been facing massive opposition in every State of the Union, with opinion polls saying that he faced defeat in any Congressional vote...
US, France & UK ready to strike Syria! Corbyn and the TUC must call...
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has told Russia to ‘get ready’ for a missile strike on Syria in response to the completely fictitious ‘chemical attack’...
Tories must be made to withdraw junior doctors’ contract and abandon contract imposition!
THE proposal, made by 22 medical colleges and faculties for a five-day pause in the drive to impose new junior doctors’ contracts in England,...
1.72 million jobless! End of furloughing on April 21 will see millions more...
1.72 MILLION are now jobless! The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said yesterday it is the highest level in five years. Workers aged between 25...
Labour must move to stop war, and force the May government to resign!
WHILE Trump and US Defence Secretary, General ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis were blowing hot and cold over whether they were going to attack Syria or...
The fate of UK banks linked to the fate of South Africa’s Zuma –...
‘THIS is the third high-profile money-laundering scandal to involve major British banks this year,’ John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, said yesterday, responding to reports...
It Is Time For A Revolution Inside The Trade Unions To Defeat The Bosses’...
THE UNITE leader Sharon Graham on Saturday in a speech in Coventry suspended all Coventry Labour councillors who are Unite members from the union...
Nationalise oil and energy industries under workers management and without compensation now!
Yesterday, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) published its plan to cut energy bills by re-nationalising energy retail companies. The plan, issued in advance of next...
One word ‘strike’ sends the TUC into a spin
EARLIER this week the News Line stated that it would not be enough to adopt a programme at the current TUC Congress, but that...
Running Scared Of Youth And Revolution!
THE German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned a Paris conference of French, German and Italian leaders on Tuesday that youth unemployment of almost 25%...
Abbas – Sharon Summit Cancelled!
PRESIDENT Mahmud Abbas’ summit with the Israeli leader Ariel Sharon, which was due today, has been cancelled after Abbas said he was opposed to...
Union leaders offer to save capitalism
BORIS JOHNSON’S address to the nation on Sunday night about ‘relaxing’ the lockdown rules has been widely criticised by the leaders of the Labour...
Arm The Palestinian Masses Now!
ISRAEL has set Palestine ablaze yet again with the death in an Israeli prison of Maysarah Abu Hamdiyeh, a 64-year-old prisoner, who had been...
Smash the surveillance society – smash the capitalist state!
HARD on the heels of the revelations last June from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden that American and British spy agencies can access all...
EU Makes A Fool Of Johnson – Time For The UK Working Class To...
THE BRITISH Prime Minister was given the ‘Greek plus’ treatment by the EU leadership on Monday when the EU assembled British ‘Remainers’ to boo...
Amnesty Calls Assad War Criminal For Bombing Isis!
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL has accused the Syrian government of war crimes after it bombed the city of Raqqa, in northern Syria, which ISIS is seeking...
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...
Browne’s speech: Taleban fighters throw NATO into crisis
LABOUR’S Defence Secretary Des Browne admitted yesterday that the Taleban resistance movement in Afghanistan is making NATO’s attempt to control the country ‘harder than...
Mass Murder In Arab Jabur
WHILE President Bush was allegedly talking peace in the Palestinian town of Ramallah on Thursday, US B1 bombers and F16 fighters were raining 40,000...
Bush, Blair, Obama, And Cameron Are The War Criminals!
THAT the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants against Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi, his son and his brother-in-law, on...
National Audit Office Says Families Will Live In Fire Deathtraps Until Mid-2022!
IT HAS been three years since the horrific Grenfell fire which killed 72 men, women and children. Three years and there are still seven...
UNIONS must purge Labour Party of Brown and the Blairites
AFTER the Labour party defeat at Glasgow East, one of the safest Labour seats in the country, the Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stated...
NO reconstruction, only destruction in Afghanistan
THE top NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Jones, has just apologised for the death of up to 80 Afghan civilians in a series...
Workers and youth forward to the Socialist revolution!
LAST Sunday the president of the National Union of Students (NUS), Aaron Porter, made a surprise visit to a meeting of students occupying University...
Labour plans war on refugees and asylum seekers
THE LABOUR government of Keir Starmer continues its collapse into total chaos and breakdown this week with a sharp turn to the right orchestrated...
Police spies inquiry reveals the capitalist state conspiracy against the working class and its...
IN HIS opening statements to the Undercover Policing Inquiry, the lawyer acting for the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence condemned the inquiry for...
Bankers Are Caught Like Rats In A Trap
FACED with loud and strident demands to slash its lending rate, to try and avoid a housing crash and a depression by crashing the...
Italian banks are bust, as is the Italian government – the working class must...
A COLLISION between Italy and the European Union over a bailout of Italy’s collapsed banking system is getting closer by the day. It is...
Trump is threatening to attack Iran! US and UK workers must respond by removing...
LONDON witnessed one of the largest pro-Palestine demonstrations since the ceasefire agreement was signed in October 2025, with more than 100,000 people marching through...
‘Stand and Deliver’ – EU highwaymen demand 100bn euros!
THE attempt of the political representatives of the EU to make the UK working class stand and deliver up to, or even over, 100bn...
Millions Of Workers And Youth Join The Struggle To Liberate Palestine And Establish The...
SATURDAY saw a vast crowd of 250,000 workers, including very large numbers of enthusiastic and determined youth, take to the streets of London for...
Unite members elect Sharon Graham as General Secretary to take on employers and Tories
SHARON Graham yesterday was elected as general secretary of the Unite union to replace Len McCluskey securing 37.6% of the vote. Graham, who was considered...
A UK G-Bay & more armed police as Tories seek big majority to force...
NEW Guantanamo Bay-style jails-within-jails are being opened for the first time in the UK to incarcerate ‘extremists of all kinds’, while police are being...
Labour’s Stirrup to be sacked early, as Tory MP appeals to Mullah Omar!
THE Tory Defence Secretary Fox yesterday revealed that Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, chief of the defence staff, is to be sacked early,...
Brown & Mandelson are not talking down the pound, they are planning to scrap...
THE EU Commission’s President Barroso has been told by the ‘people who matter’, ie by members of the Labour government, that they now...
Grenfell Towers are everywhere! Capitalism cannot be regulated, it must be overthrown!
THE TORY government is pushing its Building Safety Bill that it says addresses the big issue of fire safety raised by the horrific Grenfell...
No escape for capitalism as stock markets crash
ON THE very day that Boris Johnson hailed the start of the economic bounce-back for capitalism with a return to work, the international stock...
Pensioners being lined up for Tory austerity attack
A NEW report by The Resolution Foundation think-tank on pensions and pensioners is nothing more than a clarion call for pensions to be cut...
Forward With The Victory Of The French Socialist Revolution!
PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble Alliance has been brought down to earth with a bang after losing its absolute majority in the French National Assembly,...
Grenfell Tower survivors treated with contempt by Tories – time to kick the government...
THE contemptuous treatment of the survivors of the fire that killed 80 people at least has been sickening. Last week it emerged that those who...
Prevent new ‘Catastrophe’ for Negev Bedouins!
THOUSANDS of protesters participated in large demonstrations in Haifa, Jerusalem and in the Negev on Saturday against the Israeli Prawer Plan to drive the...
New Curriculum abolishes childhood
THIS week, children and young people return to school in England where they face being subjected to a new education curriculum devised by the...
Bush bull cannot cover over US defeat
BRITISH troops have just scuttled out of Basra, leaving the various militias of the city in full control. They have settled down at Basra airport,...
Mandelson’s Secret Business Interests!
PETER Mandelson is one of five Labour government cabinet ministers who insists on his business interests being a secret and for that purpose has...