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Capitalism Facing ‘Debt Annihilation’ While Its Supporters Panic And Prepare...
OPTIMISM is in very short supply in the UK ruling class when it examines the state of British capitalism. The Business Comment in The Sunday...
Splits in the ruling classes are opening up the way for...
MORE than 800 serving officials in the US and Europe have signed a statement warning that their own governments’ policies on the Israel-Gaza war...
Greek PM calls students ‘robbers’
LAST Tuesday on national state television, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis likened students to ‘robbers’ because they have occupied their university departments in...
Labour will let bankers’ bonuses soar and make the working class...
LABOUR’S shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves yesterday pledged any future Labour government to be the bankers’ best friend, ready and willing to facilitate awarding massive...
US and UK end aid funding to Palestinians in support of...
THE United States, along with other Western countries, has pitched in to accelerate Israel’s war on Palestinians through a campaign of deliberate starvation to...
COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT – the decision to suspend Palestinian aid
The decision to suspend aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency by several Western countries is a ‘collective punishment’, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said...
USA tells Sunak that the UK must increase its military spending...
THE UK has just been given its marching orders by the USA that it must boost the size of its armed forces in response...
NATO launches its largest exercise since the Cold War!
THE North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has launched its largest military exercise since the Cold War, with a US warship leaving the United States...
Iran warns of the risk of a ‘wider conflict in the...
THE Iranian foreign minister has warned that the risk of a ‘wider’ conflict in the region has sharply increased due to the United States’...
Oust Sunak and bring back the call-up says the Tory ...
THE TORY Daily Telegraph yesterday sounded the alarm bells, in the face of the ever deepening crisis of British capitalism. It was a double-barrelled message,...
Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards march to demand immediate Gaza ceasefire
HUNDREDS of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters staged rallies across Spain demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, urging the government to break institutional ties and...
Hamas Heroes Are Not Defeated And Await The Assistance Of The...
EVEN US intelligence agencies estimate that the death toll among Hamas fighters from Israel’s ongoing attempt to crush the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza...
£30 billion wiped off UK stock market overnight as capitalism plunges...
ON Wednesday, the FTSE 100 had its biggest fall since August last year with almost 30 billion pounds wiped off the value of the...
World Economic Forum declares capitalist ‘global order’ destabilised by imperialist war...
THE WORLD Economic Forum (WEF) opened its meeting at the Swiss resort of Davos this week under the storm clouds of an economic and...
UK troops to Russia’s borders while Tories threaten more bombings of...
On the day that Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak addressed parliament – to justify bombing Yemen last Friday without bothering to consult MPs –...
Sunak Escalates Military Action
TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak escalated military action against the Houthi movement in Yemen yesterday, while also announcing that 20,000 British armed forces will...
UK troops to Russia’s borders while Tories threaten more bombings of...
ON the day that Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak addressed parliament – to justify bombing Yemen last Friday without bothering to consult MPs –...
UK carriers are ready to be deployed against the Houthis. UK...
THE UK’s aircraft carriers are ready to be deployed to fight the Houthis, and to threaten war with the Iranian revolution, was the message...
Global unemployment is expected to rise in 2024
GLOBAL unemployment will rise in 2024 and growing inequalities and stagnant productivity are causes for concern, according to the ILO’s World Employment and Social...
Greek Students & Workers March Against Private Universities!
TENS of thousands of Greek university and school students, along with teachers and universities’ staff, participated in protest marches in all major cities against...
Russian military will stop Ukrainian shelling of Russian cities
THE RUSSIAN military will do everything possible to reduce and then eliminate the threat of Ukrainian shelling attacks on Russian cities, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry...
South Africa slams Israel over genocide against Palestinians!
IN A historical development at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, South Africa presented its detailed case against Israel committing genocide...
Sudan’s civil war escalates – RSF leader bids for power!
WHEN Sudan’s civil war broke out in April, conflict arose between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, leader...
The number of refugees and migrant workers crossing the Channel is...
THE NUMBER of refugees and migrant workers crossing the Channel has fallen year-on-year for the first time since current records began. Government figures show the...
Huge Palestine New Year demonstrations across Europe
Massive demonstrations took place in the capitals of several European countries on Sunday in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and to...
Zionists tout Blair as agent to ‘relocate’ Palestinians
FORMER UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is being touted by sections of the Israeli genocide cabinet as an agent to lead the ‘relocation’ of...
2024 – Victory to Palestine! Forward to British Socialist Revolution!
News Year’s statement from the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2024 to all our readers and to...
Palestine Action’s ‘Elbit Eight’ acquitted!
IN a significant development, a group of Palestine Action activists, known as the ‘Elbit Eight’, have been acquitted for their role in shutting down...
Israel responds to UN resolution calling for ‘sustainable ceasefire’ by ramping...
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...
‘RUSSIA WILL CIRCUMVENT EU SANCTIONS!’ – Dmitry Peskov
RUSSIA will circumvent the European Union’s sanctions, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. Peskov stated: ‘As far as Russian diamonds are concerned, it was...
US assembles imperialist navy in Red Sea to attack Yemen
ON MONDAY, the US Secretary of Defence, Lloyd Austin, announced the creation of a ‘multinational security initiative’ – including the UK and major imperialist...
‘Bloodbath’ in Gaza hospitals as Israel ramps up genocidal war
A NEW REPORT by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has indicted Israel for using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. Omar Shakir, HRW’s Israel...
Half Of Gaza Population Is Starving
THE United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that half the population is starving in Gaza. UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini,...
Hundreds More Deaths In Palestine As Israeli Murder Machine Claims More...
THE Israeli murder machine is being allowed to do its worst in the Gaza Strip, with the US and the UK ruling classes standing...
Iran calls for meeting of OIC member states on ending Gaza...
IRAN’S Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has called for an extraordinary meeting of the Permanent Committee on Palestine at the Parliamentary Union of the...
Global strike condemned Israel’s genocidal warfare on the Gaza Strip
A GLOBAL strike prevailed in several Arab and Muslim cities around the world on Monday in condemnation of the Israeli genocidal war on the...
Youth Are Showing The Way! Now The Trade Unions Must Call...
THE Israeli occupation army is continuing its aggression against the city of Jenin in Occupied Palestine for the second day in a row, leaving...
US moving to dump Zelensky – says Russian intelligence chief
‘SERIOUS people’ in high places in the West are now discussing options for replacing Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky with someone else, Russian Foreign Intelligence...
‘All public hospitals and public schools must be exempt from power...
NUMSA (National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa) has welcomed the High Court judgment, ordering the Energy minister, Kgosientso Ramokgopa, to take all reasonable steps,...
Israel fails to crush Hamas and is losing the ‘cognitive’ war...
SPEAKING at a press conference yesterday, Majed al-Ansar, the Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said that Israel was the ‘toughest party’ in negotiations on the...
‘The forecourt was full of bodies and body parts’ – British-Palestinian...
BRITISH-Palestinian surgeon Professor Ghassan Abu Sitta has recounted harrowing health-related ordeals Palestinian civilians went through during Israel’s onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip. The brutal...
Truce extended for two more days
QATAR announced yesterday that the truce between Israel and Gaza has been extended for two days, with 20 Israeli captives to be handed over...
Tuc Must Call General Strike In Support Of Palestine And To...
LAST Saturday, a massive demonstration of over 300,000 workers and youth marched to Whitehall, close to 10 Downing Street, calling for the trade union...
Hezbollah Is In A State Of War With Israel
A high-ranking official with Lebanon’s Hezbollah says the popular resistance movement is in a state of war with Israel, calling on the Muslim world...
‘Israel’s continuation of its hideous war on Gaza … will lead...
JORDAN’S King Abdullah II said yesterday the international community should push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to stop the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe caused...