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OPEN THE RAFA CROSSING – Palestinians’ patience is wearing thin, says...

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With Israel’s two-week military offensive in Gaza showing no signs of abating, patience is running thin among those waiting to get into the Strip...

200,000 March On Israeli Embassy

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OVER 200,000 people joined the largest-ever demonstration in Britain in support of the Palestinian people, when they marched in London on Saturday. About 10,000 people...

Israel Ignores UN Resolution – And Carries On Killing

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ISRAELI forces killed 21 Palestinians in the early hours after midnight Thursday ignoring the UN Security Council agreement on a draft ceasefire resolution. These included...

Gm To Impose Wage Cuts & Job Cuts

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UNITE union officers met with General Motors bosses on Thursday, to discuss the future of the company’s Luton plant. The 1,400 workers at the Kimpton...

Israel continues with its Gaza massacres

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ISRAEL has rejected the UN security council resolution calling for a ceasefire and a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and is determined to carry...

‘IT’S LIKE HELL HERE NOW’ – Doctor Mads Gilbert condemns Israeli...

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Fifteen Palestinian civilians were killed yesterday and at least 40 others were wounded when Israeli shells hit Gaza City shopping centre. Among those killed by...

2009 The Year For Getting Rid Of Capitalism

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STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD WELCOME to 2009. It is the year for getting rid of capitalism and the capitalist world order. Capitalism is...

Warships Shell Gaza!

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Israeli warships shelled Gaza from the sea yesterday as jets continued to bomb Gaza from the air for a third day in an ‘all-out...

Egyptian forces turn back fleeing refugees – as attacks on Gaza...

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ISRAELI shells hit the Gaza tunnels last Sunday evening, killing two and injuring 22. The blasts also prompted hundreds to race for new...

Build the revolutionary party in Greece

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THE daily demonstrations of youth and workers are continuing in Greece, over a week after the assassination of the 15-year-old school boy Alexis Grigoropoulos...

OCCUPY GM PLANTS – Nationalise motor car industry

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‘THE news that General Motors is heading into bankruptcy means that the future of all GM plants is in the balance, especially the two...

de Menezes Inquest ‘a Whitewash’

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THE FAMILY of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday vowed to continue their struggle for justice, and while denouncing the conduct of the coroner at...

Corus 10% Wage Cut Plan

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One hundred Community, GMB and Unite trade union representatives from Anglo-Dutch steelmaker, Corus, were meeting in London yesterday to discuss company demands for a...

SHADOW OF 1930s HANGS OVER BROWN-MERKEL SPLIT

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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...

Karamanlis threatens Greek youth!

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THE Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis delivered a 5-minute proclamation on all national TV channels and radio stations on Tuesday night condemning as ‘enemies...

Greek Revolution Erupts – With The Youth In The Lead!

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IN all of the Greek cities there were clashes throughout yesterday between workers and youth and the riot police, and other Greek special forces....

Occupy GM, Ellesmere Port and Luton & nationalise to defend jobs

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THE UK’s biggest car manufacturer, Vauxhall, with plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton, has admitted its more than 5,000 jobs are under massive threat...

STOP GM PLANTS CLOSING! – workers must occupy!

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General Motors-owned Vauxhall Ellesmere Port and GM Luton have admitted their future depends on the US government bailing out their parent company. During discussions...

Union Leaders Look Both Ways On Queen’s Speech

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Most trade union leaders welcomed the Brown government’s legislative programme announced in Wednesday’s Queen’s Speech. However, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) warned...

QUEEN’S SPEECH:Making the poor pay & more police powers

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THE Queen’s Speech yesterday was dominated by the unprecedented world financial crisis and deepening slump, and its impact on decrepit British imperialism. It opened: ‘My...

Brown & Mandelson are not talking down the pound, they are...

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THE EU Commission’s President Barroso has been told by the ‘people who matter’, ie by members of the Labour government, that they now...

SCOTLAND’S HEALTH BOARDS NOT READY FOR 48-HOUR WEEK – warns BMA

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With less than 250 days to go until all junior doctors in Scotland will be restricted to working a maximum of 48 hours a...

Build Revolutionary Leadershp

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‘As ordinary trade union members are fighting for their jobs they must have a leadership with a policy of “not one job sold, not...

Trotskyism is the Marxism of today

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THIS Sunday’s rally marks the 68th anniversary of the assasination of Leon Trotsky, and the 39 years of the Trotskyist daily paper, first published...

BILLIONS FOR BOSSES AND BANKERS – while its the sack and...

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Chancellor Darling yesterday handed more billions to business in his pre-budget report, while making it clear the working class will be expected to pay...

STOP THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF TAMILS IN SRI LANKA – demands...

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‘WE want Tamil Eelam!’, ‘Don’t kill Tamil people!’ shouted more than 1,500 people demonstrating opposite the Houses of Parliament in Westminster on Wednesday evening. It...

REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION DEVELOPING IN ITALY! – as Cossiga calls to put...

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‘THE forces of law and order should massacre the demonstrators without pity’ was the ruling class response from former Italian Prime Minister and president...

Nationalise The Motor Car Industry

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US and European car employers yesterday warned that ‘their’ industry faced wipeout, ‘victims’ of the slump in the motor car industry and the financial...

OBAMA’S ‘CHANGE’ IS NOT REAL – warn Iranian clerics

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AN IRANIAN cleric has criticised the letter written by the country’s president, Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, to the newly-elected American president, Barack Obama. ‘It appears that our...

Strike Shuts Dover Port

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Hundreds of Unite members working for the Dover Harbour Board began a 48-hour strike at 7am yesterday morning. Speaking from the picket line yesterday afternoon,...

ONLY ONE WAY OUT – sanctions-busting boat gets doctor out of...

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OVer the past year, Muhanad Omar al-Helo has twice petitioned the Israeli government to leave Gaza in order to study in Europe for a...

‘THE MOST SERIOUS BANKING CRISIS SINCE THE OUTBREAK OF THE FIRST...

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MERVYN KING, the Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), said on Wednesday that Britain was already in a recession. He added that he expected...

Eurozone In Recession!

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The economy of the 15-nations eurozone has slumped into recession for the first time ever, EU data released yesterday revealed, with GDP falling 0.2%...

Defend Milton Keynes Mail Centre!

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Hundreds of postal workers and their families are today joining the business community, politicians and members of the public in a march through Bletchley,...

Nationalise the major industries to defend jobs

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GERMANY, the world’s biggest exporter of commodities, and the strong man of the EU, has begun to slump with government figures showing that its...

Nationalise car industry and the banks to defend all jobs

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GLOBAL action to save the motor industry from crisis, and above all to stave off bankruptcy at General Motors, has been urged by Unite...

Sinn Fein Doubts Whether Robinson Can Ever Be A Partner

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BY JOHN COULTER, IRISH POLITICAL JOURNALIST THE current Stormont impasse which has politically crippled the Northern power-sharing Executive for almost five months deepened this week...

‘WE DON’T WANT OUR DETAILS ON ANY DATABASE’ – public tell...

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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s claim that people ‘just can’t wait’ to get ID cards has been rubbished by campaign group NO2ID. NO2ID national coordinator Phil...

Obama selects his bourgeois team to save US capitalism

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BARACK OBAMA has just been elected by an explosion of popular support and anger that has united the working class and brought the majority...

Bank Of England Panic Rate Cut

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A realisation of the depth of the slump, yesterday drove the Bank of England to make a panic 1.5% cut in interest rates...

‘THE TRADE UNIONS MUST TAKE ACTION TO DEFEAT ACADEMY PROGRAMME’ –...

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A NINETY-children-to-a-class City Academy, where three-hour lessons are the norm, has been roundly condemned by leading anti-academy campaigner and NUT and ATL Executive member...

American Terrorists Launch Murderous Attack On Syria

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SYRIA has protested angrily to both the US and Iraq after a terror raid by four US helicopters inside its territory killed eight Syrian...

CUTS FOR THE DISABLED AND THE JOBLESS – but there’s billions...

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown yesterday pledged to a gathering of businessmen in London to ‘intensify’ the government’s attacks on the Welfare State, whilst continuing...

‘The system in place is responsible for the deaths of our...

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OVER 300 United Families and Friends campaigners marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street to demand justice for their loved ones, who have died...

Greek Trotskyists Call For Indefinite General Strike

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THE Greek working class delivered a most powerful notice to all concerned last Tuesday with a militant 24-hour general strike called by the GSEE...