Tag: labour party
Obama about-turn on war crimes!
PRESIDENT Obama said one thing before his election, and now he is saying something else altogether. During his campaign he stood up against the torture...
Cwu Strike Ballot!
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday said that its 16,000-strong Royal Mail membership in London, covering 159 workplaces in the Greater London...
The Bank of E grapples with the contradictions of the capitalist...
IN its latest report the Bank of England monetary committee has rejected the line put forward in the budget by the Chancellor of the...
The Tory Telegraph and Tebbit slam the parliamentary parties
THE decaying and gangrenous state of bourgeois democracy and its parliamentary system has been more than revealed by the expenses scandals that are racking...
‘THE GOVERNMENT HAS ‘SET THE STAGEFOR MASS HOSPITAL CLOSURES’ says surgeon
IN MARCH, the Healthcare Commission reported that emergency care at Mid Staffordshire Hospital was ‘appalling’. It’s in-depth investigation discovered excess patient deaths of 400...
‘WE WILL STRIKE TO DEFEND POST JOBS’ – say CWU reps
‘We are not going to take this lightly. We will do whatever has to be done to hold on to every part of the...
SAVE LEWISHAM BRIDGE SCHOOL! demand parents, teachers and pupils
MORE than 300 parents, teachers, students and schoolchildren marched through the centre of Lewisham, south-east London, on Saturday to save Lewisham Bridge Primary School. The...
Teachers, parents and students taking action to defend education
OVER the past week, lecturers have been on strike against sackings, parents are occupying schools to stop their closure, and students, angry at high...
Brown’s gold sales lost the Bank of England £3.8bn
A DECADE ago, on May 7, 1999, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced plans to sell off a large part of Britain’s gold reserves. This was...
Darling’s forecasts ‘too optimistic’, says Treasury Committee
THE British capitalist economy and government finances are in a worse state than Chancellor Alistair Darling led everyone to believe when he delivered his...
MAY DAY 2009 – A movement for World Socialist Revolution!
MILLIONS of workers took to the streets on May Day in countries throughout the world, from Los Angeles to London, Havana to Harare. Several May...
Demoralised Labour has shot its bolt!
TWO ex-Labour government leaders Clarke and Blunkett have now spoken up, true to form, to stab Prime Minister Brown in the back, just as...
‘DON’T BE FRIGHTENED OF A GENERAL STRIKE’ SAYS McDONNELL
‘WHAT happened to us could have happened to anyone!’ This is what Visteon shop steward Raymond Dixon told the crowd in Trafalgar Square at the...
WORLD REVOLUTION – the only answer to the capitalist crisis
THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world. Under the conditions of the greatest...
Nationalise LDV and the motor car industry
LDV, the Birmingham van factory said yesterday it would continue to look for funding until 6 May when it is due to formally go...
Visteon Occupiers Launch Irish Film Festival
A DELEGATION of workers who have been occupying the Visteon auto parts plant in Belfast for the last month have been invited to help...
National strike action to defend the Royal Mail and its workforce
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday warned that Royal Mail were planning sacking between eight and twenty per cent of the workforce, with London...
Lord Jones and Sir Richard Branson turn on Brown
TWO of the Brown government’s big business backers Lord Digby Jones, the ex-CBI boss and Richard Branson, the Thatcherite businessman have unsurprisingly turned-coat. No doubt...
175th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF 1834 TO FREE THE...
APRIL 21 saw the 175th anniversary of the Grand Demonstration of 1834 when over 100,000 marched from Copenhagen Fields in London to Parliament to...
‘Efficiency Savings’ Are Massive Spending Cuts
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) branded the efficiency savings announced in Wednesday’s budget as spending cuts which would damage services and lead...
£15bn PUBLIC SECTOR CUTS, PLEDGES DARLING – as unemployment leaps by...
Chancellor Alistair Darling announced £15bn public sector ‘efficiency savings’ and slave labour schemes for youth in yesterday’s Budget. This came as the latest figures showed...
Bankrupt Barber won’t fight for workers!
ADDRESSING the Scottish TUC yesterday, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber was desperate to show that the addition of another million unemployed in the next...
‘THE MOST CRUEL AND RACIST REGIME’ – Ahmadinezhad indicts Israel
DOZENS of delegates walked out of a United Nations conference on racism after Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, Iran's president, correctly described the Israeli cabinet as a...
A bankers budget from a bankers government
DESPITE all the government statements against leaking government information before it is to go before the House of Commons, the Treasury was at it...
Prentis appeals to Brown in vain
‘OUR time and patience is running out. The country is in a mess and we look to the Government to come up with serious...
Motor industry crisis deepens – nationalisation the only way
THE US administration has let it be known that it intends to force GM, formerly the world’s number one motor car manufacturer, into bankruptcy...
Visteon Talks Delay!
SACKED Visteon workers yesterday said that they had stopped 17 employees of the liquidator, KPMG, entering the plant in the morning who were seeking...
Brown Wants To Introduce Youth Conscription
PRIME Minister Brown on Sunday promised that bringing in a compulsory community service programme for youth will be a part of his next general...
Visteon Talks Today
Sacked Visteon workers from Enfield, north London, and Belfast were picketing Ford showrooms yesterday on the eve of today’s talks with management. Meanwhile, on...
Salute the struggling Visteon workers – replace their treacherous national...
THE News Line gives its full support to the workers at the Belfast, Enfield and Basildon Visteon plants who are fighting Visteon’s decision to...
UNITE END ENFIELD OCCUPATION – but Belfast stands firm
The Unite trade union yesterday carried out its obligation to the capitalist court and at noon ended the occupation of the Visteon factory in...
‘WE WERE SHAFTED’ – say angry Stead McAlpin workers
Over fifty Stead McAlpin sacked textile workers held a 24-hour picket and demonstration outside the factory in Cummersdale near Carlisle on Wednesday and are...
ANGRY STEAD McALPIN WORKERS RALLY
OVER 50 sacked workers launched a 24-hour picket and demonstration yesterday morning outside the Stead McAlpin factory in Cummersdale, near Carlisle. Workers are angry that...
Trade unions must take action to support the Tamil people
THOUSANDS of Tamils demonstrated on Westminster Bridge on Monday evening against the failure of the Brown government to lift a finger to save the...
Wage freezing, wage cutting, redundancies and revolution ahead for workers!
THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says that if there is a capitalist government in office in 2016 it will have to find an...
Forward to the socialist revolution – not the two-day week
IT IS now accepted that the capitalist system is in its greatest crisis ever, bigger than the crisis created by the First World War,...
‘MOTOR INDUSTRY FACING ARMAGEDDON’ states Tony Woodley –Vauxhall could be gone...
THE car industry in Britain is facing ‘Armageddon’, with GM Vauxhall set to close by the end of April unless it gets immediate financial...
Unison and EU public sector unions form ‘historic alliance’
UNISON and other EU public sector unions have formed an ‘historic alliance’. UNISON declared yesterday: ‘The fight back has begun. And UNISON is...
50,000 March For Jobs And Justice
THE TUC-organised ‘Put People First’ march over jobs, justice and climate attracted up to 50,000 workers and young people in central London on Saturday. Trade...
JESSE JACKSON ATTENDS WORLD TAMIL CONFERENCE – as Sri Lankan army...
THE world renowned American civil rights leader and peace campaigner Jesse Jackson attended the World Tamils Forum in central London on Thursday, as the...
Crisis-ridden US capitalism driven towards war
US capitalism really has got its back to the wall, and has somewhat lost its balance, when its Treasury Secretary, Geithner, says that he...
Irish Congress of Trades Unions ‘defers’ March 30 General Strike
THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has ‘deferred’ the strike action it has called for March 30 following a government offer of...
COWEN INVITES ICTU TO TALKS – as massive strike action approaches
With the March 30 general strike fast approaching Irish Prime Minister Cowen has invited the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) to attend talks....
Huge food inflation as bosses and unions agree on wage cuts...
WORKERS in Britain are now feeling the ‘benefits’ of the British government’s policy of printing money to rescue the banks while allowing the pound...
Unions must take industrial action to defend the NHS
THE Labour government is continuing to pressurise NHS Trusts to become Foundation Trust businesses, and is continuing to force through the privatisation process. To...