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‘I don’t feel I should apologise,’ said Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell yesterday after being ordered out of the House of Commons...

BUSINESS Secretary Lord Mandelson launched a £20bn loan guarantee scheme for medium and small businesses yesterday, aimed at getting banks to lend to companies...

Postal workers yesterday expressed their anger at the government’s determination to part-privatise Royal Mail. ‘If Mandelson is determined to push this through, our only option...

more than 3,300 jobs were axed or came under threat yesterday as prime minister Brown held his much-heralded ‘jobs summit’ with bosses and union...

WITH capitalism in its greatest crisis, and with tens of millions of jobs and tens of millions of people’s lives being destroyed after the...

WITH unemployment set to go up by at least one million this year, to three million, the government is in a panic. Its panic is...

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...

The GMB trade union yesterday called for tougher enforcement of the National Minimum Wage in the wake of allegations that a Primark supplier in...

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...

THE Bank of England yesterday cut interest rates to 1.5 per cent, the lowest level in its 315-year history, since the start of the...

THE international banking system has collapsed, the steel industries of the planet are in slump, and the US and Japanese motor car giants...

FORTY-THREE Palestinians were killed by Israeli tanks and rocket fire on UN-run schools late on Monday night and during Tuesday. The schools were well...

THE two-million-strong Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will today launch an ‘intensive’ campaign for healthcare and trade union rights for all workers in the...

OVER 100,000 people took part in the largest-ever demonstration Britain has seen in support of the Palestinian people on Saturday, as Israel invaded the...

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...

CRISIS, the national charity for single homeless people, correctly fears that a massive surge in homelessness is ahead, as it opens its nine Crisis...

SIR John Gieve, the deputy governor of the Bank of England, yesterday admitted that he was a victim of the historical blindness of the...

Trade union leaders were yesterday impotent in the face of threatened mass sackings at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Corus by owner Tata of...

LABOUR’S leaders love the rich and have no time for the poor. As a government, Labour turned Britain into a second tax-free home for Russian...

AS 2,000 postal workers were gearing up for a 24-hour strike on Friday against Royal Mail’s plans to close mail centres, Dave Ward, the...

THAT the record £2.1 billion NHS surplus should coincide with press headlines that the NHS is at breaking point is no accident. The winter has...

‘We are fighting the government and business now,’ said Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region No.6 branch secretary Paul Olden yesterday. Commenting on the government’s...

THE Brown government is organising a £3bn sell-off of up to one third of the Royal Mail, a privatisation that will cost up to...

‘We have to strike to defend Royal Mail, to defend our jobs and to defend our pensions,’ CWU HP Section Chairman, South Central No...

THE $14bn (£9.4bn) bail-out deal for the Big Three US car giants has failed to get the support of the US Senate. Its refusal came...

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...

The Brown government and the Tories yesterday joined forces to cane the unemployed. After Work and Pensions Secretary Purnell announced his ‘workfare’ Welfare Reform White...

YESTERDAY in the House of Commons the Tories were glorying in the fact that their votes will make sure that Labour’s bill to force...

THE occupation of a relatively small factory in Chicago by its angry workforce, members of the UE trade union, to prevent its closure, has...

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...

THE UAW leaders are prepared to ‘suspend’ all of the gains of US autoworkers to try and assist the big bosses of GM, Chrysler,...

THE fact that the Home Secretary maintained in the House of Commons yesterday that she had not known Tory MP Damian Green was to...

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) yesterday warned that the ‘welfare reform’ plans announced in the Queen’s Speech ‘are the wrong proposals at...

THE civil service union PCS said yesterday it was opposed to ‘punitive’ benefit cuts facing the unemployed, single parents and even the disabled, who...

union leaders in Australia have threatened to withdraw support for the country’s Labour government, if it does not give in to their demands to...

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

THE Labour leaders are terrified the whole capitalist system is going to go, News Line Editor Paddy O’Regan told an audience of 200 youth...

THE Labour government, after handing tens of billions of pounds to the Northern Rock and the other major banks, in an attempt to save...

THERE is nothing like the crisis of the capitalist system to bring out the essence of the Labour and trade union leaders, as labour...

ON Monday Chancellor Darling opened his pre-budget report with a piece of cheerful idiocy, saying that he was ‘confident that the UK, as an...

Now is not the time to introduce legislation that will punish those parents who fail to make their way in a tough jobs market,...

Chancellor Darling is set to announce a 2.5 per cent cut in Value Added Tax (VAT) from 17.5 per cent to 15 per cent...

‘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...

FIREFIGHTERS joined members of Unison and GMB trade unions yesterday in an angry lobby of a London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) meeting...

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