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THE US democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama, during his visit to Palestine, refused to go back on his earlier statement, made at a Zionist...

SPEAKING after talks in Baghdad on Monday, US presidential candidate Barack Obama said the puppet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had expressed support for...

PRIME Minister Brown was yesterday midway to giving up his ‘there is no timetable for a withdrawal from Iraq’ line – imposed on him...

THE House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has called for an investigation into whether the British Labour government outsourced British nationals to countries such...

In his first audio recording since the fall of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on 9th April 2003, Izzat al-Duri, Iraqi vice-president, declared that...

US and Afghan troops have quit the village where Taleban fighters fought their way into a US base and killed nine US soldiers wounding...

‘THERE is a real sense in markets today of the economy falling off a cliff.’ That was the verdict of Michael Saunders, the chief...

THE BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) on Wednesday morning narrowly voted against part five of motion 269, which ‘demands that the government must permit...

Ramzi Kysia vividly describes the human catastrophe imposed on the people of Gaza by Israel and asks you to join other people of conscience...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has just released thousands of pages of documents related to Navy investigations of civilians killed by Coalition Forces...

The price of oil continued to soar yesterday, with Brent crude rising above $146 per barrel (p.b.) for the first time ever. Brent crude...

KING Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, whose nation is the world’s number one oil exporter, called on consumer countries to get used to high prices...

A BIG delegation of the 2,000 Chagossians who are living in Crawley, plus delegations from the FBU, GMB and POA trade unions will be...

On International Day Against Torture last Thursday, legal charity Reprieve renewed its call for the release of torture victim Binyam Mohamed from US concentration...

THE US trade unions are gearing up for the battle to get Barack Obama elected as the president of the United States, believing that...

JUST a week after Prime Minister Gordon Brown assured President George W Bush, that he had fallen into line with the requirements of the...

HUGE hikes in gas and electricity bills are coming this year, the energy privateers flagrantly announced yesterday. ‘Big Six’ energy bosses told MPs on the...

FÎRST of all we saw the Bush-Blair attack on Iraq, whose strategic purpose was to expropriate Iraq’s oil in order to lower the world...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday warned against the use of force on Iran, saying there was no proof it was trying to...

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown and Defence Secretary Des Browne yesterday sent their condolences to the families of four more British troops killed in Afghanistan...

PRIME MINISTER Brown showed yesterday, at his joint press conference with President Bush, that such is the historic decline and collapse of the power...

BUSH flew into London yesterday after sending a public order to Gordon Brown, via the Observer newspaper. This was that Brown must not announce...

THE latest attempt to advance, by sleight of hand, to a united capitalist state of the European Union for the benefit of the...

Over 400 family doctor delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) GPs conference on Thursday expressed their anger and voted no confidence in the...

Legal charity Reprieve has released its report, ‘Human Cargo’, which details the rendition and torture of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident in Guantánamo Bay. Reprieve...

By JOHN COULTER Irish political journalist THE sectarian war in Ireland is over, but the war on racism has begun. That was the pledge from Sinn...

YESTERDAY Hillary Clinton revealed that she will formally end her campaign for the White House on Saturday, and throw her full support behind her...

A BRITISH Court yesterday ordered an expedited hearing on whether the British government can ignore the plea by London man Binyam Mohamed for evidence...

‘The US government must reveal information about prison ships used for “terror suspects”,’ the legal action charity, Reprieve said yesterday. In June 2005 the UN’s...

Guantanamo is a really horrible place that destroys people,’ former prisoner Bisher El-Rawi told a 60-strong meeting in west London on Saturday. The meeting, organised...

THE PCS civil servants union held a 70-strong international rally at its annual conference in Brighton last Wednesday evening where it launched a joint...

Qatar formally announced on Wednesday a deal between Lebanon’s opposition and ruling bloc to end an 18-month political crisis that will see Army commander...

THE decision of the United Steelworkers of America trade union to follow the lead of the just-failed Democratic contender, John Edwards, whom the steelworkers...

US President George W Bush has arrived in the Middle East and has vowed to bolster up the Lebanese army and to tackle Hezbollah,...

May Day greetings from Gulzar Ahmad Chaudhry General Secretary of the Pakistan Trade Unions ‘NO chimney and funnel of any factory or mill was...

AN United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) spokesman, said yesterday that the UN organisation is stopping food supplies to the Gaza Strip...

OIL reached a new record price above 120 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, with New York’s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for...

THE Sadr City region of Baghdad is facing a humanitarian catastrophe with tens of thousands of residents cut off from clean water, food and...

ON this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow trade unionists and all those worldwide who have stood against war and...

LABOUR suffered a net loss of 331 seats in local elections in England and Wales on 1 May. It also lost out to Tory...

‘Capitalism has had its day, it’s historically bankrupt. Now’s the time to bring it down and go forward to socialism.’ Workers Revolutionary Party General Secretary...

MAY DAY MANIFESTO By the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE editorial Board sends its May Day greetings for the year 2008 to the workers...

THE depth of the capitalist world crisis has set the US juggernaut lurching forward once again. This time it is threatening Syria, and by...

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on Thursday announced it is unable to continue its operations...

Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 9. War or peace? This essay was published in the New York daily newspaper Novy...