Editorials

EVERYONE has had the chance to work out what the Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition government’s Comprehensive Spending Review means, with £81bn in cuts hitting jobs...

THE US House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a bill to raise the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, while also attaching sweeping, massive...

100,000 children were left to starve last year as a direct result of the Tory-led coalition’s drive to cut benefit payments to the unemployed...

THE Bank of Japan (BoJ) took emergency measures yesterday in a desperate attempt to rescue the country’s stagnant economy (growth rate 0.4%) and boost...

YESTERDAY it was reported that as many as 1,300 people, including over 800 civilians, were killed in the Syrian cities of Latakia and Tartous...

AN EXPLOSIVE situation that threatens all-out war between the NATO powers is fast developing in the Mediterranean region in a struggle to seize the...

THERESA May returned from her Easter break to face Tory MPs united in demanding her resignation. Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, met...

DESPITE the Queen’s plea for ‘reasonableness’ the knives are out for tomorrow’s House of Commons debate on the EU with rival amendments tabled to...

THE US Senate finally agreed on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. This huge sum was in fact just half of what Biden wanted –...

A REPORT published yesterday by the public spending watchdog the National Audit Office reveals the massive amount of money the Tory-led coalition is prepared...

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu damned US Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Wednesday over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict saying that it was biased...

THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Labour Party was absolutely correct to expel Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former ‘spin doctor’, for voting...

A PROPOSED law giving PM Johnson’s government the power to reject parts of the Brexit agreement with the EU passed its first reading in...

THE LATEST statistics produced by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics show clearly that Israeli domination of the occupied Palestinian territories has lead to...

IN NORMAL times a Tory party that had been taken into an ‘unnecessary’ snap election with its leader demanding that the electorate return it...

THE CLAIM that last week 196,000 hospital appointments were cancelled has been used by the Tories and their supporters in the media to put...

THE publication of the EU’s draft separation treaty with the UK has intensified the conflict between the UK and the EU ruling classes and...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world at a time when the historic crisis...

The annual conferences of the two largest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, meeting at the weekend heard that the unions and the...

ON Thursday, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, issued the starkest warning yet that the debt crisis gripping the eurozone...

THE current Israeli-American ruling class war on Iran and Palestine is continuing for the twentieth consecutive day, amid a marked escalation in the pace,...

US PRESIDENT Trump took America to the brink of war with Iran ... and then pulled back at the very last minute on Thursday...

THE number of US workers signing up for unemployment benefits and leaving non-farming payrolls has risen sharply for the second consecutive week. The US Labour...

THERE is no doubt that the US and UK ruling classes are hard at work seeking to organise a Palestinian civil war. The object is...

JORDAN’S King Abdullah II told CNBC television news network last week that he supports the formation of a NATO-style military alliance in the Middle...

YESTERDAY the imperialist-backed Rajapakse regime was claiming to have killed the LTTE leadership, including Velupillai Prabakaran, and that the struggle is now over. Its...

THE Hezbollah TV channel yesterday showed a fighter planting a Syrian flag on Al-Qusayr’s clock tower while the Western powers’ surrogate, the Free Syrian...

BLAIR’S spin-master, Alastair Campbell, told the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry yesterday, that he ‘defends every single word’ of the 2002 dodgy dossier on Iraq’s non-existent...

THE BREXIT war sharpened yesterday when both President Trump and ex-Tory Minister Michael Fallon rounded on May’s capitulation to the EU through her recognition...

BRITISH capitalism is in a desperate economic and political crisis that calls for truly desperate measures by the ruling class. The use of the capitalist...

THE BNP, a fascist movement, is to be promoted by the BBC with an invitation about to be sent to it to appear on...

THE US and its South Korean puppets are set to begin their largest ever joint military exercises amid the high tensions that they have...

THE Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari on Monday officially inaugurated the final construction phase of the Iran-Pakistan gas...

THE price of gold has touched $1,000 an ounce for the first time in six months, more than three times greater than what it...

ON all fronts the Blair government is speeding up its privatisation offensive, so that his governments can leave as their legacy for big...

LAST Friday, the Tory plan to designate the political wing of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas as a ‘terrorist organisation’ was nodded through Parliament...

ANOTHER shameful page of British imperialist history has been turned. This time tens of thousands of Asian and African doctors, recruited to come to...

THE peers of the House of Lords on Monday night capitulated to the Tory government over cuts to disabled people’s benefits to ‘encourage them...

STARBUCKS, the world’s largest coffee chain, has been stunned by an explosion of its workers demanding trade union rights across America. Last year, a group...

THREE NATO countries will deliver more than 70 warplanes for the use of Ukraine, military representatives in Kiev announced yesterday morning. According to a statement...

HOMELESSNESS has risen by a startling 134% since the Tories came to power in 2010, with the amount of people sleeping on the...

ON THURSDAY, Palestinians commemorated the 77th anniversary of Nakba, the Catastrophe, when the unarmed population of Palestine was forcibly driven from their land by...

THE EUROPEAN Commission yesterday issued a dire warning that Europe and the EU is suffering ‘an economic shock without precedent since the Great Depression’...

THE nurses’ strike actions have revealed that they have the massive support of the vast majority of the working class in the UK, and...

It has just been confirmed what we already knew – that the Gate Gourmet bosses, in a well planned action, provoked a walk-out by...