Editorials

UNITE general secretary Sharon Graham has accused Labour of ‘pickpocketing pensioners’ telling Labour leader Keir Starmer to ‘accept it’s an error’ to push ahead...

LIZ Truss, who not so long ago posed on the Polish border on a British tank expressing her hostility to Russia, before becoming more...

THE Coalition regime is in big trouble after it faced defeat in the House of Commons last night over its measure to reorganise the...

THE MURDER of Keenan Anderson, the cousin of a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, Patrisse Cullors, after he was repeatedly tasered by police officers...

PRESIDENT Trump and the Israeli leader Netanyahu are set to meet in Washington today just as hundreds of US rabbis have signed an open...

THE BRITISH AIRWAYS pilots strike is on for both Monday and Tuesday in an escalating battle over pay. British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) BA...

DONALD Trump became the first president of the United States to be impeached twice when the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to charge...

BRITISH Home Secretary May, driven by the desperate home and foreign policy crisis of British imperialism, is lashing out at basic rights in the...

DESPITE having seen Northern Rock share prices crash by 60 per cent, queues of depositors outside branches taking out £2bn of their savings and...

ON JULY 4th, 30 Royal Marines boarded the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 off Gibraltar, allegedly on orders from the USA, because of suspicions...

AT PM’s Questions, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Corbyn raised the issue of the UK’s sale of...

THE deputy chief constable of Hampshire Ian Readhead said yesterday that Britain could become a surveillance society with cameras on every street corner. As...

THIS YEAR an estimated 4,677 people a night are sleeping rough on the streets of Britain, a figure that has increased for the past...

YESTERDAY the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, wielded the British veto over the Franco-German proposals to try and prop up the collapsing euro through...

THE one clear message that emerged from Cameron’s speech yesterday was that the political representatives of the capitalist class in Britain have given up...

PRESIDENT BUSH and his military advisors were yesterday poised to announce ‘one last big push’ for victory in Iraq, and that 20,000 more US...

THE moment of truth is fast approaching for British capitalism. The British capitalist economy is in its death agony with falls in production taking place...

THE NATO armed intervention that supported the Islamist revolt in Libya succeeded in murdering Colonel Gadaffi and smashed up the most advanced and prosperous...

Early yesterday Israel entered al-Shifa hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip, with troops, tanks and bulldozers invading the facility where around...

THE Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says that if there is a capitalist government in office in 2016 it will have to find an...

GREECE is currently having its books and the success of its austerity measures examined by the EU Troika, made up of the representatives...

IN HIS Spending Review of yesterday, drawn up at a time when the capitalist crisis is deepening, with inflation rising and the banks warning...

NEWS LINE urges all of our readers and all workers and youth who are living in the five constituencies that the WRP is standing...

DETAILS of the secret Tory plan for a ‘fire sale’ of NHS land and buildings emerged yesterday following an analysis carried out for the...

THE brutalising, maiming, beating and even killing of the ‘subject peoples’ by imperialist troops is part and parcel of the imperialist system and tradition,...

NATO has developed a tactic for halting the ‘imminent’ spread of nuclear weapons or of other weapons of mass destruction. This is a formula tailor-made...

YESTERDAY the 24 suspects accused by the state of ‘a plot to commit murder on an unimaginable scale’ by blowing up 10 airliners with...

TORY Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered not so much a Spring Statement to parliament yesterday as a half hour of self-congratulation and boasting about how...

‘I want to talk to you about a new settlement for new times. A fair Britain for the new age. . . my unwavering...

TEN million households are suffering from the financial and political crisis says Which? as it calls on the coalition government, ahead of its Autumn...

THERE has been a very bitter winter in Palestine especially in the war ravaged Gaza Strip where tens of thousands of Gazans’ homes were...

IMPERIALIST preparations for war against Iran were ramped up even further on Tuesday with completely unsubstantiated claims that Iran was responsible for the ‘hijacking’...

IN his ‘Letter to American Workers’, published in Pravda on August 22 1918, after the victorious Russian revolution, Lenin wrote, ‘We are now, as...

OVER 100,000 Royal Mail workers are striking again today. 30,000 BT Openreach engineers, along with 10,000 BT call centre workers are also on strike,...

Just one week after a demonstration in London by the United Families and Friends Campaign against deaths in police custody has come the shocking...

THE UNITE leader Sharon Graham on Saturday in a speech in Coventry suspended all Coventry Labour councillors who are Unite members from the union...

THE Tory pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, is a man on a mission – a mission to drive the unemployed, low paid and youth...

CHINESE Stalinist leader President Hu Jintao has sent Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Vice President Xi Jinping on international visits in a vain attempt...

PM Sunak has said he is yet to make a ‘final decision’ on whether to accept the recommended pay rises for public sector workers. Official...

YESTERDAY the number two CWU leader Dave Ward was boasting that the super-flexibility deal that the leadership put to the membership and which over...

BRENDAN BARBER, general secretary of the TUC, who doubles as a director of the Bank of England, has been at it once again, doing...

THE US motorcar giants GM and Ford were rescued from bankruptcy by President Obama who ‘nationalised’ them, so that the US taxpayer could get...

1.72 MILLION are now jobless! The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said yesterday it is the highest level in five years. Workers aged between 25...

ON SUNDAY the Ukrainian regime, with the complicity of its EU and US imperialist backers, staged a provocative military action by the illegal incursion...

NHS staff who have suffered a 15% pay cut since 2010 have been offered a ‘new deal’ from the government. A leaked document shows...