Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Support the Shell-HOYER tanker workers!

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IN the last few weeks we have seen the road hauliers take to the streets against the massive increases in petrol and diesel prices...

With inflation set to quadruple, the working class must take action to defend...

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UK inflation will quadruple to about 4% in the second half of next year and cut disposable income, the National Institute for Economic and...

Israel commits mass murder with impunity as the West steps up its campaign for...

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THE WEST’S ‘bastion of freedom and democracy’ in the Middle East, Zionist Israel, yesterday launched deadly attacks on a UN school housing hundreds of...

World Economic Forum declares capitalist ‘global order’ destabilised by imperialist war and political crisis

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THE WORLD Economic Forum (WEF) opened its meeting at the Swiss resort of Davos this week under the storm clouds of an economic and...

Throw the paltry Tory NHS pay cut ‘offer’ out! Nothing less than 3.9%+£800 will...

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

‘We are the masters now’ say Tories and employers

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THE TORY-led coalition is poised to give all power to the employing class through neutering employment tribunals and giving the employers their own ‘charter’...

Panic reigns supreme under bankrupt capitalism

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THE sense of panic and of impending doom is running wild amongst the international banks and the world bourgeoisie as they are forced to...

Barbaric anti-homeless spikes scandal

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THE picture showing one-inch-long metal spikes driven into the pavement in the doorway of a block of luxury flats in central London in order...

Smash imperialism to defeat terrorism

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YESTERDAY Home Secretary Reid dismissed the many appeals for a change in British Foreign Policy from a multitude of community and political leaders, who...

May has capitulated to the EU and looks to Labour for rescue! Time for...

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TORY PM May’s latest capitulation to the European Union over Brexit has been met with furious anger from Brexiteers and others in her own...

40% cuts will drive workers to rise up to get rid of capitalism!

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THE new diktat of the Tories and the Liberals, that there will be cuts in government departmental spending of 40 per cent, means that...

Biden adds $4tn to the US’ already unsustainable debt!

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YESTERDAY, US president Joe Biden announced to a joint session of Congress his plans to unleash a massive round of government spending amounting to...

Tories Plan To Bomb Syria And Send Troops To Libya

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NEWS LINE congratulates the German workers who have given a big welcome to the Syrian and other refugees who have shown such an indomitable...

Minimum 3-month wait for operations! NHS must be defended with a general strike!

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PATIENTS suffering from serious conditions, requiring hip or knee replacements, hernias repaired and cataracts removed, all considered ‘non-urgent surgery’, have been told that they...

Johnson Government Must Be Brought Down – TUC Must Call General Strike!

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THE capitalist system is now poised to go into its greatest ever crisis and crash because of its mountains of debt. Workers face massive...

Zionists are on the march in Jerusalem. The UK trade unions must call a...

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NABIL Abu Rudeineh, the spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that East Jerusalem, with its Islamic and Christian holy sites, will remain the...

The bosses are dumping their crisis onto the backs of workers. It is time...

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YESTERDAY nine members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to increase the interest rate from 1.25% to 1.75%. This is the sixth...

GM strikers are fighting for all US workers

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ABOUT 73,000 carworkers, members of the 600,000-strong United Automobile Workers (UAW) trade union, went on indefinite strike at 11am on Monday at General Motors’...

Abbas-Obama Talks Fail To Reach Agreement!

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JUST BEFORE his talks with President Abbas on Monday, President Obama said: ‘I think everybody understands the outlines of what a peace deal would...

Struggle against Assad and Iran more important to US-UK gangsters than defeating ISIS

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UK Prime Minister Cameron said yesterday that the UK supports US airstrikes against the IS not with boots on the ground, but by other...

Trade unions must take action NOW to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange!

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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange, the man who dared to expose imperialist war crimes, must be immediately released from Belmarsh high security prison where he...

Starmer prepares for reactionary coalition to impose capitalist crisis on workers – Socialist revolution...

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THE MELTDOWN in the Tory vote in last Thursday’s local elections has sent a massive wave of despair throughout Tory MPs and the Tory-supporting...

All out behind the firefighters

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Today, the London FBU are staging the first of two eight hour strikes against the plans to sack the entire workforce of over 5,000...

US–UK organising Palestinian civil war

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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...

‘Hope’ sets sail despite Israeli-Greek-Moldovan deal to stop it

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THE Libyan ship ‘Hope’, a Moldovan-flagged cargo vessel, left a Greek port on Saturday night for Gaza with 2,000 tonnes of supplies, in the...

Smash Universal Credit! It is the tool for ruling through fear and mass evictions!

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THOUSANDS of families in England will be spending Christmas in fear that the New Year will bring eviction from their homes. This was the message...

Hodge, Blears and Blair say foreigners to the back of the queue

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LABOUR Industry Minister Margaret Hodge has won the support of Hazel Blears (Chairman of the Labour Party and a candidate for the deputy leadership...

First the 2016 referendum defeat for the ruling class, now May is being ...

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THE LAST week has seen the Tory drive to have PM May crowned as Empress, via a runaway election victory and a huge majority,...

Hunt Planning New Blitz On NHS And NHS Workers!

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BOTH the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) trade unions yesterday warned that Health Secretary Hunt is planning...

Brown insists on wage cuts for workers & billions for bankers

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown justified pay cuts for workers in the public services and the billions handed over by the Treasury to the bankrupt...

Turn TUC demonstration on 18th June into a general strike to bring down...

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THE national demonstration and march on Parliament called by the TUC on Saturday June 18th has met with a massive response throughout the working...

Bank of England hike in interest rates will push workers and the middle class...

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YESTERDAY’S announcement by the Bank of England of an increase in interest rates from 0.5% to 0.75% will be disastrous for the vast majority...

Murdoch’s Man, Hunt Savages The NHS With A View To Privatise

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Local AFL-CIO leaders and trade unionists from across the United States were in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday to ask members of Congress to...

May wants to put the UK into chains

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WE already know that new legislation to be put forward by the government has as one of its features ‘internal relocation’ for British passport...

Disarm Imperialism To Stop New Korean War!

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A REPORT issued yesterday by the highly respected and influential Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has bluntly warned that the drive to war by...

Bosses share bonanza

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THE ages old reformist illusion that the worst excesses of capitalism can be curbed through a mixture of indignation and moral outrage received yet...

Open up the NHS demands Bush and the US drug companies

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NOT content with wrecking Iraq, the US administration is moving in to wreck the British NHS on behalf of the US drug companies. ...

Right Sector Leader Advising The Military

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THIS week all pretence that the illegal regime, that took power in an imperialist-inspired and financed coup last year, rests on ‘popular democratic’ support,...

Take Decisive Action To Win Postal Struggle

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AFTER almost two days of discussions, the CWU leadership has rejected the call of the membership of the union for indefinite strike action, and...

Blair ‘comfortable’ with five shots to the head, shoot to kill policy

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ON Sunday, Police Commissioner Blair told the world that the policy of shooting to kill ‘terrorist suspects’ was national policy, not just a Metropolitan...

Trump revels in charges of treason as US is gripped by a death agony...

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YESTERDAY evening, former US president Donald Trump, accompanied by a US Secret Service Motorcade, swept up to Fulton county jail and handed himself in...

Brown’s worthless apology for imperialist child trafficking

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FOR centuries British capitalism has sought to export its surplus populations and its trouble makers to the rest of the world. Rebellious trade unionists such...

The rich are much richer and the poor are much poorer under 21st century...

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BRITAIN’S richest people have never been richer having cornered £520bn between them, says the Sunday Times Rich List. The 26th annual Sunday Times Rich...

Palestinian Prisoners Society Warns Of A Dangerous Escalation In The Systematic Repression Of Palestinian...

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THE Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society have warned of a dangerous escalation in the systematic repression carried out...

Trump is set to impose the death agony of the US capitalist system onto...

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THREATS, demands and bullying aimed at the whole world from US President Donald Trump, dominated the Davos Economic Forum in a video call on...