Editorials

The political crisis for the European bourgeoisie deepened yesterday following the results of exit polls at the end of the first round of voting...

Liz Truss was only installed as Prime Minister little more than 4 weeks ago but yesterday a senior Tory minister, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly,...

YESTERDAY the South African president Thabo Mbeki said that the acrimony in the African National Congress, the mainly black ruling party in South Africa,...

LAST week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a whole series of blogs on its website warning that the entire US banking...

THE Vestas occupation clearly shocked the employer and weakened the Labour government to the point where a mass struggle has to be launched by...

THE immediate response of the leaders of the trade unions representing public sector workers to the wage-cutting programme outlined by Osborne in this week’s...

WITH its recognition of the Syrian ‘opposition’ as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people, the UK has joined France, Saudi Arabia and...

THE LEBANESE bankers’ state has collapsed, undermined by the worldwide capitalist crisis which has plunged the country into a desperate situation of bankruptcy, mass...

ALI Damush, the vice chairman of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, said yesterday that Israel had resumed its aggression on Gaza by US decision. He...

DOZENS of Labour MPs have correctly attacked the plan of the Justice Minister and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy to axe trial by jury...

YESTERDAY Prime Minister Blair was insisting that he can push through his right wing capitalist ‘reform programme’ despite suffering a double defeat at the...

LABOUR leader Miliband has once again revealed the absolute bankruptcy of reformism. In a speech made yesterday he denied that there were laws governing...

TORY Prime Minister, Liz Truss, unveiled her package of measures to deal with the cost-of-living crisis yesterday. Her ‘bold’ new plan was nothing more...

YESTERDAY the new head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, officially took up the reins from the outgoing Sir Mervyn King. Carney, formerly head...

ROYAL Mail chairman Allan Leighton reiterated yesterday that the organisation cannot afford to improve its 2.5 per cent pay offer, despite staff voting 77...

FOLLOWING the ‘shock’ victory of George Galloway in last Thursday’s Rochdale by-election, Tory Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hastily rushed to the podium outside 10...

THE Pakistani Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, yesterday spelt out that Pakistan cannot accept actions like the recent US cross-border air strike on a village...

THE Bishop of Rochester, Dr Nazir-Ali, yesterday sounded like he borrowed a script from the British National Party when he warned that Islamic extremism...

THE UN Security Council has condemned the truck bomb attacks that killed at least 55 people and wounded almost 400 in the Syrian capital,...

OVER 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of London on Saturday, protesting against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. The protest, organised by the...

YESTERDAY, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that splits had erupted in the heart of Keir Starmer’s Cabinet between deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and...

A SCOTLAND YARD review into the 2010 summer riots ‘Four Days in August’ shows very clearly that the capitalist state in the UK...

YESTERDAY Europe shook as millions of Spanish workers took to the streets in a general strike, while over 100,000 workers from all over Europe...

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...

AFTER over a month of silence, the western media have had to acknowledge that hundreds of civilians are being killed in western Mosul by...

FIVE hundred and ninety-seven homeless people died on the streets of Britain last year, up from 482 the year before – in fact homeless...

IT says something about the scale of the defeat that the Tories and the bosses have suffered over the Mayoral election in London...

NORTHERN Rock (NR) plc is being sold to Virgin Money by the coalition government for £747m. After Northern Rock was nationalised in 2008 it...

US combat troops have been out of Iraq for only a week and already US generals are questioning President Obama’s judgement about whether the...

JOHN McDONNELL the newly appointed Labour shadow chancellor, made his first speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday outlining the ‘new economics’ that he...

PORTUGAL’S borrowing costs have jumped to over 7%, meaning that it will shortly have to seek another IMF-EU bailout, by offering even more cuts...

DEEP splits among the imperialist powers emerged this week over the rapidly growing support for a Palestinian state, at the same time as Trump...

THE UK capitalist economy is staggering along the bottom with a three month ‘growth’ to show, from January to March, of 0.2 per cent. The...

THE capitalist press over the weekend was full of ‘revelations’ concerning ‘Operation Temperer’ a plan drawn up by police chiefs to put Britain...

THE Thatcherite dream of creating a nation of home owners is already a nightmare for millions struggling to make their mortgage repayments. It is...

MICK LYNCH, general secretary of the RMT rail workers union, has denounced Labour leader Keir Starmer for being ‘not on the side of workers’...

NEWS LINE urges all of its readers and supporters to vote for Ken Livingstone in the London Mayoral elections today, and to vote Labour...

IN SYRIA a massive car bomb deliberately targeting people awaiting evacuation from Syrian towns being besieged by the so-called ‘rebel’ forces, in reality a...

900 construction workers were sacked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, north Lincolnshire yesterday in what the GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny called ‘a case...

THE Royal Mail’s pay, pension and bonuses award worth £3million for Chief Executive Adam Crozier was a major slap in the face for all...

AT A TIME when the cost of living is rocketing Tory leadership contender Truss has been forced to publicly scrap her plan to link...

A HUGE contract for health services, including end-of-life care in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, is being put out to tender with privateers such as Virgin...

THE US House of Representatives has hit out at what the US ruling class considers to be its major enemy, the People’s Republic of...

APPROXIMATELY 77 arrests were made by the police in a concerted attack by the British state and the Labour government on the 100,000-strong rally...

IN a radio interview yesterday morning the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, pronounced that the UK economy was seeing a ‘balanced economic recovery.’ All this...