Editorials

NURSES are ‘not afraid to strike’ over promised pay upgrades, the Royal College of Nursing union warned James Murray, the new Labour Health Secretary...

THE kind of party that Labour Party leader Miliband wants will be no different from the US Democratic Party, if he is allowed to...

THE Palestinian leadership in Ramallah is working on the basis that the peace talks with Israel will fail and that both sides know...

THE war drums are beating with increasing intensity for armed intervention by imperialism into Syria to  effect the smashing up of the Assad regime, the...

OIL giant BP’s share price has fallen nearly 17 per cent to £4.12, its lowest level since March 2009. The sharp sell-off came as it...

AT last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, 100 pharmaceutical companies and private health care companies issued a statement demanding that governments around the...

THE Tory Party is now in Conference and in the biggest crisis in its history, after its ‘mini budget’ caned the poor and the...

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 fact that the Home Secretary maintained in the House of Commons yesterday that she had not known Tory MP Damian Green was to...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary New Year greetings for 2026 to the Palestinian people whose intransigence and resistance against Zionism...

AFTER President Obama’s announcement that he intends to impose a two-year wage freeze on Federal workers, the Obama appointed US deficit commission has called...

TRUMP’S decision to withdraw the United States from Iran’s nuclear deal with the imperialist powers (JCPOA) and re-impose sanctions against the Islamic Republic of...

EARLIER this week French aircraft bombed the positions of the anti-imperialist forces in the Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) led by Laurent Gbagbo, while French...

ON October 7, Hamas changed the world with its Operation Al-Aqsa Storm when it successfully stormed the ‘impregnable’ heavily defended Israeli border with Gaza...

MPs on the House of Commons foreign affairs committee ran up the white flag yesterday when they declared in their report that peace talks...

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

ON March 15 at the historic Special Representative Meeting (SRM) of the BMA, which its Council was forced to call to decide on the...

THE water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa’s second largest city, has become explosive as experts now estimate that ‘Day Zero’, the day when...

TORY leader Cameron yesterday delivered his speech on the ‘Big Society’ but had a problem defining what he meant. He said: ‘You can call it...

THE GRENFELL inquiry has heard from the bosses of both the insulation and the cladding companies that produced the flammable material installed on the...

NOT one, but two tuition fee hikes have been announced by the Tory government in the last two weeks: first to £9,250 and then...

THE ANGER expressed by Ealing Parking Service workers at the way in which the Unite leadership has sold their strike down the river reflects...

PALESTINIAN prisoners’ institutions have declared that 2024 has been the deadliest year in the history of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement. In a press conference held...

SIR KEIR STARMER has been informed by US imperialism's stooge, Israel, that Iran has developed inter-continental ballistic missiles capable of striking London ‘and dozens...

THE TUC trade unions have a duty, and have the power to end the death agony of the Johnson government. Even bankers have remarked...

LAST week, TUC general secretary Paul Nowak along with trade union leaders from across the world attended a two-day conference organised by the World...

FIVE more American troops were killed and three were captured near Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, in a pre-dawn attack on Saturday. The...

AS FAR as this reactionary coalition government is concerned, anybody who is sick for more than four weeks in a year is probably engaging...

PRESIDENT MURSI of Egypt has followed up his successful negotiation of the end of the current round of Israel’s war with Gaza – which...

THE British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) quarterly report has just discovered a situation that every worker and every shopper has been acquainted with for...

YESTERDAY, millions of Iranians took to the streets across the country to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the revolution that overthrow the hated Pahlavi...

THE United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Wednesday issued a damning statement that Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in...

ELON Musk’s chainsaw wielding stunt with Argentine President Javier Milei before a conservative convention in the US on Thursday was a call to war...

US PRESIDENT George W Bush yesterday warned of the ‘Iranian threat’ during his speech in Abu Dhabi. While speaking about the role of the United...

THE architects of the Common Market, the forerunner of the European Union, freely admitted that they were seeking to carry out peacefully what Adolf...

MORE than 150 contributors to The New York Times have announced a boycott of the paper’s opinion section, protesting its ‘clear bias’ in its...

US PRESIDENT Trump has hailed as ‘one of the most daring search and rescue operations in US history’ the extraction of the injured weapons...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s tariff increases imposed on China, Mexico and Canada come into effect today but already this has set off a massive...

THE sacking by Keir Starmer of Labour MP Sam Tarry from his post as shadow transport minister has sent shock waves throughout the Labour...

IRISH Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, and the Irish government, are being forced onto their knees by the EU and the European Central Bank...

THE fact that six RAF Harrier GR7 jets are to remain in Afghanistan to support the 4,000 British troops who are being assembled in...

US special forces in Afghanistan mounted an attempt to rescue Linda Norgrove after the British government in the persons of Foreign Secretary Hague and...

BEFORE the 1997 election, the Blair-Brown gang proved to big business that they were the right men to run capitalism by conducting a war...

THE CLADDING (HPL) that encased the Bolton students’ accommodation block that was engulfed in flames last week was found, after examination by scientists, to...

YESTERDAY morning Gate Gourmet strikers were dismissing and rubbishing the letters that they have been receiving from the company. These offered them a minimum pittance...