Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Google, Apple and Facebook facilitate international internet slave trade says UN!

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HE INTERNET is being used to promote a modern day online slave market, where women and children are being sold into domestic servitude. This...

NATO States To Deliver War Planes To Kiev As US And UK Plan...

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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...

‘Left’ Tsipras government humiliated as workers abstain in general election

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SYRIZA (the coalition of the left) party crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of the right-wing New Democracy (ND) party in the...

Thousands Of NHS Redundancies Are To Go Ahead – Trade Unions Must Take Action...

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THOUSANDS of NHS staff redundancies in England are now to be forced through after a deal was reached with the Treasury to allow the...

Defy Tory anti-union laws – TUC must call a general strike in support of...

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MEMBERS of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will be angry that the historic vote by the overwhelming majority of nurses throughout the UK...

Trump and Fallon slam May’s deal while ‘Remainer’ Corbyn prepares to debate with ‘Remainer’...

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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...

Claimant count rises as UK economy carries on sinking!

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UK unemployment fell by 36,000 in the three months to the end of March, to 2.46 million. However, the number of people receiving...

Blair backs Israel’s blitz on Lebanon

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PRIME Minister Blair made clear yesterday that the Labour government is not calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war on the Lebanon. Instead, Blair...

Geneva Conference Must Not Impose ‘Transitional Regime’ On Syria

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THE Syrian people and their supporters worldwide must be on the alert to see that the victories the Syrian masses and their army have...

EU in crisis – forward to United Socialist States of Europe

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WITH THE second wave of the coronavirus pandemic ripping through Europe and overwhelming hospitals and health services, EU countries have been forced to implement...

NHS Care Cancelled Until Further Notice! Time To Get The Tories Out!

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DR RICHARD Fawcett, a Royal Stoke Hospital consultant, has apologised for ‘third world’ conditions in the hospital’s A&E, saying that he was ‘heartbroken’ to...

Palestinian Prisoners Go 0N Hunger Strike For Unity

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PALESTINIANS are commemorating Land Day, the 35th anniversary of the uprising against Israel’s land theft, in which six young protesters were killed by...

Kick May And The Tories Out Now With A General Strike! Forward To...

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PM MAY yesterday morning announced she was resigning as Tory leader and Prime Minister in two weeks on June 7. May said that the...

Down with the Geneva 2 conference – victory to Assad’s Syria

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RUSSIA’S Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that UN chief Ban Ki-moon’s decision to cancel Iran’s invitation to the ‘peace talks’ on Syria,...

Millions of low paid US workers are on the march!

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FOLLOWING the Black Friday strike action at 1,500 WalMart stores throughout the US, fast-food workers in over 100 cities will walk off the job...

Police Officer Chauvin squeezed the life out of George Floyd! Murder trial puts the...

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FOR NINE minutes and twenty-nine seconds police officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd’s neck, Hennepin county courthouse in downtown Minneapolis heard...

1917 Revolution Is On Putin’s Mind

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YESTERDAY President Putin put himself forward not just as the defender of Russian speakers in Ukraine, but as the Guardian of Order in the...

The UK workers movement and the TUC must give their immediate and decisive support...

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YAHYA Sinwar, the political leader of the Hamas Movement, has written to Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, the head of the Ansar Allah Movement, conveying his profound...

Simpson refuses to fight the Coalition

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DEREK Simpson, the Unite co-leader, was brought onto the Andrew Marr Show last Sunday to deliberately attempt to undermine the struggle in the trade...

Support Palestinian General Strike

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TEACHERS, hospital workers and other government workers have come out on general strike in the West Bank and Gaza Strip following the non-payment of...

Charles pushes confrontation with Russia

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PRINCE Charles’s comparison of President Putin with Hitler, and Putin’s actions in the Ukraine as comparable with Hitler’s treatment of the peoples of...

Rudd and May refuse to resign over Windrush, so no alternative but to kick...

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AT WEDNESDAY’S Prime Minister’s Question Time, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called for Tory Home Secretary Amber Rudd to resign – the only problem with...

Israel Must Quit The Lebanon Now

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THE Israeli military have never been prepared to allow their activities in southern Lebanon to be observed, monitored, and charted by UN observers. That is...

100,000 Youth Lay Siege To Parliament!

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YESTERDAY huge masses of youth marched on the House of Commons, which was deciding to bring in tuition fees of £9,000 a year, turning...

Bush wants to wreck the Palestinian Mecca agreement

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AHEAD of next Monday’s summit in Jerusalem, President George Bush’s administration is setting out to wreck the agreement reached in Mecca on February 8...

King urinates on the green shoots of recovery

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‘THE world economy remains in a deep recession and its financial system in a fragile condition,’ said Bank of England governor Mervyn...

Tory coronavirus inquiry is an attempt to put off reckoning with working class

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ON WEDNESDAY, Tory prime minister Boris Johnson announced that there would be ‘a full and independent inquiry’ into the government handling of the coronavirus...

Trade unions must break with Blair and Brown to keep the Tories out

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THE right wing of the Labour Party was shaken to its core yesterday after Monday’s meeting of the General Council of the Scottish...

Yellen signs up to Gordon Brown’s ‘no more boom or bust’ on the brink...

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IN A SPEECH in London last Tuesday, the chair of the US Federal Reserve Bank, Janet Yellen, announced to a disbelieving world that the...

Gove declares war on state education! Kick the Tories out!

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THE Tory education minister, Michael Gove, has unleashed yet another broadside against state education and the teaching profession in a speech on Monday where...

Corbyn appeases Labour’s right wing – the UK must leave the EU, as decided...

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THE UK was changed forever when the over-confident Tory leadership of Cameron and Osborne got the House of Commons to agree a resolution...

Sarkozy flops – gets less votes than Chirac

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THE landslide vote for Sarkozy that was to get him off on a flying start as the ‘Saviour of France’ for his war against...

Three party leaders make a ‘Vow’ that they cannot carry out!

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YESTERDAY saw a LibDem, Tory and Labour Party coalition scrambling to promise anything and everything in a desperate effort to save the UK...

No to school reopening and a forced return to work – for a general...

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WHILE the Tories were hailing the relaxation of the lockdown rules that came into effect yesterday in England as a giant step forward, senior...

Boycott Israel To Demand A Palestinian State

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THE Israeli armed forces, under orders from the Israeli government, are continuing to attack defenceless Palestinian women, children and men in the Gaza Strip,...

Make the TUC call a general strike to Bring down the coalition, Smash the...

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TODAY at 9am the TUC General Council is discussing a motion from the Prison Officers Association (who have no right to strike) that urges...

Bma Oppose Health Rationing

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‘We are not against improving patient referral standards, but we are opposed to referral management to cut costs and ration treatment,’ British Medical Association...

Sunak promises bankers unlimited profits while Haldane warns of economic collapse!

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ON WEDNESDAY Andy Haldane, outgoing chief economist at the Bank of England (BoE), delivered a message of doom for the British economy in a...

Lord Jones and Sir Richard Branson turn on Brown

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TWO of the Brown government’s big business backers Lord Digby Jones, the ex-CBI boss and Richard Branson, the Thatcherite businessman have unsurprisingly turned-coat. No doubt...

Withdraw British troops from Afghanistan now!

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BRITAIN’S Foreign Secretary David Miliband told NATO imperialist military chiefs in Brussels yesterday that the strategy in Afghanistan must be geared to ‘an inclusive...

Lid lifted on US torture regime while the UK’s role is redacted!

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THE REPORT by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) very belatedly exposes the CIA torture regime that was imposed after the 2001...

Stop US-UK terrorism – No war on Syria – Bring down the Tories –...

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THE last few days has seen an acceleration in terrorist activity of all types. The first terrorist attack was last Thursday when the US...

Sunak ‘deal’ dumps Brexit – now is time for working class to dump the...

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ON MONDAY night, Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen announced that, after a high level meeting, Britain...

Council of Action takes up the challenge to defend NHS

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THE News Line congratulates the North East London Council of Action for its march through Enfield on Saturday and its occupation of Chase Farm...

Israelis mass tanks on Gaza border

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ISRAEL’S Prime Minister has promised prolonged and extensive military action to free an Israeli soldier missing and presumed held captive in southern Gaza. Mouthing...