Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Leave The EU Now! Call A General Strike To Defend Jobs! Stop Pleading...

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THE UK’s negotiator with the EU, Lord Frost, has said that there is still time for the UK and the EU to agree a...

‘Let them go bust’ says Bank of England chief

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THE governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, in a letter to the House of Commons Treasury select committee has warned that efforts...

May Refuses To Sack Hunt And Commits Herself To Class War Not ‘One Nation’!

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PM MAY, under the guise of adopting a ‘one nation’ policy which treasures the poor and the needy much more than the rich, has...

Blair’s decisive moment of NHS transition

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LABOUR’S re-spun campaign to close local Accident and Emergency Departments, and entire District General Hospitals, in favour of Regional Centres of Excellence got under...

America on verge of bankruptcy US Treasury Secretary warns

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US TREASURY Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday warned congressional leaders that the Treasury will run out of cash next month and the federal government...

Build The Fourth Internati0Nal!

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THE news last week that more than 100 cities in the United States are set to go bankrupt in the new year spells complete...

Bosses are in crisis worldwide! Now is the time to organise the British and...

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FIVE THOUSAND trade unionists marched on Saturday in Cheltenham to mark the banning of trade unions at the GCHQ spy centre 40 years ago,...

Neither savage deflation or massive inflation but socialism!

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LABOUR’S last Chancellor, Alistair Darling, has urged the Tories to set about printing or borrowing even more money to finance growth. It must be remembered...

Wall Street Crashes And With It Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy!

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JUST TEN YEARS after the 2008 great banking disaster began – with the working class still paying the price for it with massively...

Trade unions must take action to support the Tamil people

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THOUSANDS of Tamils demonstrated on Westminster Bridge on Monday evening against the failure of the Brown government to lift a finger to save the...

FBI warns of revolution! Now is the time to build 4th International in the...

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THE DIRECTOR of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray, told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the US ruling class has lost...

Recognise Palestinian State Immediately – Smash ‘Deal Of Century’ With International Mass Action

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THE Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Saeb Erekat has just condemned US President Donald Trump’s so-called ‘deal of the century’, due...

Brown’s bonanza for City speculators

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ALMOST a third of Britain’s 700 biggest businesses paid no corporation tax in 2005-2006, according to a study carried out by the official National...

Israel withdraws its 98th Commando division from Gaza as Cairo talks are due...

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SIX months into Israel’s criminal war on Gaza, Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters have been engaged in intense combat around the city of Khan...

‘Bloodbath’ in Gaza hospitals as Israel ramps up genocidal war

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A NEW REPORT by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has indicted Israel for using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. Omar Shakir, HRW’s Israel...

Iran Has The Right To Nuclear Power

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THE Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, made it very clear last Wednesday what Iran’s position is on its right to develop...

ECB takes desperate measures to try and stop EU economic collapse

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LAST Thursday the European Central Bank (ECB) abandoned its previously proclaimed policy of ending free money handouts to the banks through quantitative easing (QE)...

The Iraq war, the world crisis and the socialist revolution

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MARCH 2008 sees the US and UK armed forces and governments irreparably damaged as a result of their failure to subdue the Iraqi people...

Tory plans for their police state! Step too far even for EU Courts

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THE Tories’ new mass surveillance laws got a setback this week when the European Court of Justice ruled that its snoopers’ charter, the Investigatory...
The picket line yesterday morning at Gate Gourmet, Heathrow

General Council must support locked out Gate Gourmet workers

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ON Monday September 12 the TUC Annual Congress was lobbied by 300 of the over 700 locked out Gate Gourmet workers. The Congress then passed...

Starmer Pledges A ‘Blairite On Steroids Government’ To Smash The Unions For...

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FORMER State Prosecutor Starmer, who has worked tirelessly to keep whistleblower Julian Assange in jail, has given advance warning of just what he intends...

Sunak calls for ‘British homes for British workers’ in a backward attempt to save...

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THE Guardian newspaper yesterday revealed that the Tory government is preparing to launch a consultation in the coming weeks on implementing a ‘British homes...

4.5m on the housing waiting list!

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THE National Housing Federation (NHF) complains that the government has missed its home-building target for the last seven years and that the housing crisis...

£490bn goes missing! Time to overthrow British capitalism, quit the EU and go forward...

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ALL THE talk by the Tories, and echoed by the Labour Party leadership, that capitalist Britain is fundamentally in good health economically, has just...

Israeli leaders call to annex West Bank to create a new Naqba!

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ISRAEL’S Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Uri Ariel speaking in Moscow, where he travelled with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, has...

Gaza Will Be Rebuilt! Israeli Occupation Has Failed! – Says Hamas!

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WHEN silence falls after the storm, the real story begins. In Gaza, the bombs have gone quiet, but the sound of the rubble is...

Call national strike action to defeat Royal Mail and Brown

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AFTER weeks of secret talks, which were extended by a further week and were conducted behind the backs of the CWU membership, the Royal...

Tories crash – now boot them out with a general strike to bring in...

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THE TORIES have crashed with their twin by-elections disasters. They lost Kingswood, where Labour needed an 11-point swing and also lost Wellingborough, where an...

No Military Action Against Iran – At This Point Says Rice

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BRITAIN’S Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has just revealed the policy of the British government on Iraq – or has he? He said that Iran...

Imperialist Crisis Deepens

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JUST days after the mid-term elections dealt a decisive blow to his administration, Bush with the support of the Democrats has seen to it...

Obama’s New Crusade To ‘Save The Christians Of Iraq’

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THE USA and the UK have launched their new crusade on the pretext of saving the Christians and the Yazidis of Iraq from the...

Cowardly Corbyn desperately walks the tightrope over the EU and the single market!

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LABOUR’S right wing were furious on Friday after the leadership of the Scottish Labour Party conference blocked a vote on single market membership. Instead,...

Saab goes bust as GM’s Opel-Vauxhall crisis deepens

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GM’S crisis has deepened with the collapse of its deal to sell Saab, and as the EU states do battle over whose plants are...

US economy slumps as Obama proposes huge budget debts

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THE American economy contracted by 6.2 per cent in the last three months of last year, as consumer spending dropped by 4.3 per cent...

Defend the PCS and all trade unions with a general strike

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THE PCS TRADE UNION last Saturday issued a statement to its members announcing that it was the victim of a government plot to destroy...

Pensions conflict sharpening UK class struggle to explosion point

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WITH its threat to bring in new anti-union laws, that will prevent all legal strike action by all trade unions in the UK, if...

Labour is going to bring a co-payment system into the NHS

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AS the economic crisis deepens, the drive to privatise the NHS is being stepped up on a number of fronts. One is the growing...

TUC must be made to call mass demonstrations and a general strike to bring...

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PM Johnson yesterday fled the country to go to the Ukraine, where he will be able to adopt what he hopes will be a...

Sack Starmer Not Corbyn – No National Government!

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FORMER LABOUR PARTY leader Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the Labour Party’s ‘political’ decision to apologise and pay damages of over £500,000 to so-called party...

Junior doctors are fighting for the NHS – demand the TUC stands with them,...

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TODAY’S strike by junior doctors must be supported by the entire trade union movement and the working class. What is at stake in this dispute...

Throw Out Bankrupt Sunak And The Tories With A General Strike!

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TORY chancellor Rishi Sunak, at a cabinet briefing before unveiling his latest spending review in Parliament yesterday, warned that the forecast for the UK...

Tories seek to smash NHS up into 42 pieces! Entire working class must strike...

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TORY Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the new government White Paper in Parliament on Thursday pushing a complete reorganisation of the...

Flood Disaster = Britain’s New Orleans

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WE all saw the Katrina disaster, and what it did to New Orleans, destroying whole areas of the city and making them uninhabitable to...
French youth with placards made by English language students marching through Paris on Thursday March 16

Victory To The Gate Gourmet Workers

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THE News Line sends greetings to the striking German and the locked-out British Gate Gourmet workers, who are today marching through Hounslow. The German workers...
Over 400 attended the vigil outside Parliament following the death of the 100th British soldier

Kelly forges ahead with schools’ privatisation

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AMID media speculation that Blair’s government is willing to compromise on plans for independent ‘trust schools’, contained in next month’s Education Bill, the reality...