Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

No Fees Or Loans And Restore Student Grants For All!

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AFTER Blair and Brown abolished students’ grants and introduced a regime of fee paying for university education – putting an end to free university...

Councils to be given more police state powers!

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HOME SECRETARY Alan Johnson is introducing new police state powers for councils next week. These will not be discussed in the House of Commons...

Workers want the Tories out but don’t want Miliband and Balls back

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THIS IS the message that is coming out of the Bradford West by-election where Respect candidate George Galloway was ‘unexpectedly’, out of the blue,...

Notre-Dame Cathedral burnt out as Macron concentrates spending on civil war riot police and...

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FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron was forced to cancel his important address to the French nation on Monday night, after a massive fire erupted at...

US-Israel steps up the war against Hamas and also against the working people of...

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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...

Scots workers reject nationalism – now for revolution

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SCOTTISH workers rejected the narrow reactionary nationalism of the SNP on Thursday because of the fact that they hate both the Scottish and English...

No Prosecutions – Let Off For Those Who Destroyed 6500 Mg Rover Jobs

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THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has said it does not intend to launch a criminal investigation into the collapse of carmaker MG Rover. It was...

Starmer declares it’s ‘un-British’ to oppose genocide – it is time for a general strike...

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WRITING in the Times newspaper yesterday, Labour Prime Minister Starmer urged students not to attend the protests called at universities across the country to...

General Council must be made to resign for refusing to fight anti-union Bill!

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YESTERDAY morning, the TUC commented on the vote in the House of Commons on the third reading of the Trade Union Bill, which is...

Wall Street heading for a crash

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THE US Wall Street is fast heading for a crash according to the Bank of America (BoA) as the huge speculative bubble on the...

Shut Kensington council down! Form a Council of Action to run the Borough!

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'THE COUNCIL needs to be shut down … Workers should take over and workers' unions should defend them,' Zoe Bernard from Ladbroke Grove, said...

Blair’s call for an ‘alliance’ to attack Iran

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PRIME Minister Tony Blair told businessmen from Britain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dubai yesterday: ‘We must mobilise our alliance of moderation...

Britain hardest hit by world capitalist crisis

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YESTERDAY’S reports on the state of the economy reveal more about the catastrophe gripping British capitalism, part of the world crisis. • The Bank of...

No to Zuma or Ramaphosa –the South African workers must take the power!

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THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) has noted the shocking testimony given to City Press by police officers who were among those...

Spain follows Greece with mass strikes against austerity

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SPANISH Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s Socialist Party government scraped through Parliament its 15bn euro (£13bn) austerity package, by 169 votes to 168,...

UK, France and Canada threats of ‘concrete action’ over starvation in Gaza driven by...

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YESTERDAY Labour prime minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and Canadian prime minister Mark Carney issued what was called a stark warning to...

Tory leader Badenoch offers to ‘work together’ with Starmer to slash benefits

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YESTERDAY, in a speech in London, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch made an offer to Keir Starmer to work together on a plan to slash...

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...

Liz Truss speech calls for ‘new’ party to wage class war against working class!

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IT was almost exactly one year ago that the then Tory prime minister Liz Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered a mini-budget that...

Anarchists Being Used To Increase Police-State Powers

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LAST Saturday’s 500,000-strong TUC demonstration against the coalitions cuts policy has shaken the coalition, and given the capitalist state a lot to think about. Such...

Take strike action to support FBU!

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THE London Firefighters one day strike last Saturday has drawn a swift response from the capitalist state, via their mouthpieces in the bourgeois press. Commenting...

THE HOUSING CRISIS: Nationalise construction companies and banks!

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AVERAGE house prices in Britain are now 10.5 per cent lower than they were a year ago, according to figures published yesterday by Nationwide,...

‘Terror attacks’ strengthen the capitalist state

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THE failed terror attacks on Park Lane and Glasgow Airport far from being a huge blow against British imperialism will in fact be welcomed...

Bin Laden killing opens Obama election campaign

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When US President, Barack Obama, announced on Sunday night that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a dawn raid by US special forces...

Manchester Arena bombing was the product of a British capitalist state provocation!

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THE judge-led inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing at an Ariana Grand concert in May 2017 finally published its finding yesterday after a two-and-a-half-year...

Tories bringing in a pro-Zionist police state. They must be brought down with a...

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HOME Secretary Priti Patel, not satisfied with wanting to send asylum seekers to Albania for processing, has announced she is seeking to declare the...

NHS Executives back away from imposition – Unions must take strike action

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HEALTH Secretary Hunt’s contract imposition has already begun to hit the rocks with 10 of the 20 NHS executives who signed the Dalton letter...

Moroccan leaders stab Palestine in the back with another ‘normalisation’ deal with Israel!

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ISRAEL and Morocco announced they are to ‘normalise ties’ in another US-brokered deal. On Thursday, Morocco became the fourth Arab country since August to strike...

UK workers must bring down Trump’s Tories to leave the EU and bring in...

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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has named three of his Tory candidates to replace May as the prime minister of his choice. All three of Trump’s...

Labour is selling off school playing fields

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SCHOOLS Secretary Ed Balls and his predecessor Alan Johnson have given the go-head to the sell-off of 19 school playing fields over the past...

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...

There Is Not A Moment To Waste – TUC Must Call General Strike...

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THE RMT and the NASUWT have put down a motion at the TUC Conference condemning the new Tory scabs charter and calling for a...

TUC leaders must bin Johnson’s empty pledges and call a general strike to bring...

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PM JOHNSON’S Tory conference speech was completely empty bombast that sought to cover over the economic catastrophe that is developing throughout the capitalist system...

Israel is preparing a massive ground attack on Gaza – the TUC must be...

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AFTER 21 days of political paralysis, the US House of Representatives finally elected Mike Johnson, a fervent Donald Trump supporter, as its Speaker. Johnson’s first...

Reject Labour’s racist points system!

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A NEW points-based immigration system for workers who want to come to the UK from outside the EU was unveiled by Home Secretary Charles...

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...

Israeli Police Attack Anti-Netanyahu Demonstrators As Israel Explodes!

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ISRAELI police arrested 12 people and used water cannons before dawn on Sunday to disperse furious protesters against the policies of PM Netanyahu. Tens of...

Master Obama Slaps Down Servant Cameron!

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PM CAMERON received an almighty slap in the face on Wednesday when the Obama administration effectively told him to shut up and drop all...

Defeat The May-Corbyn Pact To Knife Brexit – No To A National Government!

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TORY Prime Minister May emerged from her meeting with her cabinet on Tuesday and immediately issued a letter to every Tory MP calculated to...

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...

May wants to rip up the basic rights of the working class! Put her...

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IN the seven short weeks since Tory Prime Minister Theresa May announced out of the blue that she was calling a snap general election,...

Stop The Airport To Win The BA Cabin Crew Struggle!

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BA has moved closer to a merger with Spanish national carrier Iberia after striking a deal with its pension trustees to ‘neutralise’ its pensions...

Bosses threaten car workers jobs if they vote to leave EU

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THE giant German car maker, BMW, has written to every one of its 8,000 employees in Britain making the thinly veiled threat that in...

Baghdad bombings blow to Bush!

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MORE than 200 people were killed in Baghdad on Wednesday in five bombings. This is the highest number of deaths in a single day...

China has beaten coronavirus while Tories will allow 60% of the population to be...

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CHINA’S Wuhan province reported a zero increase in new coronavirus infections last week. China has beaten the virus and with no new cases, their...