Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Disband the Met Police – forward to a workers state and socialism

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WHEN Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel is forced to say that she is ‘appalled and sickened’ by the behaviour of Metropolitan Police officers, then...

Kick the Tories out on June 8th – Labour must scrap STP mass...

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JONATHAN Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, has responded to reports in the Health Service Journal (HSJ) by warning: ‘With 48 hours to go until...

Time to make war on Brown and Mandelson

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BUSINESS Secretary Peter Mandelson, in the words of the bourgeois media ‘came out fighting’ over the weekend to ‘make war’ on the CWU leaders...

Good Riddance To Atos – Now Get Rid Of The Coalition!

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THE coalition government’s favourite private benefits testing company, Atos, is desperately attempting to jump ship after pocketing a fortune for driving people off sickness...

Trump champions the police and launches his war against communism and socialism!

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US PRESIDENT Trump, in his desperate attempt to win the November presidential election, has stepped up his war against the working class, branding all...

UK death squads in the north – a warning for today

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LAST night’s Panorama programme, entitled ‘Britain’s Secret Terror Force’, threw yet more light on the murderous activities of the British state in its war...

Bankrupt Miliband brings back Butcher Blair!

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LABOUR leader Miliband’s refusal to fight for socialist policies and answer massive austerity with a campaign to replace bankrupt capitalism with socialism has seen...

Smash the plan for war against Russia! End threat of imperialist war by ...

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WITH capitalism gripped by a deepening worldwide crisis the British ruling class have pushed themselves forward as the most zealous warmongers doing the bidding...

The Crisis Of Capitalism Is Making It Clear That The Working Class Must Take...

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BRITAIN is in the grip of the deepest recession since records began putting the country on course for the biggest economic collapse since 1709...

Labour MPs rebel and threaten to bring down Starmer

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WHAT was described as a ‘fiery’ meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, addressed by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall, took place on Monday...

Occupy Vauxhall/Opel plants – nationalise GM Europe to defend jobs!

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General Motors plans to close the Opel plant in Antwerp, Belgium this winter, with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs. Workers in Antwerp...

King’s Fund Warning Must Be Acted On!

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THE Quarterly Monitoring Report of the King’s Fund does not pull any punches about the future that the Tory-led coalition has planned out for...

Massive strike action greeted by Tory coalition threats!

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AS millions of public sector workers, teachers, firefighters, local government workers and many other sections took strike action yesterday, Prime Minister Cameron pledged to...

Palestinian PM calls on UN to act against Israeli apartheid, while Hamas insists that...

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on United Nations bodies, particularly the Children’s Fund (UNICEF), to follow up on the recent Human Rights...

May reveals Tories fear of revolution

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YESTERDAY’S speech to the Charity Commission by Tory prime minister, Theresa May, attracted much comment on her proposals on raising the profile of mental health...

Inflation soaring not falling – General Strike now!

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MONTHLY figures released yesterday reported that inflation in Britain had fallen from 2.8% in July to 2.7% in August, leading some bourgeois economists to...

Tuc Leaders Are Betraying The Working Class

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THE 150,000 workers who turned out in London on Saturday, as well as the thousands in Glasgow and Belfast, represent a massive change...

Netanyahu’s ‘Pyrrhic Victory’ – He Still Faces Criminal Charges And The Palestinian Revolution

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ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has claimed a ‘huge win’ in a vote that challenged his leadership of the Likud party. Netanyahu secured 72.5%...

Security Council extends Iraq occupation mandate

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THE imperialists and their Chinese and Russian stooges on the UN Security Council have extended the mandate of the US-led occupation armies in Iraq,...
The WRP’s rally on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution on November 12th. Its main slogan ‘Forward to the World  October!’is very relevent for this new year, 2018. Palestinian ambassador MANUEL HASSASSIAN is addressing the rally

2018 – The Year For World Revolution!

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New Year Manifesto by the News Line Editorial Board THE News Line Editorial Board sends its warmest revolutionary greetings for 2018 to all our readers,...

Socialist revolution only solution to capitalist crisis

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer returned from holiday at the weekend to announce his new ‘robust’ plan to freeze the cap on electricity and gas...

Unite votes for speed-up and savage cuts at GM Vauxhall

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THE Vauxhall-Opel GM bosses statement put out yesterday claimed as its subject: ‘Vauxhall and Opel employees dive into their pockets to support the company...

CBI calls for more anti-union laws!

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YESTERDAY the employers’ organisation, the CBI, was joined by Tory London mayor, Boris Johnson, in demanding further laws to outlaw strike action against the...

Education Bombshell – The University Cuts Begin!

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THE University and College Union (UCU) yesterday condemned the decision by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to reduce funding for university...

Capitalism has no ‘safety net’ to save it from economic crash

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THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) can no longer act as the world’s ‘lender of last resort’ according to a task force of currency experts...

Tory-led House of Commons Committee slaps down Cameron over Syria!

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THE Government has received another slap in the face for its plan to cement relations with the US by pushing a resolution through...

Cameron’s all-powerful police state is to fight the working class

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THE beginning of PM Cameron’s speech to the recalled House of Commons was an attempt to divorce the youth uprising that is taking place...

US vetos Ukraine ceasefire – tells Poroshenko to make war!

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ON MONDAY evening Russia invited Ukrainian border guards and international observers to oversee the Russian side of the border with Ukraine, in an 11th-hour...

Time For Action To Smash The Health Bill!

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DOCTOR Peter Carter, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), has admitted that despite every attempt to co-operate with the coalition government,...

UK Drone Assassins – Mass Murder As A Video Game!

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THE House of Commons Defence Committee came out in favour on Monday of continuing massacres of people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other places by...

‘Our greatest allies are our patients’ – GP conference told

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OPENING the BMA GPs Conference in York, Doctor Nagpaul correctly pointed out that ‘Today, nearly a million patients will visit their GP surgery, that’s...

Netanyahu turning the screws on Palestinians to the point of revolution!

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THE Israeli Netanyahu regime is now working hard at its programme for the ‘final solution’ to the question of Palestine and the Palestinians. The Palestinian...

After Johnson Refused To Sack Hancock, The Capitalist State Did The Job For Him!

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BRITISH capitalism is in a desperate economic and political crisis that calls for truly desperate measures by the ruling class. The use of the capitalist...

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...

Hamas Condemns Arab States Joining NATO Anti-Russian War Manoeuvres!

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HAMAS, the Palestinian resistance movement which recently fought a successful 11 day war with Israel against its occupation of Palestine, has condemned the participation...

DRIVE THE MAY GOVERNMENT OUT! MARCH ON PARLIAMENT ON JULY 1st!

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THE May government has now entered the world of the surreal. It has just about been able to schedule a Queen’s Speech of sorts...

Portuguese economic and political crisis reaches explosion point!

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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...

Taleban Cease-Fire In Swat Angers US!

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THE Pakistani Taleban in the Swat valley border areas with Afghanistan have signed a permanent cease-fire with the Pakistan government and are starting to...

Third World Britain beaten only by the USA

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WOMEN in the UK are more than twice as likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth as those in Poland, Austria or Belarus, according...

Israel Is Targeting Protection Teams In Gaza As Part Of Its Genocidal Slaughter...

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WITH the number of Palestinian dead in Gaza rising to nearly 45,000 due to the US-backed Israeli genocide campaign, the Israeli occupation army’s appetite...
Amicus members from the DARA defence plant in south Wales lobbying to defend 1,000 jobs

Petrol price rises leading to new fuel blockade

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UK petrol and diesel prices are still rising in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with the average cost of petrol now at 95.1 pence...

Bernanke’s plan for controlled bankruptcies

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THE heads of the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury have been forced to try to calm fears that the nation’s two largest mortgage...

Workers shake Labour to its foundations with their vote for Brexit!

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THE EU elections have shattered both the Labour and the Tory parties. With a national turnout of 37%, Labour got 13.6 of the vote, the...

Public Sector Alliance needed to defend the Welfare State and all jobs and services!

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AS the capitalist crisis deepens, the Brown government’s attacks on the public sector become more frenzied. It is to be privatised or part-privatised. Hundreds...

Labour to let multi-nationals take over NHS Primary Care Trusts

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THE government is set to turn the screws of further NHS privatisation on the NHS with its plans to invite private health insurance...