Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Turn TUC demonstration on 18th June into a general strike to bring down...

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THE national demonstration and march on Parliament called by the TUC on Saturday June 18th has met with a massive response throughout the working...

Tories getting ready to blitz NHS and Welfare State

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YESTERDAY PM Cameron pledged that a Tory government will introduce a law, within 100 days of taking office, guaranteeing no rise in income tax...

Answer Tories’ ‘war to finish’ on trade unions by demanding the TUC immediately call...

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YESTERDAY, NHS consultants began a 48-hour strike that has propelled a head-on confrontation between doctors and their union, the BMA, and a Tory government...

Millions Are Marching For Palestine – The TUC Must Call A General Strike To...

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HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and youth marched for Palestine in mass rallies that erupted throughout the UK on Saturday, and were more than...

Labour’s new leaders tell right wing that they can vote to bomb Syria along...

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LABOUR MPs should be given a free vote on military action in Syria, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said on Tuesday night, at a Guardian-sponsored...

Revolution Emerging All Over Europe

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THE Portuguese government has agreed to look for alternatives to th social security tax rise, just one week after huge anti-austerity street protests shook...

The Trade Unions Must Defend Every Job!

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THE London and New York stock markets were in free fall yesterday, losing hundreds of points, with tens of billions of dollars and pounds...

Multinational companies who supplied cladding and insulation on Grenfell Tower making super-profits!

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Yesterday’s Observer newspaper revealed that manufacturers of the insulation installed on Grenfell Tower – cladding that led to the inferno that killed 72 people...

AS THE CAPITALIST CRISIS DEEPENS, MPs WANT A DICTATORSHIP OVER THE INTERNET!

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THE UK faces a ‘democratic crisis’ with voters being targeted with ‘pernicious views’ and data being manipulated, a parliamentary MPs committee warns. According to...

Not a general election but a general strike now!

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TODAY’S lobby of Parliament called by the TUC represents a complete avoidance of the real fight to the finish between the working class and...

Defend university education! Forward to the British socialist revolution!

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‘LET THEM FAIL!’ declared yesterday’s Daily Telegraph in response to repeated calls for emergency government funding to rescue endangered English universities as the economic...

UK workers must support the Hamas call for action against genocide!

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THE Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in a statement on Wednesday, called on the ‘free people of the world to escalate popular protest’ against the...

Labour Puts Migrants In Chains

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YESTERDAY THE BBC repeated throughout the day film of a police and immigration officials raid on a chicken factory in Derbyshire, to which the...

High Court rejects legal challenge to Labour arming Zionist genocide – now workers and...

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ON MONDAY, the High Court in London rejected a legal challenge brought by the Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq against the decision of...

Unreal capitalism deserves to perish!

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THE crash of the British banks continued yesterday after Royal Bank of Scotland declared a £27bn loss for 2008 on Monday and its share...

Smash Trump’s ‘deal of the century’! Forward to the independent state of Palestine!

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THE US-sponsored three-day conference held this week in the Gulf state of Bahrain to unveil the first stage of Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the...

Human Rights Watch Denounces Israeli Apartheid Crimes!

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AN international leading human rights watchdog, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), has accused the Israeli authorities in a 213-page report titled ‘A Threshold Crossed:...

Only socialist revolutions can bring the ruling classes of the world to trial for...

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THE International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must halt its military offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza. This ruling came after South Africa...

Scottish Labour Call For A Gaza Ceasefire Must Be Supported By All Trade Unions...

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FORMER Mossad official, Rami Igra, has said all Palestinians in Gaza over the age of 4 deserve to face Israel’s collective punishment policy of...

US Fed emergency rate cut fails to halt crash – only socialist revolution can...

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FOR THE second time in less than two weeks the US Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to near zero on Sunday, a desperate last...

Down With The US-Israel Axis – Forward To A UK Workers Government That Will...

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ISRAEL celebrated the moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem on Monday, recognising the city as the ‘the capital of Israel’ by massacring 60...

Egypt warns Israel while Palestinians urge global Intifada!

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EGYPT has warned it’s ready to respond militarily after Israeli troops seized a sensitive corridor of land along its border with the Gaza Strip. According...

Six million UK households face poverty as Tories end furlough and benefit increases –...

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WHEN the coronavirus pandemic hit the UK in March, and the Tory government was forced to order the first national lockdown, Tory chancellor Rishi...

The Eagle cannot fly so Smith is to challenge Corbyn

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NOW that the ‘Eagle’ has refused to fly as pledged, she has handed the baton, although just 25 votes behind and with votes still...

Grenfell Inquiry bans survivors and relatives while safety experts didn’t even bother to read...

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GRENFELL survivors and relatives of the 72 people killed in the Grenfell Tower inferno are furious that they have been excluded from the inquiry...

The US and UK are making war on asylum seekers! Workers trade unions...

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THE Biden administration has imprisoned tens of thousands of asylum seekers in US prisons where they suffer lengthy detention, severe physical and psychological harm...

Abolish The Gangmasters!

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THE scandal of the gangmasters has caused uproar in the working class, but the leaders of the trade union movement are helping to cover...

Post-Trident nuclear missiles will be targeting Russia

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THE Blair-Brown government intends to spend hundreds of billions of pounds on building a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to deliver the replacement of...

Cameron Launches Campaign For UK To Remain In The Eu

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CAMERON yesterday launched his campaign for a ‘Yes’ vote in an EU referendum – which has been pencilled in for June 2016 – telling...

World Trembles At Prospect Of US Rate Rise!

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JAMES Bullard, the head of the St Louis Fed, told a recent City Week Forum in London that investors are far too complacent and...

Time to put down the sick dog Tory minority government!

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THE QUEEN dropped by Westminster on her way to Ascot races yesterday morning to spend 20 minutes outlining the Theresa May minority Tory government’s...

Hague, Cameron will join Obama’s war on Syria

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PRIME MINISTER Cameron and Foreign Secretary Hague, despite the fact that the Tory cabinet and party are split on the issue, yesterday gave their...

US Imperialism desperate to dominate its rivals

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INTERNATIONAL ‘free trade’ agreements represent the attempt by the vast multi-national capitalist corporations to completely dominate the globe. The domination they seek is over...

Forward to the Greek Socialist Revolution!

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AFTER the failure of the major Greek political parties to form a government, Greece’s top Supreme Court judge, Vassiliki Thanou, has been appointed caretaker...

Come to the News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance conference

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ON Saturday June 29, the News Line daily newspaper will be having a joint conference with the All Trades Unions Alliance, the body that...

King’s Fund warns NHS being systematically destroyed!

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A REPORT from the independent health think-tank, the King’s Fund, has revealed that the NHS is systematically being destroyed through government-imposed financial cuts. The Fund...

TUC leaders can’t get enough of the EU’s corrupt corporatism and its anti-working class...

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TUC GENERAL secretary Frances O’Grady this week re-hashed all the arguments used by the TUC before the 2016 referendum that only by remaining captive...

US-Israel Sign Joint Security Declaration, As US Stabs Palestinians In The Back Again!

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THE United States and Israel have signed a joint strategic declaration, repeating accusations against Iran and promising to confront that country’s nuclear programme, a...

Karzai dashes to bring Taleban into the government

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WHILE hundreds of Afghan civilians are being killed in General Petraeus’ Afghan surge, and British and US casualties escalate upwards despite the ‘victories’ being...

Defend the NHS budget Drive out the privateers Nationalise the drug companies

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THE voice of the NHS managers spoke up yesterday. The NHS Confederation reported ‘The health service in England won’t survive unchanged’. This is doublespeak, for...

Palestinian Prisoners Win A Victory Over Israeli Jailers As The Tuc Keeps Quiet Over...

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TENS of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated across the occupied territories for the 33rd straight week against the policies of Israel’s right wing extremist...

Occupy To Stop Hospital Closures

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THE Chief Executive of the NHS, Sir David Nicholson, had a stark message for hospitals when he told the BBC yesterday that they would...

Osborne reveals new 10% cuts, while Duncan Smith volunteers to put welfare to the...

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SEVEN departments of government, the Ministry of Justice, Department for Communities and Local Government, Department for Energy and Climate Change, HM Treasury, the Cabinet...

Occupations & a general strike needed to defend the NHS and bring the Tories...

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‘SLASH, Trash and Privatise’ – this is how the purpose of the Tories’ 44 Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) is now correctly understood. Drawn up...

Capitalism must be overthrown to resolve its crisis!

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The propagandists for the bourgeois order are rushing to try and defend the capitalist system as being blameless as far as the crisis is...