Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Israel in favour of Gaza Truce ONLY when it has crushed Hamas!

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ISRAEL on Wednesday said it backed Egyptian efforts to mediate a truce with Hamas in and around Gaza but also at the same time...

Household debt £300bn! Council evictions soar! Bring capitalism down!

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HOUSEHOLD debt in UK is worse than at any time on record a new report by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows. Credit cards,...

The NHS is one of the best!

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THE NHS has been under heavy attack by both Tory and Labour governments for the last 17 years. They want to privatise it and...

Yellow jacket uprising spreads across Europe and inspires the masses in the Middle East

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ON MONDAY night, French President Emmanuel Macron used a televised address to the nation to try and head off the insurrectionary wave sweeping the...

Forward to the State of Palestine – from the river to the sea –...

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IN a telephone conversation yesterday, President Mahmoud Abbas and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the latest developments in Palestine, especially in light of...

Re-nationalise the energy suppliers – the only way to end preventable deaths

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FIGURES released this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show a dramatic increase in the number of preventable deaths among the elderly...

Ukraine workers defy imperialism and Stalinism!

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THE News Line salutes the bravery and heroism of the Ukrainian working class who defied all the threats, intimidation and murderous attacks by forces...

Lammy Wants To Undermine The Right To Trial By Jury!

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JUSTICE SECRETARY David Lammy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing rape,...

Corbyn’s Programme Without The Working Class Taking Power Is A Reformist Fairytale

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JEREMY Corbyn launched the Labour Party’s Manifesto for the upcoming general election yesterday claiming it is ‘a manifesto for hope that will bring real...

US-UK rescues ISIS fighters from Raqqa – no doubt they will now be sent...

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PM MAY made crystal clear yesterday that Russia is the main enemy of crisis-wracked UK imperialism. In fact, Tory newspapers have been making it...

Trade unions must take action to defend state pension!

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ON WEDNESDAY the Tory Work and Pensions Secretary, David Gauke, cynically used the fact that parliament was closing down for the holidays to announce...

Ludicrous Cameron claims Tories are the workers’ party

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CAMERON began his election manifesto speech yesterday morning by insulting the intelligence of the listeners by stating ‘We are the party of working people,...

Unite’s ‘line in the sand’ must be enforced with strike action and occupations

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ONE of the leaders of Unite, the country’s largest union, yesterday stated that: ‘A line in the sand over further privatisation of the NHS...

The way to peace in the Ukraine is to restore the Soviet Union!

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THE MAYOR of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, has split the Ukrainian leadership over the issue of Russian sovereignty over the Crimea. Rejecting President Zelensky’s refusal to...

UK Trade Unions And Unions Worldwide Must Take Action Against Israel!

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229 Arab and international human rights organisations and networks have strongly condemned the assassination of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, after she...

Sunak extends furlough as Bank of England prints another £50 billion to try and...

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that the furlough scheme will be extended until the end of March next year, with the government continuing...

Johnson wants Labour to junk the unions!

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LABOUR’S Shadow Chancellor has declared that it is time for the Labour Party to completely dump the union bloc vote in future leadership elections. Johnson,...

UK workers are weighed down by debt while landlords are fattened on £21bn of...

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LENIN, in his work ‘Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism’, wrote about one of the most important connections between the imperialist drive for colonies...

Poroshenko crushed in elections – forward to Ukrainian workers taking back power and returning...

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THE WORKERS and small farmers of Ukraine dealt a crushing blow to the right-wing oligarchs and to the EU and US imperialism when they...

Trade Unions must stop the New Year mass sackings with a general strike

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UNEMPLOYMENT is set to rocket, over and just after Christmas, when up to 100,000 public sector workers are to get their redundancy notices so...

Call for Labour to ‘shake off the unions’

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THE election of a Tory government has seen the class war sharpened to explosion point. Already new anti-union laws have been announced that will...

Sunak’s speech a declaration of war on workers to make them pay for the...

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TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his speech to the Tory Party conference yesterday pledged to ‘double down’ on his plans to resuscitate drowning British...

Brown Loves Bankers But Attacks Single Parents

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AT the same time as the Brown government continues to spend hundreds of billions to ‘preserve’ the bankers and the capitalist system, his government...

Labour gives support to Tories’ austerity cuts

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Two reports this week bring home that the reality facing millions of workers and their families under this rotten, bankrupt British capitalist system is...

Bring Down The Tories! UK Must Not Support Trump’s War On Syria!

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RUSSIA will take all political, diplomatic and military retaliatory measures if necessary should the United States deliver a strike on Syria, Russian State Duma...

BJP defeated in regional election as India’s masses turn on Modi!

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INDIA’S prime minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing BJP party suffered a massive political defeat at the hands of voters in West Bengal on...

Osborne furious over ‘back to the 1930s’ taunt

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THE Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, was described in the bourgeois press as being ‘rattled’ by the news coverage of his Autumn Statement. In fact, ‘rattled’...

Labour Party leaders knife Corbyn to prepare way for National Government with...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer suspended his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party over his remarks on Thursday about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn’s...

UK, US And EU Workers Must Take General Strike Action To Aid The Palestinians...

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PHILIPPE Lazzarini, Commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), reported on Saturday that over 75,000 Palestinians have been...

Cameron Poses As The Soldiers’ Friend

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THE government is to write into law for the first time the principles of a ‘military covenant’, which will give members of the navy,...

TUC shocked that Tories break their promises!

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THE TUC leadership reacted with shock when Theresa May made it quite clear that she had absolutely no intention of fulfilling her pledge to...

UK carriers are ready to be deployed against the Houthis. UK workers must kick...

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THE UK’s aircraft carriers are ready to be deployed to fight the Houthis, and to threaten war with the Iranian revolution, was the message...

Worldwide Capitalist Crisis Requires The Victory Of The World Socialist Revolution!

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YESTERDAY saw a massive escalation in the world trade war when the US was given the green light by the World Trade Organisation (WTO)...

Christoulas makes his call for REVOLUTION!

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A 77-YEAR-old Greek pensioner penned his political testament on Wednesday, before he blew his brains out in front of the Greek parliament, a parliament...

US-UK set to leave Afghanistan in shame

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THE US is set to leave Afghanistan with its tail between its legs like a beaten dog, after Afghan officials said yesterday that the...

Make sure you attend the ‘Save Ealing Hospital, Save the NHS Conference!’

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THE conference called tomorrow by the West London Council of Action and the All Trades Unions Alliance has come at a critical time. This week...

US facing complete humiliation in Afghanistan!

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US Secretary of State John Kerry has had to make an emergency trip to Afghanistan where the much vaunted democratic...

Brown orders troop retreat from Basra City

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BRITISH troops retreated from Basra City, quitting their base in the Presidential Palace on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab waterway in the dead...

Bulgarians Hit Out At Cameron

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THE President of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev, has correctly rebuked Tory leader Cameron for peddling nationalism and isolationism. It is ironic that the UK – which...

‘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...

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...

Tory Party On The Rocks!

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THE Survation poll for the Mail on Sunday shows that UKIP, with turncoat Tory MP Carswell as their candidate, will win the October Clacton...

Tories Bringing In New Police State Powers For Use Against Workers And The Trade...

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THE LAW Courts are to get new police state powers to be used against striking trade unionists and protesting workers. The powers will stop the...

An all-out assault on the working class and the poor

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TORY attempts to convince the working class, the middle class and the poor that the ‘recovery’ has begun and things are looking better, are...

Eurozone meltdown!

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THE European Central Bank (ECB) monthly policy meeting took place in Naples last Thursday under riot conditions. While Europe’s financial movers and shakers met in...