Monthly Archives: May 2014

TEAMSTERS Union leader James Hoffa stood side by side with the UK’s Unite trade union in Birmingham yesterday mid-day against National Express, the...

LOCAL services including leisure facilities, children’s centres and pothole repairs will be slashed due to funding cuts over the next two years, a survey...

MORE WOMEN and babies will die during childbirth if they are told to give birth at home or in ‘midwife-led birth-ing units’ as opposed...

THE UK government should set up an inquiry into ‘lessons learned’ after troops withdraw from Afghanistan at the end of this year, the MPs...

LIBRARIES, children’s centres, leisure centres and other vital services such as refuse collection and road maintenance will be axed as a result of ...

CAMPAIGNING began on Sunday for Syria’s June 3 presidential election expected to return Bashar al-Assad to power, as the regime marked a ...

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

TWO-HUNDRED workers, trade unionists, students and youth attended the News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance (ATUA) Conference at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, in Holborn,...

THE next Tory government will introduce a threshold on union ballots for strike action. PM Cameron has said: ‘I want a Conservative government to...

THE referendum in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions, seeking independence from the central government was massively supported yesterday. THE referendum in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk...

THE Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition is cracking up, with the latest row breaking out over free schools and school places funding in England, with allies...

THE GMB trade union will hold a public protest at the Annual General Meeting of NEXT in Leicester this Thursday, May15. They will call for...

A SURVEY by the polling company Ipsos MORI has revealed that the NHS is more popular amongst workers and the middle classes than those...

AS RUSSIA celebrated Victory Day over the Nazis with massive parades all over the country, Ukrainian troops using heavy weaponry and tanks in the...

2.5 MILLION children are living in families struggling with ‘problem debt’, said a shocking new report released yesterday. The report, aptly entitled ‘The Dept Trap’,...

PRESIDENT Putin on Wednesday urged Ukrainian workers to postpone their referenda on self-determination. He said: ‘We are calling on representatives of regions in southeastern...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma al-Assad received sons and daughters of martyrs on the occasion of Martyrs’ Day on Tuesday. President al-Assad...

‘THERE still needs to be a full public inquiry into blacklisting and the activities of major construction employers who still to this day restrict...

THE OECD has in effect, accused the Bank of England and the Coalition government of blindly organising another banking disaster, under the cover of...

SOME 300 members of the Athens Ukrainian community, including relatives of the Greek-Pontus minorities in the Ukraine and the Crimea, along with contingents of...

THE government plan to set up a £3.8bn a year fund to amalgamate health and social care, has collapsed and has been ‘postponed’. The...

UNEMPLOYED workers are to be thrown off benefits if they refuse to go on slave labour zero-hours contracts, the government announced yesterday. Employment Minister Esther...

‘JOBSEEKERS’ will lose their benefits, or their Universal Credit when it is introduced, if they turn down zero-hours contracts, the government has said. This new...

While reflecting on a long year of labour struggles at UCSC (University of California Santa Cruz), students looking to the future continued to call...

‘THIS is the last May Day to be stolen. It has been used for electioneering and workers are being fed lies and given promises...

US President, Barak Obama, returned last week from a tour of Asian countries designed to put military flesh on US imperialism’s ‘Asian Pivot’. This military...

THE UK has one of the highest rates of death for children under five in Western Europe, according to new research published in The...

PRESIDENT Putin’s press spokesman Dmitriy Peskov told journalists on Saturday that Moscow was getting thousands of calls from people in Ukraine’s southeast: ‘People...

FIREFIGHTERS were on strike again yesterday between 10am and 3pm over government attacks on their pensions, while Tube workers are due to strike for...

THE UK-US-EU backed counter-revolution is now in full swing in eastern Ukraine, where no deed is too foul for their stormtroopers of the Right...

In a landmark judgment on Friday in the High Court in London, the UK’s detention policy in Afghanistan was declared unlawful. Since November 2009, the...

10,000 WORKERS, trade unionists and youth were on the London May Day March on Thursday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. The march was led...

FIREFIGHTERS taking strike action this weekend are angry that a leaked letter reveals that the government consciously provoked the action rather than negotiate...

SIR Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, is a very worried man – with good reason. What is keeping him awake...

MORE than 20,000 trade unionists, workers and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on London’s May Day yesterday. The march was led by...

THE working class is being left with no alternative by the government than to take general strike action to prevent all of its gains...

NEW figures released on Wednesday show that at least 1.4 million workers in Britain are enduring the modern day form of slave labour exploitation...

MIN MAQBUL, secretary of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, revealed Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas’s intention to visit the Gaza Strip this week in preparation for...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world at a time when the world capitalist...