Monthly Archives: May 2023
FORMER State Prosecutor Starmer, who has worked tirelessly to keep whistleblower Julian Assange in jail, has given advance warning of just what he intends to do to the working class when he forms his projected Lib-Lab government with a mission – that of saving British capitalism from the raging...
AMERICAN lawmakers have introduced a bill to prohibit the United States from normalising diplomatic relations with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, and to levy further sanctions on the regional countries resuming their ties with Damascus, after Syria’s readmission to the Arab League. The bill seeks to bar ‘any federal government...
THE UNITED Kingdom’s supply of long-range missiles to the Kiev regime will demand an appropriate response from the Russian military, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. He pointed out that the Kremlin had taken London’s move to send long-range missiles to Kiev ‘quite negatively’.
‘It will demand an appropriate...
STRIKING ASLEF pickets were at Kings Cross Station yesterday morning on the first of three one day strike actions. They are extremely angry over the four per cent pay offer this year and four per cent next year because the companies made the second offer dependent on changes to working...
YESTERDAY, the Bank of England hiked interest rates up to 4.5%, the twelfth consecutive increase in a row, pushing up borrowing costs to the highest level since October 2008. The rationale behind these increases is that they are necessary to bring down inflation by making debt more expensive, giving people...
FRENCH union federation Force Ouvriere congratulated workers for their May Day action. It said: ‘2.3 million young people, employees and retirees marched all over France, making this May 1, 2023 one of the most important in our social history. ‘A hundred trade unionists from the 5 continents joined our Parisian demonstration...
THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced a new strike ballot which will ask members employed by the NHS in England if they’re prepared to take further strike action in response to the UK government’s pay offer for 2022/23 and 2023/24. The ballot – which will include all members...
ISRAELI WARPLANES struck multiple sites across Gaza early Tuesday, killing three Islamic Jihad military leaders along with several others, with an initial total of 12 fatalities. Unnamed ‘security officials’ said ‘that they expect some military response from Hamas and that another round of fighting – lasting at least a few days –...
WHILE the British government remains as silent as the grave over the continuing slaughter of Palestinians by the racist Israeli government, and while the Labour Party opposition looks the other way, Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin has reacted to the Israeli killing of 15 Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday,...
SOUTH Africa’s Health and Allied Workers Indaba Trade Union is relieved that deadly electricity blackouts have stopped in all health-care facilities. The Health and Allied Workers Indaba Trade Union (Haitu) is relieved that the North Gauteng High Court has ordered the South African government to stop load shedding (power blackouts)...
THE TUC yesterday published an analysis that showed that 5.5 million workers in England, Scotland and Wales would have their right to strike threatened by the Tories’ Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill which had its third reading in the House of Lords yesterday before returning to the Commons to...
THE TUC warned yesterday that the right to strike of 1-in-5 workers in Britain is at risk because of the Tory government’s Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill. New analysis published by the union body shows that 5.5 million workers in England, Scotland and Wales could be affected by the legislation....
The German economy ministry plans to subsidise 80 per cent of the electricity cost for energy-intensive companies, in a proposal likely to fuel divisions inside the governing coalition government and further alienate European nations who cannot afford such measures. Under a proposal published by Green economy minister Robert Habeck, a...
THE MELTDOWN in the Tory vote in last Thursday’s local elections has sent a massive wave of despair throughout Tory MPs and the Tory-supporting press, with The Daily Telegraph editorial yesterday headlining: ‘Local results spell disaster for Tories’ and proclaiming that the Tories ‘urgently need a new narrative to...
‘SOMETHING out of a police state,’ was how Republic director Harry Stratton described the way in which London’s Metropolitan Police arrested 52 anti-monarchy protesters during Saturday’s coronation. Protesters wearing yellow T-shirts arrived in Trafalgar Square early in the morning and were arrested while booing and shouting ‘Not My King’. At around...
The European Union heavily sanctioned Russia and pledged to boycott its oil, yet continues to buy it, and at an even higher price, albeit indirectly. India is importing record levels of discounted Russian crude, purchasing it in currencies other than the dollar. India then refines the Russian oil and exports...
WORKERS WILL be astonished to learn that Labour leader Keir Starmer, on Saturday, just after the council elections wrote a commentary for the Daily Telegraph to announce that Charles III is the answer to the pleas of the British working class for effective leadership. He wrote: ‘Campaigning across the country...
FRENCH trade union federation, the CGT, says a new day of action is scheduled for June 6 at the call of the inter-union, which asks workers to maintain a rolling fire of initiatives and actions in companies and public services. Over two million people took to the streets of France...
EARLY results in local council elections in England have seen Labour and the Liberal Democrats gain key councils at the expense of the Conservatives. Labour won control in Plymouth, Medway and Stoke-on-Trent – a former Labour stronghold which saw Tory MPs win in the 2019 general election. Lib Dems won control...
LABOUR PARTY leader Starmer said yesterday the Labour Party is on track to win the next general election, after taking control of key councils in the English local elections, including Medway, Plymouth and Stoke-on-Trent. Based on results counted early on Friday morning, the Labour leader said the party was heading...
RUSSIA is considering various options to respond to Kiev’s attempted drone attack on the Kremlin, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters yesterday. Moscow is well aware that Kiev selects both the means and targets of attacks only at the direct orders of Washington, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He added:...
THE US economy, the largest and most powerful capitalist economy in the world, is in the grip of a crisis that will plunge America into a massive recession as the Democrats and Republicans are engaged in a drawn out struggle over increasing the country’s debt ceiling. The deadlock is over...
PALESTINE Action campaigners have laid siege to a factory in Leicester which is the base of UAV Tactical Systems, owned by Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms firm. The siege was launched on May Day and by Wednesday 33 protesters had been arrested. A statement by the group on Tuesday said: ‘Leicestershire...
‘DRACONIAN’ new laws have been rushed in by the Tories ahead of Saturday’s coronation and a letter described by lawyers as ‘intimidatory’, has been sent to anti-monarchy groups by the Home Office’s Police Powers Unit. The new clauses to the Public Order Bill were given royal assent by Charles on...
On the fifth day of strikes this year, thousands of teachers, students, and supporters marched in London on Tuesday to call for improved working conditions, equitable pay, and a reversal of the ongoing underfunding of education. The demonstration, organised by the National Education Union (NEU), commenced at the London Eye...
IN ITS WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL the Daily Telegraph sought to shed crocodile tears for the striking health workers who are continuing to battle against the Tory plan to pauperise them, before the ruling class proceeds to privatise the NHS, and put an end to the great gain that the working...
‘Capitalism is bankrupt worldwide and has to be brought down. In Britain there is a massive strike wave and the working class is crying out for a general strike to bring down the Tories. Forward to world revolution!’ Workers Revolutionary Party General Secretary Frank Sweeney declared on May Day. Over...
THE BANKING crash has continued, with First Republic being the third US bank to collapse within three months. First Republic was taken over by the giant US investment bank JP Morgan in a deal hastily rushed through on Monday. This followed the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in...
THOUSANDS of teachers, students, and supporters gathered in London yesterday on the fifth day of strikes this year, organised by the National Education Union (NEU). Assembling in front of the London Eye, the protesters marched toward the Department of Education, accompanied by healthcare workers, students, and other supporters. In an interview...
THERE was a powerful May Day March from Clarkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square yesterday with more than 10,000 trade unionists, workers, youth and students demonstrating and demanding: Kick the Tories out! There were trade union banners from RMT Paddington, Piccadilly and District Line, Met and Jubilee, and Finsbury Park. There were...
LASHAWN Thompson, a 28-years-old black inmate, was found dead in his cell in an Atlanta jail with more than one thousand insect bites all over his body. His corpse was discovered in a filthy psychiatric jail cell in September. He had been completely ignored by the medical staff. The United States...
THE Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has issued a warning that the Israeli military raids and Israeli settler violence in the the occupied West Bank is driving forward a new, full-blown Intifada (uprising) which is on the point of eruption. Ahmad Sa’adat stressed...
Conference Education Fund says hate crimes in the United States are likely to spike ahead of the 2024 election. The report said: ‘From the mainstreaming of hate and the failure of social media platforms to adequately address disinformation, the current climate is rife with opportunities for the trend of increased...
STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class, the youth and the poor throughout the world who are rising up in revolutionary confrontation against a bankrupt capitalist system which is in its death agony, and is gripped...