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...

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...

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...

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...

THE BANK of England has raised interest rates to their highest levels in almost 15 years. The base rate has risen from 4.25% to 4.5%...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

WHILE the British government remains as silent as the grave over the continuing slaughter of Palestinians by the racist Israeli government, and while the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ASLEF members working as drivers for over a dozen train operators will strike this Friday 12th May, and then again on Wednesday 31st May...

‘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...

The European Union heavily sanctioned Russia and pledged to boycott its oil, yet continues to buy it, and at an even higher price, albeit...

WORKERS WILL be astonished to learn that Labour leader Keir Starmer, on Saturday, just after the council elections wrote a commentary for the Daily...

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...

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...

LABOUR PARTY leader Starmer said yesterday the Labour Party is on track to win the next general election, after taking control of key councils...

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...

THE US economy, the largest and most powerful capitalist economy in the world, is in the grip of a crisis that will plunge America...

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...

‘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...

On the fifth day of strikes this year, thousands of teachers, students, and supporters marched in London on Tuesday to call for improved working...

IN ITS WEDNESDAY EDITORIAL the Daily Telegraph sought to shed crocodile tears for the striking health workers who are continuing to battle against the...

‘Capitalism is bankrupt worldwide and has to be brought down. In Britain there is a massive strike wave and the working class is crying...

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...

THOUSANDS of teachers, students, and supporters gathered in London yesterday on the fifth day of strikes this year, organised by the National Education Union...

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...

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...

THE Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has issued a warning that the Israeli military raids and Israeli...

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...

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...