Saftu Set To Call National Shut-Down
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions – and unions affiliated with the federation – applied pressure to companies employing their members last Thursday,...
Bakers pay battle while jobs in Cork and Shannon under threat
NEARLY 130 workers are facing the sack at Shannon Airport while almost 200 others are to be laid off for three months without pay...
Prestigious universities using ‘gig economy’ practices
University and College Union (UCU) has released a report today, (Wednesday 31), which finds that around two-thirds (66 per cent) of research staff are...
Marx And The Permanent Revolution
BY MIKE DRIVER PART ONE: ‘Fraternity found its true unadulterated and prosaic expression in the war of Labour against capital’ AS French and European workers...
London Met Governors Must Resign Now!
HUNDREDS of students and lecturers demonstrated outside the meeting of the Board of Governors of London Metropolitan University on Tuesday night, demanding: ‘RESIGN NOW!’ Calling the demonstration,...
Iranian President Visits Kabul And Sco Meeting
THE strengthening of regional treaties is a key factor to prevent the promotion of a unipolar system of domination by the US, and would...
Tens Of Thousands March For Mousavi
TENS of thousands of supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi staged a ‘silent’ protest rally in Tehran on Wednesday against the...
Israel escalates bombings & starvation campaign in Gaza!
The Israeli occupation army (IOF) continued carrying out deadly attacks on different areas of the Gaza Strip, killing and injuring dozens of civilians. Israeli forces...
Australia Governor General meets President Abbas for the first time
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas received the Governor General of Australia, David Hurley, and his accompanying delegation at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah on Wednesday, during...
NATIONALISE THE BUSES! – demand London bus strikers
‘THE BUSES should be renationalised. They should put the companies under one name then everybody will have the same rights,’ Unite member Michael Wood...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘No better conditions could...
Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction by MOISSAYE J OLGIN THE essay, ‘The Proletariat and the Revolution’, was published at the close of...
NUT delegates hear Serwotka condemn ‘worst ever government’
NATIONAL Union of Teachers leader Christine Blower has reacted to the remarks of Education Secretary Ed Balls, who addressed the NUT’s conference in...
Stop Bombing Syria! 10,000 March In Central London!
‘STOP bombing Syria! Welfare not warfare! David Cameron shame on you! Hilary Benn shame on you!’ shouted crowds at the end of a 10,000-strong...
Fire rips through Greek refugee camp
A FIRE has ripped through one of Greece’s largest refugee camps after the death of an Iraqi woman sparked an uprising. The blaze late on...
Release All Political Prisoners In Turkey
TWENTY-FOUR rights groups have called on Turkey to release all those arbitrarily detained and imprisoned there simply for demanding basic human rights – and...
Portuguese fuel strike into 2nd week! Army deployed as strike breakers....
FUEL DRIVERS in Portugal are continuing their strike, now entering its second week, as the Portuguese government called a state of emergency, deploying the...
Safety must be mandatory! – Australian maritime workers step up action...
ON Wednesday, 18 June, Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) members will take action in Sydney to draw attention to the safety crisis in stevedoring. The...
Savage cuts causing ‘chaos’ at london met university – warn UCU
‘THE chaotic scenes during enrolment say it all: we lost over 350 jobs last year and you can already see the difference,’ said the...
GPs angry at cuts and NHS privatisation
GPs meeting in London on Thursday reacted angrily to the government’s cuts and drive to privatise, and press and government propaganda blaming GPs for...
Brown refuses to meet Chagossians
The News Line is pleased to publish two important letters. These concern the decision of the Court of Appeal to uphold the decision of...
‘BEYOND THE MARKET’–‘BACK TO FOUNDING PRINCIPLES’ – say BMA, Unison and...
THE NHS would become both more cost-effective and equitable if it were operated on its founding principle of co-operation rather than competition, said a...
‘MUBARAK, MUBARAK THE PLANE AWAITS’ – Egyptian masses tell president to...
Tens of thousands of defiant Egyptians occupying Cairo’s Tahriri (Liberation) Square chanted ‘Mubarak, Mubarak, the plane awaits’ on the sixth day of their people’s...
Saudi Arabian anger at government gas price hikes!
SAUDI Arabians have taken to the social networking services, venting their anger at the government for hiking domestic gas prices and introducing value added...
Cosatu plans October 7 ‘national shutdown’
THE CONFEDERATION of South African trade unions (Cosatu) is planning a nationwide shutdown next week, and has announced that its affiliated workers will not...
Russian forces have taken control of half of the eastern Ukrainian...
RUSSIAN forces have taken control of half a key industrial city in eastern Ukraine, as they continue an unrelenting push deeper into the Donbass region. A...
The Palestinian resistance stands firm on the battlefield
THE head of Hamas’ political bureau says the Palestinian resistance stands ‘firm on the battlefield’ despite two and a half months of Israeli war...
Thousands of homes wrapped in dangerous cladding
THE NAO (National Audit Office) report on dangerous cladding confirms our worst fears, says the Fire Brigades Union (FBU). The NAO published its report, Dangerous...
CPSU suspends its election campaign
AUSTRALIA'S Community and Public Sector Union leaders voted on Monday to extend the suspension of all CPSU election campaigning. The union called for an urgent...
PALESTINE WILL BE FREE! – Message from PALEXPO July 6th &...
THOUSANDS turned out over the weekend and packed the main auditorium sections at the Olympia Stadium, London for the PALEXPO exhibition to boost the...
INDIA GIVES GO-AHEAD TO ‘ELIMINATE LTTE’ – claims Sri Lankan Premier
IN his recent addres to the Oxford Union, Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa tried to assert, very unconvincingly, that he did not believe...
‘This will be the year of finishing the US presence in...
In his first audio recording since the fall of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on 9th April 2003, Izzat al-Duri, Iraqi vice-president, declared that...
Over 5,500 children killed by Israel in Gaza by World Children’s...
IT WAS World Children’s Day on Monday, when it emerged that at least 5,500 children have been killed in Gaza since October 7th. According to...
US teachers, farmers and health workers fighting for pay, jobs and...
Educators in Dublin, California were on strike on Tuesday after no deal was made between the teachers union and the school district on Monday...
South African Social Development workers strike
ON WEDNESDAY March 22, 2017 South Africa’s National Education Health & Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) had an extensive negotiating meeting with the Department...
Furious Workers Force Bell Town Officials To Resign
Furious workers in the town of Bell in California have forced their city manager and police chief to resign over a scandal in which...
DRIVE THE PRIVATEERS OUT OF THE NHS! – demands demonstration of...
LOCAL residents, trade unions and doctors have joined together to fight the privatisation of the National Health Service in Tower Hamlets. Two hundred people staged...
ELDERLY MADE ILL WITH POVERTY AND ANXIETY –finds Help the Aged...
One in four older people in the UK have become so worried about the future that they are making themselves ill, according to the...
World leaders spectacularly failing 21 million refugees says Amnesty
WORLD leaders are spectacularly failing refugees, says Amnesty International UK in its latest report Tackling Global World Refugee Crisis – from Shirking to Shared...
Britain’s secret work on Bahrain’s death row
BRITAIN’S secretive work at a death-row jail in Bahrain is being challenged by international human rights group Reprieve. The UK Foreign Office paid almost a...
Ira End Armed Struggle!
The IRA yesterday announced the end of its armed struggle against British imperialism. The IRA statement said: ‘The leadership of Oglaigh na hEireann has formally...
Nurses’ Pay Cut By Instalments Is ‘Not Acceptable’
OVER ten thousand nurses have bombarded MPs with letters protesting at this year’s pay cut for nurses and other health care workers. It comes...
Eight Years Since The Marikana Massacre Of 34 Miners
YESTERDAY, South Africa marked the anniversary of one of the darkest moments in its history – when police officials opened fire on striking Lonmin...
Israel attacking Palestinian health services
HEALTH attacks by Israelis against Palestinians persist in the occupied territories during Covid-19 pandemic, says the World Health Organisation. In 2020 alone, the World Health...
‘WE SHALL NOT REMAIN QUIET ABOUT UGLY CRIMES!’ – Abbas condemns...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas has said that ‘We shall be taking the case of the martyrdom of the youth Muhammad Abu-Khudayr to all international...
Record settlement building under Netanyahu
THE government of Israel under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has advanced a ‘record’ number of settlements during its nearly four years in office, a...