US Fight Against Low Pay Goes Global!
WORKERS in more than 230 cities in the US walked out to join mass protests against poverty level pay last Wednesday in what is...
‘Painful to see an Israeli plane land in UAE’ says Palestinian...
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has slammed the direct flight of an Israeli plane to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Speaking at the weekly Palestinian...
‘We live in a moment where everything is at stake’ –...
‘WE LIVE in a moment which feels like everything is at stake,’ Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) National President Mark Hancock told convention...
Northern Rail Strike Vote Against Casualisation
RMT members at Northern Rail have voted for strike action against sackings and casualisation.’ In a statement the RMT said: ‘Northern Rail management have run...
Syrian People Stand Fast Against Western-Backed Terrorists
SYRIAN authorities on Monday clashed with an armed terrorist group in al-Zyara area in Idleb, state news agency SANA reported. A source at the Province...
Gaza’s children paralysed in Netanyahu’s genocide!
The Gaza Strip is witnessing a worrying increase in cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP), a rare neurological disorder that strikes children suddenly, causing...
AMERICA FACES ‘DEFINITE AND TERRIFYING DEFEAT’ – says Ba’ath party leader
THE Socialist Arab Ba’ath Party in Iraq has affirmed that the report presented by the two assistants to the American president in Iraq, Ambassador...
The 20 Faces Of Bertie Ahern
BERTIE Ahern quit as the Irish Republic’s Taioseach and Fianna Fail leader on May 6th. Political Journalist JOHN COULTER analyses how he will be...
NO RESCUE FOR CAPITALISM– FORWARD TO THE WORLD SOCIALIST REVOLUTION! –...
THE Labour leaders are terrified the whole capitalist system is going to go, News Line Editor Paddy O’Regan told an audience of 200 youth...
Saudis Will Be Dealt A Historic Blow In Yemen Says Hezbollah!
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said on Friday that Saudi Arabia will be dealt a severe, historic blow in Yemen, stressing that victory...
Numsa Forging Ahead With Month Long Arcelormittal Strike Action
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said last Wednesday that it is forging ahead with a month-long strike at the local...
SAFTU calls on workers to mobilise and unify for a general...
‘SAFTU calls on the working class to mobilise and unify towards the Working Class Summit and the General Strike in August 2022.’ SAFTU said it...
Bolivian unions mobilise against ‘right-wing coup plotters’
FELIPA MONTENEGRO the leader of the Bartolina Sisa Movement, which represents the rights of rural Indigenous women in Bolivia denounced that she and her...
There will be no peace without a Palestinian state – says...
ISRAEL is up to its old tricks, which does not make anyone optimistic about seeing an end to the Middle East conflict, says an...
Turkish workers victory after six month strike!
AROUND 250 members of Turkey’s IndustriALL trade union affiliate Selüloz-Is have won an outstanding victory after being out on strike for six months. Selüloz-Is members...
Greece quarantines Ritsona camp refugees
GREECE has quarantined a refugee camp in the country’s mainland – home to 2,300 people – for at least two weeks after 20 of...
No Fault Evictions – Court Proceedings Up 41%
No-fault eviction court proceedings are up 41% on pre-pandemic levels, homelessness charity Shelter has reported, with new government figures revealing that 5,890 landlords in...
Gas And Fuel Price Hikes ‘Serious Consequences For Millions’
MPs on the House of Commons Business and Enterprise Select Committee have warned that gas and electricity price hikes in the near future will...
Palestinian hunger strikers are fighting for their freedom!
PALESTINIAN prisoners have been hitting the headlines around the world with the escalating wave of hunger strikes for the release of high-profile prisoners in...
Significant increase in Gaza malnutrition cases – UNRWA warns
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has issued a warning about a significant increase in malnutrition cases as Israel’s total blockade of the...
India general strike brings country to a halt!
Workers across India stopped work on Thursday as part of the Bharat Bandh (general strike). They were protesting against labour reforms and economic cuts being...
REMOVE FLAMMABLE CLADDING IMMEDIATELY – demand Fuel Poverty Action campaigners
At a demonstration outside the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government on Wednesday, Fuel Poverty Action handed in a letter to the Secretary...
Iraq calls for Syrian membership of the Arab League to be...
A NUMBER of Arab parliament speakers and senior legislators have arrived in Damascus amid attempts by certain countries, above all Iraq, to restore Syria’s...
US union wins right to boycott Israel
THE UNITED Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) earlier this summer won a major battle in the courts that recognises the UE’s...
Greek Farmers Join The Revolutionary Masses
Over 8,000 tractors and tens of thousands of small farmers have occupied sections of motorways and national roads in central and northern Greece, setting...
Lancaster Students Fight Gag And Victimisation
Six members of Lancaster University are to be granted a rehearing of their trespass conviction on the 13th March 2006. A Support the George Fox...
Big Bike Ride to save Ealing Hospital greeted with cheers and...
THE WEST London Council of Action Big Bike Ride to Save Ealing Hospital on Sunday was a great success. More than two dozen riders with...
Global condemnation of Israel’s onslaught on Lebanon
Israeli strikes killed 558 people in Lebanon on Monday, including 50 children and 94 women, Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad told a press conference...
Palestinian prisoner kept in solitary confinement for eight years!
A PALESTINIAN prisoner who has been in solitary confinement for eight years in Israeli jails has recently been suffering a psychological and neurological disorder,...
‘DON’T GO BREAKING MY ARTS’ – eight unions launch campaign to...
OVER 200 people attended a ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Arts’ rally outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square on Wednesday night. The rally was organised...
PALESTINIAN PILGRIMS RETURN – while Gaza faces health disaster
ISMAIL Haniyeh, the Hamas leader in Gaza, has said that Egypt had ‘not surrendered to blackmail’ when it decided to allow Palestinian pilgrims to...
400,000 strike against Labour pay cuts
Over 400,000 teachers, college lecturers and public and civil servants held a magnificent one-day national strike on Thursday, with a militant turnout on marches...
Greek Students And Teachers Are Determined To Win
TENS of thousands of students took part in two days of action in Greece last Wednesday and Thursday against the government’s proposed Higher Education...
‘WE NEED THE REST OF THE WORKING CLASS BY OUR SIDE’...
YET more mass demonstrations were held on Wednesday in Athens and Salonica by state primary and secondary school teachers and their supporters in the...
‘WE NEED TO DEVELOP AN ENTIRELY NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH UNIONISM’ –...
By Irish political journalist JOHN COULTER IRISH republicans must re-negotiate their political relationship with unionists, the president of the North’s largest nationalist party, Sinn Fein,...
40,000 Boys And Girls Working In The Mines Of The Republic...
AMNESTY International has accused Apple, Samsung and Sony, among others, of failing to do basic checks to ensure minerals used in their products are...
NO WORKER CAN BE JAILED FOR GOING ON STRIKE! – say...
AN Alexandria misdemeanors court on Sunday overturned jail sentences for five workers from the Alexandria Container & Cargo Handling Company. The court had sentenced the...
Tory threat to national NHS pay structure is ‘of huge concern’...
UNISON has reaffirmed its commitment to the One Team campaign for the health service, in the face of the government’s ‘divisive’ actions during the...
‘400,000 people could be plunged into poverty by benefit cuts’
THE CHILD Poverty Action Group and dozens of other charities have called for a 7% hike in benefits in a demand made to coincide...
PNA CLOSES GAZA/EGYPT BORDER – Abbas wants international agreement
THE Gaza Strip-Egypt border will reopen only as part of an international agreement, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said, after Palestinian security forces sealed...
Doctors Still Expected To Care For Covid-19 Patients With Little Or...
Despite repeated assurances by the government for over a week that millions of units of protective equipment have been delivered to the front line,...
Thousands Of Jordanians Take To The Streets As Tunisian Uprising Continues
Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets of Amman and other cities on Friday to protest against soaring commodity prices, unemployment and poverty, calling...
No forced academies – demand teachers unions
THE National Union of teachers (NUT) is utterly opposed to the government’s plan to convert all schools to academies, ending democratic accountability in England’s...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY – ‘The revolution will make...
Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN 7. Internal Forces of the Russian Revolution (Appeared in the New York daily paper...
MASSIVE UCU ACTION! – in defence of pensions
TONY Brown, University and College Union (UCU) president at University College London (UCL), told News Line on the Gower Street picket line yesterday morning:...