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Palestinians set conditions in ‘stormy’ session with Israel

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PALESTINIANS set seven conditions for talks in a ‘stormy’ session with Israel last week. The session of ‘saving the negotiations,’ held in Jerusalem for around...

FBU condemns plan for firefighters to be sent into fires with...

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THE Fire Brigades Union has formally reported two fire and rescue services to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and identified several others, in...

Hague judges order Israel to guarantee the food supplies for Palestinians...

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In a landmark ruling at The Hague, judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have unanimously ordered Israel to take immediate and effective...

IRISH WORKERS SHARE BURDEN OF ECONOMIC CRISIS – says Irish Congress...

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THE one per cent economic crisis levy on the wages of every worker in the Irish Budget was described as ‘a crude instrument that...

South African joblessness rises to 27.6%

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SOUTH Africa’s unemployment rate has risen to its highest level since the third quarter of 2017 to 27.6% at the end of the first...

International Paramedics Day at Camp4Palestine

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INTERNATIONAL Paramedics Day 2025 is being marked at the Camp4Palestine opposite the US Embassy in London tonight at 6.30pm and will be featuring a...

BRING DOWN THE BROWN GOVERNMENT! FORWARD TO A WORKERS GOVERNMENT! –message...

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OVER 100 trade unionists, workers and youth attended the News Line – All Trades Unions Alliance meeting in Red Lion Square in Central London...

New Egyptian Protest Law Will Be Used To Ban Demonstrations And...

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THE DRAFT Protest Law to regulate the right to peaceful assembly, issued by Egyptian Interim President Adly Mansour on Sunday, has been widely criticised...

Palestinian PM Denounces Pompeo’s Declaration!

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PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has denounced US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s declaration that the US no longer considers the Israeli settlements in...

Saftu Marches For Better Wages And Working Conditions!

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THE South African Federation of Trade Unions – and unions affiliated with the federation – has applied pressure to companies employing their members, with...

‘Israel’s continuation of its hideous war on Gaza … will lead...

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JORDAN’S King Abdullah II said yesterday the international community should push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to stop the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe caused...

South African unions reject ANC budget and IMF; ‘Divorced from...

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THE South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Wednesday rejected the budget of the ANC led coalition for a second time. SAFTU stated: ‘SAFTU...

Eight Years Since The Marikana Massacre Of 34 Miners

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YESTERDAY, South Africa marked the anniversary of one of the darkest moments in its history – when police officials opened fire on striking Lonmin...

Recognise The State Of Palestine Now!

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Continued from lead story The first speaker at the London Rally for Palestine in Whitehall opposite Downing Street at the end of last...

‘CHARGE ISRAEL WITH WAR CRIMES’ – Abbas condemned for not doing...

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THE fact that Acting Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has not filed any lawsuits charging Israel with war crimes is a condemnable act, said a...

Abbas Predicts ‘Hamas Digging Its Own Grave’

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THE Palestinian Information Centre, the website of Hamas, last Friday posted a statement by Hamas denouncing PNA President Mahmud Abbas’s speech...

Italian All-Out Strike!

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A 24-HOUR general strike paralysed Italian towns and cities on Monday, while 127 Alitalia flights were cancelled and public transport ground to a halt. The...

COSATU concerned at Goodyear plant closure

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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Eastern Cape said on Thursday that is deeply concerned by the impending closure of...

NHS trade unions ‘strongly oppose local pay’

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On Thursday, NHS trade unions declared they ‘strongly oppose’ local pay. NHS trade unions warned that a move to local pay for NHS staff would...

‘ANSWER “GLOBALISATION” WITH WORLD REVOLUTION’ – News Line editor tells Trotsky...

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MORE than 300 youth and workers filled the News Line Anniversary rally at the Park Crescent Conference Centre in central London on Sunday, celebrating...

Ssangyong Workers Battle Korean Police

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Hundreds of South Korean riot police on Tuesday clashed with laid-off workers who have occupied part of Ssangyong Motor Co’s only assembly plant for...

STATE SCHOOLS ‘£3bn SAVINGS’ = MOST SAVAGE CUTS EVER!

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STATE schools in England will have to find £3bn in ‘savings’ (ie savage cuts and sackings) by 2019-20, the public spending watchdog has said. Schools...

MI6 assumed power to break the law on UK soil

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MI6 unilaterally assumed power to break the law on UK soil, a tribunal has found. At the Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Wednesday, it was revealed...

Unite and PCS join forces to fight ‘coalition savagery’

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TWO million workers in the UK are joining together to fend off savage attacks on working people and their families. That was the message from...

‘IRAN HAS PROVEN THAT IT IS HIGHLY CAPABLE OF RESISTING AGGRESSION’...

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THE ex-Iranian president and current chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, has spoken up about the crisis that the US is seeking...

EU imposes financial crisis on the Palestinians

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FACING an imposed ‘suffocating financial crisis,’ Palestinian officials have made no immediate comment yet on an EU decision on Tuesday to suspend 35 million...

‘Overthrow the EU – Replace it with the Socialist United States...

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‘TROTSKY wrote about the prospects of the European capitalists uniting Europe,’ Dave Wiltshire, National Secretary of the All Trades Union Alliance told the YS/WRP...

CWU will not stand forLabour Party betrayal over Royal Mail privatisation

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THE Communication Workers Union will collect petitions and raise public awareness of the threats to privatise Royal Mail when it descends on Corby Town...

Major Privatisation Drive In North Of Ireland

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UNISON has called on the Public Accounts Committee and the Assembly Health Committee to investigate the startling growth of private medicine funded out of...

RELEASE NAZMUL HUDA! – first journalist to report on the Rana...

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REPORTERS Without Borders (RSF) call for the immediate release of Nazmul Huda, a reporter who was arrested on 24 December 2016 because of his...

Junior Doctors Slam ‘Shambolic And Deeply Destructive’ Changes

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Junior doctors are meeting today to discuss what to do about the government’s disastrous ‘reforms’ to post graduate medical training. The British Medical Association...

French Amazon Workers Strike!

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FRENCH trade unions called on Amazon workers to go on strike on Monday, 22 December, less than four days to go before Christmas. Strike...

Some of the biggest US banks have underwritten billions of dollars...

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Some of the United States’ biggest banks have underwritten billions of dollars in Israel bonds, including a substantial amount of $8 billion (£6.4 billion) in March...

Kitson And Counter-Revolution!

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‘Kitson and Counter-Revolution’ was first featured by News Line on 30th April 2015. We are producing it once again because the British state is now preparing...

Paramilitaries Abduct Tamil Girls

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TAMILNET reports that fatigue uniform clad armed men who came in a white van abducted a 16-year-old girl student last Monday night around 11.30...

Anti-union laws being introduced throughout Europe

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TRADE union rights are facing escalating challenges throughout Europe, warns the European Public Service Union (EPSU). In France, a number of trade union activists are...

GET US TROOPS OUT – says mother of dead soldier, as...

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Several hundred people joined an anti-Iraq war protest outside President George W Bush’s holiday ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Sunday, as the American...

NATO kills 2,000 civilians in a week – says Musa Ibrahim

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COLONELl Gadaffi’s spokesman Musa Ibrahim spoke to Damascus-based Al-Ra’y TV at 2014 gmt on 22 September. He said: ‘NATO is playing a very dirty political...

Build sections of the International Committee of the 4th International in...

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Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International IN THE first months of this year, north Africa has seen the eruption of colossal revolutionary...

Sa Workers Take To The Streets

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THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) said last Wednesday 25 April 2018 will be recorded in the history of the South African...

Defend occupied Jerusalem against Israeli attacks!

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An international conference on Al-Quds, last Sunday, highlighted criminal operations perpetrated by the Zionists, concerning Israel’s annexation policy in Jerusalem. The conference organised under...

Goldsmiths Students March In Support Of Council Workers

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MORE than 200 students marched from Goldsmiths College to Lewisham Town Hall on Tuesday evening in solidarity with council workers facing mass sackings and...

GMB and Unite slam the Grenfell Report

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THE GMB union has slammed the failure of the Grenfell Report to tell the full story. The roots of this disaster lay not with the...

‘We’ve just replaced white capitalists with black capitalists’ – NUMSA...

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THE working class and the poor have no good story to tell about how their lives have been changed for the better, National Union...

‘This is Labour’s Poll Tax – No Labour MP who backs...

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OVER 400 disabled people gathered in Parliament Square on Monday 30th June to oppose the bill being put to Parliament yesterday by the Labour...