THE GREAT MINERS STRIKE 1984-85 – PART FIVE: Support for WRP...
NOVEMBER 1984 opened with a miners’ special delegate conference endorsing a plan to widen the dispute throughout the labour and trade union movement. That demand...
‘IT’S A DISGRACE THAT OUR GOVERNMENT IS REFUSING TO CONDEMN THE...
Tens of thousands of people across the UK took part last Saturday in demonstrations against the murderous Israeli bombardment of Lebanon. Eleven rallies...
PROTECT OUR TRAINING, PROTECT OUR NHS! – Doctors march against MTAS
Over 12,000 junior doctors and supporters, including medical students, registrars and a number of consultants, marched through central London last Saturday against government ‘reforms’...
Picturehouse strikers continue defying sack threat
OVER the weekend, Picturehouse cinema chain BECTU members continued to defy a threat to sack them if they continued their strike action in a...
Abbas rejects Israeli proposal for Confederation with Jordan instead of a...
PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas has rejected Israeli proposals that Palestine be absorbed into Jordan as a confederacy as ‘out of the question’, while Fatah...
Teachers Demand 10% Pay Rise
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference on Monday voted to demand a pay rise of ten per cent or at least £3,000,...
Thousands march in funeral procession of Al-kharroubi
THOUSANDS of Palestinians in the city of al-Bireh in the central occupied West Bank took part in the funeral of 19-year-old Ahmad Nashat Othman...
The Lesson From The NHS Logistics Betrayal
NHS Logistics was taken over by DHL on 1 October – the Blair/Brown government’s first privatisation of an NHS department so far. The supplier of...
Overseas Operations Bill will ‘decriminalise torture’ says Reprieve
THE TORY government has announced that the Overseas Operations Bill will get its second reading in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 23rd September. In...
‘THE LEVEL OF PERSONAL DEBT IS FRIGHTENING’ – Unison and PCS...
A joint survey by public sector unions PCS and Unison of more than 10,000 public sector workers, reveals the shocking impact of the government’s...
Only a general strike will stop the attack on workers rights!...
THERE were strong picket lines outside fire stations throughout England and Wales between 10am-2pm on Wednesday afternoon, as the Fire Brigades Union held its...
Prosecute Gorbachev For Ussr Break-Up!
WITH a view to possible action against former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, a group of MPs representing both majority and opposition parties have asked...
‘WHO KILLED OUR LOVED ONES – THE POLICE’ –declares Families and...
‘WE want justice now!’ shouted over six hundred taking part in the United Friends and Families annual procession from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street...
KICK OUT THE PRIVATEERS! say NHS Together marchers
FIFTEEN thousand health workers and trade unionists from schools, local councils and other public services – as well as local residents fighting hospital closures...
BARNET COUNCIL TO SCRAP ITS HOUSING REGISTER –Housing the homeless will...
TORY-controlled Barnet Council in north London has announced plans to scrap its housing register. At the Council’s Cabinet on June 21, the Cabinet Member for...
Russian workers smash counter-revolutionary coup attempt!
PRESENTLY, world imperialism is attempting to enforce its presence and its influence in the different parts of the globe. The bloody aggression against Libya...
27 International organisations condemn Israeli ‘mass murder’ of Palestinians
A JOINT statement by 27 international organisations has called for urgent international action to stop Israeli ‘mass murder’ of Palestinians in Gaza. The Euro-Mediterranean Human...
Trade unions welcome pledges in Labour’s election manifesto!
THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) welcomed pledges made in Labour’s election manifesto. Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: ‘Labour’s pledges to end the...
‘Civil resistance’ launched in Mexico – after one million march against...
THE opposition Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) has launched a campaign of ‘civil resistance’, after more than one million Mexicans rallied on Sunday to denounce...
FBU launch DECON campaign to protect against toxic fire contaminants
Fire contaminants are directly linked to and can increase the risk of cancer and other diseases. The FBU has launched its new trailblazing campaign...
‘British workers should take action in support of Bani Walid!’
OVER a hundred Libyans living in Britain demonstrated outside Downing Street on Wednesday demanding that the bloody assault on Bani Walid be stopped. One of...
Hezbollah condemns Israel’s occupation of additional Syrian territories
‘THE ISRAELI entity’s occupation of additional Syrian territories and targeting of military capabilities there constitutes a dangerous and strongly condemned act of aggression,’ Hezbollah...
CHARGE GERMANY WITH FACILITATING GENOCIDE BY ARMING ISRAEL – ICJ at...
THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague held preliminary hearings on Monday on the case filed on 1st March by Nicaragua against...
SAVE OUR SURGERIES! –say 3,000 east London marchers
THREE thousand doctors, NHS staff, patients and supporters last Saturday marched from Aldgate to London Fields in east London. The march was organised to protest...
GM Latin American workers meet in Sao Paulo!
WORKERS from General Motors plants across Latin America met in São Paulo, Brazil, last week to discuss and take action against workforce casualisation within...
5,000 Deaths A Year Linked To Asbestos Exposure!
FIVE thousand deaths every year in Britain are linked to past asbestos exposure, but people are still being exposed to it today, warns the...
Oakland longshoremen march against Trump!
ON the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, many Americans wrung their hands. Some took to social media to express their discontent while others protested....
Palestinian doctor on hunger strike in Maghaberry prison has been joined...
BY FRA HUGHES IN WEST BELFAST BRITAIN has been involved in duplicity and skulduggery in Palestine from the secret signing of the Balfour agreement in...
UN releases database of companies supporting illegal Israeli settlements
THE Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has welcomed this week’s release of the United Nations database of companies involved in supporting Israeli settlements. ‘We welcome the...
‘Child poverty is on the rise–the effects can last a lifetime’...
‘The State of Education: Poverty, the Pandemic and Recovery’ is the title of a devastating new NEU (National Education Union) survey of 10,000+ school...
‘Renew the Intifada in West Bank’ – says Haniya
IN A speech in Gaza to mark on the second anniversary of the prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya,...
Hezbollah Thanks Iran For Its Aid To Lebanon!
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has thanked Iran for helping Lebanon weather its economic crisis, saying the Islamic Republic has proven to be...
Unison Promotes Divisive Pensions Deal
Heather Wakefield, UNISON National Secretary, Local Government Service Group, last Wednesday rushed a circular out to branches. This contained campaign materials to demand the same...
Nasrallah Hails Chavez For Expelling The Israeli Ambassador
AFTER taking part in the Ashura procession in Beirut’s southern suburb to mark the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, hundreds of thousands gathered to listen...
Zane Gbangbola–tragically killed by Hydrogen Cyanide – implications for Grenfell toxicity...
News Line is pleased to reproduce a heartbreaking and moving account of a single family’s call for justice and their support for the families...
Cardiff University intends to slash and burn 400 full-time jobs and...
CARDIFF University has announced that it intends to cut 400 full-time jobs, along with whole course closures and department mergers; with nursing, music and...
Teachers Hostility To Government Policy Has Soared
Teacher hostility to the government and its policies has increased dramatically in recent months, according to a YouGov survey of 804 teachers, which was...
Handsworth GPs praised for helping bus crash victims
GPs at Handsworth Medical Practice have been praised for their efforts helping victims of a bus crash at Highams Park in North East London...
Fonseka arrest deepens crisis of Sri Lankan ruling class
THE split in the Sri Lankan ruling class has deepened with the arrest of General Fonseka who led the military campaign which killed tens...
‘WE WILL KEEP THE MAIL CENTRE IN CREWE OPEN’ insists local...
Up to 700 Crewe postal workers, their families and supporters braved the rain on Saturday for a march and rally in the town in...
21 miners killed in Balochistan in the 1st half of January
The Pakistan Central Mines Labour Federation (PCMLF) and the All-Pakistan Central Mines Labour Federation (APLF) jointly held a manifestation on January 13 at the...
United Autoworkers Union strike authorisation vote this week!
The UAW (United Autoworkers Union) which represents over 48,000 graduate student workers in the University of California system, will hold a strike authorisation vote...
NUMSA to challenge NEASA lock-out!
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) says it has ‘every intention’ of mounting a court challenge to the lock-out by the...
Mexican trade unions confronted by armed police
WORKERS attempting to hold a free and democratic unionisation vote at a Mexican silver mine owned by Canadian mining company Excellon Resources were confronted...
ISLAND OF SHAME: The secret history of the US Military Base...
‘ABSOLUTELY must go!’ were the three words Admiral Elmo Zumwalt gave to US navy officials on Diego Garcia, concerned about the expulsion of Chagossians...