A NATIONAL SCANDAL – Help the Aged condemns winter death figure
‘THESE figures are nothing short of a national scandal. It’s obscene that in this day and age more than 25,000 people aged 65 and...
‘Down With The Junta Of The Banks’
ATHENS – Greek workers delivered a powerful first blow to the government’s counter-revolutionary Stability Plan last Wednesday with a magnificent national all public...
World Revolution In 2022!
New Year’s statement by the News Line Editorial Board THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2022 to all our readers and to...
Tens of thousands rally in Athens
Tens of thousands of workers and youth participated in yet another mass rally outside the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens yesterday, demanding the overthrow...
‘Killings on a daily basis’ in Libya
Over forty Libyans demonstrated at Downing Street on Thursday evening to express their anger at the British government’s role in the war on their...
GREEK DOCTORS DEMAND ‘PUT AN END TO PRIVATE SECTOR’ – fill 30,000 vacancies in...
THE Greek National Health Service doctors’ union OENGE has called on all doctors, trades unions, trades councils and social association to ‘organise jointly mobilisations...
Greek Workers And Youth Occupy!
Despite torrential rain, over 20,000 youth and workers with their families congregated for the second night running in Athens’ main square in front of...
Cameron won’t fire Hunt
RUPERT Murdoch was questioned at the Leveson Inquiry yesterday about meetings held with prime minister Cameron before and after News Corporation’s June 2010 takeover...
‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!’ – tens of thousands to march through Dublin
Hundreds of occupying Waterford Crystal workers, members of the Unite trade union, will be joining today’s national demonstration in Dublin. It has been called by...
200,000 Tamils Rally Today
‘TWO of our brothers are on a hunger strike to death,’ Janani Paramsothy of the British Tamil students told News Line at Parliament Square...
Another Greek strike illegal
THE seven and a half month old strike at the Hellenic Steel plant in Aspropyrgos, just 20 km from Athens, has been declared by...
Planet without a visa! – Putin turns his back on brave whistleblower Snowden
EDWARD SNOWDEN has sought asylum from 15 countries after Russia and Ecuador have denied his petitions. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed on Monday that Moscow...
P&O boss admits ‘breaking the law’
IN AN extraordinary admission yesterday P&O Ferries chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite admitted the firm knowingly broke the law, choosing not to consult with the...
Blair at Inquiry on Monday
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to appear before the Leveson Inquiry into media standards on Monday. Under-pressure Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will give evidence...
Greek Banks Downgraded!
Three of the top Greek banks have been downgraded by the economic agency Moody’s, after losing 70 per cent of their share price in...
A STEP TOWARDS POLICE STATE! – Tory move against anti-war movement condemned
The Stop the War Coalition yesterday condemned amendments tabled by Monmouth Tory MP David Davies to the Policing and Crime Bill, currently going through...
‘THEY ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THEIR LIES!’ – Menezes family hails Blair inquiry
‘This will be the start, they are going to pay for all their lies, all the shootings,’ Alex Pereira, the cousin of Jean Charles...
Benefit sanctions ‘illegal’
THE High Court has declared the Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Act 2013 incompatible with the right to a fair trial guaranteed by Article...
‘SLAVE-DRIVING GATE GOURMET’ says Jarnail Singh, locked-out workers branch secretary
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers’ branch secretary Jarnail Singh condemned the company for ‘slave driving’ yesterday. He said: ‘They made their plans a long time ago...
Greek Finance Ministry occupied
WORKERS at the Greek Finance Ministry early on Tuesday morning occupied the Finance Ministry building in central Athens. They are protesting against huge wage cuts...
Ys Lobbies Tuc
THE Young Socialists lobbied the TUC Congress yesterday in Brighton to demand that it must call a general strike in support of the Junior...
PEMBROKE RALLY – called by Welsh TUC
The Welsh TUC is supporting a rally at 1.30 pm tomorrow at Pembroke Dock in solidarity with the Irish Ferries workers fighting attempts...
‘We are going to win’ – Gate Gourmet workers
LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers are campaigning all this week for their march and rally in Southall on Sunday December 4. Speaking on the picket line...
‘Axe The Bedroom Tax!’
‘AXE, axe the Bedroom Tax!’ chanted protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice yesterday morning, before the opening of an appeal against the hated...
Blairites Joining Coalition!
Former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott yesterday furiously lashed out at the queue of Blairite former ministers who are joining the Tory coalition. He...
De Menezes family ‘may have been hacked’
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes yesterday called upon Prime Minister Cameron to extend the remit of the inquiry into the phone hacking scandal. They demanded...
‘BRING ALL OF BA OUT’ say Heathrow pickets
THERE were lively picket lines around Heathrow Airport yesterday, as the British Airways cabin crew took their 11th day of strike action in defence...
30th Anniversary of Red Army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan! Sputnik interview General Gromov
THE 15th of February marked the 30th anniversary of the pullout of Soviet troops from the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The Soviet-Afghan War lasted...
NO WARNING SHOUT! – De Menezes inquest told
The firearms police who shot Jean Charles de Menezes dead in a tube carriage at Stockwell ‘gave no warning’, a passenger on the train...
IRAQ RISES UP! – thousands clash with police & army
TENS of thousands of Iraqis marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq yesterday, in the largest and...
‘we Need Total Victory!’
‘EACH and every one of you are victims of a cynical sacking. It’s not just an issue for you, our members, it is –...
CWU NATIONAL STRIKE ON 29th JUNE
THE Communication Workers Union (CWU) is to take national strike action on June 29. It will be followed by more strike action if management does...
Barnsley Nurses To Strike
GMB trade union members at Barnsley Hospital have voted to take strike action in a dispute following the introduction of Agenda for Change. The members...
BLAIR SACKED! – in the second week of the de Menezes inquest
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair, who presided over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes and supported the right of police to shoot to...
PCS delegates demand national action
THE Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) voted unanimously yesterday to pursue its ‘ongoing trade dispute’ with the government, including taking ‘industrial action’. Moving the...
No Forced Labour For Youth!
Education Secretary Ed Balls yesterday announced plans to compel all 16-18 youth to take part in full-time education or training by 2013. The government plans...
End Eurozone Austerity!
UNEMPLOYMENT in the eurozone will rise by another 4.5 million in the next four years under the current austerity programme, the International Labour Organization...
Gate Gourmet workers demand hardship pay
LOCKED out Gate Gourmet workers said yesterday that they were very happy with their conference with the News Line on Sunday. Mrs Rajamy Sharma told...
1,800 will spend Christmas in an immigration detention centre!
UK GOVERNMENT figures show that over 1,800 people in Britain will spend the Christmas holiday incarcerated in immigration detention centres, prompting calls to end...
Taxpayers Robbed To Bail Out Banks!
The Bank of England yesterday mortgaged £11 billion more of taxpayers’ money to shore up the big UK banks, as bank bosses held talks...
BUILD REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP – forward to a workers’ government
TWO HUNDRED trade unionists and youth attended the News Line-All Trades Union Alliance conference in Bethnal Green, east London, yesterday. Moving the main resolution, ‘After...
Huge increase in ASBOs
Human rights group Liberty yesterday condemned the huge increase in the number of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos) issued as the government steps up its...
US Bombers Kill 70 Iraqis
US warplanes and helicopter gunships have carried out punishment raids on two villages near Ramadi, killing at least 40 Iraqi civilians. In a statement yesterday,...
GENERAL STRIKE ON DECEMBER 9th – when parliament votes on fees rise
THE Young Socialists Students Society yesterday called for a general strike on December 9th when the House of Commons will be voting on increasing...
UNISON to call national demonstration on pensions
‘THE threat we made to the government still stands – revoke the order or there will be a strike on pensions,’ UNISON NEC member...