Tag: britain
Trump’s trade war with EU & UK accelerates as US seeks...
THIS WEEK at the World Economic Forum in Davos, US president Donald Trump reignited his trade war with Britain and Europe.
On Wednesday Trump vowed...
‘FRESH BLOW TO CAR INDUSTRY’! – over 10% job losses at...
THE UNITE union has described the announcement that there will be further job losses at JaguarLandRover’s (JLR’s) Halewood plant in Merseyside as a ‘fresh...
‘Wheels on the verge of falling off’ the ambulance service say...
Unite, which has over 100,000 workers in the NHS, including thousands of paramedics, is warning that unprecedented demand is resulting in the ‘wheels being...
Both EU and US sending coalitions to Gulf!
EIGHT EU nations: France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands and Portugual will support a European-led naval mission in the Strait of Hormuz,...
The Libyan people must drive out the imperialists and their agents...
ON JUNE 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were shot dead by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official...
Doctors Pensions Victory – Presumption Of Guilt Proposal Is Outlawed By...
THE BMA doctors’ union secured a high court victory on Friday over controversial changes made by the Tory secretary of state for health and...
NI Nursing Strike Actions Continue
THE DIRECTOR of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says she has not had enough reassurance about safe staffing to propose an end to...
Johnson willing to scrap Iran deal for ‘Trump deal’
TORY PM Johnson, yesterday morning stated he is willing to scrap the Iran nuclear deal in favour of a ‘Trump deal’.
Then, in a move...
Pompeo Reveals That Soleimani’s Murder Was Part Of A ‘Bigger Strategy...
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo has spilled the beans about the murder of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. He has revealed that it...
End the torture of Julian Assange and stop his extradition to...
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange appeared in person at Westminster Magistrates Court yesterday in yet another routine administrative hearing to prolong his imprisonment up to...
‘The UK is deliberately preventing child refugees from being with their...
The UK government is deliberately and destructively preventing child refugees from being with their families, Amnesty International UK, the Refugee Council and Save the...
Trump Sheds ‘Crocodile Tears’ For Victims Of Thursday’s Downing Of Ukrainian...
ON FRIDAY January 3rd, the USA carried out a terrorist drone attack on Baghdad airport, murdering General Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary...
Labour split over Scottish Referendum!
SCOTTISH Labour may hold a special conference in the spring to decide whether to change its stance on supporting a second Scottish independence referendum.
The...
World Bank Report – capitalism stands on brink of financial crash
THE WORLD stands on the brink of a financial crash according to the latest biannual Global Economic Prospects report from the World Bank.
This warns...
The Unity Of The Working Class With The Oppressed Nations Is...
IRAN launched a multiple missile attack against two bases in Iraq that contain US troops and other coalition forces on Wednesday night in retaliation...
Trump – more Iran sanctions – urges NATO involvement!
PRESIDENT TRUMP told a White House Press conference yesterday afternoon that while he was president of the USA, Iran would never be able to...
Labour Paying Price For Its Betrayal! Time To Join And Build...
REBECCA Long-Bailey is the latest candidate to join the squad of failures seeking to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, after the party’s rout...
Tories ask Iraq ‘let UK troops remain!’
JOHNSON’S Tory government has urged Iraq to allow UK troops to stay in the country following the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.
Soleimani...
Central Banks to increase global debt timebomb with QE
CENTRAL banks in America, Europe and Japan are on the verge of printing and handing out to their banks hundreds of billions of pounds...
SAS sent to Iraq to help evacuate stranded Britons
EARLY on Sunday 5th January, about 50 members of the UK’s Special Air Service (SAS) were sent to Iraq ‘to help’ with the potential...
Trump Threatens To Hit 52 Chosen Sites If Iran Retaliates For...
IRAN’S Army chief has defiantly dismissed US President Donald Trump’s threat to hit scores of Iranian sites, if Iran hits back after the US...
‘Get Out Of Iraq’ – US Abandons Citizens After Its Terror...
THE US Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has urged all American citizens to run for it and get out of Iraq.
This is after...
Trump’s Terrorist Regime Kills Iranian Leaders As It Drives Forward To...
IRAN’S most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been murdered by a US air strike in Iraq.
The...
French unions answer Macron’s declaration of war by calling for ‘all...
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron used his annual New Year’s address to the nation to rule out any compromise with the working class over his...
Trump gears up for war against Iran – defeat imperialist war...
US IMPERIALISM launched an unprovoked wave of airstrikes against targets in both Syria and Iraq on Sunday, targeting bases controlled by Iraqi Popular Mobilisation...
WORKING CLASS MUST TAKE POWER IN 2020! New Year’s Day...
THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2020 to all our readers, and to the working class, youth and the poor who...
Turkish FM Cavusoglu says Turkish troops will prevent Libya falling into...
TURKISH Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose country is preparing for troop deployment to Libya, says the prolongation of the Libyan conflict could plunge the...
36,876 paid less than minimum wage in Scotland!
NEARLY 37,000 people in Scotland were paid less than the statutory minimum wage last year, while employers across the UK owe workers an average...
UK trade unions must take action to end the UK’s criminal...
THE prime minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth has indicted the UK government for committing ‘crimes against humanity’ for refusing to allow Chagossians to return...
UK committed ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ over Chagossians return
THE UK committed ‘crimes against humanity’ by refusing to allow Chagos Islanders to return to their homes on the Chagos Islands, which is now...
Netanyahu’s ‘Pyrrhic Victory’ – He Still Faces Criminal Charges And The...
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has claimed a ‘huge win’ in a vote that challenged his leadership of the Likud party. Netanyahu secured 72.5%...
FORWARD TO SOCIALISM IN 2020! – urges the SAFTU federation
THE News Line is pleased to reproduce the Christmas and New Year statement by the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), edited for...
There Is No Christmas Truce For Palestinians As Israel Attacks Both...
ISRAELI warplanes at dawn yesterday launched a series of airstrikes against several posts across the besieged Gaza Strip, causing extensive material damage.
WAFA’s correspondent reported...
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...
MI5 carrying out serious crimes is lawful rules Judicial Tribunal
FIVE judges of the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal have given a divided ruling over a secret MI5 policy allowing security service agents to commit...
Re-Open Maternity & Children’s Ward Demands Picket
‘RE-OPEN maternity! Re-open Children’s Ward! Save Ealing Hospital!’ rang out early yesterday morning as over 50 people joined the mass Xmas picket of Ealing...
Answer Johnson’s war on the right to strike with a general...
HOURS after winning the December 12 election, Tory leader Johnson at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in central London announced that ‘We now speak...
UN ‘peacekeepers’ in Haiti ‘fathered hundreds of children and abandoned their...
UNITED Nations peacekeepers fathered hundreds of children while deployed in Haiti then abandoned their young mothers to lives of poverty, a damning new report...
N Ireland health workers strike!
NURSES in the RCN union came out on strike for the first time in the union’s 103-year history in the north of Ireland yesterday,...
‘US is stealing Syria’s oil and selling it to Turkey’ says...
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has given a comprehensive interview to Phoenix Television in which he stressed that America is stealing Syria’s oil and selling...
Forcing Boeing to halt 737 Max production threatens to crash US...
THE GIANT US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has finally called a halt to all production of its 737 Max aircraft after the Federal Aviation Administration...
RAIL CHAOS AFTER NEW TIMETABLE IMPOSED – TSSA calls for renationalisation
RAIL CHAOS rapidly spread across the length and breadth of the UK as new train timetables coming into force yesterday hit serious problems, leaving...
French General Strike escalates in fight to bring down Macron
THE MASS strikes and demonstrations throughout France today mark the sharp escalation of the confrontation between French workers and the ‘bankers’ government of president...
NHS ‘RECONFIGURATION’ IS CLOSING HOSPITALS! – GP role being changed from...
THE NHS was a key issue in the general election.
US-HMO-style (Health Maintenance Organisations) integrated care systems are being set up all over England.
Provided largely...
Brexit vote Friday
THE NEW Tory government with its majority of 80, plans to ask MPs to vote on PM Johnson’s Brexit bill as early as this...
NUS gives full support for university strikes!
THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) threw its weight behind the biggest ever wave of strikes on university campuses yesterday.
The NUS pledged its solid...
