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Three months before the US invasion of Iraq, France was considering protecting senior figures from President Saddam Hussein’s government, according to a senior intelligence...

Dr Khudayr al-Murshidi, official representative of the Iraqi Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, has warned that the United States is seeking to divide the resistance...

LAST Saturday thousands of steel workers and their families marched in the North-East to stop the closure of the Redcar Corus plant. The closure...

OVER 12,000 postal workers are taking strike action today, with thousands more demonstrating against continuing cuts and the executive dictatorship by Royal Mail, while...

THE deepening capitalist crisis is creating the conditions for a showdown between Labour and Capital – over who runs this country, and for whose...

A MASS meeting of more than 3,000 British Airways cabin crew workers yesterday threw out by a massive majority the airline’s plans to slash...

BUSINESS Secretary Mandelson declared yesterday morning, before he even reached the Luton GM plant, that there would be no nationalisation of GM Luton –...

British Airways has asked ACAS to mediate after failing to get the unions to agree to plans to cut thousands of jobs and freeze...

BRITISH Airways workers are faced with taking strike action to defeat the management onslaught on their jobs, terms and conditions. BA boss Walsh has issued...

BRITISH Airways workers are facing a huge fight to defend their jobs and conditions of employment against a vicious management onslaught. BA management have announced...

900 construction workers were sacked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery, north Lincolnshire yesterday in what the GMB General Secretary Paul Kenny called ‘a case...

YESTERDAY the Office for National Statistics produced figures showing the record breaking numbers of unemployed and the record breaking growth of unemployment. UK unemployment...

THE Willie Walsh plan for rescuing BA from the capitalist crisis is quite straightforward. He has gone beyond wage cuts, he wants ‘his’ 40,000...

JOBS are now going in a huge avalanche. The Lloyds Banking Group, where the government has the major stake, is set to begin a...

British Airways boss Willie Walsh yesterday said he could not rule out further job cuts and called on BA workers to take a holiday...

BRITISH Airways has just announced a loss before tax of £401m for the year to 31 March, a collapse from a profit of £922m...

THE Health and Safety Executive has served two Improvement Notices on Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service in the aftermath of the deaths of two...

THE Royal Bank of Scotland was rescued with billions of taxpayers’ money after it made the biggest losses in the history of British banking,...

Northern Foods has won the British Airways contract to supply meals and sandwiches for short-haul flights from Heathrow airport, replacing Gate Gourmet. Northern, the food...

BRITISH Airways workers are being threatened again that they will either have to work longer or pay more to maintain the value of their...

ADMIRAL Mullen the US chief of the general staff has stated that he is not convinced that the US is winning the war in...

TribAL leaders in southern Iraq accused the US Administration last week of attempting to establish permanent bases in Iraq to strike against its opposing...

PRIME Minister Brown was yesterday midway to giving up his ‘there is no timetable for a withdrawal from Iraq’ line – imposed on him...

PILOT’S union BALPA told News Line yesterday it will be campaigning to change European law after withdrawing from its High Court challenge to a...

BALPA (the British Airline Pilots Association) is going to the High Court in London on Monday to fight a British Airways (BA’s) strike ban. BALPA...

ON this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow trade unionists and all those worldwide who have stood against war and...

RADICAL cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gave a lengthy interview to Al-Jazeera Satellite Television last Saturday about the US occupation of Iraq. He was first asked...

ON SATURDAY more than 1,000 British Airways pilots marched on BA’s Heathrow headquarters over plans by BA to use non-BA pilots, in its new...

Admiral William Fallon, commander of the US Mideast forces has resigned due to differences with the US president on dealing with Tehran. Fallon, said on...

‘It’s unacceptable and totally undemocratic. We are having security decided by the private sector with no reference to parliament,’ Sharon Holder, GMB national officer,...

THOUSANDS of Turkish soldiers, backing a number of tank led armoured columns, crossed into northern Iraq on Thursday evening, after a massive artillery bombardment...

the Accountability and Justice Law is a ‘worthless’ piece of paper, approved by a ‘worthless and false parliament’, a ‘Ba’ath party spokesman’ in Iraq...

The death toll in an Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip on Thursday rose to nine after Israeli helicopters launched three missiles at a...

THE TGWU leadership, (now sheltering under the Unite label) has once again dropped a decision by its members to take strike action to...

TURKEY praised the United States on Wednesday for providing intelligence in support of attacks against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, as it confirmed its...

THE NEWS that top-level British diplomatic efforts are continuing in Afghanistan to try to prevent the expulsion from the country of two senior foreign...

NEWS LINE sends its greetings and full support to the British Airports Authority workers who have decided to take strike action at seven major...

PRIME Minister Brown told MPs in the House of Commons yesterday that British forces are ‘winning the battle against the insurgency’ in Afghanistan. Using...

THE Turkish army is poised to invade northern Iraq in order to respond to PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) attacks on its troops, which...

MORE than 400 youth and trade unionists showed their solidarity with the Gate Gourmet sacked workers at a second anniversary benefit rally in Southall...

‘Reject this agreement and carry on with the industrial action,’ Billy Colvill, CWU rep from south east London, yesterday urged the union’s postal executive,...

BRITISH troops have just scuttled out of Basra, leaving the various militias of the city in full control. They have settled down at Basra airport,...

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...

DELEGATES attending the TUC Congress in Brighton yesterday spoke out strongly in support of the Gate Gourmet sacked workers, and the postal workers. This was...

ALL Aer Lingus routes will be affected when 500 pilots strike for 48-hours next Tuesday and Wednesday. They are taking action against the airline’s...