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Wal-Mart Asda Blinks First To Avoid Costly Five Day Strike Action
‘GMB members win the right to collective bargaining in the UK, Asda Wal-Mart distribution depots’, is what the GMB trade union optimistically labelled the...
WAKE UP AMERICA! – ‘Corporate greed is on the march as...
Teamsters’ leader James Hoffa junior tells 27th Teamsters Convention ‘Welcome to the 27th International Teamsters Convention. It is an honor to address you as your...
TRADE UNIONISTS MURDERED FOR DEFENDING WORKERS’ RIGHTS – ICFTU report
ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTEEN trade unionists were murdered for defending workers’ rights in 2005, while more than 1,600 were subjected to violent assaults and some 9,000 arrested,...
‘Robbing the dead and the dying’
Relatives and widows of the thousands of men who died from asbestos-related cancer, yesterday expressed their determination to fight on after the Law Lords...
The Easter Rising a powerful blow against ‘the power of the...
OUR theses were written before the outbreak of this rebellion, which must be the touchstone of our theoretical views. The views of the opponents...
US plans to use nuclear bunker busters against Iran
THE New Yorker has published an article by award winning journalist Seymour Hersh, that claims that the US administration of President G W Bush...
‘SECRET FLIGHTS TO TORTURE AND DISAPPEARANCE’ – Amnesty
¸??ternational has released a new report which exposes a covert operation whereby people have been arrested or abducted, transferred and held in secret or...
‘A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR SENIOR DOCTORS’ – awarded just...
THE British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday said it was astonished at the vindictive and petty treatment of consultants by the government awarding them a...
WAR AN OPTION – Rumsfeld declares on Iran
United States defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the military option against Iran was ‘on the table’. He said this would be...
To deal with MRSA – end NHS privatisation!
MRSA is now linked to nearly 1,000 deaths each year in NHS hospitals. There is no doubt that it is a product of the...
Hamas election win – a victory for resistance
HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement) won a resounding victory in Wednesday’s general election securing 76 seats in the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), on the...
EU 3 call emergency meeting of the IAEA– while Putin warns...
BRITAIN, France and Germany are to call an emergency meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog, (the IAEA) early next month to discuss Iran’s nuclear programme, the...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers are aiming for a New Year victory!
‘OUR fight is continuing and so is our picket,’ locked out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told News Line yesterday. ‘We have rejected the Compromise...
1,000 MARCH FOR VICTORY Make dispute official demand Gate Gourmet workers
‘I congratulate all the sacked workers who are standing up and fighting for their rights,’ said locked out Gate Gourmet worker Harbinder Singh to...
Gate Gourmet Admits 3-Stage Deal Defeated!
GATE GOURMET, the firm that locked out over 700 of its workers in a pre-planned onslaught on August 10, admitted yesterday that the locked...
BBC unions in dispute over sackings
BBC unions on Friday went into dispute with the corporation over proposed compulsory redundancies. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) said in a statement: ‘The...
‘ANSWER “GLOBALISATION” WITH WORLD REVOLUTION’ – News Line editor tells Trotsky...
MORE than 300 youth and workers filled the News Line Anniversary rally at the Park Crescent Conference Centre in central London on Sunday, celebrating...
TEMPORARY WORKERS USED AND ABUSED – TUC urges protection against exploitation
TEMPORARY workers in Britain are being paid illegally low wages, having unlawful deductions taken from their pay packets, and are being denied holiday pay...
FIGHT ‘MONSTROUS POWERS’ – Lawyers warn against Blair’s Internment Bill
THE Blair government’s plans to extend the terrorism laws and allow the police to detain people without charge for 90 days are ‘completely monstrous...
IMPOSSIBLE! – NUT condemns Kelly plan to close ‘failing’ schools after...
THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) yesterday accused Education Secretary Ruth Kelly of trying to impose ‘impossible’ targets on state schools that would lead...
BA seeks to put the boot into Heathrow workers
BA is seeking to put the boot into its workforce at Heathrow to create a climate of intimidation and fear. It has announced in its...
MAKE THE DISPUTE OFFICIAL!– call out the airport! – Locked out...
Locked out workers at British Airways caterer Gate Gourmet demanded their dispute be made official as talks between the company and the Transport and...
1,000 CLASH WITH POLICE IN SAMAWA – Iraqis angry over no...
At least one person was killed and sixty others were wounded yesterday when over 1,000 angry Iraqis clashed with police in Samawa, south of...
Karzai Officials And Advisors ‘Implicated In Major War Crimes’
Numerous high-level officials and advisors in Afghanistan’s US-backed puppet government are implicated in major war crimes and human rights abuses that took place in...
‘G8= the most violent criminals on earth’ says George Galloway MP
Over 15,000 people took part in the G8 Alternatives demonstration at Gleneagles yesterday afternoon. Welcoming the marchers to Auchterarder at a rally in the local...
Labour Set To Drive Workers Off The Roads
ALISTAIR Darling, the Labour government transport minister, yesterday unveiled the government’s plan to drive millions of working class drivers off the roads with a...
General Strike Shuts Down Greece
GREEK workers last Thursday staged a massive and militant general strike against the right-wing government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, elected a year ago. Record...