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COSATU demands: End PPPs, Ban ‘labour brokers’ (gangmasters) and expand state...

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COSATU’s 1st Deputy President, Tyotyo James addressed South Africa’s Public Sector Summit on March 12 2010. He said: ‘COSATU is pleased to have been...

Fonseka To Be Court-Martialled

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Retired Major General Sarath Fonseka will be tried over five charges under Army Act at a court martial within the next few days, Military...

Medvedev doesn’t rule out Iran sanctions

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RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday he does not rule out sanctions against Iran but added that if used, they should be balanced and...

Clinton Beats The War Drums

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SPEAKING to students at a Qatar university during a tour of the Gulf region designed to whip up anti-Iran feeling, US Secretary of State...

DOCTORS AND NURSES SEIZED BY THE PHILIPPINES ARMY –health organisations demand...

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The Philippines Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD) on Sunday called for the immediate release of two doctors, a nurse, a midwife and other health...

ChIna condemns $6.4bn US arms sales to Taiwan

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THE Chinese government has condemned the US and President Obama for agreeing to a $6.4bn US arms sale package to Taiwan. The island of Taiwan...

TROOPS SURROUND FONSEKA RESIDENCE – after Rajapakse’s ‘democratic victory’

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Heavily armed Sri Lankan forces have surrounded Wednesday Cinnamon Lake hotel in Colombo, where opposition presidential candidate and former Sri Lanka Army General (retd)...

‘MILLIONS IN URGENT NEED’ after Haiti’s biggest earthquake in 200 years

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SURVIVORS of Haiti’s biggest earthquake for 200 years yesterday appealed to the world for urgent food, water and medicines as the death toll continued...

Hewitt, Hoon and Cameron fail to shift Brown

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ON Wednesday mid-day, ex-ministers Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon sent a text to all Labour MPs asking them to support a call for a...

2010 – year for revolutions! NEW YEAR MANIFESTO by News Line...

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NEWS LINE sends its revolutionary greetings for 2010 to the working class and the poor of the planet. We especially greet the insurgent masses...

EUROSTAR NIGHTMARE CONTINUES! – passengers told to stay away

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Eurotunnel closed its shuttle car service to new arrivals yesterday, saying it was at ‘saturation point’, as travellers struggled to find alternative ways of...

Iran And Syria Sign Defence Pact

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‘The Iranian nation and government will always stand by the resistance and the oppressed Palestinian people,’ Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has reiterated. Ahmadinejad met with...

US threatens Iran and Venezuela

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YESTERDAY the United States Secretary of Defence and Secretary of State, Gates and Clinton, threatened Iran with extreme sanctions if it insisted on its...

Iran Has The Right To Nuclear Power

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THE Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, made it very clear last Wednesday what Iran’s position is on its right to develop...

Gold Shooting Upwards As The Dollar Plunges!

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THE price of gold hit a record of 1,111.20 dollars an ounce in trading in London on Monday, as the dollar weakened after a...

US Losing New ‘Great Game’ In Central Asia

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RUSSIAN experts on Afghanistan take a dim view of US ‘achievements’ in their military operations there. Experts believe that Central Asian countries as well...

Greek Riot Police Attack Ship Repair Workers

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GREEK armed riot police viciously attacked with clubs, smoke and lightning bombs and toxic tear gas grenades about 800 protesting ship repair workers last...

‘Where Ships And Workers Go To Die’’

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The International Metalworkers’ Federation has joined a global campaign calling on G20 heads of state to protect workers in one of the world’s most...

CRISIS DEEPENING – as production and the pound fall!

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UK industrial output collapsed in August, unexpectedly as far as the bourgeoisie was concerned, destroying any remaining thoughts of green shoots of recovery. Bourgeois...

US-NATO PLANNING MASSIVE AFGHAN WAR REINFORCEMENT! – 60,000 more troops demanded

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The US and its NATO allies are planning an unprecedented increase of troops for the war in Afghanistan, even in addition to the 17,000...

Security Council Votes To Ban The Bomb – But Not Yet!

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THE UN Security Council yesterday voted unanimously to oppose the spread of nuclear weapons, and that the nuclear powers on the Security Council must...

Iran wants to talk – US–UK want to impose sanctions

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THE Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared that he is ready to talk to President Obama and other leaders and have a ‘fair, logical’...

Marwan Barghouthi Elected To Fatah Central Committee

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Marwan Barghouthi, who is serving five life sentences in Israel, has been elected to the governing body of Fatah which dominates the Palestinian Authority,...

No Prosecutions – Let Off For Those Who Destroyed 6500 Mg...

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THE Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has said it does not intend to launch a criminal investigation into the collapse of carmaker MG Rover. It was...

Ssangyong Workers Battle Korean Police

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Hundreds of South Korean riot police on Tuesday clashed with laid-off workers who have occupied part of Ssangyong Motor Co’s only assembly plant for...

Britain’s Third Afghan War Heads For Disaster

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NINE UK soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan in nine days, making 178 UK troops killed since 2001. The official propaganda line is that...

BA workers reject wage cuts! Renationalise BA Now!

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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...

Nationalise Gm Now!

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‘GM workers in Luton should intensify their calls for a mass meeting to demand an immediate occupation,’ ex-Vauxhall convenor Arthur Lynn told News Line...

SRI LANKA HAS A CASE TO ANSWER – says international war...

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THE United Nations is able to investigate the war crimes which occurred recently in Sri Lanka, British human rights lawyer and international war crimes...

US-UK Alliance Allowed Massacre Of Tamils

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AT the minimum 20,000 Tamil people were massacred on the Mullaitivu beach ‘no fire zone’ by Sri Lanka Army shelling, in the first 19...

Defend North Korea against imperialist threats

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THE government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced yesterday that it would ‘no longer be bound’ by the armistice that...

Only a socialist revolution can win the Tamils’ right to self-determination

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THE News Line salutes the heroic self-sacrifice of the Tamil Tigers and the Tamil people as a whole. They have fought and are fighting not...

BA, car output and production crashes!

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

Tamil Youth Defend Their Flag Against Police

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‘Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner! Tamil Tigers Lift the Banner!’ This is what young Tamil workers chanted having just prevented the police from...

Rajapakse And His Backers Will Not Defeat The Tamil People

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YESTERDAY the imperialist-backed Rajapakse regime was claiming to have killed the LTTE leadership, including Velupillai Prabakaran, and that the struggle is now over. Its...

BRING DOWN THE BROWN GOVERNMENT! FORWARD TO A WORKERS GOVERNMENT! –message...

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OVER 100 trade unionists, workers and youth attended the News Line – All Trades Unions Alliance meeting in Red Lion Square in Central London...

Gm-Fiat Shock For World’s Motor Workers

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GENERAL Motors is about to end its ‘honeymoon’ relations with the US motor workers’ trade union, the UAW. Up till now the UAW leaders have...

Don’t watch the Tamils being slaughtered – join the Parliament Square...

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THE Sri Lanka Army yesterday stepped up its murderous shelling of its so-called ‘safety zone’ in the Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal and Vadduvaakal areas of north-east...

Brown’s gold sales lost the Bank of England £3.8bn

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A DECADE ago, on May 7, 1999, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced plans to sell off a large part of Britain’s gold reserves. This was...

Miliband Does Nothing To Stop Genocide Against The Tamils

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TamilNet reports that Professor Francis Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, has said Britain is obliged to...

WORLD REVOLUTION – the only answer to the capitalist crisis

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THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world. Under the conditions of the greatest...

Rajapakse, the UK and the US will never crush the Tigers...

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CURRENTLY the UK and US supported Sri Lankan army is mounting an all-out assault on the besieged Tamil Tiger forces and the over 100,000...

Motor industry crisis deepens – nationalisation the only way

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THE US administration has let it be known that it intends to force GM, formerly the world’s number one motor car manufacturer, into bankruptcy...

Visteon Talks Today

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Sacked Visteon workers from Enfield, north London, and Belfast were picketing Ford showrooms yesterday on the eve of today’s talks with management. Meanwhile, on...

Pentagon Evaluating The Lessons Of Israel’s Defeat In The Lebanon

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the repercussions of the Second Lebanon War – in which the Israeli occupation army suffered a severe blow by the Lebanese resistance fighters and...