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THE Bank for International Settlements (BIS) this week issued a warning that governments across the world are at risk of imploding unless they deal...

Greek students, youth and workers delivered a significant blow to the Mitsotakis government, the US-NATO imperialists, EU and Israel on Sunday. They staged a most...

OVER 10,000 workers, youth and their families rallied in Trafalgar Square on Saturday for a ‘day of action for Palestine.’ The rally was called by...

‘BUDGET 2025: an austerity plan that doesn’t say its name!’ declared French trade union federation Force Ouvrière (FO) on Tuesday. A FO press statement said:...

OVER 200 people protested outside Parliament yesterday to demand the reversal of the Starmer Labour government’s scrapping of the Winter Fuel Allowance for 10...

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported this week that the Israeli occupation forces have killed, in the ongoing genocide war on the Gaza...

At least 76 people were killed, including 14 police officers, and dozens more injured in a new round of violence in Bangladesh over the...

The march set off at 1pm and was led by the banners of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Palestine...

OVER 100,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through central London on the 17th London National March for Palestine on Saturday. Speakers at the...

ISRAELI occupation forces committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over 24 hours yesterday, resulting in the tragic killing of 40 Palestinians...

TORY PM Rishi Sunak said he won’t stop selling arms to Israel yesterday, declaring that exports to the genocidal Zionist entity will continue as...

THE International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague held preliminary hearings on Monday on the case filed on 1st March by Nicaragua against...

LAST Friday it was announced that Border Force staff at Heathrow Airport had voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a dispute over changes to...

Workers from the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) started strike action at the Annesley Andalusite Mine located in Penge, outside Burgersfort...

MICHAEL Gove, the Tory Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, is due this week to unveil plans to ban individuals and...

FORMER chairman of the Post Office Henry Staunton dropped a bombshell on the Tories when he appeared before the Business and Trade Select Committee...

BY WESAM BAHRANI IT IS unrealistic to observe the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza without understanding its strategic dimension, in particular the current phase of...

MORE than 800 serving officials in the US and Europe have signed a statement warning that their own governments’ policies on the Israel-Gaza war...

FIVE thousand trade unionists  descended on Cheltenham on Saturday, 40 years after 14 workers were sacked at GCHQ for refusing to sign away their...

THE TUC said yesterday it will hold a special Congress to discuss the next stage of the campaign against the Tories’ anti-strike laws. The event...

AT THE CALL of the trade unions, more than 220 demonstrations were organised across France on Friday, October 13, to say no to austerity...

DELEGATES to the TUC conference in Liverpool spoke out in favour of a general strike to defeat the Tory Strikes Minimum Service Levels legislation...

YESTERDAY’S Observer newspaper a champion of the rule of the British bosses and bankers, was forced to admit that it had been told by...

‘PEOPLE are ready to take general strike action now,’ train drivers union Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan told News Line yesterday. Speaking at the Euston...

FRENCH trade unions are continuing their fight against the Macron government’s increase in the retirement age from 62 to 64 which was forced through...

THE news from the mortgage front is grim. Millions of families are experiencing shocking hikes in mortgage rates of hundreds of pounds per month,...

THE FRENCH trade union federations were meeting on Thursday to decide their next mobilisations after MPs in the National Assemby on June 8 failed...

THE government yesterday defied the 4pm deadline for handing over unredacted messages and notebooks to the Covid inquiry. It now faces legal action over...

THERE was a powerful May Day March from Clarkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square yesterday with more than 10,000 trade unionists, workers, youth and students...

TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been in Washington this week attending the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF, the main economic...

FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron is facing the biggest challenge of his second term over his flagship pension overhaul, which includes raising the retirement age...

News Line spoke to two of the junior doctors on the picket line outside Cheltenham Royal Infirmary in Gloucestershire. Dr Chad Harker, BMA rep, said:...

JUNIOR Doctors start their continuous four-day 96-hour strike at 06.59 today, Tuesday 11 April, and end it at 06.59 on Saturday 15 April. Backed by...

‘WE'VE won every dispute at Heathrow in recent years and we’ll win this one,’ local Hayes and Harlington Labour MP John McDonnell said when...

FRANCE’S small and mid-size towns have been at the forefront of the battle against President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious pension reform – in some places...

REFUGEE support campaign group Care4Calais published an open letter yesterday, signed by 30 top trade union leaders, demanding Safe Passage to the UK. Tory plans...

NEARLY three-quarters of a million public sector workers from eight unions went on strike against the Tory government on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March,...

TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his Budget speech yesterday in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up to a...

OVER half a million public sector workers from eight unions were on strike yesterday, fighting against the Tory government’s attack on their pay, conditions...

TORY Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will be delivering his Budget speech today in the middle of a massive strike action across the country of up...

SEVENTY-FIVE thousand junior doctors began their 72-hour strike yesterday, they are continuing it today and are being joined by hundreds of thousands of teachers,...

THE VOLCANO of people’s rage which was building up its fury over the last few months, erupted in Greece on Wednesday in an unprecedented...

THE BMA yesterday announced the dates for a 72 hour walk out by Junior Doctors in England, saying that Health Secretary, Steve Barclay has...

COINCIDING with a rare public hearing of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) this week, ten women who were deceived into relationships with ‘spycops’ have...

THE OFFICE for National Statistics (ONS) revealed yesterday that the number of days lost due to strikes last year was the highest since 1989. In...