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‘THIS is the last May Day to be stolen. It has been used for electioneering and workers are being fed lies and given promises...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world at a time when the world capitalist...

US Vice-President Joe Biden told the assembled right wingers at the Ukraine parliament yesterday that the US stands with the country’s new leaders in...

DOZENS of Palestinian worshipers were wounded and dozens were detained after clashes broke in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday morning with Israeli forces...

TEACHERS from across the UK will be gathering in Birmingham at the Annual Conference of the NASUWT teachers’ union over the Easter weekend to...

THE NHS will face an unprecedented financial crisis in 2015-16,, just after the general election, the King’s Fund charity warned yesterday. In its quarterly...

THE Quarterly Monitoring Report of the King’s Fund does not pull any punches about the future that the Tory-led coalition has planned out for...

WITH the strike by platinum miners continuing to grip South Africa, senior police officer Lieutenant Colonel Salmon Vermaak outlined internal problems that contributed...

MARIA MILLER has been forced to resign. After publicly displaying her arrogant determination to defy all the calls for her to go – a...

CULTURE Secretary Maria Miller was sacked by Prime Minister Cameron late on Tuesday night, after Tory MPs and local Tory parties threatened...

ELEVEN Western and Middle Eastern powers on Thursday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against holding elections, saying that the vote would have no credibility...

THE Secretary of the Greek government, Panagiotis Baltakos, a close aide for decades of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, has been revealed as the go-between...

TRAIN drivers’ union ASLEF general secretary Mick Whelan on Monday called for the railways to be taken back into public ownership. Whelan welcomed news that...

THE news that the coalition government has been forced to retreat over its proposed cuts to legal aid fees by the decisive actions of...

SCHOOLS were closed or disrupted across England and Wales on Wednesday as hundreds of thousands of angry teachers took part in a one-day strike...

Unions have condemned the Chancellor’s 2014 austerity Budget with Unison calling it a ‘clear provocation’, the NUT saying it was ‘more of the same’...

OSBORNE’S BUDGET speech was devoid of any attempt to analyse the world crisis that is gripping capitalism and which is deepening by the hour,...

A 48 HOUR strike by civil servants in Greece was launched yesterday as the government negotiates further austerity measures with the troika. This followed...

HALF a million people will take to the streets today, Wednesday 19 March, in demand for youth jobs, the National Union of MetalWorkers of...

MPs passed the Care Bill on Tuesday night, including the hospital closure Clause 119, giving Health Secretary Hunt power to begin a mass...

LABOUR has pledged a ‘jobs guarantee’ scheme for young unemployed people, that will last for the whole of next parliament, if it wins the...

THE government faces a revolt over Clause 119 of the Care Bill today. This clause would give health secretary Hunt and appointed officials powers to...

PRESIDENT Putin said yesterday at a Moscow press conference that an unconstitutional coup and an armed takeover of power had taken place in Kiev. He...

ON SATURDAY a National Assembly was held in the Black Sea city of Odessa, and other assemblies were held in all of the...

UKRAINE’S President Viktor Yanukovych announced early yesterday the terms of the agreement that he had made with the Ukrainian pro-EU, pro-US opposition during talks...

The statement reads: THE outcome of the Special CEC (Central Executive Committee) of COSATU that was shunned by those affiliates who had formally called...

NONE of the three main parties have very much to shout about over the outcome of the Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election. Labour’s Michael Kane...

TEACHERS’ unions on Monday rejected Labour leader Ed Miliband’s proposal for parent-run schools. They were commenting on his Hugo Young lecture where Miliband set out...

HARD-LINE Tory immigration minister Mark Harper has just resigned after he admitted that he was employing a cleaner who was not legally entitled to...

THE RMT began the first of its two 48-hour strikes on Tuesday night against the plan of London Mayor Boris Johnson to close all...

‘ROCK SOLID,’ said RMT leader Bob Crow about yesterday’s and today’s 48-hour strike by London Underground RMT and TSSA members. Thousands of Tube drivers and...

TRADE union leaders were silent on proposing any action on Thursday despite a vote taken in the House of Lords on Tuesday being a...

THE Ukrainian Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov, of the Stalinist Party of the Regions resigned on Tuesday in an attempt to draw the EU-backed right-wing...

LABOUR SHADOW chancellor Ed Balls yesterday rejected claims that his pledge that a Labour government will bring back the 50p top rate of income...

MPs in the House of Commons on Thursday voted by 120 votes to three to demand that the government releases papers related to Shrewsbury...

SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad, speaking in Damascus on Monday, said: ‘The Geneva Conference should produce clear results with regard to the fight against terrorism...

RUSSIA’S Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that UN chief Ban Ki-moon’s decision to cancel Iran’s invitation to the ‘peace talks’ on Syria,...

EGYPTIAN voters have approved a new constitution by 98.1 per cent, in a turn out of 36.8 per cent of those eligible to vote....

‘BY STANDING together to campaign and defeat ultra-Conservative politicians and their corporate-only agenda, Canadians can make things better,’ UFCW National President Paul Meinema said...

The disarray, confusion and splits within the Tory/LibDem coalition government were brought out sharply over Monday’s announcement by Tory chancellor, George Osborne, that he...

‘FOOD BANKS, zero hours and pay cuts for the many – tax cuts and pay growth for the few,’ that’s what ‘recovery’ means to...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends its New Year’s greetings for the year 2014 to all our readers and to the workers and youth...

NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) President Andrew Chirwa has said his union sees no reason to continue supporting the ruling African...

PALESTINIANS are demanding that the US-sponsored ‘peace talks’ with Israel are called off after Israeli troops murdered three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank,...

MEMBERS of Parliament will receive an 11% pay rise following the publication of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority recommendations later on this week The rise...