Tag: europe
Eurozone caught in ‘debt trap’ with no way out – Socialist...
THE LATEST dire prediction on the precarious economic state of the eurozone came from three former chief executives of the European Central Bank (ECB),...
‘The deliberate inaction of countries … aims at legitimising Tel...
THE IRANIAN Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights says ambiguous positions adopted by international bodies, including the United Nations, over the ongoing massacre of...
General strike across Palestine today! ‘Recall Israeli ambassadors’ – Palestinian PM...
A GENERAL strike has been called for today across the whole of Palestine.
The call began from Palestinians living and working in Israel and was...
TUC must act on its resolution, organise the complete boycott of...
MISSILES are raining down on the people of Gaza, as the Israelis step up their war to prevent the establishment of the state of...
No ‘bounce back’ as UK economy shrinks by further 1.5% in...
IT SPEAKS volumes for the disastrous state of British capitalism that news that the UK economy has collapsed by a further 1.5% in the...
‘Strong measures required to stop crimes of Zionist regime’ Hamas leader...
A HIGH-RANKING member of the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, has called on the ‘Muslim world to take up a firm stance in support...
Trade Unions Must Dump Starmer And Labour’s Right Wing And Call...
THE general secretary of the Unite union Len McCluskey has responded to Labour’s massive council election defeats and its disastrous loss in the Hartlepool...
The trade unions must sack Starmer and dump Labour’s right wing!...
THE HARTLEPOOL by-election result and the council by-election results mean that Starmer and Labour’s right wing must be dumped by the trade unions at...
‘CHILDREN WILL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES’ – of UK government 60% funding...
UNICEF has condemned the Boris Johnson government’s decision to cut aid to the United Nations body warning it will have ‘serious consequences for children’.
It...
PARIS ERUPTS AS POLICE ATTACK WORKERS ON MAY DAY and the...
THE major French trade union the CGT has protested at the massive attack on peaceful demonstrators by riot police and and vigilantes and has...
TIME TO GET RID OF THE CRISIS-RIDDEN CAPITALIST SYSTEM – WRP’s...
THE NEWS LINE Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the poor of the world who are confronting a...
Generals threaten coup against Macron as France and Europe face bankruptcy
LAST WEEK, an explosive letter from 25 senior retired French generals was published in the right-wing Valeurs Actuelles magazine threatening President Macron with an...
Banbury Workers Battle ‘Fire & Rehire’
WORKERS at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury are ramping up pressure in the ‘fire and rehire’ struggle with a protest on Saturday (1...
EIGHT YEARS SINCE RANA PLAZA COLLAPSE –‘the deadliest disaster in the...
ON THE eighth anniversary of Rana Plaza on Saturday 24 April, UNI Global Union and IndustriALL demanded fashion brands commit to a new legally-binding...
‘HISTORY WILL JUDGE!’ NEU criticises UK foreign aid cut
‘THERE is no place for famine and starvation in the 21st century,’ teachers representing the National Education Union (NEU) are insisting this week: ‘History...
JDE bosses step up fire & rehire dispute
UNITE has reported that bosses at JDE (Jacobs Douwe Egberts) in Banbury will stop workers from taking summer holidays to thwart an overtime ban,...
Football fans rise up to drive back the big capitalist bosses!
ON SUNDAY night, the investment bankers, venture capitalists and hedge funds, who own the six biggest football clubs in Britain, announced that they were...
President Abbas congratulates Bashar al-Assad on the anniversary of Evacuation Day,...
PALESTINIAN president Mahmoud Abbas has offered his congratulations to his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad on the annual anniversary of Evacuation Day, the day when...
Expulsion of diplomats attempt to demonise Russia – workers know the...
The Czech Republic on Saturday expelled 18 Russian diplomats after claiming that two alleged Russian spies were behind a deadly explosion at a Czech...
‘Kiev & Its Western Supporters Bear Full Responsibility For Any Escalation...
RUSSIA will do everything possible to guarantee its security and the safety of its citizens, should the crisis in Ukraine drastically deteriorate.
However, Kiev and...
Tories mired in scandal over Cameron and Greensill as financial collapse...
THE MOST recent development in the collapse of Greensill Capital has been the revelations of all the lobbying for government bail-outs by ex-Tory prime...
Massive increases in US military spending as US bosses look ...
US IMPERIALISM is currently stoking up a war crisis from Ukraine to the China Seas as it seeks a way out of its economic...
‘The fragile peace is hanging by its fingertips!’ – says Fra...
TROUBLE erupted on the streets of Belfast on Wednesday the 7th of April 2021. We can only ask if we are witnessing a return...
Myanmar workers and youth on the path to armed revolution to...
THE MYANMAR embassy in London was taken over by representatives of the country’s military junta on Wednesday with the previous Ambassador Kyaw Zwar Minn...
Workers must support Russia and China as Biden threatens new war!
AS THE world crisis of the capitalist system deepens, the US under President Joe Biden is preparing for a new world war. Biden is...
Corporations and businesses face bankruptcy across UK & Europe as loan...
A WAVE of companies across the UK and the rest of Europe will be forced into bankruptcy as new figures show that the default...
Go North West negotiations collapse – Manchester bus strikes to...
GO NORTH West negotiations have collapsed without agreement as Manchester bus strikes are set to continue.
Protracted peace talks between management at Go North West...
Syrians reject plunder of resources by Turkish and US occupations
LOCAL inhabitants of Jarmaz village in Syria’s Qamishli area on Wednesday declared a national stand in rejection of both the US and the Turkish...
‘Shocked And Appalled’ By The Treatment Of Children At Rainsbrook Training...
Members of the House of Commons Justice Committee are ‘shocked and appalled’ by the treatment of children at a privately run detention centre in Northamptonshire, they say in a report published on Monday.
They have called on...
EU torn apart by Covid pandemic – forward to Socialist...
THE DEADLY third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is ripping the EU apart over vaccinations and lockdowns.
In Germany, with 9,549 new cases and 180...
Desperate UK Tories seeking to curry favour with President Biden by...
CHINA has imposed sanctions on nine UK citizens – including five MPs for spreading ‘lies and disinformation’ about the country.
This is China’s very minor...
PM Johnson wants a nuclear rearmament drive to confront China!
WITH Britain in a major economic and political crisis the Johnson government is not only preparing for a war with the UK working class,...
Greek mass marches are developing into an insurrection
THE MASS protest marches in Greece against the sheer police violence and oppression have been developing all last week into an insurgency against the...
Fatah leader Rjoub stresses the need for agreement with Hamas!
THE RULING Fatah party is going to run in the coming Palestinian legislative elections planned for May 22 in one list, today said Jibril...
4,000 Greek students march in support of hunger striker
SOME 4,000 students and workers marched in Athens on Monday night in the biggest demonstration so far in support of imprisoned hunger striker Dimitris...
Sarkozy sentenced to three years for corruption – Cameron still evades...
FRENCH ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in jail, two of them suspended, for corruption. He was convicted of trying to...
French Unions Call Equal Pay Strike On March 8
FRENCH trade unions have called on workers to mobilise and strike on March 8th to demand equal pay for women and men.
The CGT trade...
Iran denies PKK presence on its soil – accuses Turkey of...
IRAN has summoned Turkey’s Ambassador, Derya Ors, over the Turkish interior minister’s ‘unacceptable’ claim about the presence of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant...
G7 condemns Myanmar Junta’s war on the people while the general...
THE G7 (Group of Seven) countries have ‘firmly’ condemned the heavy-handed crackdown, including the use of live ammunition, committed by Myanmar’s junta against the...
Iran has responded to Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ policy with ‘maximum resistance’...
IRANIAN Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has told Press TV in an exclusive interview that the Islamic Republic is open to negotiations on reviving...
US must immediately lift sanctions off Iran say Russia and China
CHINA and Russia say the United States should immediately lift the sanctions it has re-imposed on Iran and fulfil its obligations in order to...
Bankers warn of global debt time bomb. Socialist revolution is the...
THIS WEEK, the global banking body, the Institute of International Finance (IIF), revealed that global debt had shot up to an eye-watering $281 trillion...
Grenfell – Schmidt says not his priority to understand fire safety...
CLAUDE SCHMIDT, president of Arconic that made the Grenfell Tower cladding, has said it was not his ‘priority’ to understand fire safety tests and...
How the DWP is spying on benefit claimants
IN 2019, the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published their two-part staff guide on conducting fraud investigations.
Privacy International (a UK-registered charity which...
Yemeni Forces Launch Missile Attack On Saudi Airbase
YEMENI forces successfully launched a missile attack on the airbase in southwestern Saudi Arabia.
The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces confirmed that army troops and allied...