Tag: europe
Scavenger Hague Leaps Into Ukraine Conflict
THE British Foreign Secretary Hague tweeted his support for the ‘new Ukrainian government’ on Saturday midday along with his German opposite number. However, there...
Hague Wary Of Russian Intervention
UK Foreign Secretary Hague yesterday said there needed to be ‘urgent’ action to ‘stave off an even more serious economic situation’ in Ukraine. He...
Ukrainian coup under way!
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...
Ukraine compromise offer – as right wing gunmen mass in Kiev
UKRAINIAN President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday announced early presidential elections and a compromise agreement with the pro US-EU ‘opposition’. He said that the constitution of 2004,...
Right wing ignores Kiev truce
THREATS of sanctions against the Ukrainian government look like blackmail, and a demand for early elections is a way to force Kiev towards the...
US and EU backed armed mobs run riot in the Ukraine!
THE imperialist backed Ukrainian right-wing, including self-declared fascist movements, have brazenly made a call to arms, and to prove the point on Tuesday shot...
Abbas to meet Kerry for decisive talks
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas is to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris today to discuss the peace talks with Israeli, US and...
2022 QATAR WORLD CUP DISASTER – Almost 200 construction workers killed!
ALMOST 200 Nepalese men died last year working on construction projects in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) says...
Flooding – Call For Five Year Reconstruction Plan
THE flood-hit South West of England needs a joined up, five year reconstruction and development plan to rebuild the economic, transport and social fabric,...
Bosnian Workers And Youth Show The Way In The Balkans
THE class war has erupted in Bosnia with a vengeance as youth and workers rise up in action, uniting all religions and nationalities in...
GARMENT WORKERS ARE BEING TERRORISED IN BANGLADESH – says Human Rights...
GARMENT factory workers in Bangladesh who try to start trade unions are being intimidated and threatened with murder to stop their efforts to organise,...
Ecb Bond Buying ‘Could Be Illegal’
THE German Constitutional Court has shaken the European Union with its statement yesterday that the European Central Bank’s (ECB) bond-buying scheme could be ‘incompatible’...
People of Aleppo march to support Syrian army
PEOPLE of Aleppo on Tuesday marched through the streets of the city to show their support to the Syrian Arab Army which confronts terrorism...
Inspired By Larkin, Irish Electrical Union Fights For Major Pay Increase
SIPTU General President Jack O’Connor has said his union is engaged in a major push for pay increases across the private sector to recover...
Syrians March To Support Their Delegation In Geneva!
HUNDREDS of Syrians gathered on Friday morning in front of the UN’s Headquarters in Geneva to express their support for their country, Syria, its...
Lobbying Act will have a devastating effect on unions
TRADE union leaders were silent on proposing any action on Thursday despite a vote taken in the House of Lords on Tuesday being a...
Tory MPs rebel while cringing Labour saves Cameron and Osborne
AFTER all the fake sound and fury of parliamentary question time, with party leaders locked in apparent combat without quarter given or asked for,...
Israel’s Separation Wall is destroying livelihoods & dividing towns & people
THE Israeli Separation Wall will destroy the livelihoods and divide the population of two more Palestinian villages south of Jerusalem, locals say, after a...
Qe Tapering Leading To A Crash
WHAT started last week as a crisis in the international capitalist stock markets is turning into a full-scale crash with Wednesday’s decision by the...
A MAJOR ATTACK ON TRADE UNIONS – Lobbying Bill set...
AFTER the House of Lords accepted the Lobbying Bill by just one vote the bill is now set to become law. The TUC Congress 2013...
Ukrainian Stalinists giving way to EU-backed regime-change attempt
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...
Cameron dreams on while stock markets collapse
IN a radio interview yesterday morning the Tory prime minister, David Cameron, pronounced that the UK economy was seeing a ‘balanced economic recovery.’ All this...
Afghan Refugees Claim Their Boat Was Rammed By Greek Coastguard!
THREE Afghan refugees who survived last Monday’s wreckage of their boat off the Greek island of Farmakonisi in the eastern Aegean, emphatically and repeatedly...
Ukrainian Opposition Only Interested In Regime Change
THE offer of the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to ‘opposition leaders’ to take the premiership and other key positions in his elected government has...
Release Shrewsbury 24 papers demand MPs
MPs in the House of Commons on Thursday voted by 120 votes to three to demand that the government releases papers related to Shrewsbury...
‘Circling to take over NHS’ – TUC warns US healthcare...
US healthcare companies circling to take over the NHS are now ‘on notice’, says the TUC. Speaking after meeting EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht...
Drownings–Greece Accused!
THE shocking truth is slowly emerging of last Monday’s ‘several’ drownings of refugees off the Aegean island of Farmakonisi, close to the Turkish coast. The...
The Crisis In The Ukraine
THE imperialist-backed attempted coup to oust the Ukrainian government and replace it with a pro-imperialist regime, has now taken the open form of a...
Deeper Social Unrest Ahead
ALMOST 13% of young people worldwide are out of work, and their situation is unlikely to improve for four years, a report by the...
Greek journalists oppose new broadcaster which threatens 500 jobs
THE International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have expressed their deep concern about the Greek government’s ‘unacceptable’ plans...
Labour launches savage attack on unemployed!
LABOUR launched a new extreme attack on the unemployed yesterday, announcing that if they do not find a job within a year they will...
Forward To Workers Power In Egypt
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....
Shrimp farming in Bangladesh for $0.83 a day!
EVIDENCE of human rights and labour abuses taking place in the Bangladesh Shrimp industry is revealed in a report released on Thursday by the...
Education Crisis Deepens!
THERE was a 17% fall in the number of first-year undergraduates at UK universities in the first year of higher tuition fees, the latest...
War Crimes Dossier Launched At A Packed News Conference
A DOSSIER relating to a complaint delivered last Friday to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court regarding the responsibility of...
Osborne demands smash Welfare States throughout the EU
THE crisis of British capitalism deepened yesterday with Chancellor Osborne warning the EU ‘We can’t go on like this’, while the Ford motor company...
70% of NHS contracts going private
THE NHS Support Federation yesterday revealed that almost 70% of contracts for NHS services in England between April-December 2013 were awarded to private companies. THE...
Osborne Targets Eu Welfare
CHANCELLOR Osborne has called for an all-out EU-wide War on Welfare, demanding yesterday that the European Union must ‘do more’ to ensure economic competitiveness...
Labour-Tory Race To The Right!
TEACHERS will have to be re-licensed every few years or face the sack under a future Labour government. This is the just unveilled position of...
‘Terrible things were done in our name in Iraq!’ – UK...
A COMPLAINT has been launched to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court regarding the responsibility of UK officials...
New illegal Israeli settlement outposts in Hebron
ISRAELI settlers on Sunday began levelling a large tract of land in central Hebron in preparation for the construction of a new Jewish settlement...
RENATIONALISE RAIL – only answer to huge fare hikes
RAIL ticket price hikes of up to 5.1% came into force yesterday with the RMT, Unite and campaign groups calling for the re-nationalisation of...
Get rid of capitalism in 2014! New Year’s Statement by the...
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...
Unison condemns A&E charges for migrants
TORY-LIBDEM Coalition plans to charge fees to immigrants and overseas visitors attending District General Hospital Accident and Emergency Departments were condemned by Unison yesterday. ‘The...
Palestinian leadership says peace talks will fail!
THE Palestinian leadership in Ramallah is working on the basis that the peace talks with Israel will fail and that both sides know...