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THE Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has broken ranks with the IMF and the World Bank and issued a grim warning to the ruling...

THE workers’ occupation of the Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) has led to the collapse of the Greek tripartite government. Foris Kouvelis, the...

IT REALLY doesn’t take very much to send the international capitalist money markets into a state of panic, as the US Federal Reserve chairman,...

NEWS LINE is pleased to publish extracts from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s interview with the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. Interviewer: ‘Mr President, you have...

THE leaders of the eleven TV, Radio and newspaper media trade unions issued a ‘Victory at ERT’ (Greek State TV and Radio network) statement...

TENS of thousands of workers and youth mass day and night in the grounds around the occupied Greek State TV and Radio (ERT) building...

BY DAVID VINE AURELIE Lisette Talate died last year at 70 of what members of her community call, in their creole language, sagren — profound...

OVER a million Greeks stopped work yesterday in a general strike while tens of thousands of Greek workers, unemployed and youth rallied in front...

THE news that the US secretary of state, John Kerry, was forced to scrap a planned visit to Israel in order to attend an...

ANTI-GOVERNMENT protesters confronting riot police in Istanbul’s Taksim Square and its adjoining Gezi Park yesterday, issued a call for Turkish citizens to join them...

WHEN it comes to desperate, mindless optimism the French president, Francois Hollande, is a world leader. In a speech given in Japan over the weekend,...

A legal opinion by a leading QC has found that the Government’s proposed changes to legal aid – for which the consultation closed this...

More than 80,000 new homes could be built in Britain each year if just half the total of £22,812m that was spent on housing...

The Turkish government split yesterday in the face of mass uprisings and a general strike by Turkish workers and youth. In Ankara, the Deputy...

THE uprising of the Turkish masses, which began over the future of a park in European Turkey and rapidly spread across the country, including...

PUBLIC Accounts Committee chairwoman Margaret Hodge has revealed that the Office For Fair Trading (OFT) ‘have never fined a lender for exploiting individual clients’. In...

THE news that the Obama regime is demanding the complete withdrawal of Hezbollah fighters from Syria marks a decisive development in the increasingly desperate...

THE German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned a Paris conference of French, German and Italian leaders on Tuesday that youth unemployment of almost 25%...

Europe’s economic crisis ‘could evolve into stagnation, with negative implications for the global economy’, the OECD warned yesterday. The 34-nation Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation...

INFORMATION Minister, Omran al-Zoubi, stressed on Monday that the regional US-Israeli scheme in Syria ‘is in the last throes and it has clinically...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says Russia is going ahead with deliveries of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to the Syrian army. The arms will help...

BRITISH Foreign Secretary Hague yesterday tried to get the EU to lift its arms embargo on the Syrian terrorist ‘rebels’ and to stoke up...

THE families of Iraqi civilians killed and tortured by British troops during the US-UK 2003 war and occupation have won a legal battle to...

THE sharp rises followed almost immediately by even bigger losses on the international stock markets over the past few days, point in only one...

WHEN the leaders of the Coalition are forced to pledge publicly that it will go the distance and will not split apart, the...

LORD Howe, who is credited with bringing Thatcher down, now seems to be about to perform the same service for PM David Cameron, with...

THE confrontation between Greek teachers and the Greek state and its EU masters has erupted this week after all teachers were served at the...

FOXCONN'S promise of facilitating a democratic trade union is only for their marketing image, says a research team based in several universities in the...

EVEN the Human Rights Watch group – veterans of the struggle to remove and liquidate the Gadaffi regime in Libya, and now immersed in...

‘The UK is responsible for one in five of the world’s tax havens – that’s more than any other country,’ stated Tax Justice Policy...

THE death toll from the collapse of the Dhaka building housing garment factories that workers were ordered back into, despite warnings, reached over 1,121...

THE Greek Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) has announced that unemployment reached 27% last February, while youth unemployment (15-24 years old) reached 64.2%, from 54.1% in...

PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday described his three-day working visit to Israel as the ‘start of a new era in bilateral relations’ saying he...

The crisis of European capitalism is so severe that it has driven the bourgeoisie to tear at each other’s throats in a frenzy of...

IN LINE with Obama’s policy of ‘leading from the rear’ (a tactic learnt after receiving some very, very harsh lessons in Iraq and Afghanistan),...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings on this 2013 May Day to the workers and the oppressed nations fighting imperialism throughout...

STUDENTS across Egypt took to the streets on Sunday in protest at the aggressive handling of student movements by security forces and university staff,...

THE arrest of the owner of the collapsed building in Dakha is just a tiny sop to the massive anger felt by Bangladeshi workers...

IN March 2003, the US-UK axis led by warmongers Bush and Blair – after claiming that there was irrefutable evidence that Iraq possessed weapons...

GILLES DE KERCHOVE, the EU’s anti-terror chief yesterday told the BBC that hundreds of Europeans are now fighting with the counter-revolutionary forces in Syria...

TODAY’S meeting of the TUC general council must get off the fence and call for an immediate all-out, indefinite general strike to bring down...

THE Hamas Movement has appealed to the Palestinian authority and the international groups in the occupied Palestinian lands to investigate news reports saying that...

LAST Friday, Fitch ratings agency became the second of the world’s three big credit agencies to strip Britain of its top notch triple-A credit...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad warned on Wednesday that the West will pay a heavy price for its support of Al-Qaeda in Syria. Assad, whose regime has...

HUNGER striker Samer Issawi called for ‘rage and solidarity’ from his prison cell on Palestinian Prisoners Day. Issawi wrote in a letter sent through his...