Tag: greece
REVOLUTIONARY MAY DAY! – News Line Editorial Board Statement
THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings on this May Day to the insurgent workers of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. The Iraqi insurgency...
Riot Police Launch Savage Savage Attacks On Athens Demonstration
Over 30,000 Greek students and lecturers demonstrating against the government’s Education Bill were viciously attacked by the armed riot police outside the Vouli (Greek...
Build The Greek Section Of The Fourth International!
TENS of thousands of students, teachers and trade unionists are expected to take to the streets of Athens and other major Greek cities on...
Greek Students And Teachers Are Determined To Win
TENS of thousands of students took part in two days of action in Greece last Wednesday and Thursday against the government’s proposed Higher Education...
Wealth redistribution in UK requires socialist revolution
UK child poverty levels are double those of 1979, after 27 years of the Thatcher, Major and Blair, Tory and Labour governments, while Brown...
Greek Student Occupations Take To The Streets
MORE than 15,000 students marched through Athens last Thursday demanding the withdrawal of the proposed revision of Article 16 of the Constitution, which would...
Thousands March In Athens
Thousands of university students and lecturers staged mass and militant rallies and demonstrations last Wednesday in all major cities against the government’s plans to...
2007 – The Year For Revolution!
THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings for the New Year of 2007 to the working class and youth of the world,...
Greek Students March Against Privatisation
TENS of thousands of students have been participating in a series of rallies and demonstrations all last week throughout Greece, protesting against the right-wing...
Police illegally held Fairford demonstrators
Civil rights organisation Liberty welcomed yesterday’s Law Lords ruling in favour of anti-war protesters who police stopped from travelling to a protest at RAF...
SMASH ALL FEES, RESTORE GRANTS –demand students
‘ONE, two, three, four – education, not war!’ ‘Five, six, seven, eight – occupy and demonstrate!’ shouted large contingents of students on Sunday’s national...
RESTORE FREE EDUCATION! – demand 25,000 marching students
‘IN GREECE and France they have changed things by taking to the streets – you can change things,’ University and College Union joint general...
Forward with the Greek socialist revolution
THE Greek working class remains undefeated as the clashes between teachers and students with the riot police in Salonica on Thursday have proven. The source...
Salonica Teachers Clash With Police
ANGRY teachers and students fought with police yesterday in Salonica, turning Tsimiski Street, a central highway of the city, into a battleground. The normally festive...
‘WE NEED THE REST OF THE WORKING CLASS BY OUR SIDE’...
YET more mass demonstrations were held on Wednesday in Athens and Salonica by state primary and secondary school teachers and their supporters in the...
World Capitalist Crisis Driving World Revolution
The US economy is at the centre of the worldwide capitalist economic crisis. It is in slump, with major industries, such as the motor car...
Greek Police Assault Teachers’ Leaders
Greek trade union leaders have called a general strike today after armed riot police furiously attacked teachers union leaders on Monday with batons and...
STOP DEPORTATIONS! – demands march for migrant workers
‘Stop deportations! Asylum rights are human rights! Equal rights for migrants!’ shouted over 500 people taking part in a March for Migrant Workers last...
Police Attack Greek Teachers
POLICE brutally attacked the large teachers’ rallies which were held in all major Greek cities on Monday, as the primary schools teachers entered the...
Greek Teachers Strike Continues
THE indefinite strike of Greek state nursery and primary school teachers, who are demanding higher salaries, is continuing. The leader of their umbrella organisation,...
20,000 Trade Unionists March Through Salonica
SOME 20,00 Greek trade unionists and workers staged a militant demonstration last Saturday in the northern city of Salonica where the Prime Minister Kostas...
Greek students defeat privatisation attack
THE Greek right-wing government has been forced to withdraw its plans to push through the Greek parliament, an Education Bill, and a revision of...
GREEK STUDENTS VICTORY! – Bill to privatise universities withdrawn
ON the eve of last Thursday’s student demonstrations, the Greek right-wing government withdrew plans to table in the Vouli (Greek parliament) the reactionary Education...
Thirty Day Countdown To Attack 0N Iran
DOWNING STREET denials that there is a meeting today of top military, state and government officials to discuss the implications of a US attack...
1.5 Million Take Strike Action
YESTERDAY’s massive one-day strike stopped whole regions of the UK, but is only the start of the campaign, local government workers warned. Striking local government...
WAR AN OPTION – Rumsfeld declares on Iran
United States defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that the military option against Iran was ‘on the table’. He said this would be...
To deal with MRSA – end NHS privatisation!
MRSA is now linked to nearly 1,000 deaths each year in NHS hospitals. There is no doubt that it is a product of the...
Hamas Landslide!
Jubilant Palestinian masses were yesterday celebrating the historic election victory of Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas. The final results declared at 5pm yesterday saw Hamas take...
BLAIR’S POLICE STATE POWERS – come in on Sunday January 1
‘These powers constitute a serious erosion of civil liberties in this country. They will change the relationship between the police and the individual fundamentally,’...
We Are Fighting Until We Win
LOCKED OUT Gate Gourmet workers received their monthly hardship payments of £228.80 from the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) yesterday. ‘We received it today...
Get British troops out of Iraq now!
PRIME Minister Tony Blair told troops in Basra on Thursday: ‘We want to draw down our forces. We don’t want to keep people here...
Irish Trade Unions Put The Tuc To Shame
LAST Friday, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions called a 100,000 strong national demonstration in Dublin, with demonstrations in many other Irish cities and...
IRANIAN DISASTER – 140 killed as plane crashes into flats
140 people were killed yesterday when an Iranian military aircraft crashed into a block of flats in a residential area in the south of...
Israel calls for the US to take action against Syria
SYRIA yesterday condemned the UN report into the assassination of the former Lebanese Premier, Hariri – a report which pointed the finger of blame...
Iraq and Afghanistan – imperialists coming under the hammer
US CASUALTIES are now mounting in both Afghanistan and Iraq, while at home the anti-war and anti-Bush movement is growing by leaps and bounds,...
Greek Telecom Pensions Crisis
Greek Telecom’s OME-OTE trade union leadership succeeded last weekend in pushing through the union’s congress a most reactionary agreement which had been worked out...
Seven Palestinians wounded in Al Aqsa clash
The Disengagement Administration bases its assessment on the fact that according to the disengagement law anybody not leaving by that date could lose tens...
VOTE WRP ON DECEMBER 12! BREAK WITH THE EU! FORWARD TO...
THE DECEMBER 12th election is a crisis election, in a situation where the worldwide crisis of capitalism is deepening rapidly to explosion point. Eleven...