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SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad said that France, Britain, and the US, along with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are responsible for the war in...

THE LONDON May Day Rally of over 5,000 workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square in central London...

THE EDITORIAL Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings to the working class of the world. We salute in particular the heroic struggle...

THERE is a growing demoralisation in the ranks of the paid propagandists for British capitalism about the prospects for the British ruling class. Two important...

THOUSANDS of striking electricity, industrial and hospital workers met up with protesting pensioners in the streets of Athens last Wednesday, as they all marched...

A DEMONSTRATION on Saturday of over 2,000 people shouted their support for Palestine in solidarity with the ‘Great March of Return’ in Gaza and...

GREEK riot police attacked last Friday, with tear gas, a 3,000-strong Athens march of teachers and university students who were demanding the staffing of...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn’s speech yesterday defining Labour’s position on Brexit negotiations was nothing more than an abject and cowardly surrender to the bosses...

WARRING TORY Cabinet Ministers are set to deliver a series of speeches on the ‘road to Brexit’ culminating with one by PM May within...

GREEK hospital workers and dockers went on a 24-hour national strike last Thursday against the government’s plans of wage cuts, ‘flexible’ labour contracts and...

WILLIAM WHITE, the head of the OECD’s review body, warned before the Davos Summit on Monday that: ‘All the market indicators right now look...

EX-UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that ‘we should have a second referendum on EU membership.’ This is the biggest personal surrender note for...

SCHOOLCHILDREN and students across Greece protested on Monday against cutbacks to the education sector, and the ‘intensification of performance evaluation’ which is part of...

RICHARD SHARP, a member of the Bank of England’s Financial Stability Committee has warned that the UK is heading for a Venezuelan-style economic crash...

WORKERS at six Amazon distribution centres in Germany and one in Italy began a 24-hour strike on Friday, in a protest timed to coincide...

FOLLOWING 17m plus workers voting to ‘Leave’ in the 2016 EU Referendum, the UK is leaving the EU on March 29th 2019, two years...

THIS WEEK the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued another warning that the world capitalist financial system is on the verge of a gigantic...

THE arrival of Prime Minister Ram Hamdallah and an Egyptian delegation as part of a fresh attempt to restore Palestinian national unity dominated the...

OPENING the public sector pay debate at the 149th Trades Union Congress in Brighton on Monday afternoon, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis moved composite...

PERHAPS the Palestinian folk singer Mohammad Barghouti, 23, did not know that he is going to end up in an Israeli jail because of...

THE GIGANTIC farce of the Brexit negotiations hit a brick wall this week with EU officials accusing the British of failing to reveal its...

THE Labour Party leadership has moved to sell out and stab the Brexit referendum result and the working class in the back. Keir Starmer, Labour’s...

A FRENCH farmer hailed as a hero by campaigners for helping refugees enter France ‘illegally’ has been given a four-month suspended jail sentence, after...

THE Brexit negotiations have just begun and already it is being spelt out to the UK ruling class that the ‘divorce settlement’ that...

The US is on the verge of slipping below bankrupt Greece on a world index of wealth inequality – this is the stark conclusion...

THE Tory party leadership is now breaking apart at the seams with information about the leadership battle being leaked by the different contenders and...

THE G20 has concluded with the imperialist powers at each others’ throats after being under permanent siege by tens of thousands of anti-capitalist youth. The...

AUSTRIA is ready to deploy troops and armour at the Brenner Pass – the border crossing with Italy – if the influx of refugees...

Adults in the Room MY BATTLE WITH EUROPE’S DEEP ESTABLISHMENT Yanis Varoufakis Publisher: The Bodley head Price £20 Varoufakis was the professor of economics and expert at ‘game theory’ who...

PM MAY unveiled the Tory election manifesto yesterday in Halifax as she dumped Cameron’s policy towards the elderly and instead gave them a good...

LABOUR’S leaked General Election Manifesto starts with a declaration that ‘Labour understands that wealth creation is a collective endeavour – between investors, workers, public...

THE leaked draft of Labour’s election manifesto yesterday brought out the predictable headlines in the press warning of the dangerous ‘socialist’ Jeremy Corbyn. But a...

THE working class must kick out the Tories on June 8th and return Labour to government to set the scene for the struggle for...

YOUTH across Europe are a revolutionary force that are ready to rise up against the ‘generation in power’ in their countries and in the...

THE attempt of the political representatives of the EU to make the UK working class stand and deliver up to, or even over, 100bn...

‘WE WERE marching with our banner “100 years of the Russian Revolution, for the World October”,’ WRP candidate for Hackney South Jonty Leff told...

MAY DAY marches throughout the EU were full of explosive class tensions reflecting the battle that workers are waging to defend their living standards and...

THE leaders of the EU took just one minute of discussion last Saturday to agree on imposing measures designed to beat the Tory government...

THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the youth of the world. This year’s May Day is...

THE wiping out of the Socialist Party and the Republican Party in France, the ruination of the Fifth Republic and the elevation of the...

IMPRISONED Palestinian parliamentarian and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi, who has been leading a large-scale hunger strike in Israeli prisons, has suffered a serious deterioration...

LAST Friday night, a racist gang attacked and seriously injured a teenage asylum seeker in Croydon. The Kurdish Iranian boy, age 17, was waiting with...

PRIME Minister May in her letter to EU President Tusk has described the invoking of Article 50 to begin the UK’s withdrawal from the...

THE LEADER of the Scottish Nationalist Party, Nicola Sturgeon, dropped a bombshell yesterday with her announcement that she intends to push through a vote...

THE Brexit Secretary Davis yesterday urged MPs not to ‘tie the prime minister’s hands’ and to defeat the two House of Lords amendments to...