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THE New Labour Brown government has come out as the true representative of the biggest banks, as befits a government that has doubled the...

THE Willie Walsh plan for rescuing BA from the capitalist crisis is quite straightforward. He has gone beyond wage cuts, he wants ‘his’ 40,000...

UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis yesterday pledged ‘our union will bring together an alliance of all public service unions’ to defend jobs and public...

Workers of Ship-Repair Yard 178 in Vladivostok began a strike on June 3rd 2009, demanding their pay. The workers have not had any money...

THE CWU Conference last Wednesday backed two emergency motions from the postal executive calling on the government to remove the threat of privatisation, facilitate...

‘GM workers in Luton should intensify their calls for a mass meeting to demand an immediate occupation,’ ex-Vauxhall convenor Arthur Lynn told News Line...

Business Secretary Mandelson yesterday admitted that he was unable to get any commitment from GM Europe’s preferred bidder Magna on saving jobs at the...

‘AN occupation now is the way forward for GM Luton and Vauxhall Ellesmere Port to defend jobs. A mass meeting at GM Luton is...

THE voice of the NHS managers spoke up yesterday. The NHS Confederation reported ‘The health service in England won’t survive unchanged’. This is doublespeak, for...

WORKERS attending for the Monday night shift at the General Motors van plant in Luton were shocked to be informed that all production would...

JOBS are now going in a huge avalanche. The Lloyds Banking Group, where the government has the major stake, is set to begin a...

WITH even more right-wing forces seeking to bring down the Brown government from the right, trade unions now have an opportunity to show their...

MORE tenants and residents of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle yesterday expressed their anger at the news that Evelyn Amahian and her...

BROWN has survived the resignations of Hutton, Purnell, Smith, Flint, Blears, Hoon and others, and remains Prime Minister for the moment. The next test comes...

JOHN Hutton, the fourth Labour Cabinet minister to quit in the past week, has left his post and will also quit as an MP,...

Prime Minister Brown held a press conference late afternoon yesterday to announce the cabinet changes in a hurried reshuffle following the resignations of five...

COMMUNITIES Secretary Hazel Blears has resigned from the cabinet, on the eve of the local government and EU elections, delivering a major blow to...

NEXT MONDAY June 1 GM will seek Section 11 Bankruptcy, cutting off GM Europe with less cash than is required to see the week...

THE News Line salutes the heroic self-sacrifice of the Tamil Tigers and the Tamil people as a whole. They have fought and are fighting not...

Over 600 lecturers, college staff and their supporters marched through north London on Saturday in defence of education.Over 600 lecturers, college staff and their...

THAT an ex-SAS officer from the 1970s, with current military-police commissioner connections through his succession of security businesses, as well as ‘strong connections to...

Supported by the IUF-affiliated National Federation of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Workers of Pakistan, over 700 contract agency workers at Unilever’s last directly-owned and...

Thousands of construction workers around the UK have walked out in support of 200 workers who began a wildcat strike on Tuesday at the...

HOUSE of Commons Speaker Michael Martin announced that he intends to stand down on June 21, so becoming the first Commons Speaker to be...

OVER 100 trade unionists, workers and youth attended the News Line – All Trades Unions Alliance meeting in Red Lion Square in Central London...

AROUND 5,000 people marched from the University of London Union (ULU) to Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday, to mark the 61st anniversary...

GENERAL Motors is about to end its ‘honeymoon’ relations with the US motor workers’ trade union, the UAW. Up till now the UAW leaders have...

WHILE workers today are marching in Birmingham to defend their jobs, their leaders are marching along with Lord Digby Jones, the Tory ex-CBI chief...

PRESIDENT Obama said one thing before his election, and now he is saying something else altogether. During his campaign he stood up against the torture...

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday said that its 16,000-strong Royal Mail membership in London, covering 159 workplaces in the Greater London...

IN its latest report the Bank of England monetary committee has rejected the line put forward in the budget by the Chancellor of the...

THE decaying and gangrenous state of bourgeois democracy and its parliamentary system has been more than revealed by the expenses scandals that are racking...

IN MARCH, the Healthcare Commission reported that emergency care at Mid Staffordshire Hospital was ‘appalling’. It’s in-depth investigation discovered excess patient deaths of 400...

MORE than 300 parents, teachers, students and schoolchildren marched through the centre of Lewisham, south-east London, on Saturday to save Lewisham Bridge Primary School. The...

‘We are not going to take this lightly. We will do whatever has to be done to hold on to every part of the...

OVER the past week, lecturers have been on strike against sackings, parents are occupying schools to stop their closure, and students, angry at high...

A DECADE ago, on May 7, 1999, Chancellor Gordon Brown announced plans to sell off a large part of Britain’s gold reserves. This was...

THE British capitalist economy and government finances are in a worse state than Chancellor Alistair Darling led everyone to believe when he delivered his...

MILLIONS of workers took to the streets on May Day in countries throughout the world, from Los Angeles to London, Havana to Harare. Several May...

TWO ex-Labour government leaders Clarke and Blunkett have now spoken up, true to form, to stab Prime Minister Brown in the back, just as...

‘WHAT happened to us could have happened to anyone!’ This is what Visteon shop steward Raymond Dixon told the crowd in Trafalgar Square at the...

THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its May Day greetings to the working people of the world. Under the conditions of the greatest...

LDV, the Birmingham van factory said yesterday it would continue to look for funding until 6 May when it is due to formally go...

A DELEGATION of workers who have been occupying the Visteon auto parts plant in Belfast for the last month have been invited to help...

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) yesterday warned that Royal Mail were planning sacking between eight and twenty per cent of the workforce, with London...