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Tories & Labour are punished in council elections for refusing to...
BOTH the Tories and Labour suffered huge defeats in the council elections yesterday for their cowardly refusal to implement the 2016 EU referendum result. Polls...
Workers across the world rise up on May Day – Forward...
May Day erupted across Europe and the entire world this year in an unprecedented and revolutionary uprising of workers and youth against an international...
‘Break with EU now’ demands May Day meeting
Following the May Day march last Wednesday, 1st May, the Workers Revolutionary Party and the Young Socialists, held a lively meeting in Covent Garden. Chairman Jonty...
Get out of the EU now! – RMT’s Cash tells May...
‘GET OUT of the EU now,’ RMT general secretary Mick Cash told the May Day rally in Trafalgar Square at the end of the...
DON’T INVEST IN ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS! – Palestinians issue a warning
THE PALESTINIAN Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has warned Israeli and international companies against investing in the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied...
Renault halt operations in South Korea
RENAULT Samsung halted operations at its only plant in South Korea on Monday and Tuesday amid a drawn-out dispute with the plant’s labour union...
Quit the EU! Forward to a workers government! – WRP...
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the poor of the world. We send our revolutionary greetings...
HS2 workers Euston protest
CONSTRUCTION workers held a demonstration at the troubled HS2, Costain/Skanska Joint Venture (CSJV) at Euston Station in central London last Friday, as concerns grow...
Watson and Starmer move against Corbyn
DEPUTY Labour leader Tom Watson and Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer, along with union leaders, are pushing for a second referendum in a move...
Tories face ‘historic defeat’ in elections – forward to kicking them...
THE TORIES face a ‘historic defeat’ in Thursday’s local elections, with a top Tory polling expert predicting they are on course to lose over...
‘LEGAL AID DESERTS’ half of councils have no legal aid for...
OVER 50% of local authorities in England and Wales cannot provide publicly funded legal advice on housing issues, the Law Society warned yesterday as...
Homeless deaths up 25% Rough sleeping up 165%
THE NUMBER of homeless people dying on the streets of England has dramatically increased by 25% over five years, while the sheer scale of...
Tory racist attack on
34,000 FOREIGN students have had their visas cancelled and over 1,000 have been kicked out of the country as a result of the racist...
30,000 US Stop & Shop supermarket workers win 10-day strike
The largest private sector strike in the USA in years ended in victory last week, with more than 30,000 Stop & Shop supermarket workers...
Tory MPs demand May resigns while Labour refuses to call for...
THERESA May returned from her Easter break to face Tory MPs united in demanding her resignation. Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee, met...
Armed intruders infiltrate mines in South Africa AMCU demands
THE SOUTH African Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) says it is ‘wary of armed intruders accessing mines where its members work.’ AMCU has...
No To Cheap Labour Teachers!
TWO TEACHING unions have strongly criticised a minimum wage internship for teachers run by Stranmillis University College in Belfast. The NASUWT said the scheme should...
Children subjected to horrific pain and torture techniques. End UK state...
CHILDREN locked up in the UK are subjected to horrific pain, inhuman and degrading treatment, cruel restraining techniques and solitary confinement, a damning report...
Upfront fees deter patients – Immigrants denied cancer treatment says BMA
PATIENTS from other countries are failing to get the urgent cancer treatment they need, because of upfront fees. These fees are ‘deterring immigrants from...
WITH THE TORIES COLLAPSING, THE BANKERS HOLD TALKS WITH SHADOW...
AN ARTICLE in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph revealed that a series of behind-the-scenes meetings has been taking place between members of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet...
Trade union members beaten by thugs in Bangladesh confectionary factory
THUGS, allegedly supplied by a labour contractor at Netherlands-based global confectioner Perfetti Van Melle’s factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh, launched an organised attack on union...
HS2 ‘rats’ on construction workers
THE HIGH Speed 2 (HS2) contractor has ‘ratted on overtime agreements’ the Unite union alleged yesterday. Unite, which represents construction workers building the line, expressed...
Grenfell Tower survivors threatened with eviction
MAHAD Egal, Jamie Murray and their two young children, who survived the Grenfell Tower fire, like so many others have still not been permanently...
Duncan Smith Condemns The May EU Elections!
FORMER Tory Party leader Iain Duncan Smith called for Prime Minister Theresa May to quit before the European elections in May. Appearing on Sky’s Sophy...
TORIES FACE WIPE OUT – WHILE LABOUR MPs PLAN EU ELECTIONS...
WITH THE EUROPEAN ELECTIONS fast approaching, the bourgeois democratic system through which the capitalist ruling class has ruled over the working class in the...
‘President Sanders’ would ban anti-union ‘right-to-work laws’
US SENATOR Bernie Sanders, who has said he intends to run the first unionised Presidential campaign in history, announced last Monday a policy proposal...
Numsa Forging Ahead With Month Long Arcelormittal Strike Action
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said last Wednesday that it is forging ahead with a month-long strike at the local...
Free Assange and Manning! The imperialists must be put on trial...
BRITISH police entered the Ecuadorian embassy in central London on Thursday, which is technically Ecuadorian territory, arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Australian who...
Kurdish indefinite hunger strike!
ON Wednesday News Line visited the hunger strikers at the Kurdish Assembly in Haringey. It was the 27th day of their indefinite strike having joined...
Labour’s warm welcome for May!
THE ONLY MP in the House of Commons to call for Tory PM May to resign yesterday was a Tory. William Cash Tory MP for...
Boycott the EU elections and force a break with the EU...
BOTH the sheer bankruptcy of British capitalism and the impotence of Tory Prime Minister Theresa May were on public display on Wednesday night as...
‘LEAVE NOW’ DEMAND MAY’S MPs – as Tory split widens
DURING the House of Commons Prime Ministers Questions yesterday, both Tory PM May and Labour leader Corbyn avoided the burning issue of the hour,...
May humiliated and powerless – only socialist revolution can achieve...
ON TUESDAY night, Theresa May suffered yet one more humiliation at the hands of her own party when almost 100 Tory MPs voted against...
Parliament Votes Lords Resolution Banning Any UK ‘No Deal’ Into Law!
THE HOUSE of Commons on Monday night voted by 390 votes to 81 to turn a House of Lords resolution into legislation that bans...
ISS cleaners protest today in Manchester
cleaners working for ISS on the Arriva Rail North contract will be holding a protest today, Wednesday 10th April, outside Manchester Victoria station between...
LABOUR WILL VOTE TO REVOKE ARTICLE 50 – rather than...
THE LABOUR Party would ‘consider very, very strongly’ voting to revoke Article 50 to block a no-deal Brexit this Friday, Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca...
Right wing Labour wants to make sure that the UK never...
IN LAST Friday’s letter to EU President Donald Tusk the Prime Minister, Theresa May, made it very clear that she had surrendered to the...
May begs EU for further delay! Workers must rise for a...
TORY PM Theresa May has written to the President of the European Council Donald Tusk begging for yet another delay to Brexit, this time...
‘Labour brokers are bloodsuckers’ – Irvin Jim at SRWP election rally
THE SOCIALIST Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) of South Africa was founded in March this year as a communist, Marxist-Leninist party, after a pre-launch convention...
NHS England threatened hospital with legal action to force privatisation through
IT EMERGED this week that NHS England in August last year took the unprecedented step of threatening legal action against a hospital in order...
Defeat The May-Corbyn Pact To Knife Brexit – No To A...
TORY Prime Minister May emerged from her meeting with her cabinet on Tuesday and immediately issued a letter to every Tory MP calculated to...
INDICATIVE VOTES ARE REJECTED FOR A SECOND TIME – UK MUST...
THE PLAN for a parliamentary coup against the 2016 Referendum result, that instructed the government to leave the EU, by forcing through the House...
5,000 Deaths A Year Linked To Asbestos Exposure!
FIVE thousand deaths every year in Britain are linked to past asbestos exposure, but people are still being exposed to it today, warns the...
Parliament taking control from government!
‘THE APPROACH to today’s business sets an extremely concerning precedent for our democracy,’ Tory leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom said yesterday,...
10,000 SA workers indefinite strike
NEARLY 10,000 workers employed by the South African Revenue Services (SARS) began indefinite strike action last Thursday to fight for an 11.4% salary increase. Members...