Tag: parliament

THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...

LABOUR right winger Owen Smith, in his desire to satisfy the big bosses and the bankers, is going even further than the Tories after...

TORY MP Andrew Bridgen yesterday claimed that Labour MPs who expect Jeremy Corbyn to retain the leadership of the party by winning...

GLOBAL union federation IndustriALL has repeated its call for full democracy in Turkey as a crackdown on fundamental rights escalates. It said: ‘In the wake...

CHILD refugees languishing in squalid conditions in camps in Calais without their parents or any family member to look after them urgently need...

THIS September, students in universities across the country are set to erupt in anger when they return after the £9,000 cap on university tuition...

EXETER University has been condemned both by its students’ guild and lecturers’ union after announcing yesterday that tuition fees are to increase to £9,250...

JUNIOR doctors are set to renew their strike action in a ‘rolling programme of escalated industrial action beginning in early September’. The new chair of...

PALESTINIAN prisoners have been hitting the headlines around the world with the escalating wave of hunger strikes for the release of high-profile prisoners in...

GRANTS were abolished yesterday leaving hundreds of thousands of poorer students with a stark choice: either spend the rest of your life in debt,...

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad confirmed yesterday that his government will pardon all ‘militants’ who turn in their weapons, stressing that the policy has been...

FIVE further days of strike action have been confirmed by train union RMT over the removal of all guards from Govia Thameslink trains. Driver...

THE UNITED Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) earlier this summer won a major battle in the courts that recognises the UE’s...

THE denigration of workers, wage payment systems of dubious legality and a disregard for health and safety law are among the catalogue of abuses...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn’s opponents within the Labour Party have stepped up their hysterical witch hunt against him, accusing him of ‘stirring up’ his...

LABOUR leader Corbyn was full of confidence as he opened his campaign to be re-elected as leader of the Labour Party yesterday. He said:...

NOW that the ‘Eagle’ has refused to fly as pledged, she has handed the baton, although just 25 votes behind and with votes still...

THE Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has welcomed the news that three Metropolitan Police officers are to face disciplinary proceedings following a racially motivated attack...

THE TORY government gave the ‘wrong impression’ about how much extra they are spending on the NHS, the Health Select Committee said. The committee disputed...

TURKEY’S President Erdogan has called the just concluded coup attempt that saw parliament bombed and 250 people killed ‘a gift from God... because this...

US officials refused to prosecute UK-based HSBC bank for money laundering in 2012 because of fears that it would cause a ‘global financial...

UNITE has warned that ‘shameful’ agency practices towards workers at Sports Direct have contributed to its falling profits and reputation. The high street retailer, which...

FOLLOWING publication of the Chilcot Report into the Iraq War, the families of British soldiers who were killed during the war are preparing to...

‘NO education cuts!’ chanted over 11,000 striking teachers, parents and supporters from London and the south east as they marched through central London to...

‘THIS demo is just the start, this strike is just the start,’ Kevin Courtney NUT acting General Secretary told a mass rally of teachers...

‘SCHOOLS are facing the worst cuts in funding since the 1970s,’ the NUT warned as teachers at every school in the country walked out...

A DISPUTE between workers in the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) and the South African Parliament is building. The workers are employees...

THE super-imperialist ambitions of the European Union (EU) have begun to emerge in the wake of its Brexit defeat in the UK. So far, its...

‘THERE are massive fights ahead as political and economic turmoil rages,’ the leader of the RMT railway workers’ union Mick Cash warned his union’s...

THE United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday condemned the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, stating the obvious that the siege inflicts pain...

‘I AM absolutely 100% behind Jeremy Corbyn,’ BFAWU Bakers Union General Secretary Ronnie Draper told News Line yesterday, as the attempted coup by a...

YESTERDAY British capitalism was rocked to its core as the consequences of the massive Brexit vote to leave the EU emerged. Tory leader Cameron...

DOCKWORKERS of the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki have completed one month of strike action against privatisation and consequent dramatic change...

ON THE second day of the ScotRail strike, the RMT revealed that the Dutch-state parent company and top bosses are raking it in at...

THE News Line and Workers Revolutionary Party extend our condolences to the family of Labour MP Jo Cox who was murdered in her West...

THE US and Israel have been engaged in intense negotiations for many months to outline America’s military aid to Israel for the next decade. Washington...

SPORTS Direct boss Mike Ashley admitted, during a grilling by a committee of MPs yesterday, that he was effectively paying warehouse workers less than...

UK Special Forces have been fighting on the frontline in Syria despite explicit assurances to parliament from Cameron that there would be ‘no...

THE massive strike movement against the Socialist Party-imposed anti-union laws is continuing in France with the railways due to take national strike action today...

THE Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection, Avi Gabay, has officially resigned in protest at the appointment of extremist politician Avigdor Lieberman as the regime’s...

THE sale of Tata’s UK steel business is being held up by the Indian parent company insisting any buyer has to take on a...

TORY Business Secretary Sajid Javid in his opening statement to parliament yesterday outlined the assault that he is organising on Tata steel workers’ pensions,...

‘SAVE Our Steel!’ shouted over one thousand steel workers as they marched through central London from the Embankment to Parliament yesterday afternoon. They were joined...

‘SAVE Our Steel!’ shouted over one thousand steel workers as they marched through central London from the Embankment to Parliament yesterday afternoon. They were joined...

STUDENT nurses, midwives and other NHS students lobbied parliament yesterday to demand that the Tories’ plan to abolish the student bursary and replace it...