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Turning the Tide – The 1966 seamen’s strike and the making of modern maritime trade unionism. An RMT pamphlet, available free from RMT head...

THE Howard League for Penal Reform yesterday responded to a written statement by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Michael Gove,...

OVER 30,000 workers, unemployed, youth and students, lawyers, small shop keepers and poor farmers filled up the large square in front of the Vouli...

FIERCE battles took place outside the Greek parliament building (the Vouli) on Sunday night as riot police attacked the 30,000 youth, workers and poor...

A TWO day nationwide strike of lecturers at every university in the country has been called in an escalating row over pay, the University...

JUST over a month ago, Tory prime minister David Cameron announced that hundreds of extra armed police would be sent around the country to...

WORKERS in Greece staged a militant two-day general strike last Friday and Saturday against the government’s Pensions and Tax Reforms Bill that crushes the...

THE police watchdog is considering releasing an unredacted version of its review of South Yorkshire Police’s handling of events at the Battle of Orgreave...

PULITZER Prize-winning novelist, prominent Jewish-American author Michael Chabon says the Israeli oppression of Palestinians is worse than the apartheid system in South Africa. Chabon accompanied...

THE Egyptian government should legalise independent trade unions, Human Rights Watch said last Sunday, May 1st, International Workers’ Day. What has emerged is that police...

THE Pitchford Inquiry into police undercover operations directed against various protest movements – trades unions, political movements and MPs – is to be gagged...

CRUCIAL parts of an inquiry into undercover police spies who spent years embedded in political movements are to be heard in secret in order...

MAY DAY in France erupted into state-organised violence when riot police attacked workers and youth in what was a blatant attempt to crack down...

PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat slammed Israel’s official rejection of the upcoming French initiative as a ‘reaffirmation of the Israeli government’s decision to continue...

THE Editorial Board of the News Line sends its revolutionary greetings on May Day 2016 to the workers and the oppressed people of the...

‘TODAY we honour Nelson Mandela and share the joy of our sisters and brothers in South Africa,’ Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said in...

THE latest two-day strike action of the junior doctors has been a resounding success with massive picket lines, and huge public support, while the...

THERE is not the slightest doubt that the Tories, headed by Cameron, Osborne and Hunt, have picked their quarrel with the junior doctors. It is...

IT’S a shame that the All in a Day’s Work book of interviews, recording lives and the struggles of west London workers from 1945-1995,...

All in a Day’s Work Working Lives and Trade Unions in West London 1945-1995 Published by the Britain at Work Project £12.80 with p&p ALL in a Day’s...

THIS MORNING for the first time in history, junior doctors launch their full walk-out, taking the government head on. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded yesterday...

ON April 21, Ireland held a State ceremony commemorating 100 years since Roger Casement landed at Banna Strand in Kerry as...

GREEK journalists employed in newspapers are on a national 48-hour strike this Thursday and Friday, while journalists on radio and television are staging their...

BOMBARDIER has upped its jobs massacre programme in Belfast, with an even greater number of sackings to take place this year. The aerospace company said...

NATO and Russia held ‘frank and serious’ talks despite ‘profound disagreements’ as their ambassadors met on Wednesday for the first time since 2014, alliance...

Four years after the tortured, lifeless body of Bangladesh garment worker – organiser Aminul Islam – was discovered in a ditch, his killers have...

‘THE incarceration and torture of political prisoners is an outright breach of International Humanitarian Law,’ says Palestinian ambassador to the UK, Manuel Hassassian. ‘Israel acts...

THE alleged architect of the construction ‘blacklisting’ scandal, Cullum McAlpine, has declined to give evidence in the High Court case, due to start next...

SYRIANS were voting in parliamentary elections yesterday, with the ceasefire holding and the Syrian government gaining more ground against terrorists in the war-hit country. Over...

AT the Idomeni crossing from Greece into Macedonia refugees are clashing with Macedonian soldiers and police, as they try to reopen the border near...

EXTREMIST Israeli settlers on Sunday spray-painted racist anti-Arab graffiti on the walls of a Jewish synagogue in Safed, in northern Israel, according to local...

THERE is no end in sight to the strike at South African retail giant Shoprite’s distribution centre in Centurion, Gauteng Province, with workers vowing...

OVER 1,500 people marched on Saturday to oppose Lambeth Council’s closure of five of the ten libraries in the borough. The people from Carnegie...

‘SUPPORT junior doctors! Save the NHS! Let’s stop this unfair, untested and unsafe contract from being imposed. This contract is bad for patient...

ON every front – the economic, the political and the ideological – the capitalist ruling classes and their system are reeling and in desperate...

JUNIOR doctors will walk out on their fourth strike at 8am this morning and form picket lines outside every hospital in the country, as...

STEELWORKERS’ representatives from the Community, Unite and GMB trade unions met at the TUC yesterday to demand action to save their jobs and industry. They...

THE Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union (Amcu) yesterday served notice of its intention to strike from Wednesday at the facilities of Sibanye Gold...

MIGRANT workers building Khalifa International Stadium in Doha for the 2022 World Cup have suffered systematic abuses, in some cases forced labour, Amnesty International...

OVER 1,000 mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees marched last Wednesday through the Athens city centre to the EU Offices in Greece demanding free and...

THE decision by the bosses to sell off Tata Steel is one that will lead not just to poverty for 19,000 workers and...

SECRETARY General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, has requested the United Nations initiates an official investigation into Israeli extrajudicial killings of...

THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference in Brighton yesterday voted unanimously for the scrapping of the Tory ‘Prevent Strategy’. Delegates condemned the government’s...

ISRAELI forces yesterday made preparations for the punitive demolition of the family houses of three Palestinians suspected of carrying out a fatal attack outside...

This Easter is the centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin of 1916.. In Britain’s first, and indeed its last, imperialist dominion the flag of...