Tag: protest
Answer Johnson’s war on the right to strike with a general...
HOURS after winning the December 12 election, Tory leader Johnson at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in central London announced that ‘We now speak...
Unions unite to defend RIGHT TO STRIKE!
OVER one hundred RMT members, along with members of the PCS, UCU and Unite rallied outside Parliament yesterday to defend the right to strike.
This...
Tories declare war on trade unions – defend the right to...
TODAY’S Queen’s speech includes plans by the Tories to make all-out strikes by rail unions and other transport workers illegal.
Tory transport secretary Grant Shapps...
‘Day of Rage!’ Mass pension strike shuts France down!
FRANCE was totally paralysed yesterday with flights, trains, the Metro and buses all cancelled during the mass ‘Day of Rage’ over President Emmanuel Macron’s...
Algerians Boycott Presidential Election
On 12 December Algerians went to the polls to elect a new president – or did they? Millions boycotted the election, which they saw...
Forcing Boeing to halt 737 Max production threatens to crash US...
THE GIANT US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has finally called a halt to all production of its 737 Max aircraft after the Federal Aviation Administration...
NHS ‘RECONFIGURATION’ IS CLOSING HOSPITALS! – GP role being changed from...
THE NHS was a key issue in the general election.
US-HMO-style (Health Maintenance Organisations) integrated care systems are being set up all over England.
Provided largely...
Israel Bars Gaza Christians From Holy Sites This Xmas In...
CHRISTIANS from the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy sites in Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year, the so-called...
Netanyahu’s crisis deepens! – remains Premier but relinquishes positions
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to relinquish the four ministerial positions he currently holds in the face of his indictment on charges...
The Massive Human Price Of Boeing’s Profits – The Only Solution...
THE US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has the responsibility for aircraft safety, did nothing to ground Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft despite their own...
Turkey-Libya Deal On Maritime Boundaries And Military Cooperation Alarms Greece &...
TURKEY and Libya have begun implementing agreements on maritime boundaries and military cooperation – inciting an angry reaction from Greece which insists that the...
China rejects all Israeli measures aimed at annexing the Jordan Valley...
CHINA’S new special envoy on Middle East affairs, ambassador Zhai Jun, confirmed today his country’s rejection of all Israeli measures aimed at annexing the...
Tens Of Thousands March Against Athens Riot Police
TENS of thousands of school and university students demonstrated last Friday in Athens and in all Greek major cities against the oppression and violence...
Forward with the French, British and German workers to bring down...
WITH millions of workers and youth on strike or taking to the streets, where they have been joined by the masses of the Yellow...
FRANCE PARALYSED BY GENERAL STRIKE! – as workers defend pensions
FRANCE is paralysed by a nationwide general strike by transport workers, teachers and other trade unions, supported by the mass of the working population.
This...
French General Strike As Working Class Defends Its Pension Rights Against...
FRANCE yesterday was paralysed by a general strike called by the trade unions in response to the attempts by the government of president Macron...
Striking Catering Workers Arrested Across USA!
STRIKING catering workers employed by LSG Sky Chefs and Gate Gourmet were arrested at airports across the United States on November 26 as they...
Iranian Navy to hold joint war games with Russia and China...
THE COMMANDER of the Iranian Navy, Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi, announced on Tuesday that his country’s naval forces are due to hold joint war...
AMAZON MUST BE NATIONALISED! – WRP’s Leff tells HQ rally
‘AMAZON and all companies and industries must be nationalised and put under public ownership,’ Jonty Leff, Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Hackney South and...
Long live the Iraqi, Lebanese and Palestinian revolutions! Drive the imperialists...
IRAQI government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi told the official Iraqi News Agency on Saturday that the authorities are going to issue arrest warrants for a...
Ramaphosa is under fire for sacking twenty-two farm workers!
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa might soon find himself embroiled in a Labour Court battle as Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) is set to take...
Unions For Cuba Conference
ON Saturday 2 November, more than 200 trade unionists and activists attended CSC’s Unions for Cuba conference at the NEU headquarters in London.
The largest...
West Bank Explodes As Abu Diyak Dies In Israeli Jail!
HEEDING the calls by political factions, mainly President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, thousands of Palestinians rallied in several West Bank city centres to protest...
‘A Revolution In Britain Will Be A Decisive Step In The...
‘THIS ISN’T a general election, it’s a general strike building up,’ News Line editor Jonty Leff told Sunday’s powerful over 100-strong News Line Anniversary...
Celebrate the News Line and build the WRP to bring in...
JONTY LEFF News Line editor told the News Line 50th Anniversary Rally, ‘TODAY we celebrate 50 years of the News Line, the only daily...
NHS – Unison Serves Strike Notice!
UNISON has served notice of the first week of industrial action on health and social services employers across Northern Ireland.
Phase 1 of the Unison...
‘After years of fighting SA domestic workers are closer to being...
‘ANYTHING can happen,’ says domestic worker Florence Sosiba. ‘I am sitting here in the house. A criminal can come. I am the victim. My...
Israeli Terrorists Are Being Given A Free Hand To Blind Palestinian...
THE Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh showed solidarity with photojournalist Moath Amarneh during the Palestinian cabinet meeting yesterday in the occupied West Bank city...
‘Iran Does Not Want Peace’ Says Pompeo
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo has claimed that Iran is behind the latest bout of violence triggered by Israel’s assassination of a top...
The coup d’etat in Bolivia! – Statement by the Bartolina Sisa...
‘FOR many years the extreme right in Bolivia, based in the oil and gas rich east of the country and very much controlled by...
Greek students march against riot police
SEVERAL thousand Greek university students marched victoriously and defiantly on Monday night in Athens after they had forced the armed riot police ‘storm-troopers’ off...
French police storm refugee camps in northern Paris
FRENCH police stormed the make-shift refugees camps in northern Paris, tearing down tents and ‘escorting’ families and individuals on to coaches.
French police forcibly evicted...
RMT–27 Days Of Strike Action On Swr In Defence Of Guards...
THE RMT announced on Tuesday that its members on South Western Railway (SWR) will be holding a further 27 days of strike action in...
US-Led Coalition Conducted 34,573 Air Strikes In Iraq And Syria Between...
THE US-UK-led military coalition reported on September 26 that it had conducted a total of 34,573 airstrikes in both Iraq and Syria between August...
Algerian riot police invade court to attack judges!
Algerian riot police clashed with judges participating in a nationwide strike on Sunday in the north-western port city of Oran.
The judges are pushing for...
VOTE WRP ON DECEMBER 12! BREAK WITH THE EU! FORWARD TO...
THE DECEMBER 12th election is a crisis election, in a situation where the worldwide crisis of capitalism is deepening rapidly to explosion point. Eleven...
South African NUM to march against privatisation of electricity
THE South African NUM (National Union of Mineworkers) has said it will march on the imminent meeting of the ANC National Executive Council, as...
Corbyn must dump ‘Remain’ and insist on socialist policies to win...
TUESDAY night’s vote in parliament calling a general election on December 12 revealed that the Labour Party is split from top to bottom.
In the...
Israeli settlers stone Palestinian family, steal olive harvest and destroy trees
Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian family with stones as they were picking olives on their own land near the village of Rujib, to the...
Uni treating workers like slaves! – NUMSA mass picket
AT THE end of last week, members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) staged a mass picket at the University...
Eyewitness Account Of Assange In Court
News Line is pleased to reproduce the following account, by Craig Murray, former Brtish ambassador to Uzbekistan, of the court appearance of WikiLeaks founder...
Don’t Extradite Assange!
THE EXTRADITION hearing of Julian Assange at Westminster Magistrates Court on Monday morning brought a crowd of over a hundred demonstrators which was doubled...
Chile erupts as youth and workers take on the military in...
CHILE erupted over the weekend, with mass demonstrations and riots spreading from the capital Santiago to other major cities, as workers and youth rose...
Assange fights extradition in court
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange appeared in court in London yesterday looking very unwell after spending months languishing in Belmarsh Prison where he has been...
Labour MPs must vote to break from the EU today, and...
ON THURSDAY morning, the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and Tory PM Johnson announced a Brexit deal. After three years, the EU...
GREEK DOCTORS DEMAND ‘PUT AN END TO PRIVATE SECTOR’ – fill...
THE Greek National Health Service doctors’ union OENGE has called on all doctors, trades unions, trades councils and social association to ‘organise jointly mobilisations...
