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THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) 10th National Congress, held on 12th to 15th December in Cape Town issued a...

SOUTH African trade union federation COSATU has endorsed Cyril Ramaphosa to become the new leader of the ANC to replace Zuma. Former leader of...

THE LEADERS of a new trade union federation as an alternative to the Congress for South African Trade Unions (COSATU) have targeted the last...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has rejected and expressed disgust at the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions’ (COSATU) endorsement...

A POWERFUL News Line 47th Anniversary and 76th Anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s Assassination Rally, with 200 workers, students and youth in attendance, was held...

SOUTH Africa’s ruling ANC has dismissed a call by its chief whip, Jackson Mthembu, for the party’s NEC to resign in the wake of...

A REPORT released yesterday by the Iraq Fatality Investigations, led by former High Court judge George Newman, has condemned the actions of four British...

IN recent editions of the News Line we have reproduced in full a speech delivered by Zwelinzima Vavi, former general secretary of the Confederation...

‘THE STRIKE will continue at Telkom!’ South African Communication Workers Union (CWU) vowed on Tuesday, despite the company trying to drive its employees...

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

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

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

A STRIKE wave is spreading throughout South Africa as concrete workers, Telecom workers and miners are locked into escalating struggles against ruthless employers that...

CELTIC FANS displayed Palestinian flags in a demonstration against Apartheid Israel last Wednesday night, 17th August, during the Celtic v Hapoel Be’er Sheva match. Campaigners...

LONMIN workers on Tuesday gathered at the Marikana koppie near Nkaneng informal settlement to pay tribute to their 34 colleagues who were gunned down...

A STRIKE wave is gripping South Africa with fishermen, media workers and fuel industry and electricity workers taking action. In an eleventh hour decision ...

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...

‘IT is shameful that, as one of the richest economies, the UK has provided shelter for less than one per cent of refugees,’...

TWO THOUSAND people marched through the centre of London on Sunday demanding an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine as part of the...

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...

WORKERS in the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the National Transport Movement and the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union, on...

AS SOON as the 2016 bargaining negotiation began, it became clear that the National Union of Metalworkers SA (NUMSA) had been proved right to...

AN INVESTIGATION is being launched which will examine the activities of an MI5 agent known as ‘Stakeknife’ who has been linked to 50 murders...

‘MONOPOLY capitalism is plunging the country into a catastrophic crisis, which will inflict misery upon millions of workers and the poor,’ the National Union...

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...

WORKERS and youth on the 10,000-strong May Day march in London on Sunday expressed their determination to defend the NHS and the Welfare State. Many...

OVER 10,000 trade unionists and youth took part in the London May Day march yesterday from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square. As well as trade...

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

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...

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

‘MARCH 21 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, a day to reflect on racism in our communities and redouble our...

THE trajectory of the 2016 Budget delivered by Pravin Gordhan continued to sing to the tune of international and local finance capital, white monopoly...

STRIKE action is looming for the Cape Peninsula University of Technology after talks with workers over salary and service conditions deadlocked last weekend. The declaration...

THE Palestine Liberation Organisation has condemned the new Tory ‘guidance’ banning councils, NHS trusts and all publicly funded organisations from boycotting goods and services...

MEMBERS of the PLO Executive Committee Hanan Ashrawi and Saeb Erekat on Wednesday slammed the United Kingdom’s decision to ban the boycott of Israeli...

TRADE union leaders behind the formation of an alternative federation say they will formally launch the new structure on 1st May this year after...

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is preparing to take action, ‘including lunchtime pickets, placard demonstrations, marches and strikes’, to defend...

‘I HAVE a very clear warning: last year was the worst for global growth since the crash and this year opens with a dangerous...

The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) call on the Turkish authorities to immediately release journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül...

‘PATIENT deaths do not increase during doctor strikes,’ research has shown, as junior doctors prepare for their three days of action. The junior doctors are...

ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY workers, students and youth attended the rally to mark the 46th Anniversary of the News Line and the 75th Anniversary of the Assassination...

STRIKING South African parliamentary staff on Friday said they would no longer negotiate with the unpopular secretary of the legislature Gengezi Mgidlana and demanded...

THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) said on Thursday it had successfully secured the reinstatement of 579 of its members dismissed in...

‘EVERYONE, all of the country, must get organised to take rent strike action, we have shown that rent strikes work,’ Angus O’Brien, the student...

THOUSANDS of South African students marched to the Union Buildings in the South African capital Pretoria, where they were met by riot police...