Tag: strike
‘Land swaps must be on equal basis’ – insists Fatah, as...
LAND swaps should be a result of negotiations with Israel rather than an ‘advance payment’ given by Arab states on behalf of the Palestinians,...
Police Chief Knew Marikana Operation ‘Would Involve Bloodshed’
THE Inquiry into the police massacre of 34 Marikana miners at the Lonmin pit and the wounding of hundreds more is continuing. On Monday, the...
Students To Fight Closure Of University Of London Union!
SENIOR academics confirmed yesterday that they are set to shut down the University of London Union, recommending that ‘ULU in its current form ceases’...
May Day – Trade Unionists Demand A General Strike!
UP TO 10,000 workers trade unionists, students and youth were on the London May Day march from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square on Wednesday. There...
Coalition launches Royal Mail ‘Blitzkrieg’ – Recall CWU conference!
A ‘blitzkrieg strategy’ was how the bourgeois press dubbed last Monday’s announcement by business minister, Michael Fallon, that he was starting the process of...
‘We need mass industrial action!’ says McCluskey
OVER 10,000 workers, trades unionists and youth marched from Clerkenwell Green to Trafalgar Square yesterday on May Day. There were banners from trades unions, trades...
ARAB LEAGUE ORGANISING LAND FOR PEACE SELL-OUT! – in return for...
ISRAEL’S lead ‘peace negotiator,’ Tzipi Livni, has praised as ‘important’ a concession by the Arab League that Israel and the Palestinians could trade land...
PUT AN END TO CAPITALISM! – Only way to defend jobs,...
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its revolutionary greetings on this 2013 May Day to the workers and the oppressed nations fighting imperialism throughout...
USW ready for ExxonMobil strike or lock-out
A lockout or strike is set to occur June 15 at ExxonMobil’s Baytown, Texas, refinery, chemical plant and laboratory if company management continues...
Universal Credit = war on benefits
YESTERDAY the Tory-led coalition launched its ‘pathfinder’ trial of the new Universal Credit System at a job centre in Ashton-under-Lyne, Manchester. From here the government...
EGYPTIAN STUDENTS CLASH WITH THE SECURITY FORCES – in anti-tyranny protests
STUDENTS across Egypt took to the streets on Sunday in protest at the aggressive handling of student movements by security forces and university staff,...
Ealing marchers call for occupation and a general strike! –‘Drastic times...
‘DEFEND Ealing Hospital – Occupy Now!’ rang out in a crescendo as the Ealing leg of the march against four hospital closures stopped outside...
Post Office third day of strikes!
POST Office staff in the country’s network of 373 Crown Post Offices are taking a third round of strike action today in a dispute...
Defend West London hospitals!
THOUSAND of angry hospital workers, trade unionists, local residents and youth are marching today determined to defeat the government’s plan to close four West...
Wmd Lies Being Used Against Syria
USING the Bush-Blair WMD tactic, manufactured for use as the cause of war with Iraq, the imperialist powers and Israel were yesterday insisting that...
Desperate US and UK warmongers play the lying WMD card
IN March 2003, the US-UK axis led by warmongers Bush and Blair – after claiming that there was irrefutable evidence that Iraq possessed weapons...
‘CALL A GENERAL STRIKE’ – lobby urges TUC General Council
OVER 200 Young Socialists and trade unionists lobbied the General Council of the TUC on Wednesday morning as it assembled to discuss the calling...
Miliband Lashes Out At The Unions
ON Wednesday night the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, launched a scathing attack on the leader of the largest trade union, Unite, denouncing him for...
‘NAME THE DAY!’ – says RMT leader Crow
YOUNG SOCIALISTS and trade unionists lobbied the TUC General Council yesterday morning to demand it call a general strike. Young Socialists kept up chants of...
TUC must call – GENERAL STRIKE NOW!
TODAY’S meeting of the General Council of the TUC must go beyond considering the practicalities of a general strike and actually call one, Dave...
TUC must call indefinite general strike to bring down coalition now!
TODAY’S meeting of the TUC general council must get off the fence and call for an immediate all-out, indefinite general strike to bring down...
25,000 South African teachers march against Education Minister today!
OVER 25,000 striking teachers in the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) are taking to the streets today for a national march to the...
Hands off nurses! Government to blame for cuts
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) started its annual conference this week in the midst of a brutal attack on the nursing profession spearheaded...
Unison Leadership Censured Over Pay Retreat
MOTIONS censuring the union’s leadership are being discussed at the Unison Health Care Service Group Annual Conference being held in Glasgow on 22 –...
PO strike today
FURTHER strike action has been called by the CWU over Post Office management’s cost-cutting measures. The strike action is taking place today, and will involve...
Stop Royal Mail Privatisation!
NEXT week the postal workers union, CWU, is holding its delegate conference under conditions where the coalition government is planning the wholesale privatisation of...
Issawi Called For ‘Rage And Solidarity’ For Prisoners Day!
HUNGER striker Samer Issawi called for ‘rage and solidarity’ from his prison cell on Palestinian Prisoners Day. Issawi wrote in a letter sent through his...
Assad Warns West
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad has warned that Western nations will pay a ‘heavy price’ for supporting al-Qaeda in Syria, warning that the terrorist group...
70,000 jobless rise!
YOUTH unemployment has risen by another 20,000 to very nearly one million, according to figures issued by the Office for National Statistics yesterday. The number...
Ireland heading for a general strike
THE Croke Park II proposals to cut the public sector pay bill, as part of an additional one billion euros of state cuts, have...
ISRAELI LEGAL SYSTEM A SMOKESCREEN FOR WAR CRIMES says PCHR
ISRAELI forces opened fire at farmers in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, locals said. Witnesses said that Israeli troops stationed at a watchtower fired...
Israel Supports Al-Qaeda Against Syria
SYRIAN TV has carried a report on the Al-Nusrah Front and Israel’s position on it, conducted by anchors Wa’il al-Tawil and Alisar Mu’alla...
Coalition plans Royal Mail sell-off at knock-down price
News broke yesterday that the long expected attempt by the coalition to sell off and privatise Royal Mail is set to occur this autumn. What...
BIG WAGE AND JOB CUTS IN NORTH – warns TUC
WORKERS in England’s Northern region are up to £4,264 worse off per year since the Tory-led coalition came to power. The Northern TUC 10-Point Plan...
Greek Seafarers Call 24-Hour Strike
The Federation of Greek Seafarers Trades Union PNO have called a 24-hour strike for 16 April on all ferries, passenger and cargo ships, against...
Lobby TUC April 24 – make them call a general strike
THE News Line calls for a massive lobby of the next meeting of the TUC General Council on Wednesday 24th April, to demand the...
Thatcher funeral–a state of siege!
THATCHER’S state funeral on April 17, is to be a Tory state provocation of the working class. Her coffin is to be carried through the...
‘THE TROIKA WANTS TO ABOLISH DEMOCRACY’ – says SYRIZA leader Alex...
LEADER of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras has warned that the Troika ‘maybe wants to abolish democracy’. Speaking at a railway...
The British ruling class embraces a corpse
MARGARET Thatcher was ignored by the bourgeoisie for 23 years after she was put out of office by the Tory leadership in 1990. This...
NEW HOSPITALS THREAT by NHS Clinical Commissioner
CALLS by the head of NHS Clinical Commissioners for most hospitals to be ‘downsized’ or closed and for 50 per cent of current hospital...
Birdshot and teargas fired on Cairo rallies
EGYPT National Railway director Hussein Zakariya said he has taken legal action against striking train drivers, referring them to the Administrative Prosecution. He said in...
Hundreds of Thousands Facing DLA Cuts
Yesterday saw the introduction of changes to the benefits available to the disabled that will leave hundreds of thousands facing cuts of between £20.55...
Civil Servants Out Solid
Thousands of HM Revenue and Customs members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) took part in a half-day strike yesterday, coinciding with...
PCS in general strike talks!
PUBLIC and Commercial Services Union (PCS) general secretary Mark Serwotka confirmed yesterday that the PCS is in talks with other trade unions on holding...
NATO massacres Afghan civilians
TWELVE Afghan civilians – ten children and two women – and one NATO soldier have been killed in an operation carried out by US-led...













