Tag: strike

THE Standard and Poor (S&P) credit rating agency downgraded Greek government bonds on Wednesday sending government stocks and share prices on the Athens Stock...

BUSINESS Secretary Lord Mandelson launched a £20bn loan guarantee scheme for medium and small businesses yesterday, aimed at getting banks to lend to companies...

Postal workers yesterday expressed their anger at the government’s determination to part-privatise Royal Mail. ‘If Mandelson is determined to push this through, our only option...

The Israeli military yesterday bombed one of its own troops who Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, had kidnapped and taken to a safe...

TWENTY-THREE Gazans were killed on Sunday morning and dozens injured by illegal weapons that ensure the incineration of buildings and people hit by...

OVER 200,000 people joined the largest-ever demonstration in Britain in support of the Palestinian people, when they marched in London on Saturday. About 10,000 people...

Tens of thousands of Palestinians yesterday attended a funeral procession for 47 defenceless civilians who were killed on Tuesday when Israeli artillery shelled a...

Fifteen Palestinian civilians were killed yesterday and at least 40 others were wounded when Israeli shells hit Gaza City shopping centre. Among those killed by...

OVER 100,000 people took part in the largest-ever demonstration Britain has seen in support of the Palestinian people on Saturday, as Israel invaded the...

Israeli warplanes continued to pound targets including a mosque in Gaza yesterday as Hamas ordered a ‘day of wrath’ against Israel over the killing...

THERE was no lull in the Israeli air strikes on Gaza yesterday. Three young brothers – Iyad, Mohammed and Abdelsattar al-Astal died in a raid...

STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD WELCOME to 2009. It is the year for getting rid of capitalism and the capitalist world order. Capitalism is...

Israeli warships shelled Gaza from the sea yesterday as jets continued to bomb Gaza from the air for a third day in an ‘all-out...

ISRAELI shells hit the Gaza tunnels last Sunday evening, killing two and injuring 22. The blasts also prompted hundreds to race for new...

ISRAELI airstrikes continued on Gaza throughout Saturday night and into Sunday morning, with the death toll rising to 271, with 900 injured – 120...

YESTERDAY, not content with killing over 300 Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza, and seriously wounding 900, Israel was massing tanks on the...

THERE is very heavy fighting around the Tamil Tigers’ stronghold of Ki’linochchi on the eve of Christmas as the Tamil Tigers are defending the...

PALESTINIAN prisoners declared a hunger strike in an Israeli prison camp in the West Bank on Sunday, a day after clashes with prison guards...

GREEK school and university students and young workers staged various anti-government and anti-police mobilisations over the weekend throughout Greece. Dozens of local rallies were...

Trade union leaders were yesterday impotent in the face of threatened mass sackings at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Corus by owner Tata of...

AS 2,000 postal workers were gearing up for a 24-hour strike on Friday against Royal Mail’s plans to close mail centres, Dave Ward, the...

Postal workers were yesterday left confused and angry after the Communication Workers Union (CWU) Postal Executive called off strikes at five mail centres late...

Postal workers at five mail centres – Bolton, Coventry, Crewe, Oxford and Stockport – are striking today against plans to close them and to...

Greek workers and youth have occupied the Greek TUC and are demanding it recalls a general strike. Hundreds of young workers and students stormed the...

Passing cars tooted their horns at the 20-strong, 21st monthly mass picket of Chase Farm Hospital on Tuesday. And hospital workers, outpatients and local residents...

‘We are fighting the government and business now,’ said Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) Eastern Region No.6 branch secretary Paul Olden yesterday. Commenting on the government’s...

‘We have to strike to defend Royal Mail, to defend our jobs and to defend our pensions,’ CWU HP Section Chairman, South Central No...

THE Brown government is organising a £3bn sell-off of up to one third of the Royal Mail, a privatisation that will cost up to...

THE daily demonstrations of youth and workers are continuing in Greece, over a week after the assassination of the 15-year-old school boy Alexis Grigoropoulos...

GREEK police made hundreds of arrests as students and youth continued the mass demonstrations against the government in Athens and all major cities. On...

THE $14bn (£9.4bn) bail-out deal for the Big Three US car giants has failed to get the support of the US Senate. Its refusal came...

‘THE news that General Motors is heading into bankruptcy means that the future of all GM plants is in the balance, especially the two...

A huge Athens strike rally on Wednesday demanded the resignation of the ‘murderers’ government’ of Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis. Under glorious sunshine tens of...

THE Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis delivered a 5-minute proclamation on all national TV channels and radio stations on Tuesday night condemning as ‘enemies...

YESTERDAY in the House of Commons the Tories were glorying in the fact that their votes will make sure that Labour’s bill to force...

THE occupation of a relatively small factory in Chicago by its angry workforce, members of the UE trade union, to prevent its closure, has...

OVER 5,000 Greek school and university students along with teachers and university lecturers demonstrated through the Athens city centre yesterday afternoon for the third...

SOME 15,000 students, youths, workers and trade unionists marched on Sunday afternoon from Athens Polytechnic to the Greek police HQ in protest against the...

IN all of the Greek cities there were clashes throughout yesterday between workers and youth and the riot police, and other Greek special forces....

THE UK’s biggest car manufacturer, Vauxhall, with plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton, has admitted its more than 5,000 jobs are under massive threat...

General Motors-owned Vauxhall Ellesmere Port and GM Luton have admitted their future depends on the US government bailing out their parent company. During discussions...

Throughout Saturday night thousands of youth attacked banks and department store buildings as well as police stations in Athens and in many other Greek...

THE UAW leaders are prepared to ‘suspend’ all of the gains of US autoworkers to try and assist the big bosses of GM, Chrysler,...

THE EU Commission’s President Barroso has been told by the ‘people who matter’, ie by members of the Labour government, that they now...

THE Labour leaders are terrified the whole capitalist system is going to go, News Line Editor Paddy O’Regan told an audience of 200 youth...