Tag: unemployment
500,000 Workers Take Strike Action & March In Colombia!
AN ESCALATING strike sweeping through Colombia, led by teachers and other state employees, saw at least half a million workers striking and marching on...
French elections open up struggle for socialist revolution
THE RESULT of the French Presidential election on Sunday saw the right-wing centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron, winning with 65.5% of the vote beating the...
The youth of Europe are rising up against their governments and...
YOUTH across Europe are a revolutionary force that are ready to rise up against the ‘generation in power’ in their countries and in the...
May Day meeting ‘Forward to the World October!’
‘WE WERE marching with our banner “100 years of the Russian Revolution, for the World October”,’ WRP candidate for Hackney South Jonty Leff told...
Workers’ May Day marches throughout Europe against EU!
MAY DAY marches throughout the EU were full of explosive class tensions reflecting the battle that workers are waging to defend their living standards and...
MAY DAY MANIFESTO – Russian Revolution Centenary – Forward to world-wide...
THE News Line Editorial Board sends its May Day greetings to the working class and the youth of the world. This year’s May Day is...
Iran, Russia & Syria defence chiefs meet
THE DEFENCE chiefs of Iran, Russia and Syria have called for closer trilateral co-operation in the battle against terrorism, emphasising the need to keep...
Blair launches anti-Brexit plot as Starmer raises remaining in Single...
THE wiping out of the Socialist Party and the Republican Party in France, the ruination of the Fifth Republic and the elevation of the...
PM May hammers the poor as 7,585 families receive 50p housing...
PM MAY makes a lot of noise about her concern for the ‘just about managing’, ie the middle classes in crisis-ridden Britain. In fact,...
‘MURDERERS!’ Paris – 3rd night of rage after police killing
FIERCE clashes broke out between the French CRS riot police and protesters for the third night in a row on Wednesday night. Demonstrators are furious...
Work Till You Drop – the Tories’ plan for a ‘sustainable’...
THE DRIVE to raise the state pension age (SPA) even higher has stepped up with the issue of two separate reports which call for...
Tories abolish youth housing benefit! Resolve the housing crisis...
THE TORIES have stepped up their war on youth, pushing through legislation last Friday which strips all young unemployed people under the age of...
Tory budget–tax relief for bosses, tax increases for low paid!
THE headlines in the bourgeois press yesterday howled about Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, breaking a cast-iron Tory election manifesto pledge that there would be...
Israeli jeeps and bulldozers attack Gaza
A FLEET of Israeli bulldozers and military vehicles crossed the border fence into the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday and flattened private Palestinian...
Anc Using ‘Freedom Charter Language’ To Bolster Domination Of Capitalism’ –...
THE latest ANC government budget entrenches the dominance of ‘white capital’ while intent on creating a ‘black capitalist’ class, says Irvin Jim, NUMSA...
Youth Uprising In Bobigny Suburb Of Paris
''I''M NO HERO,’ insisted 16-year-old Emmanuel Toula after he rescued a child from a burning car set alight during last Saturday night’s...
Don’t stop at the House of Lords! Abolish Parliament and go...
ON Wednesday night, a spokesman for the Tory government delivered a blunt message to the House of Lords that they either accepted Brexit or...
New York taxi drivers strike against Trump travel ban – Uber...
THE Uber CEO retreated from the White House Business Advisory Group after organised immigrant drivers protested at the ‘Muslim ban’ and #DeleteUber went viral. New...
Tory plans to ‘save’ British capitalism are nothing but a subsidy...
YESTERDAY Tory prime minister Theresa May announced a new era of state intervention to ‘save’ British capitalism. According to this strategy, selected sectors will be...
US Honeywell aerospace workers vote NO to cuts – locked out...
WORKERS have twice voted no on Honeywell’s proposals to eliminate cost-of-living increases and retiree health care, freeze pensions, curtail overtime pay, subcontract work, and...
May reveals Tories fear of revolution
YESTERDAY’S speech to the Charity Commission by Tory prime minister, Theresa May, attracted much comment on her proposals on raising the profile of mental health...
Nigerian Health Workers Indefinite Strike!
HEALTH workers at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dala, Kano State, Nigeria, last Wednesday began an indefinite strike over non-payment of three months’ salary. The workers...
Sanders Launches ‘Our Revolution’
SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS recently spoke at the Free Library of Philadelphia about the current US crisis and his new book ‘Our Revolution’. He said: ‘No:...
Murdoch University in Perth: Unprecedented 80% cut to staff pay!
MURDOCH University in Perth, Western Australia, is attempting to force ‘safety-net award conditions’ onto staff – slashing their pay by up to 80 per...
SIRTE IS LIBERATED FROM ISIS – says Libya’s unity government
TRIPOLI – Libya’s unity government leader Fayez al-Sarraj on Saturday officially announced the end of military operations in Sirte, after the liberation from Islamic...
NUMSA describes post 1994 South Africa as a ‘racist colonial economy...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) 10th National Congress, held on 12th to 15th December in Cape Town issued a...
New South African Trade Union Federation formed!
THE LEADERS of a new trade union federation as an alternative to the Congress for South African Trade Unions (COSATU) have targeted the last...
Homelessness, fuel poverty & debt! Time to assign capitalism to the...
AS TEMPERATURES plummet and the cold weather sets in, homeless charity Shelter calculated that over a quarter of a million people will wake up...
Ramaphosa ‘enemy of working class’ – NUMSA
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has rejected and expressed disgust at the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions’ (COSATU) endorsement...
Make Hammond’s Budget his last by a general strike to kick...
THE Tory chancellor, Philip Hammond, closed his autumn budget statement on Wednesday with the announcement that this would be his ‘first and last’. Faithfully obeying...
UN condemns Tory government for its onslaught on the disabled!
THE UK government’s welfare ‘reforms’ amount to a ‘systematic violation’ of the rights of disabled people, according to an inquiry by the United Nations...
British capitalism is bust, time to put it out of its...
FOR THE first time a comprehensive analysis of the economic and social impact of the war waged by the Tory government under Margaret Thatcher...
‘We’re the insurgents now,’ declares Tony Blair!
EX-LABOUR Premier Blair has summoned the anti-Brexit camp, that is the bosses, the bankers, the majority of Tory and Labour MPs and the majority...
Palestinians demand the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah!
ONGOING protests in the occupied Palestinian territory and around the world are demanding the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese militant for Palestinian...
17-year-old Palestinian Eiman–free at last!
AN Israeli court in Jerusalem made a decision on Sunday to release the teenage daughter of Misbah Abu Sbeih, who was killed by Israeli...
15,000 Greek Workers March Against Syriza Coalition!
OVER 15,000 workers and youth marched last Saturday in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on the opening of a trade fair, demanding an end to the...
No Action Proposed By Tuc To Defend Steel Industry
THE TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday made a show of defending the steel industry and steel jobs. Steel workers were guests of honour in...
MAY RETURNING TO CHILDREN BEING FAILURES AT ELEVEN! – as NUS...
DOES the PM really want to return to labelling children failures at the age of 11, the ATL asked yesterday. Answering the question the...
Grammar schools segregate children by class warn teachers
‘THERESA May’s plans for new grammar schools are a regressive move and a distraction from the real problems facing schools and education,’ Kevin Courtney,...
Dump May Regime And Her Grammar Schools!
TORY PM May yesterday launched her new offensive attempting to restore ‘secondary moderns’ by allowing every school to become a selective grammar school, and...
TORY AUSTERITY POLICIES ARE DESTROYING THE NHS says the BMA
‘AUSTERITY-LED changes of the past decade have stirred up a “perfect storm”. The Government in England shifts responsibility for providing services from the centre...
Build The Revolutionary Leadership In South Africa!
IN recent editions of the News Line we have reproduced in full a speech delivered by Zwelinzima Vavi, former general secretary of the Confederation...
Families Are Being Uprooted!
FAMILIES are being uprooted from their council flats or housing association flats and ‘decanted’ hundreds of miles from their homes as areas of London...
Black And African Capitalists In The Liberation Movement Were Let Win...
THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...
Under the ANC ‘Wealth is shifting further into the pockets of...
THE following speech was given by the former general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), dismissed in 2015, and now...