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2023 – Will be the year for World Socialist Revolution! –...

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THE News Line Editorial Board sends revolutionary greetings for 2023 to all our readers, and to the working class, youth and the poor, who...

Bankers raise interest rates to deepen the slump, and make...

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THE Bank of England has raised UK interest rates to their highest level for 14 years as it battles to stem soaring prices, by...

Meet Tory preparations to fight it out with working class by...

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30 MILLION people in Britain will be unable to afford a decent standard of living in the coming year according to a study published...

SAFTU calls for President Ramaphosa’s immediate resignation

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AGAINST a background of rolling blackouts, rising poverty and an out-of-control cost of living crisis, the South African government of Cyril Ramaphosa now faces...

Israeli army West Bank killing spree – 3 shot dead yesterday

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The Israeli occupation forces shot and killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank yesterday (Tuesday) morning, one in Beit Ummar in the south...

Sunak pledges limitless billions of pounds to prolong war on Russia...

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TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak, in his first major policy speech last night, pledged to maintain and even increase military aid to Ukraine to...

SAFTU condemns interest rates hike as postal workers strike for 15%...

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The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) on Friday condemned the South African Reserve Bank (SARB)’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) hiking of the...

53rd Anniversary of News Line – 82nd Anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination

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FIRST speaker at the News Line Anniversary Rally on Saturday was Bill Rogers, ASLEF Chingford Branch Chairman, who said: ‘This rally is being held...

Super Inflation, The Result Of US–UK Intervention Into The Ukraine War,...

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AS THE US and the UK continue to fuel and arm the war in the Ukraine, the economic outlook for Europe and the EU...

CGT national strike over wages and retirement at 60

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STRIKES and demonstrations took place across France on Thursday, with the CGT union federation declaring: ‘November 10 for wages and retirement at age 60.’ ‘For...

UK capitalism is in its death agony – It is time...

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THE Bank of England yesterday raised interest rates by the most in 33 years from 2.25% to 3%, and accompanied its action with a...

Bank Raised Rates To 3% Predicts 2-Year Slump & Double Unemployment

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THE Bank of England has warned the UK is facing its longest recession since records began, as it raised interest rates by the most...

US workers join unions at Amazon-Starbucks & museums – as 63%...

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Workers at a combined Starbucks and Amazon store in Times Square filed a petition for union recognition last Friday, saying they’re being required to...

SA government says that ‘austerity is a necessary pain for the...

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IN THE much-anticipated medium term budget policy statement (MTBPS), the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, will, like his counterparts at the South African Reserve...

Nablus under siege for two weeks!

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A DELEGATION of five ministers from the Palestinian cabinet visited the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Monday to investigate the ongoing Israeli...

Uprising In Tunisian Capital Against Kais Saied Coup

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Protesters clashed with police in the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Saturday, October 15, for the second night running. Riot police fired tear gas to...

The Tory Party is blowing apart! TUC must call a general...

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Liz Truss was only installed as Prime Minister little more than 4 weeks ago but yesterday a senior Tory minister, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly,...

Workers strikes and demonstrations are gaining momentum throughout Europe!’ – says...

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THROUGHOUT Europe, strikes and demonstrations are gaining momentum, notes France’s CGT trade union federation. Faced with inflation and the energy crisis, demonstrators demand wage increases...

Truss Must Go And The Tory Government And Her Cronies With...

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Monday’s Daily Telegraph had in its editorial an early celebration of a PM Truss ‘victory’ in getting her Tory party to accept the abolition...

Truss insists no retreat as she prepares to split Tories and...

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TORY Prime Minister Liz Truss finally emerged from Downing Street yesterday to make her first public statement on the economic crisis that has brought...

South African trade union members bar ANC chairman Gwede Mantashe from...

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African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members barred ANC Chairman Gwede Mantashe from speaking at their 14th national congress on Monday. ‘Hamba Gwede’ (Go Gwede) and ‘asinamali’...

Starmer – the Labour Party ‘fit to govern’ for bosses...

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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer, in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday, pledged that he is ‘not just pro-business’ but wants to...

Permanent recession for Europe as sanctions on Russia backfire on capitalism....

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THE economies of every EU country face permanent recession according to Barclay’s Bank chief economist for the EU, Sylvia Ardagna, under the impact of...

Unlimited Bonuses For The Bankers As Workers Face Runaway Inflation And...

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THE new Tory Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is reported to be preparing to scrap the cap on the multi-million pound bonuses bankers award themselves. Originally the...

TUC must immediately act to stop Clarence House staff sackings by...

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THE PCS trade union has called for the proposed staff redundancies at Clarence House to be halted and pledged to support every member of...

Demand an immediate recall of the TUC to call a general...

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THE UK’s job market, which the Tories and their supporters have long held to be evidence of the ability of British capitalism to ‘bounce...

SAFTU demonstration for a 1,500 Rand Basic Income Grant

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The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is opposing plans by the South African ANC government to replace the Social Relief of Distress...

UK workers are not slaves – they have the right to...

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WITH food banks running out of food, the poor are being condemned, not just to poverty but to a starvation existence, of begging on...

COSATU and SAFTU hold National Strike in SA

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MILLIONS of South African workers and youth on Wednesday took part in a national strike called by the country’s two largest trade union federations,...

10 YEARS SINCE MARIKANA MASSACRE Ramaphosa … ‘the mastermind of a...

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THE MARIKANA mine massacre of ten years ago has never curbed President Ramaphosa’s political ambitions, but he’s never been able to escape the fallout...

Socialist revolution is the only answer to the ‘economic tsunami’...

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THIS week, forecasts for the increase in household energy bills were dramatically increased to over £4,200 for an average UK household in January next...

SAFTU calls South Africa national strike for August 24th – against...

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A NATIONAL strike across South Africa against the rising costs of living, load shedding, and other economic challenges will take place on 24 August,...

Saftu Trade Unions Convene A Working Class Summit To Fight Rising...

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SAFTU (South African Federation of Trade Unions) has convened a Working Class Summit on Friday August 5 ‘to prepare a fight back’. It said: ‘In...

CGT calls for ‘day of mobilisation’

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FRENCH trade union federation CGT has called for September 29 to be a ‘day of mobilisation and interprofessional strikes’ over unemployment. The CGT stated that...

COSATU cost-of-living protest in Gauteng

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Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members in Gauteng last Friday marched to the department of trade and industry to hand in a...

Ukrainian military using school buildings to launch rocket attacks – and...

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UKRAINE’S Right Sector neo-Nazi battalion has deployed multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) in a school in the New York settlement, and is firing at Russian...

SAFTU calls on workers to mobilise and unify for a general...

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‘SAFTU calls on the working class to mobilise and unify towards the Working Class Summit and the General Strike in August 2022.’ SAFTU said it...

Summer strikes at Isle of Wight ferries and Heathrow – RMT’s...

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ALL of the Isle of Wight’s Southampton-to-Cowes ferries will shut down during summer holidays as 120 workers take strike action against Red Funnel and...

Eskom pay struggle intensifies in SA – SAFTU calls for a...

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SOUTH Africa’s trade unions have been meeting with their members to discuss the proposed wage offer from energy giant Eskom, after a proposed agreement...

Police violently attack Ecuadorian protesters

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THOUSANDS of Indigenous people continue to demonstrate in the Ecuadorian capital, as their calls for social and economic reforms grow louder despite a crackdown...

Bank of England follows US Fed in driving up interest rates...

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YESTERDAY, the Bank of England (BofE) hiked up the interest rate by 0.25% to 1.25%, its highest level in 13 years – the first...

Colombian electors are hungry for a big change in their crisis-hit...

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BY YONATAN MOSQUERA NEXT Sunday 19th of June the final round of presidential elections will take place in Colombia. After having defeated the establishment candidates...

Johnson fighting a war on two fronts against Russia and against...

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PM JOHNSON in his Thursday speech in Blackpool unveiled his war on two fronts against the Russian workers abroad, and at home against the...

Sunak’s emergency ‘cost of living package’ a sign of Tory desperation...

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ORY chancellor Rishi Sunak announced an emergency cost of living package to the House of Commons yesterday, as soaring inflation that is driving millions...

CGT fighting for ‘cost of living index’ to be the benchmark...

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JOB SEEKERS are struggling, says the CGT French trade union federation. It said: ‘More job seekers work part-time or under short contracts, while being registered...