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‘It’s Everybody’s NHS! All Unions Must Defend It!’

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NURSES were yesterday striking at many hospitals in England, all but one health board in Wales and the whole of Northern Ireland, for the...

PCS strikes across the UK against ‘pathetic’ pay increases

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PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union members on Tuesday began a series of strikes across England, Scotland and Wales which the Tory government intends...

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...

STRIKE WAVE ERUPTING ACROSS AUSTRALIA – as gas companies increase prices...

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A STRIKE wave is erupting in Australia, with airport firefighters and guards walking out in the lead-up to Christmas. An industrial dispute between a major...

CWU members march to 17,000-strong national rally

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STRIKING postal workers took part in a 17,000-strong Communication Workers Union (CWU) national rally in Parliament Square, central London, on Friday afternoon. News Line spoke...

Thompson Out! Chant 17,000 Striking Postal Workers!

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‘THOMPSON out!’ chanted 17,000 striking Royal Mail postal workers at a rally in Parliament Square yesterday afternoon. They were expressing their anger at the company’s...

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...

‘Take a stand to save our NHS from Tories!’ – Unite...

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AMBULANCE worker members of the GMB, Unite and Unison unions will take national strike action on 21st December, with paramedics, emergency care assistants, call...

48,000 University of California workers strike!

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THE UAW (United Auto Workers) union has been leading a strike involving some 48,000 academic workers in ten University of California cities — including...

Union leaders address UCU strike rally

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UCU MEMBERS were out on strike on Wednesday with historic numbers this week over stagnant pay, miserable working conditions and casualisation of academic work. In...

China ready to forge closer links with Russia – ...

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CHINESE President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China is ready to work with Russia to forge a closer partnership in energy cooperation. Energy cooperation...

Answer Tory plans to use military as strike breakers with a...

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With nurses and thousands of NHS workers planning to take national strike action next month over their demands for pay increases to protect them...

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...

Amazon pay strike on Black Friday across 30 countries

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TENS of thousands of Amazon workers staged strikes and a walkout on Black Friday last week demanding a pay rise and calling on the...

Nurses, Starbucks & Sodexo workers in US strike wave

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THE STRIKE wave sweeping the USA continues to grow, with tens of thousands of nurses and hundreds of Starbucks and Sodexo workers being the...

NHS leaders in Scotland come out in the open with plans...

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THE BBC yesterday revealed that NHS leaders in Scotland have been discussing setting up a ‘two-tier’ health service. These discussions were recorded in draft minutes...

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...

Defy Tory anti-union laws – TUC must call a general strike...

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MEMBERS of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will be angry that the historic vote by the overwhelming majority of nurses throughout the UK...

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...

Bolivian unions mobilise against ‘right-wing coup plotters’

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FELIPA MONTENEGRO the leader of the Bartolina Sisa Movement, which represents the rights of rural Indigenous women in Bolivia denounced that she and her...

Scottish midwives industrial action vote!

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MIDWIFE and maternity support worker (MSW) members of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) across Scotland have overwhelmingly voted ‘yes’ on taking industrial action,...

Truss Is Shattered While Johnson Is Posing As The Man To...

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LIZ Truss, who not so long ago posed on the Polish border on a British tank expressing her hostility to Russia, before becoming more...

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

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LIZ Truss appeared outside 10 Downing Street at 1.30pm yesterday to announce that she was resigning following a meeting with the Chairman of the...

‘TUC GET OFF YOUR KNEES AND CALL A GENERAL STRIKE!’ –...

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‘TUC GET OFF YOUR KNEES, CALL A GENERAL STRIKE!’ rang out outside the Brighton conference centre as the TUC three-day Congress opened yesterday. Hundreds of...

Hunt shreds Truss and Kwarteng budget and prepares for massive austerity...

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NEWLY-INSTALLED Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt yesterday completely shredded the mini-budget announced just a few weeks ago by Kwasi Kwarteng. Kwarteng was unceremoniously sacked on Friday...

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,...

UK economy speeds into bankruptcy – demand TUC call a general...

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THE SPEED of the UK economy crashing into complete bankruptcy is breathtaking, as it leaves the Tory government along with the Bank of England...

Tory government in massive crisis – make TUC call a general...

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AT THE weekend, the Tory-supporting Telegraph newspaper published an article by its economics expert Jeremy Warner which carried the dire headline: ‘Few have woken...

Rail workers striking in Scotland, across the UK & around the...

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Railway workers in Scotland took 24-hour strike action on ScotRail yesterday after the RMT union rejected a real-terms pay cut. ScotRail bosses have offered 5%...

‘US-UK Hands Off Assange’ – say human chain protesters

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‘US-UK Hands off Assange!’ said demonstators in Parliament Square before several thousand made a human chain around the Houses of Parliament on Saturday. ‘There’s only...

Capitalism facing the biggest crash in its history – Time to...

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CABINET ministers are urging fellow Conservatives to get behind Prime Minister Liz Truss, after a week of open disagreement and back-stabbing within the Tory...

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...

Officer who shot Chris Kaba ‘standing to front of vehicle’

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THE AUDI car that Chris Kaba was driving was brought to a halt through ‘contact’ with marked police vehicles, after which: ‘An officer standing...

Labour Party Conference sings ‘God save the King’

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THE LABOUR Party Conference in Liverpool opened yesterday with a minute’s silence, followed by leader Sir Keir Starmer leading the hall in singing God...

Liverpool Dockers Begin 2-Week Strike!

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FIVE-HUNDRED dock workers employed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC) at the Port of Liverpool began a two-week strike last night. Unite regional...

Biden Urges Railroads And Trade Unions To Avoid Railroad Strike That...

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THE BIDEN administration urged railroads and unions to reach a deal to avoid a railroad work stoppage, saying on Monday it would pose ‘an...

Santiago clashes on 49th anniversary of Pinochet coup

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SPORADIC clashes between demonstrators and police took place in the Chilean capital Santiago on Sunday as the country marked the 49th anniversary of the...

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...

CWU strike is solid

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On the picket line at Greenford Mail Centre in west London yesterday morning, CWU member Stephen Byrne told News Line: ‘Today and tomorrow are...

Join the lobby of the TUC to demand they call an...

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OVER 100,000 Royal Mail workers are striking again today. 30,000 BT Openreach engineers, along with 10,000 BT call centre workers are also on strike,...

Myanmar junta jails photojournalists

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ONE media worker has been sentenced and jailed and another detained amid rising attacks against the press by the military junta in Myanmar. A freelance...

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,...

Millions of workers and youth face a freezing and hungry winter...

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OVER half of UK households, that is millions of workers and their children, are experiencing food and fuel poverty, i.e. facing starvation and freezing...

Felixstowe Dockers Begin An Eight-Day Strike!

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DOCK workers at the UK’s largest container port yesterday began an eight-day strike, for the first time in 30 years. About 1,900 members of the...

August 21 – Felixstowe Port is to come to a standstill...

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THE most significant of a growing wave of strikes in Britain will go ahead with an eight-day walkout. This is after after pay talks broke...