‘UK MUST HAND OVER TORTURE EVIDENCE’ – says Amnesty
Amnesty International has called on the British government to hand over to Guantanamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohammed’s lawyers, vital information it holds on him. Binyam...
GPs angry at cuts and NHS privatisation
GPs meeting in London on Thursday reacted angrily to the government’s cuts and drive to privatise, and press and government propaganda blaming GPs for...
Occupations and strikes are sweeping through Canada!
OCCUPATIONS, strike votes and rallies by health and care workers are sweeping Canada as trade unionists fight against low pay, unequal pay and privatisation...
‘THIS RESOLUTION OPENS THE DOOR OF WAR FOREVER’ –says Nabih Birri,...
LEBANESE Al-Manar Television on 6 August carried a live news conference given by Nabih Birri, Speaker of the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies...
Abbas looking forward to meeting with Trump
RAMALLAH – March 16, 2017 President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday welcomed current international and Arab efforts to advance a comprehensive and just peace...
Attack on workers rights in West Virginia
PROPPED up by out-of-state interests, extremists in West Virginia are pushing ‘right to work’ legislation that takes away rights from hardworking people trying to...
Nuj Demands Official Investigation Into Police Misconduct!
THE NATIONAL Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called for an official investigation into the reporting of police misconduct cases. The Times newspaper has alleged that...
Sheltered Housing In Danger
THE future of Sheltered Housing Schemes is in danger, unless the government acts to stop their funding being cut, the UK Pensioners Strategy Committee...
ISRAEL ‘COMMITTING CRIMES AND TERROR’ – against Palestinians in Gaza
Israeli jets fired missiles at a car in Gaza City on Saturday night, killing three people, said the Israeli army. It claimed at least...
Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister al-Malki visits The Hague to open discussions...
MINISTER of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riad al-Malki, has discussed in The Hague with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda,...
‘WE HAVE TO DO MORE. THIS IS NO JOKE, ITS OUR...
ON THE second day of CWU strike action against the Post Office’s wage-cutting and job-cutting attacks, Tony O’Donovan, unit rep in the largest Crawley...
Israelis bomb Aleppo and Damascus Airports
THE ISRAELI enemy carried out an air aggression on Thursday on the two international airports of Damascus and Aleppo, taking them out of service,...
Coalition Driving Disabled To ‘Tipping Point’
‘DISABLED people and their families are struggling to make ends meet and feel increasingly nervous about the future’, warned Disability UK on Monday. ‘Crucial decisions...
Compel Israel to fully implement ceasefire obligations!
THE Hamas Movement said on Tuesday that Israel must be compelled to fully implement its obligations under phase one of the ceasefire agreement before...
STOP SCHOOL CLOSURES – STOP SACKING TEACHERS – demand Greek...
THOUSANDS of state secondary school teachers demonstrated throughout Greece on Tuesday night against the coalition government’s Education Bill for secondary education, schools closures and...
WikiLeaks exposes Saudi conspiracy against Hezbollah
WASHINGTON – Saudi Arabia proposed setting up an Arab force to fight Hezbollah militants in Lebanon with the help of the United States, UN...
Fe Lecturers Across Scotland To Begin A Series Of Strike Actions!
LECTURERS at further education colleges across Scotland are to begin an indefinite series of strikes, taking three days of strike action every single week...
World Crisis Splits Iran’s Islamic Revolution
AT least 10 people were killed in the latest clashes to shake Tehran, state television said on Sunday, as Iranian leaders took aim at...
MILITARY ATTEMPT NEW EGYPTIAN COUP – Will not be able to...
FOLLOWING Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court ruling that the just-elected parliament is illegitimate, workers are vowing that they will not allow the return to a...
US Workers Locked Out At Twelve Plants
THE United Steelworkers (USW) union and Pennsylvania AFL-CIO have condemned the decision by specialty metals company Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) to lock out 2,200...
Nationalise Reserve Bank to protect workers – NUMSA
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has demanded the nationalisation of the Reserve Bank under workers’ control in a strongly worded...
Syrians In Occupied Golan Burn Israeli Election Ballots!
SYRIANS in the occupied Golan Heights have demonstrated and burned Israeli election ballots in a symbolic dismissal of local council elections and ‘a policy...
HEALTH IN GAZA THREATENED – by unexploded bombs and war debris
UNEXPLODED bombs and the uncontrolled dumping of rubbish pose the greatest environmental and public health risks to residents of the Gaza Strip, according to...
South Africa Urges Sri Lanka Peace Talks
TAMILNET has reported the call from South Africa expressing deep concern over the escalating violence in Sri Lanka, and calling for renewed negotiations...
Angry Nurses Force Emergency General Meeting Over Pay Sell-Out!
AN EMERGENCY General meeting will be held by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in September, in response to a petition with over 1,000...
Opening The Archives On The Miners’ Strike
Part of the British Film Institute season: ‘On the Face of It: A Century of Coalmining on Screen’ (Also plays this month at the Showroom in Sheffield) ‘OPENING the Archives on...
100 days of genocide in Gaza!
As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 100 on Sunday, massive aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound neighbourhoods...
Post Office franchising ‘a deeply damaging strategy’ warns CWU
TERRIBLE recent news of retail closures and job cuts across Britain’s high streets prove the truth of the dire warnings that the CWU (Communications...
US war games plan to intimidate North Korea
AN US aircraft carrier and warships from its strike group arrived in South Korea on Friday for the first time in nearly five years...
‘The Strike Will Continue At Telkom!’
‘THE STRIKE will continue at Telkom!’ South African Communication Workers Union (CWU) vowed on Tuesday, despite the company trying to drive its employees...
Israel Guilty Of Crimes Against Humanity In Gaza
The latest health report from the Lancet considers Israel guilty of ‘crimes against humanity’ for the deaths of pregnant women and their babies at...
BREAK THE SIEGE! – –Nasrallah urges Arabs and the World
AFTER over a month of inhuman Israeli siege against the Gaza strip, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a speech, on Monday, in...
Greek schoolchildren and students rally against education cuts
SCHOOLCHILDREN and students across Greece protested on Monday against cutbacks to the education sector, and the ‘intensification of performance evaluation’ which is part of...
Trade unions condemn Colombian state murder
THE TRADE Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) adopted a resolution on the dire situation in Colombia, condemning the violence against trade unionists and calling on...
Athens transport workers launch total ‘rolling’ strike
IN mass general meetings last Tuesday the Athens transport trade unions in the Metro system, buses, trolley-buses, and trains decided on a total ‘rolling’...
‘A savage and ruthless bully!’ – South Africa’s NUMSA union denounces...
‘DONALD Trump is a creature of the US. NUMSA calls upon its brothers, sisters and comrades in the United States to deal with Donald...
FBU rally condemns 13 years of austerity and launches ‘Firefighters Manifesto’
OVER seven hundred firefighters and control staff assembled in Westminster on Wednesday to launch a new ‘Firefighters’ Manifesto’. As the country recovers from flooding, and...
‘The Ugly Faces Of Occupation’
Dear friends, THE ugly faces of occupation from two houses demolished in Silwan, Jerusalem last week. Two other houses were destroyed the same day in Jerusalem....
‘BRING TUBE MAINTENANCE BACK IN HOUSE’ – Tube workers tell Brown
ONE hundred angry RMT rail workers on London Underground lobbied Downing Street yesterday, demanding that tube maintenance work done by the collapsed Metronet private...
Arab summit agrees to form Arab joint military force to fight...
EGYPTIAN President Abd-al-Fattah al-Sisi has hailed Arab state leaders for ‘agreeing on the principle of forming a joint Arab military force’ to face...
‘Police Need To Be Accountable For These Killings’
OVER 1,500 people on Saturday took part in the United Families and Friends Campaign 13th annual procession in central London against deaths in custody. The...
Gaza’s famine risk is surging, endangering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that Gaza’s famine risk is surging, endangering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians amid deepening food insecurity and...
‘We hail the struggle of the Palestinian workers and youth’ ...
NEWS LINE Editor Jonty Leff told the News Line 52nd Anniversary Rally on Saturday: ‘We hail the struggle of the Palestinian workers and youth. ‘We...
4,500 arm and leg amputations during the Gaza genocide
THE Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced that 4,500 cases of amputation in upper and lower limbs have been registered in the Gaza...
Biden trip seeks to obliterate Palestinian cause
THE Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has condemned US President Joe Biden’s forthcoming visit to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and Saudi Arabia, as being...