ASSAD MEETS RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTER SHOYGU –both sides agreed on next...
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad on Monday received Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu and an accompanying delegation. The two sides discussed the Russian-Turkish agreements reached on...
‘Only Syrians can choose their president’ Assad
PRESIDENTIAL elections should be ‘about what the consensus is among the Syrians’ President Bashar al-Assad said in an extensive interview to Italian TV channel...
‘WE WILL KEEP THE MAIL CENTRE IN CREWE OPEN’ insists local...
Up to 700 Crewe postal workers, their families and supporters braved the rain on Saturday for a march and rally in the town in...
Kaddoumi And Hawatimah To Attend Ramallah Plo Meeting
THE Israeli government is permitting Nayif Hawatimah and Faruq al-Kaddoumi to attend the PLO Central Committee’s meeting in Ramallah. The approval constitutes an acceptance...
The number of refugees and migrant workers crossing the Channel is...
THE NUMBER of refugees and migrant workers crossing the Channel has fallen year-on-year for the first time since current records began. Government figures show the...
Gaza siege ‘creates an atmosphere of escalation and explosion’ says...
THE PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas says the Israeli regime must be held fully accountable for any consequences of tightening the years-long all-out siege on...
Yemeni Forces Launch Missile Attack On Saudi Airbase
YEMENI forces successfully launched a missile attack on the airbase in southwestern Saudi Arabia. The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces confirmed that army troops and allied...
Paris protest against ‘racial profiling’ – and state control of every...
HUNDREDS of people have taken to the streets in central Paris against continuing police brutality and racial profiling across France, despite a ‘shocking’ ban...
Barristers demonstrate on 2nd day of indefinite strike
HUNDREDS of barristers demonstrated outside courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, London and Manchester on Tuesday, on the second day of their indefinite strike. Over...
Zimbabwe workers ‘robbed of their wages’!
A NEW report on the non-payment of workers’ wages in Zimbabwe was released earlier this month in Harare, entitled ‘Working Without Pay – Wage...
Gaza ‘withdrawal plan’ aimed at entrenching settlements – warns Erekat
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will hold a summit meeting in Damascus on Thursday, 7th July, adviser to the Palestinian...
Trump steps up war on people of South America
MILES of barbed wire has been installed by US troops on the US/Mexico Border, while over the weekend camps opened to hold thousands of...
Scrap Work Capability Assessments say disabled! –while Lewisham residents insist their...
DISABLED people and supporters demonstrated outside the Norwich offices of ATOS last Friday, 11 January, to demand an end to the Work Capability Assessments...
Tory Budget: war on NHS, education & pay
IN REFUSING to lift the 1% public sector pay cap, chancellor Philip Hammond is condemning ‘just managing’ civil servants to wage cuts of up...
Bakers pay battle while jobs in Cork and Shannon under threat
NEARLY 130 workers are facing the sack at Shannon Airport while almost 200 others are to be laid off for three months without pay...
‘We’Ll Fight Until We Win Our Jobs Back’
LOCKED-out Gate Gourmet workers have vowed to ‘fight until we win our jobs back’ and defeat attempts by their union leadership to sell-out their...
‘REFORM’ ATTACK ON UNIONS ‘EXPOSES ACADEMIES’ REAL AGENDA’ – says NUT
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has said a report from the right-wing think tank Reform, has exposed the academy schools programme’s ‘real agenda’,...
South African steel & engineering strike into 2nd week
EMPLOYERS in the steel and engineering industry have upped their salary increase offer to striking workers affiliated to the National Union of Metalworkers of...
SCRAP ABCC ‘STAR CHAMBER’ NOW OR WE’LL BREAK WITH YOU –Australian...
union leaders in Australia have threatened to withdraw support for the country’s Labour government, if it does not give in to their demands to...
Syrian civilians bar the way to US military convoys
LOCAL residents of several villages in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah have in coordination with government forces prevented a number of US military convoys...
”DEFEND WALSALL YOUTH CENTRES’ – says Unite
PLANS to shut nearly every Walsall youth centre will leave thousands of the town’s young people with nowhere to go, Unite has warned in...
The Israeli army carried out a horrific massacre during its military...
THE Israeli army carried out a massive, shockingly horrific massacre during its military operation in Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City recently over the...
ADVANCE NUMSA! – expelled South African union leader Vavi says
THE AFTERMATH of the COSATU special national conference, held in Johannesburg on the 13th and 14th of July, has split the labour movement in...
Riot Police Launch Savage Savage Attacks On Athens Demonstration
Over 30,000 Greek students and lecturers demonstrating against the government’s Education Bill were viciously attacked by the armed riot police outside the Vouli (Greek...
Greek Teachers And Doctors Strike Against Closures
Some 4,000 primary and secondary school teachers, from both state and private schools, plus state hospital doctors, short-contract workers of the Athens municipality, university...
‘Medicine is under attack! There is an increasing assault on...
THE BMA is urging organisations around the world, from governments and the United Nations to NGOs and medical representative groups, to all play a...
STAND UP AGAINST THE UNION BUSTERS! Honda convenor brings greetings to...
STRIKING British Airways cabin crew received great support from workers and other trade unionists over the weekend. Last Saturday, News Line interviewed cabin crew on...
Israel Butchers Three Generations In Missile Raid
Israel has grabbed 100 acres more of occupied Palestinian land for the expansion of illegal Jewish colonies as the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed...
Seven Unions Picket Cosatu House Against Numsa Expulsion!
THE leadership of seven Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) affiliates have congratulated their Gauteng branches for picketing outside Cosatu House last Friday...
Hezbollah Slams Delay Of National Unity Government As ‘Sectarian Incitement’
HEZBOLLAH has slammed the delay in forming a new government in Lebanon, as ‘sectarian incitement’. Following a Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc meeting at the...
Israeli army demolishes homes, steals olive saplings, confiscates vehicles to make...
AN ISRAELI army force on Wednesday demolished a residence and uprooted 100 saplings in Masafer Yatta, in the south of the occupied West Bank. Local...
6,800 UAW members at the SHAP Michigan join Stand Up Strike!
ON MONDAY morning, October 23, 6,800 UAW members at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP), Michigan, joined the Stand Up Strike, shutting down production at...
Paisleyite Camp Suffering From Unionist Backlash
By John Coulter, Irish political journalist THE starting gun on the most important realignment in Irish unionism for 40 years was fired when First Minister...
Tories Declare Class War – By Permission Of The Liberal Democrats
The draft coalition agreement reached by the Tories and the Liberal Democrats published on Wednesday makes clear their number one priority is to make...
NEW ZEALAND WORKERS END ZERO-HOUR CONTRACTS AT McDONALD’S
NEW ZEALAND’S Unite Union reached an agreement with McDonald’s last week over ending zero hour contracts and other issues in dispute with the company. ‘This...
Draft Lebanon Statement Supports The Right To Resistance
Lebanese Information Minister Tariq Mitri has announced that the committee tasked with the job of preparing the draft policy statement that will guide the...
Fire rips through Greek refugee camp
A FIRE has ripped through one of Greece’s largest refugee camps after the death of an Iraqi woman sparked an uprising. The blaze late on...
‘Syrian Government Is Resolved To Restore Sovereignty Over The Whole National...
PRESIDENTIAL Political and Media Advisor Bouthaina Shaaban asserted in Damascus yesterday that the Syrian Arab Army will strike wherever there is terrorism in...
The fight to occupy Chase Farm Hospital is intensifying
THE fight to occupy Chase Farm hospital intensified on day 38 of the daily picket on the gates of Chase Farm as medical students,...
Tshwane bus workers strike gridlocks city centre
SOUTH Africa’s administrative capital Tshwane (Pretoria) was gridlocked for a second day on Tuesday as bus drivers disabled their vehicles and the City insisted...
2,000 students & teachers march in Athens
THOUSANDS of determined drama and arts schools’ students along with primary and secondary teachers marched through the Athens city centre last Wednesday in a...
UN condemns US’ mass expulsions of Haitian migrants
THE United Nations has condemned the US’s mass deportations of Haitian migrants who have been camped in squalid conditions under a bridge in Del...
50,000 Cubans rally for Venezuela against US aggression
LAST Friday, over 50,000 Cubans attended a rally in solidarity with Venezuela, a country facing the threat of US military aggression. The crowd was made...
NAHT head teachers union set to join NEU in national action...
On the fifth day of strikes this year, thousands of teachers, students, and supporters marched in London on Tuesday to call for improved working...
‘’ISRAEL IS DRAGGING ITS FEET’ – says Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora
‘Lebanon is implementing (UN) Resolution 1701 while Israel is dragging its feet and is showing intransigence’, Lebanese Prime Minister Fu’ad al-Siniora told a joint...