SCOTLAND’S HEALTH BOARDS NOT READY FOR 48-HOUR WEEK – warns BMA
With less than 250 days to go until all junior doctors in Scotland will be restricted to working a maximum of 48 hours a...
Trade Unions of the Americas stand with Maduro
THE TRADE Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA), which represents more than 55 million workers on the continent, expresses the following in respect of...
5,833 shops shut in 2018!
STORES, banks and other businesses are disappearing at the fastest rate since 2010 a PwC survey has revealed with 2,461 shop closures in 2018. 3,372...
‘Return bodies of our martyrs’
‘SINCE 1967, Israel has applied an inconsistent policy of refusing to deliver the mortal remains of hundreds of Palestinian combatants to their families,’ an...
‘If Spirit Alone Won Battles’
THE DIARY OF JOHN LOWE The 1984-1985 Miners’ Strike in Nottinghamshire edited by John Symcox These diary excerpts are a tribute to the heroic and determined...
South African Pay Strikes Escalate!
THE Health & Other Services Personnel Trade Union of South Africa (Hospersa) has declared a dispute against SANParks following months of protracted wage negotiations. Union...
South Africa must follow the example of the Russian Revolution
IT IS time for the South African working class to follow the example of the Russian workers who overthrew not only the Tsar and...
Acute Food Shortages In Jaffna!
TamilNet reports that residents of Jaffna peninsula are experiencing an acute shortage of essential food commodities including wheat flour and sugar, sources in Jaffna...
SA goldmine fires 1,500 strikers
SOUTH AFRICAN mining company Sibanye Gold has fired around 1,500 workers for taking part in a wildcat strike at its Cooke mine. The decision, announced...
South Lebanon Citizens Demand Shelter
The first cries by citizens were heard yesterday coming from the southern Lebanese town of Al-Taybah to express their indignation at the fact that...
‘After Blair, Not Brown But A Workers’ Government And Socialism’
TWO HUNDRED trade unionists and youth attended the News Line-All Trades Union Alliance conference in Bethnal Green, east London, last Sunday. Opening the conference, chairman...
US SUPPORTS ISRAELI ONSLAUGHT as Abbas holds talks with Mubarak
After cancelling a planned October 2 meeting with Israeli premier Ariel Sharon, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and his delegation arrived in Cairo on Tuesday...
‘THIS IS THE PERIOD OF WORLD REVOLUTION’ – message to News...
THIS is the period of world revolution. That was the message delivered to the News Line Anniversary Rally attended by 200 youth and workers in...
‘Trump’s only interest in Iraq is to loot the country’ –...
WASHINGTON’S already tense relationship with the 82,000-strong Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces militia coalition suffered a major blow in January after PMF deputy commander Abu...
US unions sit-in, strike and recruit!
Amazon workers at JFK8, the company’s Staten Island warehouse that voted to unionise earlier this year, held a sit-in, strike on Monday after a...
‘VULNERABLE AND ABANDONED’ Oxfam report into the plight of refugees on...
HUNDREDS of pregnant women, unaccompanied children and survivors of torture are being abandoned in refugee camps on the Greek islands, an Oxfam report revealed...
Fast Food Workers Demand $15 An Hour!
FAST food workers backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in New York, St Louis and Kansas City, Missouri have launched strikes demanding...
The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been serving as a security...
GAZA authorities say the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has been serving as a security front for the Israeli regime under the guise of...
Government Workers Marching Today!
WORKERS from three separate government departments, some of them engaged in indefinite strike action, will hold a joint demonstration and march through central London...
Greek government – Golden Dawn contact man revealed!
THE Secretary of the Greek government, Panagiotis Baltakos, a close aide for decades of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, has been revealed as the go-between...
MARWAN FILM SHOWN IN LONDON – Zionist ban is defeated
AS the Federation of Palestinian Communities in Europe and the Fatah movement in London prepare to screen the film ‘Marwan,’ a biopic telling the...
Sri Lankan Army Steps Up Its Attacks On Tamil Civilians
TAMILNET reports that yesterday, at 6.50am the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) intensified its offensive aimed at dividing the so-called Safety Zone into two. With fire...
‘JIHAD ONLY WAY OF LIBERATING PALESTINE’ – Hamas marks 3rd anniversary...
The Hamas Movement on Tuesday affirmed that blood of Palestinian martyrs has mapped out the route of liberation for the next Palestinian generations to follow...
Ealing marchers call for occupation and a general strike! –‘Drastic times...
‘DEFEND Ealing Hospital – Occupy Now!’ rang out in a crescendo as the Ealing leg of the march against four hospital closures stopped outside...
‘UK Too Like The US – Gender Inequality And Student Debt’
‘I WANTED to pick the flowers not the weeds,’ says Michael Moore of his new film ‘Where to Invade Next’. The producers point out: ‘Michael...
The stark reality of growing up in poverty!
In June 2024, the charity Buttle UK concluded an extensive project to explore the lived experiences of children, young people, and families grappling with...
‘Trump plan to kill Iran deal has failed’
IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani says the administration of US President Donald Trump has failed in its attempts to kill the 2015 multilateral...
‘West Bank is Palestinian territory occupied by Israel’ says Turkish Foreign...
TURKEY has strongly censured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for promising to annex settlements in the West Bank if re-elected, saying that his ‘irresponsible’...
‘15 MILLION AMERICANS ARE LOSING EVERYTHING’ – Machinists call for jobs...
THE president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) cited the unemployment numbers for the month of July as hard evidence...
Israeli troops fire on Palestinian farmers
Israeli forces fired on Palestinian farmers as they were working on their lands east of Khan Younis on Monday morning. Khan Younis is a...
Minneapolis unions call general strike – force ICE agents out of...
A coalition of Minneapolis trade unions and community organisations is calling for a general strike to take place this coming Friday with the goal...
Amnesty condemns Israel’s ‘efforts to annihilate Gaza’
Agnes Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International, has said that ‘for over a year, Israel has convinced its allies, and much of the world, that...
NUMSA denounces the ANC and South African Communist Party ‘The 1994...
NUMSA has issued a National Office Bearer’s statement on the SACP augmented Central Committee statement of 1 December. It reads: ‘It has now become absolutely...
UK’s 63,000 excess deaths during coronavirus: the highest in Europe!
THE UK has had over 63,000 excess deaths during the coronavirus pandemic, the highest in Europe. The Office of National Statistics, (ONS) calculates excess deaths...
Israeli demolitions of Palestinians’ homes up 42% in 2011 – and...
RASMIYA Hamande has lived in a cave in the West Bank for most of her life, which may have been a blessing in...
Serious action needed to remove PM Blair
MORE than 400 people took part in a mass vigil at Parliament Square on Wednesday night, on hearing the news that the 100th British...
Thousands of homes wrapped in dangerous cladding
THE NAO (National Audit Office) report on dangerous cladding confirms our worst fears, says the Fire Brigades Union (FBU). The NAO published its report, Dangerous...
Cosatu Backs Ramaphosa To Be Sa President
SOUTH African trade union federation COSATU has endorsed Cyril Ramaphosa to become the new leader of the ANC to replace Zuma. Former leader of...
Poor conditions in UN-funded camps in Sri Lanka
TamilNet has commented on the British Television Channel 4 programme on Monday which revealed a new film that showed Tamil ‘victims of Sri Lanka’s...
All trade unionists must take action to defend the NHS
UP TO 5,000 health workers, trade unionists and local residents determined to save their jobs, hospitals and NHS services from massive cuts marched through...
‘AN OVERWHELMING RESPONSE FROM EVERY CITY AND TOWN!’ –marchers tell News...
‘NO one can deny this is the biggest economic crash – eclipsing 1914 and the 1929 Wall Street crash. And this crisis is driving...
We are going to the Security Council to seek full UN...
THE PLO will in September approach the UN Security Council to seek full membership in the global body, President Mahmud Abbas said on Wednesday. ‘We...
London protest and vigil in solidarity with Sudan on one year...
OVER a hundred Sudanese and their supporters held a vigil in Trafalgar Square on Monday night. Organised by London for Sudan and the Madiniya organisation...
ROCKET ATTACK ON BEIRUT ‘WARNING TO HEZBOLLAH’ says ‘The Free Syrian...
THE missile attacks on Sunday on the suburbs of Beirut are only a warning to Hezbollah, the commander of the imperialist-backed ‘rebel’ Free Syrian...
Tar Sands Regions and Gulf Coast communities lobby BP AGM
REPRESENTATIVES of devastated communities from Gulf Coast and Tar Sands regions confronted the BP Board yesterday morning at their AGM over their failure to...