Iran, Russia and China congratulate Assad on election victory! while Germany...
IN SEPARATE messages, Iran, Russia and China congratulate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for achieving a landslide victory in the 2021 presidential race. Iran, Russia and...
Chicago Teachers Take Strike Action!
SCHOOLS were shut once again on Monday morning for 1,500 students in Prospect Heights School District 23, in Chicago, Illinois. The increasingly combative teachers...
SA government says that ‘austerity is a necessary pain for the...
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...
Lecturers strike wave across the UK
THE lecturers strikewave across UK universities is reaching tidal proportions this week, as thousands of University and College Union (UCU) members fight for their...
Children ‘rediscovering how to smile’ in bomb battered Mosul!
ON a classroom whiteboard in the battered city of Mosul the words ‘rediscovering how to smile’ outline the heartbreaking task of Iraqi teachers striving...
Barbaric massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees – 34 years since...
MARKING 34 years since the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon last Friday, Saeb Erekat, secretary...
46 Palestinian prisoners begin hunger strike
A TOTAL of 46 Palestinian detainees began an open-ended hunger strike on Thursday in protest against their improper living conditions, said a lawyer representing...
IRAN MUST ATTEND ANY GENEVA CONFERENCE – insists Russia
SPEAKING in Moscow, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said said on Thursday that the ‘international community’ has to decide with whom it will...
Argentinian parliament narrowly passes huge cuts and privatisation plans!
The Argentinian parliament’s upper house narrowly passed a controversial bill key to President Javier Milei’s economic cuts and privatisation plans as thousands of protesters...
END PRIVATISATION AND DE-REGULATION – renationalise Bus Sevices
PRIOR to the deregulation of the buses in 1985-86 many important decisions concerning our bus services were decided by the Traffic Commissioners and local...
Sri Lankan Army Fires Thousands Of Rockets And Shells!
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) fired at least 2,600 Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher (MBRL) rockets, more than 1,000 artillery shells and at least 2,000 heavy...
One Day Under The US/UK Occupation
BETWEEN 1300 and 2000 gmt on Sunday 14 May, Baghdad Al-Sharqiyah Television in Arabic reported on ‘a new setback’ in the security situation...
TRADE UNIONS CONDEMN TORY COALITION’S £6.25bn CUTS –but have no plan...
THE INITIAL £6.25 billion spending cuts announced by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government on Monday, that will lead to thousands of sackings and closures...
‘NO MORE GAMES WITH NHS’ – says BMA as RCM members...
MIDWIVES and doctors unions have responded to Labour leader Miliband’s pledge to find ways to increase NHS funding. Dr Mark Porter, BMA council chair said:...
10,000 Marchers Force Police To Lift Ban
TEN thousand people forced the police to retreat from their stated position that a march on parliament would be illegal, and that they would...
Iran-Russia Joint Naval Manoeuvres
IRANIAN and Russian naval forces have practised anti-piracy operations, during which they rescued two hijacked merchant vessels, on the second day of their joint...
Mexican Teachers Condemn Trump’s Military Threats!
MEXICO’S main teachers’ union has defended Venezuela against US President Trump’s threats of military action. In a formal statement, the Oaxaca branch of the Mexican...
70th anniversary of Deir Yassin Massacre ‘There are no innocent people...
ISRAELI Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday there were ‘no innocent people’ in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip after ten days of protests and clashes...
Greek workers say ‘No’ to 13-hour day
The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), the Greek TUC, responded on Thursday with an angry statement to the government Labour Ministry’s intention to...
Unions getting ready for November 30 strike
Strike day leaflets and posters will be landing in Unison branch offices during this week, Unison has announced. The materials being posted directly to branches...
Artists fight the Islamic State – while ‘Mosul Eye’ rebuilds the...
MUSTAFA al-Tha’i worked in secret at night, using his brushes and pencils to record the violence he saw during the day under the Islamic...
Army Is Sole Authority For Lebanon’s Security – Hezbollah!
HUSAYN al-Khalil, the political aide to Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on 12 May held a Beirut press conference where he insisted that the...
COUNCIL TAX HITS THE POOR THE HARDEST – 3 million summonses...
Over two million households are estimated to be struggling to pay Council Tax, according to a new report by the Warwick Institute for Employment...
Obama Warns Israel Against A Surprise Military Attack On Iran
US President Barack Obama has warned Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against surprising the US with a military attack on Iran. A senior US official...
OPPOSITION LEADERS ARRESTED IN BAHRAIN CRACKDOWN – as Tunisians protest against...
THE Bahraini ruling class has arrested opposition leaders on charges including contact with foreign states and calling for the fall of the regime, said...
Hezbollah condemns USA for seeking to trigger Lebanese ‘social explosion’
A TOP official from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has slammed the United States for its seditious schemes in Lebanon, warning that Washington is...
12,000 Striking Ontario College Employees Reject Latest Contract Offer!
THE UNION representing 12,000 striking Ontario college faculty called on Tuesday for its members to reject their employers’ latest contract offer in a ballot...
Assange ‘deprived of human dignity as a defendant’ says Craig Murray,...
NEWS LINE is pleased to publish the following eyewitness account from Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, of part of the extradition hearing...
South Korea’s MBC on strike – joins 1,130 KBS producers
WORKERS at the South Korean broadcaster MBC go on strike from Monday joining 1,130 KBS producers who stopped working on Thursday. They are calling for...
Merseyrail scabbing operation will ‘rip up the rule book’
THE RMT has issued a warning that the privateer Merseyrail’s planned Grand National scabbing operation will ‘rip up the safety rule book’. Rail union...
Doctors Angry At NHS Privatisation
DOCTORS’ anger at the drive to privatise the NHS dominated the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting in Edinburgh this week. Delegates voted overwhelmingly for...
Settler violence has ‘surged dramatically’ as 22 new illegal settlements approved!
THE United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Israeli settler violence against Palestinians has surged dramatically this year, with over...
‘WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE TO DEFEND THE NHS!’ – says...
A HUGE CROWD rallied in Whitehall, opposite 10 Downing Street on Monday afternoon, the first day of the British Medical Association’s three-day strike of...
Heroic Gaza medic dodges bullets to save lives
WITH unwavering courage, Dr Amira Al-Assouli, a female Palestinian physician, sprinted through Israeli sniper bullets and drones targeting anything that moved to save an...
Tripoli’s International Airport ‘Being Destroyed!’
LIBYA’S Interim Government has called on the two sides in the violent clashes between rival militias in the surrounds of Tripoli International Airport, which...
‘Opening schools at this stage would be committing genocide’ – Educators...
‘THERE is no way schools can be opened at this stage because that would be committing genocide,’ Educators Union of South Africa (EUSA) Secretary...
Stop Coalition Steamrolling Pension Cuts!
The Unite union has called for the rejection of the government’s final public sector pensions package. ‘The government is steamrolling through its final offer on...
IMPERIALISM PLANS MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST LIBYA – warns Algerian President
THE El-Khabar newspaper in Algeria has reported on the preparations of imperialist countries to launch a military campaign against Islamist militias in Libya. It states:...
Sodexo Workers Lobby Paris Agm
As Sodexo shareholders gathered for their annual meeting last Monday in Paris, a delegation of the company’s employees and their unions from the UK,...
‘Cliques Brought In By The Occupiers Are Assassinating Iraq’s Scientists’
‘stray cliques brought in by the occupation’ are assassinating Iraq’s scientists and intellectuals, Dr KhUdayir al-Murshidi, professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Baghdad...
Russian Foreign Ministry summons UK ambassador – after drone attack on...
THE RUSSIAN Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador and warned London of ‘dangerous consequences’, following a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow’s Black Sea...
‘WE ARE WINNING THIS FIGHT!’ – USW leader tells Mexico union
USW CANADIAN National Director Ken Neumann addressed the 37th Ordinary General Convention of the National Union of Mine, Metal, Steel and Allied Workers of...
UN calls for investigation into ‘inhuman acts’ by Israel at aid...
The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has condemned Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians at aid distribution centres in the...
Sri Lankan Army Offensive Halted
OFFICIALS of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Vanni told TamilNet on Saturday that their defensive formations at Mallaavi had thwarted...
‘DON’T FORCE-FEED PALESTINIAN PRISONERS’ –Israeli doctors (Physicians for Human Rights) appeal...
ISRAELI doctors’ organisation Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) is calling on the World Medical Association to instruct doctors around the world not to...