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Turkish Airlines Workers Continue Their Struggle

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305 THY (Turkish Airlines) workers who were sacked because they rose against the banning of their strike action in the aviation industry by law,...

NUMSA considering legal action against MAHLE Bher after striking worker shot...

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The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) (which is affiliated to the IndustriALL Global Union) is considering taking legal action against employers...

White House is worried that Netanyahu will use US Congress speech...

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THE WHITE House is reportedly worried that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu could use his upcoming speech to the US Congress to publicly criticise...

Palestinians protest as UNRWA dismisses 130!

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LABOUR leaders at Palestinian refugee camps on Tuesday shut down all UNRWA sub-offices in the West Bank in protest at the dismissal of 130...

Impose Sanctions On Israel, Demands Palestine!

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PALESTINE has called upon the international community to impose sanctions and other punitive measures against Israel over its settlement construction policies in the occupied...

Firm tied to notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation preparing up to fifteen...

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UG Solutions, a major United States military subcontractor that helped provide security for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, is intensifying recruitment amid indications that several...

‘CALL A GENERAL STRIKE’ – lobby urges TUC General Council

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OVER 200 Young Socialists and trade unionists lobbied the General Council of the TUC on Wednesday morning as it assembled to discuss the calling...

Barts rally to defend NHS!

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ONE hundred and fifty doctors, nurses, health campaigners and their supporters marched and rallied in London to defend the NHS on Thursday evening. The protest...

‘WE WILL SHUT DOWN SOUTH AFRICA!’ – COSATU warns ANC

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‘The entire economy of South Africa will be shut down’, warns the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), if the government fails to...

Teachers Condemn Tory Sats Tests Debacle

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TEACHERS’ unions united together this week in condemning the Tory SATs tests ‘debacle’, vividly reporting the harm they are doing to children and insisting...

Washington DC parents keep children home as ICE raids intensify

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Immigrant families across the United States capital are facing the new school year under the shadow of aggressive federal immigration enforcement, with raids and...

Richest countries not helping refugees

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‘IT is shameful that, as one of the richest economies, the UK has provided shelter for less than one per cent of refugees,’...

Strike wave sweeping South Africa – NUMSA & Solidarity leaders slander...

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THE revolutionary strikes that have been shaking the South African mine owners were a highly organised affair to promote the cause of nationalisation of...

GUERNSEY RCN NURSES VOTE FOR STRIKE OVER PAY – for only...

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NURSES in Guernsey have voted to go on strike as part of an ongoing battle for better pay, however a date will not yet...

ABUSED, CRIMINALISED AND ABANDONED! Howard League condemns treatment of youth

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The Howard League for Penal Reform revealed on Thursday that local authorities ‘are systematically failing to provide suitable accommodation and support for vulnerable children...

ISRAEL SPENDING $15.5m ON SETTLEMENT FORTIFICATIONS!

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THE Israeli government is expected to approve the allocation of an additional 60 million shekels (about $15.5 million) to settlements in the occupied West...

‘BELARUS WILL NOT JOIN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION’ – says Lukashenka

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‘ABSOLUTELY nothing depends on Belarus’ in the construction of the union state with Russia, said Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Minsk on 29 May...

”WE HAD NINE VOTES BUT NIGERIA CHANGED ITS MIND AT THE...

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PALESTINIAN Authority chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said during an interview last Friday, that Palestine would become a member of the International Criminal Court by...

Israel wants another $1 billion military funding from the US –...

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UNITED STATES Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has called on Congress to immediately authorise Tel Aviv’s request for extra emergency funding. Graham made the remarks in...

Israeli jeeps and bulldozers attack Gaza

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A FLEET of Israeli bulldozers and military vehicles crossed the border fence into the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday and flattened private Palestinian...

Irish Congress of Trades Unions ‘defers’ March 30 General Strike

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THE Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has ‘deferred’ the strike action it has called for March 30 following a government offer of...

Israel continues to hold bodies of slain Palestinians

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ISRAELI authorities last Friday returned the body of Bahaa Imad al-Hirbawi, a Palestinian who was killed by Israeli forces near Qalandiya checkpoint last Tuesday...

28,000 Canadian actors locked out for a year! – nurses rally...

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THE UNION representing 28,000 Canadian actors and radio artists reports that 28,000 commercial workers have been locked out from commercial acting work for over...

PEOPLE OF GAZA ‘ARE MAKERS OF HISTORY’ says Haniya

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ISMA'IL HANIYA, deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau, in Gaza City began his speech in front of a large crowd of supporters citing...

Wal-Mart’s ‘Vicious Anti-Union Activities’ Exposed

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THE AFL-CIO American trade union confederation has congratulated Human Rights Watch for its May Day report exposing the ‘vicious anti-union’ activities of retailing giant...

US approves $125m sale of missiles to Lithuania – Putin slams...

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THE US State Department has approved the sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Lithuania in a $125 million deal amid escalating tensions between Russia...

‘NO WAR ON VENEZUELA – Bank of England must end its...

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A DEMONSTRATION of over 100 people gathered outside the Bank of England on Saturday as part of a global day of action to demand:...

‘Cliques Brought In By The Occupiers Are Assassinating Iraq’s Scientists’

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‘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...

PUBLISH YOUR EVIDENCE! – Students want Russell Group’s fees report made...

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STUDENT leaders went to the Russell Group’s headquarters next to Trafalgar Square on Monday, to demand the Group makes public its evidence to the...

IMPERIALISM PLANS MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST LIBYA – warns Algerian President

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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:...

‘We want those at the very top in central government held...

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THE FIREFIGHTERS’ union’s submission to the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry demands that cuts to the fire service must be examined to establish the impact...

Russian battlegroups are continuing to destroy Ukrainian formations!

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The Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 300 servicemen in the Kursk area between last Thursday and Friday, and 21,900 since the start of...

Occupy Chase Farm And All Closure Threatened Hospitals

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THE daily picket to stop of Chase Farm Hospital will be marking its 150th day by mid-August. Organised by the North East London Council of...

FJ defends threatened Sri Lankan journalist – while Tamil masses starve...

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INTERNATIONAL Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in a media release Wednesday said that it is alarmed by threats made against the safety of the family...

INVESTIGATION INTO RAIL DEATHS ‘failure to protect staff over many years’

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AN INVESTIGATION released last week into the deaths in July 2019 of two railworkers at Magram, a suburb of Port Talbot in Wales, has...

Russian ‘Caliber’ missiles destroy US & European weapons in Ukraine

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THE RUSSIAN army struck at warehouses in the Zhytomyr region in the west of Ukraine on Saturday. High-precision long-range sea-based ‘Caliber’ missiles reached the...

2,000 students & teachers march in Athens

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THOUSANDS of determined drama and arts schools’ students along with primary and secondary teachers marched through the Athens city centre last Wednesday in a...

Pro-Palestine rallies round the world

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THOUSANDS of people in countries across the world have held pro-Palestinian rallies condemning the Israeli regime’s savagery against Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza...

UN Says Only 13 Out Of 36 Hospitals Are Partially Functioning...

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The United Nations (UN) says only 13 out of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are partially functional as Israeli occupation forces are targeting medical centres...

Palestinian prisoners at critical stage of hunger strike!

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TWO Palestinian prisoners have entered the critical stages of hunger strikes undertaken in protest at how they have been detained without charge or trial. Hassan...

President Ahmadinezhad Speaks To The Arabs Of Khuzestan

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IRANIAN President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad spoke to a gathering of the people of Ramshir in oil-rich Khuzestan Province, which has a large Arab population...

Brown refuses to meet Chagossians

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The News Line is pleased to publish two important letters. These concern the decision of the Court of Appeal to uphold the decision of...

Over 5,500 children killed by Israel in Gaza by World Children’s...

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IT WAS World Children’s Day on Monday, when it emerged that at least 5,500 children have been killed in Gaza since October 7th. According to...

‘100 ROUNDS FIRED ON SLEEPING FAMILY’ – ACLU releases files on...

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday made public hundreds of claims for damages by family members of civilians killed or injured by...

Israeli troops stole $28m in cash from homes in Gaza!

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THE Israeli military’s ‘Loot Unit’ has seized massive amounts of cash, gold and weaponry, among other items, since the start of the war on...