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MORE than 890 people were arrested on Saturday at a demonstration against the government’s ban of campaign group Palestine Action. An estimated 1,500 gathered in...

LOCAL services including leisure facilities, children’s centres and pothole repairs will be slashed due to funding cuts over the next two years, a survey...

THE most significant of a growing wave of strikes in Britain will go ahead with an eight-day walkout. This is after after pay talks broke...

PALESTINIAN President Mahmud Abbas has said that ‘We shall be taking the case of the martyrdom of the youth Muhammad Abu-Khudayr to all international...

TEACHERS in Oaxaca, Mexico, have taken their fight against their government’s punitive ‘education reform’ to a new level this month, with highly visible actions...

TEACHERS are suffering from ‘ludicrous levels of workload pressure’ teachers unions have warned. They were responding to a ‘bitterly disapointing’ new Tory government ‘Workload Challenge...

Legal charity INQUEST has produced a comprehensive briefing on the death of Ian Tomlinson. News Line is pleased to reproduce the following excerpts:– INQUEST is working...

‘What do we want – nationalisation, now! Organise, occupy, fight for the right to work!’ shouted over three hundred sacked Vestas workers and their...

THE Lebanese premier Fu’ad Al Siniora has urged Arab leaders at a special Beirut conference, held on Monday, to strive for an immediate cease-fire...

A CALL from the Workers of Gaza to Labour Unions Around the World: A Cry in the Face of Starvation and Genocide. ‘To all free...

IN ITS first acts of desperation, the new government of Prime Minister Liz Truss has decided to announce that the moratorium on fracking has...

‘TODAY, as we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and working families all over the country are coming together in marches for civil...

WORKERS in 23 tea gardens in Habiganj, Bangladesh will go on indefinite strike and block the highways if their demands are not met by...

ROYAL Mail managers replaced 100 striking postal workers with 250 managers to cover last week’s strike . . . yet still refuse to settle...

An overwhelming majority of teachers, lecturers and support staff have noticed a change for the worse to their living standards since the 2008 financial...

TURKEY’S spy chief has assured the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) during a secret meeting last week that the...

IT WAS impossible for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) to negotiate for striking miners at Marikana because of their aggressive attitude and their...

THERE is a huge funding crisis in the National Health Service (NHS). All over the country hospitals are being instructed to close wards and theatres...

By Anna Athow, Consultant Surgeon ‘WE HAVE reached crunch point, where the process of transition from one system to another is taking place.’ So said...

THE new Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahmud al-Zahhar urged the international community last Saturday to respect the Palestinian people’s choice in electing...

AROUND 50 Members of Parliament from seven political parties backed a motion calling for sanctions against the Israeli regime for committing ‘crimes against humanity’,...

THE Australian trade unions have welcomed the victory of the Labour Party in the general election, but doubts are growing over whether the new...

MORE than 90,000 Syrian refugee children in Jordan weren’t able to attend school last year, along with hundreds of thousands in neighbouring refugee host...

A survey of almost 3,000 London transport passengers conducted by independent researchers for Unite, has revealed that almost nine out of ten back bus...

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Eastern Cape said on Thursday that is deeply concerned by the impending closure of...

THE leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, on 14 February warned Israel that it will respond to the killing the previous...

At least 50 people were injured as garment workers clashed with police in Savar on the main road between Dhaka and Aricha in Bangladesh...

AN inspector general appointed by the US Congress to examine the war in Afghanistan has listed Washington’s failures in the 20 years of war...

NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) President Andrew Chirwa has said his union sees no reason to continue supporting the ruling African...

‘JENNIFER Bates, BAmazon workers leader’s reinstatement by Amazon, is a win for workers,’ says the UNI Global Union. Last week, Jennifer Bates, the lead worker...

Russia on Wednesday opposed an EU draft resolution that seeks to have Iran referred to the UN Security Council and warned against escalating the...

ISRAELI authorities on Thursday razed land and demolished a greenhouse and water well in Beit Ula, a village located northwest of Hebron, according to...

‘The gravy train needs to end – public services should be just that; public,’ said the GMB union on Tuesday, in response to a...

LEADING aid and human rights organisations have condemned the ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ as ‘a dangerous, politicised sham’. Caabu (Council for Arab-British Understanding) is among 11...

THE AFL-CIO will join with its Korean trade union allies and strongly oppose the just-completed South Korea-UStrade deal (KORUS) because of the damage it...

EDWARD SNOWDEN the former National Security Agency worker who blew the whistle on the US’s spying activities has been denied asylum by a host...

‘The Zionist project is coming to an end; we are freeing Palestine inch by inch, foot by foot,’ a defiant Hamas representative told a...

Israeli forces raided the al-Quds University, on Wednesday, in Abu Dis village, south east of the central occupied West Bank district of Jerusalem. Local...

TROUBLE erupted on the streets of Belfast on Wednesday the 7th of April 2021. We can only ask if we are witnessing a return...

The NHS white paper, which heralds the rapid privatisation of the health service, has no democratic mandate from the public, Unite said on Monday. Unite...

‘VICTORY is close now,’ locked-out Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told a meeting of more than 200 trade unionists and youth on Sunday in...

THE Palestinians of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are surrounded by barriers, as a desperate Israel tries to turn Occupied Palestine...

EIGHTEEN people were killed on 13 January, when missiles were fired by an American CIA drone aircraft into three houses in Damadola, in the...

THE Minnesota Nurses Association says that on Labor Day, September 5th, nearly 5,000 of its members will walk off their jobs in an open-ended...

A SHAM paramilitary demobilisation process, combined with thousands of cases of threats and killings and a chronic lack of investigations and prosecutions, makes Colombia...