Rain a nightmare haunting thousands! – ‘We Will Rebuild It Again’...
The rain was not just droplets of water, it became a nightmare haunting thousands of displaced people in the Gaza Strip. Families forced by war...
Settlers attack West Bank farmers on eve of peace talks
As Palestinian leaders were preparing for direct talks with Israeli prime minister Netanyahu in Washington today, the village mayor in the West Bank town...
Palestinians battle for Security Council votes!
PALESTINIAN envoys are battling for UN Security Council votes to back their effort to win full UN membership, while the United States is...
‘WE WILL NOT BEND TO AMERICA’S WILL’ – says Palestinian Prime...
THE Hamas-led Palestinian government spokesman Dr Ghazi Hamad confirmed on Monday that the current freeze of the negotiations, regarding forming a Palestinian national...
Bolivia against the State of Emergency
BY MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE ‘AFTER fifty days of permanent mobilisations and blockades, the Indigenous and popular movement, which is demanding the resignation of US-backed President...
Remploy Workers Vote Overwhelmingly For Strike Action
‘WE now have the prospect of Remploy workers taking strike action to defend their jobs to avoid their certain destiny of being chucked on...
Iraq sets timetable for withdrawal of US troops
THE SPOKESMAN for the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces says the Baghdad government is serious about implementing the parliament’s resolution concerning the withdrawal...
No privatisation of US Postal Service! APWU and NALC oppose Trump...
UNI Global Union said on Thursday that its US affiliates in the postal sector are fighting back after President Trump recently reiterated his desire...
‘THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ’S OIL’ Part two – ‘We are fighting...
HANDS Off Iraqi Oil – the campaign launched to stop the theft of Iraq’s oil reserves – says that mainstream media coverage ‘has uncritically...
Israeli Forces Evict Palestinians To Allow For Military Drill
ISRAELI forces on Wednesday ordered all Palestinian residents of Khirbit Tana, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, to leave their homes to...
Angry South African workers march on municipal offices!
THE South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) held a demonstration on Thursday marching to the Midvaal Municipal offices, south of Johannesburg, in protest against...
Keep Musk’s hands off workers’ data! – AFL-CIO launches legal action...
The AFL-CIO and several of its affiliated government employee unions, last Wednesday, launched a legal action over fears that Elon Musk’s Department of Government...
Huge Clashes Between Swazi Workers And Feudal Regime!
RELATIONS between the workers and trade unions of Swaziland and the rule of the feudal monarchy has almost reached the point of civil...
Huge increase in leukaemia and birth defects in Iraq
THE use of depleted uranium in Iraq by the US and UK military has led to a huge increase in Leukemia and birth defects...
ISRAELI SETTLEMENT EXPANSION AND KILLINGS HAVE SCUPPERED NEGOTIATIONS – says...
RECENT Israeli actions against the Palestinian people indicate that Israel has given priority to settlement expansion and the demands of settlers over peace and...
Iran will deal heavy blows to terrorists threatening the country’s security
THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Intelligence Organisation has strongly condemned the latest terrorist attack in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan, warning that...
TURKISH ARMY SHELLS AFRIN AS TERRORISTS SHELL DAMASCUS – US bombing...
ON WEDNESDAY more civilians were killed or injured and material damage caused to the citizens’ houses and public facilities in Afrin city and its...
Big protests in Latin America against the US military
There were large protests in the Dominican Republic on Sunday after the Caribbean Island’s government agreed to the United States setting up ‘temporary military...
Sri Lanka Garment Workers Rise Up Over Pensions
THE Sri Lankan proposed private sector pension scheme has angered workers in the garment sector, with trade unionists warning of mass street...
MARX AND THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION – Part 4: The emergence of...
BY MIKE DRIVER LEON Trotsky’s analysis 1789-1848-1905 is contained in his 1906 book Results and Prospects. This was written while he was in prison awaiting trial...
Over 180 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza!
Marking Saturday’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, United States officials have yet again failed to condemn the Israeli regime for...
ABBAS ESTABLISHES GOVERNMENT BY DECREE – has the full support of...
PRESIDENT ABBAS, now ruling by decree is set to establish a national salvation front government, without any Hamas members, and without any reference to...
Korean steelworkers massive strike vote
The POSCO Labour Union which represents workers at the massive iron and steel maker in South Korea on Thursday approved industrial action with a...
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...
Pflp Condemns Occupation ‘Onslaught’
THE Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, last Sunday issued a statement headlined ‘PFLP condemns occupation onslaught against our people in Nablus and...
‘BRING TUBE MAINTENANCE BACK IN HOUSE’ – Tube workers tell Brown
ONE hundred angry RMT rail workers on London Underground lobbied Downing Street yesterday, demanding that tube maintenance work done by the collapsed Metronet private...
Walmart Workers Continuing With Their Fight!
AMERICAN trade unions are claiming that the giant Walmart company is retaliating against its workers for the leading role they have played in the...
150,000 public sector workers strike – manning 250 picket lines across...
WITH 250 picket lines across the country, 155,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada – who have been without a contract for...
Ten Palestinians Killed And 882 Injured By Israeli Forces In Gaza...
TEN Palestinians, including three children, were killed and 882 others have been injured by Israeli forces at the Gaza border during the past two...
Nasrallah Hails Chavez For Expelling The Israeli Ambassador
AFTER taking part in the Ashura procession in Beirut’s southern suburb to mark the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, hundreds of thousands gathered to listen...
600 March To Stop New Era Evictions!
A 600 strong demonstration marched to Downing street to stop the eviction of 92 families from the New Era housing estate in Hoxton, Hackney. 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...
Coalition Privateers To ‘Liberate NHS’ Final Part
THE White Paper produced by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government says that all NHS Trusts must become Foundation Trusts (FTs) within three years. There are...
‘West supports terrorists and launched a political war against Syria’ –...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Cuba’s official state news agency Prensa Latina last week. The News Line presents selected extracts from the interview...
South Africa Urges Sri Lanka Peace Talks
TAMILNET has reported the call from South Africa expressing deep concern over the escalating violence in Sri Lanka, and calling for renewed negotiations...
East End Suffragettes – revealed for first time in 100...
East End Suffragettes: the photographs of Norah Smyth 2 November-9 February 2019 Tues-Sat: 11.00-18.00 daily Admission free EAST End Suffragette photos from 100 years ago, are revealed, for...
Medical Aid Reaches Gaza Following Mass Protests Against The Egyptian Government
MEDICAL aid and 518 international activists finally entered Gaza on Wednesday night, following protests against the Egyptian government’s refusal to let them in led...
BLACKLISTING SCANDAL HEARING–CULLUM McALPINE REFUSES TO GIVE EVIDENCE
THE alleged architect of the construction ‘blacklisting’ scandal, Cullum McAlpine, has declined to give evidence in the High Court case, due to start next...
Jailed Palestinian Hunger Striker Stops Taking Water
JAILED hunger striker Samer Issawi has now stopped taking water after refusing food for 188 days, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said on Tuesday. A PPS...
Amcu Demands A ‘Social Democracy’
SOUTH Africa should transition from a constitutional democracy to a ‘social democracy’ and implement more socialist policies to retain jobs in the mining sector,...
5,000 Deaths A Year Linked To Asbestos Exposure!
FIVE thousand deaths every year in Britain are linked to past asbestos exposure, but people are still being exposed to it today, warns the...
‘HUNDREDS KILLED BY ISRAELI-BACKED DEATH SQUADS’ – A review of Sabra...
‘We commemorate the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre in honour of the hundreds of men, women and children killed by death squads...
Threat by the Egyptian Defence Minister to call out the army!
EGYPT’S defence minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned last Sunday that the army will intervene if violence breaks out in the country where rallies are...
South Africa’s Steel Workers Take Indefinite Strike Action!
SOUTH African workers – members of the Numsa trade union in the steel and engineering sectors have embarked on an indefinite strike – recalling...
15,000-strong nurses’ strike in New York City
New York City’s largest nurses’ strike in history entered its 24th day on Wednesday. In a statement, the New York State Nurses Association said recent...