Amazon dominates on-line market – while workers suffer an epidemic of...
AS AMAZON dominates online marketplaces and positions itself to become the largest retailer in the US, more and more people are finding out the...
End ‘business as usual’ with Israel – Human Rights Watch and...
Human Rights Watch (HRW), along with 125 other civil society organisations, has urged the European Union (EU) to review Israel’s compliance with its human...
Migrant workers face forced labour and Exploitation in uk!
THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation has carried out a comprehensive investigation into migrant workers’ experiences of forced labour and exploitation in the UK food industry...
Seven Palestinians wounded in Al Aqsa clash
The Disengagement Administration bases its assessment on the fact that according to the disengagement law anybody not leaving by that date could lose tens...
Anti-war protest at US embassy – Syrians not allowed a speaker
A rally of over 300 people was organised outside the US embassy in London on Saturday, against Western intervention in Iran and Syria. The protest...
New South African Trade Union Federation formed!
THE LEADERS of a new trade union federation as an alternative to the Congress for South African Trade Unions (COSATU) have targeted the last...
One in four women prisoners self-harm in a year!
AS MANY as one in four women prisoners in England and Wales self-harm every year, and female prisoners are four times more likely to...
Egyptian class struggle continues
While Egypt’s presidential election has dominated the headlines, the class struggle continues unabated with workers determined to defend their rights and improve living standards. Egypt’s...
Doctors & campaigners hand in 2,000-strong petition for Dr Abu-Safiya
A CROWDof more than 100 doctors, campaigners and supporters handed a petition of 2,000 signatories, to the British Royal College of Paediatricians and Child...
Southwark Council Prepared To Evict Heygate Estate Tenants
SOUTHWARK Council says it is prepared to take action to evict remaining tenants from the Heygate Estate, if they refuse ‘reasonable’ offers to leave...
Occupy movements and trades unions take action in the US
‘We are the 99 per cent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent,’ says...
NASRALLAH CALL TO LAUNCH FREEDOM FLOTILLA 2 –to lift the siege...
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Nasrallah last Friday stressed that the unity of Arabs and Muslims was needed to stand by Egypt and Turkey...
‘LEBANON WILL NOT ALLOW OCCUPATION!’ – Hezbollah rejects US bases plan
Hezbollah MP Mustafa Ali al-Husayn last weekend warned that a planned US military base would not be safe as the Lebanon ‘would not allow...
French aviation union calls four-day strike over low pay and bad...
FRENCH aviation union Syndicat National du Personnel Navigant Commercial (SNPNC-FO) cabin crew members (hostesses and stewards) are on strike from Wednesday July 13 to...
Royal London Workers Battle Serco Low Pay!
UNITE union members marched and rallied at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, east London Tuesday lunchtime on the first day of a 48-hour strike...
50 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN MODERN SLAVERY says the Arthur Svensson...
FIFTY million people live in modern slavery, says the Arthur Svensson International Prize for Trade Union Rights. Modern slavery is hidden in plain sight and...
Israeli Jets Pound Gaza
ISRAELI jets pounded Hamas positions in Gaza overnight after Palestinians staged a cross-border raid into southern Israel, the military said early on Sunday. ‘Israel...
‘We have huge support from the working class!’ – BMA pickets...
News Line spoke to two of the junior doctors on the picket line outside Cheltenham Royal Infirmary in Gloucestershire. Dr Chad Harker, BMA rep, said:...
‘Our freedom seems possible because you reached yours’ – MARWAN BARGHOUTHI...
‘DURING the long years of my own struggle, I had the occasion to think many times of you, dear Nelson Mandela. ‘Even more since my...
Folk singer Mohammad Barghouti is arrested over his songs!
PERHAPS the Palestinian folk singer Mohammad Barghouti, 23, did not know that he is going to end up in an Israeli jail because of...
HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part Two
TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...
EU 3 call emergency meeting of the IAEA– while Putin warns...
BRITAIN, France and Germany are to call an emergency meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog, (the IAEA) early next month to discuss Iran’s nuclear programme, the...
Prisoners hold ‘Day of Disobediance’ in support of hunger striker Al-Qiq
PALESTINIAN prisoners and journalists held separate rallies on Thursday in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq. In Israel’s Eshel prison, Palestinian prisoners held a...
Israeli Military Attacking Gaza With Air Strikes And Artillery
THE Israeli military has carried out airstrikes and artillery attacks on various sites across the besieged Gaza Strip over what it cited as a...
NUM & AMCU oppose reopening of mines in South Africa
THE South African mining sector’s two union rivals – the NUM and AMCU – have a common cause: Strident opposition to the reopening of...
CANADIAN POST UNION OPPOSES ‘US-BACKED COUP’ IN VENEZUELA
CANADA’S postal workers union, the CUPW, has condemned the government of Canada’s decision to recognise Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the legitimate president...
‘THE PROJECT OF POLITICAL ISLAM HAS FAILED’ SAYS ASSAD! – ‘Religion...
THE ‘project of political Islam has failed,’ Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday, calling for the separation of religion from politics, state television...
Free Palestine – End The Occupation
OVER 20,000 youth, trade unionists and solidarity activists marched through central London on Saturday demanding ‘End the occupation – free Palestine!’ on the...
Community Camp 4Palestine celebrates 2nd anniversary
A WELL attended 200-strong pro-Palestine Festival was held on Sunday to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Community Camp 4 Palestine (CC4Pal) opposite the...
UNISON CONDEMNS PAYING FOR NHS TREATMENT –but has no plans for...
UNISON has responded to the Institute for Fiscal Studies review into NHS funding, and warnings that in future, patients may have to pay for...
EGYPT ATTEMPTS TO RESUME FRONTIER CONTROL – as Israeli forces invade...
Egyptian security forces attempting to resume control of the Egyptian frontier with the Gaza Strip began using barbed wire to close gaps in the...
SA broadcasting workers to strike against ‘jobs bloodbath’
SOUTH AFRICA’s CWU (Communication Workers Union) and BEMAWU (Broadcasting, Electronic, Media & Allied Workers Union) are organising for a full blown strike against the...
Canadian workers defeat the Alberta Tories!
THE ruling right-wing Tory government of Canada got a massive shock last Tuesday when the Progressive Conservative party (PC) were decisively thrashed in elections...
Special needs children are not getting the support they need!
CHILDREN and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are not getting the support they need, according to eight-in-ten (83%) education staff. In...
Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister al-Malki visits The Hague to open discussions...
MINISTER of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riad al-Malki, has discussed in The Hague with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda,...
Fourth week of South African miners pay strike
THE Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union (Amcu) yesterday served notice of its intention to strike from Wednesday at the facilities of Sibanye Gold...
Go North West negotiations collapse – Manchester bus strikes to...
GO NORTH West negotiations have collapsed without agreement as Manchester bus strikes are set to continue. Protracted peace talks between management at Go North West...
Labour Conference resolves to sanction Israel’s illegal occupation
THE LABOUR Party Conference in Brighton overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning Israel for perpetrating an ‘ongoing Nakba’ in the occupied Palestinian territories. The motion, brought by...
‘Collective Punishment Is Never Permissible!’
‘COLLECTIVE punishment is never permissible under any circumstances,’ human rights charity Amnesty International said, in response to Israeli forces demolishing yet another family home. ties...
Wells Fargo employees ballot for union recognition
In a remarkable series of events, Wells Fargo employees from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Bethel, Alaska, are spearheading the bank’s first-ever union elections. This historic...
‘Irish people must accept 10-12% fall in standard of living’ ...
SIPTU General President Jack O’Connor has slammed Taoiseach Brian Cowen’s ‘woolly speech’ to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce AGM on Thursday night, in which...
UNRWA warns that the health sector in Gaza is in critical...
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned that the health sector in the Gaza Strip is in a...
US backs Israeli threat to second Freedom Flotilla
ORGANISERS of the second Freedom Flotilla say that an administrative complaint has been filed against the US Boat to Gaza, claiming that the vessel...
Release Amnesty’s Turkish leader
THE DECISION to renew the detention of Amnesty International’s Turkey Chair just hours after a court ordered his release must be immediately reversed and...
NUMSA proved right to predict ‘fierce battles’ between workers and...
AS SOON as the 2016 bargaining negotiation began, it became clear that the National Union of Metalworkers SA (NUMSA) had been proved right to...