Gate Gourmet Workers’ 6-Months Picket Success
THE locked-out Gate Gourmet workers have vowed to fight until they win reinstatement on their old terms and conditions, six months after the 700-strong...
Pakistan and China condemn Kashmir G20 summit
SRINAGAR, India – The Group of 20 (G20) summit commenced in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, focusing on the topic of tourism. However, the meeting has...
Academies Are Designed To Smash Free State Education
Academies are private companies and will be in charge of education in local areas, the Labour government makes clear in its document Building Schools...
FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF GREEK, SPANISH AND EGYPTIAN WORKERS – say...
IN the international debate on Wednesday afternoon, delegates at the Unison National Delegate conference in Manchester said the best way to show solidarity with...
Nigerian Health Workers Indefinite Strike!
HEALTH workers at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dala, Kano State, Nigeria, last Wednesday began an indefinite strike over non-payment of three months’ salary. The workers...
NEU Harrogate conference welcomes 98% strike vote – condemns 9% cut...
THE NATIONAL Education Union (NEU) consultative ballot on the government’s pay offer has been rejected by an overwhelming 98% of members in England on...
Russian workers smash counter-revolutionary coup attempt!
PRESENTLY, world imperialism is attempting to enforce its presence and its influence in the different parts of the globe. The bloody aggression against Libya...
Junior doctors’ strike escalates
‘WE ARE not striking for cash, we are not striking for our personal careers, we are striking for the long-term sustainability of the NHS...
SHUT DOWN WEST COAST PORTS! says Occupy Oakland
A proposal for a coordinated West Coast port shutdown was passed with unanimous consensus by vote of the Occupy Oakland General Assembly last Friday. The...
Settler Kills Palestinian Youth In Hebron
A YOUNG Palestinian man was shot and killed by an Israeli settler in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron on Wednesday afternoon. The...
Lieberman Lashes Abbas And Israeli Diplomats
Israel’s ultra-Zionist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday questioned on Israeli radio if President Mahmud Abbas represents all Palestinians, given his lack of authority...
Israeli Settlers Invade Al-Aqsa Mosque
THE Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement strongly warns the Israeli regime and illegal settlers against keeping up their provocations in the holy occupied city...
We are going to the Security Council to seek full UN...
THE PLO will in September approach the UN Security Council to seek full membership in the global body, President Mahmud Abbas said on Wednesday. ‘We...
DON’T USE FORCE AGAINST IRAN – Lavrov warns US and Israel
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday warned against the use of force on Iran, saying there was no proof it was trying to...
Reprieve calls on Lithuania to re-open torture site inquiry
REPRIEVE has called on Lithuania to re-open its torture site inquiry after discovering another suspicious flight into Vilnius. Legal action charity Reprieve is demanding that...
Israel-Gaza Border Crossings Reopened
ISRAEL has reopened two vital border crossings between the occupied territories and the blockaded Gaza Strip, about a week after it closed them amid...
EU imposes financial crisis on the Palestinians
FACING an imposed ‘suffocating financial crisis,’ Palestinian officials have made no immediate comment yet on an EU decision on Tuesday to suspend 35 million...
British banks’ role in the dirty money ‘global laundromat’ – Chancellor...
ON TUESDAY 21 March Labour shadow Chancellor John McDonnell asked an urgent question of the Chancellor, Hammond, who did not attend the session of...
First Plane Uses Aleppo International Airport In Four Years!
A SYRIAN government airplane successfully took off from the Aleppo International Airport on Friday, marking the first time in four years that any aircraft...
‘WE WON’T LET YOU SELL OUR JOBS’ – civil servants tell...
OVER 200 civil servants gave a standing ovation to colleague Sheila Coote at a lunchtime rally in Westminster last Friday, as she vowed to...
STRIKE IS SOLID! – ‘We need the rest of the public...
YESTERDAY’s 24 hour strike of CWU postal workers was 100 per cent, and massively powerful. Everywhere pickets told News Line that what they wanted...
Israel’s mass arrests ‘a systematic campaign of persecution targeting Palestinians’
ISRAELI police arrested 561 Palestinian workers throughout the 1948 occupied territories last week under the pretext of entering ‘without permits’. Human rights groups have condemned...
‘GUANTANAMO IS A GULAG!’ – says Moazzam Begg
ON THE day marking the fifth anniversary of the first detainees being transported to the US concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay, on the tip...
Ramallah Raid – Israelis Kill Two Palestinians
ISRAELI forces shot dead two Palestinians during an arrest raid near Ramallah in the central West Bank early Monday, onlookers and medical officials said. ...
Red Army liberation of Auschwitz–an enormous victory! –Kremlin chief slams attempts...
THE Kremlin chief of staff, Sergey Ivanov has been interviewed on World War II history, and Ukraine by the website of pro-government Russian tabloid...
NO PAY FREEZE! demands national college strike
UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) members were taking strike action against massive Tory attacks on their pay yesterday. Pickets declared themselves angry that the employers’...
ILLEGAL SEARCH WARRANTS QUASHED–RAIDS ON JOURNALISTS’ HOMES WERE ILLEGAL says NUJ
THE IFJ (International Federation of Journalists) has welcomed news that the ‘illegal’ search warrants issued against two journalists are to be quashed. Following two days...
Save Our NHS! Down with STPs – No cuts! No privatisation!...
ON 6th June 2017 at the height of general election fever, senior NHS managers at NHS England (NHSE) and NHS Improvement (NHSI) were secretly...
‘I MADE MY CHOICE’ AND STAND BY IT – Straw tells...
In a 25-page memorandum submitted to the Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, said: ‘My decision to support military action in...
‘We are sure we will emerge victorious out of this war!’...
A SENIOR Hamas official says the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement has worked out a major defensive plan in the face of the Israeli onslaught,...
Canadian School Workers To Strike Against 5-Year Pay Freeze
CANADIAN Union of Public Employees (CUPE) school worker members in the City of Nanaimo’s Ladysmith school district, British Columbia, have voted overwhelmingly in favour...
‘We are staring the death of justice in the face’ –Barristers...
OVER 200 barristers, solicitors, law students, probation officers and trade union supporters demonstrated outside Westminster Magistrates Court in defence of legal aid on Monday...
Palestinian children welcomed in Venezuela
PALESTINIAN child victims of Israeli aggression are arriving in Venzuela to be house in shelters named Hugo Chavez after the former Venezuelan president, aimed...
Unite Betrays BA Workers – Demand Emergency Conference Of Union To...
LAST Wednesday Howard Beckett, Unite union assistant general secretary, welcomed as a victory for the union British Airways ‘partial U-turn on fire and rehire’. Beckett...
Israel ‘Guilty Of Multi-Dimensional Crimes’
THE PALESTINIAN resistance movement of Hamas has denounced the Israeli shooting of a Palestinian, Raed al-Salihi, who died later in detention as a ‘new...
Welsh landlords refusing housing benefit tenants!
a fifth of lettings advertised in Wales explicitly exclude people in receipt of housing benefit, a practice the homelessness charity Shelter Cymru has labelled...
German GDLTrain Drivers Union 3-Day Strike
GERMANY'S GDL train drivers’ union started a three day strike yesterday which concludes tomorrow. The strike is an escalation of a wage dispute with rail...
‘There Is No Alternative To The Return To Our Homes’
‘There is no alternative to the return to our homes and properties,’ declared the National Committee to Commemorate 60 years of the Nakba, on...
Major Syrian clean-up op – US and Israeli weapons found
SYRIAN government forces have carried out a major mopping-up operation in the country’s southwestern province of Rif Dimashq, and have discovered a considerable amount...
Israel resumes slaughter of civilians in the Gaza Strip as the...
A NUMBER of Palestinian civilians, predominantly children and women, were killed or injured yesterday morning as the Israeli occupation resumed its genocide in the...
A CHANGE OF SYSTEM IS REQUIRED – says worker in UAW...
THERE is widespread opposition amongst members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) trade union in America to the deal its leaders agreed to call...
Israeli forces demolish hundreds of homes in Jerusalem
LAST year, Israeli officials approved plans for the construction of thousands of new settler housing units and demolished dozens of Palestinian-owned buildings in occupied...
RAIL STRIKE THREAT IN THE US – a strike could cost...
THE United States’ largest rail union has voted against a tentative contract agreement reached with rail management in September, raising the likelihood of a...
Tory 2-3% pay offer ‘an insult’ – civil servants’ ‘outrage has...
THE government pay policy to limit civil service pay rises to two to three per cent, announced on Thursday, is an insult to PCS...
‘We’ve got a constitutional coup in the EU!’ – says Hungarian...
THE European Union’s leadership is attempting a ‘constitutional coup’ by appropriating the sovereign rights of individual countries in violation of community laws and regulations,...