Conductors on ScotRail: Strike goes ahead Sun!
RAIL UNION the RMT has confirmed that planned industrial action by ScotRail conductors will go ahead from this Sunday – in a fight for...
Pentagon Evaluating The Lessons Of Israel’s Defeat In The Lebanon
the repercussions of the Second Lebanon War – in which the Israeli occupation army suffered a severe blow by the Lebanese resistance fighters and...
GADAFFI TELLS SIRTE: ‘NATO will be defeated’
LIBYAN leader Mu’ammar al-Gadaffi rejected any dialogue with his enemies in a speech broadcast by Libyan TV, captioned as a ‘live’ audio address, at...
US Trade Unions Slam Obama Over His Upgrading Of Malaysia To...
THE AFL-CIO US trade union federation stated yesterday that the Obama administration has made the deplorable decision to upgrade Malaysia – a major...
OUR REVOLUTION – BY LEON TROTSKY –The second Russian revolution will...
Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 9. War or peace? This essay was published in the New York daily newspaper Novy...
South Korean workers defy protest ban
SOUTH Korea’s umbrella labour unions are defying a government ban and have pledged to push ahead with organising another massive rally on December 5th,...
Palestinian prisoners at critical stage of hunger strike!
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...
PUT POLICE ON TRIAL AND END ALL ANTI-STRIKE LAWS! – demand...
Political groups participating in the Tahrir Square sit-in issued two statements Sunday underlining their demands. The statements were issued separately, but the demands are almost...
Huge Palestine demonstration in the Yemen
Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets across the country to express their solidarity with Palestinians in the face of the relentless Israeli air...
‘TIME TO RISE UP’ – says Ricky Bishop’s mother
Over sixty workers and youth marched through Brixton, southwest London, on Saturday to demand Justice for Ricky Bishop. Ricky Bishop was a young black father...
France’s Force Ouvriere (FO) is ready for a national strike and...
FRENCH trade union federation Force Ouvriere (FO) announced on Wednesday that it is preparing a national strike and rally of private health sector workers...
Nasrallah Calls For National Unity Government In Lebanon
HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has criticised the visit of British Premier Tony Blair to Lebanon in a recorded interview broadcast by Al Jazeera TV...
Irish TUC must call a general strike – Forward to a...
RESPONDING to the announcement today of an 85 billion euro European Union and IMF loan facility for Ireland, SIPTU General President Jack...
FIRE DEATHS DOUBLE IN MERSEYSIDE! – as further savage fire service...
‘FIRE deaths in Merseyside have doubled in the past five years,’ Merseyside firefighters warned yesterday as further savage cuts are planned to their service. Merseyside...
‘THE ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN THE LEBANON HAS NOT CHANGED!’– Shab’a Farms...
THE Hezbollah leader Hussein Nazrallah has been speaking about the significance of the heavy clashes with Israeli troops on the border with Israel,...
PNA CLOSES GAZA/EGYPT BORDER – Abbas wants international agreement
THE Gaza Strip-Egypt border will reopen only as part of an international agreement, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has said, after Palestinian security forces sealed...
WOODLEY INSULTS SACKED GATE GOURMET WORKERS – says they are ‘vulnerable’...
GATE Gourmet locked-out workers were accused by TGWU General Secretary Tony Woodley in his speech to delegates on the opening day of their union’s...
One-In-Four University Staff ‘bullied At Work’
The University and College Union (UCU) published a report yesterday warning that one in four university staff say they have been bullied at work...
Israel kills 190 in 24 hours while Iran sends Soraya satellite...
ISRAEL has killed at least 190 people in a time span of just 24 hours in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip. Gaza’s...
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...
500,000 Workers Take Strike Action & March In Colombia!
AN ESCALATING strike sweeping through Colombia, led by teachers and other state employees, saw at least half a million workers striking and marching on...
‘There must be a strategic dialogue at the highest level between...
MARWAN al Barghouthi, the Fatah leader is currently serving a life sentence in an Israeli jail. In an interview with the Lebanese...
Answer Higher Education Jobs Cull With National Strike!
THE UNIVERSITY and College Union (UCU) held a rally and lobby of Parliament on Tuesday as part of its fight against a huge escalation,...
Israeli forces raid al-Quds University
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...
‘WE WON’T ALLOW REMPLOY CLOSURE PLAN’ – Remploy stewards tell News...
THE whole of the Remploy network of factories for disabled workers is under threat, because the government plans to limit the company’s funding to...
Record settlement building under Netanyahu
THE government of Israel under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has advanced a ‘record’ number of settlements during its nearly four years in office, a...
2 million child workers in Turkey
THERE are two million child workers in Turkey, despite the official statistics showing the figure as 800,000, DISK (The Confederation of Revolutionist Worker’s Unions),...
‘Rice cannot impose a buffer zone or a security zone on...
HASAN Fadlallah, the Lebanese MP for Bint Jubayl, which has been completely destroyed by Israeli bombing, and a leader of the Hezbollah...
Pro-US Haftar Mobilising Against Libyan Islamists
PREPARATION is underway for a ‘decisive’ battle, to storm the city of Benghazi and expel the Islamist militias, by pro-US forces led by Major-General...
Palestinian hunger strikers home raided!
ISRAELI authorities raided the house of Samer Issawi, a Palestinian prisoner who engaged in one of the longest hunger strikes in history, on Sunday. Authorities...
‘Detaining children is not a necessary evil’
THE announcement by the Coalition Government back in May 2010 that it would be ending the detention of children for immigration purposes was widely...
Israeli State Murder On The Occupied West Bank!
THE early morning traffic began to ease as the funeral procession departed from Bethlehem’s city limits, and cars sped up on their way to...
BRITAIN MUST STOP ARMING ISRAEL NOW! – demands London rally
THE first speaker at the rally in Battersea outside the American embassy was University and College Union General Secretary Jo Grady, who said: ‘There...
UNISON delegates determined to organise coordinated industrial action
DELEGATES at the UNISON National Delegate Conference in Brighton on Thursday forced a debate on Friday on coordinated action over soon-to-be prime minister Brown’s...
Mass Street Protests Throughout Morocco
A NEW revolutionary uprising has erupted in Morocco, with mass street protests spreading around the whole country. The uprising began in ‘The Rif,’ a...
Iran, Russia and China hold joint naval exercise in Gulf of...
NAVAL forces from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia and China have practised shooting at aerial targets during a night-time operation over an area...
‘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:...
‘Teachers Are Exhausted By Ofsted And Hours Of Pointless Paperwork!’
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...
US WAR CRIMES REVEALED – as ACLU wins release of thousands...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has just released thousands of pages of documents related to Navy investigations of civilians killed by Coalition Forces...
PAKISTAN AND US COLLABORATE IN CROSS BORDER ATTACKS says Amnesty
EIGHTEEN people were killed on 13 January, when missiles were fired by an American CIA drone aircraft into three houses in Damadola, in the...
‘It’s a nightmare – patients and dead bodies arriving in overwhelming...
Two Australian doctors, Dr Nada Abu Alrub and Dr Saya Aziz, recounted the harrowing details of their work under constant Israeli bombardment and severe...
‘Those seeking to prevent a regional war must act swiftly to...
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah’s words resonated last Friday, with a sense of urgency and determination, shedding light on various facets of the...
‘Systematic abuse in Qatar’ – says Amnesty
MIGRANT workers building Khalifa International Stadium in Doha for the 2022 World Cup have suffered systematic abuses, in some cases forced labour, Amnesty International...
US billionaire brothers are financing anti-union drive
BILLIONAIRE brothers Charles and David Koch could be the poster boys for the big money special interests that are dumping hundreds of millions of...
Withdraw cuts or face unprecedented disruption at start of new...
UNIVERSITY workers are set to strike to defend jobs and courses as soon as the new academic year begins in September. Staff at Sheffield Hallam...