‘Frontline workers need to be respected, protected and paid’ says Mary...
SERVICE Employees International Union (SEIU) International President Mary Kay Henry says the Covid-19 relief package ‘is just a down payment’. She released the following statement...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NEW GP CONTRACT – it introduces American...
THE TITLE of the new GP contract is ‘Investment and evolution: A five-year framework for GP contract reform to implement the NHS Long Term...
Myanmar Miners – 5 Months On Strike!
Since MYANMAR’S military coup in February this year, 4,800 miners have been on strike in Monywa township in a solid five-month action which has...
‘The cold-blooded murder’ of Shireen Abu Akleh by an Israeli sniper!
A PALESTINIAN journalist who was with Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on the day when she was shot dead by Israeli state forces...
‘Israel trying to take advantage of gas forum’ says Palestinian leadership
NOT PARTICIPATING in the signing ceremony of the agreement to launch the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) on Tuesday does not mean withdrawing from...
CIA-backed Afghan forces have committed summary executions and war crimes!
UNITED STATES Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-backed Afghan forces have committed summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability which amount to war crimes, Human...
Israel using ‘organised terrorism’ to silence Palestinian media says the Journalists...
AN NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) promoting media freedom says at least 17 Palestinian journalists are currently being held in harsh conditions in Israeli jails in...
Aslef Blames Network Rail For Stonehaven Crash
BLAME for the the crash at Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire on Wednesday 12 August 2020, in which three people were killed, has been laid firmly...
Amnesty sues Israel’s MoD over spyware
AMNESTY International is supporting a legal action to take the Israeli Ministry of Defence (MoD) to court to demand that it revokes the export...
Israeli occupation – a crime against humanity – 231 INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS...
APARTHEID is a crime against humanity, giving rise to individual responsibility and state responsibility to bring the illegal situation to an end. In May 2020,...
Lebanon In Economic Meltdown!
OIL PRICES in Lebanon registered an additional hike on Tuesday, December 14th, as the country’s currency slid to a new low against the US...
Freed hunger striker Miqdad Qawasmi speaks out!
Eman Badr’s smile never leaves her face ever since her 25-year-old son Miqdad was released from Israeli prison following a 113-day, life-threatening hunger strike...
‘THE COST OF REMOVING CLADDING MUST NOT BE IMPOSED ON RESIDENTS’...
‘THE cost of removing dangerous flammable cladding must not fall onto a building’s residents,’ the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has said. ‘The government must fund...
‘IRAN SANCTIONS AN ACT OF AGGRESSION AGAINST ALL WORLD NATIONS’ says...
The secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, delivered a defiant speech in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Monday, 22nd April...
Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails are suffering unbearable imprisonment conditions...
THE Palestinian Authority’s Detained and Ex-Detainees Commission has said that the Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison of Etzion, near Bethlehem city in...
SYRIA DOES NOT POSSESS CHEMICAL WEAPONS says UN representative Bashar al-Jaafari
SYRIA’S permanent representative to the United Nations, Dr Bashar al-Jaafari, reiterated that Syria has not and will not use chemical weapons and does not...
‘JobKeeper’ payments removed from 1.1m Australians!
1.1 million workers in Australia will have their ‘JobKeeper’ payments removed from this week, with the Head of Treasury estimating that between 100,000 and...
Tory policy will see non-UK rough sleepers deported – Councils pledge...
LOCAL councils are pledging not to co-operate with the Tories’ Home Office and its proposed ‘policy that will see non-UK national rough sleepers deported’. They...
FBU launch DECON campaign to protect against toxic fire contaminants
Fire contaminants are directly linked to and can increase the risk of cancer and other diseases. The FBU has launched its new trailblazing campaign...
Offshore workers North Sea strike
OFFSHORE union RMT along with Unite and GMB on Tuesday issued notice of strike action by offshore members employed with North Sea contractors Ponticelli...
Fight against repression of trade unions will bring democracy to life...
FIGHTING against the repression of trade unions is bringing democracy to life, says the CGT French trade union federation. Ikéa lawsuits, dismissals, legal attacks against...
Russia plans to take full control of Donbass and southern Ukraine
A TOP Russian general says the country plans to take full control of Donbass and Southern Ukraine as part of the second phase of...
4,000 Colombian miners enter third month of strike!
OVER 4,000 miners, members of the Sintracarbón union, have entered the third month of a bitter strike at the Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia. The...
30,000 Oklahoma teachers march as strikes spread ‘like wildfire’
TEACHER strikes and massive demonstrations of teachers, parents and students are spreading across the United States ‘like wildfire’. In Oklahoma City, at the state...
‘DEMOCRACY’ AND POVERTY ARE INCOMPATIBLE – Venezuela Foreign Minister tells OAS
Latin America has 240 million people living in poverty, 100 million of them in extreme poverty, said Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez Araque in...
US ‘deal of century’ opposed!
SOME are being misled to believe that the soon-to-be-announced ‘deal of the century’ is a US-sponsored peace initiative aimed at resolving the so-called Palestinian-Israeli...
Russia rejects Ukraine ‘invasion’ allegations
RUSSIA has ruled out any further talks with the United States and NATO over the situation around Ukraine unless the West responds properly to...
Russian troops take control of Kherson in the Ukraine
RUSSIA’S Defence Ministry said its troops have taken control of Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson as the Russian military campaign entered its 20th day. ‘The...
China accuses NATO of provoking ‘new Cold War’
CHINA’S embassy in Brussels has warned NATO against dragging the planet towards a new Cold War through its ‘outdated security’ strategies. A spokesperson for the...
UK War Crimes In Iraq But Icc Declines To Prosecute
THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court has said it will not take action against the UK, despite its finding of evidence British troops committed war crimes...
‘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:...
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...
INVESTIGATION INTO RAIL DEATHS ‘failure to protect staff over many years’
AN INVESTIGATION released last week into the deaths in July 2019 of two railworkers at Magram, a suburb of Port Talbot in Wales, has...
Canadian grocery workers strike
THE employees of a Your Independent Grocer (YIG) franchise – in Cornwall, Ontario – have been on strike since November 23rd, as employer and...
Strike ballots will open at UK universities on October 18th
The University and College Union (UCU) has confirmed that strike ballots will open at UK universities on Monday 18 October in rows over USS...
Frontline workers demand ‘scrap Policing Bill’
Over 660 frontline healthcare, community, social and education workers have called for the Policing Bill to be scrapped ahead of a key debate in...
Youth from poor backgrounds hit hardest by coronavirus pandemic
YOUNG people, particularly those from deprived backgrounds, have had their earnings and job prospects hit the hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, adding to fears...
‘UN Must Condemn Assassination Of Fakhrizadeh!’ Says Iran
IRAN has called on the United Nations and its Human Rights Council to stop their ‘selective’ approach and condemn the recent assassination of the...
Prison privateer’s pay offer ‘a farcical lucky dip’
TRADE union Unite, the UK and Ireland’s biggest union, has branded a pay ‘offer’ to its 500 members employed by the company Amey undertaking...
Bolivian unions mobilise against ‘right-wing coup plotters’
FELIPA MONTENEGRO the leader of the Bartolina Sisa Movement, which represents the rights of rural Indigenous women in Bolivia denounced that she and her...
Iran Denounces Nato Interference In Ukraine
TEHRAN has denounced the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)’s interference in the volatile eastern part of Ukraine, stating that the military alliance’s provocative...
Tories Exacerbate NHS Crisis In ‘Urgent Care’ To Rush In Their...
‘THIS Easter will be worse than any winter for the NHS,’ warned Alastair McLellan, the editor of Health Service Journal (HSJ), in a leading...
‘Queen Elizabeth – the heiress of the British Empire’s callous and...
BY ARVIN QAEMIAN Reprinted from Press TV QUEEN Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, was like an immortal icon, like Big Ben. Yet, as Shakespeare put...
Midwives rally across UK to highlight maternity crisis
THOUSANDS of midwives and their supporters protested in towns and cities across the UK at 2.00pm on Sunday to highlight the crisis in maternity...
South African Farmworkers Facing Hunger Two Weeks Into Lockdown!
ON April 9th South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the lockdown to disrupt the transmission of Covid-19 in the country would be ‘extended...