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...
Class Struggle Sharpening In South Africa!
THE National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU), as the majority union at the Clinix Health Group, is on strike today over substantive...
Teamsters Question Self-Driving Technology As Sanders Wants ‘Medicare For All’
TEAMSTERS General Secretary Treasurer, Ken Hall, has testified at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on self-driving technology, urging for the exemption of commercial...
‘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...
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...
California’s Health Staff 5-Day Strike
WORKERS at eight campuses of the Alameda Health System (AHS) in California’s East Bay – 3,200 members of the SEIU union local 1021 –...
Russia accuses the West of using sanctions to steal its gold...
RUSSIA has accused Western countries of using sanctions to steal the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves amid the raging war in Ukraine. Asked about...
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...
Inquest into the death of Leon Briggs – died after being...
‘Over our long fight for the truth there has been no remorse shown by the police – in fact they have tried to disrupt...
Putin warns – Russia will take action if NATO expands its...
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia will act if the US-led NATO military alliance crosses its red lines in Ukraine. Speaking at an investment...
‘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:...
DVLA health & safety scandal! PCS strike ballot
THOUSANDS of staff working at the DVLA will be balloted for strike action over continuing Covid health and safety concerns, the Public and Commercial...
UK singled out for care home deaths and assault on ...
‘CORONAVIRUS has exposed global inequality, and leaders have ramped up attacks on human rights,’ so concludes the Amnesty International Report 2020/21 released today, which...
G15 service charge strike after 500% hike
RESIDENTS of G15 housing association are going ‘on strike’ and refusing to pay service charge bill increases in response to their monthly payments having...
Workers hit by global gas hike – Unison warns of big...
An unprecedented rise in the price of gas has sent shock waves through the UK energy market, forcing energy suppliers out of business, threatening...
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...
The Borders Of The Kherson Region Are Securely Protected, Says The...
THE borders of the Kherson region are securely protected by the Russian military, and any attempts by the Ukrainian armed forces to advance towards...
France Hit By Massive Strike Actions
WORKERS at Sanofi, which is France’s largest pharmaceutical company, went on strike on Tuesday following the announcement of 1,000 sackings as part of a...
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...
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...
Trade unions demand a united Ireland Call for new all Ireland...
MORE than 150 trade unionists have signed a declaration calling on the labour movement to advocate for a united Ireland and a new all-Ireland...
Two Media Workers Killed Every Week Says IFJ
NUJ comment on an International Federation of Journalists report TWO MEDIA workers die every week, according to an International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) report.
The UK’s...
Hamas denounces Arab countries’ normalisation deals with Israel
HAMAS has denounced the ‘normalisation deals’ with Israel, because they are aimed at legitimatising the regime in the Middle East and forging an alliance...
French Unions Call Equal Pay Strike On March 8
FRENCH trade unions have called on workers to mobilise and strike on March 8th to demand equal pay for women and men. The CGT trade...
Israel used ‘assassination tactic’ against 3 Palestinian youth
A NEW investigation has revealed that Israel used an assassination tactic, not seen in the occupied West Bank for more than 15 years, in...
Preparations underway for Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections says Mahmoud Abbas!
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said during his speech last Friday before the General Debate of the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly that...
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...
‘No cover-ups, no concealments’ – demand bereaved families fighting for justice
BEREAVED families, were joined by speakers from academia, sports, journalism and the arts at an event last Friday for a ‘Hillsborough Law Now’ event...
15 US labour organisations join ‘Labour for Palestine!’
A LABOUR union in the US state of Vermont has declared its decision to join the alliance of ‘Labour for Palestine’, a trade union...
Myanmar protesters shot dead by police and army!
POLICE in Myanmar opened fired on protesters on Tuesday in several cities with live rounds, witnesses and local media reported, killing at least nine...
Russia Uses Hypersonic Missile For The First Time
THE conflict in Ukraine has seen Russia use its newest Kinzhal hypersonic missiles close to the border with NATO member Romania, while Kiev says...
Iran’s impounding of oil tanker is ‘serious’ says South Korean First...
A SENIOR South Korean official said the situation surrounding a Korean-flagged oil tanker seized by Iran for repeated environmental violations is ‘serious,’ as he...
‘Nursing staff need to have full confidence they are protected!’
THE TORIES ‘indecision’ means nursing staff are facing a postcode lottery in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), leaving some more protected than others, the Royal...
South African joblessness rises to 27.6%
SOUTH Africa’s unemployment rate has risen to its highest level since the third quarter of 2017 to 27.6% at the end of the first...
US & EU continuing economic terrorism against Syria
‘MEMBER countries at the UN Security Council are attempting to destabilise Syria and impose their own hostile agendas,’ Syria’s permanent representative to the UN,...
Palestinian prisoner Zubaidi begins his open-ended hunger strike
A PALESTINIAN prisoner on Sunday started an open-ended hunger strike in protest against his ongoing detention despite the completion of his sentence in Israeli...
Thousands of civil servants jobs under threat
THOUSANDS of civil service jobs are under threat in the wake of plans to cut numbers swollen by both Brexit and the Covid crisis...
Leiberman Threatens ‘Wide-Scale & Painful’ Military Operation Against Gaza
THE Israeli Defence Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, threatened to initiate a ‘wide-scale and painful military operation’ against the besieged Gaza Strip due to the continued...
Doctors are suffering ‘emotional and psychological distress–since they cannot give...
BMA research finds doctors are suffering ‘emotional’ and ‘psychological’ distress because they cannot give patients the treatment and care that they need. New research by...
Germany to send 2,000 additional anti-tank weapons to Ukraine to...
GERMANY will send 2,000 additional anti-tank weapons to Ukraine to replenish the country’s depleting arsenal and bolster its defences against the Russian military operation. The...
Aussie Food Workers Third Week On Strike
United Workers Union (UWU) members at the McCormick Foods manufacturing site in Clayton, south-east Melbourne, Australia, have just started their third week out on...
‘Lessons of the successful All-India General Strike!’
‘WORKERS Resistance and the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) congratulates the working class of the country for making the all-India strike...
Syrian army destroys terrorist hideouts in Idlib – as Russia accuses...
SYRIAN military forces are continuing to target terrorist hideouts in northwestern Syria where the government has been restraining its offensives based on a de-escalation...
Mexican maquiladora workers win
MEXICAN maquiladora workers in 70 factories have won big wage increases and bonuses in a strike wave that began in January. Maquiladoras are tariff and...
‘Pandemic has left the NHS running on empty! – Overworked doctors...
OVERWORKED doctors must be allowed to rest and recover so we can keep patients safe, doctors’ union the British Medical Association (BMA) warned. The BMA...