28,000 Canadian actors locked out for a year! – nurses rally...
THE UNION representing 28,000 Canadian actors and radio artists reports that 28,000 commercial workers have been locked out from commercial acting work for over...
South African workers launch ‘Scrap New Labour Laws’ campaign
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) are marching in Gauteng today, Human Rights Day, to protest against the proposed new...
IMF undermining world health and education – ActionAid’s dire warning
NEW RESEARCH by ActionAid, Public Services International, and Education International warns that the International Monetary Fund’s demands to cut public sector employee costs undermine...
GATE GOURMET DüSSELDORF ON STRIKE – after 3 years of harassment...
THE Gate Gourmet workers on strike at Düsseldorf airport continued their picket throughout the year-end holiday season supported by their union, the NGG, their...
AUSTERITY–• eroding workers rights • driving up unemployment says ILO report
In light of the new International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) ‘World at Work’ report the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is holding the world’s first...
MPs rattled by phone hacking crisis! – PART 2: Privileges Committee...
TOM Watson, (West Bromwich East Labour MP, told the House of Commons: ‘Anyone can have their phone tapped by the newspapers, and they do. He...
Huber Ballesteros, Freed Colombian Trade Union Leader Addresses Tuc!
COLOMBIAN trade union leader, Huber Ballesteros, was finally able to address the TUC Congress in Brighton on Wednesday. Weeks before he was due to fly...
‘When companies are exempted the whole process is a circus’ says...
WORKERS in Zimbabwe have expressed dismay at the lack of seriousness on the government’s part, after it exempted more companies to operate during the...
‘WE ARE TREATED LIKE PIECES OF COAL’ – Colombian miners tell...
On an AFL-CIO Solidarity Center-sponsored exchange visit, Florida AFL-CIO Vice-President Mike Williams learned about Colombian workers’ constant struggle for social and economic justice – and...
RUSSIA, GERMANY & FRANCE SUPPORT 2015 IRAN DEAL – while the...
THE leaders of Russia, France and Germany have underscored the need to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, stressing their commitment to boosting...
Greece goes to the polls as workers mobilise against austerity
Workers and youth in Greece were looking to deliver a huge blow to the current right-wing government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis in yesterday’s parliamentary elections. The...
NUMSA fights attempt to ban South Africa bus strike
THE NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has opposed an application to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) Essential Services...
GAZANS WON’T MOVE! – one million refuse to be displaced...
The Government Media Office (GMO) issued a statement on Sunday saying that the Israeli occupation army has detonated more than 80 booby-trapped robots in...
‘THE MONEY’S THERE WHERE’S OUR SHARE!’ – demand lecturers
‘The money’s there, where’s our share!’ was the popular slogan chanted by over 5,000 university lecturers from across Britain marching through central London last...
Met Gangs Matrix database is ‘racially discriminatory’ – says Amnesty
THE METROPOLITAN Police is using a ‘racially discriminatory’ Gangs Matrix database, says Amnesty International in its new report. Amnesty International UK’s Director, Kate Allen,...
Eyewitness Account Of Assange In Court
News Line is pleased to reproduce the following account, by Craig Murray, former Brtish ambassador to Uzbekistan, of the court appearance of WikiLeaks founder...
Government Failed In Its Duty Of Care!
The UK government ‘failed in its duty of care’ to doctors and the healthcare workforce in its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, says the...
Nations of the world condemn Israel’s tent camp massacre!
The horrifying news of Sunday night’s tent attack sent shock waves throughout the globe, prompting world leaders to call for the immediate implementation of...
CUT MY PAY – NO WAY! – 800,000 council workers strike
Picket lines were out across the country on Wednesday morning as 800,000 UNISON and Unite council worker members began the first day of a...
Bush Will Return In May To Celebrate The Founding Of Israel
ARAB states are demanding that the United States clarify the purpose of a planned return trip by US President George W Bush to Israel...
24-hour Greek General Strike
A 24-hour General Strike declared by GSEE (Greek TUC) and ADEDY (public sectors trades unions federation) took place on Wednesday in Greece, with the...
‘BEYOND THE MARKET’–‘BACK TO FOUNDING PRINCIPLES’ – say BMA, Unison and...
THE NHS would become both more cost-effective and equitable if it were operated on its founding principle of co-operation rather than competition, said a...
TULKAREM ASSASSINATIONS – undercover Israeli troops kill Islamic Jihad leader
An undercover unit of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) backed by 15 military vehicles stormed into and imposed curfew on the northern West Bank...
Israeli Forces Raid West Bank
ISRAELI forces early on Friday detained three Palestinians, including a minor, from multiple West Bank districts, said security sources. Israeli forces raided Rummana, a...
CHINESE STALINISTS PROP UP RAJAPAKSE – as India and US compete...
TAMILNET reports that the Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang last Saturday morning called on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse at the Presidential residence House....
SAFTU calls South Africa national strike for August 24th – against...
A NATIONAL strike across South Africa against the rising costs of living, load shedding, and other economic challenges will take place on 24 August,...
Australian mass marches against low pay!
MORE THAN 170,000 workers marched through Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday, while tens of thousands of others marched through Sydney, Wollongong, Gladstone, Cairns, Mackay, Darwin,...
Islamic Jihad slams hostile US statements
THE statements by American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her visits to Tel Aviv and Ramallah are ‘aggressive and anti-Palestinian’, the Palestinian resistance...
‘WE WILL NOT BE EVICTED!’ – insist St Paul’s occupiers
‘We will not be evicted!’ was the clear message from the occupiers outside St Paul’s as they defy new attempts by the Corporation of...
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...
‘Iran Will Give A Crushing Response To Any Military Assault
Commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pour-Dastan said on Monday that if its enemies dare to commit any mistake and...
Hundreds of thousands across Europe march for Palestine
HUNDREDS of thousands of workers and young people took to the streets across Italy on Friday in a general strike organised by the CGIL...
Special Educational Needs & Disabilities funding – cut to the bone!
SPECIAL Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) funding is being cut to the bone, the National Education Union (NEU) warned in a motion on the...
‘We’ll strike again if need be’ – warn Swindon hospital workers
GMB trade union officers, representing 150 GMB members employed by Carillion at Great Western Hospital in Swindon, expect the company to reach conclusions by...
‘HOPE’ DOCKS IN AL-ARISH – following Egypt-Israel deal
ISRAEL’S decision to block a Libyan aid ship from docking in Gaza proves its siege is ‘an act of terror’, the Gaza-based Prime Minister...
Settlement with Vale–but no final accord!
WITH a 75% ratification vote announced late on 7 July, Canadian nickel mining and processing workers represented by United Steelworkers (USW) Locals 6500 and...
710 Palestinian babies under the age of one killed by Israeli...
THE ISRAELI military killed at least 710 Palestinian babies before they made it to their first birthday, the equivalent of two infants under one-year-old...
‘The Failure Of Their Battle For Aleppo Means A Total Transformation...
PRESIDENT Assad had an interview with the Syrian newspaper al-Watan last Wednesday and we are pleased to be be able to publish some extracts...
Palestinian hunger strikers are fighting for their freedom!
PALESTINIAN prisoners have been hitting the headlines around the world with the escalating wave of hunger strikes for the release of high-profile prisoners in...
THE SAFETY OF MATERNITY SERVICES UNDER SERIOUS THREAT says Royal College...
THE SAFETY of maternity services is under serious threat, according to a new survey released by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) on Tuesday. The...
Bahrain’s Welcome To Israeli Foreign Minister ‘Despicable’
IRAN says Bahrain’s ‘despicable’ welcoming of Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid to Manama is at odds with the will of the Bahraini people, stressing...
Gaza genocide escalating into the West Bank
THE use of fighter jets by the Israeli occupation army for the first time since 2000 to bombard a popular café in Tulkarem city...
White goods catching fire daily!
FREEZERS and tumble dryers are catching fire daily resulting in nine fatalities and 298 injuries. In fact, this figure does not include the...
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...
‘Pain deliberately inflicted on child inmates’ – says UK Parliament’s Human...
THE Standing Committee for Youth Justice and the UK Parliament’s Human Rights Committee yesterday indicted the British government for inflicting pain on young people...