Student Nurses, Unpaid And Uninsured, Are Treating Coronavirus Patients – And...
STUDENT nurses who are currently doing their placements are facing serious risks. Their lives are at risk as many are treating coronavirus patients and...
Iran, Russia and China congratulate Assad on election victory! while Germany...
IN SEPARATE messages, Iran, Russia and China congratulate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for achieving a landslide victory in the 2021 presidential race. Iran, Russia and...
‘CALL A GENERAL STRIKE RIGHT NOW!’ Young Socialists tell the TUC
THE TUC Congress opened in Bournemouth on Sunday to clamorous demands for an indefinite General Strike to bring down the government. After last year’s vote...
Deep Public Service Cuts Are Harming Australian Workers!
OUTGOING Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson is right to highlight the impact deep public service cuts are having on the bureaucracy’s ability to do its...
Marwan Barghouthi Elected To Fatah Central Committee
Marwan Barghouthi, who is serving five life sentences in Israel, has been elected to the governing body of Fatah which dominates the Palestinian Authority,...
ADULT EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK– funding crisis means sackings and course closures,...
Lower than expected college funding poses a severe threat to adult education and those who provide it, warns the latest edition of public sector...
Doctors Hit By £200,000 Pension Changes
Changes to public sector pensions could mean doctors paying over £200,000 more over the course of their careers for a worse deal on retirement,...
”DEFEND WALSALL YOUTH CENTRES’ – says Unite
PLANS to shut nearly every Walsall youth centre will leave thousands of the town’s young people with nowhere to go, Unite has warned in...
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...
MARIKANA HAS ONCE AGAIN ‘BECOME A KILLING FIELD’ says Amcu
THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), the biggest union in South Africa’s ‘platinum belt’, says that Marikana has once again become a...
Foxconn and Apple practise discrimination against married women in their Indian...
FOXCONN, a key manufacturer of Apple devices, has been systematically excluding married female candidates from assembly jobs at its flagship Indian smartphone plant. Despite both...
Sri Lankan crisis over out-of-control killings
The High Court Judge and judicial district judges of Jaffna have held a meeting of police officials to discuss the escalating killings, abductions, robberies...
‘There must be prosecutions, there’s got to be accountability’ says Manchester...
WEDNESDAY was the 6th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire when 72 tenants and residents of Kensington and Chelsea perished in their homes on...
Iran Condemns Usa For Vetoing An Immediate Ceasefire In Gaza!
IRAN’S foreign minister has censured Washington for vetoing, for the third time, a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the besieged...
Don’t veto Palestinian UN bid – Barghouthi warns US
JAILED Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouthi has warned that a US veto of the Palestinian bid to join the UN would be tantamount to ‘terrorism’...
A new aid flotilla to sail to Gaza – four years...
FOUR years after the Israeli military assault on the Mavi Marmara, Turkish relatives of victims express their willingness to join the new aid flotilla...
Hamas defiant on 50th Anniversary of Land Day!
On the fiftieth anniversary of Land Day, Monday 30th March, Palestinians find themselves in one of the bloodiest and most complex phases in the...
COSATU leader Vavi attacks CP, Stalinism and ANC betrayal
COSATU leader Zwelinzima Vavi has written an open letter to the South African Communist Party (SACP) expressing his concerns over the party’s right wing...
Israeli War Left Gaza Children Traumatised
Young Palestinian chldren are still severely traumatised six months after the Israeli war on the impoverished Gaza Strip, charities warn. Fourteen-year-old Ghasan Matar won’t talk...
Uber Drivers Are Entitled To Workers Rights
TRADE unions the GMB and the IWGB last Wednesday won crucial Court of Appeal decisions, agreed by both the Employment Tribunal and the Employment...
TROOPS SURROUND FONSEKA RESIDENCE – after Rajapakse’s ‘democratic victory’
Heavily armed Sri Lankan forces have surrounded Wednesday Cinnamon Lake hotel in Colombo, where opposition presidential candidate and former Sri Lanka Army General (retd)...
No Tory Dictatorship Smash Anti-Union Laws!
THE publication of the newly proposed Tory strike-ban laws have brought a response from all trade unions. Some union leaders call for action but the...
FBU criticises ‘serious shortcomings’ of Grenfell Tower Inquiry
BELOW is the introduction to the Fire Brigades Union’s 64 page ‘Response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 Report,’ containing scathing criticism of...
Fatah Angers Hamas Over Gaza Tunnels
A SENOR Fatah official said Saturday that the Palestinian Authority supports Egypt’s efforts to shut down a tunnel network under the border with the...
Honduras threatens to expel US troops in retaliation for Trump’s mass...
Honduras has threatened to expel United States troops, retaliating against incoming President Donald Trump’s plans to carry out mass deportations of refugees and asylum...
MARX AND THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION – PART 3: The Class Dictatorship...
‘FEBRUARY 25, 1848, had granted the republic to France, June 25 thrust the revolution upon her. And revolution, after June, meant: overthrow of bourgeois...
UK 23rd as far as child ‘well being’ is concerned
UK children’s wellbeing lags behind many other European countries, including France, Germany, Slovenia and Estonia, Save the Children has found. The charity’s World’s Mothers Index,...
Irish Unions Pledge To Fight Polish Workers Exploitation
Polish workers, some of them members of the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union (TEEU), are being paid 5.20 euros an hour by a contractor...
‘Investigate War Crimes Against Tamil People’
‘WE CALL upon the British trade union movement to work with us in solidarity, to bring about an international investigation into war crimes against...
More Than 40,000 Nursing Vacancies
‘OUR NURSING workforce is in a state of crisis, with more than 40,000 vacancies in England alone across our health service, from A&E to...
5th Anniversary of Trincomalee students’ execution
RELATIVES of the five Trincomalee students, who were shot dead execution-style by Sri Lanka soldiers on January 2nd 2006, are remembering the fifth anniversary...
Netanyahu ends peace talks – Demands an end to Fatah-Hamas unity
ISRAEL has called on Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas to rip up the unity deal struck between the PLO and Hamas. Israel earlier suspended peace talks...
‘The corporate structure of care homes … hides profits, avoids tax...
SOME of the Big 26 care home providers make use of ‘complex company structures’ is the finding of a report from the Centre for...
Marx And The Permanent Revolution
BY MIKE DRIVER PART ONE: ‘Fraternity found its true unadulterated and prosaic expression in the war of Labour against capital’ AS French and European workers...
All-Ireland Electricians Strike
Striking electricians vowed to keep up their all-out stoppage on its third day, Wednesday, as union leaders re-entered talks with employers regarding a pay...
Abductions, illegal detentions, extra-judicial executions and torture ‘routine in Sri lanka’
‘HUNDREDS of people languish in arbitrary, illegal and often incommunicado detention in Sri Lanka, vulnerable to torture and extrajudicial execution, despite the end of...
‘Snoopers Charter’ – sweeping state powers!
‘IT beggars belief that the government is blundering on with its snooping power-grab completely disregarding the concerns being raised from all sides,’ said Kate...
Row Growing Over Future Of 17,000-Plus Detainees
A proposed US-Iraq security pact states that anyone detained by the Americans must be handed over to the Iraqis within 24 hours, says UN...
OVER 500 CAPE TOWN FIREFIGHTERS FACE THE SACK! – treated like...
‘THE CITY of Cape Town cannot be allowed to have its cake and eat it. We should not allow it to heap all praise...
Birdshot and teargas fired on Cairo rallies
EGYPT National Railway director Hussein Zakariya said he has taken legal action against striking train drivers, referring them to the Administrative Prosecution. He said in...
London Postal Workers Action
News Line covered a number of CWU postal worker picket lines in the early hours of last Friday morning at the start of...
SRI LANKA’S ‘RECONCILIATION COMISSION’ IS NOT CREDIBLE – human rights groups...
THE International Crisis Group, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, the three premier human rights watchdogs, yesterday slammed Sri Lanka’s reconciliation commission (LLRC). They accused...
Students across the UK defy Starmer to march on Gaza Day
‘FROM the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! – From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever!’ ‘Say it now...
Hezbollah Will Not Give In To Israeli Provocations
Hezbollah on Wednesday held a memorial service in the township of Majdal Silm in south Lebanon. During the service, Shaykh Nabil Qawuq, Hezbollah’s official in...
US union leaders released after mass rallies across the US
DAVID Huerta, the 58-year-old president of Service Employees International Union California, was released from federal custody on Monday on a $50,000 bond after a...