UN DEMANDS TOTAL ACCESS TO INTERNMENT CAMPS – as Sinhala youths...
TAMILNET reports that gangs of Sinhala youths brandishing Lion flags in the name of victory against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), have...
Journalists Cannot Reveal Sources
IN a hard-hitting personal reflection, Irish Political Journalist and National Union of Journalists member JOHN COULTER vehemently defends the right of reporters to withhold...
Tea Factory Workers Step Up The Fight For Permanent Jobs
Supported by the IUF-affiliated National Federation of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Workers of Pakistan, over 700 contract agency workers at Unilever’s last directly-owned and...
Nasrallah Urges ‘stay Alert’ In Face Of Massive Israeli Manouevres
HEZBOLLAH Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah last Monday, speaking in a live address broadcast on Al-Manar TV, discussed the implications of the current Israeli...
BRING DOWN THE BROWN GOVERNMENT! FORWARD TO A WORKERS GOVERNMENT! –message...
OVER 100 trade unionists, workers and youth attended the News Line – All Trades Unions Alliance meeting in Red Lion Square in Central London...
5,000 March In London On Nakba Day
AROUND 5,000 people marched from the University of London Union (ULU) to Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday, to mark the 61st anniversary...
Close-Quarter Fighting In Northern Sri Lanka
TAMILNET reports that the entire safety zone area has gone up in smoke since the early hours of Friday with shelling by the Sri...
Obama Warns Israel Against A Surprise Military Attack On Iran
US President Barack Obama has warned Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu against surprising the US with a military attack on Iran. A senior US official...
‘we Will March And Occupy To Save Chase Farm’
‘We have to do everything to save this hospital,’ out-patient Farzaeh Yegan told News Line at the North East London Council of Action monthly...
‘WE WILL CONTINUE TO STAY HERE FOR OUR PEOPLE’ –Thousands of...
‘Gordon Brown is supporting Rajapakse and his genocide and murder of the Tamil people’, Loganathan said outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday, where...
‘THE GOVERNMENT HAS ‘SET THE STAGEFOR MASS HOSPITAL CLOSURES’ says surgeon
IN MARCH, the Healthcare Commission reported that emergency care at Mid Staffordshire Hospital was ‘appalling’. It’s in-depth investigation discovered excess patient deaths of 400...
SAVE LEWISHAM BRIDGE SCHOOL! demand parents, teachers and pupils
MORE than 300 parents, teachers, students and schoolchildren marched through the centre of Lewisham, south-east London, on Saturday to save Lewisham Bridge Primary School. The...
Commute Iraq death sentences – urges Amnesty
THE IRAQI authorities executed 12 people last Sunday according to information received by Amnesty International, which has called for all death sentences to be...
‘A HUMAN RIGHTS CATASTROPHE CONFRONTS TAMILS IN SRI LANKA’ – warn...
TamilNet reported on Wednesday a press conference of Canadian Academics for Tamil Rights in Toronto. The academics stressed recognition of the self-determination of Tamils as...
‘RETURN IS A RIGHT, NO CONSENT, NO CONCESSION’ – 10,000 Palestinians...
Titled ‘The Milan Declaration’, the final communiqué of the Seventh Palestinians in Europe Conference, convened under the theme ‘Return is a right, no Consent...
Spain To Pursue Israeli War Crimes Probe
Spain’s National Court plans to proceed with an investigation of Israeli officials for possible war crimes against humanity over the 2002 killing of a...
Tamils Braced For A Major Onslaught On Vanni
TamilNet said that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) during the weekend has reportedly been engaged in heavy deployment of its troops poised for a...
‘Socialism the only way forward – build the revolutionary leadership’
v‘We are meeting under the greatest ever crisis of the capitalist system,’ Chair of Chingford ASLEF Bill Rogers told 150 workers and youth at...
HEALTH IN GAZA THREATENED – by unexploded bombs and war debris
UNEXPLODED bombs and the uncontrolled dumping of rubbish pose the greatest environmental and public health risks to residents of the Gaza Strip, according to...
Miliband Does Nothing To Stop Genocide Against The Tamils
TamilNet reports that Professor Francis Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, has said Britain is obliged to...
Sri Lankan Army Fires Thousands Of Rockets And Shells!
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) fired at least 2,600 Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher (MBRL) rockets, more than 1,000 artillery shells and at least 2,000 heavy...
HSE serves two Improvement Notices on Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
THE Health and Safety Executive has served two Improvement Notices on Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service in the aftermath of the deaths of two...
Visteon Occupiers Launch Irish Film Festival
A DELEGATION of workers who have been occupying the Visteon auto parts plant in Belfast for the last month have been invited to help...
175th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF 1834 TO FREE THE...
APRIL 21 saw the 175th anniversary of the Grand Demonstration of 1834 when over 100,000 marched from Copenhagen Fields in London to Parliament to...
‘Efficiency Savings’ Are Massive Spending Cuts
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) branded the efficiency savings announced in Wednesday’s budget as spending cuts which would damage services and lead...
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GAZANS ARE STILL HOMELESS – and without...
TENS of thousands of Gazans are still homeless and without basic services such as piped drinking water three months after the 18 January ceasefire,...
‘THE MOST CRUEL AND RACIST REGIME’ – Ahmadinezhad indicts Israel
DOZENS of delegates walked out of a United Nations conference on racism after Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, Iran's president, correctly described the Israeli cabinet as a...
O’Connor Looks For ‘social Dividend’ From The Crisis
SIPTU General President Jack O’Connor has called for a Social Dividend to tackle the lack of adequate occupational pension coverage in return for trade...
Irish Teachers Strikes Loom
Research carried out by the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) indicates that second-level schools will lose an average of 2.6 temporary and part-time...
Tuc Forms A Common Front With The Bosses
The TUC has joined forces with the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), EEF the manufacturers’ organisation, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and The...
Sri Lankan Army Steps Up Its Attacks On Tamil Civilians
TAMILNET reports that yesterday, at 6.50am the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) intensified its offensive aimed at dividing the so-called Safety Zone into two. With fire...
‘WE WILL OCCUPY!’ – to save Chase Farm
WORKERS, local residents and patients yesterday expressed their determination to keep all the departments at Chase Farm Hospital open. They gave their support to the...
Teachers Demand 10% Pay Rise
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference on Monday voted to demand a pay rise of ten per cent or at least £3,000,...
Government responsible for deaths at Mid-Staffordshire Hospital
LAST month the Healthcare Commission (HCC) published a report following an investigation into Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. It found that the care of emergency patients...
The Canadian government calls for an immediate ceasefire in Sri Lanka
TAMILNET reports that the Canadian government has called for an immediate ceasefire in Sri Lanka. ‘We’ve asked the United Nations for an immediate ceasefire. ‘We’re very...
‘WE WERE SHAFTED’ – say angry Stead McAlpin workers
Over fifty Stead McAlpin sacked textile workers held a 24-hour picket and demonstration outside the factory in Cummersdale near Carlisle on Wednesday and are...
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...
CHEMICAL WEAPONS MASSACRE ‘THE LAST STRAW’ –Tamils blockade Westminster Bridge
‘Thousands of our people have been murdered with chemical weapons just an hour ago’, Tamil protester Shiva said on Monday evening. He was speaking from...
Lieberman likely to face money-laundering charges
THE corruption investigation into Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is likely to produce charges of money laundering, fraud and breach of trust, Israeli police...
‘PEOPLE ARE KILLED HERE EVERY DAY BY THE SECURITY FORCES’ –...
TAMILNET reports that Pararajasingam Kanagalingam, president of the Vanni People Welfare Organisation (VPWO), last Wednesday sent it a recorded affidavit on the civil situation...
60,000 March In Athens
TENS of thousands of Greek workers from all industries and services took part last Thursday in the rallies and demonstrations staged in the capital...
THOUSANDS LAY SIEGE TO THE CITY – and march against the...
SEVEN thousand mainly young people from London and across the country marched to demand the withdrawal of British and American troops from Iraq and...
‘EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE, TORTURE AND DETENTIONS’ – Amnesty reports allegations...
A report published on Monday, March 30 by Amnesty International reveals a pattern of serious human rights violations by Greek police and other...
THE LTTE WILL NOT LAY DOWN ITS ARMS – before a...
Selvaraja Pathmanathan, the LTTE plenipotentiary for international relations, gave an interview to TamilNet on Monday. TamilNet: How do you view the response of...
Unison and EU public sector unions form ‘historic alliance’
UNISON and other EU public sector unions have formed an ‘historic alliance’. UNISON declared yesterday: ‘The fight back has begun. And UNISON is...