THE UK IS A FIRST-WORLD COUNTRY WITH THIRD-WORLD EDUCATION – UCU...
The UK has dramatically slumped to the bottom of international education tables, the University and College Union stressed today. In the past twelve years it...
Hanan Ashrawi meets Swedish Consul – both stress the need for...
MEMBER of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation Hanan Ashrawi has met the Swedish Consul-General to Palestine, Jessica Olausson, in Ramallah. The two...
TUC calls to renationalise the railways and transport
THE TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday passed motions calling for the public ownership of transport services, action on the housing crisis and...
Ahern Attacks Irish Unions
IRISH Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern has told the trade unions it would be ‘reckless’ of them to seek a 10 per cent pay...
Rail unions demand permanent renationalisation of the whole rail network!
LAST WEEK Tory minority government Transport Secretary Grayling announced that the privately-run East Coast Mainline has collapsed again and will be ‘temporarily renationalised’ –...
Teachers join mass public sector strike in Abuja – in Kenya...
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Monday directed all primary and secondary school teachers in Abuja to join the ongoing strike initiated by...
Sri Lankan State Targeting Muslim Communities
Amnesty International UK has condemned an ‘Alarming rise in state-sanctioned violence and discrimination against Muslims’ in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Muslim community has suffered consistent...
SA goldmine fires 1,500 strikers
SOUTH AFRICAN mining company Sibanye Gold has fired around 1,500 workers for taking part in a wildcat strike at its Cooke mine. The decision, announced...
Mediterranean dockers strike for Palestine!
IN THE port of Piraeus, the ADEDY (public sector federation of trades unions) and the Piraeus Trades Council have called an anti-war 24-hour strike...
Israel Dawn Raids On The West Bank
Israeli occupation forces at dawn on Monday rounded up twelve Palestinians from the West bank districts of Al-Khalil, Bethlehem and Qalqilia, the Israeli military...
There could be a repeat of the Rana Plaza disaster! –...
THE President of the Bangladeshi National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF) on Saturday warned eight leading UK retailers that there could be a repeat of...
THE WORLD’S LARGEST PRISON – what Israel has in mind for...
Vindicating Palestinian fears of transforming the Gaza Strip into the world’s largest prison, Israel on Monday ruled out giving the Palestinians their own gate...
‘THE TRADE UNIONS MUST TAKE ACTION TO DEFEAT ACADEMY PROGRAMME’ –...
A NINETY-children-to-a-class City Academy, where three-hour lessons are the norm, has been roundly condemned by leading anti-academy campaigner and NUT and ATL Executive member...
Hezbollah Slams Delay Of National Unity Government As ‘Sectarian Incitement’
HEZBOLLAH has slammed the delay in forming a new government in Lebanon, as ‘sectarian incitement’. Following a Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc meeting at the...
‘Rage Must Become A Collective Struggle’
Angry protesters at the funeral of the Greek pensioner, who shot himself last Wednesday in Syntagma square, in front of the Vouli (Greek parliament),...
St Paul’s occupiers determined to fight on – despite eviction attempts
ANTI-CAPITALIST St Paul’s occupiers were defiant and determined to stay despite attempts to evict them through the courts. Ev Emanon from Anonymous UK camped at...
MILLIONS CAN’T AFFORD TO BE SICK – US health insurance costs...
‘Fewer employers are offering health benefits to workers, even as premiums continue to rise, posting a 9.2 per cent increase in 2005 – three...
Assange ‘deprived of human dignity as a defendant’ says Craig Murray,...
NEWS LINE is pleased to publish the following eyewitness account from Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, of part of the extradition hearing...
25% Funding Cuts Will Cost 22,584 University Jobs
If the government pushes ahead with plans for 25 per cent funding cuts then there will be a loss of 22,584 university jobs in...
Numsa Has Won A Victory For Ford Workers In South Africa!
NUMSA has won a victory for Ford workers in South Africa after the union was able to fight off over 500 jobs cuts, and...
‘This story involving chemical weapons is a pretext for direct military...
ACCORDING to the Syrian president, Syria destroyed all its stocks of chemical weapons back in 2013, but the West was still using ‘fairy tales’...
Striking Catering Workers Arrested Across USA!
STRIKING catering workers employed by LSG Sky Chefs and Gate Gourmet were arrested at airports across the United States on November 26 as they...
‘Workforce burnout’ is on a large scale in the NHS –...
A CRITICAL report by MPs on the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee has warned of large scale ‘workforce burnout’ in the...
IRAN MUST ATTEND ANY GENEVA CONFERENCE – insists Russia
SPEAKING in Moscow, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said said on Thursday that the ‘international community’ has to decide with whom it will...
Trump’s ceasefire plan will allow Israel to resume its war after...
A PROPOSED ceasefire framework pushed by US President Donald Trump, touted as the ‘final proposal’ for ending Israel’s war on Gaza, would still allow...
Unions Warn – Increase Pay To Fill The 132,000 NHS Vacancies!
UNIONS representing more than a million staff working across the NHS met with Health Secretary Steve Barclay on Tuesday to discuss the growing workforce crisis...
‘We will negotiate with EC’ says Tsipras
THE Greek leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras in an interview with the Athens left daily Avgi on Sunday...
Tax the rich! – urge SAFTU leaders as they condemn ANC...
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) last Thursday condemned the ANC, saying that there is no real difference on the economy between...
Gaza’s children slaughtered – sometimes by missiles, sometimes by hunger, always...
ON WORLD Day Against Child Labour, 12 June: Gaza’s crushed childhood turns into a struggle for survival, Hamas said yesterday. In Gaza, footballs, pencils, and...
Seven African states condemn AU granting Israel observer status
SEVEN African Arab states have rejected a recent decision by the African Union (AU) Commission to grant the Israeli regime an observer status at...
‘Change the Record’ launches ‘Walk to Jerusalem’
CHANGE THE RECORD, put on an afternoon celebrating Palestinian culture, on Saturday to launch ‘Just Walk to Jerusalem’. Both were organised by the rights...
GET USED TO HIGH OIL PRICES OR CUT OIL TAXES says...
KING Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, whose nation is the world’s number one oil exporter, called on consumer countries to get used to high prices...
Norwegian TUC leads charge against Israeli Apartheid
IN a challenge to Israeli impunity, Norway has recently emerged as one of the first Western states to implement a cohesive and escalating campaign...
Defeat Israeli plan to ‘manage starvation’ & drive Palestinians out of...
Two days after the limited entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, Palestinian voices are rising to emphasise the ineffectiveness of the aid provided. They...
‘Why hasn’t British Airways held an inquiry into the death of...
BY CLARE SAMBROOK THREE years after the unlawful killing of a passenger in its care, why hasn’t British Airways held an inquiry into what went...
South Africa education workers fight ‘appalling’ casualisation and ‘declaration of war’...
SOUTH Africa’s National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) on Tuesday called on the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane...
Irish bus drivers vote for strike action!
SIPTU Bus Drivers in Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann have voted by over 90%, in both companies, in favour of industrial action and strike...
Power Cuts And A Heatwave In New York
NEW Yorkers continued to face power cuts in boiling temperatures on Tuesday as talks resumed to end a lockout of skilled power workers. Yet again...
Wrp May Day Rally Salutes Palestinian Hunger Strikers And World...
‘A socialist revolution in this country will open up the whole of the world,’ Frank Sweeney, the General Secretary of the Workers Revolutionary Party,...
Workers and youth say vote Athow in Hornsey and Wood Green!
WORKERS and youth signed up to join the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) and Young Socialists on Saturday, saying they will vote for Hornsey and...
‘We will accept no less than the independence of the state...
President Mahmud Abbas speech to the UN General Assembly Mr. President of the General Assembly, Your Excellency Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, PALESTINE...
30,000 displaced in Lebanon by Israeli strikes
THE United Nations said on Tuesday that at least 30,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon as a result of Israeli airstrikes and shelling...
Bush Rails As Pelosi Visits Damascus
US President George W Bush on Tuesday warned that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria sent ‘mixed signals’ that undermined US-led efforts...
Israel threatens full-scale invasion of Rafah!
THE WORLD’S attention is drawn to the small city of Rafah in the far south of the Gaza Strip on the Palestinian coast with...
‘West is using Ukraine as an instrument for making a threat...
RUSSIA has rejected any possibility of a nuclear war amid the conflict in Ukraine, warning the United States and the European Union that Moscow...