Barbaric massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees – 34 years since...
MARKING 34 years since the 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon last Friday, Saeb Erekat, secretary...
Aussie student nurses: funding frozen
AUSTRALIA’S Federal Government has quietly decided to freeze university funding for regional nursing and other students, warns Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union (QNMU). In a...
Scottish NHS leaders discuss ‘two-tier’ health system
NHS leaders in Scotland have discussed abandoning the founding principles of the health service by having the wealthy pay for treatment, setting up a...
FBI attacks Scottish government over Megrahi release
THE Scottish Nationalist government has defended its decision to release Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi amid a mounting and frenzied counter-attack directed...
Netanyahu tries to justify genocide to the US Congress
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a joint session of the United States Congress last Wednesday, as his government carries out a genocide...
Assad and Medvedev discuss Syria developing nuclear energy
PRESIDENT ASSAD welcomed President Medvedev of Russia to Syria at a press conference last Tuesday. He said: ‘I welcome our friend President...
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...
Stop Ealing Maternity closure–Occupy!
‘OCCUPY Ealing Maternity Department to stop its closure on 1st July,’ Ealing Hospital nurse, Claire, a Unison member, told News Line on Monday. A demonstration...
HOPE OF GAZA WAR CRIMES VICTIMS DASHED – says Palestinian...
‘AS we send this press release, Palestinian civilians across the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem, are encountering extremely violent waves of state-sponsored oppression along...
‘FULL CLEARANCE OF DALE FARM IS NOT ENFORCEABLE’ – say campaigners...
MONDAY saw the conclusion of one of the two legal processes challenging Basildon Council’s planned eviction of the Dale Farm community. ‘The case, which halted...
Israeli PM brazenly breaks the truce and declares end of ceasefire...
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement, abruptly declared the end of the ceasefire agreement beyond the first phase with the...
‘THIS IS AN ENORMOUS VICTORY!’ says Peter Chappell – organiser of...
GEORGE Davis, now 69, says he should not have had to wait ‘36 long years’ for his conviction for armed robbery to be quashed...
TWO SICK PALESTINIAN PRISONERS ATTEMPT SUICIDE! – hunger strikers in danger...
Two sick Palestinian prisoners have attempted to commit suicide, a lawyer from the Palestinian Authority’s ministry of prisoners affairs said on Tuesday. Hanan al-Khatib said...
Benefit sanctions are a ‘truly shocking nightmare’
CIVIL servants union PCS has slammed the increase in benefit sanctions on the unemployed, that average at 64,307 per month, as ‘truly shocking’. PCS added...
Russia plans to take full control of Donbass and southern Ukraine
A TOP Russian general says the country plans to take full control of Donbass and Southern Ukraine as part of the second phase of...
Strike looms as 6,900 face sack at Germany’s Siemens
WORKERS at Siemens AG, the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe, are demanding strike action against a programme of mass sackings. Thousands of Siemens ...
NUJ addresses May Day in Ramallah
THE HEAD of the National Union of Journalists in the UK, Michelle Stanistreet, visited Ramallah in Palestine on May Day, reinforcing the unity between...
Doreen Lawrence demands new inquiry at ‘Resistance -the Best Olympic Spirit’...
THE MOTHER of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence has revealed that she has asked Home Secretary Theresa May for a new inquiry ...
Blinken’s Role in Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis
From the start of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken was deeply involved. Just after 7th October, Blinken...
‘Don’t dismantle US healthcare system’ – warns Sanders
‘IT didn’t take long. During the first week of 2017, the new Republican Congress has begun efforts to dismantle America’s health-care system,’ says Bernie...
Fourteen delivery drivers in South Korea dead from overwork this year
Fourteen delivery workers in South Korea have died of overwork this year because they had to handle a sharply higher volume of packages due...
‘Pause’ A Cover For Destruction Of Hospital Care
BY ANNA ATHOW BMA COUNCIL MEMBER ON April 4th, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced ‘a pause’, a two month ‘listening exercise’, in implementing the...
‘If you bomb Beirut the Islamic Resistance will bomb Tel Aviv’...
THE Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaking on military operations, and political developments over Al Manar TV on August 3 noted that the fourth...
All India Coal Workers Federation Are Fighting The Break-Up And Privatisation...
THE RECENTLY held two-day national meeting of the All India Coal Workers’ Federation in Jharkhand’s Ranchi decided on launching a month-long series of actions...
‘NHS emergency care is itself, in a state of emergency’
‘EMERGENCY care is itself in a state of emergency,’ Dr Taj Hassan, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said on Thursday. He was...
COSATU president celebrates Workers Day on May 1st
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) President Zingiswa Losi delivered a Workers Day Speech on May 1st. ‘My fellow South Africans, President Cyril...
‘Israel cannot confiscate our dignity’ – says Issa Qaraqe
‘Israel may be able to confiscate our money, but it cannot confiscate our dignity.’ So says Issa Qaraqe, Head of the Commission of Detainees...
‘SAVE OUR UNIVERSITY’ – 500 lobby London Met governors
OVER five hundred students and staff of the London Metropolitan University gathered outside the building in Holloway road in north London yesterday to protest...
‘CHARGE TYSON FOODS WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER’ – demands UFCW Alberta local
Striking United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) members at a Brooks, Alberta, slaughterhouse, last Saturday called for attempted murder charges after a car...
FORWARD TO SOCIALISM IN 2020! – urges the SAFTU federation
THE News Line is pleased to reproduce the Christmas and New Year statement by the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), edited for...
100,000 March Against Israeli Barbarism
OVER 100,000 people took part in the largest-ever demonstration Britain has seen in support of the Palestinian people on Saturday, as Israel invaded the...
900,000 still working on zero-hour contracts
THE TUC has reported: ‘The Office of National Statistics (ONS) release this week on the number of zero-hours contracts showed that there has a been...
General Strike call by protesters outside Parliament
‘Ceasefire Now!’ demanded 5,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Parliament on Wednesday night as MPs were voting on amendments to the King’s Speech over Israel’s genocide...
‘What is happening in Syria is the opposite of what the...
THE 50th extraordinary conference of Federation of Arab Communities in Latin America (FEARAB America) began on Monday at Damascus University Amphitheatre. Speaking at the conference,...
Gaza Women’s Committees Sit In For Equal Pay!
A GROUP OF women’s committees in the besieged Gaza Strip organised a sit-in on Thursday to demand equal pay between men and women in...
Colossal General Strike Rallies Take Place Throughout Greece!
History was written last Friday in Greece as truly colossal general strike rallies took place throughout the country when literally hundreds of thousands of...
Three year smoke & mirrors pay deal means real financial hardship...
‘THE CURRENT 3 year deal,’ says Gary Palmer GMB Regional Organiser, ‘fails to deliver a real terms pay increase for the majority of NHS...
German minister to visit US as conflict over Ukraine escalates –...
GERMANY’S Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has said she plans to reiterate the value of dialogue with Russia to avoid a conflict over Ukraine when...
‘WE WILL NOT LET CHASE FARM HOSPITAL CLOSE’ – message from...
The North East London Council of Action held another successful picket of the Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield on Tuesday, with passing cars tooting...
Greek workers determined to bring down the crisis-ridden government
THE Greek coalition government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is in a crisis following disagreements over more barbaric economic measures demanded by the EC-IMF-ECB...
G7 condemns Myanmar Junta’s war on the people while the general...
THE G7 (Group of Seven) countries have ‘firmly’ condemned the heavy-handed crackdown, including the use of live ammunition, committed by Myanmar’s junta against the...
‘WE ARE THE BEDROCK OF THE NHS’ – declares doctors’ conference
Over 400 family doctor delegates at the British Medical Association (BMA) GPs conference on Thursday expressed their anger and voted no confidence in the...
O’LOAN REPORT CONFIRMS YARL’S WOOD ABUSE – ‘and the failure to...
‘THE O’Loan Report confirms Yarl’s Wood abuse and the failure to investigate it,’ says Public Interest Lawyers. Public Interest Lawyers said: ‘Today’s report by Baroness...
‘MY FATHER WAS A FREEDOM FIGHTER: GAZA’S UNTOLD STORY’ –new book...
RAMZY BAHROUD is an internationally-syndicated columnist, author and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com. He has just written his latest book: ‘My Father Was a Freedom...
Fire Service Cuts And Station Closures Threatening Public Safety
Humberside fire crews are warning that cuts and station closures will compromise public and firefighter safety. The warning came as local fire crews launch their...