Gate Gourmet Locked-Out Workers Kept Out Of Tuc Congress
CRIES of ‘TUC, let us in!’ rang out from locked out Gate Gourmet workers and their supporters outside the TUC Conference in Brighton on...
SCRAPPING THE EMA WILL LEAVE YOUTH DESTITUTE! – £400 million being...
TEACHERS’, Lecturers’ and Students’ Union leaders have warned that Education Secretary Gove’s announcement on Monday of a ‘bursary scheme’ to replace the Education Maintenance...
Israel Plans New Settlements on a UNESCO Heritage Site!
When a group of more than 100 Israeli settlers, masked and armed with pistols and automatic rifles, killed a Palestinian, injured others and burned...
Mass Surveillance In UK!
UK intelligence has been forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents’ Facebook and Google use, says Amnesty International. Amnesty is one of...
French Youth Demand – Withdraw The Hire And Fire Contract
FRENCH youth are in no mood to give up fighting for their employment rights. They are vowing to continue their blockade of universities and high...
ESSEX FBU STRIKE BALLOT ‘Don’t doubt the outcome’ – warns Brigade...
Essex fire crews have given formal legal notice of a strike ballot in a dispute over frontline cuts and changes forced through without proper...
Uaw Begins Contract Talks With ‘Big Three’
THE UAW auto workers union is beginning its 2011 contract talks with GM, Ford and Chrysler. For the employers the ...
‘THE BRITISH ARMY IS NOT OUR ARMY’ – says Sinn Fein...
By Irish politcal journalist JOHN COULTER THE war of words between Unionists and Republicans over the British Army’s presence in the North hotted up as...
Palestinian women battle to survive in a Gaza dominated by destruction...
WHILE the world marked International Women’s Day on 8th March, women in the Gaza Strip are fighting a daily battle for survival amid the...
Nigerian hospital workers indefinite strike – in Zimbabwe 16,000 striking nurses...
NIGERIA’S nurses, pharmacists, and other medical professionals on Sunday declared an indefinite strike at federal hospitals under the auspices of the Joint Health...
‘If Pelosi cares so much for human rights she should apologise...
CHINA has called on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to express remorse and apologise for the atrocities committed by the Americans in Afghanistan, Iraq,...
Hamas warns that Israel’s house demolitions will trigger ‘explosion’ of Palestinian...
PALESTINIAN Islamic Jihad and Hamas resistance movement have warned that Israel’s house demolitions and its expansion of illegal settlements in al-Quds (Jerusalem) will trigger...
Sabra & Shatila residents celebrate Sharon’s death
RESIDENTS of Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, on Saturday celebrated the death of Israeli former general and prime minister...
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....
Netanyahu Rejects French Peace Initiative!
PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat slammed Israel’s official rejection of the upcoming French initiative as a ‘reaffirmation of the Israeli government’s decision to continue...
Canadian Students Fight 30% Tuition Fees Hike!
THE Canadian Federation of Students, its member unions and allies will step up the fight for accessible education in Newfoundland and Labrador against a...
‘WE WILL COME OUT OF THIS FIGHT AS THE WINNERS!’ –...
TENS of thousands of Greek university and higher education college students from all over the country demonstrated last Saturday in the northern city of...
Finish imperialism off through revolution in the West! – call by...
OVER 3,000 workers and youth were on the TUC May Day March from Clerkenwell Green in Islington to Trafalgar Square in Central London on...
Maliki Shuts Down Iraq’s Electrical Trade Unions
THE International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions has expressed outrage at the banning last week of the Iraqi electrical trade...
Israel attacking Palestinian health services
HEALTH attacks by Israelis against Palestinians persist in the occupied territories during Covid-19 pandemic, says the World Health Organisation. In 2020 alone, the World Health...
Huge Palestine New Year demonstrations across Europe
Massive demonstrations took place in the capitals of several European countries on Sunday in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and to...
100 years since the Triangle Shirtwaist fire disaster
Ceremonies and events honouring the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire – which killed 146 garment workers, most of them young women, and...
Massive support for locked out US workers
THOUSANDS joined the United Steelworkers (USW) at a solidarity rally on Saturday in Findlay Ohio to support 1,051 members of Local 207L who have...
Irish Bus Drivers Vote 94% Yes To Take Strike Action!
1,300 IRISH bus drivers working for Bus Éireann have returned a massive 94% ‘YES’ vote for strike action to defend their pay and conditions,...
GEORGIA’S ACTIONS ARE US-INSPIRED – to bring NATO peacekeepers into Ossetia...
GEORGIA’S latest actions are aimed at ousting Russian peacekeepers from South Ossetia and bringing a NATO police force there, Col-Gen Leonid Ivashov, former chief...
68 Yemen Covid-19 deaths ‘tip of iceberg’ says MSF
THE DOCTORS Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres – MSF) main Covid-19 treatment centre in Aden in southern Yemen has recorded at least 68 deaths...
Over 700 Palestinians Have Been Displaced By Israeli Demolitions This Year!
ISRAELI forces detained early on Tuesday 10 more Palestinians, including four minors, from a number of West Bank districts, said Palestine Prisoners’ Society. Forces detained...
AMERICAN DREAM IS DESTROYED workers being pushed forward into revolutionary struggle
The US Economic Policy Institute (EPI) last week published three reports showing the extent to which America’s workers are losing ground this Labour Day,...
Iran confronts US naval aggression!
THE US is once again flexing its muscles in the Middle East and the Iranian Gulf. American officials claimed a group of 11 Iranian naval...
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...
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...
Ira End Armed Struggle!
The IRA yesterday announced the end of its armed struggle against British imperialism. The IRA statement said: ‘The leadership of Oglaigh na hEireann has formally...
Tens of thousands of Bangladesh garment workers walk out
THE PAST two weeks have seen mass walkouts and wildcat strikes by thousands of garment workers in Bangladesh. After five years the industry’s minimum...
Palestinians Demonstrate Against Gaza Siege And Starvation
Hundreds of Palestinians from lands occupied in 1948 and international activists demonstrated at the Beit Hanoun (Eretz) crossing linking the Gaza Strip with 1948...
A&E consultants ‘stretched to the limit!’
THE College of Emergency Medicine published a startling report yesterday entitled: ‘Stretched to the Limit’. It was based upon a survey of Emergency Medicine Consultants...
Anti-war protest at US embassy – Syrians not allowed a speaker
A rally of over 300 people was organised outside the US embassy in London on Saturday, against Western intervention in Iran and Syria. The protest...
‘Young people want to work!’: says Hassan Yussuff of the Canadian...
FAR too many young Canadian workers are either unemployed or underemployed and governments must come up with a strategy to solve the problem –...
German GDLTrain Drivers Union 3-Day Strike
GERMANY'S GDL train drivers’ union started a three day strike yesterday which concludes tomorrow. The strike is an escalation of a wage dispute with rail...
500% Increase In Bankruptcies In Ireland In 2014!
THERE has been a 500% increase in the number of people in Ireland who declared bankruptcy in 2014. More than one person was declared bankrupt...
Israel sentences teen to 10 years – Mohammed Sabbah imprisoned after...
AN ISRAELI court has handed down a ten-year prison sentence to a 17-year-old Palestinian boy after accusing him of attempting to carry out a stabbing...
Paramilitaries Abduct Tamil Girls
TAMILNET reports that fatigue uniform clad armed men who came in a white van abducted a 16-year-old girl student last Monday night around 11.30...
ISRAELI TROOPS RAID KOBAR VILLAGE –settlers go on the rampage in...
THE ISRAELI army has told members of the Barghouti family from the village of Kobar, northwest of Ramallah on Saturday, that they will be...
Sparks Step Up Campaign To Defend Their Pay And Conditions!
CONSTRUCTION site electricians stepped up their campaign on Wednesday to defend pay and conditions against a brutal onslaught by a ‘cartel’ of contractors to...
52 Years Since Arafat Launched First Operation Against Israeli Occupation
PALESTINIANS yesterday marked 52 years since the launch of the revolution against the Israeli occupation and the first military operation. Fatah, which launched the...
‘TSKHINVALI WAS STALINGRAD’ – Valery Gergiev condemns invasion by Georgia
Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has said he hopes a concert in Tskhinvali will help the world to see the ‘truth’ of what happened in...