Iran And Syria Sign Defence Pact
‘The Iranian nation and government will always stand by the resistance and the oppressed Palestinian people,’ Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has reiterated. Ahmadinejad met with...
6,800 UAW members at the SHAP Michigan join Stand Up Strike!
ON MONDAY morning, October 23, 6,800 UAW members at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP), Michigan, joined the Stand Up Strike, shutting down production at...
KENYA STRIKE WAVE – Lecturers, Council Workers and Nurses fight for...
AN attempt to stop a strike by lecturers in public universities continuing in Kenya failed on Monday, after a university employers organisation failed...
SAVE JOBS AND SAVE OUR ECONOMY – UNITE HERE urges Obama
Today, January 20th, UNITE HERE will launch its UNITE HERE for Change campaign, an ‘effort to work with President Obama and Congress to make...
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...
Three children killed in US-led bombing of Deir Ezzor
THREE children were killed in air strikes carried out by the US-led coalition on the small Syrian town of Al-Shaafah in the Deir...
More than 50 Bangladesh garment workers are injured by anti-union goons!
MORE than 50 garment workers at Haesong Corporation Ltd in Bangladesh have been injured after being attacked by hired goons. The workers were taking part...
‘Israel Is Building The World’s Biggest Prison’
‘ISRAEL is going to enter the Guinness Book of Records for having built the world’s biggest prison,’ said an angry Abed Yabrud, waiting his...
Replace Tamil civil service in the North – orders Rajapaksa
ORDERS have been issued by Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa and by his sibling Basil Rajapaksa to colonial governor Maj-Gen Chandrasri for immediate and...
Children ‘rediscovering how to smile’ in bomb battered Mosul!
ON a classroom whiteboard in the battered city of Mosul the words ‘rediscovering how to smile’ outline the heartbreaking task of Iraqi teachers striving...
South African Clothing And Textile Workers Defend Their Rights
The Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers Union (SACTWU) has hit back at media reporting on last week’s Pietermaritz High Court judgment on the...
In Gaza’s tents and alleyways, endless stories of resilience echo
Although 11 days have passed since the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip came into effect, the war has not yet left the lives...
Libya Proving Too Hot To Handle For Divided Nato Powers
THE Libyan people and their armed forces are more than giving NATO a run for its money. In fact they are bringing the ‘mighty...
Overturn the ban on Palestine Action! Release the Filton 24!
Over 250 people took action on Saturday 29 November against the government’s complicity in genocide and against the ban on Palestine Action in ten...
1,000 workers and youth, members of AFL-CIO, rally in Las Vegas...
On Thursday, over 1,000 workers and young people who are members the Nevada State AFL-CIO, and UNITE HERE’s Culinary Union rallied in Las Vegas...
Huge Cairo Protests!
CAIRO witnessed its biggest protests in months this week, when employees from the tax and customs authorities gathered in front of the Press Syndicate...
STOP THE WAR AGAINST THE TAMILS – urges mass demonstration
TAMILNET reports that the Indian High Commissioner in Mauritius last Friday rebuffed a memorandum from thousands of Mauritian Tamil demonstrators, requesting India stop the...
Greek mass marches are developing into an insurrection
THE MASS protest marches in Greece against the sheer police violence and oppression have been developing all last week into an insurgency against the...
Harare Council Workers Demand 4 Months’ Salary Arrears
THOUSANDS of Zimbabwe capital Harare City Council (HCC) workers have threatened to go on strike to force their employer to settle salary arrears stretching...
Milltown Massacre ‘Could Have Been Prevented’
THIS year’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations on Monday, March 17 were overshadowed by the 20th anniversaries of two of the most televised bloody massacres...
‘Wheels on the verge of falling off’ the ambulance service say...
Unite, which has over 100,000 workers in the NHS, including thousands of paramedics, is warning that unprecedented demand is resulting in the ‘wheels being...
Israel’s Golani Brigade Butalises Palestinians In The City Of Hebron
A NEWLY released report submitted to the United Nations by international organizations working in Hebron (Al Khalil) documents a sharp increase in serious...
‘WE WILL BREAK THEM AT THE GATES OF SIRTE’ – says...
COLONEL Gadaffi’s spokesman, Musa Ibrahim, has said that UK and French leaders were ‘rushing to reap the benefit of Tripoli’s temporary fall into their...
Brown refuses to meet Chagossians
The News Line is pleased to publish two important letters. These concern the decision of the Court of Appeal to uphold the decision of...
Cardiff University intends to slash and burn 400 full-time jobs and...
CARDIFF University has announced that it intends to cut 400 full-time jobs, along with whole course closures and department mergers; with nursing, music and...
‘WE’RE HERE TO GET FREE EDUCATION BACK’ say students
Students on a 1,000-strong march through London on Wednesday called on the trade unions to act to restore free education. Students marched from University of...
Sri Lankan Air Force Attacks ‘Red Barra’ Settlement
TAMILNET reports that on Saturday Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombers attacked a populated village, known as ‘Redd Barna’ settlement, in Visuvamadu after targeting...
One in four women prisoners self-harm in a year!
AS MANY as one in four women prisoners in England and Wales self-harm every year, and female prisoners are four times more likely to...
‘No National Elections Without A Unity Agreement And The Release Of...
No national elections will be held without a unity agreement between Hamas and Fatah and the release of political prisoners from West Bank jails,...
Torture Inquiry – secret services to inquire into themselves
REPRIEVE, the legal action charity which uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay is...
UN calls for investigation into ‘inhuman acts’ by Israel at aid...
The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has condemned Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians at aid distribution centres in the...
Israel has killed 1.8% of Gazans in the last 10 months
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported this week that the Israeli occupation forces have killed, in the ongoing genocide war on the Gaza...
HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part Two
TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million people living...
FRANCE HAS RISEN – Part two
THE CRS and gendarmerie have remained on the streets of Paris since the uprising sparked by the violent state attack on demonstrators at Place...
Israel Approves 942 Settlement Units On The Eve Of Peace Talks
ISRAEL has approved 942 new settlement units for occupied East Jerusalem, a local official said Tuesday, on the eve of the scheduled resumption of...
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...
Netanyahu delays judicial overhaul in the face of mass opposition
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the delay of his plan to overhaul Israel’s judiciary, Israeli protest leader Shikma Bressler vowed that demonstrations would...
US Unions Gear Up To Elect Obama Into The White House
THE US trade unions are gearing up for the battle to get Barack Obama elected as the president of the United States, believing that...
Israel is ‘deliberately’ destroying Gaza’s health-care infrastructure!
AN American surgeon volunteer at a Gaza hospital has condemned the Israeli regime’s heavy toll on Palestinian medical facilities since October 7th, 2023, asserting...
3,000 Starbucks baristas on indefinite strike
More than 3,000 unionised Starbucks workers started an indefinite strike at over 100 stores in the United States on Thursday to protest at a...
WORKERS CALL FOR A GENERAL STRIKE EVERY FRIDAY – to drive...
Over 100,000 workers and youth marched through Dublin last Friday as Ireland was shut down in support of Irish Ferries SIPTU trade union members...
SA trade unions occupy council offices in Northern Cape demanding proper...
THE SOUTH African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Workers Union (IMATU) occupied the Sol Plaatje council chambers last...
Israel Bars Gaza Christians From Holy Sites This Xmas In...
CHRISTIANS from the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy sites in Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year, the so-called...
South African textile workers fight poverty and exploitation
A march of 3,000 clothing workers organised by the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) brought the town of Newcastle to a...
Dozens Of Palestinian Prisoners Have Been Murdered After Brutal Torture In...
A PALESTINIAN human rights group says dozens of Palestinian prisoners have lost their lives since 1967 after being exposed to various forms of brutal...