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PRESIDENT Trump’s proposed H-2A rules would harm not help, US farm workers and reduce protections for both domestic and foreign field labourers, warns the United...

IRAN’S role in an Iraqi military offensive to recapture Tikrit could be positive as long as it does not fuel sectarian divisions in the...

Over 2,000 workers and youth last Saturday marched through Leyton and Walthamstow, north east London, against the closure of Whipps Cross Hospital. The march was...

VENEZUELA’s President Nicolas Maduro has urged the United States to discuss ‘peace and sovereignty’ in a high level commission mediated by the Union of...

‘MY uncle was shot in the head, at point blank range,’ the nephew of one of the victims of Israel’s massacre on the Gaza...

THE News Line is pleased to reproduce the Christmas and New Year statement by the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), edited for...

‘IT’S HEART-breaking and wrong’ that a million children under 4 are growing up in poverty, says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) charity. Almost 3 in...

The News Line-All Trades Unions Alliance Conference held in east London on Sunday May 13th unanimously voted to carry into action the following Main...

GPs HAVE recoiled in horror at the latest in a line of private services to spring up in recent months: ‘Deliveroo Doctors’ that...

‘ENOUGH is Enough,’ chanted a rally of 500 angry NHS workers outside Downing Street on Wednesday night. They are angry that they have been excluded...

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange’s US extradition hearing in London has been delayed, potentially to November, due to the coronavirus pandemic. A hearing, held by video...

FORMER Bolivian President Evo Morales has said that the Bolivian nation will continue its fight against an American and Israeli-backed ‘coup’ in the country...

THE legal charity Inquest is welcoming a ‘highly critical jury verdict’ on the death in custody of Paul Davies. The jury at the inquest into...

TORY-controlled Barnet Council in north London has announced plans to scrap its housing register. At the Council’s Cabinet on June 21, the Cabinet Member for...

IRAN’S Foreign Ministry spokesman has condemned the violence by the French police against anti-government demonstrators in the European country as demonstrating France’s non-adherence to...

‘It is beyond callous, and can only be seen as malicious discrimination. It is an unabashed attempt to eliminate the black population of New...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas on Monday declared three days mourning, while in Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniya declared a general strike in response...

LONDON Fire Brigade bosses are spending £12million of tax-payers’ money training a blackleg workforce to provide fire cover in the capital in the event...

‘THE CENTRE of Indian Trade Unions vehemently denounces the utterly humiliating and derogatory statement by the Prime Minister against the struggling farmers and their...

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...

‘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...

THE British ruling class moved swiftly and ruthlessly yesterday to crush opposition to the election of Theresa May as leader of the Tory Party. Her...

Two Ukrainian generals and up to 50 officers along with about 20 foreign mercenaries and military advisers were eliminated in Russia’s strike on the...

WASHINGTON – The Teamsters announced yesterday the union’s legislative agenda for their 110th Congress, targeting key issues for working families, including the Employee Free...

TEACHERS are facing low morale, exhaustion, frustration and distress because of the impact of unsustainable workloads, which is driving teachers out of the profession,...

OVER 300 United Families and Friends campaigners marched from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street to demand justice for their loved ones, who have died...

UNISON is working together with other education unions to hold a Parliamentary Lobby Against School Cuts on 24th October, to show MPs that school...

SIX white Mississippi police officers have pleaded guilty to state charges for torturing two black men in a racist assault in the United States. All...

GAZANS poured into Egypt for a second consecutive day on Thursday to stock up on supplies after militants blew open the border barrier of...

THE chief commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has said the more destruction the Israeli regime wreaks in Palestine, the more nails...

THE early morning traffic began to ease as the funeral procession departed from Bethlehem’s city limits, and cars sped up on their way to...

Two international ‘contact groups’, one each to check Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fund-raising and arms purchases, were initiated by the US in...

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas met on Tuesday with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and discussed with him the latest Palestinian and regional developments. Abbas, on an...

Workers at a combined Starbucks and Amazon store in Times Square filed a petition for union recognition last Friday, saying they’re being required to...

IN the wake of the growing crisis in Egypt, divisions between the Arab rulers are widening as Turkey and Qatar support the Muslim...

‘THE IMPACT poverty has on children and young people’s education is immense,’ Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the National Education Union, said yesterday. He was...

‘THERE can be no analogy of historical development,’ wrote Trotsky in his book 1905, ‘between, on the one hand, England, the pioneer of capitalism...

THE annual summit of Arab monarchs in the Gulf opened in Manama last Monday with a call for closer economic integration and unity in...

THE UNITED STATES has erupted in fury after a second person in the span of a month was fatally shot by federal immigration authorities...

TamilNet reports that Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu has condemned an anonymous death threat and his detension in the airport by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID)...

MEMBERS of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Bath and the University of Bristol are joining the latest wave of...

Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) made the following address to the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, District...

THE UNITED Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) earlier this summer won a major battle in the courts that recognises the UE’s...

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...

Amazon workers at JFK8, the company’s Staten Island warehouse that voted to unionise earlier this year, held a sit-in, strike on Monday after a...