Hunt’s appointment – a declaration of war on the NHS!
THE appointment of Jeremy Hunt as Secretary of State (SoS) for Health, is a declaration of war on the NHS. Hunt is a right winger...
TONY BLAIR AND GORDON BROWN SHOULD BE TRIED AS WAR CRIMINALS...
‘Tony Blair and Gordon Brown should be tried as war criminals,’ Peter Brierley, whose son Shaun was killed in Iraq in 2003, told a...
‘Supermajority’ vote to join union at Ford plant in Kentucky
A MAJORITY of workers at a Ford Motor (F.N) joint-venture battery plant in Kentucky have signed cards indicating their support for the United Auto...
Greek Riot Police Continue Vicious Attacks On Cleaners!
GREEK armed riot police squads once again viciously attacked the women cleaners outside the Finance Ministry in central Athens last Thursday afternoon. Four women cleaners...
HEALTH IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY – Part one: ‘A people...
TOP British medical journal The Lancet, the has published a series of detailed research reports on the health status of 3.8 million...
The 20 Faces Of Bertie Ahern
BERTIE Ahern quit as the Irish Republic’s Taioseach and Fianna Fail leader on May 6th. Political Journalist JOHN COULTER analyses how he will be...
NO RESCUE FOR CAPITALISM– FORWARD TO THE WORLD SOCIALIST REVOLUTION! –...
THE Labour leaders are terrified the whole capitalist system is going to go, News Line Editor Paddy O’Regan told an audience of 200 youth...
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...
Over 500 on 26th annual United Families and Friends march
THERE were 500 demonstrators on Saturday’s annual United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) march from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street, where a petition was...
UK Manufacturing Employment Less Than In 1841!
Confirmation that manufacturing employment levels are at their lowest since 1841 drew an angry and frustrated response from the Transport and General Workers Union. Tony...
THE LEBANESE RESISTANCE POUNDED THE LAST NAIL INTO THE COFFIN OF...
THE LEADER of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has delivered a revealing analysis of the current political situation and spoke candidly about his organisation’s increasing...
Loyalist Killers Turn To God
BY IRISH POLITICAL JOURNALIST JOHN COULTER The Castlerock massacre in Co Derry in which four Catholic workmen were shot dead could have been stopped if...
Greek government’s aim – to gag TV workers
ON June 11, the Greek coalition government took the unprecedented decision to close the national TV station in Athens and sack the workforce of...
Striking SA council workers face sackings & pay cuts
THE Independent Municipal & Allied Trade Union (IMATU) has reacted angrily after it was informed that its striking members in local government in Tshwane...
Israeli troops impose collective punishment onto Palestinians
ISRAELI police forces violently dispersed a Palestinian protest in the occupied East Jerusalem village of al-Tur on Wednesday, amid complaints that authorities’ closure...
Primary care has been run down under successive Tory governments
THE GPs’ magazine Pulse has published the results of a major survey of GP surgeries, showing the extent to which primary care has been...
Cardiff UCU staff vote 83% for strike action against huge job...
CARDIFF University staff have overwhelmingly backed industrial action in a fight against huge job cuts, the University and College Union (UCU) announced on Tuesday...
HUNDREDS OF DISPLACED SYRIANS QUIT RUKBAN CAMP – as conference of...
HUNDREDS of displaced Syrians, who have now left al-Rukban camp, have just arrived at the crossing of Jleighem, in Homs eastern countryside. For the past...
Israeli airstrike on Gaza kills 3 Palestinians
ISRAELI forces launched a deadly airstrike that struck southern Gaza on Tuesday, killing three young Palestinians. Gaza Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra confirmed that...
Starbucks Workers Fight Victimisations!
Starbucks the coffee chain has brought back founder Howard Schultz to lead the effort to defeat a union drive that is still spreading across...
UNHCR condemns UK for plan to deport all asylum seekers
THE UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) has condemned the practice by countries like the UK of deporting asylum seekers for processing in...
240 US-Israeli attacks on Iranian medical facilities!
The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces has honoured medical personnel, especially the tireless and selfless dedication of doctors, nurses, and healthcare...
HALF A MILLION TAKE TO THE STREETS!– to demand jobs for...
HALF a million people will take to the streets today, Wednesday 19 March, in demand for youth jobs, the National Union of MetalWorkers of...
137,000 Migrants Flee War
A RECORD 137,000 people made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe in the first half of 2015, most of them fleeing war,...
‘Stop Urban Post Office Closures’
A new report, The last post, released on Monday, provides new evidence of the vital social and economic role of urban sub post offices. The report,...
PAISLEY RECALL POSSIBLE – to ‘save the Assembly’
BY JOHN COULTER AT STORMONT DUBLIN – Ian Paisley senior may be hauled out of semi-political retirement to save the rapidly crumbling Northern Assembly, a...
‘Turkey has no right to deny Syria and Iraq the right...
SYRIA’s Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi on Wednesday met Iraqi Water Resources Minister Mohsen al-Shummari, discussing with him means to expand cooperation and establish joint...
LIBYAN PREMIER ZEIDAN FLEES TO GERMANY as militias fight over ‘ownership’...
THE ousted Libyan PM Ali Zeidan has fled to Germany despite a travel ban slapped on him by Libya’s top prosecutor for his suspected...
NO TO KING GEORGE HOSPITAL CLOSURE – demand marchers
Over two hundred workers and youth marched and rallied against the planned closure of King George Hospital, Ilford on Saturday. News Line spoke to participants...
Disabled People Demand Basic Rights
Disabled People will be protesting outside the DWP offices, Caxton House, 6-12 Tothill Street, London SW1 from 2.00pm next Monday, February 13. Disabled People Against...
Platinum Miners Union Fighting For Recognition
THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) is facing lengthy delays in companies signing new recognition agreements with the union which has replaced...
30 Years Since The Soweto Uprising
‘Long live the memory of the June 16 martyrs!’ declared the African National Congress last Friday as it marked the 30th Anniversary of the...
Frontline workers demand ‘scrap Policing Bill’
Over 660 frontline healthcare, community, social and education workers have called for the Policing Bill to be scrapped ahead of a key debate in...
US Steel Workers Strike At 9 Oil Refineries
STEEL workers in the US are engaged in an indefinite strike which began on Sunday at nine large oil refineries. Shell fears that the strike...
Facebook Drivers Vote To Join Teamsters
DRIVERS who shuttle Facebook employees to and from the company headquarters in Menlo Park., Calif., have voted in favour of representation by Teamsters Local...
Israel initiates a military plan to seize 25% of Gaza as...
The Israeli forces have initiated a military plan to capture and control 25 per cent of Gaza, calling it the buffer zone that it...
NUMSA CALLS MASSIVE STRIKE ACTION ON SEPTEMBER 30th AGAINST CORRUPTION...
THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has served notice on behalf of a growing number of unions and their...
Canadian trade unions fight for Bangladeshi garment workers
CANADIAN trade unions allege that workers in Bangladeshi garment factories that supply Canadian Tyre subsidiary Mark’s with clothing sold under brand names like Wind...
‘Every day Trump is pushing to pit working people against each...
TRUMP’S rosy picture is disconnected from workers’ reality, the AFL-CIO trade union federation says. Tuesday’s statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on President Trump’s State...
VICTORY MARCH IN CAIRO – as civil war erupts in Libya
TENS of thousands of flag-waving Egyptians massed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday to celebrate the fall of strongman Hosni Mubarak and to pressure...
FRENCH ECONOMY EXPECTING ‘BRUTAL SHOCK’ says Finance Minister Le Maire
THE FRENCH economy is expected to shrink 11 per cent this year because of the coronavirus crisis, much worse than the government’s previous forecast...
Pilots criticise BA’s strikebreaking scheme
PILOT representatives from the European Cockpit Association (ECA) and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) have voiced concerns about British Airways’ (BA) use of...
The West Has Been Behaving Brazenly In Ukraine
‘THE WEST has been behaving brazenly in Ukraine for years, Russia was forced to react in order to save people in Donbass,’ Serb member...
US & EU continuing economic terrorism against Syria
‘MEMBER countries at the UN Security Council are attempting to destabilise Syria and impose their own hostile agendas,’ Syria’s permanent representative to the UN,...
San Antonio Symphony Orchestra Strike
SAN ANTONIO Symphony Orchestra musicians have called a strike after management imposed a binding new contract on them from September 13. The Texan San Antonio...