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The G20 Summit in Delhi ‘A Tale of Two Indias’

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IN Delhi, India’s capital, the G20 summit has captured significant global attention. This event brought together world leaders to discuss international economic strategies, presenting...

Santiago clashes on 49th anniversary of Pinochet coup

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SPORADIC clashes between demonstrators and police took place in the Chilean capital Santiago on Sunday as the country marked the 49th anniversary of the...

CGT fighting for ‘cost of living index’ to be the benchmark...

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JOB SEEKERS are struggling, says the CGT French trade union federation. It said: ‘More job seekers work part-time or under short contracts, while being registered...

Uprising In Tunisian Capital Against Kais Saied Coup

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Protesters clashed with police in the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Saturday, October 15, for the second night running. Riot police fired tear gas to...

Tunisian President Saied carries out ‘coup’

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LEADING Tunisian judges on Sunday rejected President Kais Saied’s moves to disband the Supreme Judicial Council that oversees them, a move they see as...

Israeli attack on Gaza is an act of clear aggression says...

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THE Leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says the latest Israeli attack on the besieged Gaza Strip is an act of clear aggression and...

PCS strikes across the UK against ‘pathetic’ pay increases

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PCS (Public and Commercial Services) union members on Tuesday began a series of strikes across England, Scotland and Wales which the Tory government intends...

‘NATO directly participating in Ukraine’ says Lavrov

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RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the West of becoming directly involved in the Ukraine war by supplying the country with weapons and...

The West Has Been Behaving Brazenly In Ukraine

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‘THE WEST has been behaving brazenly in Ukraine for years, Russia was forced to react in order to save people in Donbass,’ Serb member...

Knesset approves ‘the most far-right cabinet in history’

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PALESTINIANS have denounced Binyamin Netanyahu’s swearing-in as Israel’s prime minister in his return as head of the Tel Aviv regime’s most far-right cabinet in...

‘Russia is developing despite the difficult times’ says Dmitry Peskov

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RUSSIA is developing and will continue to develop, despite all the current difficulties, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. ‘The country is...

‘Free Julian Assange’ demands 2,000-strong Night Carnival

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Campaigners fighting for the freedom of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, attended a ‘Night Carnival’ in London on Saturday. Approximately 2,000 people gathered at...

48-Hour Strike By Health Workers In Germany

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HEALTH workers in in the Ver.di trade union in Germany have been out on a 48-hour strike which started on Tuesday which and continued...

Undercover police targeted ‘subversives and left-wing activists’

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COINCIDING with a rare public hearing of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) this week, ten women who were deceived into relationships with ‘spycops’ have...

Military Reinstates Executions In Myanmar

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TWO MEN will be executed in Myanmar after the military junta rejected their death sentence appeals last Saturday, in what will be the first...

Abbas meets Biden who rules out talks to set up Palestinian...

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PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, welcomed the official visit of the President of the United States of America, President Joseph...

French refinery workers extend strike for 10% increase

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FRENCH refinery workers have continued their strikes as a petrol crisis drags on across the country, with authorities threatening to resort to force to...

Strikes, fires and fuel hikes in South Africa

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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Western Cape notes recent developments affecting the Taxi Industry in Cape Town and the...

BMA’s Annual Conference calls for restoring pay to 2008 levels!

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THE BMA’s annual conference has called for restoring pay to 2008 levels and for GPCEngland to organise the withdrawal of GP practices from Primary...

Sydney marchers demand Assange be freed!

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OVER 800 Australian protesters took to the streets in Sydney last Saturday to demonstrate against extradition to the US by the British government of...

Thousands Of Tunisian Workers March For The Restoration Of Parliament And...

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ON SUNDAY, thousands of Tunisian workers and youth rallied on the streets of the capital, Tunis, to demand that President Kais Saied restore the...

‘We need to start building for a general strike’ 4,000 striking...

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4,000 striking station and revenue control staff shutdown London Underground on Monday in a show of strength to oppose pension attacks and job cuts. Trains...

Iran & Syria will respond to Israel’s threats and aggression!

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IRANIAN Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Syrian counterpart, Faisal Mekdad, have reiterated their countries’ absolute determination to resolve the problems in the region,...

US unions sit-in, strike and recruit!

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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...

Nakba Day rallies across the world – and paying homage to...

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PROTESTERS demonstrated outside the Storting building, which is the seat of the parliament of Norway, in the capital Oslo on May 14, 2022, to...

MASS DEMONSTRATION AT PALESTINIAN FUNERAL – against ‘all policies of occupation,...

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A GENERAL STRIKE has been held across towns and cities in the occupied Palestinian territories following the Israeli regime’s killing of a Palestinian youth...

The Palestinian resistance stands firm on the battlefield

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THE head of Hamas’ political bureau says the Palestinian resistance stands ‘firm on the battlefield’ despite two and a half months of Israeli war...

RMT Pickets Call For A General Strike

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OVER 40,000 workers are supporting the action and manning the picket lines again today as the RMT railwayworkers union takes this week’s second day...

‘This is very much a fight for the NHS’ – Homerton...

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On the picket line at St Thomas’ Hospital by Westminster Bridge in Central London, Ada Zembrzycka, a junior doctor and anaesthetic trainee, told News...

‘SUPPORT OUR CAMPAIGN!’ – call by NEU ahead of next week’s...

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‘AFTER the regional days of strike action across the union, the next action will be 15 and 16 March, by teachers in all state...

150,000 public sector workers strike – manning 250 picket lines across...

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WITH 250 picket lines across the country, 155,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada – who have been without a contract for...

Iran will deal heavy blows to terrorists threatening the country’s security

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THE Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Intelligence Organisation has strongly condemned the latest terrorist attack in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan, warning that...

Canadian trade unions fight for Bangladeshi garment workers

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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...

Met police officer charged with murder of Chris Kaba – ...

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced on Wednesday that the Metropolitan Police Officer who shot Chris Kaba is being charged with murder. Chris Kaba, 24,...

St Mungo’s strike going from strength to strength

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FIVE-HUNDRED St Mungo’s homelessness charity workers – now into the second week of their month-long strike – are going from strength to strength in...

CWU members march to 17,000-strong national rally

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STRIKING postal workers took part in a 17,000-strong Communication Workers Union (CWU) national rally in Parliament Square, central London, on Friday afternoon. News Line spoke...

Assad says Syria supports joint Arab action in the face of...

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President Bashar al-Assad says Syria supports joint Arab action in the face of regional challenges, stressing that the Arab country attaches paramount significance to...

‘Huge support from public’ – say striking ambulance strikers

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Thousands of ambulance workers, paramedics, emergency care assistants, ambulance technicians and other 999 crew members in Britain held a one-day strike on Wednesday. Ambulance staff...

Syria condemns Israeli war crimes against Palestinians

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SYRIA has again condemned the Israeli occupation’s practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – the demolition of schools, the killing of children and innocent...

COSATU calls a National Day of Action for July 6th –...

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COSATU (the Congress of South African Trade Unions) is ‘appalled to learn that many municipalities across the North West are still failing to pay...

SAFTU calls for President Ramaphosa’s immediate resignation

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AGAINST a background of rolling blackouts, rising poverty and an out-of-control cost of living crisis, the South African government of Cyril Ramaphosa now faces...

South African trade union members bar ANC chairman Gwede Mantashe from...

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African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members barred ANC Chairman Gwede Mantashe from speaking at their 14th national congress on Monday. ‘Hamba Gwede’ (Go Gwede) and ‘asinamali’...

FRANCE: Biggest rallies in living memory

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FRANCE’S small and mid-size towns have been at the forefront of the battle against President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious pension reform – in some places...

US workers join unions at Amazon-Starbucks & museums – as 63%...

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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...

We are one united people – in Gaza, the West Bank...

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First speaker at the rally was the Palestinian Ambassador to the UK Husam Zomlot, who said: ‘Israel has killed 11,000 innocent people and is...