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‘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...

Russia prevented ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ says Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin

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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin ‘prevented a humanitarian catastrophe when he launched the special operation in Ukraine,’ speaker of the Russian State Duma (lower parliament...

Over 2,000 international journalists demand immediate release of Julian Assange!

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OVER 2,000 journalists have signed the following statement in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. ‘If the US government can extradite Assange for this, it...

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,...

End Cuba blockade now! – demands international Day of Action

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A Day of action against the US blockade on Cuba has been held in several countries, with supporters of the Latin American nation determined...

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...

Israel rocked by anti-Netanyahu protests – as police use water-cannons!

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THOUSANDS of demonstrators have blocked traffic into the departures area at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, where Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin landed for...

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...

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...

‘In short the worst is yet to come!’ – IMF Director...

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CONSISTENCY between fiscal and monetary policy is paramount for economic and financial stability as high debts and deficits push more countries into budget crises...

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...

Unionisation has led to massive wins for American workers – as...

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BY SHABBIR RIZVI   AMERICANS are well aware of the value of the dollar, at least when it comes to their own purchasing power at home....

China ready to forge closer links with Russia – ...

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CHINESE President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China is ready to work with Russia to forge a closer partnership in energy cooperation. Energy cooperation...

Tens Of Thousands March In Tehran Denouncing The Israeli Military Assault...

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Thousands of people in the Iranian capital, Tehran, staged a demonstration on Tuesday to express their support for the Palestinians and denounce the Israeli...

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...

‘Mobilisations and strikes are the weapon of the workers’ says Force...

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MILLIONS of French workers, youth and their families on Thursday took part in the latest strikes and mass demonstrations across the country against the...

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...

‘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...

75% of the Tunisian people boycott constitutional referendum which gives the...

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OVER A DECADE since the death of the Tunisian fruit seller, Mohamed Bouazizi, after he set himself on fire over the viciousness of the...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

Deal Macron’s pension plans a massive blow this May Day! –...

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FRENCH trade union federation the CGT is calling ‘on the entire world of work to make May Day a powerful day of demonstration to...

ISRAELI TROOPS RAID NABLUS – as settlers break into al-Aqsa Mosque...

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A RAID by Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Nablus has injured dozens of Palestinians, as occupation forces shot live fire and...

‘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...

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...

Millions turn out for Tuesday’s pension strike in France

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MILLIONS of workers and youth took part in the first of two new mass strikes and demonstrations in France on Tuesday in opposition to...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

Argentina – year-on-year inflation reaches 102.5% in February

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ARGENTINA’S National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec) said on Tuesday that inflation in February was 6.6 per cent, while the cumulative year-on-year figure...

Russia Barred From Investigating Nord Stream Explosions

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THE Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said the ‘truth’ behind the September explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines would ‘surprise’ many Europeans if...

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...

Russia focussing on the liberation of the Donbass

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RUSSIAN Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu says Moscow has completed the main objectives of the first phase of the special military operation in Ukraine and...

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...

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...

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...

Israeli army West Bank killing spree – 3 shot dead yesterday

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The Israeli occupation forces shot and killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank yesterday (Tuesday) morning, one in Beit Ummar in the south...

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...

2,000 Palestinian prisoners begin ‘Freedom or Martyrdom’ hunger strike

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THE LEADERSHIP of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement announced on Tuesday 21 March, that they would begin the collective hunger strike with up to 2,000...

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...

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...