67th Nakba anniversary!
PALESTINIANS marked the 67th anniversary of the ‘Nakba’ or ‘the great disaster’ on May 12 with a festival through the Palestinian city of Ramallah. Thousands...
NUMSA battles for COSATU leadership and breaks with ANC
NUMSA National Executive Committee has issued a full statement on COSATU in response to calls for its expulsion from the federation. The National Union of...
Palestinians announce blood donation campaign for Syrian army
DAMASCUS, A blood donation campaign titled ‘A Drop of Blood from Damascus to Aleppo’ was organized in Damascus in appreciation of the sacrifices...
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...
Australian companies spend millions spying on workers!
DISCLOSURES by New South Wales (NSW) Government-owned electricity network companies have revealed almost five million dollars was spent in just four years to hire...
Build The Revolutionary Leadership In South Africa!
IN recent editions of the News Line we have reproduced in full a speech delivered by Zwelinzima Vavi, former general secretary of the Confederation...
Massive London marches call to kick out the Tories – Three...
NEARLY three-quarters of a million public sector workers from eight unions went on strike against the Tory government on Budget Day, Wednesday 15th March,...
CAMERON SEEKING A ‘SWEATSHOP BRITAIN LOW WAGES AND NO RIGHTS’ –...
More than 80,000 new homes could be built in Britain each year if just half the total of £22,812m that was spent on housing...
Changes to contacting your GP have negatively affected patient care
General Practitioners (GP) contract changes that dictate how patients are able to contact their practice have negatively impacted patient care and practice staff, an...
Offshore workers North Sea strike
OFFSHORE union RMT along with Unite and GMB on Tuesday issued notice of strike action by offshore members employed with North Sea contractors Ponticelli...
SRI LANKA GOVERNMENT ‘GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES’ – says Dublin tribunal
TAMILNET reports that the School of Law and Government of Dublin City University together with the Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka are...
25,000 South African teachers march against Education Minister today!
OVER 25,000 striking teachers in the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) are taking to the streets today for a national march to the...
Unions call for civil rights marches across US for jobs, housing...
‘TODAY, as we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and working families all over the country are coming together in marches for civil...
GUPTA FAMILY ‘AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO STRUGGLING SA WORKING CLASS’ ...
‘THE GUPTA family is the immediate threat to South Africa’s struggling working class,’ South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi...
Settlers committing war crimes against Palestinians under the protection of the...
FORMER Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert says settlers have been committing ‘war crimes’ against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank under the protection of...
‘Common issues between Palestine and the peoples of the African continent’...
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas told the 30th Ordinary Session of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa on Sunday that resuming the peace efforts requires...
Coalition Prepares Summer War Over Pensions
THE PCS is discussing co-ordinated strike action with other unions to fight the Tory-LibDem onslaught on the pensions of millions of health, local council,...
CHASE FARM FACES PRIVATISATION AND CLOSURE – Chase Farm and Barnet...
ENFIELD residents’ anger over further cuts at Chase Farm Hospital being kept secret are rightly justified, as Trust board letters reveal management plans to...
Israeli army West Bank killing spree – 3 shot dead yesterday
The Israeli occupation forces shot and killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank yesterday (Tuesday) morning, one in Beit Ummar in the south...
‘we Will March And Occupy To Save Chase Farm’
‘We have to do everything to save this hospital,’ out-patient Farzaeh Yegan told News Line at the North East London Council of Action monthly...
‘Down with the IMF Accord! Down with the euro! Bring down...
Tens of thousands of workers, students and youth in Greece participated in the May Day rallies and marches held last Sunday in all Greek...
NUMSA begins indefinite strike action!
OVER 220,00 members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) will begin an indefinite strike tomorrow to win pay increases and...
Australian unions outraged at abuse of youth prisoners
SECRETARY of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Dave Oliver, has written a letter speaking out about the abuse of youth in a detention...
Extreme Crackdown In Issawiyeh In East Jerusalem
THE occupied East Jerusalem suburb of Issawiyeh has long been a flashpoint for confrontations between Israeli soldiers and its Palestinian residents. But even by Israel’s...
Iran urges hand power in Sudan to civilians
IRAN’S Foreign Ministry on Tuesday urged Sudan to address the people’s demand in the country and immediate transition of power to civilians. The ministry’s spokesman...
Iran offers to replace Iraqi oil to bail out US!
DEPUTY Oil Minister for International and Trade Affairs Ali Majedi has voiced Iran’s readiness to speedily replace Iraq oil in the world market if...
THOUSANDS MARCH ON LAND DAY – as Abbas appeals to Arab...
Palestinians took to the streets across the West Bank and Israel to commemorate Land Day at the weekend, in protest against ongoing Israeli confiscation...
New Zealand Unions Defend Health And Safety
TODAY a widow and a mother sit together in the High Court in Wellington fighting for justice for the men that were killed at...
JOIN THE MARCH TO SAVE THE NHS – urge East Midlands...
EAST MIDLANDS UNISON and the Royal College of Nursing are holding a ‘The NHS is on its Knees, Get off your Feet to Save...
PCS Members Call For National Action Against Privatisation
FULL-TIME civil service union officer Andrew Lloyd has issued a response to Permanent Secretary David Bell over the compulsory transfer of support staff to...
‘There is a need to mobilise the South African workers’ says...
NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) President Andrew Chirwa has said his union sees no reason to continue supporting the ruling African...
Syrian Masses Take To The Streets Against Israeli State Terrorism
Syrian governorates on Monday witnessed huge mass demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance in the face of continued savage Israeli aggressions...
AFL-CIO opposes US-Colombia trade deal – Colombian workers are being denied...
The AFL-CIO, along with labour and human rights advocates from around the world have opposed the United States–Colombia Free Trade Agreement, arguing that Colombia...
Hundreds of burns victims in Gaza–and only one operating theatre!
LYING on his bed in a Gaza hospital, three-year-old Yamin now sees the world from behind burns which have disfigured him for life. The tiny...
IRAN ‘HAS NOT VIOLATED PARIS AGREEMENT’ – on resuming nuclear activity
Last Saturday evening, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Asefi outlined his government’s position to the foreign media on a number of issues, beginning with...
‘OLMERT WILL EITHER RESIGN OR BE TOPPLED’ says Hezbollah leader Nasrallah
HEZBOLLAH Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah said in an interview with Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV broadcast on 19 January: ‘We will accept a transitional government that...
EMPLOYERS TRYING TO FORCE WORKERS ONTO AWAs – say Australian trade...
Employers should accept the outcome of the federal election and immediately stop trying to push workers onto individual contracts, known as ‘Australian Work-place Agreements’...
Iran will spare no efforts to maintain Syria’s territorial integrity
IRAN’S Defence Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami has warned of extra-regional countries’ plots to sow discord in Syria, vowing the Islamic Republic’s full support...
‘WE WILL SHUT DOWN SOUTH AFRICA!’ – COSATU warns ANC
‘The entire economy of South Africa will be shut down’, warns the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), if the government fails to...
Renault Workers March Against Thousands Of Sackings
Angry, striking carworkers from Sandouville (Seine-Maritime) Renault plant demonstrated in the streets of Le Havre on Thursday, September 25. The French motor manufacturing giant recently...
SA President Ramaphosa forced to flee on May Day!
IN A HIGHLY significant development, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was forced to abandon his May Day speech and flee for his life in...
Nursing Associates to administer drugs unsupervised!
NURSING Associates have been given the go-ahead to administer drugs, unsupervised, to the alarm of the nurses’ union RCN. NHS to train 2,000 new Nursing...
Child labourers worldwide increase to 160 million!
THE NUMBER of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide – an increase of 8.4 million in the last four years. These...
Russia launches a new 10-year space programme
The Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) is about to start its Kliper launch vehicle project, the head of the agency told a Moscow press conference...
Western Powers Warn Assad Not To Stand!
ELEVEN Western and Middle Eastern powers on Thursday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against holding elections, saying that the vote would have no credibility...