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The News Line is pleased to publish two important letters. These concern the decision of the Court of Appeal to uphold the decision of...

PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to al-Manar TV broadcast on Thursday. We are very pleased to publish it in two parts PART TWO Al-MANAR: Mr...

Russia has once again warned the United States against sending advanced rocket systems to Ukraine. Three months into the war in Ukraine, US President Joe...

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...

SIPTU is calling for action on soaring rents to prevent further job losses immediately as the Irish deficit crisis deepens. The union has called on...

‘Lebanon is implementing (UN) Resolution 1701 while Israel is dragging its feet and is showing intransigence’, Lebanese Prime Minister Fu’ad al-Siniora told a joint...

ACCORDING to the Syrian president, Syria destroyed all its stocks of chemical weapons back in 2013, but the West was still using ‘fairy tales’...

SOME 900 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to require medical attention as a result of permanent disabilities they sustained during Israel’s devastating 51-day...

THE Palestinian Authority civil affairs minister said late Tuesday that Israel will return the bodies of 91 Palestinians buried in an Israeli cemetery on...

WORKERS at South African Airways (SAA) are threatening to go on strike if their salary increase demands are not met. The workers are calling for...

IN AN an interview given to al-Manar TV, President Bashar Assad said the essence of the crisis in Syria is foreign interference by the...

‘WE WILL win this fight!’ That was the message from speaker after speaker at a rally of more than 1,500 delegates from trade unions and...

On ‘Black Friday’ this week, a group of unions and grassroots organisations, known as the Make Amazon Pay Coalition, will stage coordinated protests and...

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) branded the efficiency savings announced in Wednesday’s budget as spending cuts which would damage services and lead...

‘This is the period of the world revolution,’ All Trades Union Alliance National Secretary Dave Wiltshire told 150 delegates at the News Line-ATUA...

Leon Trotsky OUR REVOLUTION Essays on Working Class and International Revolution 1904-1917 Collected and Translated by MOISSAYE J OLGIN Introduction 4. Preface to our round trip AT the Stockholm Convention of the Social-Democratic Party, some...

ISRAELI Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said Israel is ready to discuss the issue of an ‘apology’ for the Mavi Marmara incident, ...

SHEFFIELD College lecturers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in defence of jobs and quality of education. 86% of University College Union (UCU)...

THE ruling right-wing Tory government of Canada got a massive shock last Tuesday when the Progressive Conservative party (PC) were decisively thrashed in elections...

IN A REPORT on Palestinian resistance fighters held in Israeli prisons through to the end of August, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said on...

THE Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on the 200th day of the Israeli genocide in Gaza on Tuesday the Israeli military is planning...

THE BIDEN administration has formally included Israel in the US Visa Waiver Programme. This decision has ignited a heated debate surrounding issues of discrimination, American...

‘FREE, FREE, Palestine! Free Al-Aqsa!’ shouted participants in an over 1,000-strong lobby of the Israeli embassy in West London on Saturday evening. They also shouted...

By Clare Sambrook WHAT to do with a 100 kg guard who fatally restrains a 40 kg boy? Promote him to health & safety manager,...

‘THE murderous NATO child killers are continuing their terror raids on Libyan civilians’. Libyan government spokesman Musa Ibrahim, speaking in the city of Surman, west...

‘SERIOUS people’ in high places in the West are now discussing options for replacing Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky with someone else, Russian Foreign Intelligence...

IN SEPARATE messages, Iran, Russia and China congratulate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for achieving a landslide victory in the 2021 presidential race. Iran, Russia and...

HUNDREDS of rail cleaners will launch a 48-hour strike action next week in fight for pay justice. Transport union RMT members who keep trains and...

IN May and early June 2010, a two-week-long strike involving more than a thousand workers at the Honda transmission plant in Foshan triggered a...

SPECIAL Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) funding is being cut to the bone, the National Education Union (NEU) warned in a motion on the...

On the second anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, the Global Unions – which represents 200 million workers worldwide – has called for...

OVER 150 Chagos Islanders and their supporters – including a delegation of Chagossians who had flown from Mauritius – were at the House of...

FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack wrote a letter on Wednesday to all FBU members about pensions. He wrote: ‘There have been a number of developments...

THE Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, last Sunday issued a statement headlined ‘PFLP condemns occupation onslaught against our people in Nablus and...

ISRAEL’S Prime Minister Olmert said on Wednesday he would step down after a September party leadership vote and tried to insist that he was...

IN THE British Medical Journal this week, two doctors criticise Australia for passing legislation that may be used to silence doctors working with asylum...

‘WHAT Are the Real Reasons of the Western Positions Vis-A-Vis President Al-Assad? Or Why Has President Al-Assad Become an Obsession for the United States?’...

cleaners working for ISS on the Arriva Rail North contract will be holding a protest today, Wednesday 10th April, outside Manchester Victoria station between...

CHILDREN and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are not getting the support they need, according to eight-in-ten (83%) education staff. In...

THE Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds in an editorial called ‘Settlements and Water Anew’, which appeared on October 1, exposes Israeli efforts to prevent the formation...

Benteler car workers in Kaluga, Russia, to the south west of Moscow, have won their strike over recognition of their union. On April 2...

CAMPAIGNING began on Sunday for Syria’s June 3 presidential election expected to return Bashar al-Assad to power, as the regime marked a ...

1.1 million workers in Australia will have their ‘JobKeeper’ payments removed from this week, with the Head of Treasury estimating that between 100,000 and...

ANNA Liedtke, a 25-year-old German activist who sailed on a Gaza-bound flotilla, has filed a criminal complaint in Israel alleging she was raped by...

The lawyer George Bizos, who represents the families of the 34 Lonmin miners shot dead by the South African police, has said the police...