TWO MILLION BANGLADESHI GARMENT WORKERS SACKED – 53.64 million face extreme...
MORE than two million garment workers have been sacked in Bangladesh since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Because of fewer orders from the United...
Nasrallah celebrates Israel’s defeat in 2006!
AUGUST 14th was the 9th anniversary of the defeat of the massive Israeli ground and air attack on southern Lebanon to try and smash...
Palestinian government to be announced on June 6th
The composition of the new Palestinian Authority’s technocrat government will be announced on June 6th by delegates from Fatah and Hamas as a major...
Netanyahu to visit Putin – after Russia delivers S-300 missiles...
ISRAELI Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says he will soon meet President Vladimir Putin amid tensions over the downing of a Russian aircraft during Israel’s...
31 die in Dhaka factory fire!
‘PROMISES and apologies always follow these disasters, but there is no real commitment to fix the problem. It’s about greed, plain and simple,’ Larry...
The truth about sexual abuse in a British detention centre
By: Clare Sambrook First published in Our Kingdom WHAT is the government really doing to protect immigration detainees from their guards? In Parliament on Tuesday 15...
DAYS OF PUTTING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS INTO PRIVATE HEALTH RECRUITMENT AGENCIES...
SIPTU is demanding that the Irish government immediately lift the recruitment embargo in the health service and phase out excessive payments to private ‘for...
West Virginia Teachers Walk Off The Job!
TEACHERS across West Virginia walked off the job last Thursday and Friday amid a dispute over pay and benefits, causing more than 277,000 public...
Occupy movements and trades unions take action in the US
‘We are the 99 per cent. We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent,’ says...
Israeli Pm Netanyahu Delighted To Restore Ties With Turkey
ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lauded last Sunday’s deal to restore ties with Turkey, six years after a deadly raid on an...
Radiographers demand pay restoration!
THE NHS will haemorrhage staff unless pay is restored to match national averages, the Society of Radiographers (SoR) warned on Tuesday. The SoR has submitted...
‘SYRIA WILL NEVER BECOME A WESTERN PUPPET STATE’ – says...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad on Sunday stressed that Syria is a sovereign country that will fight terrorism and will freely build relationships with countries in...
Brics Group Wants To Recruit Iran And 5 Other Countries
THE BRICS group is seeking to expand and now has Iran in its sights along with five other countries. Iran has been invited to become...
Russian Troops Pushing Forward In Ukraine
RUSSIA’S victory is unavoidable. It is based on the unity of the Russian people, the heroism of special operation fighters and the operation of...
Wage theft in Aussie universities
‘WAGE theft is flourishing in Australian universities, with at least three elite institutions in the midst of underpayment scandals!’ says the National Education Union...
The Nehawu trade union is battling against South African Parliament!
A DISPUTE between workers in the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) and the South African Parliament is building. The workers are employees...
Israel wants another $1 billion military funding from the US –...
UNITED STATES Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has called on Congress to immediately authorise Tel Aviv’s request for extra emergency funding. Graham made the remarks in...
Gadaffi’s son Saif al-Islam freed!
SAIF al-Islam, the second son and heir apparent of the late deposed Libyan Leader Muammar Gadaffi, is said to have been freed in Libya...
‘DANGEROUS AND UNREGULATED’ – Doctor slams privately run walk-in centres
DR Anila Reddy has resigned from his post as the lead GP at an NHS ‘walk-in centre’ run by the private sector, at London’s...
Yemen Facing Worst Ever Cholera Epidemic!
YEMEN is facing ‘the worst epidemic of cholera since records began’, a report from inside Yemen has warned. The Armed Conflict Location and Event...
Thousands of civil servants jobs under threat
THOUSANDS of civil service jobs are under threat in the wake of plans to cut numbers swollen by both Brexit and the Covid crisis...
Firefighters Step Up The Campaign Against Vicious Cuts
FIREFIGHTERS in their thousands rallied at Westminster Hall on Wednesday to hear union leaders call for stepping up the campaign against vicious cuts to...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange lands in Australia
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange landed in Australia Wednesday morning, after walking free from a US court in Saipan. He hugged his wife and father at...
COWEN INVITES ICTU TO TALKS – as massive strike action approaches
With the March 30 general strike fast approaching Irish Prime Minister Cowen has invited the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) to attend talks....
Harsh winter nights – eight children die of cold in the...
The nights of the winter season are extremely harsh on the displacement camps in Gaza as the nights, which may be the coldest in...
BBC Panorama exposes HC-One – UK’s largest care-home operator!
MONDAY night’s BBC Panorama documentary exposed the operations of HC-One, which, with 265 facilities and a bed capacity of 16,116, is the UK’s largest...
‘WE WANT A FREE GOVERNMENT’ – Beirut demonstrations continue
Demonstrators remained camped near central Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square and on streets leading to the government’s headquarters on Saturday following Friday’s million-strong opposition protest, led by...
‘Water And Electricity More Important Than Constitution’ Say Iraqis
Iraq’s newspapers warned Tuesday of the risk of the total collapse of basic services like electricity and water, saying upgrading them was more important...
‘Huge support from public’ – say striking ambulance strikers
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...
‘Pause’ A Cover For Destruction Of Hospital Care
BY ANNA ATHOW BMA COUNCIL MEMBER ON April 4th, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley announced ‘a pause’, a two month ‘listening exercise’, in implementing the...
Al-Aqsa Stormed! Bahrain Delegation Joins Settlers
A BAHRAINI delegation has joined Israeli settlers in the storming of the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem! This comes after Bahrain, along with UAE, Sudan and...
Camden threats to rough sleepers ‘may breach human rights laws’ ...
Liberty, the human rights organisation, has written to Transport for London (TfL) and Camden Council warning that recent threats issued to rough sleepers may...
Greek mass marches are developing into an insurrection
THE MASS protest marches in Greece against the sheer police violence and oppression have been developing all last week into an insurgency against the...
‘THIS IS AN ENORMOUS VICTORY!’ says Peter Chappell – organiser of...
GEORGE Davis, now 69, says he should not have had to wait ‘36 long years’ for his conviction for armed robbery to be quashed...
SA police attempted murder of a 14-year-old!
A CASE of attempted murder has been opened over the shooting of a 14-year-old boy on a demonstration in Hangberg, Hout Bay, Cape Town...
French presidential election candidates hold rallies
LEFT WING French presidential candidate for the France Insoumise (Rebellious France) party Jean-Luc Mélenchon talked about climate change, feminism and the cost of living...
‘The ANC/SACP is trying to destroy us!’ says NUMSA
‘THE ANC/SACP (African National Congress/South African Communist Party) is trying to weaken, isolate and destroy us,’ NUMSA KZN (National Union of Metalworkers of South...
Brown refuses to meet Chagossians
The News Line is pleased to publish two important letters. These concern the decision of the Court of Appeal to uphold the decision of...
Minnesota Nurses To Strike From Labor Day!
THE Minnesota Nurses Association says that on Labor Day, September 5th, nearly 5,000 of its members will walk off their jobs in an open-ended...
Amazon workers ‘Black Friday’ strike
WORKERS at six Amazon distribution centres in Germany and one in Italy began a 24-hour strike on Friday, in a protest timed to coincide...
Numsa Takes To Streets Fighting Anti-Union Laws
ANGRY members of IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), took to the streets of Johannesburg protesting...
Huge Polytechnic Uprising anniversary march on Sunday – General strike across...
Greek students, youth and workers delivered a significant blow to the Mitsotakis government, the US-NATO imperialists, EU and Israel on Sunday. They staged a most...
Tens Of Thousands Demand An End To Egyptian Military Rule
About 300 people are being held after violent clashes outside the defence ministry in Cairo on Friday which left one soldier dead and hundreds...
Children were killed in their homes as they slept! – demand...
THE Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip during July and August 2014 claimed the lives of 501 Palestinian children. Defence for Children International –...
‘A MAN AND HIS BOAT’ The story of a fisherman...
ASPIRING “word artists” from around the world have joined with youth in Gaza, and now, Lebanon, to create "WE ARE NOT NUMBERS: We are...