Home Features Page 131

Features

More in-depth featured articles from the newspaper

‘THE POPULAR STRUGGLE WILL CONTINUE IN ITS FULL STRENGTH’ – 200...

0
ISRAELI police evicted dozens of Palestinian activists early Sunday from a first-of-its-kind protest camp they set up in a West Bank area slated for...

Iran-Iraq investigation into the US ‘criminal and terrorist’ assassination of top...

0
A SENIOR Iranian judiciary official says Iran and Iraq have issued a joint statement on an investigation into the ‘criminal and terrorist’ assassination by...

Global Academic Boycott Of University Of Liverpool As Lecturers Fight Sackings

0
THE GLOBAL academic boycott of University of Liverpool began on Friday as lecturers fight against the sacking of 21 staff. The University and College Union...

Ussr: A New Stage Of Confrontation

0
THE DEEPENING world economic imperialist crisis is leading to a much worsening of working class conditions in all parts of the...

Fight against repression of trade unions will bring democracy to life...

0
FIGHTING against the repression of trade unions is bringing democracy to life, says the CGT French trade union federation. Ikéa lawsuits, dismissals, legal attacks against...

‘Without doubt we are experiencing tough and serious conditions’ – Palestinian...

0
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei has touched on a number of foreign and domestic policy issues, such as the relations with the USA, the...

Fatah’s Abu Ammar Brigades refuses to disarm

0
THE official spokesperson of the Fatah-affiliated Martyr Abu Ammar Brigades, Abu Muhammad, has affirmed the brigades’ loyalty to political leaders and Fatah decisions, but...

Palestinian workers and youth are on the march

0
DELAYS in Palestinian Authority employees salaries are unacceptable and government workers’ concerns must not be ignored, a union leader said last Tuesday. Government employees union...

Teachers to ballot for academies strike!

0
TEACHERS have voted to ballot for a one-day strike as part of a campaign against Tory plans to force every school in England to...

FIGHT ‘RE-CONFIGURATION’ – Labour’s plans for hospital closures • PART ONE

0
THE ‘re-configuration’ of 60 District General Hospitals (DGHs) means a huge reduction in National Health Service (NHS) hospital capacity. This will result in the loss...

A ‘PERMANENT WINTER NHS CRISIS LOOMS’ – warns BMA over Tory...

0
‘THE GOVERNMENT must resolve the long-term funding, capacity and recruitment issues’ if it is going to avoid a ‘winter crisis’ all year round, doctors...

Syrian civilians bar the way to US military convoys

0
LOCAL residents of several villages in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah have in coordination with government forces prevented a number of US military convoys...

‘If Spirit Alone Won Battles’

0
THE DIARY OF JOHN LOWE The 1984-1985 Miners’ Strike in Nottinghamshire edited by John Symcox These diary excerpts are a tribute to the heroic and determined...

Politics And Passion At Edinburgh Film Festival

0
Edinburgh International Film Festival is the world’s longest running film festival, showcasing the latest and best of world cinema, with something for everyone. This...

How the DWP is spying on benefit claimants

0
IN 2019, the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published their two-part staff guide on conducting fraud investigations. Privacy International (a UK-registered charity which...

Colombia the most dangerous place in the world to be a...

0
THE life expectancy of Colombians has been reduced by at least two years as a result of the country’s armed conflict and violence related...

‘WE NEED A GENERAL STRIKE TO DEFEND THE NHS!’ – says...

0
A HUGE CROWD rallied in Whitehall, opposite 10 Downing Street on Monday afternoon, the first day of the British Medical Association’s three-day strike of...

Build The Revolutionary Leadership In South Africa!

0
IN recent editions of the News Line we have reproduced in full a speech delivered by Zwelinzima Vavi, former general secretary of the Confederation...

Fatah leader Barghouthi – hunger strike leader’s condition is deteriorating

0
IMPRISONED Palestinian parliamentarian and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi, who has been leading a large-scale hunger strike in Israeli prisons, has suffered a serious deterioration...

CANADIAN POST UNION OPPOSES ‘US-BACKED COUP’ IN VENEZUELA

0
CANADA’S postal workers union, the CUPW, has condemned the government of Canada’s decision to recognise Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the legitimate president...

NATO war criminals used depleted uranium weaponry in Libya!

0
JAMAHIRIYA NEWS has reported on NATO war crimes in Libya including deformities in new born babies due to the use by NATO of...

Palestinians commemorate 75 years since the Nakba – Israel...

0
WHILE Israel on Wednesday celebrated 75 years of its creation, Palestinians in Israel commemorated 75 years of their dispersion and what is known as...

Stop gagging asylum seekers’ doctors – warns BMJ

0
IN THE British Medical Journal this week, two doctors criticise Australia for passing legislation that may be used to silence doctors working with asylum...

25% Funding Cuts Will Cost 22,584 University Jobs

0
If the government pushes ahead with plans for 25 per cent funding cuts then there will be a loss of 22,584 university jobs in...

‘Two-Faced Ed’ Reinstates Blairism At Cbi Conference

0
HE pledged to ditch Blairism when elected as the new Labour Party leader, but Ed Miliband made it clear on Monday that he...

US ready to negotiate with Assad says Kerry

0
AS the devastating war in Syria entered its fifth year on Sunday, the US said it would have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar...

Sri Lankan Army Preparing For A Major Offensive

0
Thousands have been displaced in a fresh Sri Lankan offensive, reported the Tamilnet website on Thursday. The head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s...

Universities in the US imposing ‘police state’ campus measures

0
United States universities are imposing ‘police state’ rules in an attempt to avoid a repeat of campus protests against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza,...

EU SUPPORTS PALESTINIAN UNITY! – while Netanyahu is to annex 19...

0
PALESTINE''S ambassador to the European Union, Abdel Rahim al-Farra said on Thursday that EU officials had informed him that financial support to the Palestinian...

SA masses rise up against capitalist imposed poverty!

0
SOUTH Africa’s ruling ANC said on Friday it understands the anger of North West residents who took to Mahikeng’s streets last week in protest...

Tshwane bus workers strike gridlocks city centre

0
SOUTH Africa’s administrative capital Tshwane (Pretoria) was gridlocked for a second day on Tuesday as bus drivers disabled their vehicles and the City insisted...

‘TRADE UNIONS MUST BOYCOTT ISRAEL!’ – 100,000 march to the Israeli...

0
‘FREE, Free Palestine! Gaza, Gaza we will never let you go! From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!’ chanted angry protesters...

Sparks Step Up Campaign To Defend Their Pay And Conditions!

0
CONSTRUCTION site electricians stepped up their campaign on Wednesday to defend pay and conditions against a brutal onslaught by a ‘cartel’ of contractors to...

Lieberman Lashes Abbas And Israeli Diplomats

0
Israel’s ultra-Zionist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday questioned on Israeli radio if President Mahmud Abbas represents all Palestinians, given his lack of authority...

Ealing Conference: Full support for Junior Doctors

0
ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY workers and youth attended the West London Council of Action/All Trades Unions Alliance Conference on Sunday, which was called to save Ealing Hospital...

While bills & rents soar US to spend $838.8bn on arms

0
THE devastating impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout continue to take a toll on the world and provide ample reason to...

STUDENT UPRISING AGAINST FEES –rocks the Tory-LibDem coalition

0
STAFF and students at the University of Reading held a special demonstration yesterday against government cuts to higher education. The lobby was organised by...

French mayors oppose ‘forced march’ to reopen schools!

0
MAYORS representing the Ile-de-France region, which includes the city of Paris, have called on President Emmanuel Macron to delay the reopening of schools until...

‘The Failure Of Their Battle For Aleppo Means A Total Transformation...

0
PRESIDENT Assad had an interview with the Syrian newspaper al-Watan last Wednesday and we are pleased to be be able to publish some extracts...

Thousands Of Calais Refugees To Be Evicted By Police And Troops

0
THOUSANDS of refugees living in the southern part of the camp in the French port of Calais known as the Jungle have been ordered...

TUC’s weak response to Osborne’s attacks in his Autumn Statement!

0
TRADE union leaders responded weakly, without any call to action, to Chancellor Osborne’s Autumn Statement on Wednesday, in which he announced a massive extension...

‘Day Of Rage Is The Beginning Of A Mass Uprising Against...

0
PALESTINIAN factions rallied and protested throughout the occupied Palestinian territories on Tuesday against the latest US position that claims Israeli settlements are not inconsistent...

CHASE FARM FACES PRIVATISATION AND CLOSURE – Chase Farm and Barnet...

0
ENFIELD residents’ anger over further cuts at Chase Farm Hospital being kept secret are rightly justified, as Trust board letters reveal management plans to...

‘This government is all about vilifying Teachers’ NUT LEADER CHRISTINE BLOWER...

0
OVER two thousand teachers held a ‘March for Education’ organised by the London Region National Union of Teachers in central London on Tuesday...

Khader Adnan hunger striking for over 70 days – – Islamic...

0
ISLAMIC Jihad, the Palestinian resistance movement has held the Israeli regime fully responsible for any harm to its high-profile official Sheikh Khader Adnan, who...