Iran Assures Syria Of Continuing Support!
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Wednesday received the Chairman of the Iranian Shura Council’s Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security Alaeddin Boroujerdi...
Yemen Houthis Ready For US Invasion
THE leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has warned that the US military is preparing the ground for an act of aggression against the...
UK singled out for care home deaths and assault on ...
‘CORONAVIRUS has exposed global inequality, and leaders have ramped up attacks on human rights,’ so concludes the Amnesty International Report 2020/21 released today, which...
‘A TERRIBLE LOSS OF FIRE COVER’ – 10,000 firefighters’ jobs threatened
‘Firefighters wages make up over three-quarters of fire and rescue service budgets, so cuts to fire service funding invariably mean cuts to firefighters jobs’,...
MANCHESTER MENTAL HEALTH STRIKE AGAINST CUTS – nurses, therapists and admin...
UNISON has given official notice to the NHS employers Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust that 250 of their staff will take their...
‘I Can’t Breathe’: Race, Death and British Policing
BLACK men are seven times more likely to die following police restraint but racism is not being addressed, the charity Inquest has found. Families of...
Venezuelan people demand the release of Maduro – a letter from...
FRIDAY 2 January was a typical day in Venezuelan capital Caracas. The roads were unusually quiet and few people were out on the streets,...
90% Of The Bedouins Were Expelled By Israel
THE killing of two Bedouin youths in southern Israel by police over the last fortnight has shocked the nation’s Palestinian community and has brought...
Syria: ‘festivities turning into funerals’ after crimes by ‘moderate opposition’
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad stressed on Sunday that Syria is keen to keep working to push forward Russia’s efforts for holding a second round of...
‘We Can’t Allow Another Gate Gourmet To Happen’
Delegates to the TUC Congress in Brighton on Monday afternoon demanded a campaign to restore the right to take solidarity strike action. This followed prime...
US is constructing Egypt’s ‘Wall of Death’
A SENIOR Egyptian engineer working on the ‘steel wall’ which the Egyptian authorities are building along the borders with the Gaza Strip, has confirmed...
Niger Expels French Ambassador!
Niger’s military rulers on Friday revoked the diplomatic immunity of France’s ambassador and ordered police to expel him from the African country. A letter sent...
UN DEMANDS TOTAL ACCESS TO INTERNMENT CAMPS – as Sinhala youths...
TAMILNET reports that gangs of Sinhala youths brandishing Lion flags in the name of victory against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), have...
‘Israel and the states supplying it with weapons must be stopped’...
The United Nations special rapporteur has called for a halt to arms sales to the Israeli regime, which has been committing genocide in Gaza...
Israel Wants To Annexe Massive Bloc Of West Bank Settlements
ISRAEL has been organising with the US behind the Palestinians’ backs, over a ‘land swap’ deal, the Israeli media revealed last Wednesday. Israel has asked...
Zimbabwe National Strike Against Fuel Price Hike!
ZIMBABWE’S largest labour union confederation called a national strike starting midnight on Sunday/Monday after the government more than doubled fuel prices to among the...
‘SAVE OUR UNIVERSITY’ – 500 lobby London Met governors
OVER five hundred students and staff of the London Metropolitan University gathered outside the building in Holloway road in north London yesterday to protest...
Sharon Aims For Zionist ‘Greater Jerusalem’
THE PALESTINE Media Centre reports that ‘The Israeli Knesset on Monday approved a speech by the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that vindicated his “defense”...
EALING MATERNITY ENTRANCE OCCUPIED! – Stop work on July 1 and...
THE occupation of Ealing Hospital is in full swing, with shifts ensuring that the entrance to the closure-threatened maternity department is occupied 24...
‘MUCH OF THE PRESENT CRISIS IS OF THE GOVERNMENT’S OWN MAKING’...
The UK’s midwifery service is facing crisis point, the General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives warned the Blair government on Wednesday. ‘With midwifery...
Release Tamil POWs and political prisoners! – Tamil politicians call for...
TAMILNET reports that Tamil politicians all over the world are urging global action to gain the release of POWs, and political prisoners. Addressing a...
Student Nurses, Unpaid And Uninsured, Are Treating Coronavirus Patients – And...
STUDENT nurses who are currently doing their placements are facing serious risks. Their lives are at risk as many are treating coronavirus patients and...
Saftu Set To Call National Shut-Down
THE SOUTH African Federation of Trade Unions – and unions affiliated with the federation – applied pressure to companies employing their members last Thursday,...
Israel is ‘deliberately’ destroying Gaza’s health-care infrastructure!
AN American surgeon volunteer at a Gaza hospital has condemned the Israeli regime’s heavy toll on Palestinian medical facilities since October 7th, 2023, asserting...
Thousands join Cuba’s ‘March of the Fighting People’
On Friday, thousands of Cubans joined the ‘March of the Fighting People’ to honour 32 Cuban soldiers who were killed during a US military...
Striking teachers rally in London and Sheffield
HUNDREDS of thousands of National Education Union (NEU) members are taking part in a second national teachers’ strike today, having also struck on Wednesday...
Turkish work-related fatalities highest in Europe–four a day!
A TOTAL of 21,800 workers have been killed in work-related accidents in the country since the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to...
NAHT and NUT boycott of SATs to go ahead
Following a successful ballot of both unions’ leadership members, the NUT and NAHT executives have decided that the boycott of this year’s SATs will...
French ‘yellow vest’ protest today!
LES GILETS JAUNES, France’s nationwide ‘yellow vest’ protest movement, has organised to unite and descend on Paris today Saturday 24 November, in an attempt...
‘Designed to place security services above law!’ – Reprieve condemns Justice...
The Justice and Security Bill published on Tuesday ‘is designed to place our Security Services above the law and keep torture and rendition out...
US Workers Take Action
JUST one day before Democrats and Republicans were set to forge a trillion dollar debt deal that would impose savage cuts on the American...
SA trade unions battle for inflation-beating pay increases for 1.2m
THE LABOUR Court in Johannesburg will be the setting for South Africa’s trade unions and the African National Congress (ANC) government to fight it...
‘West will pay a heavy price for supporting Al-Qaeda’ – says...
PRESIDENT Bashar al-Assad warned on Wednesday that the West will pay a heavy price for its support of Al-Qaeda in Syria. Assad, whose regime has...
Israeli forces raid town, detaining Palestinians and ransacking homes
ISRAELI forces early on Thursday detained four Palestinians from several West Bank districts. Two Palestinians were detained from Jericho, another from Jerusalem and one from...
THE UK IS A FIRST-WORLD COUNTRY WITH THIRD-WORLD EDUCATION – UCU...
The UK has dramatically slumped to the bottom of international education tables, the University and College Union stressed today. In the past twelve years it...
US fast food strikers demand $15 an hour!
FAST food workers walked out of their restaurants all around America last week for the seventh time in nearly two years – to demand...
WORKERS CALL FOR A GENERAL STRIKE EVERY FRIDAY – to drive...
Over 100,000 workers and youth marched through Dublin last Friday as Ireland was shut down in support of Irish Ferries SIPTU trade union members...
THOUSANDS MORE JOBS TO GO IN RENAULT PLANTS – while Airbus...
TWO thousand more jobs will go in Renault plants Europe-wide and 900 of them will be in France; the automobile manufacturer will announce the...
Stop this wholesale closure of NHS hospitals and GP surgeries
THE government is activating a mass hospital closure programme. 30 to 40 ‘failing’ NHS trusts could be handed over to new management, which could...
‘Down with Bolsonaro!’ – thousands of Brazilians take to the streets
THOUSANDS of Brazilians have taken to the streets amid concern President Jair Bolsonaro will try to stay in power even if he loses October’s...
Israeli forces ambushed at Ayta al-Sha’b
Fierce confrontations continued between resistance fighters and Israel’s elite forces in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, particularly in the town of Ayta al-Sha’b where the...
‘South African CP avoids the most fundamental questions facing workers,’ says...
PART TWO THE National Union of Metalworkers South Africa’s (NUMSA) response to an attack by Jeremy Cronin of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)...
NO TO KING GEORGE HOSPITAL CLOSURE – demand marchers
Over two hundred workers and youth marched and rallied against the planned closure of King George Hospital, Ilford on Saturday. News Line spoke to participants...
Major Strike Action Erupting In Usa
SOME major strike actions are taking place in the USA. In Tucson, Arizona the collective bargaining agreement covering more than 530 Teamster represented employees of...
London fire service facing ‘unprecedented’ staff shortages
Rising Covid cases have left London fire and rescue with ‘unprecedented’ staff shortages, meaning that up to a third of London’s fire engines have...