USW ready for ExxonMobil strike or lock-out
A lockout or strike is set to occur June 15 at ExxonMobil’s Baytown, Texas, refinery, chemical plant and laboratory if company management continues...
TWO YEARS AFTER KATRINA . . . ‘Bush failed to keep...
‘In the two years since Hurricane Katrina came ashore on the Gulf Coast, the Bush administration has failed miserably to deliver on the president’s...
‘WE’VE DEFINITELY GOT TO GO NATIONAL’ – London CWU pickets tell...
PICKETS were out at Hornsey Road sorting office in north London yesterday, as angry Royal Mail workers across the capital and in many towns...
Bangladesh garment workers slam minimum wage as a ‘cruel joke’
Garment workers’ unions in Bangladesh have rejected an increase in the minimum wage, describing it as a ‘cruel joke’ and a ‘slap on the...
AFL-CIO ‘hope to work with President-elect Trump’
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka released the following statement on the results of the 2016 presidential election in which he declared his willingness to work...
Systematic destruction of Khan Younis continues despite ceasefire!
The Israeli military launched a ‘fire belt’ attack on the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, killing two Palestinians, including a child, in its latest...
Glencore Locks Out Australian Workers
ON THE same day the global Paradise Papers scandal exposed the offshore tax havens and tax avoidance strategies of companies including multinational mining giant,...
PULL THE TROOPS OUT NOW! – say anti war marchers
Over 10,000 workers and youth on Saturday marched through central London against the Afghan war, calling for the troops to be brought out now. Organised...
Seven Years Since The Marikana Mine Massacre!
‘THEY say in this country we’re free, but only some are free, others are not. A policeman has the power to kill and it’s...
SETTLERS ATTACK PALESTINIAN CAMP –as Israel on brink of ‘civil war’...
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers on Friday stormed Ein el-Sultan camp to the northwest of Jericho city, leading to clashes. Witnesses said that...
SAFTU honours memory of Soweto youth 1976
AS SAFTU (the South African Federation of Trade Unions) honours the memory of the youth of Soweto 1976 – and as the Black Lives...
‘Tel Aviv is fully aware of the wide range of Israeli...
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has warned the Zionist regime against testing Tehran’s resolve, saying Tel Aviv is fully aware of the wide-range of...
Britain’s secret work on Bahrain’s death row
BRITAIN’S secretive work at a death-row jail in Bahrain is being challenged by international human rights group Reprieve. The UK Foreign Office paid almost a...
Sri Lankan State Targeting Muslim Communities
Amnesty International UK has condemned an ‘Alarming rise in state-sanctioned violence and discrimination against Muslims’ in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Muslim community has suffered consistent...
‘We face our jailers with firm will and steadfastness’ –...
Israeli forces raided the Jerusalem office of a university media institute on Monday, shutting down the launch of an online media network and detaining...
‘We are ready to take action – Don’t come back with...
‘WE are ready to strike, don’t come back with some half-baked deal,’ junior doctors urged their leaders at a 100-strong BMA London Regional Committee...
‘THIS IS THE PERIOD OF WORLD REVOLUTION’ – message to News...
THIS is the period of world revolution. That was the message delivered to the News Line Anniversary Rally attended by 200 youth and workers in...
Tory Budget: war on NHS, education & pay
IN REFUSING to lift the 1% public sector pay cap, chancellor Philip Hammond is condemning ‘just managing’ civil servants to wage cuts of up...
South African trade unions battle inflation as food prices rise by...
SAFTU – the South African Federation of Trade Unions – notes the stubborn inflation which remains high above 7%, and averaged 7,2% in December...
‘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...
Prisoners hold ‘Day of Disobediance’ in support of hunger striker Al-Qiq
PALESTINIAN prisoners and journalists held separate rallies on Thursday in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq. In Israel’s Eshel prison, Palestinian prisoners held a...
Far Reaching Changes To Be Imposed On The NHS
THE Blair government is trying to impose ‘far-reaching changes’ to the NHS – without any real consultation with the public. That is the finding...
Unions demand self-determination on International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples
On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, 9 August, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has made a fervent call for the...
Israel will not end administrative detentions – as thousands join hunger...
An Israeli military court has refused an appeal by long-term hunger-strikers Thaer Halahla and Bilal Diyab to end their detention without charge, prisoners groups...
Russian ‘Caliber’ missiles destroy US & European weapons in Ukraine
THE RUSSIAN army struck at warehouses in the Zhytomyr region in the west of Ukraine on Saturday. High-precision long-range sea-based ‘Caliber’ missiles reached the...
‘YOU WON’T BREAK MERSEYSIDE FBU’ – say strikers and supporters
Over 7,000 striking Merseyside firefighters and their supporters marched through Liverpool last Saturday in a show of strength to demonstrate their determination to defeat...
Displaced Palestinians have ‘no safe place’ to go!
THE United Nations says Israel’s indiscriminate strikes on the Gaza Strip and incessant evacuation orders have left displaced Palestinians with ‘no safe place’ to...
STRIKES, SIT-INS AND OCCUPATIONS IN EGYPT –as workers fight to scrap...
Between 1st January 2011 and 31 December 2011 there were 335 labour protests in Egypt, said a report issued by the Egyptian Ministry of...
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...
HAMAS WILL NOT RECOGNISE ISRAEL – ‘whatever the pressure’
Palestinian national resistance movement, Hamas, insisted on Tuesday that it will not recognise the Israeli occupation whatever pressures are placed on the Hamas-led government. Speaking...
‘White Paper Like Floating NHS On The Stock Exchange’
THE future of the NHS is at stake, delegates to the TUC conference in Manchester were warned in a debate on Tuesday. However, the TUC...
South Africa must follow the example of the Russian Revolution
IT IS time for the South African working class to follow the example of the Russian workers who overthrew not only the Tsar and...
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...
Nearly 500 students still living in ‘fire-trap’!
NEARLY 500 students still remain living in a housing complex in west London while waiting for alternative accommodation despite it having been deemed a...
The Israeli regime ramps up its aggression in occupied West Bank!
THE Israeli regime has ramped up its aggression on the occupied West Bank by conducting violent raids on several areas in Nablus, Jenin and...
Trump’s ceasefire plan will allow Israel to resume its war after...
A PROPOSED ceasefire framework pushed by US President Donald Trump, touted as the ‘final proposal’ for ending Israel’s war on Gaza, would still allow...
‘We have huge support from the working class!’ – BMA pickets...
News Line spoke to two of the junior doctors on the picket line outside Cheltenham Royal Infirmary in Gloucestershire. Dr Chad Harker, BMA rep, said:...
HEZBOLLAH UPHOLDS ARAB NATIONAL SECURITY says Sayyed Safieddine!
HEAD of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, has lashed out at Saudi claims that the Lebanese Resistance movement ‘risks Arab national security’. Speaking at...
Palestinian firefighters train with Scotland FBU
SEVEN Palestinian firefighters have come over from Hebron in the occupied West Bank to train with the Fire Brigade Union (FBU) of Scotland to...
‘CHILD POVERTY SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASING’ – NEU survey
Education professionals are reporting a significant increase in the visibility of child poverty in their school/college and have provided many distressing examples from daily...
Hundreds killed by Tanzanian police as youth lead uprising against the...
Hundreds of anti-government demonstrators have been killed by the police and the army after days of protests over Tanzania’s disputed election, which incumbent President Samia...
Post-Election Crisis As Haiti Erupts
Haiti’s post-election crisis deepened on Sunday after opposition presidential candidates prolonged the political uncertainty by refusing to participate in a proposed recount. President Rene Préval’s...
Tunisia Revolts Against Unemployment And Mass Poverty!
FRESH protests over unemployment and poverty in central Tunisia on Thursday raised fears of growing social unrest five years after the country’s revolution was...
30,000 US Stop & Shop supermarket workers win 10-day strike
The largest private sector strike in the USA in years ended in victory last week, with more than 30,000 Stop & Shop supermarket workers...
Gaza genocide escalating into the West Bank
THE use of fighter jets by the Israeli occupation army for the first time since 2000 to bombard a popular café in Tulkarem city...