Special Unit Set Up By Netanyahu To Force Feed Palestinians
PALESTINIAN hunger striker Mohammad Allan was forcibly removed from Soroka hospital in Beersheba and taken to the Barzilai Medical Centre in Ashdod, by Israeli...
Kurdish indefinite hunger strike!
ON Wednesday News Line visited the hunger strikers at the Kurdish Assembly in Haringey. It was the 27th day of their indefinite strike having joined...
7,000 NY nurses strike against ‘dangerous understaffing’
A STRIKE by more than 7,000 nurses at two major New York City hospitals began at 6.00am on Monday after talks aimed at averting...
‘MAY MUST GO!’ say 15,000 students and lecturers
OVER 15,000 students, lecturers and supporters marched through central London on Saturday to demand free education for all. The largest education demonstration in years was...
Syria Puts Fighting Terrorism Onto The Geneva Agenda!
SYRIA’S official delegation has managed to put counter-terrorism on the agenda as stated by the Geneva Communiqué during a joint session concluded on Wednesday...
18 YEARS SINCE THE KINGS CROSS FIRE RMT, ASLEF and the...
EXACTLY 18 years after the King’s Cross fire, Britain’s rail and firefighting unions on Friday launched a joint campaign to keep in place essential...
President elect Raeisi congratulated by world leaders
WORLD leaders have extended their congratulations to Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi on his victory in Iran’s 2021 presidential election. Raeisi garnered almost 62 per cent of...
Specialist nurse numbers drop by 40%!
‘The nursing shortage in England is harming some of the most vulnerable members of society,’ a senior nurse and Royal College of Nursing (RCN)...
‘The government is helping senior civil servants to avoid paying tax’
Civil servants’ union, PCS has slammed ‘the unfairness of the government paying huge salaries and bonuses to senior civil servants, sometimes even helping them...
US, Turkish & Zionist Alliance Faces Defeat
OVER the past two decades, the United States, Turkey, and the Zionist regime of Israel have faced ultimate defeat in any sedition that they’ve...
Maru Must Stay!
HUNDREDS of protesters endured the cold on Sunday at a People’s Tribunal to hold the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) accountable for its...
‘Consign capitalism to the Natural History Museum!’ –Jonty Leff tells Anniversary...
More than 200 workers and youth got massive support from residents and shoppers as they marched through east London on Sunday, to a rally...
‘It’s time to defend our social demands’ – CGT will propose...
‘SALARIES, pensions, public services, industry: our demands are those of the majority and must be implemented,’ says the CGT French trade union federation. It has...
CREW AND EQUIPMENT CUTS COSTS LIVES – FBU sounds alarm
Cuts in fire cover provision have been taking place all over the country, even after the Newquay fire disaster. The Fire brigades Union (FBU)...
The G20 Summit in Delhi ‘A Tale of Two Indias’
IN Delhi, India’s capital, the G20 summit has captured significant global attention. This event brought together world leaders to discuss international economic strategies, presenting...
Huge Clashes Between Swazi Workers And Feudal Regime!
RELATIONS between the workers and trade unions of Swaziland and the rule of the feudal monarchy has almost reached the point of civil...
Migrant Workers Paid £1.30 An Hour
The TGWU trade union and the author of the Gangmasters Licensing Act 2004, Labour MP Jim Sheridan, last Wednesday organised a briefing in the...
Thousands Of Tamil Families Are Denied The Right To Return
CIVILIANS uprooted from Valikaamam in Vadamaraadchi 20 years ago by the occupying Sri Lanka Army (SLA), who converted their lands into a High Security...
US ‘dismayed’ at the ‘humiliating defeats’ of terrorists by Syrian army...
SYRIA says the US is ‘dismayed’ to see the return of normal life to Aleppo province because of the ‘humiliating defeats’ of the Washington-sponsored...
Corbyn addresses the TUC–no call for a general election!
TUC DELEGATES in Brighton gave a standing ovation to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday afternoon despite the fact that he failed...
REGENERATION NIGHTMARE FOR HEYGATE TENANTS – Southwark accused of ‘Rachman’ tactics
TENANTS on the Heygate Estate in south-east London have alleged that ‘Rachman tactics’ are being used to try and drive them off the estate...
ADVANCE NUMSA! – expelled South African union leader Vavi says
THE AFTERMATH of the COSATU special national conference, held in Johannesburg on the 13th and 14th of July, has split the labour movement in...
RELEASE SHREWSBURY DOCUMENTS –10 more years of secrecy condemned
MPs and trade union leaders addressed a press conference at parliament on Wednesday organised by the Shrewsbury 24 Campaign. They demanded the release of documents...
Kentucky unions fight Trump’s deportation of 200 workers
KENTUCKY trade unions are standing up to halt the deportation of two hundred immigrant workers. Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers,...
New Left Front Leader Beaten Up At Colombo Airport
TAMILNET has reported on the ensuing crisis following the cancellation of the speech due to be given at the Oxford Union by the Sri...
Ayatollah Khamenei praises Syria’s Assad for Syrian nation’s ‘resistance to imperialism!’
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader, received Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday. Assad travelled to Tehran to offer condolences over the loss...
Russia strikes Ukraine’s military infrastructure
RUSSIA says it has struck and disabled Ukraine’s Starokostiantyniv military air base with long-range high-precision weapons. ‘The Russia armed forces continue to strike the military...
Canadian postal workers rally in 13 cities!
Canada Post workers held rallies in 13 cities across the country on Saturday as the ongoing labour dispute with their employer reaches boiling point. The...
Tunisia Slams UK Over Its Role In Libya
TUNISIAN Prime Minister Habib Essid has stated that Libya’s current turmoil has largely come about as a result of the foreign military intervention in...
Israeli presence in US Persian Gulf force ‘a threat to Iran’s...
IRAN says it considers possible Israeli presence in a US-led coalition in the Persian Gulf as a clear threat to its national security, and...
Greek journalists oppose new broadcaster which threatens 500 jobs
THE International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have expressed their deep concern about the Greek government’s ‘unacceptable’ plans...
Journalists Cannot Reveal Sources
IN a hard-hitting personal reflection, Irish Political Journalist and National Union of Journalists member JOHN COULTER vehemently defends the right of reporters to withhold...
13 Ways The Trump Budget Hits US Workers
THE AFL-CIO has warned of ‘13 Ways the Trump Budget hurts working people’. It says: ‘There are tons of analyses and numbers that could keep...
‘We want those at the very top in central government held...
THE FIREFIGHTERS’ union’s submission to the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry demands that cuts to the fire service must be examined to establish the impact...
‘Syrian people alone can determine their future’
DEPUTY Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem said Syria is ready to go for a Syrian-Syrian dialogue without any preconditions and will...
Australian mass marches against low pay!
MORE THAN 170,000 workers marched through Melbourne, Australia on Tuesday, while tens of thousands of others marched through Sydney, Wollongong, Gladstone, Cairns, Mackay, Darwin,...
‘WE’RE ON STRIKE AGAINST MANAGEMENT DICTATORSHIP’ say BBC workers
Over 11,000 BBC journalists and technicians took strike action last Monday over savage job cuts and privatisation announced unilaterally by Director-General Mark Thompson in...
14-DAY LOCKDOWN IN PALESTINIAN WEST BANK –as Palestine confirms 59 coronavirus...
Life came to a standstill in all West Bank cities and towns on Monday as the curfew and strict lockdown Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad...
Compass Coffee workers announce union drive across America
COMPASS Coffee workers have announced a unionisation drive across seven stores in America to end the chain’s no-tipping policy and improve benefits and working...
Russia Backs Iran’s Right To Nuclear Energy
Russia on Wednesday opposed an EU draft resolution that seeks to have Iran referred to the UN Security Council and warned against escalating the...
Investment firms and asset managers of UK arms industry making massive...
THE British state is subsidising the UK arms industry to the tune of billions of pounds to the benefit of its wealthy private owners...
SHAME ON YOU BBC – BROADCAST THE GAZA APPEAL! –demands 7,000-strong...
‘Free, Free Palestine!’ ‘Shame on you BBC!’ shouted 7,000 protesters at a rally for Gaza outside the BBC’s Broadcasting House at Portland Place in...
WORLD MUST END ISRAELI OCCUPATION – Hamdallah tells Gaza Conference
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah has expressed the hope that the world’s countries will feel responsibility towards the Gaza Strip, and asked them to...
Barnado’s! Quit The Child Detention Business!
By Alida Alisis BACK in March, almost a year after the government had promised to end what Nick Clegg called the ‘shameful practice’ of locking...
Break The Siege Of Gaza Now!
ISRAELI authorities on Sunday morning opened the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing in the southeastern Gaza Strip after it was closed for three days over...