An Innocent Man Died After Being Assaulted By Police –...
Legal charity INQUEST has produced a comprehensive briefing on the death of Ian Tomlinson. News Line is pleased to reproduce the following excerpts:– INQUEST is working...
All India Coal Workers Federation Are Fighting The Break-Up And Privatisation...
THE RECENTLY held two-day national meeting of the All India Coal Workers’ Federation in Jharkhand’s Ranchi decided on launching a month-long series of actions...
‘We call for the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction’...
THE Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinezhad has said that Iran wishes to have talks with the West on a whole range of issues. He was speaking...
CUT OIL PRODUCTION – Iran urges OPEC
Iran’s oil minister has called for today’s meeting of the OPEC oil cartel to cut production in order to raise prices above 60 dollars...
Over 5,000 on London Palestine demonstration – mass march called for...
A MASS demonstration of more than 5,000 workers, students and youth continued throughout the evening from 6.00pm and into the night outside the Israeli...
100,000 march to Parliament to defend NHS
UP TO 100,000 health workers, trade unionists, students and youth marched through London to defend the NHS on Saturday. There were balloons from Unison, Unite,...
Universal Child Day – Israel Steps Up Attacks On Palestinian Children!
THE Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), on the eve of the UN’s Universal Child Day, maintained that Palestinian children remain victims of...
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...
20,000 Workers & Youth March To ‘Make It Right’ For Palestine!
OVER 20,000 workers and youth along with Palestinians living in the UK, marched through the streets of London on Saturday to ‘Make it Right...
Israel initiates a military plan to seize 25% of Gaza as...
The Israeli forces have initiated a military plan to capture and control 25 per cent of Gaza, calling it the buffer zone that it...
‘Workforce burnout’ is on a large scale in the NHS –...
A CRITICAL report by MPs on the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee has warned of large scale ‘workforce burnout’ in the...
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,...
Scottish strike wave during COP26 summit
Council workers in more than half of Scotland’s local authorities are striking during next month’s COP26 climate summit as part of a rapidly escalating...
Moscow Remembers The Liberation Of Auschwitz
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2015, Moscow ON International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp...
100,000 march through Dublin
OVER 100,000 workers in their unions, with students and youth marched on Saturday through the centre of Dublin, furious at the 64 billion euros...
RATP bus drivers strike against wage cutting!
BUS drivers in London have launched a fresh wave of strikes as their union Unite announced further strike action involving bus drivers employed by...
Israel constantly violating ceasefire agreement in southern Lebanon – Lebanese villagers...
Israel has been violating the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon without break, deliberately targeting civilian areas in the south. Despite drones incessantly buzzing over their homes, people...
Palestinians seek UN Resolution to condemn settlements – despite US objections
The Palestinians have turned down a US request to avoid seeking a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, the...
END PPP DISASTER – RETURN TUBE TO LONDON UNDERGROUND’ – says...
FOUR YEARS after the first Tube assets were handed to the private sector, London Underground’s biggest union has called for the disastrous ‘Public-Private Partnership’...
Hamas rules out presence of foreign forces in the Gaza Strip!
THE Gaza Strip’s Hamas resistance movement has ruled out the deployment of any foreign force to the Gaza Strip that would effectively serve as...
SAFTU plans mass actions for 2019
‘THE poor of our country are suffering! A human calamity is unfolding! The difference is that this is not making headlines because the poor...
Russia Relying On Poroshenko Being A ‘Prudent Politician’
RUSSIA is seeking peaceful co-existence and ‘compromise’ both with the EU and Ukraine’s new president Petro Poroshenko, President Putin’s supreme economic adviser, Andrey Belusov...
‘DO WHATEVER IT TAKES’ – to save the Whittington, say demonstrators
MOTORISTS and shopkeepers showed their enthusiastic support and passers by joined in, as the march to save Whittington Hospital went through Holloway in north...
Damning Report On Deaths In Police Custody
INQUEST has launched a damning new report exposing the fact that after an inquest into a death in police custody, there is no mechanism...
Merseyrail scabbing operation will ‘rip up the rule book’
THE RMT has issued a warning that the privateer Merseyrail’s planned Grand National scabbing operation will ‘rip up the safety rule book’. Rail union...
President Sisi ‘played pivotal role’ in helping Fatah & Hamas overcoming...
EGYPTIAN President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi played a pivotal role in helping Fatah and Hamas overcome their differences to form a National Consensus Government in...
ADULT EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK– funding crisis means sackings and course closures,...
Lower than expected college funding poses a severe threat to adult education and those who provide it, warns the latest edition of public sector...
‘Stop Urban Post Office Closures’
A new report, The last post, released on Monday, provides new evidence of the vital social and economic role of urban sub post offices. The report,...
‘This War Has Shattered The Myth Of The Invincible Israeli Army’
Gaza marked the first anniversary of the start of Israel’s historic pullout from the coastal strip on Tuesday amid bitterness that the end of...
Yemeni army and Popular Committees fight Saudi-Qatari-US onslaught!
YEMENI army soldiers backed by members of the Popular Committees have managed to foil an attack launched by Saudi naval forces on Yemen’s strategic...
Hamas denounces Arab countries’ normalisation deals with Israel
HAMAS has denounced the ‘normalisation deals’ with Israel, because they are aimed at legitimatising the regime in the Middle East and forging an alliance...
Cosatu Congress ‘a ticking time-bomb’ says NUMSA
THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is a ‘ticking bomb’ waiting to explode, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) deputy...
South African workers launch ‘Scrap New Labour Laws’ campaign
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) are marching in Gauteng today, Human Rights Day, to protest against the proposed new...
Palestinians commemorate 75 years since the Nakba – Israel...
WHILE Israel on Wednesday celebrated 75 years of its creation, Palestinians in Israel commemorated 75 years of their dispersion and what is known as...
Lebanon Condemns ‘Blatant Violation’ Of Cease-Fire Resolution
Lebanese Prime Minister Fu’ad al-Siniora condemned an Israeli commando raid early Saturday morning against a position held by Hezbollah in the Al-Biqa as ‘a...
Honduras threatens to expel US troops in retaliation for Trump’s mass...
Honduras has threatened to expel United States troops, retaliating against incoming President Donald Trump’s plans to carry out mass deportations of refugees and asylum...
All-Ireland Electricians Strike
Striking electricians vowed to keep up their all-out stoppage on its third day, Wednesday, as union leaders re-entered talks with employers regarding a pay...
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...
AFL-CIO & SEIU are reuniting in the United States – 13...
THE AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced on Thursday that they are reuniting to launch ‘a new, long-term effort to make...
SHOCKING CRISIS: 128,000 kids homeless at Xmas
A SHOCKING 128,000 children in Britain will wake up homeless and in temporary accommodation this Christmas Day, a new report by Shelter revealed on...
Iran cements strategic relations with Russia!
THE speaker of the Iranian Parliament is on his first official foreign visit to Moscow with the goal of further cementing the two countries’...
SA National strike against wage cutting
ON WORLD Day For Decent Work, trade union federations in South Africa declared a national strike against ‘the winds of austerity blowing out the...
THE BATTLE AT THE BMA’s ANNUAL REPRESENTATIVE MEETING
THE British Medical Association (BMA) leadership had a plan for the 2007 Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Torquay last week. They wanted to push through...
US miners demand the legal right to refuse to work in...
US Mine Workers union (UMWA) President Cecil Roberts told the House of Representatives Education and Labour Committee on Tuesday: ‘We can and must do...
35 years since Battle of Orgreave!
THOUSANDS of trade unionists and their families will today mark the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike 35th Anniversary at the Annual Orgreave Rally in Sheffield. June 18...