MASSIVE SHORTAGE OF MIDWIVES! –service in crisis – 5,000 more needed...
THE latest State of Maternity Services report from the Royal College of Midwives shows the baby boom in UK continuing and maternity services at...
NO WORKER CAN BE JAILED FOR GOING ON STRIKE! – say...
AN Alexandria misdemeanors court on Sunday overturned jail sentences for five workers from the Alexandria Container & Cargo Handling Company. The court had sentenced the...
Oppose all cuts to ticket office hours at LNER – demand...
A coalition of organisations joined together on Monday to oppose train operator LNER’s proposed cuts to ticket office opening hours at Berwick-upon-Tweed; Darlington; Doncaster;...
‘My brother was treated in an appalling and inhumane way’ –...
THE inquest into the death of 25-year-old Godfrey Moyo, whilst on remand at HMP Belmarsh, concluded yesterday with the jury deciding that the...
‘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...
Deliveroos Fighting Slave Labour Pay And Conditions
OVER 100 Deliveroo food delivery company couriers and supporters met in Camden, northwest London on Tuesday evening to discuss their campaign against slave labour...
‘No extradition – free Julian Assange!’ – says Julian Assange Defence...
‘THERE is only one decision: No extradition! – free Julian Assange’ chanted a demonstration of over 50 supporters of the jailed Wikileaks founder Julian...
Iran Condemns Usa For Vetoing An Immediate Ceasefire In Gaza!
IRAN’S foreign minister has censured Washington for vetoing, for the third time, a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the besieged...
TAKE ACTION TO DEFEND THE NHS – down with corporate healthcare...
THE government has launched a blitzkrieg of around £900m cuts to NHS hospitals resulting in the closure of thousands of hospital beds and compulsory...
CHARRED CORPSES ‘PART OF THE PATTERN’ – of deaths and abuses...
AMNESTY International said yesterday that recent revelations about deaths in custody and abuses by US troops in Afghanistan are further evidence of a culture...
2,500 US troops have already left Iraq says Iraqi Premier
THE Iraqi prime minister says as many as 2,500 US troops have left the country as part of agreements reached with Washington to enable...
‘In Colombia Being A Trade Unionist Means Risking One’s Life’
MYRIAM Luz Triana is the National Finance Secretary and head of women’s affairs at the Colombian General Workers’ Confederation, the CGT. She tells the...
Teachers Oppose Miliband Over Parent-Run Schools
TEACHERS’ unions on Monday rejected Labour leader Ed Miliband’s proposal for parent-run schools. They were commenting on his Hugo Young lecture where Miliband set out...
High levels of homelessness and destitution among refugees!
A NEW SURVEY, Refugees without refuge, published by the Refugee Council on Friday, has found high levels of homelessness and destitution among refugees shortly...
‘The Ugly Faces Of Occupation’
Dear friends, THE ugly faces of occupation from two houses demolished in Silwan, Jerusalem last week. Two other houses were destroyed the same day in Jerusalem....
Now it’s time to criminalise the genocide! – demands Covenant for...
Participants in the ‘Covenant for Jerusalem’ conference held in Istanbul on Saturday and Sunday, announced the launch of a popular document titled ‘The Covenant...
International ‘Make Amazon Pay’ campaign
THE GMB trade union has called for a parliamentary inquiry into ‘dehumanising’ working conditions at Amazon warehouses, as the company enjoyed mammoth Black Friday sales. GMB...
BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT STILL DENYING WORKERS FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS says ITUC
LONG-AWAITED amendments to Bangladesh’s Labour Act passed by the parliament last week fail to protect workers’ rights to freedom of association, falling well short...
South African Metal And Municipal Unions Demand Cosatu Leaders Convene...
THE South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) has joined the Natioal Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) in demanding COSATU convene a...
REBUILD WORKERS’ POWER – UFCW tells ‘Change to Win’ conference
THE following is a statement by Joe Hansen, International President of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, made at the ‘Change To...
Wal-Mart’s ‘Vicious Anti-Union Activities’ Exposed
THE AFL-CIO American trade union confederation has congratulated Human Rights Watch for its May Day report exposing the ‘vicious anti-union’ activities of retailing giant...
Heathrow workers ‘flying picket’ protest for London Living Wage
WITH WAVES of strike action currently under way across UK airports, hundreds of workers are set to join a mass protest at Heathrow tomorrow,...
‘Our members remain ‘extremely angry’ says NUMSA leader Irvin Jim
TWO weeks into their strike, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), has rejected the latest wage offer in the metals and...
ISRAEL TRYING TO KEEP ‘STATUS QUO’ THROUGH COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT! says PLO’s...
RELATIONS between Israeli and Palestinian officials have reached a ‘point of no return,’ PLO chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Monday. The top PLO...
No Trump, No War, Chant South Koreans
OPPONENTS of US President Donald Trump’s visit to South Korea this week gathered behind the Kyobo Building in Gwanghwamun, near the US embassy in...
Gadaffi Rejects ‘Med Union’ As ‘Crusaders Containment’
LIBYAN leader Muammar Gadaffi has strongly criticised Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposed Mediterranean union project, and rejected it as a ‘Crusaders’ containment of the Islamic...
‘The Palestinian cause is for the whole world’ – says Hamas
A SENIOR official of the Hamas resistance movement has described Israel as a threat to humanity, saying Palestine’s anti-occupation struggle is a humanitarian cause...
‘Western countries preparing for direct conflict with Russia’ – warns Serbian...
WESTERN countries are actively preparing for a direct conflict with Russia, says Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. Vucic told the Pink TV channel: ‘The West would...
‘IT’S ONE RULE FOR TORY SLUSH FUNDS AND ANOTHER FOR THE...
TRADE union leaders on Wednesday reacted angrily to the Tories’ planned anti-union legislation and welfare cuts announced in the Queen’s Speech. Paul Kenny, GMB General...
Syria And Iran Agree Long-Term Strategic Cooperation
SYRIA and Iran have signed an agreement for a long-term strategic cooperation between the two countries in Tehran. The agreement was signed on Sunday...
Nationalise all bus networks – demands TUC
The TUC responded on Thursday to cuts to bus routes by privateers set to be implemented across the country calling for all bus networks...
Marwan Barghouthi Elected To Fatah Central Committee
Marwan Barghouthi, who is serving five life sentences in Israel, has been elected to the governing body of Fatah which dominates the Palestinian Authority,...
Powerful start to month-long St Mungo strike!
Workers at the homelessness charity St Mungo’s began four weeks of strike action on Tuesday May 30, fighting to win a backdated pay rise...
Maliki Signs ‘Memorandum Of Understanding’ With Turkey
A MEMORANDUM of Understanding was signed by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Iraqi puppet Prime Minister Nuri...
Workers Battle Syriza Austerity Measures
AT 4.30 am on Thursday the Greek Vouli (parliament) approved by 230 to 63 votes, with seven deputies abstaining or absent, a government austerity...
Ukrainian miners from Donetsk, Lviv Lugansk and Volyn protest in Kiev
ON TUESDAY, 10 July, miners from Donetsk, Lugansk, Volyn, and Lviv regions held a protest in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev. Since 6th July miners...
Police killings of unarmed black Americans impact on community!
Police killings of unarmed black Americans have adverse effects on the mental health of black American adults in the general population, according to a...
NEW ZEALAND WORKERS END ZERO-HOUR CONTRACTS AT McDONALD’S
NEW ZEALAND’S Unite Union reached an agreement with McDonald’s last week over ending zero hour contracts and other issues in dispute with the company. ‘This...
Writers Guild Of America Takes Indefinite Strike Action
HOLLYWOOD writers took to the picket lines on Monday to begin their first strike against the US film and television industry in nearly two...
South Africa honours the 65th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre!
THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) said on Friday that it joins millions of South Africans in honouring the 65th anniversary and...
‘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...
‘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:...
£8.3bn wasted on expanding Academies – says MPs Public Accounts Committee
MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have been shocked by the £8.3 billion wasted on the expansion of privately-run Academy schools at the expense...
Actu Fighting For Wage Justice For All Indigenous Australians!
AUSTRALIA’S Turnbull Government is backing laws that force Indigenous people into work, not for wages, only welfare. The ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions), including...
BMA motions fight for pay and support for Palestine
The BMA ARM (British Medical Association Annual Representative Meeting), which took place in Brighton this summer, passed a number of very important motions, including...